<div>Love never dies in this novel by &ldquo;a writer of addictive emotional thrillers&rdquo; (The Independent). Told from three perspectives A Particular Man is about love, truth and the unpredictable consequences of loss. When Edgar dies in a Far East prisoner of war camp it breaks the heart of fellow prisoner Starling, the man who loved him. When, after the war, he visits Edgar&rsquo;s family, Edgar&#39;s mother, Clementine, mistakes him for another man, and he fails to correct the mistake. Playing the role of someone else and being in Edgar&rsquo;s home with those who loved him, stirs powerful and disorientating emotions in Starling. Edgar&rsquo;s loss has driven his sister, Aida, to seek solace in the arms of a series of men &ndash; but the meeting with Starling sparks a powerful and complex connection, fueled by their mutual longing for Edgar. Meanwhile Clementine, also grieving for Edgar, has secrets of her own&hellip; &ldquo;One of Britain&rsquo;s finest novelists.&rdquo; &mdash;The Sunday Telegraph &ldquo;[Glaister] commands respect for writing novels which are not just dark and mysterious but also emotionally satisfying.&rdquo; &mdash;The Times Literary Supplement &ldquo;An expert plotter.&rdquo; &mdash;The Scotsman</div>

A Particular Man

<div>In this &ldquo;perfect, black little tale&rdquo; from the author of Honour Thy Father, a feud between neighbors in an English town escalates to terrifying consequence (The Observer). In northern England, along a block of row houses, lives the widow Nell. Lately, she&rsquo;s had a difficult time adjusting to her new lodger&mdash;her son Rodney. An ex-con imprisoned for something no one likes to talk about, Rodney has moved back into his old bedroom. He is his mother&rsquo;s pride and shame. Two doors down from Nell is Olive. Obese, childless, near senile, and given to violent mood swings, Olive is comforted by her pets, and coddled by a patient lover. Once, Olive was beautiful. Once, Olive was Nell&rsquo;s best friend. But for more than fifty years now, they&rsquo;ve been separated by a paralyzing hatred and rivalry. Then, one night, the eight-year-old son of a new neighbor invites them both to a Guy Fawkes Day bonfire in his backyard. Amid the smoldering embers of fall leaves, a spark of another kind is ignited. Their violent rage is set to explode, a buried past will be revealed, and no one on their quiet little block is ever going to feel safe again. In this &ldquo;absorbing&rdquo; (Los Angeles Times) novel from the Somerset Maugham Award winner, Glaister expertly reveals her &ldquo;uncomfortable knack of putting her finger on things we fear most&rdquo; (The Independent on Sunday). &ldquo;A cool, sure, bright entertainment.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews &ldquo;Before Gillian Flynn, there was Lesley Glaister.&rdquo; &mdash;Harper&rsquo;s Bazaar</div>

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Trick or Treat

<div>The truth behind a one-night stand becomes just as terrifying as the consequences, &ldquo;engrossing&rdquo; (The Guardian). Nina Todd is a woman of unextraordinary looks, with a dependable boyfriend and a menial job in Sheffield. It&rsquo;s what she&rsquo;s craved for years&mdash;a completely normal life. Then, while on a business trip in Blackpool, she&rsquo;s approached by a younger man in the Hotel Astoria. She should have said no, but he was too handsome, and too persuasive to let go. The only trouble is . . . now he won&rsquo;t let her go. What can he possibly want with her? He doesn&rsquo;t even know her real name. It wasn&rsquo;t a random pick-up. Nina&rsquo;s the one Rupert had been searching for. And he&rsquo;s not giving up on her. Wherever she goes, Rupert will be there, too&mdash;gorgeous, irresistible, distracting, and determined to rip apart Nina&rsquo;s newly ordered life. Now all she has to fear is her relationship and her job. She&rsquo;ll never suspect there&rsquo;s so much more. Nina doesn&rsquo;t even know his real name. If she did, she&rsquo;d run like hell. What begins as a fatal attraction takes a terrifying detour as the paths of two apparent strangers converge, in this psychological thriller from &ldquo;the suspense writers&rsquo; suspense writer&rdquo; (Harper&rsquo;s Bazaar). &ldquo;A gripping page-turner.&rdquo; &mdash;Cosmopolitan &ldquo;Horribly plausible and crisply executed.&rdquo; &mdash;The Sunday Telegraph</div>

