Elizabeth McKenzie

With a fun and steamy twist on the only-one-bed trope, this debut contemporary romance will delight fans of THE PARADISE PROBLEM and THE LOVE HYPOTHESISChemistry teacher Ashleigh Hutchinson knows better than anyone that love and lust don’t mix. The feelings come from different hormones, they trigger different responses, and they demand different reactions. Which is why she doesn’t date. She hooks up. No catching feelings required.When Ashleigh is fired from her job without notice, she signs up to participate in a month-long sleep study, which will pay her enough to cover rent while she job hunts. It seems easy enough—until she walks into the clinic and finds herself staring right into the gorgeous eyes of Xander Miller, the only man to have ever tempted her to abandon her no-relationships rule.When Xander and Ashleigh realize the study is only looking for couples, they agree to pretend to be together—which means sleeping in the same bed every night for the next few weeks. How hard can it be to keep their cool under the covers?You can expect...- Fake dating (for science)- Only one bed (every night)- No feelings (allegedly)- Second chance romance- Golden retriever MMC- Hot mess FMC- Banter as a love language- Undeniable chemistry!

Penny Rush has problems. Her marriage is over, she's quit her job, her parents have been missing in the Australian outback for five years and now she's back home in Santa Barbara, dealing with mounting family crises and living out of a borrowed van named The Dog of the North. The Dog is replete with gingham curtains, wood panelling, a pi?ata, clunky brakes and difficult steering. It's also Penny's getaway car from the curveballs life's throwing at her. With an uncertain future ahead of her, could the road she's on lead her back to herself?

Veblen je mladá žena s bohatou fantazií, amatérská překladatelka a svobodný duch v tom pravém slova smyslu. Paul je ambiciózní, nadaný neurolog, který právě objevil způsob, jak napomoci léčbě traumatických poranění mozku. Potkají se, zamilují, zasnoubí. Tohle by mohl být konec, jenže tady to teprve začíná. Od randění k manželství vede dlouhá a mnohdy obtížná cesta. Plánování společného života má i svou odvrácenou stránku, najednou se začnou vynořovat i dosud přehlížené rozpory, a aby toho nebylo málo, vstupuje do děje i krásná dědička farmaceutické firrmy a jedna zvědavá, inteligentní a nadmíru charismatická veverka. Originální a zábavný román o lásce a rodině, válce a přírodě, nových penězích a starých hodnotách.

A laugh-out-loud love story with big ideas - and squirrels SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 Can squirrels speak? Do snails scream? Will a young couple, newly engaged, make it to their wedding day? Will their dysfunctional families ruin everything? Will they be undone by the advances of a very sexy, very unscrupulous heiress to a pharmaceuticals corporation? Is getting married even a remotely reasonable idea in the twenty-first century? And what in the world is a 'Veblen' anyway? 'Raw and weird and hilarious' Guardian 'A touching, wildly funny and peculiarly elegant look at the travails of love of all kinds' Sunday Express 'Elizabeth McKenzie is clearly some sort of genius' Paul Murray 'I can't remember a book I enjoyed more' Nina Stibbe 'Seriously funny and extraordinarily well written' Jonathan Franzen, Guardian books of the year