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A gorgeous new novel from bestseller Rebecca Raisin! Coming soon.Readers love Rebecca Raisin!‘Absolutely fantastic book, had me hooked from the first page.’‘I absolutely loved everything to do with this book’‘Rebecca Raisin has a way of writing that is so evocative, it brings each and every scene to life.’‘Romantic, emotional, hilarious in places but most of all beautiful.’‘Full of anticipation, a real page turner. Loved it!’‘A good holiday read’‘Be whisked away on a beautiful adventure and pick...
| Автор | Rebecca Raisin |
Praise for Alice Feeney:‘Marvellous’ A. J. Finn‘A bold and original voice’ Clare MackintoshAimee Sinclair: the actress everyone thinks they know but can’t remember where from.Except me. I know exactly where you’re from, who you are, what you’ve done.Your husband has gone missing and the police think you’re hiding something. You lie for a living, always pretending to be someone else. But that’s not new, is it?Because I know you lied before. You’ve always lied. And the lies we tell ourselves are...
| Автор | Alice Feeney |
An unexpected journey leads one woman to discover that life after loss is possible, if only you can find the courage to let go…One minute, Tegan Lawson has everything she could hope for: an adoring husband, Gabe, and a baby on the way. The next, a patch of black ice causes a devastating accident that will change her life in ways she never could have imagined.Tegan is consumed by grief–not to mention her anger toward Gabe, who was driving on the night of the crash. But just when she thinks she's...
| Автор | Karma Brown |
Another bestseller full of Cathy Kelly’s trademark warmth, romance, optimism and wit.Friends this good are hard to find…What’s the secret of the fabulous Miller girls?Everyone says that they lead charmed lives: successful lawyer and single mother Stella; TV writer Tara, and dreamy, artistic Holly.Their elegant mother Rose is about to celebrate her fortieth wedding anniversary to husband Hugh, and the Irish town on Kinvarra is looking forward to the celebrations.But as plans are made for the...
| Автор | Cathy Kelly |
‘Fans of MARTINA COLE will love this’ Katerina DiamondA gripping new series from million-copy bestseller Mel Sherratt.Praise for Mel Sherratt:‘I love all Mel Sherratt’s books’ IAN RANKIN‘Twists and turns and delivers a satisfying shot of tension’ RACHEL ABBOTTTICK…In the city of Stoke, a teenage girl is murdered in the middle of the day, her lifeless body abandoned in a field behind her school.TOCK…Two days later, a young mother is abducted. She’s discovered strangled and dumped in a local...
| Автор | Mel Sherratt |
Bonfire Night. A missing girl. Anna only takes her eyes off Laurel for a second. She thought Laurel was following her mum through the crowds. But in a heartbeat, Laurel is gone.Laurel’s parents are frantic. As is Anna, their nanny. But as the hours pass, and Laurel isn’t found, suspicion grows.Someone knows what happened to Laurel. And they’re not telling.Have You Seen Her is the breath-taking new thriller with a killer twist from bestseller Lisa Hall.
| Автор | Lisa Hall |
A poignant, highly original novel about an author whose relationship with his very famous book editor will change him forever… ‘Told with warmth and humour – the story of a mother-son reconciliation, facilitated by a most unlikely fairy godmother…delightful’ Chloe Benjamin, author of The ImmortalistsAfter years of struggling as a writer in 1990s New York City, James Smale finally gets his big break when his novel sells to an editor at a major publishing house:none other than Jacqueline Kennedy...
| Автор | Steven Rowley |
A missing mother. An isolated community. Three storytellers you will never forget.For fans of The Water Cure and The Girls‘A dark star of a book’ LAUREN GROFF‘I loved its every page’ SHEILA HETIOn yet another freezing day, mother Billie Jean walks out of the house barefoot and drives off never to be heard of again.But no one arrives and no one leaves The Territory, a community cut off from the rest of Canada, a place warped by its own strange ways and stuck in the 1980s. Here they live off their...
