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((Vorschau))London, 1984. Winston Smith arbeitet fur den Uberwachungsstaat von Oceania und er hat es satt, standig die Wahrheit zu verdrehen. Als er sich in seine Kollegin Julia verliebt und sie von der Widerstandsbewegung erfahren, wollen sie die Partei gemeinsam sturzen. Doch eine Katastrophe bahnt sich an.1984, einer der prophetischen Romane des 20. Jahrhunderts, pragt unsere Vorstellung von Uberwachung und Unterdruckung bis heute.((ONIX))London, 1984. Winston Smith no longer wants to rewrite history to serve the surveillance state of Oceania. When he falls in love with his colleague Julia, they make contact with an underground organisation and want to put an end to the rigid rule of the Party, as the disaster takes its course.Often regarded as one of the most prophetic novels of the 20th century, 1984 still shapes our thinking about surveillance and oppression.

Altered Carbon and The Wind-Up Girl meet Apocalypse Now when a young lieutenant in Hanois criminal underworld is set against governments and corporations to save her city.Lin The Silent One Vu is a gangster in Chinese-occupied Hanoi, living in the steaming, paranoid alleyways of the 36 Streets. Born in Vietnam, raised in Australia, everywhere she is an outsider.Through grit and courage, Lin has carved a place for herself in the Hanoi underworld under the tutelage of Bao Nguyen, who is training her to fight and survive. Because on the streets there are no second chances.Meanwhile the people of Hanoi are succumbing to Fat Victory, an addictive immersive simulation of the US-Vietnam war. When an Englishman one of the games developers comes to Hanoi on the trail of his friends murderer, Lin is drawn into the grand conspiracies of the neon gods: the mega-corporations backed by powerful regimes that seek to control her city.Lin must confront the immutable moral calculus of unjust wars. She must choose: family, country, or gang. Blood, truth, or redemption. No choice is easy on the 36 Streets.

A woman with a successful career in child protection is floored by her husbands sudden death; a retired civil servant smothers his wife, but cant go through with their pact; a teacher fleeing a disastrous school trip finds himself literally in a dark wood.Pascal famously said we shall die alone. But there are always others left behind to grieve, to cheer, to feel guilt, relief or laughter, because we are human, whether we like it or not. In these stories, a dozen characters find at least a dozen ways to live by facing death their own or that of those they love in familiar worlds shot through with a strange absurdity.A man with cancer is employed to smoke by a character from a novel who may never have existed; an historian finds a love he hopes will last beyond the grave, even if it isnt his; a former judge dispenses justice in a prison camp; a randomly-selected Prime Minister confronts the biggest life-or-death decision she or anyone will ever have to take.A Day Like Any Other explores death natural, assisted, promised and unexpected with compassion, wit, a steady gaze and a desire to confront the challenge we mostly prefer to avoid: why live at all? It is the perfect collection for anyone whos going to die one day.

A vida dela é perfeita... mas tudo não passa de uma mentira.Com milhões de seguidores e um feed impecável, Madison March é a tradwife mais adorada das redes sociais. Ela passa os dias assando pães de

A novel of identity and resistance from one of Palestines most striking literary voiceswritten entirely from behind bars Nur, a Palestinian refugee from a camp near Ramallah, is often mistaken for an Ashkenazi Jew. Fluent in Hebrew and with a degree in archaeology, he dreams of freedom beyond the fence, and of writing a novel about Mary Magdalene based on the Gnostic Gospels. When he discovers an Israeli ID card in the pocket of a secondhand coat, he assumes a false identity and is hired for an archaeological dig near Megiddo. Passing as an Israeli, he moves through a world previously off-limits and gains insight into the lives of those hes been taught to perceive as enemies. As Nurs borrowed identity deepens, so does the rift within. Through an exploration of this internal conflict, Basim Khandaqjis Arabic Booker-winning novel offers a meditation on the personal toll of occupation and the elusive desire to belongfully, honestly, and without fear.

