Michael Joseph Prize Women Lea Caroline

Three women. Three lives. One chance to find themselves • Meet Isobel, Jen and Zelda • Three women whose bodies and minds are not their own • They belong to the Church • Life and death decisions are taken by others on their behalf • Who they might marry • Whether they start a family • Isobel and Jen know nothing of the world • But when Isobel's husband leaves her and Jen challenges those in charge, the Church turns its back on them • Zelda - never one for doing what is expected - dares to find hope on the outside • Meet Isobel, Jen and Zelda • Three women desperate to find a life to call their own • This is a novel about what it is like to live inside a prison of the mind and how to break out of it - if you can

When happily divorced Joni is reluctantly talked into joining a dating app, she is surprised to quickly hit it off with Ant. Phone calls and texts soon evolve into a plan to meet up • Which is a problem, as Joni's profile picture is of someone else • Joni daren't confess her lie. Yet unable to stop thinking about what might have been, she hatches a plan to 'meet' Ant in real life without revealing who she really is • Once she and Ant are an item, however, it's soon clear that the only thing Ant was honest about was his profile picture. He's still online dating. And intimately texting other women • So Joni contacts them: they need to know. And once they're comparing notes on Ant, upset turns to thoughts of revenge • Is Ant about to discover what it's like being on the wrong end of a woman's wrath?

Lore Rivera was married to two men at once, until on a baking hot day in 1986, one of them found out and shot the other. A secret double life, a tragic murder • That's the story the world knows • It's not the story that fascinates Cassie Bowman • Carrying the weight of her own family tragedy, true-crime writer Cassie wants to know more about the mysterious woman at the heart of it all: Lore • And to her surprise, Lore is willing to talk - about how a dance became an affair; how a marriage became a murder • As the two women grow closer, Cassie finds she can't help but confess her own darkest secrets • But when it becomes clear that there might be more to the night of the murder than anyone realised, can either woman face up to the thing they've been hiding from . . . the truth?

Isobel and Jen have spent their entire lives following the rules - of their marriages, and their religion • But when Isobel's husband leaves her, and Jen goes through unimaginable trauma, the religion turns its back • Zelda has never done what's expected of her. Living on the outskirts of the community that she, Jen and Isobel were raised in, she's trying to find herself outside of the confines of the world she left behind • As the lives of these women become entangled, they each face an uncertain future • Will they find the courage to move forwards? Or will a lifetime of expectation prove too hard to escape

You can't believe all of them . . . But can you trust any of them? • Widower Kane Black has been hollowed by grief • Until he sees a woman with his wife Lily's inimitable beauty on Manhattan's streets. He whisks her up to his towering penthouse, nestling her in dark opulence • Aliyah, Kane's mother, sees a threat. "Lily" has dangerous control over Kane and there can be only one queen on this throne • Amy, Kane's sister-in-law, has been bloodied by betrayal. She's paid too high a price and now intends to claim what she's owed • Three women, linked by buried secrets, circle the man who unquestioningly accepts the return of his beloved long-dead wife • But Kane is happier than he's ever been, and he'll do anything to stay that way

There's really no one quite like Dr Gladys McGarey • Age 8 years old, she met Gandhi in India who instilled in her life lessons about love • She began her medical practice at a time when women couldn't own their own bank accounts, and accumulated thousands of patients • At 85 she travelled to Afghanistan to teach rural woman safer birthing practices, resulting in a 47% decrease in infant mortality rates in the area • Dr. Gladys McGarey revolutionised holistic medicine. Now, aged 102 and still practising as a doctor, she shares her powerful secrets so you can live your own life with joy, vitality and purpose at any age - just as she has • In a voice that is both practical and inspiring, Dr Gladys shares life-changing stories of miraculous healing from her thousands of patients of all ages, as well as her own experiences as a mother of six, and her survival of both heartbreak and illness, as heard on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour

Debora Robertson, home cook and renowned food writer, tells how, from the least promising of culinary starts, she learned to love cooking and transformed her cosy kitchen into the beating heart of her home • Through her stories and recipes, she will whisk you away to hot summers in Languedoc and balmy weeknights in London, revealing the life-changing dishes that made her. Bound together with life- and dinner-saving lessons, Debora has written the essential kitchen companion for every home cook • From the tastes of Debora's childhood to the recipes she discovered on her travels, to the food she cooks every day • · Leek and ham hock steamed pudding • · Slow roast lamb with Durham salad • · Meemaw's Texan margarita pie • · The best recipe for roast chicken • · Delicious plum cake • Debora will take you by the hand and tell you everything you'll ever need to know about cooking food you'll love time and time again

In the last years of her life, Teresa Lim's mother, Violet Chang, had copies of a cherished family photograph made for those in the portrait who were still alive. On the back is the place and date: Hong Kong, 1935 • Teresa would often look at this photograph, enticed by the fierceness and beauty of her great-aunt Fanny looking back at her. But Fanny never seemed to feature in the told and retold family stories. Why? she wondered • This photograph set Teresa on a journey to uncover her family's remarkable history. Through detective work, serendipity, and the kindness of strangers, she was guided to the fascinating, extraordinary life of her great-aunt and her world of sworn spinsters, ghost husbands and the working-class feminists of 19th century south China

Have you ever wondered how to make your diet truly eco-conscious? • In this beautiful plant-based cookbook, over 130 creative, delicious, planet-friendly recipes put vegetables at the very centre of the table. Embracing often-discarded parts such as leaves, stalks, tops, flowers, seeds and even peelings, this is cooking at its most sustainable • In The Whole Vegetable, Sophie Gordon shows us how to • - Cook with every part of every vegetable • - Reduce waste in your cooking • - Reinvent your leftovers • - Eat with the seasons • From Cauliflower Carbonara, Broccoli Pesto and Chunky Pumpkin Tacos, to Cherry Breakfast Crumble, Maple-Roasted Pears and Apple & Walnut Danish Buns, The Whole Vegetable is packed with thoughtful recipes for every season • Most of all, it will ensure that nothing in your kitchen goes to waste

Bestselling author Rachel Khoo is on the go once again with her latest cookbook, Rachel Khoo's Kitchen Notebook • Her latest cookbook is packed to the brim with 100 standout recipes, full-colour photography and Rachel's very own sketches of the food and places she encounters • Out and about, she finds the most delicious fare, recording it all in her kitchen notebook. From a Ham Hock Tiffin Box to Slow Roasted Pork Belly with Sloe Gin, and Rhubarb and Custard Millefeuille, Rachel Khoo's Kitchen Notebook will inspire even the most jaded cook to try something new • After graduating from Central Saint Martin's College with a degree in Art and Design, British food writer Rachel was lured to Paris to study patisserie at Le Cordon Bleu. Rachel shot to fame when her TV series, The Little Paris Kitchen, was broadcast by the BBC

Meredith Maggs hasn't left her house in 1,214 days. But she insists she isn't alone • She has her cat, Fred. Her friend Sadie visits when she can. There's her online support group, StrengthInNumbers. She has her jigsaws, favourite recipes, her beloved Emily Dickinson, the internet, the Tesco delivery man and her treacherous memories for company • But something's about to change • First, new friends Tom and Celeste burst into her life. Then an estranged sister she hasn't spoken to in years • Suddenly her carefully curated home is no longer a safe place to hide • Whether Meredith likes it or not, the world is coming to her door