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The turbulent life story of Flor de Oro Trujillo, the eldest child of one of the world’s most brutal dictators.  Flor de Oro was born in 1915 in San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic. Her father rose from small-time gangster to dictator and ruthlessly ruled the country for three decades until his as...

Marnie Sellick is adrift when she lands a job at the coveted, mysterious beauty brand rytual cosmetica. The enigmatic founder and CEO, Luna Peters, takes a liking to Marnie, and as the two grow closer Marnie becomes intoxicated by the life that Luna, and rytual, can offer her. But all is not wh...

A black comedy, set in suburbia, about one woman’s struggle to be free. When Winona Dalloway begins her day — in the peaceful early hours before her children, that ‘tiny tornado of little hands and feet’, wake up — she doesn’t know that by the end of it, everything in her world will have changed....

I play around with the colours for a few minutes, mixing them with the white. The colours I end up with aren’t perfect, but they’ll do. I don’t know why I like pastel colours so much. My life would be easier if I could get into dark colours, but what can I say? My heart is made of pastel confetti...

A young woman stumbles onto an outback road at night and is lit up in the headlights of an approaching car. Who is she? Nobody knows, and she has lost the ability to speak. This is how the story of the Unknown Woman begins. Angie, a freelance journalist, joins her childhood friend Bev, the police...

The twenty-fifth thrilling novel in the globally bestselling Women's Murder Club series. Sergeant Lindsay Boxer's friend and former partner is brutally murdered in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Homicide detective Lindsay Boxer knows her way around a crime scene.But nothing can prepare her for...

Razor-sharp, glittering tales exploring marriage, fame and female friendship, from the Sunday Times bestselling author.In this compulsive collection of twelve witty stories, Sittenfeld shows why she’s as beloved for her short fiction as she is for her novels, as she conjures up characters so real...

The happily ever after is only part of the story... A funny, touching, hopeful gem about love, marriage and second chances.It's the day before her daughter's wedding and things are not going well for Gail Baines. First thing, she loses her job - or quits, depending who you ask. Then her ex-husban...

Welcome to the Kennedy household:Lila wrote a bestseller about keeping your marriage alive, before discovering her ex was playing happy families with another woman. A woman she sees everyday at school pick-up.Bill, her stepdad, moved in after Lila’s mum died. He’s kind, old-fashioned and driving ...

In the summer of 1944 returning soldiers Canning Christie and his father Michael arrive in South Australia from the desert sands of North Africa. Canning carries the trauma of war and a fractured memory of a terrible event, while charismatic Michael resumes his womanising ways, intent on conceali...