Bloomsbury

The Fifth Vital SignWhy is pain so poorly understood? Why do we still distinguish between mental pain and physical pain, when pain is always an emotional experience? How can it be that science is about to clone a human being but still can't cure the pain of a bad back? If pain is the reason why most people visit the doctor, why are most...

A Portrait of Jean Rhys (Bloomsbury Lives of Women)Jean Rhys was an artist of brilliance and fury best known for her late literary masterpiece, Wide Sargasso Sea. But she was also a woman in constant psychological turmoil, whose blazing talent rescued her time and time again from the abyss. Lilian Pizzichini follows Rhys from her girlhood in...

Infidelity: From Discovery to Recovery in Seven StepsThere are few things in life more traumatic than discovering that your partner is having an affair. You are not only coping with the pain and anger but also the sense that your partner is a stranger. How could someone you love, and thought that you knew, treat you in this way? How can you ever...

A Family Memoir of Love, Struggle and SurvivalIn 1867, Lisa See's great-great-grandfather left China in search of riches on the 'Gold Mountain', the Chinese name for the promised land of America. His son Fong See later built a mercantile empire and married a Caucasian woman, in spite of laws that prohibited unions between the races....

&'A stunning mystery fantasy&' &' Irish Times   When Zaki finds an ancient skeleton, he doesn&'t realise he has stumbled on a mystery that goes back generations &' a mystery that involves ruthless shipwreckers, an immortal girl and sinister powers.   Zaki&'s family is a mess and Zaki&'s in trouble at school. Nobody seems to be on his side until he...

In the rough, tough world where predatory young beauty queens compete fiercely for money, a murder is committed. Police Constable Peter Lassington is soon enmeshed in a complicated mystery - a mystery made more than usually exotic by the acreage of young feminine flesh that is continuously on show at the Star Bowl ballroom, rehearsing for the...