Some will do anything to see her fall… Kat Connelly, innovative designer and introspective daughter of an Irish farmer, is disappointed with her first job in fashion. She copies catwalk looks for the enigmatic Lynda Wynter, who runs a small label in London and relies on two things to survive: self-medication and cheap Chinese production. Kat feels the lure of a higher aesthetic beckoning and escapes to Milan. As Italy's imminent smoking ban looms darkly over the land, Kat's personal world lights up: design and beauty are all around, dazzling and seducing, not to mention the overwhelming Italian male libido. She has claimed her slice of the bella vita and with it a sense of belonging she has yearned for since childhood. Of course, the bella vita comes at a price. When Kat is invited into the impenetrable House of Adriani to design their high-profile collection, she throws a cast-iron hierarchy into turmoil…

Silk for the Feed Dogs

Literature & Fiction

Mallon, Jackie

Women's Fiction

Betimes Books

This unique Christmas collection, published by Betimes Books to celebrate our first year of publishing, showcases nine stories from our authors, debut novelists and established writers. These stories will take you from today’s New York to 1970’s Indonesia, from Paris in the Roaring Twenties to the Mexican border in 2014, from Kansas City in 1935 to the post-Celtic Tiger Killarney. Some are heart-warming. Some explore the darkest side of the Season. Some will make you laugh. Some might make you cry. All will make you think.

Gifts: Bittersweet Christmas stories

Hawken, Sam

McDonald, Craig

O’Sullivan, Colin

Hogan, David

Stevens, Kevin

Kalich, Richard

Books, Betimes

Colt, Hadley

Mayo, Donald Finnaeus

Short Stories & Anthologies

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