Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as 'Lily' in Lima in 1950, when she arrives one summer out of the blue, claiming to be from Chile but vanishing the moment her claim is exposed as fiction. He loves her next in Paris, where she appears as the enchanting 'Comrade Arlette', an activist en route to Cuba, and becomes his lover, albeit an icy remote one, who denies knowing anything about the Lily of years gone by. Whoever the bad girl tuens up as - whether it's Madame Robert Arnoux, the wife of a high-ranking UNESCO official, or Kuriko, the mistress of a sinister Japanese businessman - and however poorly she treats him, Ricardo is doomed to worship her.

With millions of devoted fans, Tom Jones is not only one of the most successful singers of all time but he has sustained his popularity over an incredible four decades. Robin Eggar has talked to close friends, family, business associates in England and the United States, and to Tom Jones himself, and paints a rounded portrait of the man from the Welsh Valleys who has become a pop legend.

James Herriot enriched the lives of millions with his wonderful stories of life as a country veterinarian. Now, for the first time, thanks to this intimate Biographies, fans can truly gte to know the man behind the famous writer - Alf Wight, the real vet, who, under the pen-name Herriot, immortalised the people and the landscape of the Yorkshire Dales where he lived and worked.

Crossed women. Crossed lines. Crossed swords. The agent - Jojo, a high-flying literary agent on the up, has just made a very bad career move: she's jumped into bed with her married boss, Mark....The bestseller - Jojo's sweet natured client Lily's first novel is a roaring success. She and lover Anton celebrate by spending the advance for her second book. Then she gets writer's block...The unknown - Gemma used to be Lily's best friend - until Lily 'stole' Anton. Now she's writing her own story - painfully and hilariously - when super-shark agent Jojo stumbles across it...When their fortunes become entangled, it seems too much to hope that they'll all find a happy ending. But maybe they'll each discover that there's more than one side of the story....

The New York State Library. A silent sanctuary of knowledge; a 100-year-old labyrinth of towering bookcases, narrow aisles and spiralling staircases. For Doctor Stephen Swain and his daughter, Holly, it is the site of a nightmare. Because for one night this historic building is to be the venue for a contest. A contest in which Swain is to compete - whether he likes it or not....

Writer Ivan Connor is desperate. His publisher has turned down his wonderful new novel, his agent is out of ideas, and the only person to turn up at his latest reading is his mum. He's deeply jealous of the marketable Francesca Brady, a hugely successful author of fat romantic books for fat romantic people, whose expansive hair and bright red lipstick mock him from posters everywhere he goes. He's also living at home since his marriage broke up, and he's just collected the wrong child from school........

Jane Spring has discovered that twenty-first century relationships are built on a myth. A successful New York lawyer, she's organized, attractive, strong-minded, self-sufficient - but single. She's everything men say they want in a woman - smart, ambitious and sexually confidant - yet somehow, while all her friends plan their weddings, no one wants to marry her.Then one day, when a blizzard hits, she finds the answer. Drinking her way through a depressing afternoon snowed into her apartment, she turns on the TV and finds a Doris Day marathon. And that's when the revelation hits her: Doris wouldn't be stuck inside alone at a weekend. Doris wouldn't scare men off. Doris always gets her man. Because, despite everything men say, they're terrified of women like Jane. What they really want is a cute little blonde with frosted pink lipstick, a tight pencil skirt and kitten heels. What they really want is Doris......

The men on board Her Britannic Majesty's ships 'Terror' and 'Erebus had every expectation of triumph. They were part of Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition - as scientifically advanced an enterprise as had ever set forth - and theirs were the first steam driven vessels to go in search of the fabled North-West Passage. but the ships have now been trapped in the Arctic ice for nearly two years. Coal and provisions are running low. Yet the real threat isn't the constantly shifting landscape of white or the flesh-numbing temperatures, the dwindling supplies or the vessels being slowly crushed by the unyielding grip of the frozen ocean. No, the real threat is far more terrifying. There is something out there that haunts the frigid darkness, which stalks the ships, snatching one man at a time, mutilating, devouring....