The Marrying Game

The new bestseller from the author of Lily Josephine

Kate Saunders is a journalist and writer.  She has been a regular contributor to the Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Times, and the Sunday Express.

Nobody marries for money any more.  Or do they?   The aristocratic Hasty sisters are astonishingly beautiful, irresistibly sexy and startlingly intelligent.  They are also, unfortunately, extremely poor.  On the death of their charming, autocratic father, they discover that their sole inheritance is their ravishing good looks.  Even worse, Melismate, home of their ancestors for nearly a thousand years, is to be sold, leaving them homeless. Rufa, the eldest and most beautiful of the Hastys, is also the most fiercely proud of her heritage.  Determined to save Melismate no matter what the cost to herself - and her three sisters - she invents The Marrying Game.  If their faces are to be their only fortune, then the Hasty girls must put all thoughts of love out of their minds and marry for money. Ignoring her mother's warnings, Rufa sells her battered old blue Volvo to finance their entry into high society and, together with her outrageously sexy and voluptuous sister Nancy, sets off for London to seek a fortune or two.  The Marrying Game has begun -

Night Shall Overtake Us

Kate Saunders' bestselling book, reissued with a stunning new jacket

If it is possible to imagine Jeffrey Archer and Jilly Cooper pooling their talents, Night Shall Overtake Us is exactly the sort of book they would produce

Saunders writes with real pathos... a rattling good yarn

A rich, rollicking novel you don't put down easily

Saunders joins the blockbuster hall of fame with this big splach of a romantic novel

Kate Saunders is a journalist and writer. She has written for the Sunday Times, the Sunday Express, the Daily Telegraph and Cosmopolitan, and has contributed to Radio 4's Woman's Hour, Start the Week and Kaleidoscope. She lives in London with her son.

In Edwardian England a vow of friendship is a thing of innocence. Even when tested by the passionate militancy of the suffragette movement or the rigorous demands of the Season, the bonds between Rory, Eleanor, Jenny and Francesca hold fast. But nothing can withstand the unprecedented onslaught of the First World War - and as the best of an entire generation is extinguished on the battlefields of Europe, a schoolgirl pledge, too, lies broken...

Wild Young Bohemians

The bestselling Kate Saunders novel reissued with a stunning new jacket

A ride in the fast lane with a gang of modern-day Gothic hedonists

Hugely enjoyable, glossy, sexy and wittily turned

Kate Saunders is a journalist and writer. She has written for the Sunday Times, the Sunday Express, the Daily Telegraph and Cosmopolitan, and has contributed to Radio 4's Woman's Hour, Start the Week, and Kaleidoscope. She lives in London with her son.

Melissa Lamb and her cousin Ernestine are at the centre of the Wild Young Bohemians, an exclusive dining club at Oxford for the beautiful and ambitious. Melissa is in the grip of an obsession. Ernestine, however, mild and practical, does not see through Melissa's ruthless determination to restore her derelict family mansion - a Gothic legacy of lust, greed and death, with a spectacular secret that has slept for a hundred years. 
 
Melissa will let nothing stand in her way - until a vengeful stranger enters their magic circle. But he is only a catalyst: the seed of evil is already sown.

Lily-Josephine

I loved Lily-Josephine. Kate Saunders is such a wonderful writer

An unashamedly sentimental saga that will keep you roaring with laughter and weeping buckets in equal measure... Lily-Josephine is an armchair-and-cocoa novel of the highest order

It's a farytale and thriller, romance and tragedy, everything that a gripping read should be... one of those books you won't be able to put down, or forget

This novel is driven by passion, lust and unrequited love - and it contains all the classic elements that make a good fairytale

Lily-Josephine is a vibrant, unpretentious reworking of timeless themes

Classy, vivid and clever. This epic of relative secrets has echoes of Snow White, and is no less scarlet and juicy than the proverbial apple

Disgracefully enjoyable... beguiling, deftly-written, high class hocus-pocus

It's Snow White with sex, and lots of it... the whole thing is just the ticket for when you're romance-free

An absorbing, rollicking story, throbbing with sex and effortlessly controlled by the increasingly assured Kate Saunders

Kate Saunders is a journalist and writer. She has written for The Sunday Times, the Sunday Express, the Daily Telegraph and Cosmopolitan, and has contributed to Radio 4's Woman's Hour, Start the Week and Kaleidoscope. She lives in London with her son.

Lily-Josephine had a talent for love. Wilful, enchanting and passionate, she was the centre of a charmed universe - until her foolish, indulgent father married again. 
 
Like Snow-Drop in Grimms' fairy tale, Lily ran from her jealous stepmother one idyllic summer evening in 1941. She escaped to find sanctuary but, at Randalls, discovered a love far greater than any she had ever known... 
 
A generation later, the events set in train that night begin to unravel when Sophie Gently falls in love with Octavius Randall and the bizarre and tragic history linking their families is uncovered. Not until ancient passions and betrayals have been confronted can Lily-Josephine - long gone, but never forgotten - truly be laid to rest.

Kate Saunders

a deceptively simply told tale of love and self discovery

Cassie is nothing if not organised. A successful journalist, she's ticked almost all the boxes: attentive boyfriend, own flat, good job, great friends - it's all fallen into place. In theory, at least. There's one part of Cassie's life, however, which is anything but organised, and that's her love for the Darling family. As the only child of ambitious parents, Cassie spent her childhood abandoned to the somewhat peremptory care of a series of nannies until one day, peeping over the garden wall, she met her next-door neighbours: Fritz and Ben, the boys who became her inseparable childhood friends, Gudrun, their father, and Phoebe Darling, the woman who took Cassie in and transformed her life. 
 
But now Phoebe is ill, and when she summons Cassie to ask of her the only favour she's ever requested, Cassie knows she can't say no. But what Phoebe asks is an impossibility: concerned about what will happen to Fritz and Ben after her death, she wants to see them safely married off. Yet entertaining as they were as children, they're terrible as adults. They're utterly charming, ridiculously sexy and completely irresistible, but they're also totally unemployable, hopelessly messy and irretrievably useless. Surely no intelligent woman could be persuaded, once they see past the enticing veneer, to take one of them on for life? But Cassie's determined to grant Phoebe's last wish...

Bachelor Boys

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