Nina Todd Has Gone

<div>A WWII vet&rsquo;s suicide drives his daughter to uncover his troubled past in this &ldquo;absorbing, poignant&rdquo; novel from the award-winning author of Partial Eclipse (Publishers Weekly). Zelda Dawkins knows her older lover, Foxy, is going to leave her. As Zelda prays for something, anything, to prevent the inevitable, she receives a call from her mother. Zelda&rsquo;s father, a World War II prisoner of war, has hanged himself. It&rsquo;s not what Zelda wanted. It&rsquo;s also not unexpected. Zelda comes from a family of unspoken things. Foxy is hers. But for Zelda, her father&rsquo;s suicide is more than a wellspring for her grief, rage, and guilt. It was his final escape from the screaming nightmares that kept her awake when she was young&mdash;and the closely guarded secret he took to bed with him. It&rsquo;s also stirring in Zelda memories and unanswered questions of her childhood: Why did her father seem to reject her in favor of a damaged neighborhood boy named Vassil? Why was he so taken with the boy&rsquo;s mother, a prostitute? How did Vassil come to be so disfigured? And what happened to her father those five years in a Japanese prison camp? It&rsquo;s time for Zelda to confront the past, its legacy of cruelty, and to unearth the secrets&mdash;her father&rsquo;s and her own&mdash;that have a cast a shadow over her life. &ldquo;A writer of addictive emotional thrillers&mdash;as if Ruth Rendell had got hold of an A. S. Byatt novel and stripped out the digressive bits.&rdquo; &mdash;The Independent &ldquo;Step into the world of family secrets, lies and whispers in the dark.&rdquo; &mdash;The Sunday Telegraph</div>

Overdrive

Easy Peasy

<div>An English girl takes a &ldquo;tumble into a warped wonderland&rdquo; when her Lewis Carroll-inspired journey unearths unexpected secrets, desires, and dangers (Los Angeles Times). Trapped in suburban England, appalled by her parents, and desperately shy, twelve-year-old Jennifer Maybee is facing the terrors of adolescence alone. After reading Alice in Wonderland, she digs a hole in her backyard hoping to find what her mother calls the &ldquo;topsy-turvy world of Australia.&rdquo; Instead, led by a stray cat, Jennifer follows a secret pathway of a different sort. On the other side of a tangle of bramble, Jennifer claims her own Wonderland: an empty playground, a deserted church, and an unattended graveyard. But Jennifer isn&rsquo;t alone. She meets something close to a friend in Bronwyn, a girl burdened by family tragedy. However, it&rsquo;s in a squatter named Johnny that Jennifer&rsquo;s fantasies for a new life begin to bloom. He&rsquo;s too charming, and too unaccountably sexy for Jennifer to listen to those nasty rumors that he might be responsible for the disappearances of other lonely girls. All Jennifer can do now is marvel at the mysteries to come. From the Somerset Maugham Award&ndash;winning author, &ldquo;dangerous secrets and sinister undertones power this uncommon coming-of-age tale&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly). Jennifer Maybee, the protagonist of this &ldquo;enormously enjoyable&rdquo; novel of innocence lost, returns in Leslie Glaister&rsquo;s Partial Eclipse (Nick Hornby). &ldquo;Perverting Wonderland into a place to smoke cigarettes and pry into other people&rsquo;s secrets . . . this Alice is a match for any dark thing she encounters.&rdquo; &mdash;Los Angeles Times &ldquo;Before Gillian Flynn, there was Lesley Glaister.&rdquo; &mdash;Harper&rsquo;s Bazaar</div>

