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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE FOR COMIC FICTIONThe first novel from Joseph O’Neill since NETHERLAND.‘O’Neill, in this book, has come of age as a novelist … a comic masterpiece … as mordantly funny as the best of stand-up comedy … Superb’ John Banville, New York Review of BooksIn 2007, a New York attorney bumps into an old college buddy – and accepts his friend’s offer of a job in Dubai, as the overseer of an enormous family fortune. Haunted by the collapse of his relationship and hoping for a fresh start, our strange hero begins to suspect that he has exchanged one inferno for another.A funny and wholly original work of international literature, ‘The Dog’ is led by a brilliantly entertaining anti-hero. Imprisoned by his endless powers of reasoning, hemmed in by the ethical demands of globalized life, he is fatefully drawn towards the only logical response to our confounding epoch.

It was her best friend’s dying wish that Ellie adopt her baby and raise tiny Jiao as her own… But the adoption process hits a husband-sized hump – to adopt Jiao, Ellie has to be married!All seems lost, where can a commitment-phobic female find a husband in a day?Then cut-throat billionaire Finn «The Hawk» McKenna comes to Ellie with a proposition, and Ellie's ready with some truly ruthless terms…Ellie's rival firm is Finn’s only hope, but he wasn’t prepared for Ellie’s merger-with-a-twist… marriage! Finn has no plans to let anyone close, even someone as feisty, vulnerable and downright intriguing as Ellie.But saying ‘I do’, even when you don’t really, has a way of making even the most stubborn people wake up and realise what they’ve been missing…

An innocent…Tia Grayson has never known life outside the Brazilian convent she calls home. Until Max Leonelli arrives with the shocking news that she is heiress to an English fortune – and ignites a burning need for his touch…A billionaire…Tia’s grandfather expects a match between his protégée and his heir – but Max is not a marrying man. Until the sight of Tia’s ravishing beauty has him reconsidering…A baby?Max must escort Tia home, but desire soon overtakes them. After one incendiary night, the potential for consequences gives Max the perfect opportunity to claim Tia as his bride!Conveniently wedded, passionately bedded!

“This is the original Game of Thrones.” George R.R. Martin.No man is impervious to the poisons of the crown…Having murdered his wife and exiled his mistress, King Louis X of France becomes besotted with Princess Clemence of Hungary and makes her his new Queen.However, though the matter of the succession should be assured, it is far from so, as Louis embarks on an ill-fated war against Flanders.Where his father, Philip IV, was strong, Louis is weak, and the ambitions of his proud, profligate barons threaten his power and the future of a kingdom once ruled by an Iron King.