Madeleine Wickham Knihy

Madeleine Wickham, who writes the internationally bestselling Shopaholic series as Sophie Kinsella, has penned an irresistibly dishy and entertaining novel about three savvy young women and the secrets they share over monthly drinks. Roxanne: glamorous, self-confident, with a secret lover -- a married man Maggie: capable and high-achieving, until she finds the one thing she can't cope with -- motherhood Candice: honest, decent, or so she believes -- until a ghost from her past turns up At the first of every month, when the office has reached its pinnacle of hysteria, Maggie, Roxanne, and Candice meet at London's swankiest bar for an evening of cocktails and gossip. Here, they chat about what's new at The Londoner , the glossy fashion magazine where they all work, and everything else that's going on in their lives. Or almost everything. Beneath the girl talk and the laughter, each of the three has a secret. And when a chance encounter at the cocktail bar sets in motion an extraordinary chain of events, each one will find their biggest secret revealed. In Cocktails for Three , Madeleine Wickham combines her trademark humor with remarkable insight to create an edgy, romantic tale of secrets, strangers, and a splash of scandal.

Chloe needs a holiday. She's sick of making wedding dresses, her partner Philip has troubles at work, the whole family wants a break. Her wealthy friend Gerard has offered the loan of his luxury villa in Spain - perfect.Hugh is not a happy man. His immaculate wife Amanda seems more interested in her new kitchen than in him, and he works so hard to pay for it, he barely has time for his children. Maybe he'll have a chance to bond with them on holiday. His old friend Gerard has lent them a luxury villa in Spain - perfect.Both families arrive at the villa and realise the awful truth - Gerard has double-booked. What no-one else realises is that Chloe and Hugh have a history, and as tensions rise within the two families, old passions resurface. It seems that Gerard's 'accidental' double booking may not be an accident after all...

Fleur is beautiful but lazy and, at forty, spends her life looking for rich men who can provide her and her teenage daughter with a glamorous and effortless existence. A daily trawl through the court pages of The Times provides her with an unusual but fertile search area - the funerals and memorial services of the great and good, where gatecrashers are so much less noticeable than they would be at a wedding or a christening. It is at one of these sad but oddly festive occasions that she meets Richard, dull but well-off, whose mousey wife has died after a lifetime of enjoyable ill-health. Before long Fleur has become an integral part of Richard's life, offending his friends, interfering in his leisure pursuits (golf bores her, so why should he spend so much time on it?) and stirring up his grown-up children to behave badly.

Madeleine Wickham is Sophie Kinsella, and The Gatecrasher is just as clever, chic, and sassy as her internationally bestselling Shopaholic series!

Financieel adviseur Rebecca Bloomwood woont samen met Luke Brandon. Als hij haar ten huwelijk vraagt, zegt ze volmondig 'ja'. Dit besluit opent nieuwe deuren voor de koopverslaafde Rebecca. Thema van het boek is echter de organisatie van de bruiloft. Rebecca's moeder organiseert een eenvoudige maar warme plechtigheid in Engeland, Luke's moeder een overdreven kostbare in New York. Beide dames denken de enige te zijn. Op originele wijze heeft de a.s. bruid uiteindelijk een oplossing voor het probleem van twee bruiloften, twee trouwjurken, twee werelddelen tegenover een bruidspaar en een trouwdatum. Vlot verhaal met humor geschreven.

Тем незабываемым оксфордским летом восемнадцатилетняя Милли была готова на любую авантюру. С появлением Руперта и его возлюбленного, американца Аллана, у Милли началась новая, увлекательная жизнь, и когда Руперт предложил ей брак с Алланом, чтобы тот мог легально остаться в Британии, Милли не колеблясь сказала "да". Чтобы все выглядело по-настоящему, она нарядилась в дешевое свадебное платье и с удовольствием позировала перед туристами, щелкавшими фотоаппаратами. Прошло десять лет. Милли очень изменилась. Теперь она помолвлена с Саймоном, серьезным молодым человеком из богатой семьи, который считает свою невесту идеалом. Однако всего за четыре дня до торжества прошлое неожиданно возвращается к Милли. Мир, который она так тщательно выстраивала, вот-вот разлетится вдребезги. Как признаться Саймону о том, что она уже замужем? Тучи сгущаются, и наружу выплывает гораздо больше секретов, чем предполагала Милли…

