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A life in the spotlight will keep anyone hidden. Julia Pastrana is the singing and dancing marvel from Mexico. She is heralded across nineteenth-century Europe as much for her talent as for her unusual looks. Yet few can see past her freakish appearance to the ambitious woman within. Orphans of the Carnival sweeps us from the music halls of Vienna to an attic in modern-day South London, playing out an epic tale of grit, love, music and the triumph of the human spirit pushed to extremes.
| Автор | Carol Birch |
Now available in eBook. January 1987. Alix Bowen has moved away from London and her old friends Liz and Esther to South Yorkshire. Regularly visiting a serial killer in a high-security prison, her natural curiosity in his motives and character transforms into obsession as she begins to look to the murderer for answers about human nature and herself. Meanwhile, now in their fifties, Liz, Esther and their friends come to question the society they live in more than ever as they navigate life...
| Автор | Margaret Drabble |
Summer in Madison County. Seventeen year old Travis Shelton cannot see a way out of his small town – until he discovers a grove of marijuana in the woods that could make him some serious money. But Travis has stumbled across more than drugs. His discovery is the first unwitting step in a series that will lead him to the back to the savage violence and betrayal lying in the community's history, and to the heart of corruption in its present. Vivid and unsettling, The World Made...
| Автор | Ron Rash |
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2017 BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD FOR POPULAR FICTION Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. From Elizabethan England to Jazz-Age Paris, from New York to the South Seas, Tom has seen a lot, and now craves an ordinary life. Always changing his identity to stay alive, Tom has the perfect cover – working as a history teacher at a London...
| Автор | Мэтт Хейг |
Everyone says that Ese is the most beautiful woman in the region, but a fool. A young widow, she lives in a village, where the crops grow tall and the people are ruled over by a Chief on a white horse. She married for love, but now her husband is dead, leaving her with nothing but a market stall and a young son to feed. When the Chief knocks on Ese's door demanding that she marry again, as the laws of the land dictate she must, Ese is a fool once more. There is a high price for breaking...
| Автор | Odafe Atogun |
NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017: ‘masterly’ GUARDIAN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: 'An absolute tour de force' Fran may be old but she's not going without a fight. So she dyes her hair, enjoys every glass of red wine, drives around the country for her job with a housing charity and lives in an insalubrious tower block that her loved ones disapprove of. And as each of them – her pampered ex Claude, old friend Jo, flamboyant son Christopher and earnest daughter Poppet – seeks...
| Автор | Margaret Drabble |
Anemonen im Wind Um den Geheimnissen ihrer Herkunft nachzuspüren und zu sich selbst zu finden, kehrt die junge Tierärztin Claire in die Wildnis Australiens auf die Farm ihrer Familie zurück. Die Reise in die Vergangenheit konfrontiert sie mit dem bewegten Schicksal ihrer couragierten Mutter Ellie, die auch dann an der Liebe ihres Lebens festhielt, als ihr Verlobter Joe im Zweiten Weltkrieg vermisst wird.
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Wenn einer eine Reise tut Mit der Eisenbahn will Tom Langdon von Washington bis nach Los Angeles fahren, um sein Versprechen bei einer Freundin einzulösen: sie zu Weihnachten zu besuchen. Die Menschen, die er auf seiner Reise trifft, werden sein Leben auf ungeahnte Weise verändern, und als der Zug in den verschneiten Rocky Mountains in einem Schneesturm stecken bleibt, kommt es zu einer dramatischen Entscheidung.
| Автор | Дэвид Болдаччи |
Zubaida is on a journey to unearth the past. It will lead her from the corridors of Harvard to the scorching deserts of Pakistan, and the bones of an ancient whale. It will carry her back to Bangladesh, and the dark horrors of a ship-breaking yard. Here – deep inside a beached ocean liner, steeped in mystery and tragedy – lies the key to her story. And a lifeline to the man she loves, but whose heart she may never win back. Echoing with loneliness and longing, The Bones of Grace is a story of...
| Автор | Tahmima Anam |
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Lost in Portugal. Lost to grief. With nothing but a chimpanzee. A man thrown backwards by heartbreak goes in search of an artefact that could unsettle history. A woman carries her husband to a doctor in a suitcase. A Canadian senator begins a new life, in a new country, in the company of a chimp called Odo. From these stories of journeying, of loss and faith, Yann Martel makes a novel unlike any other: moving, profound and magical. A New York Times...
| Автор | Янн Мартел |
SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD Dr James Darke has expelled himself from the world. He writes compulsively in his 'coming of old age' journal; he eats little, drinks and smokes a lot; he tries to console himself with the wisdom of the great thinkers and poets, yet finds nothing but disappointment. But cracks of light start to appear in his carefully managed darkness – the tender, bruised filaments of love for his daughter and grandson. With scalding...
| Автор | Rick Gekoski |
Murdo, a teenager obsessed with music, dreams of a life beyond his Scottish island home. His dad Tom has recently lost his wife and stumbles towards the future, terrified of losing control of what remains of his family life Both are in search of something as they set out on an expedition into the American South. As they travel they encounter a new world and we discover whether the hopes of youth can conquer the fears of age. Dirt Road is a major novel exploring the brevity of life, the...
| Автор | James Kelman |
Now available in eBook. 1979. Three old Cambridge friends are brought together at a party to celebrate New Year's Eve, and the end of a decade. A portentous moment. A moment to reflect on what had seemed to be – and a moment to prophesy. Esther, Liz and Alix first met in Cambridge in the early fifties, a time when their futures held glittering promise. But with the dawn of the Thatcher era, everything changed. Now middle-aged, how will these confident women cope with the personal and...
| Автор | Margaret Drabble |
Geschäftsführer Rauno Rämekorpi feiert seinen sechzigsten Geburtstag. Gratulanten gibt es viele, und so häufen sich Blumensträuße und Geschenke. Schade nur, dass seine Frau auf Blumen allergisch ist. Die Blütenpracht muss also weg, jedoch keinesfalls auf den Müll! So beginnt Rauno eine Fahrt durch Helsinki, und mit einem Strauß in der Hand stattet er seinen verflossenen Liebschaften einen Besuch ab …
| Автор | Arto Paasilinna |
