Today, I am delighted with my happiness. Aren’t you dreaming of one of those days when you crave a trophy and bring home seven? My dears, here are my treasures acquired in the most simple, unwavering, and surprisingly smoothly conducted (as if my luck had accumulated today) raid on antique shops in my town. I must point out that the cost of purchase was £8.49.
The Rise and Reign Of The Unruly Woman
“From celebrity gossip expert and BuzzFeed culture writer Anne
Helen Petersen, a bold, accessible, and analytical look at how female celebrities are pushing society’s boundaries.
You know the type: the woman who won’t shut up, who’s too brazen, too opinion ated-too much. Sometimes she’s the life of the party; other times she’s the center of gossip. She’s the unruly woman, and she’s one of the most provocative, power ful forms of womanhood today.
There have been unruly women for as long as there have been boundaries of what constitutes acceptable “feminine” behavior, but there’s evidence that she’s on the rise-more visible and less easily dismissed. In Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud, Anne Helen Petersen uses the lens of “unruliness” to examine the ascen sion of contemporary pop culture powerhouses, from Serena Williams to Kim Kardashian to Hillary Clinton. Petersen explores why the public loves to love (and hate) these controversial figures, each of whom has been conceived as “too” something: too queer, too strong, too honest, too old, too pregnant, too shrill, too much. With its brisk, incisive analysis, Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud is a conversation starting book on what makes and breaks famous women today.”
“DREAM DATE OR AN ABSOLUTE NIGHTMARE?
Lisa’s dated a series of disastrous men; Simon’s loved and lost the girl of his dreams. She’s hoping fate might intervene in her love life; he’d prefer that it stopped meddling with his.
Today, they’re meeting, courtesy of the local paper’s
‘Blind Date’ feature – but while Lisa’s looking for that elusive ‘spark’, Simon’s sure lightning doesn’t strike twice. Will theirs be a love that’s written in the stars, or merely another mismatch written up in the Gazette?
From the bestselling author of At the Wedding comes a story of two perfect strangers who might just be perfect for each other.”
“It began with four words.
I love your laugh x
But that was twelve years ago.
It really began the day Georgina was fired from The Worst Restaurant in Sheffield ( Tripadvisor) and found The Worst Boyfriend in the World ( Georgina’s best friends) in bed with someone else.
So when her new boss, Lucas McCarthy, turns out to be the boy who wrote those words to her all that time ago, it feels like the start of something. The only problem? He doesn’t seem to remember Georgina – at all…”
“For two sworn enemies, anything can happen during the Hawaiian trip of a lifetime…
Olive is always unlucky; her identical twin sister Ami, on the other hand, is probably the luckiest person in the world. While she’s about to marry her dream man, Olive is forced to play nice with her nemesis: the best man, Ethan.
Yet Olive’s luck may be on the turn… When the entire wedding party – except for Olive and Ethan – gets food poisoning, there’s an all-expenses-paid honeymoon in Hawaii up for grabs. Putting their mutual hatred aside, Olive and Ethan head for paradise. But when Olive runs into her future boss, the little white lie she tells him spirals out of control.
Forced to play loving newly-weds, she and Ethan find themselves in closer proximity than they ever expected. Soon, Olive finds that maybe she doesn’t mind pretending. In fact, she’s beginning to feel kind of… lucky.”
“IS NOTHING SACRED?
Days before his release from prison, Shadow’s wife, Laura, dies in a mysterious car crash. Numbly, he makes his way back home. On the plane, he encounters the enigmatic Mr Wednesday, who claims to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America.
Together they embark on a profoundly strange journey across the heart of the USA, whilst all around them a storm of preternatural and epic proportions threatens to break.
Scary, gripping and deeply unsettling, American Gods takes a long, hard look into the soul of America. You’ll be surprised by what – and who – it finds there…”
“A debutante frees a hyena from the zoo so that it might take her place at her coming-out ball; an artist paints a portrait of a dead woman, only to find she has painted herself instead; a woman makes love to a boar underneath a mountain of cats; two noble sisters wonder whether anybody can be ‘a person of quality if they wash away their ghosts with common sense’; a psychoanalyst must decide what to do with the gift of a team of Russian rats trained to operate on humans. In this first complete edition of Leonora Carrington’s short stories, written throughout her life from her early years in Surrealist Paris to her time in Dirty War-era Mexico City, the world is by turns subversive, funny, sly, disarming and wise.”
With an Introduction by Sheila Heti and an Afterword by Marina Warner
“Dawn breaks over Vancouver and no one in the world has slept the night before, or almost no one. A few people, perhaps one in ten thousand, can still sleep, and they’ve all shared the same golden dream.
After six days of absolute sleep deprivation, psychosis will set in. After four weeks, the body will die. In the interim, panic ensues and a bizarre new world arises in which those previously on the fringes of society take the lead.
Paul, a writer, continues to sleep while his partner Tanya disintegrates before his eyes, and the new world swallows the old one whole.”
Yours L.
another pile of books 
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