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First published in 1945, Animal Farm is one of the most powerful political allegories ever written. What begins as a hopeful rebellion of farm animals against human tyranny gradually transforms into a chilling portrait of corruption, manipulation, and absolute power.Through the rise of the pigs and the transformation of revolutionary ideals into authoritarian control, Orwell exposes how language, propaganda, and fear can reshape truth itself. Beneath its deceptively simple fable lies a razor-sharp critique of totalitarianism, ideological betrayal, and the cyclical nature of oppression.Brilliantly concise and devastatingly clear, Animal Farm remains an essential modern classican enduring warning about power, leadership, and the fragility of equality.

A charming murder mystery from the internationally bestselling author for fans of Richard Osman and Anthony Horowitz, as well as classic tales by Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie_______________The perfect murder mystery JANICE HALLETT, author of The AppealA true delight right up to its clever final reveal PETER SWANSON, author of Kill Your DarlingsOne of the best crime novels Ive read in years! KELLY MULLEN, author of This is Not a Game_______________To catch a killer, one must act the part.Arriving on the Greek island of Utakos, ageing actor Ormond Basil hopes only for a holiday and perhaps finally to shed the mantle of his most famous role: world-renowned sleuth, Sherlock Holmes.But when a body turns up in his hotel, the other guests, accustomed to seeing Ormond as the greatest detective of all time on the silver screen, pressure him to solve the mystery.Yet even with Ormonds encyclopaedic knowledge of plots and killers, this case turns out to be anything but elementary... ___________________Praise for Arturo Perez-ReverteGives murder a touch of classObserverSpains most popular, inventive writer of historical fictionThe Sunday TimesA sophisticated and exciting intellectual gameDaily TelegraphTo read him is to rediscover the delights of Dumas and Conan DoyleThe TimesIts rare a novelist who can create a literary page turner. Perez-Reverte is one of those raritiesDenver Post

A detetive Erika Foster retorna em Vingança letal para enfrentar o mais angustiante caso de sua carreira. Quando Neville Lomas, um influente político, é encontrado morto, nu e amarrado em seu próprio quarto, a Policia Metropolitana tenta encerrar o caso alegando causa natural. Mas Erika percebe que ha algo muito sinistro por tras dessa morte: outros dois assassinatos o de um diretor de elenco e o de uma estrela do futebol revelam a assinatura do mesmo criminoso. As vitimas esto ligadas por detalhes especificos, e as investigaçes apontam para cinco possiveis suspeitas: todas mulheres, todas identicas.Enquanto Erika e sua equipe correm contra o tempo para desvendar pistas, surge uma figura misteriosa: uma mulher que circula pelos bastidores de escandalos e detem informaçes capazes de abalar autoridades influentes. Ate onde iro para proteger seus dominios? E que historia une todas as vitimas? Em um jogo de cameras, mentiras e identidades, Erika precisa montar o quebra-cabeça sem perder o controle. Vingança letal e um thriller eletrizante, repleto de tenso, misterio e suspeitas uma leitura impossivel de largar.

Berthe Morisot è una delle pochissime donne che nell’800 ebbe un considerevole successo a fianco dei bistrattati impressionisti. Soggiogata agli esordi dalla grande personalità di Édouard Manet, ne r

The no.1 icelandic bestseller!So gripping I simply couldnt put it down Eva Björg Ægisdóttir, author of The Creak on the StairsA truly unusual crime novel which kept me reading until the very end... h

Lavvincente storia del dio Rafa-El si svolge sulla traccia narrata dai miti del passato.Leggende sumere, egiziane, greche e americane prendono consistenza: diventano una realta vissuta dove dei e uomini convivono nellEta delloro, sino a quando sconvolgimenti cosmici infrangono ogni equilibrio.Il Diluvio Universale devasta infatti la Terra, travolgendo interi popoli e citta e concludendo LEta delloro.La storia di Rafa-El continua nel secondo libro Guerre di uomini e dei. Gli amori di Rafa-El si intrecciano con conflitti e drammi tra uomini e dei. La storia struggente di Iside e Osiride, la guerra di Troia, il faraone Akhenaton, Mose e lesodo vengono narrati sotto una luce nuova, inattesa. Dopo giochi di potere finiti male, gli dei partono dalla Terra, lasciando cio che avevano costruito ma Rafa-El si ribella e sceglie di restare.La storia di Rafa-El e degli dei termina qui ma e leggenda o realta?

