Sean Michaels

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Daphne Clair

"I can make new memories for you." When Greg Stone suddenly appeared in her quiet life, Eloise Dalton did her best to resist the flaming attraction between them. She couldn't risk her heart again. The hurt from the past had been too devastating. But, Greg, a successful director who'd just returned to New Zealand from California, was persistent. He offered to make Eloise's first novel into a film. How could she refuse? Working with Greg stirred such painful memories. Eloise had to decide how much of the past she could let go for the sake of a future with Greg. Fact is, Eloise and Greg are married but broke up 5 years earlier as Greg thought she'd been unfaithful and in a fit of rage, raped her. He'd been gone for 2 years, pursuing his budding career as a film director, after getting Eloise's reluctant blessing to 'go for it' and take their savings to make it in his career. He takes off and comes back 2 years later, as his career is beginning to take off and he's close to the big time. He's well dressed and drives a 'flash' car on his return, but misunderstands a kiss he sees between his wife and a neighbour - so, commits the rape. Five hears on, and he's a big time Hollywood Director now and comes back to claim Eloise....but their tumultuous past keeps her from trusting him.

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Michael Ondaatje

The Dainty Monsters is a celebrated work by Michael Ondaatje (Golden Man Booker Winner, Giller Prize Winner), recognized for masterclass storytelling and lasting literary resonance.

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Alan H. Friedman

Hermaphrodeity by Alan H. Friedman is an acclaimed literary masterpiece celebrating major critical honors and timeless storytelling.

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Pat Barker

The final book in the *Regeneration Trilogy* and winner of the 1995 Booker Prize, *The Ghost Road* is the culminating masterpiece of Pat Barker's towering World War I fiction trilogy. The time of the novel is the closing months of the most senselessly savage of modern conflicts. In France, millions of men engaged in brutal trench warfare are all "ghosts in the making." In England, psychologist William Rivers, with severe pangs of conscience, treats the mental casualties of the war to make them whole enough to fight again. One of these, Billy Prior, risen to the officer class from the working class, both courageous and sardonic, decides to return to France with his fellow officer, poet Wilfred Owen, to fight a war he no longer believes in. Meanwhile, Rivers, enfevered by influenza returns in memory to his experience studying a South Pacific tribe whose ethos amounted to a culture of death. Across the gulf between his society and theirs, Rivers begins to form connections that cast new light on his--and our--understanding of war. Combining poetic intensity with gritty realism, blending biting humor with tragic drama, moving toward a denouement as inevitable as it is devastating, *The Ghost Road* both encapsulates history and transcends it. It is a modern masterpiece. (From amazon.com)