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Ci sono incontri che ti cambiano per sempre. E mostri che si nutrono delle tue paure piu profonde.Per Glyndon King, erede di una delle famiglie piu influenti della Gran Bretagna, larte e una valvola di sfogo dietro alla quale cela un dolore che la sta consumando.Una notte, sul bordo di una scogliera battuta dal vento, incontra Killian Carson. Studente di medicina dallaspetto angelico e dallanima demoniaca, Killian vede in lei qualcosa che nessun altro ha mai notato: unoscurita che rispecchia la sua.Con la freddezza di un predatore e la precisione di un chirurgo, Killian si insinua nella vita di Glyndon, dando inizio a unossessione reciproca. Lui e determinato a possederla completamente. Lei e incapace di resistere al richiamo dellabisso che Killian rappresenta.In un pericoloso gioco di potere e sottomissione, entrambi scopriranno che le cicatrici piu profonde sono quelle invisibili e che, a volte, e proprio nella totale oscurita che si puo trovare la luce piu accecante.Avvertenze:God of Malice, primo romanzo della serie Legacy of Gods,contiene scene di sesso non consensuale, altre dove il consenso e dubbio e rappresentazione di pensieri suicidi.

No Japão do final da era Meiji, a jovem Hana é criada numa família aristocrática tradicional, educada para ser a esposa perfeita e preservar os costumes dos seus antepassados. Porém, ao casar-se com

UM DOS MELHORES THRILLERS DE SEMPRE LESLIE WOLFE ESTÁ DE REGRESSO COM UM THRILLER INTENSO, IMPREGNADO DE UMA ATMOSFERA DE PARANOIA CRESCENTE, ONDE NADA É O QUE PARECE...Costumava acreditar que tinha a vida perfeita: um marido amoroso, uma carreira brilhante e uma casa de sonho entre montanhas e pinheiros. Mas tudo começou a ruir quando descobri que o meu marido me estava a trair. E ento vieram os sinais... sombras a espreita, o som de passos atras de mim, a sensaço de estar a ser seguida... estarei a enlouquecer?ACORDO NO HOSPITAL E NO CONSIGO LEMBRAR-ME DE NADA.Os medicos dizem que me atacaram. A policia faz-me imensas perguntas e eu no sei como responder. Acho que no acreditam em mim, especialmente porque no consigo explicar como e que encontraram uma mulher morta em minha casa.TUDO O QUE SEI E QUE HA UMA VOZ NA MINHA CABEÇA A DIZER-ME QUE ESTOU EM PERIGO.Cada rosto ao meu redor esconde algo, cada sussurro carrega segredos. Fragmentos de memoria voltam como relampagos um aviso, alguem a observar-me, a perseguir-me, um perigo mais proximo do que jamais imaginei. No sei em quem posso confiar, mas sei que preciso de escapar, e que tenho de fazer tudo o que for preciso para sobreviver.

O QUE FARIAS SE DESCOBRISSESQUE O TEU DESTINO JÁ TINHA SIDO TRAÇADOPOR OUTRAS MÃOS?«UM ROMANCE ARREBATADOR,INTENSO E APAIXONADO»ELE SEMPRE QUIS TER TUDO SOB CONTROLO. ELA CHEGOU PARA ABALAR O MUNDO D

«Uma das grandes contadorasde histórias da atualidade.»Natalie Jenner«Um retrato do Vietname do século xxatravés de uma saga familiar.Um extraordinário livro.»Leonídio Paulo Ferreira, Diário de Notíc

In the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Published originally in the Kannada language between 1990 and 2023, praised for their dry and gentle humour, these portraits of family and community tensions have garnered both censure from conservative quarters as well Indias most prestigious literary awards. This is a collection sure to be read for years to come.

Victoria Barnett tem tudo: uma carreira de sucesso como enfermeira, um marido bonito e carinhoso, uma bela casa nos subúrbios e um plano para a preencher com filhos. É a vida perfeita, ou, pelo menos, parece ser.Ate que, uma noite, Victoria e levada de urgencia para o hospital apos um grave acidente. Ela sobrevive, mas sofre uma leso cerebral traumatica que a deixa incapaz de andar ou falar. Presa no seu proprio corpo, incapaz de comunicar e de contar algo que ninguem sabe e que ela descobriu antes do acidente. Algo que, se fosse revelado, mudaria tudo.Quando Sylvia Robinson e contratada como sua enfermeira particular, ve a oportunidade como um verdadeiro golpe de sorte. Um emprego bem remunerado, uma casa luxuosa para trabalhar e um patro, Adam Barnett, que parece ser o marido perfeito, sempre atencioso e preocupado com a esposa.Porem, conforme os dias passam, Sylvia começa a perceber que ha algo errado naquela casa. A manso isolada parece esconder segredos, e o comportamento erratico de Adam levanta suspeitas. Mas o que realmente a intriga so os olhos de Victoria eles esto sempre a tentar dizer-lhe algo.Presa entre o silencio de Victoria e as palavras encantadoras de Adam, Sylvia precisa de descobrir a verdade antes que seja demasiado tarde.FREIDA McFADDEN E A AUTORA MAIS VENDIDA DO ANO E O MAIOR SUCESSO EDITORIAL DOS ULTIMOS TEMPOS EM PORTUGAL

