Thriller.

A chilling high-concept thriller from No. 1 bestselling author Sam Bourne. Perfect for fans of Robert Harris.

This long-lost novel recounts a passionate triangle of love and loss among three of the most daring women of belle époque Paris. In this barely disguised roman à clef, the legendary American heiress, writer, and arts patron Natalie Clifford Barney, the dashing Italian baroness Mimi Franchetti, and the beautiful French courtesan Liane de Pougy share erotic liaisons that break all taboos and end in devastation as one unexpectedly becomes the “third woman.” Never before published in English, and only recently published in French, this modernist, experimental work has been brought to light by Chelsea Ray’s research and translation.

A magisterial reconstruction and analysis of the heated debates around the 'woman question' during the French Third Republic.

Dr. Kenneth Balton, a dentist, was an ordinary man, a pillar of the community, a well-liked gentleman. How then did he end up embroiled in the murder of his ex-wifes lover? All evidence points to him as the killer; he has no alibi,witnesses place him at the scene,and he was overheard threatening to kill the victim. But he is innocent ... isnt he? This unusual mystery thriller will keep readers guessing the truth right up to the nerve-shattering ending.

One of the most influential thinkers of her generation draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises in these three “immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion” (The Sunday Herald Times). Suffused with de Beauvoir’s remarkable insights into women, The Woman Destroyed gives us a legendary writer at her best. Includes "The Age of Discretion," "The Monologue," and "The Woman Destroyed." "Witty, immensely adroit...These three women are believable individuals presented with a wry mixture of sympathy and exasperation." —The Atlantic

When Graham Green and Catherine Walston began their illicit romance in January 1947, he was the acclaimed author of Brighton Rock with a troubled marriage, and she was the sexually libertine thirty-year-old wife of a millionaire future Labour life peer. What followed would inspire Greene's 1951 novel The End of the Affair. Revisiting the scenes of their adulterous passion, and drawing on love letters, diaries, personal interviews and correspondence, The Third Woman is the enthralling true story of one of the twentieth century's most epic romances.