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Held
A love story spanning decades as two men not only fight the world for their love and its changes surrounding them but also one another while they battle the one thing that tears them apart.
At the tender age of fifteen, Matt and Justin instantly fall in love. While time grows and matures, so do they and their relationship. Years pass and are torn from one another as their lives take them in separate directions. The political and social constructs start to define their lives and the people who they become.
Can what we believe holds us, end up being our own destructive force, potentially being the one thing that destroys us, crumbling our lives?
Eventually, we all have to let go.
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Hearts of Cotton
When a famous writer steals a manuscript from his daughter and tragically dies after the book is released, Dasha, a young show business reporter from Vilnius, must make a decision that will define her future: to tell the truth about what the author did or hide it to protect his memory. Plagiarism scandal, the war for attention, drug abuse, love, greed, and ambition fuel the hunt for sensations of the young journalist and guide her in finding her own inner compass to navigate the uncertainty and find the way to happiness.
If the books of Frederic Beigbeder and Michel Houellebecq were hard liquors, Hearts of Cotton would be a cocktail, where Gossip Girl meets The Ideal and Atomised, leaving you wondering whether all the challenges and struggles are there to remind the characters of their true calling, or perhaps all of us should sometimes recalibrate our inner compasses to reflect on our goals and dreams.
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Heart to Let
Amy Spencer, the novel’s heroine, is a 20th-century Jane Eyre. Not born into a family of status or wealth, she nonetheless had a good education at a single-sex Grammar School near Elephant and Castle in London and an upbringing which enabled her to mix in the various strata of society she encounters in the changing and challenging world she lives in. Amy considers herself the equal, both socially and intellectually, of the men she meets and she succeeds in a profession steeped in tradition and precedent which is male-dominated when she enters it aged 23. But dear reader, does she marry her Mr Rochester? You will have to read the book to find out.
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Happy Never After
Is it fear? Is he trapped? Or is it now just habitual behaviour? Robbie ponders these questions as he chooses to continue to turn a blind eye to the extra-curricular activities of his long-time lover and sugar daddy, Max. When Max finally returns home from another all-night ‘work’ event, Robbie storms out, unable to face the string of deceitful lies that have consumed their relationship.
Happy Never After tells the story of one man’s transformation from weak, unemployed and dependent upon a cheating lover into a strong, confident man who is no longer afraid. The setting of Bali provides a beautiful backdrop for his journey with an alluring blend of culture, love and lust that brings hope to the reader.
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Gwennie's Girl
This is a visceral, engaging and demanding debut novel by a well-travelled author with first-hand experience in a variety of war zones. It is the story of Lizzie who is no hero. She is a coward who has fled Australia, an abusive and loveless existence and the sorrow of being abandoned by her loving mother, Gwennie, and her redoubtable nanna. She lands a job in Geneva, travelling to war zones and refugee camps, and gradually comes to relish her new independence. Physically, Lizzie survives. Emotionally, she shuts down, closing her mind to memories, nursing anger and feeling of guilt, and determined never to let herself be vulnerable again. She has what she thinks is a one-night stand with a war photographer. But eventually she has to choose whether to stay safe in emotional isolation or take another risk--trust someone else. After all, she is Gwennie's and Nanna's girl. The decision is made.
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Granduncle Bertie
Sarah, a free-spirited artist in her late twenties, accepts an assignment from her granduncle, Albert Smithson, to write his memoir. ‘Bertie’ has a crippling terror of death brought about by the agonising death of his father, who was an atheist. He learns that there are three conditions one must attain to die in a peaceful state. At age fifty-four, he has none of them and is determined to achieve them all.
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Gracie Browne
Gracie Browne lives an idyllic life, or so it seems. On the surface she and her husband Aiden are a successful couple: childhood sweethearts, with a marriage that others could only aspire to. Deborah, one of the golf club wives and an admirer of Aiden has a burning passion to take him for herself. It’s during one of the dinner parties that Gracie hosts for the men and wives of the golf club, that Gracie finally finds her voice. A voice she thought so long ago was lost. Gracie would be silenced no more. That night she leaves Aiden and starts on a path of not only self-discovery, but of friendship with an unexpected person. Will Aiden persuade Gracie to come back home and to give their marriage another chance? Or will what Gracie discovers be the final straw?
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Good Boy Joe
Vicky Bhargav has fallen.
When India’s famed film industry turns its back on one of the brightest stars of its past, it takes a slum dweller, riding his rundown scooter, to save the day for him.
One unusual road trip and a series of comical misadventures later, the two men end up bringing a glimmer of joy and hope in each other’s downtrodden lives.
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Gold Shades: A True Lady
Will a man ever be able to tell it from a woman’s perspective? The short answer is no. Let alone a young man with just over two decades of experience. What would he know? What has he even experienced? He doesn’t even know himself yet. Absurd, right?
This novel aims to do exactly that. 9 women. 9 story lines. 9 perspectives. Sounds a lot, I know. I still can’t get my head around it. It’s quite emotionally draining being a woman, you know. Well, try being 9 different ones for a day.
Be prepared to be taken on a journey, with many ups and downs, twists and turns. Be prepared to laugh, to cry and be awed.
Men, take notes. Women, enjoy.
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Going Dutch: A Constructive Guide to Europe
When a young electrician becomes bored and disillusioned with life in England, the hopes and thoughts of adventure spur him towards life over the Channel. Join Dan Johnson’s travels as they lead to a collection of like-minded characters, all trying to succeed in life on the continent, and a merry-go-round of their successes and losses amid the canals and coffee shops of Holland.
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Free From The End Into Something New
The traumatic experiences of many sudden changes within her childhood leading up to her adulthood. A fight for Patricia’s life is needed in order to survive. A desperation of people fighting for her love parallel to a personal need to be accepted by her true love compels Patricia to realise that there is always an end to something new. What she has to leave at the end and bring with her in the new is what seems to always catch her by surprise. However, having faith in God throughout brings her through each stage of her life knowing that the new cannot control or oppress but only empower.
Free From The End Into Something New is a fictional book which covers real-life topics such as abuse, pain, emotional attachment, the Windrush generation, fostering, romance and marriage. This book will bring you an alternate thought-provoking narrative of characters which will leave you inspired, engaged and empowered.
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Forgetting Jake
Ben is a rancher, living in Carter’s Pass, Oregon, a small town where nothing ever happens. He spends his days taking care of his young son, feeding horses, and mending fences around his property. That is, until early one morning, when a stranger ends up on the road to his ranch.
The young man is uninjured but has no idea who he is or how he ended up on the road. Named ‘Frankie’ by Ben’s son, the young man has flashes of his past. But as he begins falling for Ben his memories become clearer, and the past catches up with him. What will happen when the life Frankie has made with Ben clashes with the old?
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