A Scots Quair is revolutionary - innovative in its form, deft and humorous in its use of the Scots language, courageous in its characterisation and politics. Central to the trilogy is Chris Guthrie, one of the most remarkable female characters in modern literature. In Sunset song, Gibbons finest achievement, the reader follows Chris through her girlhood in a tight-knit Scottish farming community: the seasons, the weddings, the funerals, the grind of work, the gossip. As the Great War takes its toll, machines repalce the old way of life. Cloud Howe and Grey Granite take Chris from her rural homeland to life in an industrial Scotland and the desperate years of the Depression. The triology as a whole is a major achievment, a picture of society undergoing traumatic and far-reaching transformation. Always readable, never sentimental, A Scots Quair is one of the most important works of Scottish literature.

"And I struggle to find my place in this dark novel. I yearn for passion and despair for that is what makes good literature while Ishwari seeks a life of joy for herself and her son."A powerful novel from the author of Panty about a woman who runs away from home, seeking to free herself from the shackles of society and familial attachments, and instead devote her attentions to writing a novel. When she realises that her five year old son Roo has followed her, Ishwari struggles with her identity as a mother and the responsibilities that brings, versus the guilty knowledge that she cannot want her own child when his existence requires her to suppress her own dreams.Ishwari and Roo wander the streets at night, looking for a place to stay, until an elderly caretaker takes pity on them and offers them an empty room on the terrace of a guest house. Ishwari gets work as a caregiver to the handsome gentleman who lives next door, while Roo, who is lame, spends all day locked up in the room on the roof. Pulsating with raw energy, Abandon gives voice to the perpetual conflict between life and art.

AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOWPoignant and tender. FERDIA LENNONA dynamic voice. IRENOSEN OKOJIELushly written and formally audacious . . . moving. NICOLAS PADAMSEEThis is the story of one mans weekend, a weekend in which everything could changeThese lines could change everything /He sips more of his tinny / Imagines a new lifeAidys just punched a co-worker, but he hasnt got time to deal with the fallout. With a deadline fast looming he must get home, knuckle down and finish the story hes been working on, a story he hasnt been able to stop thinking about. Its the story of a falling plane and of a grieving mother.Set across one weekend, About to Fall Apart is the exhilarating story of a man of mixed heritage - living on the Irish border - as he tries to stay positive, reconnect with his children and maybe, even, find his own birth mother.

Part sequel, part reimagining, and wholly delightful Jodi PicoultAn absolute delight. Funny, moving and filled with heart Jennie Godfrey, author of The List of Suspicious ThingsIt is a truism, frequently invoked by the members of the Meryton Womens Guild, that one is only ever as happy as ones unhappiest child. So, with five daughters and four grandchildren, it was a miracle Mrs Hester Bennet ever raised a smile. At best, she was only ever tentatively pleased, and even then understood that her contentment rested on the edge of a gaping precipice into which she would inevitably tumble the second Kitty or Lydia (it was almost always those two) messaged in the clutches of yet another existential crisisLydia, home from Paris on New Years Day in a welter of hangover and humiliation, finds herself swearing off drink, drugs and sex for the next 12 months. Through her unfamiliar sobriety, shell see a landmark year for all the Bennet sisters, including a disruptive 40th birthday, an engagement and a funeral: and, maybe, coming to terms with the results of a run-of-the-mill run-in with a jackknifed lorry on a wet stretch of the M1A sharply funny and unexpectedly tender modern sequel to Pride & Prejudice, this is a story of sisterhood, survival, and second chances. For fans of Marian Keyes, Dolly Alderton, and anyone whos ever wondered what the Bennet sisters would be like in the age of therapy, WhatsApp, and wellness trends gone rogue.