Digging to Australia

<div>For a carefree British couple, the Aussie outback becomes a nightmare in this &ldquo;erotic psychological thriller&rdquo; from the award-winning author (The Independent). What better way to flee a dreary English winter than a temporary job tending a sheep farm in sunbaked western Australia? For Cassie, a teacher of organic gardening, it&rsquo;s a once-in-a-lifetime adventure. For her commitment-phobic boyfriend, Graham, the arid red-rock landscapes could provide new inspiration for his painting. But the ramshackle sheering station of Woolagong is further from civilization than they anticipated. There is no radio, telephone, or electricity, and though they send letters home, they&rsquo;ve yet to receive a response. Their only other companions are their peculiar employers, Larry and Mara, who stay sedated in a shed. As Cassie and Graham wonder why they came, everything warps in the stifling heat: their sense of direction, their sex drives, their feelings of safety, and their perception of right and wrong. For the both of them, leaving is no longer an option. Only escape. The Australian outback has been a source of psychological menace in such works as Walkabout, Wake in Fright, The Last Wave, and Wolf Creek. In As far as You Can Go, Somerset Maugham Award winner Lesley Glaister lends her talents to the untapped potentials of this &ldquo;sun-baked hell . . . cranking up the tension in every possible way. The gripping result is guaranteed to make any flight to Oz go faster.&rdquo; &mdash;The Guardian &ldquo;Before Gillian Flynn, there was Lesley Glaister.&rdquo; &mdash;Harper&rsquo;s Bazaar</div>

As Far as You Can Go

<div>A London artist becomes the victim of a stalker in this &ldquo;creepy&rdquo; novel &ldquo;with satisfying fits of the shivers&rdquo; from the award-winning author of Easy Peasy (The Sunday Times). In London&rsquo;s prestigious National Portrait Gallery, an exhibition of Connie Benson&rsquo;s art is set to open. It&rsquo;s quite an event considering that the reclusive portraitist hasn&rsquo;t left her home on the North Norfolk coast for the past thirty years&mdash;not since her lover Patrick Mount disappeared. Mount, an eccentric guru who claimed to have discovered an elixir of bliss, is just as famous&mdash;perhaps even more so after his presumed death. Tonight, Connie&rsquo;s masterful portrait of him, completed on the night he vanished, will finally be unveiled. But it&rsquo;s arousing more than a love of art in Mount&rsquo;s most secretive and devoted disciple. Tony, a violent ex-con, never met Mount, but he&rsquo;s committed the famous man&rsquo;s autobiography to memory. He&rsquo;s collected every known photograph of him, and every word ever written by, or about, him. Except for one prized possession that has been forever out of reach: Mount&rsquo;s key to bliss. He&rsquo;s prepared to trap Connie in his secret world to find it. But Tony is soon to discover the consequences of obsession&mdash;because he isn&rsquo;t the only one with things to hide. The recipient of the Somerset Maugham Award, Lesley Glaister is &ldquo;an author for whom writing and storytelling is an unstoppable passion, as strong as a rush of blood to the head&rdquo; (The Independent). &ldquo;Crime writing of the highest order.&rdquo; &mdash;The Sunday Times &ldquo;Before Gillian Flynn, there was Lesley Glaister.&rdquo; &mdash;Harper&rsquo;s Bazaar</div>

Sheer Blue Bliss

<div>An orphan and a fugitive find a connection in their secret pasts in this &ldquo;love story that moves with the pace of a thriller&rdquo; from an award-winning author (Yorkshire Post). At sixteen, Lamb walks out on her life. Her parents are dead and she has no brothers or sisters. For money, she cleans people&rsquo;s homes. For shelter, she lives in the cellar of an elderly client. For survival, she imagines herself as a tightrope walker&mdash;one foot in front of the other, eyes straight ahead, and never allowing anyone to touch her, lest she lose her balance. Then she meets Doggo. And Lamb can feel herself falling. Doggo walked out on his life, too&mdash;or more precisely, he ran. A fugitive fleeing from a violent criminal past, he needs Lamb&rsquo;s help staying under the radar. Quick-tempered, foul-mouthed, yet surprisingly tender, Doggo needs Lamb in other ways, too. But the closer they get, the more Lamb risks her precarious balance between life and death. And fear has never felt so comforting. Now You See Me, from Somerset Maugham Award winner Lesley Glaister, is an empowering novel about loneliness, trust, the fictions we tell ourselves to survive, and the primal need to connect. It also &ldquo;boasts a protagonist so heartbreakingly well-realized that you are forced to live through her eyes, in her head, her heart . . . if only all fiction made us worry and care so hard, posed us such dreadfully difficult questions&rdquo; (The Guardian). &ldquo;Glaister is at her best . . . written in the crisply poetic prose for which she&rsquo;s known, [she] transforms the bleakest situations into compelling fiction.&rdquo; &mdash;The Independent &ldquo;Before Gillian Flynn, there was Lesley Glaister.&rdquo; &mdash;Harper&rsquo;s Bazaar</div>

