Nel novembre 1974 Londra fu sconvolta da un terribile omicidio, uno dei delitti più celebri della storia inglese. La stampa si occupò a lungo della vicenda, concentrandosi sullo scandalo di cui fu protagonista il conte Lord Lucan, affascinante, ricco e dissoluto, misteriosamente scomparso dopo l'assassinio della giovane tata di famiglia, Sandra Rivett, e condannato in contumacia. Jill Dawson si ispira a questo notissimo fatto di cronaca per raccontare la storia di Mandy, una giovane donna approdata a Londra da una provincia soffocante con il desiderio di riscattare un triste passato. La sua nuova vita fu invece orribilmente troncata in una lussuosa dimora del quartiere aristocratico di Belgravia dove lavorava come tata. Strani presagi, silenzi colpevoli, inquietanti indizi, segreti inconfessabili riemergono dal racconto dell'amica Rosemary, che ricostruisce una storia carica di tensione e per molti aspetti ancora oscura.

Inghilterra, 1964. La celebre ed eccentrica scrittrice americana Patricia Highsmith si è ritirata in un cottage nella piovosa campagna del Suffolk per scrivere il suo nuovo libro e sfuggire alle persecuzioni di un misterioso ammiratore. Ma la sua quiete viene continuamente interrotta dalle visite insistenti di una giovane e affascinante giornalista, dal volto stranamente familiare... E quando da Londra viene a trovarla la sua amante, l'algida, elegantissima Samantha, il mistero si infittisce. Tra segreti, sospetti, flashback e fantasmi del passato, Pat si ritroverà all'improvviso in un incubo sanguinoso, vittima delle sue stesse ossessioni. Ripercorrendo la vita di Patricia Highsmith e sulla falsariga dei suoi libri (gli appassionati vi troveranno numerosi richiami), Jill Dawson indaga gli spaventosi abissi della mente criminale e il misterioso potere della scrittura in un thriller ad alta tensione, ricco di suspense e atmosfera, proprio come i romanzi della stessa Highsmith.

A man’s life and his capacity for love mysteriously changes after a heart transplant in this dramatic and affecting novel—as provocative and poignant as the works of Jodi Picoult, Jojo Moyes, and Alice Sebold—from the acclaimed Orange Prize nominee and author of Lucky Bunny.

After years of excessive drink and sex, Patrick’s heart has collapsed. Only fifty, he has been given six months to live. But a tragic accident involving a teenager and a motorcycle gives the university professor a second chance. He receives the boy’s heart in a transplant, and by this miracle of science, two strangers are forever linked.

Though Patrick’s body accepts his new heart, his old life seems to reject him. Bored by the things that once enticed him, he begins to look for meaning in his experience. Discovering that his donor was a local boy named Drew Beamish, he becomes intensely curious about Drew’s life and the influences that shaped him-from the eighteenth-century ancestor involved in a labor riot to the bleak beauty of the Cambridgeshire countryside in which he was raised. Patrick longs to know the story of this heart that is now his own.

In this intriguing and deeply absorbing story, Jill Dawson weaves together the lives and loves of three vibrant characters connected by fate to explore questions of life after death, the nature of the soul, the unseen forces that connect us, and the symbolic power of the heart.

Born into a criminal family in London's East End during the Great Depression, and trained by a group of women shoplifters during the Blitz, Queenie Dove decides to walk the straight and narrow after the birth of her daughter until she decides to take part in one last robbery. Original. 20,000 first printing.

Love that grows among the heather is enchanted indeed...blessed with the misty magic and timeless passion of fair Scotland!

New York Times bestselling author Jude Deveraux unravels a ghostly murder mystery in an ancient Scottish castle. National bestselling author Jill Barnett decrees all is fair in love -- when a rollicking Highland clan war leads an impetuous lass to kidnap the wrong man! Geralyn Dawson puts a rough-hewn Texas cowboy under the spell of a charming herbalist with some curious powers of attraction. Patricia Cabot leads a beautiful runaway to her kindred spirit -- a Scottish lord who sweeps her away to the rugged shores of the Isle of Skye. Pam Binder flings a pretty Edinburgh baker and a computer-games designer into an adventure of passion and intrigue -- inside the sixteenth-century palace of Mary, Queen of Scots.

In 1909, sixteen-year-old Nell Golightly is a housemaid at a popular tea garden near Cambridge University, and Rupert Brooke, a new tenant, is already causing a stir with his boyish good looks and habit of swimming naked in nearby Byron's Pool. Despite her good sense, Nell seems to be falling under the radical young poet's spell, even though Brooke apparently adores no one but himself. Could he ever love a housemaid? Is he, in fact, capable of love at all?

Jill Dawson's The Great Lover imaginatively and playfully gives new voice to Rupert Brooke through the poet's own words and through the remembrances of the spirited Nell. An extraordinary novel, it powerfully conveys the allure of charisma as it captures the mysterious and often perverse workings of the human heart.

A witty and wicked collection of poetry, an illuminating comment on women's ability to transform poetry into a medium of subversiveness. With poems by Maya Angelou, Margaret Atwood, Emily Dickenson and Carol Ann Duffy.

London, 1922. Edith Thompson, an attractive, confident, financially independent 27-year-old woman, married during the Great War but soon finds her suburban life - and husband, Percy - stifling. Excited by the new freedoms available to women, dreaming of the kind of romantic and glamorous world she finds in novels and in films, she takes a lover, Frederick Bywaters, who is seven years her junior.
Never in her wildest dreams could Edie have imagined the devastating end to her illicit romance: Bywaters, in a fit of jealousy, stabs Percy Thompson to death as he and his wife walk home one night from the theater. And in a sensational case that captures the imagination of an entire nation, Fred and Edie are summarily tried, convicted and hanged at the gallows - even as a petition to spare their lives receives more than one million signatures.
Based on a true story, Fred & Edie is a dramatic novel of passion, murder and a spectacular public trial at a time of momentous change for women. Drawing on extensive research, poet and academic Jill Dawson creates a marvelously intimate, realistic and convincing account of a strangely ardent and compelling love affair.