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An unhappy family returns to Britain from a hot country, filling their suburban house with the glittering hoard they brought back from their exotic sojourn. But the sadness of A, the wife, dulls the shine of their treasure. The house grows quieter, darker. Daughter B learns to hide inside it, in a night-time world whose colours are undimmed by the tense misery of the daytime household. There she sails aquamarine seas on a thistledown boat, ponders the proliferation of dream-tigers, and watches dances and celebrations from the windows of a house whose rooms multiply and change position all the time. As daylight circumstances deteriorate, with her mothers death and Bs departure to boarding school, she becomes determined to take up permanent residence in the house of sleep. But there are night-time institutions determined to control her, and night-time battles to be fought, before she can come home to the dark forever. A kaleidoscopic autobiographical narrative, which speaks the language of childhood dreams which was once known to us all, this is a work of astonishing visual power and devastating loneliness.

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In Hamburgs troubled Wilhelmsburg district, Prosecutor Chastity Riley investigates a brutal double murder amid corruption and gentrification. Battling personal demons and powerful foes, she fights to expose a citys dark secrets.____In Wilhelmsburg, Hamburgs so-called problem area, an American couple is found brutally murdered in a derelict villa.Prosecutor Chastity Riley is assigned the case, and quickly finds herself waist-deep in a murky tangle of city planners, shady investors and vanishing officials. The gentrification machine is rolling on, and someone is sending a very clear message.As November fog settles over the city, Chastity is coughing up blood, her personal life is a slow-motion disaster, and her former colleague, Faller, wont stop interfering. But nothings going to stop her from cutting through the lies not even the sharks circling ever closer.Dark, caustic and piercing, Sharks is a searing investigation into greed, power, and the price of resistance in a city devouring itself, from one of Germanys finest, most original crime writers.______

The Isle of Seven Cities isnt where its supposed to be, it doesnt have seven cities except when it does, and its disorienting even to those who live there. But its also the best lead to how magic came back to the world, so journalists Innis Stuart and Karsten Roth are en route to Seven Cities to dig up the biggest story of their lives.

One of the most brilliant British writers working today.SpectatorWho decides the rules of the games we play?In August 2007, or thereabouts, a young philosopher leaves Oslo, heading for Greece, on a mission to find Theodoros Apostolakis, the head of the Society of Lost Things. Fortunately, Apostolakis isnt lost, but everything else is: ancient libraries, entire civilisations, priceless books and a beautiful box, once used to play the world-famous game of Seven. The hunt for this small thing, among the countless lost things, becomes an absurdist quest through time and space: from the earliest human societies to the advent of AI.Told, shared and mythologised by our narrator, along with a wild cast of dreamers, philosophers, poets, rebels and optimists, Seven is an extraordinary, uplifting journey through an ever darkening world.

Crimea, 1854: Sevastopols inhabitants taunt the besieging forces that keep them trapped behind defensive walls. So begins Leo Tolstoys depiction of nine months of battle and bravery, based on his own experiences in the Crimean War.This new translation by acclaimed translator Nicolas Pasternak Slater introduces us to long-suffering citizens, vain hussars and the courageous Kozeltsov brothers - one jaded and pragmatic soldier, one naive and hungry for glory. Enduringly vivid, profoundly ironic, Tolstoys portrayal of the stumble from triumph to disaster captures the absurdity at the heart of conflict.

Scotland is a land steeped in romance often these stories end happily but, inevitably, they must sometimes end in tragedy too. The tale of love, faith and heartbreak has been told across the ages, a story that humanity never tires of reading. Such timeless magic weaves through the folk tales of this ancient land, now scattered across the pages of this book.Within this collection we learn of love in its many and varied forms; love between two people, between parents and children and between friends and communities. From selkies and fairies to witches, ghosts and even the Devil, these ancient Celtic myths are entwined with Scottish folk tales to bring to life experiences of doomed love, cursed love and love foretold by dreams. These tales have been carefully chosen and retold by Orkney storyteller Tom Muir and lovingly given form through the artwork of Hester Aspland.