Now You See Me

<div>Four English sisters share a terrible family secret in this novel from &ldquo;the suspense writers&rsquo; suspense writer&rdquo; and author of Trick or Treat (Harper&rsquo;s Bazaar). Winner of the Somerset Maugham and Betty Trask Awards In a decaying house along the marshy Fenlands of Eastern England, four sisters&mdash;Milly, Agatha, and identical, inseparable twins Ellen and Esther&mdash;have lived in self-imposed isolation for more than sixty years. Like good sisters, they bicker, go about their daily routines, and believe the bright myth they&rsquo;ve created about their childhood. Sometimes Milly can recall a blessedly unexceptional youth of ordinary days, domestic tranquility, and young love. But what came after is so much more consuming, and so much harder to forget. So are the questions no one dares to answer out loud . . . Why does Milly still count the knives? What was the corruption their father warned them about? Was their mother really swallowed up by the roaring river? And why does no one sing to Baby George anymore, who&rsquo;s locked away in the cellar? As a ceaseless rain lashes away at the house, the sisters prepare for a coming storm. With it comes the threat of steadily rising waters that will give up the secrets still holding them in thrall. &ldquo;A fairytale gone gruesomely wrong&rdquo;, Lesley Glaister&rsquo;s debut novel was the recipient of the Somerset Maugham Award, for which she joined the likes of Angela Carter, Doris Lessing, Sarah Waters, and Ian McEwan (The Literary Review). An &ldquo;eerily tragic and mesmerizing first novel&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly), Honour Thy Father is &ldquo;a true original&rdquo; (The Sunday Times).</div>

Honour Thy Father

<div>Between Scotland and Botany Bay, two incarcerated young women&mdash;a century apart&mdash;are united by crime&mdash;in this &ldquo;brilliant&rdquo; novel from the award-winning author (Nick Hornby). Jennifer Maybee is in solitary confinement, imprisoned for an undisclosed crime. Deprived of companionship and driven desperate by grim routine, she has only &ldquo;memory and imagination&rdquo; for escape. But she isn&rsquo;t the first in her family to be convicted of a crime. Ever since she was a young girl, Jennifer has been fascinated with stories about her cousin Peggy. A century before, Peggy was a desperate young mother, tried, convicted, and deported to the penal colony of Botany Bay, in Australia. All for the theft of a peacock. Just imagine the degradation she suffered to possess a thing of beauty. Jennifer does. Jennifer remembers what she herself longed to possess, too. He was a jazz musician, thirty years her senior, whom she met one Christmas in Scotland&mdash;and whose fleeting attention sparked in her an obsessive, unyielding, and dangerous passion. Now, as Jennifer and Peggy&rsquo;s parallel lives unfold, love stories are woven from squalid obsessions, memories collide with the truth, and Jennifer&rsquo;s long-held secrets will be revealed as she struggles with her fate, and the storied one of a woman long lost to history. In Lesley Glaister&rsquo;s &ldquo;enormously enjoyable&rdquo;(Nick Hornby), Digging to Australia, Jennifer Maybee was first introduced as a girl &ldquo;frighteningly adroit at inflicting pain on those close to her&rdquo;(Los Angeles Times). The consequences arise in Partial Eclipse, where &ldquo;everyone seems to be set on self-destruct, blindly chasing after the wrong dream or man or peacock&rdquo; (The Independent).</div>

