Life! Death! Prizes!

7 best books like Life! Death! Prizes! (Stephen May): Plenty, The Final Confession of Mabel Stark, Lily's House, The Summer We All Ran Away, The Gulf, Sweet Sorrow, Us

Plenty
AuthorYotam Ottolenghi
ISBN0091933684
With his fabulous restaurants and bestselling Ottolenghi Cookbook, Yotam Ottolenghi has established himself as one of the most exciting talents in the world of cookery and food writing. This exclusive collection of vegetarian recipes is drawn from his column 'The New Vegetarian' for the Guardian's...
The Final Confession of Mabel Stark
AuthorRobert Hough
ISBN0802140432
In the 1910s and '20s, during the golden age of the big top, Mabel Stark was the superstar of the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus, and one of America's most eccentric celebrities. A tiny, curvaceous Kentucky blonde in a white leather bodysuit, Mabel was brazen, sexually adventurous, and...
Lily's House
AuthorCassandra Parkin
ISBN1785079344
When Jen goes to her grandmother's house for the last time, she's determined not to dwell on the past. As a child, Jen adored Lily and suspected she might be a witch; but the spell was broken long ago, and now her death means there won't be any reconciliation.

Lily's gone, but the enchantments she...
AuthorCassandra Parkin
When nineteen year old Davey finds himself drunk, beaten and alone, he is rescued by the oddly-assorted inhabitants of an abandoned and beautiful house in the West Country. Their only condition for letting him join them is that he asks them no questions.
More than thirty years ago in that same house,...
AuthorAnna Spargo-Ryan
ISBN1760554022
"He found an egg at the park so he incubated it and this tortoise hatched out."

Skye’s sixteen, and her mum’s got yet another new boyfriend. Trouble is, Jason’s bad news. Really bad. Now Mum’s quit her job and they’re all moving north to Port Flinders, population nobody.

"That's...
Sweet Sorrow
AuthorDavid Nicholls
ISBN1444715410
One life-changing summer
Charlie meets Fran...

In 1997, Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you don't remember in the school photograph. His exams have not gone well. At home he is looking after his father, when surely it should be the other way round, and if he thinks about the future at all,...
Us
AuthorDavid Nicholls
Douglas Petersen may be mild-mannered, but behind his reserve lies a sense of humor that, against all odds, seduces beautiful Connie into a second date and eventually into marriage. Now, almost three decades after their relationship first blossomed in London, they live more or less happily in the...
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