Spring fever, coupled with a full moon, arrives in tiny Park County, Tennessee, and induces the well-named madness. Unfortunate timing puts the first Ramp Festival during the peak of spring fever. Residents and visitors wander elbow to elbow listening to music, eating vast amounts of food—including the odiferous ramps—watching homemade weapons launch vegetables at a stock tank filled with water and rubber duckies. Chaos, fun and sudden death collide when a flying vegetable hits a partygoer.

This is a steamy, naughty Taboo Romance between a married BBW secretary and her billionaire boss. Indulge yourself NOW!Peyton has been loyal to her husband for years, but recently he seems to have lost his passion for her after she gained some curves. With her marriage falling apart, she decides to refresh her life by finding a job and some independence again. She lands an interview for a secretary position, and although she wants to stay professional, she instantly finds herself attracted to her suave and sexy billionaire boss.As a successful and wealthy man, Alan is not shy to ask for what he wants—and from the moment he saw Peyton at her interview, he knew he had to have her as his secretary. Will Peyton stay in her unhappy marriage or give in to her desires for her new boss? Warning: contains mature themes and language. Intended for 18+ readers only.Standalone. No Cliffhangers.

Get your Taboo Romance fix NOW with this steamy standalone Forbidden Romance between a sweet and sexy BBW and her hot Billionaire Best Friend.When Amelia gets invited to a party she's reluctant to go because it feels like she's just trying to relive the glory days of college. But when she finds out that her old best friend Jack is going to be there, a knot suddenly twists in her gut. The two of them used to have a bond that went deeper than anything else she'd ever known but ever since graduating high school they had lost touch. Now she felt like she had lost her way, while he was a billionaire. Would he even remember her? Would they recapture the magic that had appeared just before they said their last goodbyes...? Warning: contains mature themes and language. Intended for 18+ readers only.Standalone. No Cliffhangers.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Sparklingly sardonic ... There really is no one like Bennett' Independent'Filled with elegiac memories and literary gossip ... a major National Treasure' Lynn Barber4 March. HMQ pictured in the paper at an investiture wearing gloves, presumably as a precaution against Coronavirus. But not just gloves; these are almost gauntlets. I hope they're not the thin end of a precautionary wedge lest Her Majesty end up swathed in protective get-up such as is worn at the average crime scene. 20 March. With Rupert now working from home my life is much easier, as I get regular cups of tea and a lovely hot lunch.A year in and out of lockdown as experienced by Alan Bennett.The diary takes us from the filming of Talking Heads to thoughts on Boris Johnson, from his father's short-lived craze for family fishing trips, to stair lifts, junk shops of old, having a haircut, and...

A Passionate, Profoundly Funny First Novel from "the Best Literary Critic of His Generation" (Adam Begley, Financial Times)Thomas Bunting, the charming, chaotic, and deeply untruthful narrator of James Wood's wonderful first novel, is in despair. His marriage is disintegrating and his academic career is in ruins: instead of completing his philosophy Ph.D. (still unfinished after seven years), he is secretly writing what he hopes will be his masterwork, a vast atheistic project he has privately entitled "The Book Against God."But when his father suddenly falls ill, Thomas returns to the tiny village in the north of England where he grew up and where his father still works as a parish priest. There, Thomas hopes, he may finally be able to communicate honestly with his father, a brilliant and formidable Christian example, and sort out his own wayward life. But Thomas is a chronic liar as well as an atheist, and he finds, instead, that once at home...

The war has begun, and we are losing. The grey men and their agents pursue us relentlessly. Our only hope is finding the mythical Hall of Records, where we hope to uncover the secrets of the Builders. Our journey begins in Cairo, and will take us further than anyone could imagine. If we succeed the human race has a chance. If not, our race will be extinguished.

Prayers for the Living is a novel both grandiose in its vision and loving in its familiarity. Presented in a series of conversations between grandmother Minnie Bloch and her companions, Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio commentator on All Things Considered, unfolds a layered family portrait of three generations of the Bloch family, whose members are collapsing under everyday burdens and brutal betrayals. Her son Manny is a renowned, almost legendary rabbi. Respected by his congregants and surrounded by family, no one suspects that he yearns for a life of greater personal glory but when an oracular bird delivers what Manny believes to be a message from his deceased father, he abandons his congregation in pursuit of a life in business and his entire life spirals out of control.As Manny's fortunes rise in the corporate realm, he falls deeper into an affair with a congregant, a Holocaust survivor, his wife sinks deeper into alcoholism and depression and his daughter,...