![]() The Corrections (2001), the book that launched him to celebrity, centers on the fictional midwestern suburb of St. Louis but in the unassuming suburb of Webster Groves, where Franzen himself grew up. ![]() The protagonist of his debut, The Twenty-Seventh City (1988), languishes not in the eponymous city of St. ![]() His characters don’t hail from New York or Los Angeles, or even Boston or Minneapolis, but from the margins of already marginal cities. Yet his fiction is typically set in claustrophobic enclaves. This may sound like a curious characterization of a writer who has sweated to position himself as an encyclopedic chronicler of wide-scale cultural change in each of his five fat novels to date, the shortest of them clocking in at 517 pages. J onathan Franzen writes big books about small lives. ![]()
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A stellar academic record, an amazing career in journalism – and for her current crush to realise she actually exists. ![]() ![]() ![]() Love’s the last thing on her mind when she locks eyes with Will Darcy across the crowded club, yet the spark between them is undeniable-that is, until she overhears the uptight wealth manager call her merely “tolerable.”īennet is determined to write Darcy off, but once their besties fall head-over-heels, they’re thrown into each other’s orbit again and again. ![]() Now an executive assistant by day and stage kitten by night, she’s discovered a second home with the performers at Meryton, Manhattan’s top-tier burlesque venue. ![]() A sparkling contemporary retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in the tantalizing world of New York City burlesque, perfect for fans of The Kiss Quotient and The Roommate.Īfter a betrayal derailed her interior design career, Liz Bennet found a fresh start in New York. ![]() ![]() It's like nothing Reed has ever dealt with before, and if he's going to win back his princess, he'll need to prove himself Royally worthy. She says they'll only destroy each other. But when one foolish mistake drives her out of Reed's arms and brings chaos to the Royal household, Reed's entire world begins to fall apart around him. What started off as burning resentment and the need to make his father's new ward suffer turned into something else entirely-keep Ella close. The girls at his elite prep school line up to date him, the guys want to be him, but Reed never gave a damn about anyone but his family until Ella Harper walked into his life. ![]() Reed Royal has it all-looks, status, money. From wharf fights and school brawls to crumbling lives inside glittery mansions, one guy tries to save himself. ![]() ![]() ![]() She has been inspired by the works of Sylvia Plath, Maya Angelou and Robert Frost. Her work offers reflections on love, and feminist re-tellings of fairy tales and Greek myths. ![]() Gill has published Your Soul Is A River (2016), Wild Embers: Poems of rebellion, fire and beauty (2017), Fierce Fairytales: & Other Stories to Stir Your Soul (2018), Great Goddesses: Life lessons from myths and monsters (2019), Your Heart Is The Sea (2019), The Girl and the Goddess (2020) and Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing, and Light (2021). ![]() Her work was rejected 137 times for publication. Gill's work was first published when she was 12 years old. She has been described as one of the most successful Instapoets, and one of the most exciting young writers working today. About Nikita Gill Nikita Gill is a British-Indian poet. ![]() |