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A Special Relationship by Douglas Kennedy
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
"About an hour after I met Tony Hobbs, he saved my life." Thirty-seven-year-old American journalist Sally Goodchild quite literally married her hero. Both foreign correspondents, both on assignment in Cairo, they quickly fell in love and settled into domestic life in London. From the outset, Sally's rel ...Show more
Afraid of the Light by Douglas Kennedy
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
A gripping new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happiness and The Moment Brendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who never liked the work, he's a man who has stayed in his marriage and his faith because it was what was expected of him. But now, ...Show more
Five Days by Douglas Kennedy
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Is it ever too late to find the life you always wanted? A modern day Brief Encounter or The Bridges of Madison County, this is a novel which poses the ultimate romantic dilemma, from the bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happiness, A Special Relationship, and The Moment. Is it ever too late to have t ...Show more
Five Days by Douglas Kennedy
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happiness and The Moment comes a poignant and profound American love story. How long does it take to fall in love? For twenty years, Laura has been a good wife and a good mother. She's supported her husband through redundancy, she's worried abou ...Show more
Isabelle In The Afternoon by Douglas Kennedy
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Before Isabelle I knew nothing of sex. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of freedom. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of life. Paris in the early Seventies. Sam, an American student, meets a woman in a bookshop. Isabelle is enigmatic, beautiful, older and, unlike Sam, experienced in love's many contradiction ...Show more
Isabelle in the Afternoon by Douglas Kennedy
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
'A touching exploration of passion untested by domesticity' Mail on SundayBefore Isabelle I knew nothing of sex.Before Isabelle I knew nothing of freedom.Before Isabelle I knew nothing of life.Paris in the early Seventies. Sam, an American student, meets a woman in a bookshop. Isabelle is enigmatic, bea ...Show more
Leaving the World by Douglas Kennedy
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
On the night of her thirteenth birthday, Jane Howard made a vow to her warring parents: she would never get married, and she would never have children.But life, as Jane comes to discover, is a profoundly random business. Many years and many lives later, she is a professor in Boston, in love with a brill ...Show more
Temptation by Douglas Kennedy
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
David Armitage - husband, father and failure - has lived the life of an unsuccessful screenwriter for eleven years. When one of his scripts is bought for television, David's life is transformed, more dramatically than he could have ever imagined. An overnight success and suddenly the toast of Tinseltown ...Show more
Temptation by Douglas Kennedy
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
From the New York Times bestselling author of Leaving the World comes the brilliant, breathtaking story about a Hollywood screenwriter whose "overnight success" brings about his biggest downfall. Like all screenwriters in Tinsel Town, David Armitage wants to be rich and famous. Finally, after eleven yea ...Show more
The Great Wide Open by Douglas Kennedy
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
'Accomplished...a strangely mesmerising effect...absolutely excellent' New Statesman New York, 1980s Alice Burns - a young book editor - is deep into a manuscript about the morass of family life. The observations within resonate, perhaps, because she has just watched her own family implode. As she re ...Show more
The Great Wide Open by Douglas Kennedy
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Its 1980s New York. Heady, excessive times. Alice Burns - a young book editor - is deep into a manuscript about the morass of family life. The observations resonates, perhaps because she has just watched her own family implode. As she reads she wonders- When did the sadness start? And could it be that u ...Show more
The Heat of Betrayal by Douglas Kennedy
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Robin knew Paul wasn't perfect. But he said they were so lucky to have found each other, and she believed it was true. In the heady strangeness of Morocco, he is everything she wants him to be - passionate, talented, knowledgeable. She is convinced that it is here she will finally become pregnant. But ...Show more