Partial Eclipse

<div>An unsettled marriage takes a sinister turn in this novel of domestic suspense. It&rsquo;s &ldquo;pure gold&rdquo; (Los Angeles Times). Winner of the Yorkshire Post Author of the Year Award In a quiet English village, Nadia is a sculptor driven by an obsession to conceive a child. Creating is in her blood. Her husband Simon is a geology professor and spelunker determined to finish a project beneath the earth&rsquo;s surface that has already killed one man. Each consumed by private passions, the two live a blinkered coexistence, until Nadia makes an unsettling discovery: Simon&rsquo;s former girlfriend, Celia, is pregnant. But if Celia&rsquo;s husband is sterile, then who has made Celia such a happy and intolerably boastful mother-to-be? For Nadia, the answer is the ultimate, unforgivable betrayal. Now, as Simon&rsquo;s job takes him into the deep unknown, Nadia descends into darkness as well. And before the night is over, everyone is going to pay. &ldquo;Before Gillian Flynn, there was Lesley Glaister,&rdquo; says Harper&rsquo;s Bazaar, and in Limestone and Clay, she once again mines the horror of love as &ldquo;a jangle-nerved young married couple cook their respective obsessions to a nightmare boil&rdquo; (Kirkus Reviews).</div>

Limestone and Clay

<div>From the award-winning author of Honour Thy Father: Who&rsquo;s a threat to whom in this &ldquo;spine-chilling&rdquo; novel of split personality? (The Times, London). Inis has no interest in finding out who she is. She wants to discover who she isn&rsquo;t. One day, in her least favorite month of February, Inis bleaches her hair, abandons the husband and children she loves, and closes the door forever on family, marriage, and her comfortable suburban London home. There, she was safe, appreciated, and loved&mdash;and she hated every minute of it. Now she&rsquo;s ended up in a dreary little flat in the grey, post-industrial town of Sheffield. Here, in the neighborhood of Mercy Terrace, Inis is being watched. There is the boy who steals things, and plays until he gets hurt. There is Inis&rsquo;s neighbor Trixie, an eighty-year-old hymnist for the Salvation Army who grows hyacinths, and enjoys afternoon tea. And Ada, who lives to be desired. As Inis watches them, she fears they share more than this shabby dead-end street. As four people&rsquo;s lives begin to converge, Inis gets increasingly nervous&mdash;because she&rsquo;s not certain which of them, herself included, could be dangerous to the others. Or which one will survive. Lesley Glaister&rsquo;s novel of multiple-personality disorder was inspired by Flora Rheta Schreiber&rsquo;s Sybil. As Glaister tells it in the Independent: &ldquo;I was 10 when I read [it] . . . I was fascinated by the idea of 16 different personalities being packed into one body with one face. I remember longing to suffer from the same problem.&rdquo; &ldquo;A stream of consciousness thriller, well worth reading twice&rdquo; &mdash;The Literary Review</div>

The Private Parts of Women

<div>Three tales of psychological suspense from a British novelist who &ldquo;along with Ruth Rendell, has almost cornered the market in horror stories&rdquo; (The Times, London). According to the Independent on Sunday, Lesley Glaister &ldquo;has the uncomfortable knack of putting her finger on the things we most fear.&rdquo; In this spine-chilling anthology, the Somerset Maugham Award&ndash;winning novelist finds terror in a Japanese prison camp, a hotel lobby, and the Australian outback. Easy Peasy: Zelda is getting ready for a date when the call comes: Her father has hanged himself. His suicide brings back terrifying childhood memories of screams in the night. A POW in a Japanese prison camp during World War II, her father was haunted by nightmares and guilty secrets. Zelda&rsquo;s journey into the past unearths troubling questions that must finally be answered. &ldquo;Utterly satisfying . . . beautifully structured and almost painfully tender.&rdquo; &mdash;The Sunday Telegraph Nina Todd Has Gone: While on a business trip, Nina meets a gorgeous man in her hotel lobby, and even before their tryst is over, she&rsquo;s sorry she did it. The sooner she puts the sordid encounter behind her, the better. But Rupert isn&rsquo;t who he seems to be. And he isn&rsquo;t going away. He&rsquo;s on a personal mission&mdash;one he&rsquo;s been waiting years to fulfill. And it turns out Nina isn&rsquo;t exactly who she seems to be either. &ldquo;A first-rate psychological thriller . . . The game of cat-and-mouse between the protagonists is consistently absorbing.&rdquo; &mdash;The Mail on Sunday As Far as You Can Go: For Cassie and Graham, the ad in the newspaper is a dream come true. Spending a year managing a farm in western Australia sounds like the perfect break from their hectic lives. But the weather in Wollongong is stifling hot and the outback is crawling with lethal creatures. And most unsettling of all, Cassie and Graham can&rsquo;t shake the feeling that they&rsquo;re being watched. &ldquo;Chilling plausibility . . . A story whose message will linger long after the book is closed.&rdquo; &mdash;The Scotsman </div>

