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  Greek's One-Night Babies &...

  Lynne Graham, Caitlin Crews

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  Greek's One-Night Babies A secret babies, marriage of convenience, Greek billionaire romance from USA TODAY bestselling author Lynne Graham.Her night with the Greek…has triple the consequences!When billionaire Nic Diamandis rescued innocent Lexy from an accident, their immediate connection was intoxicating. Indulging in a no-strings encounter became inevitable. Still, for the sworn bachelor, parting ways was the only possible outcome. Then Lexy returns—to tell him she’s had his triplets…Independent Lexy doesn’t expect anything of Nic after she reveals his heirs. Certainly not his convenient-marriage demand! Becoming his wife would give her babies the childhood she always dreamed of… Yet saying “I do” risks reigniting the very thing an on-paper union can’t satisfy—their desire!Carrying a Sicilian SecretA surprise pregnancy, marriage of convenience, Greek billionaire romance by USA TODAY bestselling author Caitlin Crews.The secret consequence…of a dangerous passion!Alceu Vaccaro should never have touched Dioni Adrianakis. It’s not just that he lost control and rid his best friend’s sister of her innocence. He broke his vow to ensure his despicable bloodline ended with him. Because Dioni is secretly pregnant with his heir…Before Alceu, Dioni spent a lifetime silencing her own desires. No more. He can demand they marry for their son, but she won’t accept being the Sicilian’s wife in name only. And to close the distance Alceu insists is for her protection, she must stoke the wildfire tearing through them both…From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds.

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  These Foolish Things & Other...

  Yeo Wei Wei

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  This debut collection by Yeo Wei Wei explores the realms between private selves, past and present, through vivid and haunting motifs—a singing bird, a lost soul in a yellow umbrella, an ivory carving, the diary of an ex-boyfriend's father. Revealing the regrets, obsessions, loss and sorrow of events in everyday life, These Foolish Things &Other Stories is a compelling piece of work ready to haunt, delight and touch its readers. 
   
  A wife returns home to find that her husband has remarried ... 
  An old woman in a nursing home is visited by a mynah that sings a Beatles song ... 
  An artist remembers the time he was harangued by rambutans, magoes and other fruits in his studio ... 
   
  “No word is out of place in Yeo Wei Wei’s exacting prose. The reader’s expectations and positions of empathy are put to the test in ways that both delight and shatter the heart.” 
  -Cyril Wong, author of Tilting Our Plates to Catch the Light and The Dictator's Eyebrow 
   
  “Yeo Wei Wei weaves a purgatorial web of men and women caught between guilt, loss and unbearable longing. Her stories are intelligent, haunting, carefully composed yet deeply felt.” 
  -Clarissa Oon, arts editor, The Straits Times 
   
  “Yeo Wei Wei is set on uncovering whole realms between private past and present and between private selves; in the process, she justifies the incidence of art. Let each tale here walk your mind as though it were a painting 
  -Gwee Li Sui, literary critic, graphic artist and author of One Thousand and One Nights: Love Poems

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Charles...

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  This mid-century decade reveals a journey traversing continents and genres as authors explore and revel in the telling of tumultuous times of social upheaval as nations are divided by Civil War or expand with the brute force of Imperial Dreams.  Our writers are here to document and narrate more about this fascinating decade. 
   
  01 - The Top 10 - The 1860's - The Men - An Introduction 
  02 - The Crocodile. An Extraordinary Incident - Part 1 by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
  03 - The Crocodile. An Extraordinary Incident - Part 2 by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
  04 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens 
  05 - The Generous Gambler by Charles Baudelaire 
  06 - The Romance of Certain Old Clothes by Henry James 
  07 - Malachi's Cove by Anthony Trollope 
  08 - The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte 
  05 - The Astounding Adventure of Wheeler J Calamity, Related by Himslef by W S Gilbert 
  10 - The Spectre Bridegroom by William Hunt 
  11 - The 9.30 Up-Train by Sabine Baring-Gould 
  12 - The Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale

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  Désirée's Baby - From their pens...

  Kate Chopin

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  Katherine O'Flaherty was born on the 8th February 1850 in St Louis, Missouri to parents of French and Irish descent. 
  At age 5, she was sent to the Sacred Heart Academy and, apart from a 2 year period at home when her father died, remained there until graduating in 1868.  Whilst there she began writing and became an avid reader of almost anything that crossed her path.   
  Kate married Oscar Chopin in 1870 and the couple moved to New Orleans, and later to the rural setting of Cloutierville, Louisiana to raise their 6 children.  
  In 1882 her husband died leaving her in a deep trench of debt.  Despite her best efforts to turn the businesses around they were sold, and she moved the family back to St Louis and the financial help of her mother.  Sadly, her mother died within the year.  Kate, now struggling with depression, pushed herself to write and gained a local reputation as a writer of short stories that captured the local color and vibrancy of her surroundings.  
  By the early 1890’s her short stories were published nationally.  With this widespread audience also came negative reviews, controversy, and cries of immorality as themes such as interracial relationships, the rights of women and other burning issues of the day were written about. 
  Despite the criticism, which unnerved her, she continued to write though in the main her works, around 100 short stories and two novels, were not attributed with any literary worth. 
  Kate Chopin died from a brain haemorrhage in St Louis Missouri on the 22nd of August 1904.  She was 54. 
  For much of the 20th Century her work was forgotten and out of print.  It was only in early 1970’s, with the rise of feminism and the call for a more just society that she was given the status her works had long described and shone a literary light at.  She is now safely revered as one of America’s great authors.

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  The Hidden Light of Objects

  Mai Al-Nakib

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  A young girl, renamed Amerika in honour of the US role in the liberation of Kuwait, finds her name has become a barometer of her country's growing hostility towards the West. A self-conscious Palestinian teenager is drawn into a botched suicide bombing by two belligerent classmates. A middle-aged man dying from cancer looks back on his extramarital affairs and the abiding forgiveness of his wife. A Kuwaiti woman returns to her family after being held captive in Iraq for a decade.
  
  The headlines tell of war, unrest and religious clashes. But if you look beyond them you will see life in the Middle East as it is really lived – adolescent love, the fragility of marriage, pain of the most quotidian kind. Mai Al-Nakib's luminous stories unveil the lives of ordinary people – and the power of objects to hold extraordinary memories.

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  White Nights

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky 
  In the ethereal twilight of St. Petersburg's white nights, a young loner's solitary existence is transformed by a chance encounter with the enchanting Nastenka. Over several luminous evenings, two kindred souls embark on a journey of emotional discovery, sharing dreams, disappointments, and the fragile hope of love. Dostoevsky's poignant novella delves into the depths of human loneliness, unrequited love, and the universal yearning for connection. "White Nights" is an unforgettable exploration of the soul’s battle between idealism and reality, penned by one of literature’s greatest observers of the human condition. 
  Dive into this masterful depiction of passion and despair, and experience the heartrending beauty of an all-too-fleeting love.

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