Publicado em 1934, S. Bernardo é o segundo romance de Graciliano Ramos e um dos pontos mais altos de sua obra. Narrado em primeira pessoa por Paulo Honório, o livro se apresenta como um relato de vida escrito ja na maturidade, quando o protagonista repassa sua trajetoria e tenta compreender seus erros. De origem pobre, Paulo Honorio ascendeu socialmente por meio da esperteza, do calculo e, sobretudo, da exploraço do trabalho alheio. Tornou-se dono da fazenda S. Bernardo, simbolo de seu triunfo economico e de seu desejo de poder. No entanto, o que poderia ser uma historia de sucesso e superaço revela-se um testemunho amargo. Paulo Honorio construiu tudo a base da violencia fisica, social e afetiva , e a fazenda cresceu ao mesmo tempo que a sua vida pessoal se tornou vazia. "Vencendo a vida, porem, ficou de certo modo vencido por ela: imprimindo-lhe a sua marca, ela o inabilitou para as aventuras da afetividade e do lazer", resume Antonio Candido em posfacio incluido nesta ediço. No centro da narrativa esta o casamento com Madalena, jovem professora idealista, cujo olhar sensivel e etico contrasta com a mentalidade pratica e dura de Paulo Honorio. Incapaz de compreender ou aceitar esse mundo alheio as suas preocupaçes materiais, ele oprime e sufoca a mulher, conduzindo-a a um desfecho tragico. Para alem da ascenso e derrocada de um homem, no entanto, o romance e uma reflexo sobre poder, afeto e fracasso, revelando os mecanismos de dominaço em uma sociedade ate hoje marcada visceralmente pela desigualdade. Com texto estabelecido a partir do cotejo de oito verses e notas editoriais que esclarecem variantes entre elas, esta nova ediço reafirma o cuidado da Coleço Graciliano Ramos na Todavia com o rigor textual, a renovaço critica e a permanencia literaria de uma obra-prima.

Boston PI Sunny Randall investigates a popular book critic on a mean streak... only for her to wind up dead, in the latest thriller in Robert B. Parkers bestselling series.World famous author Melanie Joan Hart asks for Sunnys help in tracking down Book Babe, the screen-name of an enormously popular book reviewer, who has trolled her with a deeply insulting one-star review. This usually wouldnt matter except that Book Babe has thousands of followers, and her unwarranted blast has Melanies publisher threatening to pull all her books.But Sunnys investigation reveals that the reviewer and Melanie have a rich history in fact, she may even have good reason to hate the torn-up author. And when Book Babe suddenly turns up dead, casting Melanie as a possible suspect, Sunny finds herself in a complicated web, which, if she cant untangle fast enough, might just put a target on her back.

15 brand-new short stories inspired by and in honour of legendary writer Ursula K. Le Guin. Featuring Ann Leckie, Karen Joy Fowler, Charlie Jane Anders, Kelly Link, Ai Jiang and many others.Revolution in the Heart is a collection of 15 brand new stories by a group of celebrated authors, all inspired by one of the iconic figures in all of science fiction and fantasy: the legendary and award-winning Ursula K. Le Guin.From the appearance of her first work of short fiction in 1962 to the publication of the last in 2016, Ursula K. Le Guin was a master storyteller, winning innumerable awards, and achieving both commercial and literary success. She created the beloved stories of Earthsea alongside the urgent and essential stories of the Hain, pushing forward the form and concepts of science fiction and fantasy - reshaping them into forward-thinking genres.This collection honours her legacy with stories from authors she inspired:Ann Leckie Molly Gloss Kelly Link Charlie Jane Anders Sarah Pinsker Chana Porter Ai Jiang Alaya Dawn Johnson S. Qiouyi Lu E. Lily Yu Vandana Singh Aliya Whiteley Premee Mohamed Darice Little Badger Karen Joy Fowler

