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A teenage girl clashes with her new stepmother in this debut thriller with an unforgettable twist‘Dark, deep, thought-provoking . What a debut! I recommend you go and read it!’ Adele Parks‘Grips the reader with its twisty exploration of the complex relationship between step mother and step daughter’ Kate Hamer, author of The Girl in the Red Coat‘Oh so good’Elle‘Told by two unforgettable female narrators, it's urgent, original and genuinely unputdownable’ Clare Fisher, author of All the Good...
| Автор | Rachel Edwards |
Moving between Ghana and London, Hold is an intimate, powerful coming-of-age novel. It’s a story of friendship and family, shame and forgiveness; of learning what we should cling to, and when we need to let go.‘You have to imagine. That’s how I told myself.’ ‘Imagine what?’ ‘Imagine that you are the kind of girl that can cope with it, even if you are not.’Belinda knows how to follow the rules. She has learnt the right way to polish water glasses, to wash and fold a hundred handkerchiefs, and to...
| Автор | Michael Donkor |
*PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS The Art of Love*Absorbing and escapist, The Villa on the Riviera is perfect summer reading for fans of Santa Montefiore and Rachel Hore.Polly Smith is struggling to make a living as an artist when her friend and patron, Oliver, invites her to the south of France. But her world is unexpectedly turned upside down when she digs out her birth certificate to apply for a passport. Her parents are not who she believed them to be – even her name is different.Fleeing to the...
| Автор | Elizabeth Edmondson |
Episode 1 des neuen Sub-Podcast «Planet Film Snob», gefüllt mit Enttäuschung, Hass und allem was an «Rogue One – A Star Wars Story» schlecht ist. Mit Colin und ohne Johannes (da er ein positiver, optimistischer Mensch ist) WARNUNG: SPOILER!
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
"Wenn du dein Leben lang Sportwagen gefahren bist, fällt es dir unheimlich schwer Fußgänger zu sein!" So umschreibt der Autor Lothar Berg die Schwierigkeiten, aus einem kriminellen Leben in das bürgerliche Lager zu wechseln…
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Introduce yourself to Mills & Boon’s sexiest series yet!Sweet Thing by Nicola MarshBut after one taste, she’s hooked!Abby loves her new life working at Sydney’s finest patisserie. Working alongside brooding new man-in-charge Tanner is an unexpected but delicious challenge, especially as each night their attraction only grows hotter! But Tanner’s past is as dark as the ink on his skin… He’ll let her get closer than close in the bedroom, but dare Abby go deeper?My Royal Temptation by Riley...
| Автор | Nicola Marsh |
The latest red-hot romances from Mills & Boon Modern!The Greek's Bought Bride by Sharon KendrickShe gave him her innocence…He’ll give her his ring!Tamsyn lost her innocence in a spectacularly sensual night with a Greek billionaire. She didn’t expect to see notorious playboy Xan again, until he proposes a marriage of convenience! It’s hard to refuse when he’s promising incredible wealth and her pregnant sister desperately needs support, but Xan is dangerously addictive… If Tamsyn isn’t...
| Автор | Кэтти Уильямс |
Witness protection supposedly offers a fresh start, but for Ana Easterday, it's a personal apocalypse. Stranded in Indiana, she's lost her future as well as her past. When a hitman offers her a way home, she has to decide: stay or go?<br><br>Do Not Go On is about secrets, second chances, and stories that can save your skin and soul.
| Автор | Bryan Furuness |
Jochen, Oliver, Harald – fast die Hälfte der Menschheit besteht aus Männern. Immer noch machen sie viel von sich reden – warum eigentlich? Was haben sie, was andere nicht haben, und, natürlich, was haben sie nicht? Mit dem Blick einer Frau geht Johanna Adorján durch die Welt und beschreibt, was ihr auffällt – oder vielmehr wer.
