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Stylish and tech-obsessed, Naomi and Nathan are lovers and competitors. Nomadic freelancers in pursuit of sensation and depravity in the social media age, they encounter each other only in airport hotels and browser windows.Naomi is drawn to the headlines surrounding Célestine and Aristide Arosteguy, Marxist philosophers and sexual libertines. Célestine has been found dead and mutilated in her Paris apartment. Aristide, suspected of the killing, has disappeared. Her interest aroused, Naomi sets off in search of the truth about the disturbing mystery.Nathan, meanwhile, is in Budapest photographing the work of a controversial surgeon. But after sleeping with one of his subjects, Nathan contracts a rare STD called Roiphe’s. Determined to meet the doctor who identified the disease, Nathan comes across Roiphe’s daughter, a young woman whose bizarre behaviour masks a devastating secret.These parallel narratives become entwined in a gripping, dreamlike plot that involves 3-D printing, North Korea, the Cannes Film Festival, cancer, and, in an incredible number of varieties, sex. “Consumed” is an exuberant, provocative debut novel from one of the world’s leading film directors.

Ballerina on the run!A prima ballerina, Allegra’s spent her life on stage. But now there are whispers that the superstar’s lost her sparkle… So when she’s offered a week on a tropical island, on survival expert Finn McLeod’s TV show, she leaps at it! Finn’s frankly unimpressed with this fragile-looking performer – how will she survive life out in the wild?But Allegra discovers it’s not tropical storms that are the problem, but her all-consuming crush on the unavailable Finn! Gorgeous on TV, close up he’s devastating – and Allegra’s hours of disciplined dance practice are useless when it comes to resisting temptation…