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'The most magical book about the African bush since Born Free' - Daily Mail
Françoise Malby-Anthony never expected to find herself responsible for a herd of elephants with a troubled past. A chic Parisienne, her life changed forever when she fell in love with South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony. Together they founded a game reserve but after Lawrence's death, Françoise faced the daunting responsibility of running Thula Thula without him. Poachers attacked their rhinos, their security team wouldn't take orders from a woman and the authorities were threatening to cull their beloved elephant family. On top of that, the herd's feisty new matriarch Frankie didn't like her.
In this heart-warming and moving book, Françoise describes how she fought to protect the herd and to make her dream of building a wildlife rescue centre a reality. She found herself caring for a lost baby elephant who turned up at her house, and offering refuge to traumatized orphaned rhinos, and a hippo called Charlie who was scared of water. As she learned to trust herself, she discovered she'd had Frankie wrong all along . . .
Filled with extraordinary animals and the humans who dedicate their lives to saving them, An Elephant in My Kitchen by Françoise Malby-Anthony is a captivating and gripping read.
**I know you don't want to talk sometimes. Sometimes because it hurts and sometimes because you're just not supposed to talk about what you want to talk about. Sometimes it can be hard to say, "this is beautiful," when no one else can see what you see. Or, "Here, this is where the pain is." But some part of you knows, the truth about the words you cannot say is that they only hurt until you say them. They only hurt until the person who needs to hear them, hears them. Because we are human, and the closest we've ever come to showing each other who we really are, and how we love, is with words. So I'm going to try to say to you here, what I wish you'd say to me too. Please.
Listen. We can change things.
Here.
It wasn't about revenge; it was about love, and justice.
When I heard about what Mariya Oktyabrskaya did, I realised what was required of me. I was only 23, but my destiny was clear.
I had never met Oktyabrskaya, but I knew all about her. She was a heroine, a zavodila, and her mission was tattooed on my heart.
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'Lawrence makes every word count, telling each story with elegance and emotional punch.” — Patsy Hennessey
'Each story is masterfully constructed ... Humorous, touching, creepy, but most of all entertaining, this collection is superb.' — Tracy Michelle Anderson
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If you're a fan of historical fiction, you'll love this short story about the female bravery and grit of World War IIs 'Night Witches'.
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Set in Rhodesia 1976, this coming-of-age story delivers twisted romantic adventure.
Overnight, 16-year-old Sandra Robertson finds herself alone in a hostile land where her education is terminated. Friends rally and send her to live with her grandmother. A true survivor with ambition, Sandy has little experience but manages to secure work. Hotel employment not only provides food and accommodation, but it also happens to provide education of a different sort. Sandy's head spins from chivalry to curtness and from bedlam to bedrooms in a series of dodgy encounters. Other messed-up women try to intervene but to no avail. Only one person can save her, but will he try?
Damsels in distress, curses, echoes of faery tales, and tragic love affairs swirl together in 16 stories found in a dragon's lair by a curious half-fae. Unexpected changes to reality cause more than one damsel to turn into a strong, independent woman who takes charge of her own life. A collection of short stories about Faerie and the fae that live in the human realm. A few of the stories have won competitions, and all of them have enchanted listeners. Learn their secrets and enter the realm of the fae....
This audiobook has a bonus short story.
Diverse, dark-humored, and deliciously bite-sized: JT Lawrence doesn't disappoint with this brand new collection of unsettling short stories.
Perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn and Roald Dahl, these stories are guaranteed to get under your skin.
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'Lawrence makes every word count, telling each story with elegance and emotional punch.” — Patsy Hennessey
'Each story is masterfully constructed ... Humorous, touching, creepy, but most of all entertaining, this collection is superb.' — Tracy Michelle Anderson
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This collection includes:
An Eye for an Eye
Little Sparrow
Drive This Way for Death
The Lucky Sickness
Slashpurse
The Generation of Lost Girls
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If you're a fan of Roald Dahl or Gillian Flynn you'll love this compelling collection with a twist in the tale.
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Stay up all night with USA Today bestselling author JT Lawrence.
Diverse, dark-humored, and deliciously bite-sized, this compelling collection of 36 short stories by JT Lawrence include Sticky Fingers books 4 - 6.
Junichuro Matsumato is a handsome 42-year-old man: dark-haired, wealthy, and devastated.
He stares forlornly at the small glass buddha statue illuminated by the blue LED light behind it.
There are thousands of the buddhas behind the glowing panes of glass, five hundred per wall.
For easy identification, the light behind his wife’s buddha glows a different hue as he swipes his card to enter.
He doesn’t need to be shown where his wife’s glass box is.
Junichuro visits here every day and has done for 21 months. He never cries.
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'Lawrence makes every word count, telling each story with elegance and emotional punch.” — Patsy Hennessey
'Each story is masterfully constructed ... Humorous, touching, creepy, but most of all entertaining, this collection is superb.' — Tracy Michelle Anderson
A soldier fighting from the trenches in France in 1916 writes letters to his love.
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'Lawrence makes every word count, telling each story with elegance and emotional punch.” — Patsy Hennessey
'Each story is masterfully constructed ... Humorous, touching, creepy, but most of all entertaining, this collection is superb.' — Tracy Michelle Anderson
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If you're a fan of historical fiction, you might enjoy this wartime epistolary romance.
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A queen seeks to be cursed in this dystopian fairytale written by the (fictional) MillenniarellaBot AI after being fed classic fairytales and American stand-up comedy.
This story is from the collection Sticky Fingers 3, available on Amazon in ebook, paperback, and audiobook.
My suspicion kindled. 'You young people. You're doing that Bird Box challenge, aren't you?'
She frowned. “Bird Box?”
“When you blindfold yourself and then do something stupid. Tell me the truth,” I said, gesturing at Comet. “Did you do this blindfolded?”
The groomer shook her head, her stubborn silence adding fuel to my fury. She glanced at the dog as if he would back her up in some way, but I could tell he was beginning to get the idea. He was starting to understand that, despite his excellent breeding, he currently looked like a mangey pavement special. I wondered if I should get him a cone for his neck so that he wouldn't have to witness this new, burning humiliation. We'd cancel our plans. We'd stay at home until he felt less ashamed of his awful appearance. Poor boy.
“There’s the drive back home, invariably in the dark. Not safe.”
“She has plenty of space. We could have just stayed over.”
Linda shook her head. “No. Not allowed. Against the rules.”
“What do you mean?” Andrew took off his glasses and frowned at her. “Hodgey was always begging us to stay the night. I’ve never understood—”
Linda drummed her fingers on her knees.“It’s just a thing, okay? An agreement.”
Andrew’s furrows deepened. “Between you and Hodge?”
“Between Peter and I. We sibling-swore.”
“‘Sibling-swore’? What are you two? Twelve?”
Linda stopped drumming. “We were sixteen, if you must know.”
Andrew laughed. “Why? Is the house haunted?”
“In a way.”
He stopped laughing, perhaps remembering that Linda had lost her parents when she was sixteen. “In a way?”
“Bad things happen. If you stay over.”