In A State of Siege, Janet Frame brings her signature playfulness to paint a thrilling psychological portrait. After the death of her invalid mother, Malfred Signal, a retired New Zealand art teacher, leaves her birthplace in the south for a beach cottage on a sub-tropical island in the north. Freed from endless lessons on still life and the dominating presence of her family, she hopes at last to be alone with nature and the room two inches behind the eyes. But the solitude she has sought mocks her with echoes of her past, when, one stormy night, an intruder pounds ceaselessly and inexplicably on her door. Propulsive yet poignant, A State of Siege is a mesmerizing exploration of the artistic process, of selfhood and loneliness, and of death and its counterpart: the need to survive, to live.

No it was ordinary, it was all ordinary, the whole morning was ordinary. We had breakfast and we said goodbye.A teenage boy goes missing. Time fractures. His mother will never give up hope.Nick Paynes startling portrait of faith, grief and family opened at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in October 2025.

Praise for The Path of Peace:A formidable achievement Rory StewartThoughtful [and] heartfeltObserverProfound [and] compellingSpectatorA noble endeavourNew StatesmanIn 2021, Anthony Seldon, inspired by a fallen First World War soldier who dreamed of a Via Sacra to commemorate the war dead and stand as a marker for the triumph of peace, set out on a 1,000km walk tracing the historic route of the Western Front. He went on to recount that story in the widely acclaimed The Path of Peace. But there wasnt to be lasting peace, with the continent falling into an even more horrific war two decades later.In The Path of Light, Seldon sets out to walk a new 1,300 km route from the same starting point at Kilometre Zero to Auschwitz, discovering in the towns and villages through which he walks stories of women and men who bravely protected the vulnerable and stood up to evil in the face of unimaginable brutality during the Second World War.As he ruminates on these figures of light, whose uplifting stories he encounters along his path, a pattern begins to emerge about how we can draw on their lives to build a better and more peaceful world, never more needed than now, with the ominous and increasing drumbeat of belligerence globally that month by month is the constant backdrop of his walk between 2023 and 2025. It proved a harder book to write than The Path of Peace. But it was a project he knew he had to complete, whatever the cost.

Luminous... a vibrant portrait of African-American life at the nations crossroadsNew York Times Book ReviewA rousing, inspired work, keenly observed and soulful... the novel sparkles with life, soaring with the loose flow of a jazzy improvisationBoston GlobeAmerigo Jones grows up poor but surrounded by love in Jazz Age Kansas City. A precocious young dreamer, he longs for the college education that his parents could not have.But as Amerigo begins to venture further away from his doting mother and father, he encounters a world marred by prejudice, where amid the bustle and the beauty, violence and injustice stalk the streets.Such Sweet Thunder is a majestic and unforgettable childs-eye-view of Jim Crow America from a powerful chronicler of American family life.Amerigo Jones grows up poor but surrounded by love in Jazz Age Kansas City. A precocious young dreamer, he longs for the college education that his parents could not have. But as Amerigo begins to venture further away from his doting mother and father, he encounters a world marred by prejudice, where amid the bustle and the beauty, violence and injustice stalk the streets. Such Sweet Thunder is a majestic and unforgettable childs-eye-view of Jim Crow America from a powerful chronicler of American family life.

