Shelley Smith

The sports psychologist offers advice on overcoming the obstacles faced by female athletes, describing how to manage the stress of competition, improve performance, and maximize self-esteem.

> Lancelot Jones was on his way to his first job as tutor to an Indian Rajah's son. But the Rajah's ancient plane and incompetent pilot decanted him in the middle of a desert, and the wrong desert at that. There, seeking shade, he found, in the only dwelling of any size within miles, a curious old Englishwoman called Alva Hine. >Alva Hine buttonholed the prim Mr Jones as the Ancient Mariner once made a wedding guest his audience. She told him a strange story of a summer fifty years ago, of love and hate and murder in a respectable middle-class Victorian household... >Julian Symons describes this masterly tour-de-force, first published in 1953, as 'that rarity, a totally original work of crime fiction. It may enthral, amuse or annoy you,' he says, 'but you will have read nothing else quite like it.'

> In the peaceful coastal town of Baysville, ex-model Jenny Winthrop is trying to reorder her life while she heals the wounds of her past in the arms of lawyer Anne Yarwood. Then Jenny meets the scandalous Danni Marlowe... >Danni is a successful advertising executive but the glamour and headlong pace and erotic excess of her life only serve to disguise its emptiness. >Anne has her own opinion of Danni who holds an especially bitter place in her memories... >When Danni befriends Jenny, Jenny conceals the truth of her life. But a compelling attraction draws them ever closer and closer... until an idyllic New England summer explodes in passion and conflict.