Una saga familiar adictiva sobre la herencia, el privilegio de clase y la responsabilidad que ello conlleva en un mundo cambianteLa familia Brooke se reúne durante cuatro días en su mansión inglesa del siglo XVIII para despedir a Philip, el patriarca en torno al cual han orbitado sus vidas. Frannie, la hija mayor y heredera, quiere transformar la propiedad en un refugio natural frente a un mundo en declive. Milo, en cambio, sueña con convertirla en un paraiso new age para superricos, mientras que Isa, la hermana menor, distanciada de Philip durante años, acude al funeral en plena crisis de pareja. Los secretos y sentimientos que afloran esos dias les haran replantearse el papel que hasta ese momento han ocupado en la familia.Albion es una novela luminosa y profundamente contemporanea que indaga en las dinamicas familiares y en las heridas del colonialismo; en ella Anna Hope renueva la clasica novela de casa de campo inglesa y nos habla tambien de las raices del privilegio, de la responsabilidad que este conlleva y de la importancia de los valores que transmitimos a nuestros hijos.Hope aborda algunos de los problemas mas urgentes y complejos a los que se enfrenta el mundo actual y los transforma en un drama familiar fascinante. Jonathan CoeSi Succession y Downton Abbey tuvieran un hijo, seria algo parecido a esta novela. Kirkus ReviewsLa clasica novela de "casa de campo inglesa" reimaginada para nuestros tiempos: un retrato excepcionalmente bien dibujado de una familia en conflicto, que tambien aborda con astucia cuestiones relacionadas con la renaturalizacion, la herencia y el colonialismo. Claire FullerSu mejor obra hasta la fecha. Tiene algo de Retorno a Brideshead y tambien de las memorables Cronicas de los Cazalet, de Elizabeth Jane Howard. John Boyne

After she encounters a poem about love and friendship etched on the Homomonument in Amsterdam, Hélène Giannecchini is moved to attempt to do justice to a form of relation often subordinated to romanc

In 1947 and again in 1971, entire communities in the South Asian subcontinent crossed newly drawn borders, seeking new homes as partitions divided and reshaped nations. Kalyani Thakurs evocative novel tells the story of her people, Dalits of the Matua sect, who settled around a local water body Andhar Bil in a newly formed country. This new bil, reminiscent of the one left behind, becomes a place for the refugees to slowly, painfully, rebuild their lives.Children play in and around the bil, the novels central character, while people catch fish and cook them in ways that recall the flavours of home. Festivals and boat races unfold, jute is harvested and sold, floods push people to higher ground, marriages are arranged, and property disputes arise. The still waters of the bil hold all these stories, while the boroi tree stands in the centre, a silent witness to everything.Woven through this episodic, plotless narrative is the story of Kamalini, a young girl who, one day, will leave her beloved Andhar Bil behind for the city just as her parents generation left their villages and their cherished bil for a new land.

Virginia Woolf escreveu poucos contos, muitos deles meros esboços, exercícios, ensaios de escrita. Mas em alguns estão concentradas características de seus romances mais experimentais: a rejeição do

Diane sempre sonhou com pouco: um marido, dois filhos, um trabalho que lhe fizesse sentido mais do que jamais se permitiu desejar. Mas, no dia em que Seb a deixa, seu mundo desaba. Entorpecida pela dor, ela no percebe o outro silencio que cresce ao seu redor: no quarto em frente, o riso de Lou se apaga.Aos dezesseis anos, Lou sofre o tumulto da adolescencia e o impacto do primeiro amor perdido, uma perda que lhe arranca mais do que lagrimas. Quando Diane finalmente se da conta, esta disposta a tudo para resgatar a filha, mesmo que isso signifique revisitar um passado do qual tentou escapar.Me e filha caminham sobre um fio tenue, entre o que foi e o que pode ser. Sob seus passos, o turbilho da vida ruge, e ameaça arrastar consigo as suas horas mais frageis.

Martim achava que estava no comando de sua vida até ela implodir em suas mãos. Uma traição devastadora o deixou sem emprego, sem amor e sem direção aos vinte e poucos anos. São Paulo, que antes era s

Ella buscaba calma, pero encontró una historia que no podrá olvidar.Un anillo perdido. Un pasado enterrado en una comunidad de vecinos. Un misterio irresistible.Cuando Koldo, una joven embarazada de alto riesgo, se muda a una antigua colonia escondida en el corazon de Madrid, espera tranquilidad. Pero el reposo forzoso pronto se ve truncado. En el patio de su nuevo hogar descubre los ecos de una tragedia olvidada: la violenta muerte de Pascual Silva, un carismatico heredero de una editorial, y la desaparicion de su prometida, junto con un misterioso anillo que nunca volvio a aparecer.Intrigada por la historia y por los silencios de sus nuevos vecinos, Koldo comenzara a indagar entre recuerdos, viejas cartas y secretos que el tiempo creia haber sepultado. Lo que empieza como una distraccion se convierte en una obsesion que la llevara a descubrir que algunos misterios no solo habitan en el pasado sino tambien en quienes los investigan.Con una atmosfera envolvente, personajes llenos de matices y una escritura elegante, Leticia Echavarri firma una novela que combina intriga, memoria y emociones profundas.Ayer en mi patio es una historia sobre lo que permanece oculto, sobre las heridas que dejan los secretos y sobre como el pasado, tarde o temprano, siempre llama a la puerta.

