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B.B. vive con su madre y no tiene amigos. Su mundo social está en Internet, en un sitio llamado badsguyrock, donde se relaciona con Albertina. Allí con el nick de chicoojosazules, da a conocer todo lo que escribe, relatos siniestros donde la ficción, lentamente, comienza a confundirse con la realidad. Es que B.B tiene una historia que contar. La suya propia. Una historia repleta de mentiras y rivalidades. El pasado de un hombre que debió crecer, rodeado de silencio, en el centro de una familia disfuncional y perturbada.

Joanne Harris is, of course, best known for Chocolat -- a novel that brought readers quite as much pleasure as the substance after which it was named (and which became an equally successful movie). But is Joanne Harris authentic voice as an author the one that we hear in that book? Almost certainly not -- with Blueeyedboy, the second of Harris psychological thrillers, it is becoming clearer that the dark, threatening world she conveys in her second series of books is more provocative and disturbing than anything Chocolat might have led us to expect from her. As in its predecessor, we are back in the Yorkshire town of Malbry, and in the company of a young man whose behaviour verges on the sociopathic. BB is in his 40s, still living with his mother and making his living with an unrewarding (in every sense) hospital job. His real world is a virtual one. On a website which he has called badguysrock, he has an avatar -- and as the blueeyedboy of the title, he deals in deeply unsettling violent scenarios which feature people from his own life. As we enter deeper into this murky world, we learn other equally disturbing facts. BB has an unhealthy relationship with his mother, whose violent, controlling behaviour is some kind of a pointer to the unhappy man he has become as an adult. What's more, he appears to be the only surviving brother of a group of three. His dead brothers were named after the colours in which their mother dressed them, and had died in mysterious circumstances. There are so many off-kilter aspects to this world that readers will quickly discern it is only a matter of time before something very nasty happens. Like Iain Banks The Wasp Factory, Harris provides us with a narrator we cannot trust -- the only thing certain is that chaos and destruction lie at the heart of this queasy narrative. Harris book demands patience and does not render up all its secrets immediately, but those who respond to unusual, transgressive fiction will find it worth persevering; Harris has a mesmerising tale to tell. And be assured -- Chocolat this isn't. --Barry Forshaw

Chilling, enchanting and thought-provoking' IAN RANKIN'Moving and brilliant' DAILY MAIL'Blazes with anger and sorrow' MARIAN KEYESHave you ever felt invisible?Bernie Moon has given her life to other people: her husband, her son, her friends (who are these days, mostly online). At nineteen she was full of dreams and ambitions; now almost fifty, and going through the menopause, she's fading, fast. Heartbroken and hormonal, she often feels like she's losing her mind.But when a young woman is murdered in a local park, it sparks a series of childhood memories in Bernie and with them, a talent that has lain dormant most of her adult life.She promised herself she'd never think of it again.When she was a teenager, it almost destroyed her. But now she's older, could it be the power she's been missing?Could it be the chance to, finally, make them look?

Once there was a widow with three sons, and their names were Black, Brown and Blue. Black was the eldest; moody and aggressive. Brown was the middle child, timid and dull. But Blue was his mother''s favourite. And he was a murderer.'' Blueeyedboy is the brilliant new novel from Joanne Harris: a dark and intricately plotted tale of a poisonously dysfunctional family, a blind child prodigy, and a serial murderer who is not who he seems. Told through posts on a webjournal called badguysrock, this is a thriller that makes creative use of all the multiple personalities, disguise and mind games that are offered by playing out a life on the internet.

Vianne Rocher llega al pueblo de Lansquenet para abrir una chocolatería frente a la iglesia. Para el cura Francis Reynaud, la presencia de esta singular mujer no puede ser sino el primer paso para caer en la tentacion y el pecado. Para Vianne, sin embargo, el chocolate es algo mas que un placer para los sentidos: gracias al chocolate, las penas se hacen mas llevaderas, los secretos mas intimos y los sueños, quizas, se vuelven reales.

Una novela deliciosa y adictiva que ha inspirado la película protagonizada por Juliette Binoche y Johnny Depp. Un éxito de ventas internacional. El chocolate puede ser mucho más que un placer para l

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.

Una celebración del placer, del amor y de la tolerancia. La esperada continuación de ''Chocolat'', con 18 millones de lectores en todo el mundo. La singular Vianne Rocher vive en una casa flotante e