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Nicola Barker’s readers are primed to expect surprises, but her tenth novel delivers mind-meld on a metaphysical scale. From quiet beginnings in the picturesque English seaside enclave of Pett Level, ‘In The Approaches’ ultimately constructs its own anarchic city-state on the previously undiscovered common ground between G.K. Chesterton and Philip K. Dick. On the one hand, this is an old-fashioned romantic comedy of fused buttocks, shrunken heads and Irish-Aboriginal saints; on the other it’s...
| Автор | Nicola Barker |
A man from John Coffin’s past is looking for his identical twin brother – a dangerous man, capable of murder. But are their identities one and the same? From one of the most appraised English crime writers, perfect for fans of Agatha Christie.Sad, savage and bitter is what Stella Pinero says to her husband John Coffin, Commander of London's Second City, of the murder case which cuts into both their lives.Coffin is at the height of his powers when he is surprised by a visit from the past:...
| Автор | Gwendoline Butler |
Just how badly do you want to find paradise?When Tom Finn is almost jailed for confronting two burglars in his own home, this taxi driver takes his young family to live on the tropical island of Phuket, Thailand.Phuket is all the Finn family dreamed of – a tropical paradise where the children swim with elephants, the gibbons sing love songs in the jungle, the Andaman Sea is like turquoise glass and this young family is free to grow.But both man-made disaster and the unleashed forces of nature...
| Автор | Tony Parsons |
From the brilliantly unconventional Nicola Barker, the short stories in ‘Love Your Enemies’ present a loving depiction of the beautiful, the grotesque and the utterly bizarre in the lives of overlooked suburban Britons.Layla Carter, 16, from North London, is utterly overwhelmed by her plus-size nose. Rosemary, recently widowed and the ambivalent owner of a bipolar tomcat, meets a satyr in her kitchen and asks, ‘Can I feel your fur?’In these ten enticingly strange short stories, a series of...
| Автор | Nicola Barker |
A twisty read following an affair between a young female teacher and male boarding school student that fans of Katerina Diamond and Louise Jensen will devour.She’s a teacher. She knows the rules. When recent college graduate Imogene Abney takes a job as a teacher at pricey and exclusive The Vandenberg School, an institution populated by the most privileged boys in America, she is plunged into an unfamiliar world.Struggling to adjust, Imogene welcomes the friendship of student Adam Kipling. But...
| Автор | Corinne Sullivan |
MEMORIES OF MIDNIGHT – The internationally best-selling 'The Other Side of Midnight' was dominated by the man who is Sheldon's most magnificent creation…'Constantin Demiris'Billionaire, art lover, womaniser…and killer. To Noelle, the woman who betrayed him, and Larry, the man who stole her, Demiris brought a chilling retribution. But Demiris’ terrible revenge is far from complete…'Ioannina, Greece'In the seclusion of a remote convent a young woman emerges from the trauma of memory...
| Автор | Сидни Шелдон |
USA Today bestselling author of The Girl Who Lied‘Gobsmacked…a thrilling finale’ Rachel’s Random ReadsAlice: Beautiful, kind, manipulative, liar.Clare: Intelligent, loyal, paranoid, jealous.Clare thinks Alice is a manipulative liar who is trying to steal her life.Alice thinks Clare is jealous of her long-lost return and place in their family.One of them is telling the truth. The other is a maniac.Two sisters. One truth.What people are saying about SISTER SISTER:‘I would definitely recommend this...
| Автор | Sue Fortin |
‘A thrilling page turner . . . a beautifully written, compelling mystery that you won't want to put down’ C.L. Taylor, bestselling author of THE ESCAPEThey had found paradise. What would they do to keep it?With a quick spin of the globe, Kitty and Lana escape their grey reality and journey to the Philippines. There they discover The Blue – a beautiful yacht, with a wandering crew.They spend day after languorous day exploring the pristine white beaches and swimming beneath the stars, and Lana...