Jatgeir has come from Vaim to the big city, Bjrgvin, on his wooden boat, Eline, named after the long-lost love of his teenage years. He intends to buy a needle and thread to sew a button but he is cheated, twice. That night, while sleeping on his boat, he hears a familiar voice: unexpectedly, it is Eline, who wants to come home to Vaim with him. She leaves a note for her husband Frank, packs her bags and runs away while he is out fishing. Vaim, Jon Fosses first novel since he received the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature, is the story of this triangle, a novel about little boats and big boats, love and death, passive men and an incredibly determined woman. And all, of course, was strange

ELA ACHOU QUE LHE TINHA ESCAPADO …ATÉ ELE PEDIR A SUA FILHA EM CASAMENTO.«Há alguém que quero que conheçam», diz a minha filha, enquanto um homem se aproxima e fica ao seu lado. É alto, tem o cabelo

Grace tem o emprego perfeito, um escritório com uma vista fantástica, um ótimo salário e tudo aquilo com que sempre sonhou... Só há um pequeno detalhe que pode estragar tudo: envolver-se com o seu chefe. Gabriel Ferrara e alto, bonito e, na maior parte dos dias, Grace desejaria espetar os proprios olhos com um lapis para no ficar hipnotizada pela sua perfeiço.Como e que uma mulher consegue trabalhar ao lado de um homem assim e no se apaixonar perdidamente e um misterio. Mas quando ele abre a boca, ela lembra-se exatamente do porque de a sua obsesso ser impossivel de ser correspondida. Gabriel e autoritario, sarcastico e possui um humor to afiado que poderia cortar vidro.Todos os fins de semana so iguais Enquanto ele vive uma vida de luxo, ela conta os dias ate segunda-feira, quando o vera novamente. Mas Grace ja no aguenta ser apenas a organizadora da vida dele. Determinada a encontrar a sua propria felicidade, decide entregar a demisso.Furioso, Gabriel recusa e explode como nunca antes. Desesperado por mante-la, oferece-lhe algo inesperado: um bonus um bonus que ela nunca imaginou.Agora, finalmente, e a vez de Grace assumir o controlo da sua vida e do jogo. Afinal... a vida e demasiado curta para no arriscar conquistar aquilo que queremos.N.º 1 EM PORTUGALO BESTSELLER MUNDIALDEIXASTE-ME SEM PALAVRAS,MAS DE UM MODO BOM.TENS ESSE PODER SOBRE MIM.

The next novella in the New York Times bestselling Sworn Soldier series, featuring Alex Easton investigating the dark, mysterious depths of a coal mine in America, from Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author T. Kingfisher. Perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Stephen Graham Jones.Alex Easton does not want to visit America.They particularly do not want to visit an abandoned coal mine in West Virginia with a reputation for being haunted.But when their old friend Dr. Denton summons them to help find his lost cousinwho went missing in that very minewell, sometimes a sworn soldier has to do what a sworn soldier has to do...

It wasnt just cats on the prowl. There were other animals that seemed too exotic or dangerous to go unnoticed and some were not simply surviving but thriving. Mammals such as the wild boar, once driven to extinction but now reestablished following escapes and illegal releases; a colony of yellow-tailed scorpions that have scuttled since Victorian times; wallabies, as far away from their native range as they could possibly get, bouncing around dale and moor How exciting would it be to go and try to see some of them for myself?Many are unaware that scorpions, Aesculapian snakes, eagle owls, wallabies and many more unusual non-native species are living and breeding in the British Isles but here they are.In An Unnatural History of Britain nature writer Kevin Parr travels the length and breadth of the country seeking out these rare creatures and exploring the myths and folklore that have emerged around them along the way.