In a world where words are power, there is nothing more dangerous than an unnamed thing.Enter an epic world of ghosts and monsters, magical trains and nameless wonders in this gorgeous lyrical fantasy, perfect for fans of Susanna Clarke, The Starless Sea and the films of Guillermo del Toro. When something fell from the something tree, all the words went away. And the world changed.Monsters slipped from dreams. The land began to shift and ghosts wandered the world in trances. Only with the rise of the named and their committeesMaps, Ghosts, Dreams, and Namescould humanity stand against the terrors of the nameless wilds. Now, they build borders, shackle ghosts and hunt monsters. The nameless are to be fought, and feared.One unnamed courier of the names committee travels aboard the Number Twelve train, assigning names to the people and things that need them. Her position on the train grants her safety in a world that otherwise fears her. But when she accidentally pulls a monster from a dream, and attacks by the nameless rock the Number Twelve, she is forced to flee. Accompanied by a patchwork ghost, a fretful monster, and a nameless animal who prowls the borders between realities, she sets out to look for her long-lost sister.Her search for the truth of her own life opens the door to a revolutionary futurefor the words she carries will reshape the world.At once a love letter to the power of language and an exploration of its limits, The Naming Song is the perfect fantasy for anyone whos ever dreamed of a stranger, freer, more magical world.

Bárbara e Rita são amigas desde sempre. Bárbara vive um caso com Filipe, que começou como um simples passatempo, mas que se transformou numa história de amor quase perfeita. Já Rita, por mais que ten

A fearsomely dark, incantatory new dystopia set in a post-apocalyptic convent from the author of viral sensation Tender is the FleshBarbaric, brutal and utterly beautiful. The Unworthy is a searing haunt of a novel that I will never forget LUCY ROSE, AUTHOR OF THE LAMBIn the House of the Sacred Sisterhood, the unworthy live in fear of the Superior Sisters whip. Seething with resentment, they plot against each other and await who will ascend to the level of the Enlightened - and who will suffer the next exemplary punishment.Risking her life, one of the unworthy keeps a diary in secret. Slowly, memories surface from a time before the world collapsed, before the Sacred Sisterhood became the only refuge.Then Lucia arrives. She, too, is unworthy - but she is different. And her presence brings a single spark of hope to a world of darkness.______________READER REVIEWSAn absolutely haunting read that left me reelingObsessed! Deliciously dark and almost seductiveBazterrica had already pushed the boundaries of dystopian horror with Tender is The Flesh, The Unworthy elevates it even furtherDystopian, sapphic, horrifying and compelling. I couldnt really put it down!OhmyGod. What did I just read? This book is horrifying from the very first page and kept me hooked till the very end

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025.On losing her father, Teresa returns to a small town on the Greek coast the same place she visited when grieving her mother nine years ago. She immerses herself again in the life of the town, observing the inhabitants going about their business, a quiet backdrop for her reckoning with herself. An episode from her first visit resurfaces vividly her encounter with John, a man struggling to come to terms with the violent death of his nephew. Soon Teresa encounters some of the people she met last time around: Petros, an eccentric mechanic, whose life story may or may not be part of Johns; the beautiful Niko, a diving instructor; and Xanthe, a waitress in one of the cafes on the leafy town square. They talk about their longings, regrets, the passing of time, their sense of who they are. Artfully constructed, absorbing and insightful, One Boat is a brilliant novel grappling with questions of identity, free will, guilt and responsibility.

It is a work of satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the period. Much of Dickens ire is focused upon the institutions of debtors prisonsin which people who owed money were imprisoned, unable to work, until they have repaid their debts. The representative prison in this case is the Marshalsea where the authors own father had been imprisoned. Most of Dickens other critiques in this particular novel concern the social safety net: industry and the treatment and safety of workers; the bureaucracy of the British Treasury (as figured in the fictional "Circumlocution Office"); and the separation of people based on the lack of interaction between the classes.