| Автор | Lucy Clarke |
AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEARAN EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR‘What was it about complaining that felt so good? You and your fellow sufferer emerging from a thorough session as if from a spa bath, refreshed and tingling?’The first-ever collection of short stories from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides presents characters in the midst of personal and national emergencies.We meet Kendall, a failed poet who, envious of other people’s wealth during the real estate bubble, becomes an...
| Автор | Jeffrey Eugenides |
In this compelling collection of short stories, bestselling author Michael Chabon explores adolescent desire, love, friendship and fatherhood – moving across this powerful emotional ground with subtlety and incisiveness.Written with wryness, whimsy and intellectual depth, this is a collection of eleven wonderful stories of growing up and growing wise.In ‘S Angel’ a group of wedding guests is hijacked by a fast-talking real estate agent, but not before the bride herself disappears. ‘Smoke’ takes...
| Автор | Michael Chabon |
Abandoned and alone, you'll do anything to survive…A gritty new saga from the bestselling author of Outcast Child.Abandoned on the cold stone steps of an orphanage, only a few hours old and clutching the object which was to give her name, Pearl Button had a hard start to life.Now 16 years old, she's finally managed to escape the cruel confines of the orphanage, and enter the real world. Finding work at a nearby café, Pearl is thrilled to start earning her own money, even if she must contend with...
| Автор | Kitty Neale |
A girl with a gun fights for survival in the American wilderness, in a tale that will enthral fans of The Hunger Games and True Grit.After the violent death of her father, in which she is complicit, Margo takes to the Stark River in her boat, with only a few supplies and a biography of Annie Oakley, in search of her vanished mother.But the river, Margo’s childhood paradise, is a dangerous place for a young woman travelling alone, and she must be strong to survive, using her knowledge of the...
| Автор | Bonnie Jo Campbell |
A heartbreaking new novel about lost loves and past regrets. A guaranteed tearjerker.Blue Reynolds has the world at her feet. Her successful daytime chat show and the attendant wealth make her the envy of women all over the globe. But little do her fans know that behind the façade of designer clothes and luxury apartments, Blue is tormented by a tragic event in her past.Whilst on a work trip to Florida, Blue finds herself caught up in a love triangle between two men – a situation made even more...
| Автор | Therese Fowler |
A pregnancy pact between three teenaged girls puts their mothers' love to the ultimate test in this explosive novel from Barbara DelinskyWhen Susan Tate's seventeen-year-old daughter, Lily, announces she is pregnant, Susan is stunned. A single mother, she has struggled to do everything right. She sees the pregnancy as an unimaginable tragedy for both Lily and herself.Then comes word of two more pregnancies among high school juniors who happen to be Lily's best friends-and the town turns to talk...
| Автор | Barbara Delinsky |
A family drama unlike any other from the internationally acclaimed author of All My Friends are Superheroes.The Weirds have always been a little peculiar, but not one of them suspected that they’d been cursed by their grandmother.At the moment of their birth Annie Weird gave each of her five grandchildren a special power that she thought was a blessing. Richard, the oldest, always keeps safe; Abba always has hope; Lucy is never lost and Kent can beat anyone in a fight. As for Angie, she always...
| Автор | Andrew Kaufman |
When TV talkshow host Elias Claymore is accused of raping a 19-year-old girl he turns to his friend Alex Sadaka to defend him.But Alex has a fight on his hands, for Claymore – a former Black Power activist – is anything but squeaky clean and this time even the DNA evidence is stacked against him.Forced to share the defence with a lawyer from Claymore’s insurance firm, Alex must battle his way through jury tampering, conflicts of interest and vicious hate mail to uncover the truth.With Claymore a...
| Автор | David Kessler |
"Krzyk uwięziony w ciszy" opowiada historię niepełnosprawnej dziewczynki, która z powodu swej ułomności nie może komunikować się z otoczeniem. Pozostawiona przez rodzinę w specjalnym zakładzie dla takich jak ona, przemawia do czytelnika swoim wewnętrznym głosem. Opowiada o tym jak bardzo chciałaby być ptakiem, który jest dla niej symbolem wolności, jak również o życiu w zakładzie. Jej szczególną uwagę przyciąga jedna z opiekunek, kobieta szczególna i wyjątkowa: dająca jej chwile...
