Joanne Harris

La singular Vianne Rocher vive en una casa flotante en el Sena con su familia. Cuando recibe la carta de su vieja amiga Armande donde le pide que ponga flores en su tumba y recoja los melocotones de su jardin, sabe que no puede negarse y debe regresar a Lansquenet, el lugar que marco su destino. Pero alli todo ha cambiado: la chocolateria donde vendia sus sueños, pequeños consuelos, dulces e inofensivas tentaciones, que tanto revoluciono la vida del pueblo y la suya propia, se ha convertido en una escuela. El malestar y la desconfianza, por otra parte, recorren ahora las estrechas y empedradas calles de entonces, el paisaje es tan distinto que, incluso el parroco, ya no teme a Vianne y requiere, en cambio, su indispensable ayuda.

Seven oclock on a Monday morning, five hundred years after the End of the World, and goblins had been at the cellar again.Maddy Smith has always been an outsider. In a world ruled by the harsh and puritanical Order, she is shunned for the strange birthmark on her left hand. For this is no ordinary birthmark it is a runemark, a sign of the old gods.In fact, Maddy can do things that no-one else can, things that could be called magic. But not until she meets the old traveller One-Eye, an outsider like herself, does she learn what power she really has, and what she will be asked to do with it.In Runemarks, Joanne Harris creates a world not unlike our own - if it had been shaped by the Vikings instead of the Romans - and colours it with her familiar blend of rich imagery and gritty realism. A disenchanted world, where the gods died long ago. Can Maddy bring them back to life?

With his notorious reputation for trickery and deception, and an ability to cause as many problems as he solves, Loki is a Norse god like no other. Demon-born, he is viewed with deepest suspicion by his fellow gods who will never accept him as one of their own and for this he vows to take his revenge. But while Loki is planning the downfall of Asgard and the humiliation of his tormentors, greater powers are conspiring against the gods and a battle is brewing that will change the fate of the Worlds. From his recruitment by Odin from the realm of Chaos, through his years as the go-to man of Asgard, to his fall from grace in the build-up to Ragnarok, this is the unofficial history of the world's ultimate trickster.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'So wise, so atmospheric, so beautifully written' Marian KeyesReturn to the world of the multi-million-copy bestselling Chocolat....Vianne Rocher has settled down. Lansquenet-sous-Tannes, the place that once rejected her, has finally become her home. With Rosette, her 'special' child, she runs her chocolate shop in the square, talks to her friends on the river, is part of the community. Even Reynaud, the priest, has become a friend.But when old Narcisse, the florist, dies, leaving a parcel of land to Rosette and a written confession to Reynaud, the life of the sleepy village is once more thrown into disarray.The arrival of Narcisse's relatives, the departure of an old friend and the opening of a mysterious new shop in the place of the florist's across the square - one that mirrors the chocolaterie, and has a strange appeal of its own - all seem to herald some kind of change: a confrontation, a turbulence - even, perhaps, a murder...

After thirty years at St Oswalds Grammar in North Yorkshire, Latin master Roy Straitley has seen all kinds of boys come and go. But every so often theres a boy who doesnt fit the mould. A troublemaker. A boy with hidden shadows inside.A new broom has arrived, bringing Powerpoint, sharp suits and even sixth form girls to the dusty corridors. But while Straitley does his sardonic best to resist this march to the future, a shadow from his past is stirring. A boy who even twenty years on haunts his teachers dreams. A boy capable of bad things.

Five past midnight, three years after the End of the World, and, as usual, there was nothing to be seen or heard in the catacombs except, of course , for the rats and (if you believed in them) the ghosts of the dead.Runelight is set in a world coming back to life, but it is also a world in conflict. For Maddy, born with the mark of magic on her hand, the return of the old gods and the overthrow of the brutal Order who suppressed them is a time of excitement. But for Maggie, raised as part of the Order, it is a time of chaos and desolation, as her family and values are wiped out.Like the two girls, the new world remains divided the old regime has gone but with nothing to take its place, anarchy is beginning to spreadJoanne Harris draws us back into the richly imagined world first introduced in Runemarks -a world not unlike our own, had it been shaped by the Vikings instead of the Romans. But if its inhabitants, including Maddy and Maggie, cant solve their differences soon, they will destroy their world altogether.