The deaths of a series of young Eastern European women in Glasgow leads to a stately home in the Scottish countryside, and back to the Second World War, where a group of young soldiers made their own, shocking rules Saltire Prize shortlisted author David F. Ross returns with an extraordinary, dark mystery first in a new series.`A thoroughly researched and well imagined historical mystery with echoes of David Peace Guardian`A novel of real ambition and verve ranges from wartime Italy to sixties Glasgow to explore the pasts dark hold upon the present. Harrowing and compelling in equal measure, this is David F. Ross at the top of his game Liam McIlvanney`A masterpiece from one of Glasgows finest authors epic in scale but told through the deeply personal accounts of its luckless, damaged characters. Told with a wit as sharp as any razor Callum McSorley`Righteous anger drives us through the narrative at a ferocious rate All of Rosss novels so far have been accomplished works, but The Weekenders is certainly one of the most compelling, with the dynamism of a thriller and the power of a stirring sermon Herald Scotland__________Glasgow, 1966: Stevie Minto Milloy, former star footballer-turned-rookie reporter, finds himself trailing the story of a young Eastern European student whose body has been found on remote moorland outside the city. How did she get there from her hostel at the Sovereign Grace Mission, and why does Stevie find obstacles at every turn?Italy, 1943: As the Allies fight Mussolinis troops, a group of young soldiers are separated from their platoon, and Glaswegian Jamesie Campbell, his newfound friend Michael McTavish at his side, finds himself free to make his own rulesGlasgow, 1969: Courtroom sketch artist Donald Doodle Malpas is shocked to discover that his new case involves the murder of a teenage Lithuanian girl he knows from the Sovereign Grace Mission. Why hasnt the girls death been reported? And why is a young police constable suddenly so keen to join the mission?No one seems willing to join the dots between the two cases, and how they link to Raskine House, the stately home in the Scottish countryside with a dark history and even darker present the venue for the debauched parties held there by the rich and powerful of the city who call themselves The Weekenders.Painting a picture of a 1960s Glasgow in the throes of a permissive society, pulled apart by religion, corruption, and a murderous Bible John stalking the streets, The Weekenders is a snapshot of an era of turmoil and a terrifying insight into the mind of a ruthless criminal__________`An alchemical epic that flies through decades while managing to remain deeply grounded in real lives and the battle for truth. Bravo! Ewan Morrison`This fiction is furious. David F. Ross goes deep and dark, in an attempt to understand the criminal mind [and] writes with a righteous anger as he examines the evil that men do Alistair Braidwood, Scots Whay Hae`David Ross has a seemingly natural gift for pungently memorable phrasing and dialogue that feels youre listening in rather than reading Damian Barr`Stark, uncompromising and gritty, David F. Ross takes us to a dark place that is no easy weekend away Douglas S...

The New York Times-bestselling author concludes the desperate and action-packed saga of the refugee from the future, and the one naval space officer who believes her, trying to avert the apocalypse as all forces turn against them.Earth was destroyed on June 12, 2180. Lieutenant Selene Genji watched it happen. And only she can prevent it.Thrown forty years into the past, into a time before the Universal War began, Genji can only guess what to do to change the events that led to the death of all humanity. She has no way of knowing the long-term impacts of her actions and can only depend on her instincts.But many of the people Genjis trying to save want her dead. Her creation was an experiment: a fusing of human and alien DNA. To them, shes a monster who cant be trusted, a tool of the aliens who have just made first contact.Fortunately, she has an unshakable ally in Lieutenant Kayl Owen, who has risked everything to help her mission. Declared a traitor to humanity by Earth Guard, Owen is determined to help Genji save the Earth.Even if he dies trying.

Millennial expat couple Anna and Tom are living the dream in Berlin, in a bright, affordable, plant-filled apartment. Their life as young digital creatives revolves around slow cooking, Danish furniture, sexual experimentation and the citys twenty-four-hour party scene an ideal existence shared by an entire generation and tantalizingly lived out on social media. But beyond the images, dissatisfaction and ennui burgeon. Work becomes repetitive. Friends move back home, have children, grow up. Frustrated that their progressive politics amount to little more in practice than boycotting Uber, tipping in cash, or never eating tuna, Anna and Tom make a fruitless attempt at political activism. Feeling increasingly trapped in their picture-perfect life, the couple takes ever more radical steps in the pursuit of an authenticity and a sense of purpose perennially beyond their grasp. Superbly translated by Sophie Hughes, Vincenzo Latronicos Perfection is a taut, spare sociological novel about the emptiness of contemporary existence, scathing and brilliantly affecting.