Un libro delicado, sobrio y vital sobre los vínculos familiares, la ausencia y la escritura. Una elegía fulgurante.Diez años después de la muerte de su padre, el narrador de este libro decide escribirla. Con la sombra del suicidio privandole del duelo, se pregunta: ¿es posible encontrar las palabras de una despedida que no se produjo? Asi, este relato personal e intimo se convierte en una busqueda para entender como se forjan los vinculos familiares, a que condena el silencio, donde se esconde la verdad de una historia.Pero la escritura falla, y el autor recurre a las biografias de escritores que se suicidaron y a sus ultimas notas para reconstruir un adios posible, tentativo. Solo con una narracion polifonica y coral podra volver a los rincones olvidados de la propia vida, alli donde la memoria se vuelve vacio.Reliquia se transforma, entonces, en una cronica familiar que contiene una reflexion sobre la llegada a la escritura y el sentido de la creacion; un texto sobre la muerte y la ausencia que conduce a los momentos mas deslumbrantes de la amistad y el amor. Con un estilo contenido, sin rodeos, Pol Guasch ha armado un libro delicado y vital: una elegia fulgurante.

Homeless on Aucklands streets, Max Grimes fights to survive when someone starts killing the citys forgotten. Pulled into a dark past, he must stop the killer or be next. The gripping second instalment in a breathtaking series, from New Zealands queen of crime.___A killer is hunting Aucklands homeless. No one cares. No one but Max. These are his people.Max Grimes is homeless, living on the streets of Auckland among the forgotten, the invisible. But now someone is hunting the homeless, killing them one by one. No one cares. Except Max.Trying to put his shattered life back together, Max is pulled into a deadly game when a face from his past reappears, reopening wounds he thought were long buried.As whispers of a Grim Reaper spread terror through the city, Max must race against time not only to find the killer, but to outrun the ghosts chasing him.Because if he fails, hell be next.____

Lose yourself in this tumultuous Swedish family saga, introduced by Sarah Moss (a masterpiece)In these parts, they called her Queen. And she was queen of rags, of sagging mouldering roofs, of nothing. On a bleak, windswept farm on the coast of rural Sweden, where the misty white light is as mute as the blind milk of membrane around an extinguished eye, beneath the oppressive silence, the salt spray and the grind of daily farmwork, a passionate, yearning, unspoken human drama takes place.At the centre of this story is Judit Lindgren, known as the Queen, strong as a whip, stately and stern. She holds her little realm tight, eking out a hard life, buttoning her emotions, dealing with the inadequacies of her menfolk, until the surprise arrival of a Polish widow from New York upends her carefully balanced world and offers the possibility of redemption.Fear, rage, love, resentment: the full range of human emotion is here . . . A story fuelled by inevitability and cold beauty.Sarah Moss

For the denizens of mythical Primeval, its fields and forests bounded by two rivers, the world beyond is nothing more than a dream. Yet their stories or Times are a microcosm of the tumultuous recent history of the world. The fortunes of the family of Michal the miller, whom conscription carries away in 1914, punctuate nearly a century of war and occupation. The outcast Cornspike raises her daughter among the creatures and spirits of the forest. The squire Popielski loses his faith and becomes obsessed with a game where progress is attained only by dreaming the right kind of dream. Non-human beings trees and mushrooms and archangels have their Times too, as do inanimate objects, which may be more important for the world than people. Alongside bloodshed and betrayal, the dramas of Primevals daily life mark the birth, life, and decline of its little world and Time, making us consider afresh the stories that help us comprehend and navigate our own. Rich with the capaciousness and innovation that have brought Olga Tokarczuk to sustained international fame, Primeval and Other Times is yet another treasure for confirmed fans and new converts alike.

