A flower falls deeply in love with a tree…For a while, their love is ‘all and everything’, but then something changes and love seems lost…But is it?A Flower and a Tree is a heart-warming perennial tale of love, lost and found. A fable of ‘heart and mind’ embedded within the most accessible of metaphors… A story that ultimately reveals the deep yearning within our hearts for love and unity.“A wonderful storypoem…So beautiful and full of love…” – Lars Muhl
A candid memoir detailing the author's and her husband's struggles with IVF, highlighting their experiences with numerous doctors, a mix of medications, and the challenges of intimacy during this trying journey.
Violence, romance and a society on the edge: the new novel from journalist Imogen Edwards-Jones, set against the background of the Russian Revolution.
Hospital Babylon is an in-depth, amusing and highly insightful expose of the extraordinary world of modern medicine. Doctors who sleep with patients. Doctors who suck fat, pump up breasts, plump lips and lengthen penises. As well as the doctor who makes a fortune doing buttock enlargements in the Caribbean.
What makes a restaurant hot? Why else do some chefs drive themselves crazy in pursuit of elusive Michelin stars, when in reality all they're doing is 'making someone else's tea'? So please do sit down, pour yourself some heavily marked-up wine and make yourself comfortable (although we'll need that table back by 8.30 sharp).
Een grandioze roman van de man achter Downton Abbey Op een steenworp afstand van Buckingham Palace, achter de deuren van Londens meest imposante huizen, hebben schandalen en intriges vrij spel. Op 15 juni 1815 organiseerde de hertogin van Richmond in Brussel een groots bal ter ere van de hertog van Wellington. Vlak na middernacht kwam onverwacht het bericht dat Napoleon de grens was overgestoken, waardoor Wellington zijn mannen op stel en sprong de oorlog in moest leiden. Veel officieren die op het slagveld omkwamen, droegen hun avondkleding nog. Belgravia begint op deze vooravond van de slag bij Waterloo. Genodigden op het legendarische bal zijn James en Anne Trenchard, die in de handel een fortuin hebben verdiend. Hun dochter Sophia maakt een onuitwisbare indruk op Edmund Bellasis, de zoon en erfgenaam van een prominente Britse familie. Maar tijdens het bal gebeurt er iets wat in ieders leven zijn sporen zal nalaten. En vijfentwintig jaar later, als de twee families neerstrijken in de nieuwe wijk Belgravia, heeft dit geheim nog steeds gevolgen. Achter de deuren van de imponerende huizen vormt zich een web van leugens en intriges…
'Something strange occurs to guests as soon as they check in. Even if in real life they are perfectly well-mannered, decent people with proper balanced relationships, as soon as they spin through the revolving hotel doors the normal rules of behaviour no longer seem to apply.' All of the following is true.Only the names have been changed to protect the guilty. All the anecdotes, the stories, the characters, the situations, the highs, the lows, the scams, the drugs, the misery, the love, the death and the insanity are exactly as was told by Anonymous - someone who has spent his whole career working in hotels at the heart of London's luxury hotel industry. However, for legal reasons, the stories now take place in a fictitious hotel known as Hotel Babylon. More than a decade is compressed into a day. Everything else is as it should be. The rich spend money, the hotel makes money and the chambermaids still fight the bellboys over a two-pound coin.It's just another twenty-four hours in an expensive London hotel.
A sharp and furiously funny must-read about family life
The narrative explores the lives of four friends grappling with the complexities of marriage, parenthood, and careers. As they confront their chaotic realities, they reflect on their choices, questioning their relationships and personal fulfillment. With humor and candor, the story delves into their struggles, from the meaning of love and friendship to the small comforts they seek in daily life, all while pondering whether they will ever find a moment of peace amidst the chaos.
Following a week in the life of a busy wedding planner, and based entirely on true but anonymous stories, Wedding Babylon takes you to the heart of an industry where emotions run high, money flows like champagne and GBP3,000 cakes are made of polystyrene.