| Автор | Claudia Dey |
‘The Road meets Waiting for Godot: powerful, unforgettable, unique’ Melissa Harrison, author of At Hawthorn Time.Doggerland is a superbly gripping debut novel about loneliness and hope, nature and survival – set on an off-shore windfarm in the not-so-distant future.‘His father’s breath had been loud in the small room. It had smelled smoky, or maybe more like dust. He had knotted and unknotted a strap on the bag he was holding – he must have been leaving to go out to the farm that day. ‘I’ll get...
| Автор | Ben Smith |
‘Eerily page-turning and wonderfully twisty.’ Kimberly McCreight, New York Times bestselling authorOne of them knows what happened that night…For twelve-year-old Cora Landry and her friends Violet and Jordyn, it was supposed to be an ordinary sleepover – movies and talking about boys. But when they decide to sneak out to go to the abandoned rail yard on the outskirts of town, little do they know that their innocent games will have dangerous consequences…Later that night, Cora Landry is...
| Автор | Heather Gudenkauf |
The next unmissable summer read from Sarah Morgan!Praise for Sarah Morgan:‘I laughed, I cried, I held my breath. I absolutely adored it’ Cathy Bramley‘Sarah Morgan just gets better and better’ Veronica HenryOne charming Left Bank bookshop, two unlikely friends, and a summer in Paris that will change their lives forever…Grace can’t believe it when her husband of twenty-five years announces he doesn’t want to join her on their anniversary trip to Paris – instead, he wants a divorce. Reeling from...
| Автор | Sarah Morgan |
Ani złego słowa to nagradzana powieść o odmienności, imigracji i brutalności policji, ale także potędze słów i o tym, kto ma prawo mówić otwarcie o sobie i innych ludziach. Syn nigeryjskich imigrantów, Niru, wiedzie z pozoru idealne życie. Chodzi do kościoła, wierzy w Boga, jest wybitnym sportowcem, a jesienią idzie na Harvard. Niru nie jest jednak taki, jak wymarzył sobie jego konserwatywny ojciec. Chłopak skrywa tajemnicę, za sprawą której wyruszy w podróż w poszukiwaniu własnej...
| Автор | Uzodinma Iweala |
Opowieść o zwykłych ludziach, którzy po wojnie próbują odnaleźć się w nowej rzeczywistości. Różne przeżycia i inne spojrzenie na sytuację w Polsce sprawiają, że nawet przy rodzinnych stołach dochodzi do konfliktów i zadrażnień. Bohaterowie znani z "Zemsty i przebaczenia" oraz "Zanim nadejdzie jutro" tym razem zmagają się z szarą egzystencją lat pięćdziesiątych i demonami przeszłości, które nie pozwalają o sobie zapomnieć. Szymek Wielopolski, Mateusz Rosiński, a także Nela...
| Автор | Joanna Jax |
Koniec pisma i człowiek tracący podmiotowość w nowym dziele Jacka Dukaja. Intelektualna podróż wokół najbardziej fascynujących zagadnień współczesnej cywilizacji – aż do jej kresu i do kresu człowieka. Przez ostatnich kilka tysięcy lat pismo, książki i biblioteki były nośnikami i skarbnicami wiedzy. Technologia pisma stworzyła cywilizację człowieka. Myślenie pismem oznacza myślenie symbolami, ideami i kategoriami. Daje bezpośredni dostęp do wnętrza innych: ich emocji, przeżyć i poczucia...
| Автор | Jacek Dukaj |
The encounter of two lonely souls in the fascinating context of an imaginary Scottish village is the starting point for a great love story where nothing is like it seems. The main character – Melisande Bruno – is the girl who can’t see rainbows, for she is able to see only in black and white. And her opponent, as well as great love, is Sebastian McLaine, a writer relegated to a wheelchair. Melisande Bruno flees from her past and refuses to accept her diversity: she was born with a particular...
| Автор | Rosette |
Zenith è la storia di un ragazzo che attraversa la morte ed è costretto a salvare nove anime per poter tornare alla vita. Lo sfondo dark in cui si delinea Zenith è quello della notte della morte del protagonista Sico. Di ritorno a casa con la sua moto, si muove sull'asfalto bagnato dalla pioggia che ha investito Colleterno con il collo incassato tra le spalle per il freddo e per la strana sensazione che qualcosa di orrendo lo stia inseguendo in attesa di poterlo sopraffare. Il vecchio cimitero...
