UNITED KINGDOM AUTHOR · HISTORICAL ROMANCE
Helene Thornton
Also known as: Heller Toren, Elaine Smith
Helene Thornton is the stage name of Elaine Smith, a former Bluebell girl and author of 17 novels, but she is perhaps best known as the mother of Welsh TV presenter Paula Yates.
Slap, slap, slurp: a hollow, juicy sound.
— from Big girls don't cry
Most acclaimed
Cathay
"First published in 1915 by Elkin Matthews of London, Cathay, Ezra Pound's early monumental work, originally contained fourteen translations from the Chinese and a translation of the Anglo-Saxon poem "The Seafarer." Over time, these poems have been widely read and loved as both translations and original poetry. In 1916, Cathay was reprinted in the book Lustra without 'the Seafarer' and with four more Chinese poems. Cathay is greatly indebted to the notes of a Harvard-trained scholar Ernest Fenellosa, which were provided to Pound in London in 1913 by Fenellosa's widow Mary. 'In Fenellosa's Chinese poetry materials,' Pound scholar Zhaoming Qian writes, 'Pound discovered a new model that at once mirrored and challenged his developing poetics.' Edited by Qian, this centennial edition reproduces for the first time the text of the original publication plus the poems from Lustra and transcripts of all the relevant Fenollosa notes and Chinese texts. Also included is a new foreword by Ezra Pound's daughter Mary de Rachewiltz, providing an appreciation and fascinating background material on this pivotal work of Pound's oeuvre" --
Big girls don't cry
Thanks to a devastating revelation about her husband, Reenie Holbrook's once-perfect marriage is over. For eleven years she had the life she wanted-and now it's gone.Reenie decides that the first step in recovering from her ordeal is to find work; after all, she has three young children to support. She's thrilled when she lands a job at Dundee High teaching history-until Isaac Russell, the man who triggered the unraveling of her marriage, accepts a temporary position teaching science. Then she's tempted to quit. Reenie doesn't care if the whole town admires Isaac...and she won't admit that, secretly, she admires him, too. She doesn't want to see him or his sister in "her" town.But a friendship with the most unlikely woman leads to a relationship with the most unlikely man....
Passionate Exile
She risked everything for love. Lady Jane Digby, a beautiful, accomplished noblewoman, lived in the post-Regency world of high romance. Love was what truly mattered to Lady Jane, and finding it was her goal, no matter what society might think or do. Scandal did not stop her from plunging into a passionate affair outside her marriage when her blue-blooded husband gave her nothing but his name. And not even betrayal could put out the burning flame within her as she searched for the one man who matched her in daring and desire. Based on one of history's most enthralling heroines, this Scarlet Ribbons Romance sweeps from the elegant country manors of England to the windswept sands of Arabia...and from the depths of a woman's search for true love to the heights of her ecstasy...