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARFrom Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain, comes her masterwork: an epic, dazzling, violent, magnificently dramatic novel about the taking down of the world’s forests.In the late seventeenth century two penniless young Frenchmen, René Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord, a “seigneur,” for three years in exchange for...
| Автор | Энни Пру |
A beautifully drawn graphic novel that illuminates the conflicted land of Kashmir, through a young boy’s childhood.Seven-year-old Munnu is growing up in Indian-administered Kashmir. Life revolves around his family: Mama, Papa, sister Shahnaz, brothers Adil and Akhtar and, his favourite, older brother Bilal. It also revolves around Munnu’s two favourite things – sugar and drawing.But Munnu’s is a childhood experienced against the backdrop of conflict. Bilal’s classmates are crossing over into the...
| Автор | Malik Sajad |
Four sizzlingly sexy romances from Mills & BoonThe Greek's Secret Son by Julia JamesHe’s proposed to protect her… But she has a surprise of her own!Contracted for the Petrakis Heir by Annie West‘I’m pregnant.’ But this baby bombshell is nothing compared to Adoni’s scandalous solution…!Claimed by Her Billionaire Protector by Robyn Donald‘You shouldn’t be on your own tonight.’ But accepting his offer leads to sinful temptation…Convenient Bride for the King by Kelly HunterShe refused his...
| Автор | Robyn Donald |
In Catalina Cove, even the biggest heartbreaks can be healed…In the wake of a devastating teen pregnancy that left her childless and heartbroken, Vashti Alcindor left Catalina Cove, Louisiana, with no plans to return. Now, over a decade later, Vashti reluctantly finds herself back in her hometown after inheriting her aunt’s B and B. Her homecoming gets off to a rocky start when the new sheriff, Sawyer Grisham, pulls her over for speeding, and things go downhill from there.The B and B, a place...
| Автор | Brenda Jackson |
Chairman of Fools explores the plight of Farai Chari, a supposedly successful writer, professor and self-acclaimed artist, living in an African culture in which tradition weighs heavy and middle class aspirations are crude. Farai yearns for a world in which men and women can freely associate with one another and gratify their passions without moral chastisement.
| Автор | Shimmer Chinodya |
A hilarious send-up of Enid Blyton adventure stories. It mocks fundamentalism, racism, and pseudo-intellectuality. The novel asks, in the most unlikely manner, for reconciliation among the blighted peoples of Zimbabwe.
| Автор | John Eppel |
‘The bastard offspring of Ian McEwan and Shirley Conran… a rollercoaster of a read with serious intent’A moving and masterful novel about sex, death, passion and prejudice in a sleepy village in the south of FranceMarguerite Demers is twenty-four when she leaves Paris for the sleepy southern village of Saint-Sulpice, to take up a job as a live-in nurse. Her charge is Jerome Lanvier, once one of the most powerful men in the village, and now dying alone in his large and secluded house, surrounded...
| Автор | Marina Kemp |
The palm trees give the street a holiday atmosphere. There must be something in the soil they like. They have straight leaves that get a bit ragged, with split ends. At night you hear them rattling in the wind.The narrator of Dublin Palms has returned to Dublin to set up home with his partner Helen and their two children. Their lives are filled with optimism, but also a sense of dislocation. Overshadowed by the Troubles in the North, their family enterprise begins to come apart. As the creditors...
| Автор | Hugo Hamilton |
The author’s most famous and well-loved work, the Starbridge series, six self-contained yet interconnected novels that explore the history of the Church of England through the 20th century.Charles Ashworth is privileged, pampered and pleased with himself. As Bishop of Starbridge in 1965 he 'purrs along as effortlessly as a well-tuned Rolls-Royce' while he proclaims his famous 'absolute truths' to a society which he sees – with rage and revulsion – as increasingly immoral and...
| Автор | Susan Howatch |
‘Wiles is basically Kafka, if Kafka had spent more time in British hotels and pubs’ David BaddielWill Wiles both re-invents and murders the London novel, in a spectacular act of evil, surgical intensity’ Warren Ellis‘It’s outstanding’ Mail on Sunday, Event MagazineThe dark, doomy humour of Care of Wooden Floors mixed with the fantastical, anarchic sense of possibility of The Way Inn, brought together in a fast moving story set in contemporary London.Jack Bick is an interview journalist at a...
| Автор | Will Wiles |