The Lesley Glaister Collection Volume Two

<div>Three dark and mesmerizing novels from an award-winning writer with the &ldquo;ability to pull terror and suspense from just about anywhere&rdquo; (Kirkus Reviews). In Lesley Glaister&rsquo;s world, the domestic and the bizarre walk hand-in-hand. This haunting collection is a testament to the visionary powers of &ldquo;a natural storyteller who knows how to keep the reader turning the pages&rdquo; (The Independent). Limestone and Clay: Nadia is a sculptor driven by a single obsession: to conceive a child. When she learns that her geographer husband has donated his sperm to his former lover, who is now pregnant with his child, it is the ultimate betrayal&mdash;and warrants the ultimate payback. &ldquo;Terrifying . . . Glaister truffles her way down to the grim heart, where we find out what makes people tick like time-bombs.&rdquo; &mdash;The Daily Telegraph Digging to Australia: Twelve-year-old Jennifer Maybee spends most of her time alone with her favorite book, Alice in Wonderland. But a revelation from her parents and an encounter with a strange-eyed man set her hurtling into a &ldquo;topsy-turvy land&rdquo; of sinister secrets not even Lewis Carroll could have imagined. &ldquo;Dangerous secrets and sinister undertones power this uncommon coming-of-age tale. . . . Masterful.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly Honour Thy Father: In a decaying house in the lowlands of England, four spinster sisters live in self-imposed isolation. For more than sixty years, Milly, Agatha, and the identical twins Ellen and Esther&mdash;&ldquo;Ellenanesther&rdquo;&mdash;have been trapped together, haunted by the specter of their father. As eighty-year-old Milly reminisces, a gothic mystery takes shape: Why is Milly always counting the knives? How did their mother drown under the dyke? And who is baby George, locked away in the cellar? Honour Thy Father is the winner of the Somerset Maugham and Betty Trask Awards. &ldquo;Eerie and satisfying&mdash;a horror story told with tenderness.&rdquo; &mdash;The Sunday Times </div>

The Lesley Glaister Collection Volume One

<div>From &ldquo;one of Britain&rsquo;s finest novelists&rdquo;: A tender and terrifying collection of novels about women on the brink of salvation and the edge of disaster (The Sunday Telegraph). Three seductive tales of psychological suspense from a writer who &ldquo;penetrates the deepest corners of the female psyche&rdquo; (The Mail on Sunday). The Private Parts of Women: Inis has run away from her husband and children&mdash;and the rest of her suburban life in London&mdash;and moved into a small flat in the inner city of Sheffield. Her neighbor is eighty-four-year-old Trixie Bell, a hymn-singing veteran of the Salvation Army. But beneath Trixie&rsquo;s unassuming exterior lies a very different personality. Three very different personalities&mdash;one of which is homicidal. &ldquo;A gripping read . . . from one of Britain&rsquo;s finest novelists.&rdquo; &mdash;The Sunday Telegraph Partial Eclipse: In solitary confinement, Jennifer knows she isn&rsquo;t the first in her family to be convicted of a crime. Centuries earlier, the unmarried Peggy Maybee was arrested for trying to steal a peacock so she could give its beautiful feathers to her infant son, Samuel. As Jennifer and Peggy&rsquo;s parallel lives unfold, long-held secrets are revealed, including the truth about the crime that ultimately landed Jennifer in prison. &ldquo;Brilliant . . . seductive and assured.&rdquo; &mdash;The Sunday Times Now You See Me: Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction With her parents dead, sixteen-year-old Lamb was alone in the world. Now she cleans houses and lives in an old widower&rsquo;s cellar, balancing on her high wire of loneliness. If she doesn&rsquo;t let anyone in, she can&rsquo;t fall. Then Doggo shows up. A fugitive who committed a violent crime, he needs Lamb&rsquo;s help to stay off the radar. He also needs her in other ways&mdash;even after he learns her terrible secret. &ldquo;A beautiful bombshell of a story . . . it will break your heart.&rdquo; &mdash;The Independent </div>

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