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'My heart broke a little bit for Lani and Leon. He Is Mine and I Have No Other vividly calls up the atmosphere of small-town life. Eerie, tender and wonderful' Sophie Mackintosh, author of The Water Cure Shortlisted for the Kate O'Brien Award In 1990s small-town Ireland, fifteen-year-old Lani Devine falls in love with Leon Brady, whose mother is buried in the cemetery next to Lani’s house. Quiet and strange, Leon is haunted by a brutal family tragedy that has left scars...
| Автор | Rebecca O'Connor |
WINNER OF THE CWA SILVER DAGGER 'In a class of his own' Guardian 'Reads like a breathless scalpel through the bloody heart of a great city' Denise Mina Eck Adamson, an alcoholic vagrant, summons Jack Laidlaw to his deathbed. Probably the only policeman in Glasgow who would bother to respond, Laidlaw sees in Eck's cryptic last message a clue to the murder of a gangland thug and the disappearance of a student. With stubborn integrity, Laidlaw tracks a seam of...
| Автор | William McIlvanney |
Can murder and mercy go hand in hand? In The Grand Hotel, a homeless woman charms a businessman into paying for dinner and a room. When his dead body is discovered the following morning she becomes the prime suspect. When a second person is killed in similar circumstances, Sybilla, having left her comfortable middle-class upbringing for the anonymity of the streets, becomes the most wanted person in Sweden . . . Missing is a gripping, multi-faceted thriller; more than a murder-hunt, it is also...
| Автор | Karin Alvtegen |
FROM THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Philip Noble is an eleven-year-old in crisis. His pub landlord father has died in a road accident, and his mother is succumbing to the greasy charms of her dead husband's brother, Uncle Alan. The remaining certainties of Philip's life crumble away when his father's ghost appears in the pub and declares Uncle Alan murdered him. Arming himself with weapons from the school chemistry cupboard, Philip vows to carry out the...
| Автор | Мэтт Хейг |
The Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller A Guardian literary highlight for 2015 A Huffington Post 'One to Watch' in 2015 'Astounding' LENA DUNHAM, creator of Girls and author of Not That Kind of Girl 'The First Bad Man brings together all of July's talents – it's a book that must be read, a book that must be purchased – in duplicate – one for you, one for a friend. Don't think you can loan this book – you'll never get it back' A. M....
| Автор | Миранда Джулай |
Lucy Scott has faced many challenges in her life, but the one that surfaces on her eighty-fifth birthday may be the greatest of all. As she looks to her future as an independent, energetic woman, her son and daughter take a very different view. With the support of friends and her most meaningful relationships, Lucy must forge a new way forward.
| Автор | Alan Sorem |
Ted Peterson, son of former missionaries to Guatemala, returns to that country to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance. Caught up in a culture of violence and deadly secrets, what he learns is as much about himself as his father.
| Автор | Shirley Nelson |
When Apollo Kagwa was just a child, his father disappeared, leaving him with recurring nightmares and a box labelled 'Improbabilia'. Now a successful book dealer, Kagwa has a family of his own after meeting and falling in love with Emma, a librarian. The two marry and have a baby: so far so happy-ever-after. However, as the pair settle into their new lives as parents, exhaustion and anxiety start to take their toll. Emma's behaviour becomes increasingly erratic, until one day she...
| Автор | Victor LaValle |
It is 1953, a heat wave is sweeping across America and the Grossmans – Ben, Addie and their two children – are moving their lives from the political heart of Washington DC to suburban Long Island. With their future uncertain, life in Long Island starts to cause problems for Ben and Addie. Both begin to wonder if they were meant for more, whether their lives might look different than they planned, and whether their marriage – their family – is worth fighting for. A Long Island Story is a portrait...
| Автор | Rick Gekoski |
FROM THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Terence Cave, owner of Cave Antiques, has already experienced the tragedies of his mother's suicide and his wife's murder when his teenage son, Reuben, is killed in a grotesque accident. His remaining child, Bryony, has always been the family's golden girl and Terence comes to realise that his one duty in life is to protect her from the world's malign forces, whatever that may take. But as he starts to follow his...
