David Nicholls

VUELVE A ENAMORARTE CON UNO DE LOS CLÁSICOS DE LA LITERATURA DEL SIGLO XXI.Emma y Dexter se conocen la noche del 15 de julio de 1988, durante su fiesta de graduación en la universidad. Son jóvenes, acaban de licenciarse y el futuro parece ofrecerles una cantidad infinita de oportunidades. La conexion entre ellos es inmediata a pesar de las numerosas diferencias que tienen.Dexter proviene de una familia adinerada, es un joven despreocupado y aficionado a las fiestas y a las relaciones de una sola noche.Pero cuando conoce a Emma, cae rendido ante su idealismo. Ella es una joven de clase trabajadora, que ama la literatura y que tiene un humor mas que inteligente.Pero lo que podria ser una relacion perfecta toma un rumbo inesperado cuando Dexter se marcha durante un año para viajar por Europa y Emma se queda en Edimburgo, buscando trabajo.A lo largo de veinte años, podremos ver como evoluciona esta historia de amor, con sus separaciones y altibajos, con reencuentros y despedidas; con lagrimas y sonrisas...Una autentica historia de amor, conmovedora y tremendamente comica. Un verdadero placer. -BRIGITTE

Una historia d'enamoraments plena d'encant i humor en una travessa a peu epica de costa a costa d'Anglaterra. Com ens enamorem?Lesperada nova novel·la de David Nicholls, autor del fenomen literari Un dia.La Marnie esta encallada. Encallada treballant sola al seu pis de Londres, encallada lluitant contra les llargues tardes i una vida que sovint fa la sensacio que se lin va. En Michael sesta enfonsant. Encara en xoc despres que la seva dona lhagi deixat, cada cop mes tancat en ell mateix, emprenent caminades llargues i solitaries. Correctora editorial i professor dinstitut, han passat sense adonar-sen destar sols a ser uns solitaris. Pero quan una amiga en comu molt persistent i un temps particularment angles conspiren per ajuntar-los, es troben ficats sense saber gaire com en una travessa a peu de costa a costa dAnglaterra, a traves del Districte dels Llacs i les valls i els erms de Yorkshire, que els porta al caire del precipici duna nova relacio.Amb Sou aqui torna el plaer de llegir David Nicholls i la seva insuperable alquimia dintel·ligencia i humor, de tendresa i humanitat, per acostar-nos a dos personatges que han perdut el cami. Una novel·la deliciosa sobre lamor i la conversa com coneixem una altra persona?, com ens nenamorem?, que revelem i que ens guardem? que, de passada, es recrea en la felicitat i el mal trangol ocasional de caminar a la natura, tant si es sols com si es en companyia.

David Nicholls brings to bear all the wit and intelligence that graced One Day in this brilliant, bittersweet new book, which will delight his fans and bring him many new readers. A novel about love and family, husbands and wives, parents and children, its publication will undoubtedly be one of the major events in the world of books in 2014.

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David Nicholls brings to bear all the wit and intelligence that graced One Day in this brilliant, bittersweet new book, which will delight his fans and bring him many new readers. A novel about love and family, husbands and wives, parents and children, its publication will undoubtedly be one of the major events in the world of books in 2014.

Londres, 2000. Réfléchissez bien… Mais si, ce visage, cette allure vous disent forcément quelque chose. Souvenez-vous, cet acteur au fond de l''écran, cet homme qui jouait le mort dans cette série hy

Estamos en 1985, y Brian se despide de sus amigos de toda la vida porque se va a estudiar a la Universidad de Bristol. Orgulloso de sus notas y de sus gustos personales, quiere comerse el mundo y seducir a su admirada Alice. Para lograr esto ultimo se presenta a un conocido concurso de television, No hay mas preguntas, donde debera responder a una serie de cuestiones de cultura general. Lo que Brian no sabe es que, tal vez, no se necesitan tantos conocimientos para poder ser feliz. Porque, al fin y al cabo, ¿no es la felicidad lo mas importante?

A comedy masterpiece from the internationally bestselling author of ONE DAY and THE UNDERSTUDY.

