Cakes and Ale, Somerset Maugham made into films An American Marriage is a

An American Marriage is a masterpiece of storytelling

Pursued by assassins

jealousy and revenge

bestselling author Paul Greenberg presents practices for connection

Huge American bestselling novel that tells of identical twins: a paranoid schizophrenic and his brother whose life is dominated by his resentment of and love for his damaged twin Dominick Birdsey's whole existence is coloured by the knowledge that his twin brother can never be fully responsible for his frightening behaviour

Cakes and Ale, Somerset Maugham made into films An American Marriage is aCakes and Ale is a delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield's wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to write a bestseller. But then Kear discovers the great novelist's voluptuous muse (and unlikely first wife), Rosie. The lively, loving heroine once gave Driffield enough material to last a lifetime, but now