| Автор | Мэтт Хейг |
'Just *wonderful*. A breath of fresh air in a book. Sal is a story with incredible heart, told so beautifully and with such clarity and grace I can hardly believe it's a debut! I loved it' JOANNA CANNON, author of THE TROUBLE WITH GOATS AND SHEEP AN OBSERVER 'NEW FACE OF FICTION 2018' This is a story of something like survival. Sal planned it for almost a year before they ran. She nicked an Ordnance Survey map from the school library. She bought a compass, a...
| Автор | Mick Kitson |
Jag är en dålig flicka det började. Idén började tråkigt liv jag hade känt från platsen. Jag vill krossa glaset som hängde väders i huset, på gatan och vad alla kan reflekteras olycka är djupt inbäddad i mitt...
| Автор | Pavel Vu Hoai |
Vintage Sterling tells the story of Sterling, a young Mexican American man growing up in the vineyards of Northern California. Talented and ambitious, yet frequently immature and irresponsible, Sterling embarks on a journey of self-discovery and healing as a near-fatal accident forces him to confront his past. Transformed by this journey, Sterling is empowered to look toward the future with a renewed sense of hope and purpose.
| Автор | Charles A. Witschorik |
In This Footstool Earth, the final volume of The Japan Quartet, loose ends knit, recurring characters unspool or coil anew, and, as memories of atrocity thin, fiction's tissue mutates, melding cross-cultural encounters strangely.
| Автор | John Zeugner |
Basically, the book relates to how easily affluent people can be taken advantage of and the steps they take to survive.
| Автор | Glenn MacFarland |
After Elena Ferrante, another powerful Italian voice emerges to tell us a tale of immigration with two strong women characters at its center, set against the background of American history, from the late 60's to 2011.<br><br>This novel provides an interesting commentary on the highlights in history that influenced the development of American society and brought about the current outcome. It includes love, struggle, and social turmoil. <br><br>Amy's Story...
| Автор | Anna Lawton |
Edited and introductions by Roderick Watson. The Quarry Wood, although published well before Sunset Song, inhabits a similar world; the progress of its heroine could almost be the alternative story of a Chris Guthrie who did go to university. Compassionate and humorous, the grace and style of Shepherd’s prose is heightened by a superb ear for the vigorous language of the north-east. The Weatherhouse, Shepherd’s masterpiece, is an even more substantial achievement which belongs to the great...
| Автор | Nan Shepherd |
This collection of the best of Iain Crichton Smith's short fiction brings together not one but many voices, both public and private. Ranging from inner promptings towards self-discovery, through the unconscious comedy of everyday speech, to the rantings of near madness, these stories display the peaks of Smith's wry, surrealistic humour, and his confessional mode in re-telling the past. The longer stories, illustrative of Smith's novels, are represented by 'Murdo' and...
| Автор | Iain Crichton Smith |
My name is John Richard Campbell. I’ve been called Rick all my life. Instead of Ruckus, I named this book Rickus. That was the name of my band, whenever I had one. For you, who choose to read this book, I hope you find it interesting. It contains some events that happened in my life. I would swear in a court of law they are true.
| Автор | Rick Campbell |
I was inspired to write this book because of the injustice the VA has done on veterans. To the VA, we are just a number, and the people who work for the VA ignore our situation. We deserve to be treated as individuals and not as a number.
| Автор | Julio Rodarte |
This is a nonfictional journey through forty years of life, ever-changing memories of life, changing definition of love in family, as we all start from humble beginnings to a peak of possible destination. For the love of humanity sake.
| Автор | Lemon Lane |
Andi Niemand is op die punt om die groot 30 te slaan – en het, so voel dit haar, nog weinig bereik. Wat het van die plan geword om vir Sarie te skryf? Of om haar doelgewig te bereik? En waar is die held wat veronderstel is om aan haar sy te staan? Nee, sy werk nog steeds vir die poniekoerant Pers, is so single as kan kom en kan nie eers van soetgoed wegbly ter wille van haar vriendin se troue nie – die troue waarop sy strooimeisie moet wees. Wanneer Andi die groot scoop kry oor Jack Greeff,...
| Автор | Marida Fitzpatrick |