Margaret Atwood
Bodily Harm

Rennie Wilford, a young journalist running from her life, takes an assignment to a Caribbean island and tumbles into a world where no one is what they seem. When the burnt-out Yankee Paul (does he smuggle dope or hustle for the CIA?), offers her a no-hooks, no-strings affair, she is caught up in a lethal web of corruption....

Antonia Fraser
Marie Antoinette

Still a controversial figure - as well as a celebrated one - Marie Antoinette's dramatic life-story continues to arouse mixed emotions. Was she, as Edmund Burke thought, a misused heroine? Or would there have been no French Revolution without her, as Thomas Jefferson believed? In this stunning biography, Antonia Fraser charts the journey made by this ill-fated Queen.

'This angel, as gaudily painted in the rhapsodies of the Rhetor Burke....was proud, disdainful of restraint, indignant at all obstacles to her will, eager in the pursuit of pleasure and firm enough to hold onto her desires, or perish in their wreck....I have ever believed that had there been no queen, there would have been no revolution' - Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography.

Audrey Howard
Annie's Girl

Tempestuous Briar Macauley's single-minded stubbornness to prove to the world that she is the equal of any man leads her into so many disastrous circumstances that her parents despair of ever making a lady of her. However, the only man who can stand up to her untamed spirit is Will Lucas whose temper matches her own. Exchanging her wild ways for a husband and child she would die for, Briar becomes the model of a perfect wife. But then tragedy strikes....