Richard Attenborough and Diana Hawkins
Entirely Up To You, Darling

Richard Attenborough and Diana Hawkins have been friends and colleagues for nearly fifty years. Attenborough is the octogenarian peer, happily married since 1945, with a lifetime of activity as film star, director, producer, company chairman and campaigner. Hawkins, seventy, was Attenborough's publicist, business partner and, ultimately, his co-producer. Together, laughing and squabbling, they have travelled the world, meeting people and making films. Attenborough also writes of his passion for football and politics, of his avuncular relationship with Princess Diana, and finally about the tsunami tragedy which engulfed his family in December 2004.

Sandra Brown
Smoke Screen

When newswoman Britt Shelley wakes up in bed with jay Burgess, a rising detective in the Charleston PO, she doesn't remember how she got there ... or how jay wound up dead. jay had been the hero of a disastrous fire which, five years earlier, had destroyed the police headquarters. But there are powerful men who don't want to answer questions about the fire....

Patricia Wilson's writers' retreats at her thirteenth-century Italian castle promise so much. Each of her seven aspiring authors arrives with the inevitable baggage alongside their unpublished manuscripts. But this August something is different. As temperatures rise, the writers gossip, flirt and gently polish their prose by the pool ­ Patricia has never seen a summer like this.