| Автор | Andrzej F. Paczkowski |
Podróż samolotem to dla wielu z nas sprawa skomplikowana, kłopotliwa i często przerażająca, a ponadto spowita aurą tajemniczości. Od momentu, w którym przechodzimy przez drzwi terminala, atakują nas polecenia – stań tu, zdejmij buty tam, opróżnij kieszenie do tej kuwety, zapnij pas, zrób to, odłóż tamto – oraz lawina informacji. Większość dochodzi do nas nie bezpośrednio, lecz przez mikrofon; niektórych niedosłyszymy, innych nie zrozumiemy, jedne nas onieśmielają, innymi czujemy się zakłopotani....
| Автор | Patrick Smith |
Bezimienna główna bohaterka nagle traci przyjaciela, który bardzo wiele dla niej znaczył. Pozostaje po nim pustka … i wielki, przygarnięty przez niego dog arlekin. Kto miałby się nim zająć? Niechętna zwierzętom wdowa w podeszłym wieku? Nieobecna, skłócona ze zmarłym córka, która nawet nie pofatygowała się na pogrzeb? W nagrodzonej prestiżową National Book Award z 2018 roku powieści Sigrid Nunez w sposób błyskotliwy i przenikliwy opowiada o przyjaźni, miłości i śmierci, jak też o wartościach,...
| Автор | Sigrid Nunez |
It was the job of her dreams. . . but it became her worst nightmare. . . All private security agent Lucie Evans wanted was a fresh start—and the chance to show Sawyer McNamara, her ex-boss, that she no longer craved his absolution for a crime she didn't commit. So when the offer of a trip to South America as the personal bodyguard to a billionaire heiress came up, Lucie jumped at the prospect of leaving the Dundee Agency behind. Then the nightmare began. Kidnapped in a case of mistaken identity,...
| Автор | BEVERLY BARTON |
This is a book about journeys and paths through life – those we choose to take and those we don’t. And the difficulties of taking those steps. It is set mostly on trains.Part memoir, part imagined history, in The Lost Properties of Love, Sophie Ratcliffe reflects on the realities of motherhood and marriage, revisits the experience of childhood bereavement, and muses on the messiness of everyday life.An extended train journey frames the action – and the author turns not to self-help manuals but...
| Автор | Sophie Ratcliffe |
‘Addictive, suspenseful and full of dark secrets!’ Michele Campbell, Sunday Times bestselling author of It’s Always the Husband‘A chilling glimpse behind the facade of the perfect family’ Liv Constantine, bestselling author of The Last Mrs ParrishOne of them lied. One of them died.Jane’s life has become a haze of antidepressants since the tragic death of her daughter, Mary. The accident, which happened over a year ago now, destroyed their perfect family life forever.The trouble is, the more Jane...
| Автор | Kaira Rouda |
A chance meeting between two old friends.The unveiling of long-hidden secrets…Jenny and Ruth were best friends at school until Ruth abruptly moved away from their Cornish village and they lost all contact. Fourteen years later, a chance meeting on a train throws both their lives into turmoil.One glimpse of Ruth's son Adam sends Jenny into a spiral of love, grief and obsession. Adam is the image of Jenny's husband, Tom, killed suddenly and tragically six months earlier. As Jenny discovers the...
| Автор | Sara MacDonald |
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx follows the success of Close Range with another remarkable collection of short stories set in Wyoming.Bad Dirt is filled with the vivid and willful characters for which Proulx has become known. Each occupies a community or landscape described in rich and robust language, with an eye for detail unparalleled in American fiction.In ‘The Contest’, the men of Elk Tooth, Wyoming, vow to put aside their razors for two seasons and wait to see who has the...
| Автор | Энни Пру |