A saga inspired by the incredible but true story of the iconic Klimt paintingPainted in Vienna in 1910, Gustav Klimts Portrait of a Lady was purchased by an anonymous collector in 1916, retouched by the master a year later, then stolen in 1997 before reappearing in the gardens of an Italian modern art museum in 2019.No art experts, museum curators, or police investigators know the identity of the young woman in the painting, nor the mysteries that surround the turbulent history of her portrait. From the streets of Vienna in 1900 to Texas in the 1980s, and from Manhattan during the Great Depression to contemporary Italy, de Peretti imagines the destiny of this young woman as well as that of her descendants, and creates a masterful fresco that intertwines family secrets, disappearances, and thwarted loves.

((Vorschau))Peter Pan kann fliegen, versteht die Sprache der Vogel und Feen und wird nie erwachsen. Wendy, Michael und John, drei Kinder aus London, begleiten Peter Pan eines Nachts in sein Phantasiereich, auf die Insel Nimmerland, und erleben dort staunenswerte Abenteuer mit Feen, Piraten und Meerjungfrauen. Kaum ein Buch hat Erwachsene und Kinder je so bezaubert wie die Geschichte von Peter Pan.((Onix/Online))Peter Pan, the boy who never grows up, can fly and understands the languages of birds and fairies. One night he takes the Darling children from London to his fantasy realm, Neverland. There, they have breathtaking adventures with fairies, pirates, and mermaids. Few books have enchanted both adults and children as much as Peter Pan.

In a city torn apart by civil war, a teenage sniper has only one goal: to fire the perfect shot. He sublimates himself into his weapon, practices controlling his breath, staying calm, listening to his body and the beat of his heart. Consumed for too long by violence and turned agent of pure destruction and despair, he lies in wait on rooftops, killing civilians while his mentally ill mother cowers in their flat. His routine is disrupted by the arrival of Myrna, a fifteen-year-old girl hired to care for her, and towards whom he develops a disturbing obsession in which she finds herself trapped. Now published in English for the first time, Mathias Enards debut novel is an unrelenting work whose harrowing immediacy belies its lyricism, exposing how extreme violence corrodes the soul and leaves no part of life unscathed.

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONSuch a joy Ocean VuongItll break and remake your heart Andrew Sean GreerYou want this gorgeous book RO KwonIN TOKYO, the son works as an English tutor, drinking his nights away with friends at a gay bar. Hes entangled with a married man, too. But while he has built a chosen family in Japan, he is estranged from his family in America, particularly his mother, whose preference for the sons troubled homophobic brother pushed him to leave home. Then, in the weeks leading up to Christmas, ten years since theyve last seen each other, the mother arrives uninvited on his doorstep. Separated only by the sons cat, the two of them clash. The mother, wrestling with memories of her youth in Jamaica and her own complicated brother, works to atone for her missteps. The son initially struggles to forgive, but as they share meals, conversations and an eventful trip to one of the oldest cities in Japan, both mother and son start to reckon with the meaning of home - and whether, perhaps, they can find it in each other.

Leonie is one of twelve jurors. Chosen to decide the fate of a nurse accused of murdering his patients with lethal doses of adrenaline. But just as deliberations begin, an usher bursts in with news that will change everything. Britain is under chemical attack, and the courthouse is locked down. Instructed not to leave for their own safety, the jurors quickly realise that the real threat lies inside the building. The accused has escaped his cell and is on the loose. Hes playing twisted games with the group. And Leonie is his next target. Because he knows something about her. A secret shes kept hidden from the others - about just how far shell go to tip the scales of justice in her favour.

The story follows Olive the Owl as she embarks on her first nighttime adventure in a magical forest. As the sun sets and the moon rises, Olive watches in awe as the sky transforms and the forest awakens with soft sounds, glowing fireflies, and the subtle movements of nocturnal creatures. Guided by curiosity and a sense of wonder, she soars above treetops and glides silently through the woods, noticing every rustle, shimmer, and hidden story beneath the moonlight. Each moment reveals the forests secrets, from playful animals to sparkling streams, as Olive embraces the thrill of discovery, feeling both connected to and enchanted by the living, breathing world around her.