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‘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 |
Dawid Neethling is ’n suksesvolle, getroude psigiater op Stellenbosch. Wanneer die beeldskone musiekstudent Eva Rodriguez sy pasiënt word, kan hy hom nie indink langs watter paadjies sy hom sal laat loop nie. Kort voor lank staan hy in die beskuldigdebank op aanklag van moord, en dan begin onbeheersde kragte uitspeel wat uiteindelik sy eie lewe sal bedreig.
| Автор | François Smuts |
A compelling vision of a disorienting and barbaric future from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.Many years in the future, city life has broken down, communications have failed and food supplies are dwindling. From her window a middle-aged woman – our narrator – watches things fall apart and records what she witnesses: hordes of people migrating to the countryside, gangs of children roaming the streets. One day, a young girl, Emily, is brought to her house by a stranger and...
| Автор | Дорис Лессинг |
Sometimes you have to go a long way to find what you’re looking for. And sometimes a little beginner’s luck is all you need…• Welcome to the First Class India USA Destination Vacation Tour Company• • One fixed itinerary, one fixed price• • All levels catered for• • No refunds• Beginner Recently widowed Pival Sengupta has never travelled alone before and her first trip to this strange country masks a secret agenda: to find out the truth about her long-estranged son.Intermediate Satya, her...
| Автор | Leah Franqui |
A big-hearted, funny and sad novel about the messiness of love, family and beliefLONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD‘Hilarious and timely, a dazzling debut’ John Boyne‘Bustling, bubbly, bittersweet fun’Daily Mail‘Bulging, big-hearted, a pleasure to read’Irish Times‘Dazzling. A novel of epic ambition yet intimate in scope’Literary Review‘Think Zadie Smith. But much funnier’Sunday Independent‘Very moving, highly entertaining, clever and...
| Автор | Darragh Martin |
The next Lullaby: a dark and thought-provoking novel about a young woman who poisons her baby, her husband and herselfLittle Thomas didn’t have time even to finish his yoghurt. His mother hadn’t given him the chance.Life is going well for Marie. She and her husband, Laurent, live a comfortable life in a large apartment on the in the eleventh arrondissement in Paris. They’ve always loved Paris, and over the years they have accumulated a good many friends and developed a varied, interesting social...
| Автор | Inès Bayard |
Phantastisches und Unheimliches, Paradoxes und Absurdes: Kafka beschreibt die unglaublichsten Sachverhalte nüchtern und minutiös. Grenzbereiche werden ausgeleuchtet, existenzielle Grund- oder Ausnahmesituationen in unvergessliche Bilder gefasst. Seine Texte haben die gleiche Intensität wie Träume.
| Автор | Franz Kafka |
In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will take us even further into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing is sacred, nothing taboo. Continuing his ferocious verbal assault on hatred, hype, poverty, war, bureaucracy, and addiction in all its forms, Burroughs gives us a surreal space odyssey through the wounded galaxies in a book only he could create.
| Автор | William S. Burroughs |
‘Highly-charged and sensual.’ Santa Montefiore ‘Powerful, beautifully paced, controlled and assured.’ Elizabeth Buchan ‘A ravishing love story, hot-blooded, poignant, filled with yearning.’Joanna Lumley***An older woman. A younger man. A temptation impossible to resist…Wife, mother, friend – Eve Armanton is all of these things. But who is she really? Now her son has left home, Eve no longer recognises the middle-aged woman staring back at her each morning – or the cold, loveless marriage she...
| Автор | Allegra Huston |
‘A beautifully woven page turner’ Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzA gripping and heartwrenching novel of damage and survival, grief and unexpected solace, Marilyn and Me is a fascinating – and timely – insight into an extraordinary time and placeHow do you translate the present, when you can't let go of the past?It is the winter of 1954 and in the rubble-strewn aftermath of the Korean war Marilyn Monroe has come to Seoul to perform to the US soldiers stationed there....
| Автор | Ji-min Lee |
One fateful summer. Four lives changed, forever.‘A modern epic … The Last Romantics is a sweeping look at what binds families together’ GlamourWe thought we’d always be there for each other.We were wrong.For the Skinners, their lives divide into two parts: before that heady summer – of unsupervised youth, family crisis and unavoidable tragedy – and after. But mainly after.The events of that childhood summer bound the Skinner siblings together fiercely, but the consequences would never be...
| Автор | Tara Conklin |
These best selling romance authors are back with four modern romances!At the Ruthless Billionaire's Command by Carole MortimerGregorio de la Cruz doesn't care if innocent Lia Fairbanks holds him responsible for ruining her life. But he can't get the fiery redhead out of his mind. He won't rest until he has Lia just where he wants her—ready and willing in his bed!The Tycoon's Outrageous Proposal by Miranda LeeAustralian tycoon and international playboy Byron Maddox is...
| Автор | Кэрол Мортимер |
Die Liebe, der manchmal damit verbundene Schmerz, das tragische, tödliche Ende, davon erzählen bekannte Autoren auf lustige, ironische und auch dramatische Weise. Ausgewählte Sprecher, stimmungsvolle Musik und passende Geräusche runden dieses Hörspiel ab und machen es zu einem wahren Hörgenuss.
| Автор | Йозеф Рот |
If you’re into bodybuilding and girls and nutrition (–and girls!) then you’ll love this irreverent take on concepts like ‘How To Handle Your Raging Jealousy’ and ‘Fat: Like The Stuff You Need (As Opposed to the Thing you Think you are.’)
| Автор | Brody McVittie |
Distracted by Her BeautyRuthless property tycoon Jarrett Gaskill will stop at nothing to get what he wants – and High Ridge Hall is next on his list. So he’s shocked to find beautiful Sophia Markham already at the manor, refusing to leave. But Jarrett isn’t giving up easily, one way or another he will seal this deal!Taking Back His BrideJake Larsen never expected to see his estranged wife Ailsa, ever again – let alone find himself snowbound with her. Resisting one another’s burning touch is...
| Автор | Maggie Cox |
#1 New York Times Bestselling AuthorSusan Mallery welcomes you to Happily Inc, where true love isn’t just for fairy tales…‘The perfect feel-good read’ Sarah Morgan on You Say It FirstSilver Tesdal has a head for business and a mouth made for kissing, and banker Drew Lovato has his eye on both. But ever since he was dumb enough to let her go, she’s kept him at a distance. When the bank turns her down for a loan, Drew sees a double opportunity—he can finance her brilliant, unique idea to rock...
| Автор | Susan Mallery |
The Man She Could Never Forget by Meredith Webber Returning to Wildfire Island is bittersweet for Nurse Caroline Lockhart. It stopped feeling like home the moment her first love, Keanu Russell, walked out of her life. Keanu can’t change the past, but maybe he can convince her they do have a future…The Nurse Who Stole His Heart by Alison Roberts Leaving Anahera Kopu was the hardest thing Dr Luke Wilson ever did. He was torn by duty and desire, and his decision devastated them both. Now Luke’s...
| Автор | Alison Roberts |
From glittering debauched nights of 1980s Hollywood («Escape from Houdini Mountain») to the festering bowels of New York's Lower East Side («Must Have Been Love»), these 26 mind-bending tales chronicle a young woman's quest for romantic adventure. Infectiously entertaining, Escape from Houdini Mountain is a rollicking ride of a read with resonance.
| Автор | Pleasant Gehman |
Readership includes, but is not limited to: -the GLBT community -readers of Latin-American literature -those diagnosed with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and/or Tourette's Syndrome -urban hipsters
| Автор | Myriam Gurba |