Alexandra Bell

_____________________ Welcome to the Winter Garden. Open only at 13 o'clock. You are invited to enter an unusual competition. I am looking for the most magical, spectacular, remarkable pleasure garden this world has to offer. On the night her mother dies, 8-year-old Beatrice receives an invitation to the mysterious Winter Garden. A place of wonder and magic, filled with all manner of strange and spectacular flora and fauna, the garden is her solace every night for seven days. But when the garden disappears, and no one believes her story, Beatrice is left to wonder if it were truly real. Eighteen years later, on the eve of her wedding to a man her late father approved of but she does not love, Beatrice makes the decision to throw off the expectations of Victorian English society and search for the garden. But when both she and her closest friend, Rosa, receive invitations to compete to create spectacular pleasure gardens - with the prize being one wish from the last of the Winter Garden's magic - she realises she may be closer to finding it than she ever imagined. Now all she has to do is win.

The Winter Garden

The White Octopus Hotel follows Anna, an art valuer, who is asked by an old man to value a strange ornamental white octopus as his dying wish. As she investigates, she follows its trail to the wreck of a glamourous art deco hotel, once known for a collection of magical artefacts. Anna manages to track down a key, but when she uses it, she is transported through time to the White Octopus Hotel as it was during its heyday in the 1930s and is caught up in a scavenger hunt. Here, Anna will find the key to unlocking her family's mysterious past, and a passionate love story with a young artist.

The White Octopus Hotel

Journey to a magical hotel in the Swiss Alps, where two lost souls living in different centuries meet and discover if a second chance awaits them behind its doors. “Have you travelled a long way?” she asked carefully.. A smile twitched at the corner of his mouth. “Well, yes,” he said slowly. “Yes, you could say that. But it was worth the wait.” London, 2015. When reclusive art appraiser Eve Shaw shakes the hand of a silver-haired gentleman in her office, the warmth of his palm sends a spark through her. His name is Max Everly—curiously, the same name as Eve’s favorite composer, born one hundred sixteen years prior. And she has the sudden feeling that she’s held his hand before . . . but where, and when? The White Octopus Hotel, 1935. In this belle époque building high in the snowy mountains, Eve and a young Max wander the winding halls, lost in time. Each of them has been through the trenches—Eve through a family accident and Max on the battlefields of the Great War—but for an impossible moment, love and healing are just a room away . . . if only they have the courage to step through the door.

Roman

Das White Octopus Hotel

Sisters-in-law Kate, Helen and Miranda all have one thing in common - they're hiding something. It's not easy being part of the high-achieving Fox family: the expectations and demands of their husbands and children; the jealousies and rivalries; and the endless Sunday lunches where somehow everything feels like a competition. So when mysterious Sasha enters their lives, bloodied from the battlefield of a painful divorce, buried frustrations rush to the surface. Why is Kate's husband Jonny working so late at the office, and how will she cope at home alone? Can army-wife Helen trust Jago to come back to her next time, or is he drawn by temptations in a foreign field? And will Simon's explosive secret blow Miranda's marriage apart once and for all? Three sisters-in-law. One devastating divorcee. Whose husband is about to play with fire?

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Riding the Storm

The Sex Board is an entirely fictional account of the new public or should it be pubic body set up by the Irish government to provide relaxing services for all the elites in Ireland, whether they are elite people in the top ranks of the public service, top people in business and other organisations, such as charities and the Catholic church in Ireland. With the arrival of the Sex Board, a troupe of beautiful looking young men and women, all fantastically well endowed, set out to keep all these elites happy, with unbridled scenes of sexual gratification and satisfaction. For the people they serve, no kink is too way out, no pleasure beyond bounds. For all these top elites, the arrival of the Sex Board means that they can enjoy unlimited sexual relations and pleasure. The book satirises each and every section of society in which these elite personnel operate. The ordinary man and woman in the street, Joe and Josephine Soap, have to pay for the heavy outgoings of the Sex Board through their punitive taxes, but since they are the little people, they are not allowed to take part in any of these romps behind closed doors. Soon, the Sex Board is working like a piston under full pressure and such is the wide scale of copulation and sexual frolics, little or no work gets done. Yet as this satire explains, Ireland still continues to function perfectly well, without any hindrance to services provided by the public and private sectors. Private parts are always to the fore, yet in this satire, the newly found obsession with sex at the top levels of Irish society means that everything continues, business as usual and all the really serious problems in Irish society are ignored. Perhaps there s a moral tucked away in that unprecedented devotion to amorality.

An Bord Gneás

The Sex Board

Sorcha is a young country girl who makes it to the top in the big, bad world of newspapers. From a farming family, she learns her trade in country papers before graduating to a main newspaper in the big smoke, Dublin. There, she rises to the top in a profession renowned for its back biting and betrayals, making it on her own verve, skills, and sheer tenacity. Along the way, she has a lot fun. Sorcha quickly finds that she has no sexual inhibitions, with either men or women. She takes great pleasure in her many sexual adventuressome of which turn out to be hilarious. But despite all the fun and games, she also enjoys in her upward journey in the newspaper world. As she works, she learns more and more about what really goes on behind the scenes in the arcane atmosphere of newspaper production. Rising to the Deadline is a story of raw, thrusting sexuality, but its also a touching story of how a young, talented country girl, with no important connections, makes a huge impact in the newspaper business, beating the old boys network at their own game.

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