De huwelijksreis rond de wereld van Becky en Luke was een daverend succes. En natuurlijk heeft Becky enkele souvenirs aangeschaft. Zijden kamerjassen uit Hongkong… vijf Turkse tapijten… een tafel met tien stoelen uit Sri Lanka... de, eh, manshoge giraffebeelden uit Malawi… alles wordt netjes thuisbezorgd. Luke is ziedend. Becky mag zelfs haar 'geheime' tweede creditcard niet meer gebruiken. Er is nog meer ongelooflijk nieuws: ze blijkt een zus te hebben! Maar wanneer Becky Jessica voor het eerst ontmoet, krijgt ze de schrik van haar leven. Het kan toch niet waar zijn dat haar zus een hekel heeft aan... winkelen?

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Optimistickej, ale smolou prenasledovanej Emme Corriganovej sa začína dariť. Už skoro rok má stále zamestnanie, po boku jej stojí skvelý priateľ a dokonca sa jej rysuje aj pracovný postup. Všetko sa zvrtne po schôdzke s nespokojným zákazníkom. Zničená sa vracia z jednania lietadlom a v hrozivej situácii počas turbulencií sa zverí so svojimi najtajnejšími tajomstvami mužovi sediacemu na vedľajšom sedadle. V práci zistí, že mužom, ktorému sa zverila je sám veľký šéf. Ten sa vydal na týždennú návštevu anglickej pobočky podniku, v ktorom pracuje. Toto odštartuje sériu chaotických, citovo vyčerpávajúcich a komických situácií.

For Rebecca Bloomwood, life is peachy. She has a job on morning TV, telling people how to manage their money - a subject on which she is an expert. Her bank manager is actually being nice to her, despite being just a tad overdrawn. And the icing on the brioche is that her boyfriend is moving to New York ...and has asked her to go with him.New York! The Museum of Modern Art! The Guggenheim! The Metropolitan Opera House! And Becky does mean to go to all these. Honestly. It's just that it seems silly not to check out a few other places first. Like Bloomingdales. And Saks. And that amusing little place she's been told about where you can sometimes get a Prada dress for $10. Or was it $100? Anyway, it's full of fantastic bargains.Shopaholic Abroad - because there just aren't enough shops in Britain.

Rebecca Bloomwoodová je priamo žijúcim dôkazom shopaholika. Radí ľudom, ako zaobchádzať s peniazmi , ale sama trčí po uši v dlhoch. Nerobí nič iné, iba vášnivo nakupuje. Pracuje ako redaktorka v časopise zaoberajúcom sa sporením a investovaním. Pokiaľ však Rebeka niečo zúfalo neovláda, tak je to hospodárenie s peniazmi. Nemôže sedieť v kancelárii, aby nemyslela na nákupy, nemôže ísť po ulici, aby nevošla do obchodu, nemôže z neho odísť, aby niečo nekúpila . Jej úvery a dlhy rastú, dostáva výhražné upomienky, uchyľuje sa ku klamstvám. Nakoniec pomôže nečakaná náhoda...

Lottie sa chce veľmi vydať. Pravdaže, za toho pravého. Je presvedčená, že jej priateľ ju každú chvíľu požiada o ruku. Keď sa tak nestane a ona zrazu stretne svoju prvú lásku, rozhodne sa konať. Vydá sa za Bena, lásku spred pätnástich rokov, hneď a zaraz, bez zásnub a zbytočných ceremónií. Má iba jednu podmienku: budú sa milovať až po uzatvorení manželstva. Je to dokonalý plán. Na druhej strane... Fliss, Lottina sestra, sa práve rozvádza a nechce, aby jej mladšia sestra urobila rovnakú chybu ako ona. Rozhodne sa Lottie prekaziť manželstvo a prenasleduje novomanželov na romantickej ceste až na grécky ostrov. Lottie prežije svadobnú noc, na ktorú nikdy nezabudne. Alebo radšej zabudne?

You do a friend a favour - and then, years later, the past catches up with you...

