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Nobel Prize for Literature winner Doris Lessing tackles the 1960s and their legacy head-on in one of her most involving, personal, political novels.It’s the morning of the 1960s and it’s suppertime at Freedom Hall, the most welcoming household in north London. Frances Lennox stands at her stove, preparing another feast before ladling it out to the youthful crew assembled around her hospitable table – here are her two sons, smarting at their upbringing but beginning to absorb their mother’s lessons. Around them are ranged their schoolfriends and girlfriends and ex-friends and new friends fresh off the street. The feast begins. Wine and talk flow. Everything is being changed and being challenged.But what is being tolerated? And where will it end? Over there in the corner is Frances’s ex-husband, Comrade Johnny, who delivers his rousing tirades, then laps up the adolescent adulation before disappearing into the night to evade the clutches of his responsibilities. Upstairs sits Johnny’s exiled mother, funding all, but finding she can embrace only one lost little girl – Sylvia, who has to travel to Africa, to newly independent Zimlia, to find out who she is and what she wants. And what of the Africans, what will they tolerate?These are the people dreaming the 1960s into being, and the people who, on the morning after all that dreaming, woke to find they were the ones who had to clear up and make good.

The Secret BillionaireBillionaire Lucas Romero is many things – brooding, talented and a consummate womaniser. The one thing he’s not? The ‘ski instructor’ beautiful, innocent Milly Mayfield thought she was giving herself to in a sumptuous, secluded French ski chalet! And now she’s livid!Arrogant playboy Lucas is bewildered by Milly’s decidedly unusual reaction to the revelation of his substantial wealth – he’s never had complaints before! But even Milly cannot ignore the sexual chemistry between them so when a family emergency means he needs a willing woman by his side, Milly suddenly finds herself whisked away to Spain… and engaged!Praise for Cathy WilliamsTo Sin with the Tycoon 4* RT Book ReviewWilliams’ office romance is a Cinderella-esque tale between her very un-Prince Charming-type hero and her cautiously reserved heroine who’ve both overcome horrendous childhoods. Her authentic English settings inspire, and the relationship-building is truly well done.Enthralled by Moretti 4.5* RT Book ReviewWilliams’ postcard-perfect UK backdrop adds depth to her tale. The blatant sexual banter between her ruthlessly arrogant hero and her unrepentant, behind-her-walls heroine effectively connects them to readers, and their bedroom antics are emotionally and physically arousing.The Uncompromising Italian 4* RT Book ReviewWilliams’ opposites-attract romance is spicy and sweet, opulently set in both the UK and Italy. The characters’ bumbling road to love is frustrating, comical and touching.