Um advogado nova-iorquino de meados do século XIX resolve contratar um novo copista. Atendendo ao anúncio do advogado, apresenta-se à porta de seu escritório um jovem que ele caracteriza como uma fig

¿Hasta dónde puede llegar la investigación de un crimen?Él solo quería hacer reír. Ella solo quería justicia. Lo que no sabían es que juntos podían incendiar el país.Bécquer es la estrella más famosa de la television. Elena Izaguirre, inspectora de policia e hija de un agente asesinado hace veinte años, lleva toda su vida buscando respuestas que nadie quiere darle.Cuando una tragedia irrumpe en la vida de Becquer, sus caminos se cruzan. Lo que comienza como una alianza improbable entre una estrella mediatica y una policia curtida acaba destapando la verdad detras del crimen que cambio a Elena para siempre.Entre ataques encubiertos, traiciones internas, viajes internacionales y un romance tan inevitable como peligroso, Becquer y Elena se enfrentan al mayor poder del pais: una red de corrupcion que opera en las sombras... y cuyo brazo llega hasta la mismisima embajada española en Paris. Ahora, con su propia vida en juego, solo una cosa esta clara: el humor puede ser un arma... pero la verdad es una bomba.Un thriller frenetico, emocional y adictivo, donde la estrella mas famosa del pais y una inspectora marcada por la tragedia unen fuerzas para desmantelar una red de corrupcion que llega hasta el corazon del Estado.

The greatest tragic love story ever told but this time, Catherine tells it herself. In Catherine, Essie Fox breathes new life into Wuthering Heights, transforming a gothic masterpiece into a haunting confession of obsession, madness and love that even death cannot end.With a nature as wild as the moors she loves to roam, Catherine Earnshaw grows up alongside Heathcliff, a foundling her father rescued from the streets of Liverpool. Their fierce, untamed bond deepens as they grow until Mr Earnshaws death leaves Hindley, Catherines brutal brother, in control and Heathcliff reduced to servitude.Desperate to protect him, Catherine turns to Edgar Linton, the handsome heir to Thrushcross Grange. She believes his wealth might free Heathcliff from cruelty but her choice is fatally misunderstood, and their lives spiral into a storm of passion, jealousy and revenge.Now, eighteen years later, Catherine rises from her grave to tell her story and seek redemption.Essie Foxs Catherine reimagines Wuthering Heights with beauty and intensity a haunting, atmospheric retelling that brings new life to a timeless classic and lays bare the dark heart of an immortal love.

Escape to Avila Falls in this Cozy Second-Chance Romance Jane is a successful ghostwriter living her dream in New York City, collaborating with movie stars and musicians while quietly longing to publish her own novel.But just as her career comes to a crossroads, shes called back to her hometown of Avila Falls, a charming mountain town with a colorful cast of characters, where a chance encounter with her high school crush stirs unexpected questions about her NYC life. These doubts deepen as Jane tries to find her place back in Avila Falls; begins a new project with Liv, a pop star grappling with her own identity; and reconnects with a friend and mentor who runs the local bookstore, And Then There Were Books.Jane begins to see her hometown differently and sparks begin to fly. She questions whether the version of herself shes created is truly who she wants to be. Could the answers shes searching for lie in the very place she once ran from?Chapter One Again is the debut novel from actress Keelia Clarkson. This cozy, clean second chance romance is the perfect read for anyone searching for love, purpose, and a place to call home. Chapter One Again is perfect for readers who love: Cozy fiction and clean romance Charming small-town settings Faith-friendly themes Chapter One Again is the first book in the Avila Falls series. Watch for the sequel, Page Two with You.