Martyn Bedford

Rosa is a complex character; beautiful,tough, smart, loving,engaging, coarse, and deeply thoughtful.

The story of her childhood is agonizingly painful, as is her early adulthood filled with drugs, and sexual exploitation at the hands of truly evil men. She manages to lift herself up with help from other abused women. She seduces magician Fletcher Brandon with great sex, wit, humor and her brand of brashness. She can never fully trust any man even one as loving, patient and supportive as Fletcher; she remains justifiably vulnerable, and resistant to a full committal to a long deep relationship.

When she leaves for Amsterdam he finds out that she has been more of a magician than he.

A smart, compelling, fascinating read about love, friendship, comfort, betrayal, and grace. .… (more)

Alex wakes up one morning in Phillip (Flip)'s body and finds he has lost 3 months of his life and now has a new sister parents and a dog plus two girlfriends. As Alex, he was the nerd who played the clarinet, as Phillip he is the good-looking boy with loads of friends who plays sport. What has happened? Alex sets out to discover what has happened to "Alex" - is he dead? And to try and get back to his old life all the while pretending he is Phillip. (SPOILER ALERT Alex is in a Coma /PVS )
Great one for pondering life's big questions of what makes us who we are.… (more)

Gloria is tired of her ordinary life. She barely recognizes the free-spirited girl she used to be in the unadventurous teenager she has become. So when a mysterious boy bent on breaking the rules strolls into her classroom, Gloria is ready to fall under his spell. Uman is funny, confident and smart. He does whatever he likes and doesn't care what anyone thinks of him. The only people for him are the mad ones, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing but burn, burn, burn. He is everything Gloria wishes to be. He can whisk her away from the life she loathes and show her a more daring, more exciting one, in which the only limits are the boundaries of her own boldness. But Uman in not all he seems and by the time she learns the truth about him, she is a long way from home and everyone wants to know, Where's Gloria?… (more)