New York, 1916. Monroe Simonov, a song-plugger from Brooklyn, is in love with a Ziegfeld Follies dancer who has left him for California. Inez Kennedy, a fashion model in a department store, has just one season remaining to find a wealthy husband before she must return to the Midwest. Anna Denisova, a glamorous political exile, gives lectures and writes letters while she waits for the Russian people to overthrow their Tsar. Although the world is changing faster than they could ever have imagined, Monroe, Inez and Anna discover that they are still subject to the tyranny of the heart. In this richly atmospheric and deftly plotted novel, their paths cross and re-cross leaving a trail of passion, infidelity and betrayal, before hurtling towards an explosive climax.

"Colin, who once lived in New York herself, retraces the era with consummate period detail and beautifully flowing prose." - The List

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The debaucherous celebration of the cabaret-era. The magical ascent of cinema. The deprivation of World War I and the build-up to World War II. Set against the rise and fall of Berlin and the innovations in art that accompanied it all, The Glimmer Palace brilliantly weaves together the story of one orphan girl's remarkable journey from poverty to film stardom, with an illuminating account of an astonishing history.

As the clock chimed the turn of the twentieth century, Lilly Nelly Aphrodite took her first breath. The illegitimate, soon orphaned daughter of a cabaret performer, she lands at a Catholic orphanage where she finds refuge and the first in a string of friendships that will change the direction of her life. When fellow orphan Hanne takes Lilly beyond their stone confines, introducing her to the seedy glamour of Berlin's notorious nightlife, it begins for Lillly a trajectory of reinvention. From urchin to maid, teenage war bride, tingle-tangle bargirl, model, and script typist, Lilly is eventually transformed into one of Germany's leading film stars and a partner in a remarkable love story that will span decades and continents—and be inextricable from the history unfolding around it.

Gripping, seductive, and mastefully written, The Glimmer Palace is a page-turning story of glitter and splendor, drama and love, friendship and identity. The story of an extraordinary heroine living in an extraordinary time, it is vivid and surprising in its telling, intelligent and ambitious in its scope, sad and beautiful and unforgettable.

'Deftly captur[es] the era's sense of frenzied invention and seductive promise' - The New York Times

'Full of suspense, this is an all-feeling novel, seductively and dramatically told' -- Daily Mail

Crippled when her horse fell on her, the lithe, tiny and feisty Wing, can no longer continue her heady life as a tightrope walker and circus performer. When she receives a mysterious package that contains a memoir written by Helena, the mother whom she never knew, Wing learns of her mother's bizarre and ultimately tragic story...

"Fantastical, moving and beautifully written." - Sunday Herald

Kate, the highly strung-editor of a fashionable London magazine, is determined to wrest the secret diaries of a newly discovered Russian painter of the Revolutionary period from the woman she thinks was his mistress. Clara, however, has her own agenda...

"A delicate, poignant, portrait of youth and age." - Scotsman

"It might have been written by Colette or Dorothy Parker. so cleverly and tartly does it unfold." - Alan Taylor, Sunday Herald

When Frank and his family move to Morningvale Circle, Frank wants to be sure it's their last move. He has had enough of new towns, new schools, and new houses; he's staying put!

The reason for their constant relocating is his sister, Elizabeth. She's invisible. But she's also a normal teenager - obsessed with boy bands, her phone, and picking on her little brother. Trouble is, she's always coming up with pranks that frame Frank and make the neighbors hate them. And if Elizabeth is unhappy, she plots to make everyone else miserable.

Together with his dog, Bob, and his new best friend, Charlie, Frank sets out to achieve the impossible: to make his invisible sister fit in so his family can stay in one place. But how can you keep an eye on your sister if you have no idea where she is?

'Combination of fantasy and a realistic family drama gives the story broad appeal." - BCCB

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