Wendy Perriam

• Dec-1982
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• Aug-1984
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• Apr-1990
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• Oct-2000
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A novel of sexuality, morality, and Catholic guilt in a faltering marriage."Lying "takes a sharp look at our whole culture of mendacity, in which hype and spin rule supreme, statistics are manipulated, history isrewritten, hoaxes abound on the intern...

• Oct-2001
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A surreal and wry collection of short stories. In her first collection of short stories, Wendy Perriam casts a candid and often humorous eye on the quirks and neuroses of contemporary society. Her characters are, to say the least, diverse: a grief-s...

• Jul-2009
• / General Fiction
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• Jun-2012
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In this sparkling and ironical study of the complexities of love, Ginny Barnes is wrenched out of her suburban cul-de-sac into a brutal five-star passion and forced to choose between her decaffeinated, low-cholesterol husband Ian and her high-calorie...

• Jun-2012
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Jane's whole world is overturned at her eighteenth birthday party. She flees from home, disorientated, and finds refuge with Christopher, a stained-glass artist more than forty years her senior who is working on a Resurrection window. As the window t...

• Jun-2012
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Daniel has reached the dangerous age of forty and has just embarked on his first affair - a source of mingled guilt and ecstasy. His wife, Penny, seems unaware, but, worryingly, his thirteen-year-old stepdaughter has stopped speaking.

He first...

• Jun-2012
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'It was all such a dreadful muddle. How could she sleep with Max, fantasise about Tony (and other men as well), yet also want Elizabeth, want her more than anyone?'

Beattie's lover Max has given her a very special birthday present - a weekend ...

• Jun-2012
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Frances is on a fertility drug and sizing up the milkman. Charles is struggling between shocked disapproval and guilty desire for his own illegitimate daughter - a fifteen-year-old secret who arrives and takes over the nest. Their sterile and rule-ri...

• Jun-2012
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'I like to hear his name, especially when he says it. His voice is rich and dark, like those jams they sell in tiny pots at twice the price of normal jars, and they call "preserves," to justify the cost. I chose him for his name, in fact - half Mayfa...

• Jun-2012
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Oxford. May Morning. Pouring rain. Eighteen-year-old student Tessa Reeves has a close shave with death as Dr Michael Edwards comes hurtling round the corner in his scarlet MG. By way of apology, he treats her to a lavish breakfast in a country hotel,...

• Jun-2012
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'It seems crazy that in all that time I never stopped to think what I was actually cut out to do or be. But I'm sure I'm not unusual. There must be hundreds of people stuck in jobs they hate, or married to the wrong partner, or trying to be someone t...

• Jun-2012
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Hundreds of hopefuls enter competitions, few expect to win - not even Carole Joseph, who has entered the same contest 63 times, under a variety of names, and is astounded by her prize of a holiday for two in glitzy Las Vegas.

The winning name ...

• Jun-2012
• / General Fiction
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Abandoned by God and her husband, twin totems of her life to date, Morna Gordon embarks on a voyage of discovery, travelling first to California where she undergoes a series of extraordinary experiences, ending up in Disneyland, 'the happiest place o...

• Oct-2012
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• Oct-2012
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• Oct-2013
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• Nov-2017
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• / General Fiction
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You may love Eric - or want to shake him! Passionately idealistic about his work as a librarian, and his mission to extend literacy and literature into the wider community, he's also ruefully aware that he's not exactly Superman. Forced to hide his m...