A comedy masterpiece from the bestselling author of ONE DAY and STARTER FOR TEN.

One life-changing summerCharlie meets Fran...In 1997, Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you don''''t remember in the school photograph. His exams have not gone well. At home he is looking after his father, when surely it should be the other way round, and if he thinks about the future at all, it is with a kind of dread.Then Fran Fisher bursts into his life and despite himself, Charlie begins to hope.But if Charlie wants to be with Fran, he must take on a challenge that could lose him the respect of his friends and require him to become a different person. He must join the Company. And if the Company sounds like a cult, the truth is even more appalling.The price of hope, it seems, is Shakespeare.Poignant, funny, enchanting, devastating, Sweet Sorrow is a tragicomedy about the rocky path to adulthood and the confusion of family life, a celebration of the reviving power of friendship and that brief, searing explosion of first love that can only be looked at directly after it has burned out.

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One life-changing summerCharlie meets FranIn 1997, Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you dont remember in the school photograph. His exams have not gone well. At home he is looking after his father, when surely it should be the other way round, and if he thinks about the future at all, it is with a kind of dread.Then Fran Fisher bursts into his life and despite himself, Charlie begins to hope.But if Charlie wants to be with Fran, he must take on a challenge that could lose him the respect of his friends and require him to become a different person. He must join the Company. And if the Company sounds like a cult, the truth is even more appalling.The price of hope, it seems, is Shakespeare.Poignant, funny, enchanting, devastating, Sweet Sorrow is a tragicomedy about the rocky path to adulthood and the confusion of family life, a celebration of the reviving power of friendship and that brief, searing explosion of first love that can only be looked at directly after it has burned out.

For Josh Harper, being in show-business means everything he ever wanted - money, fame, a beautiful wife, a lead role on the London stage. For Stephen C. McQueen, on the other hand, it means a disastrous career playing passers-by and dead people. He's stuck with an unfortunate name, a hopeless agent, a daughter he barely knows, and a job as understudy to Josh Harper, the 12th Sexiest Man in the World. And things get even more difficult when Stephen falls in love with Josh's clever, funny wife Nora. But might there yet be a way for Stephen to get his Big Break? The Understudy is a scintillating comedy of ambition, celebrity, jealousy and love.

John Cage (19121992) was without doubt one of the most important and influential figures in twentieth-century music. Pupil of Schoenberg, Henry Cowell, Marcel Duchamp, and Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, among others, he spent much of his career in pursuit of an unusual goal: giving up control so that sounds can be sounds, as he put it. This book celebrates the richness and diversity of Cages achievements - the development of the prepared piano and of the percussion orchestra, the adoption of chance and of indeterminacy, the employment of electronic resources and of graphic notation, and the questioning of the most fundamental tenets of Western art music. Besides composing around 300 works, he was also a prolific performer, writer, poet, and visual artist. Written by a team of experts, this Companion discusses Cages background, his work, and its performance and reception, providing in sum a fully rounded portrait of a fascinating figure.

The year is 1985 and Brian has just started his first term at university, armed with the obligatory CND membership and a complete set of Kate Bush albums. But he also has a dark secret - a long-held, burning ambition to appear on University Challenge and now, finally, it seems the dream is about to become reality. He's made the team, they've successfully completed the qualifying rounds and are limbering up for their first televised match in January. Surely it's only a matter of time before Brian is shaking hands with Bamber Gascoigne and holding aloft the silver-plated commemorative plaque? But Brian has a whole lot of living to do before then and when he falls in love with his team-mate, the off-puttingly posh Alice, he finds there's more than a spanner in the works...In Starter For Ten, David Nicholls has written a novel that will have you sniggering uncontrollably for days and leave you begging for more. Are you up to the challenge?

Does your life feel like a dress rehearsal? Do you long to enter the limelight and steal the show? But what do you do when you're playing second fiddle to an arrogant actor who barely knows your name? And, more importantly, what do you do when you find yourself falling in love with his wife? Put yourself in the understudy's shoes and step on to the stage of life. With his trademark style and humour, David Nicholls reveals how some people are always cast as the underdog. But that doesn't necessarily mean they never get the girl does it?