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My name is Amrou Al-Kadhi – by day. By night, I am Glamrou, an empowered, confident and acerbic drag queen who wears seven-inch heels and says the things that nobody else dares to. Growing up in a strict Iraqi-British Muslim household, it didn’t take long for me to realise I was different. When I was ten years old, I announced to my family that I was in love with Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone. The resultant fallout might best be described as something like the Iraqi version of Jeremy Kyle. And that was just the beginning. This is the story of how I got from there to here. You’ll read about my stint at Eton college, during which I wondered if I could forge a new identity as a British aristocrat (spoiler alert: it didn’t work). You’ll read about my teenage obsession with marine biology, and how fluid aquatic life helped me understand my non-binary gender identity. You’ll read about how I discovered the transformative powers of drag while at Cambridge university; about how I suffered a massive breakdown after I left, and very nearly lost my mind; and about how, after years of rage towards it, I finally began to understand Islam in a new, queer way. Most of all, this is a book about my mother, my first love, the most beautiful and glamorous woman I’ve ever known, the unknowing inspiration for my career as a drag queen – and a fierce, vociferous critic of anything that transgresses normal gender boundaries. It’s about how we lost and found each other, about forgiveness, understanding, hope – and the life-long search for belonging.

What happens when you get all you ever dreamed of…and find it’s not what you wanted?Callie Grey has got a great job, a great man, and fingers crossed, a whopping great diamond – then her boss/boyfriend gives her dream and her sparkly ring to someone else… Determined to show Mark he’s made a huge mistake Callie sets her sites on a new man.The trouble is, Ian’s isn’t the least bit impressed with Callie’s wit and sparkling personality. Funny’s always been Callie’s thing. Never quite smart enough for her family she’s relied on fun-loving spontaneity to get her through.Now, with a life left on the shelf looming, a job situation that’s unworkable, and a new unreciprocated crush – is it time for a new Callie Grey? She’s spent her life reaching for the moon. Now Callie’s let go, and falling among the stars, who will be there to catch her?‘a generous batch of laughs and a few well earned tears’ – Chicago Tribune

This Christmas, he’ll make her a deal: Four weeks. No strings. Just pleasure! One night of red-hot, anonymous sex isn’t nearly enough. So discovering my masked seductress is none-other than straight-laced Billionaires Club owner, Imogen Carmichael, I propose a new deal: one month of indulgent passion! She’s mine for the holidays. Then I’ll assume my duties as the Rothsmore heir. But the closer we get to Christmas, the more I crave the one gift I can’t unwrap – her…

New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins welcomes you home in this witty, emotionally charged novel about the complications of life, love and familyOne step forward. Two steps back. The Tufts scholarship that put Nora Stuart on the path to becoming a Boston medical specialist was a step forward. Being hit by a car and then overhearing her boyfriend hit on another doctor when she thought she was dying? Two major steps back.Injured in more ways than one, Nora feels her carefully built life cracking at the edges. There’s only one place to land: home. But the tiny Maine community she left fifteen years ago doesn’t necessarily want her. At every turn, someone holds the prodigal daughter of Scupper Island responsible for small-town drama and big-time disappointments.With a tough islander mother who’s always been distant, a wild-child sister in jail, and a withdrawn teenage niece as eager to ditch the island as Nora once was—Nora has her work cut out for her if she’s going to take what might be her last chance to mend the family. Balancing loss and opportunity, dark events from her past with hope for the future, Nora will discover that tackling old pain makes room for promise…and the chance to begin again.