| Автор | Saccinto Saccinto |
Riuscirai a superare persino quei giorni in cui ti sentirai morire, quelli in cui ti ritroverai dannatamente sola e fragile. Perché sai, è questo che si fa. Si va avanti, nonostante tutto. E non importa alla fine chi sei stata o chi sarai. Ciò che importa è andare avanti, assaporando il gusto dolce e amaro delle emozioni, quelle che ogni giorno ci regala lo splendido viaggio che gli esseri umani chiamano ”vita”. Fin dalla tenera età la vita di Melanie è segnata dalla violenza. La sua...
| Автор | Andrea Calo' |
Das Aufeinandertreffen zweier einsamer Seelen inmitten der Faszination eines fiktiven schottischen Dorfes ist der Ausgangspunkt einer großen Liebesgeschichte, in der nichts wie eh und je ist. Die Hauptperson – Melisande Bruno – ist das Mädchen der verbotenen Regenbögen, da sie alles nur schwarzweiß sehen kann. Und ihr Gegenpart und gleichzeitig ihre große Liebe ist Sebastian McLaine, ein an den Rollstuhl gefesselter Schriftsteller. Melisande Bruno flieht vor ihrer Vergangenheit, vor allem...
| Автор | Rosette |
Prababka, babka, matka i córka zmagają się z przeszłością. Maria podążyła za mężem zesłańcem na Sybir. Sabina była więźniarką obozu koncentracyjnego Ravensbrück, przebywała na bloku, gdzie dokonywano eksperymentów medycznych na kobietach. Magdalena straciła ukochanego i samotnie wychowywała córkę w PRL-u. Lila żyje z piętnem dziecka niekochanego i uwikłanego w tajemnice. Każda z nich mierzy się z macierzyństwem w innych okolicznościach i dla każdej jest to doświadczenie przełomowe. W domu bez...
| Автор | Ałbena Grabowska |
When Orwell went to the north of England in the thirties to find out how industrial workers lived, he not only observed but shared in their experience. He stayed in cramped, dreary lodgings and subsisted on the scant, cheerless diet of the poor. He went down into the coal mines and walked crouching, as the miners did, through a one- to three-mile passage too low to stand up in. He watched the back-breaking, dangerous labor of men whose net pay then averaged $575 a year. And he knew the...
| Автор | Джордж Оруэлл |
In Name Only Best Friend BrideBillionaire Jonas Kim only needs one thing to become CEO of his family’s company: a smoothly executed business merger. And to get that, he needs a smoothly executed marriage of convenience. Enter Viviana Dawson! One Night Stand BrideTheir one-night stand made the headlines. Now playboy Hendrix Harris decides marrying the Rosalind Carpenter will stop the rumours from derailing his family’s political ambitions. Rosalind will make the perfect bride…and she drives him...
| Автор | Kat Cantrell |
‘An engaging story of opportunities lost and refound’ Express Can love help her through the most difficult decisions? When Jenny McKinstry is offered a new post as the Head of English at her Belfast school she’s elated! Yet she can’t help but feel conflicted about the position. With all those around her mounting the pressure to start a family and her husband’s career about to take off, Jenny feels bound by an overwhelming sense of duty. Will she be able to support her husband’s ambitions and...
| Автор | Anne Doughty |
After Art in the Blood and Unquiet Spirits, Holmes and Watson are back in the third of Bonnie MacBird’s critically acclaimed Sherlock Holmes Adventures, written in the tradition of Conan Doyle himself. It’s 1890 and the newly famous Sherlock Holmes faces his worst adversary to date – a diabolical villain bent on destroying some of London’s most admired public figures in particularly gruesome ways. A further puzzle is that suicide closely attends each of the murders. As he tracks the killer...
| Автор | Bonnie Macbird |
The prefect seasonal gift full of nostalgia and charm, perfect for fans of Coronation Street and readers who love Fiction set in times past. When Lizzie moves with her mother and her brothers to No. 9 Coronation Street at the end of the Second World War, it’s a new start for all of them after the loses and heartache they’ve endured. Their new neighbour, Elsie Tanner, tells them that the house is said to have bad luck, but things look up for Lizzie when she lands a job as a barmaid in a local...
| Автор | Maggie Sullivan |