A great book, an important book that will start a discussion that needs to be hadmy heart was in my mouthMarian KeyesExhilarating, viscerally thrilling and SO timely - an ambitious dark comedy that really delivers. Hugely smart, with so much emotional depth and resonanceDaisy BuchananSharp, dark and outrageously funny,Marianne LevyThis is an honest, funny, devastating and timely bookJenny ColganDont Make Me Laugh balances anger and humour with the deftest of touches. It is a story about power and control and manipulation, about gendered roles in both the workplace and our personal lives, and about how women are set up in competition with each other. And ultimately satisfyingly its a story about fighting back.

The young women studying at the Grimaldi yearn for new kinds of life. Monitored by the nuns who run the college, eight of them form a close group, sharing confidences and hopes for the future. But each, too, has her private secrets - a child from an early love affair, frustrated artistic ambitions, burning desires and petty jealousies. With the passing months, their paths begin to diverge, as each woman struggles towards her own idea of freedom.A virtuosic group portrait, Theres No Turning Back broke radical new ground in representing modern womens lives when it first appeared in 1938, facing immediate censorship by the Fascist authorities. Published in a new translation by the acclaimed Ann Goldstein, it is a powerfully moving story of women coming of age in a turbulent world.

A blistering mystery. With I Dreamed of Falling, Julia Dahl proves shes simply one of the best thriller writers working today Gillian FlynnA riveting crime novel Vivid and haunting and not to be missed Megan AbbottRoman Grady is the sole reporter for the local newspaper in a tiny Hudson Valley town a town so small that every store opening is considered newsworthy. But when Romans longtime girlfriend Ashley, the mother of his four-year-old son, is found dead, he realises he had no idea what was really going on in her life.And when he starts asking questions, hes not prepared for the answers.What was Ashley doing at the cliffside home of her troubled ex-girlfriend? How did no one in a house full of people see what happened to her? And why does it seem like everyone in town suddenly has something to hide? As Roman and his mother dig into Ashleys last few months, the truths they uncover threaten to expose painful secrets. The kind of secrets that can get you killed.

A captivating dark gothic fantasy set in the same universe as the award-winning authors All The Murmuring Bones, The Path of Thorns and The Briar Book of the Dead. A tale of vampires, assassins, ancient witches and broken promises, perfect for readers of Alix E. Harrow, Hannah Whitten and Alexis Henderson.Violet Zennor has had a peculiar upbringing. Training as a fighter in underground arenas, honing her skills against the worst scum, murderers and thieves her father could pit her against, she has learned to be ruthless. To kill.Until the day Hedrek Zennor dies. Violet thinks shes free a rich young heiress with a world of possibilities in front of her. Then, to her horror, Violet learns that her father planned to send her into the Darklands, where the Leech Lords reign. Where Violets still-born brother was taken years ago after Hedrek sold him to a man bearing the mark of the mysterious Anchorhold.Her fathers solicitor and the citys bishop are insistent she fulfil her duty, but Violet steadfastly refuses. Until one night two assassins attempt to slaughter her and it becomes clear: if she wants to enjoy a future free of the interference of either solicitors, bishops or assassins, shes going to have to clean up the mess her father made.On her journey, Violet seeks the help of Miren OMalley in the hidden estate of Blackwater, whose family once produced the purest, strangest silver; Ellie Briar of Silverton, the Briar Witch who guards the gateway to the realm of the Leech Lords; and Asher Todd of Whitebarrow, who did terrible things and found The Three Who Went Beneath.Ultimately, Violet must go alone. Into the Darklands. To the Anchorhold where it all began. Where it will all end. To do what must be done.By turns gripping and bewitching, sharp and audacious, this mesmerising story takes you on a journey into the dark heart of Slatters sinister and compelling fantasy world, where blood is currency and magic is a weapon.

A fierce story about friendship and competition set among Londons forgotten girl gangs for fans of The Girls by Emma Cline_______________________CompellingTHE SUNDAY TIMESThe Kings Heads postwar era is clearly defined. But the questions it asks are eternalOBSERVERA glorious tale of female friendship and rivalryLUCIE McKNIGHT HARDYWonderfully vivid, powerful and compellingJOSEPH OCONNORA startling new talentPETER JAMES_______________________ We never ran the place on paper, but we had reigned here as Kings, reigned over the world we created for ourselves.1957, London. A gang of girls called the Kings rule the bomb-struck streets of Finsbury Park. When Harry, their unpredictable but charismatic leader, tries to encroach on the territory of the rival Seven Sisters gang, the Kings know theyre in for a fight.Armed with flick knives and fists, they do battle in dancehalls and on football fields. But with the authorities closing in and conscripted boys threatening to reclaim what was once theirs, the Kings must ask if theyre willing to pay the price of loyalty... __________________________Readers are loving The Kings HeadFresh and exhilaratingThrilling from start to finishThe characters jumped off the pageI would definitely recommendLooking forward to reading more from Kelly Frost