The Sunday Times Thriller of the MonthBirds, Strangers and Psychos is a thrilling anthology that brings together the biggest names in mystery and crime fiction to pay homage to Alfred Hitchcock, the legendary filmmaker whose name is synonymous with suspense. Acclaimed editor Maxim Jakubowski curates 24 original short stories, each inspired by the mood, tension, and style that defined Hitchcocks groundbreaking work. This anthology invites both emerging and established voices to reimagine the chilling atmospheres, twisted plots, and unforgettable characters of Hitchcocks films, from Psycho and Vertigo to North by Northwest and The Birds.Each author takes on the challenge of evoking the quintessentially Hitchcockian elements that have captivated audiences for decades: ordinary lives interrupted by peril, psychological duels, and unexpected encounters that spiral into nightmares. The volume showcases an extraordinary blend of talent, including Lee Child, Denise Mina, Sophie Hannah, Vaseem Khan, MW Craven, Jeff Noon and S. A. Cosby and many more!Just as Hitchcock adapted stories from literary giants like Daphne du Maurier, Patricia Highsmith, and Roald Dahl, Birds, Strangers and Psychos unites todays literary stars to craft new suspenseful tales that are destined to thrill, haunt, and unsettle. This volume is not just a collection of stories its an invitation to rediscover the artistry of suspense.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO AWARD 2026Readers are falling hard for Cursed Daughters...ABSOLUTELY RIVETING!!Will hook you from start to finish... I read in two days!Oh my gosh this book is so good!I cannot express how much I adored this book - like truly, madly, deeply adored itNo man will call your house his home. And if they try, they will not have peace... So goes the family curse, handed down from generation to generation, ruining families and breaking hearts as it goes. And now its calm, rational Eniiyis turn - who, due to her uncanny resemblance to her dead aunt, Monife, and her familys insistence that she must be a reincarnation, has long been used to some strange familial beliefs. Still, when she falls in love with the handsome boy she saves from drowning, she can no longer run from her familys history. Is she destined to live out the habitual story of love and heartbreak, or can she escape the family curse and the mysterious fate that befell her aunt?A haunting, twisty tale of curses and romance Ayobami AdebayoA sweeping love story... I lost myself within its gorgeous pages Jennie GodfreyFunny and fearless, soaked in secrets, spirit, heartbreak, and love... Impossible to put down Abi Dare

One Sunday in Yvetot, August 1950. Annie is playing outside in the sun. Her mother steps out of the grocery to chat with a customer, a few metres from her. The two womens conversation is perfectly audible; its scraps become etched forever in Annies memory. Before she was born, her parents had another daughter. She died at the age of six from diphtheria. Annie will never hear another word from her parents about this unknown sister, nor will she ask them a single question about her: their family unit has formed in the image of its vanished predecessor. In The Other Girl, brilliantly translated for the first time into English by Alison L. Strayer, Annie Ernaux explores the meaning of this family secret, and the insurmountable distance that separates the two sisters.

#1 New York Times bestselling author pulls from Slavic folklore to explore family, duty, and what it means to be a monster in this sequel to the USA Today bestselling When Among CrowsA funeral. A heist. A mission born of desperation.When someone in Dymitrs family dies, hes called back home for the Empty Night, a funeral rite intended to keep evil at bay.The secret Dymitr is keeping from them makes returning home downright dangerous, but if he wants to get his hands on a book of curses that might appease Baba Jagas blood lust, he has no choice. And when that same funeral brings ferocious creature-of-legend Niko to town for his own bloody purposes, Dymitrs charade becomes impossible to maintain.Family gatherings can be brutal. Dymitrs might just be fatal.

Woody Allens wonderful novel reads like one of his filmsThe TelegraphAs a portrait of Woody Allen by Woody Allen, its a classic The StandardGood gags abound in this tale of a bespectacled Jewish writer caught up in a #MeToo takedownGuardianAsher Baum is quietly losing his mind. Can you blame him?Maybe what I really want is to make sense of all peoples lives. Of everything, the whole shebangA middle-aged Jewish journalist turned novelist and playwright, consumed with anxiety about everything under the sun, Baums turgid philosophical books receive tepid reviews and his prestigious New York publisher has dropped him. His third marriage is on the rocks and he suspects his handsome and successful younger brother may have seduced his Harvard-educated wife. He is uneasy with her close relationship with her son, a more successful author than he, and suspicious of her closeness with their neighbour in Connecticut. And in a moment of irrationality, he has impulsively tried to kiss a pretty young journalist during an interview that she is about to go public with.Is it any wonder Baum has started talking to himself? Strangers shake their heads and walk around him on the street. Meanwhile he learns a startling secret that could cause havoc should he expose it. Should he keep it to himself or reveal it and blow up his marriage?Whats with Baum? is Woody Allens first novel and it is everything you would expect of him--and more. A portrait of an intellectual crippled by neurotic concerns about the futility and emptiness of life; an amusing glimpse into the New York publishing establishment; above all, a highly entertaining, tightly plotted, beautifully wrought piece of fiction from one of Americas greatest and most versatile cinematic and literary talents.