Three women, smart and successful, working in the fast and furious world of magazines, meet for cocktails and gossip once a month. Roxanne: glamorous, self-confident, with a secret lover - and hoping that one day he will leave his wife and marry her. Maggie:capable and high-achieving, until she finds the one thing she can't cope with - motherhood. Candice:honest, decent, or so she believes - until a ghost from her past turns up, and almost ruins her life. A chance encounter in the cocktail bar sets in train an extraordinary set of events which upsets all their lives and almost destroys their friendship...

Vtipný a citmi nabitý román, ktorý preniká do podstaty manželstva a hovorí o tom, ako nás môžu prekvapiť tí, o ktorých si myslíme, že ich najlepšie poznáme. Sylvia a Dan prežijú v manželstve desať pekných rokov. Každý sa venuje svojej práci a majú spolu krásne dvojčatá. Tak si rozumejú, že vedia navzájom dokončiť svoje vety. Ich manželstvo je šťastné a myslia si, že sa dokonale poznajú, až kým sa ich lekár náhodou nezmieni o tom, že prežijú spolu ďalších šesťdesiatosem rokov. Vtedy vypukne panika. Rozhodnú sa, že si manželstvo oživia rôznymi prekvapeniami a zábavou. No napriek dobrému úmyslu – od nečakaných darčekov, rande v reštaurácii a sexi fotografií – je výsledok komický, niekedy až smiešne tragický. Popritom sa odhalí jeden škandál z minulosti ich rodiny. Vtedy začínajú pochybovať, či jeden druhého naozaj tak dobre poznajú. Sophie Kinsella dokonale rozvila svoje postavy, píše ako vždy jasne, s vtipom a pre ňu charakteristickým šarmom. Jej román je humorným portrétom manželstva – jeho úskalí, pohodlia aj komplikácií. Autorka v ňom opisuje najhlbšie vrstvy vzťahov a citov, ktoré čakajú na odhalenie.

On a shimmeringly hot Sunday in May, the Delaneys opened their pool to all the village for charity. The day seemed perfect. But, suddenly the perfect day was shattered, as tragedy struck. And the consequences of a terrible accident developed into a drama of recriminations, jealousy and legal power-play.

At eighteen, in that first golden Oxford summer, Milly's best friends were Rupert and his American lover Allan. When Rupert suggested that she and Allan should get married, just so that Allan could stay in the country, it all seemed just a bit of fun -- and to make it seem real she dressed up in cheap wedding finery and posed on the steps of the registry office for photographs. Ten years later, Milly is a very different person. Engaged to Simon -- who is wealthy, serious, and believes her to be perfect - she is facing the biggest and most elaborate wedding imaginable. Her dreadful secret is locked away so securely she has almost persuaded herself that it doesn't exist -- until, with only four days to go, her past catches up with her.

La quarantaine resplendissante, Fleur Daxeny s'est fait une spécialité de séduire de riches veufs. Sa technique ? Repérage des victimes dans la rubrique nécrologique du Times et première approche le jour même de l'enterrement de l'épouse... Le charme et l'aplomb extraordinaire de la jeune femme font alors le reste... Ainsi, lorsque Fleur jette son dévolu sur l'austère Richard Favour, elle ne doute pas d'arriver très vite à ses fins. Mais elle a pourtant un rival de poids dans la course aux millions, car, si Richard Favour a perdu sa femme, il n'a pas perdu son encombrante famille... Au sein de cette respectable bourgeoisie, les arnaqueurs - à l'argent comme aux sentiments - ne sont pas forcément ceux qu'on croit...

Realtor Marcus Witherstone knew the perfect tenants from London who would rent Liz and Jonathan Chambers old house: a glamorous PR girl, Ginny, and her almost-famous husband, Piers. But soon Liz is lost in blissful dreams of Marcus, Jonathan is left to run their business, and neither of them has time to notice that their teenage daughter is developing an unhealthy passion for the tenants.

Thanks to a mutual friends' invitation, two families meet in a luxury villa in Spain and discover their room is overbooked, igniting old passions and tensions.

A weekend tennis party becomes study of modern marriage for four very different couples of varying economic, social, and interest levels as together they encounter two days of anger, shock, revelations, and romance.