FLOWERING JUDAS

Literature & Fiction

Palmer, Elizabeth

Contemporary

Arrow Books, Ltd.

Machiavellian plotting, suicide, and a deadly struggle of wills result when wealthy George Marchant brings his exotic, amoral, and ambitious new wife, Camilla Vane, home to Marchants, his ancestral English estate

The Scarlet Angel

British & Irish

St Martins Pr

In this novel of modern manners - or the lack of them - a Chelsea dinner party at the home of gallery owners James and Victoria Harting sets in motion a chain of events that will leave none of the guests unscathed. Artist Jack Carey is the guest of honor, along with Ellen, his long-suffering wife, whose job it is to keep Jack's mind off of other women and on his paintings. But the evening ends with Jack slipping James's exotic sister, Tessa, his business card, much to the despair of Tessa's love-sick husband, Alexander. Casting a cool eye over the proceedings is Ginevra, Victoria's intellectual, fiercely plain university friend. Her detached gaze absorbs the subtle nuances at work beneath the conversational hum, but even she cannot foresee the shocking events about to unfold.

Plucking the Apple

Morgan Steer and Tom Marchant are handsome, charming, and unscrupulous - each intent on marrying a fortune. While Tom relishes each new conquest, Morgan cannot forget his first love, Caroline Barstow. When in desperation Morgan proposes to the icy and enormously rich Chloe Post, a day of reckoning approaches for everyone. Morgan takes Chloe up to Northumberland to visit the awesome and wealthy Leonora Steer, at ninety the matriarch of the family, whose displeasure no one risks. In her presence, old jealousies are nudged back into life, passions are rekindled, and Leonora's three daughters are forced into a reappraisal of their own prospects. For Caroline Barstow, the visit forces her to confront her feelings; for Chloe it is an awakening. And for all it is a demonstration of how the root of all evil can devastate even the best of intentions.

Old Money

Fiercely independent Charmain Sinclair operates her own PR firm, enjoys weekends with an eligible bachelor in Sussex, and spends each day of the week with a different married lover, but she rethinks her noncommittal relationships when the bachelor falls in love with someone else.

Flowering Judas

Patience has always been the favored sister, cruising through school, marrying a successful banker, and producing perfect children, whom she duly sends to boarding school. Her bossiness and moral certainty make her insufferable, but she is blissfully oblivious. Dorian, on the other hand, is the intellectual in the family, separated and childless, and engaged in a secret affair with a feckless gossip columnist. When Patience's husband deserts her for another woman, the tables are turned. Somehow, Dorian has become a glamorous, confident single woman, while Patience is deserted by her fellow committee members and so-called friends. Even as her glass house crumbles around her, she is determined to find another suitable mate and rebuild her life. In the tradition of Scarlet Angel and Flowering Judas, this sharp, satirical novel by one of Britain's finest writers gives a pointed, irresistible jab to the hypocrisy of the "appearances are everything" crowd.

The Golden Rule: The Strange Case of the Oxford Christmas Plot

Humor & Satire

Thomas Dunne Books

Growing up as the governess's daughter in the shadow of the Harding family's eccentric charm, Mary Fox can never hope to share their unshakable social confidence. Beautiful Godfrey, outrageous Nettie, and the twins, Jonathan and William, are born into a world of privilege where money, status, pleasure and love seem their birthright. Although aware of the disparity between them, Mary clings to the illusion of family that sharing a life with them brings-for her own mother, the secretive, mysterious Sybil, is most definitely not the maternal type. When the idyll is shattered by the outbreak of war, Mary and Nettie are forced to find their own, very individual ways of making ends meet. Mary finds her formidable intelligence valued for the first time, but Nettie has a much more unusual way of helping the brave boys fighting Hitler... In this sparkling novel, Elizabeth Palmer brings all her sharp wit and brilliant observation to bear, combining glittering lifestyles, potent sensuality and dark secrets in a poignant and compelling story of love and the art of survival.

The Dark Side of the Sun: A Novel

When Bertie, a browbeaten son of Britain's upper crust, wants to marry Mai, the feminist who lives in the mansion down the road, his mother, Augusta, the ultra-snobby Langham matriarch, opposes their union. Tides turn, however, with the introduction of Zhenia Dashkova, the mysterious Russian princess in possession of the Dashkov family emeralds. Beautiful and charming, Zhenia catches the Langhams' eyes at once. But what they don't know can hurt them amidst an elaborate web of fabricated identity and stolen jewels. Combining Jane Austen's wit with Sherlock Holmes's story line, The Distaff Side brings historical intrigue to new heists.

The Distaff Side: A Novel

Century

The Dark Side Of The Sun

Isis Audio Books

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FLOWERING JUDAS

The Scarlet Angel

Plucking the Apple

Old Money

Flowering Judas

The Golden Rule: The Strange Case of the Oxford Christmas Plot

The Dark Side of the Sun: A Novel

The Distaff Side: A Novel

FLOWERING JUDAS

The Dark Side Of The Sun