Ever since her mother found Penny Wilson's eardrum in her mouth when Maren was just two years old, she knew life would never be normal for either of them. She didn't choose to be this way.īecause Maren Yearly doesn't just break hearts, she devours them. She hates herself for the bad thing she does, for what it's done to her family and her sense of identity, for how it dictates her place in the world and how people see her-how they judge her. But her secret, shameful needs have forced her into exile. She wants to be someone people admire and respect. Maren Yearly is a young woman who wants the same things we all do. Now a major motion picture from Luca Guadagnino starring Taylor Russell, Timothée Chalamet and Mark Rylance, screenplay by David Kajganich!
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It's dirty and filthy and rich - as dirty and filthy and rich as he is - and it haunts me as much as he ever did.Įven after knowing what I know now, I still want to talk to him, to touch him. I've discovered Donovan Kincaid's secret. Especially when I know how much I'll like it. I've been down this road before, and I know all the dirty, filthy ways Donovan will try and wreck me.īut it's hard to resist. He saved me, and then Weston finally noticed me, and I finally learned what it was to be in their world. I knew what I wanted-I knew who I wanted-until one night, their world tried to bite me back and Donovan saved me. I knew poor scholarship girls like me didn't stand a chance against guys like Weston King and Donovan Kincaid, but I was in love with his world, their world, of parties and sex and power. Truth be told, I was only trying to get his best friend to notice me. When I met Donovan Kincaid, I knew he was rich. Both books in the Dirty Duet included in one bundle.įrom NYT Bestselling author Laurelin Paige, discover a whole new world filled with sex, love, power, romance and dirty, filthy rich men. His second escape took him to Prague where he was sheltered by the Czech resistance for eight months before he was captured. Over the next four years he made three escapes, coming within 100 yards of the Swiss border during his first attempt. From then on his life was governed by an unquenchable desire to escape from Occupied Europe. On 23 May, 1940, his Spitfire was shot down during a dogfight over Boulogne after destroying two German fighters. He was also renowned as an international ski champion and fighter pilot with a string of glamorous girlfriends. By the age of 29, this charismatic character who spoke nine languages had become a London barrister with a reputation for successfully defending those much less fortunate than him. Through exclusive access to this material - as well as fascinating new research from other sources - Simon Pearson, Chief Night Editor of The Times, has now written the first biography of this iconic figure.īorn in South Africa in 1910, Roger Bushell was the son of a British mining engineer. Very little was known about Bushell until 2011, when his family donated his private papers - a treasure trove of letters, photographs and diaries - to the Imperial War Museum. Roger Bushell was 'Big X', mastermind of the mass breakout from Stalag Luft III in March 1944, immortalised in the Hollywood film The Great Escape. The thrilling true story of the real Great Escape, published to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the escape. The film adaptation of this book has some fun aspects and maintains the theme of friendship from the original story, however, it falls short of Dahl’s original work and just doesn’t seem to measure up. 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But Spencer Craig, Lawrence Davenport, Gerald Payne and Toby Mortimer all underestimate Danny’s determination to seek revenge and Beth’s relentless quest to win justice, which forces all four protagonists to fight for their lives. If Danny Cartwright had proposed to Beth Wilson the day before, or the day after, he would not have been arrested and charged with the murder of his best friend.Īnd when the four prosecution witnesses are a barrister, a popular actor, an aristocrat and the youngest partner in an established firm’s history, who is going to believe his side of the story?ĭanny is sentenced to 22 years and sent to Belmarsh prison, the highest security jail in the land, from where no inmate has ever escaped. |