Nigella Lawson has written eleven bestselling cookery books including the classics How to Eat and How To Be A Domestic Goddess – the book that inspired a whole new generation of bakers. These books, and her TV series, have made her a household name around the world. 
 
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Armistead Maupin

Originally published as a series of columns in the San Francisco Chronicle, Tales of the City is the landmark series by Armistead Maupin. The novels chronicle the life of Mary Anne Singleton after she impulsively moves to San Fransicso, following her adventures in the city as she is guided by friends and lovers.

'A breeze' The Times 
‘Delightful comedy of manners' iPaper 
‘A welcome tenth instalment of his iconic Tales Of The City saga’ Mail on Sunday 
‘A witty novel about identity and finding a family in 1980s England’ Woman&Home 
'The message still shines out in the new book: find the people who love and understand you' The Scotsman 
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The tenth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga. 
 
When Mona Ramsey married Lord Teddy Roughton to secure his visa—allowing him to remain in San Francisco to fulfil his wildest dreams—she never imagined she would, by age 48, be the sole owner of Easley House, a romantic country manor in the UK. Now, with her adopted son, Wilfred, Mona has opened Easley’s doors to paying guests to keep her inherited English manor afloat. 
 
As they welcome a married American couple to Easley, Mona and Wilfred discover their new guests’ terrible secret. Instead of focussing on the imminent arrival of old friend Michael Tolliver and matriarch Anna Madrigal, Mona will need to use her considerable charm, willpower and wiles to set things right before Easley’s historic Midsummer ceremony. 
 
Hurdling barriers both social and sexual, Maupin leads the eccentric tenants of Barbary Lane through heartbreak and triumph, through nail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences in 1980s San Francisco and beyond. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.

Mona of the Manor

The sixth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga. 
 
‘Maupin's adeptness at fluid dialogue, his flair for shaping characters who thread the needle between pop archetypes and singular human beings… are all on display’ New York Times 
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A fiercely ambitious TV talk show host finds she must choose between national stardom in New York and a husband and child in San Francisco. Caught in the middle is their longtime friend, a gay man whose own future is even more uncertain. Wistful and compassionate yet subversively funny, Sure of You is Armistead Maupin’s addictively entertaining observation on family, friendship and every relationship in between. 
 
Hurdling barriers both social and sexual, Maupin leads the eccentric tenants of Barbary Lane through heartbreak and triumph, through nail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences in 1980s San Francisco. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.

Sure Of You

Tales of the City 6

The first novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin&rsquo;s best-selling San Francisco saga, is an uproariously moving novel and an indelible portrait of cultural change from the seventies. 
 
Named as one of the BBC&rsquo;s 100 Most Inspiring Novels, a PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick and Britain&rsquo;s favourite gay/lesbian novel from The Big Gay Read 
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Originally serialised in the San Francisco Chronicle in the 1970s, Armistead Maupin&rsquo;s Tales of the City afforded a mainstream audience of millions its first exposure to straight and gay characters experiencing on equal terms the follies of urban life. 
 
Among the cast of this ground-breaking saga are the lovelorn residents of 28 Barbary Lane: the bewildered but aspiring Mary Ann Singleton, the libidinous Brian Hawkins; Mona Ramsey, still in a sixties trance, Michael 'Mouse' Tolliver, forever in bright-eyed pursuit of Mr. Right; and their marijuana-growing landlady, the indefatigable Mrs. Madrigal. 
 
Hurdling barriers both social and sexual, Maupin leads them through heartbreak and triumph, through nail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.

Tales Of The City

The ninth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin&rsquo;s best-selling San Francisco saga. 
 
'Wonderful. . . . As compulsively readable and endearing as all the previous novels have been&rsquo; Booklist (starred review) 
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Now ninety-two, Mrs. Madrigal has seemingly found peace with her &lsquo;logical family&rsquo; in San Francisco. Some members of that family are bound for the otherworldly landscape of Burning Man, the art community in Nevada&rsquo;s Black Rock Desert but Anna has another destination in mind: a lonely stretch of road outside of Winnemucca where the 16-year-old boy she once was ran away from the whorehouse he called home. There she journeys into the dusty troubled heart of her Depression childhood to unearth a lifetime of secrets and dreams and attend to some unfinished business she has long avoided. 
 
Hurdling barriers both social and sexual, Maupin leads the eccentric tenants of Barbary Lane through heartbreak and triumph, through nail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences in a sexually-liberated San Francisco. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.

The Days of Anna Madrigal

Tales of the City 9

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