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It''s July 1910: The grisly remains of Cora Crippen, music hall singer and wife of Dr Hawley Crippen, are discovered in the cellar of 39 Hilldrop Crescent, Camden. But the Doctor and his mistress, Ethel Le Neve, have vanished, much to the frustration of Scotland Yard and the outrage of a horrified London. Across the Channel in Antwerp, the SS Montrose sets sail on its two week voyage to Canada. Amongst its passengers are the overbearing Antonia Drake and her daughter Victoria, who is hell-bent on romance, the enigmatic Mathieu Zela and the modest Martha Hayes. Also on board are the unassuming Mr John Robinson and his seventeen-year-old son Edmund. But all is not as it seems...

William Cody grows up surrounded by his father''s tales of Buffalo Bill, to whom he is distantly related, and his fantasies of the Wild West. Though he escapes his heritage by fleeing abroad and starting a new life for himself, he finds that he is always drawn back to England and to his ancestry. When his father proposes that together they should recreate Buffalo Bill''s stage show, "The Congress of Rough Riders of the World" for a contemporary audience, William refuses to have any part of it. When tragedy strikes, however, it is to his father that he must eventually return.

À l'aube de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Pierrot vit à Paris avec ses parents, ignorant tout des nazis. Devenu orphelin, il est envoyé chez sa tante, en Allemagne, dans une maison au sommet d'une mont

Un inesperado y masivo éxito de ventas en Inglaterra.Danny Delaney acaba de empezar las vacaciones escolares y ya está saboreando las semanas de libertad que tiene ante sí. Pero al anochecer, cuando su madre regresa a casa acompañada por dos policias, Danny comprende de inmediato que algo muy malo ha sucedido. Abrumada por la culpa, la señora Delaney se encierra en si misma, y a Danny y su padre les tocara recomponer la unidad de la familia.Escrita para formar parte de la serie "Quick Reads" (Lecturas Rapidas) -una iniciativa lanzada con el fin de fomentar el habito de lectura entre los adultos-, La apuesta se transformo en un inesperado y masivo exito de ventas en Inglaterra.

It's September 1919: twenty-one-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver some letters to Marian Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the Great War, but in 1917 Will laid down his guns on the battlefield, declared himself a conscientious objector and was shot as a traitor, an act which has brought shame and dishonour on the Bancroft family. But the letters are not the real reason for Tristan's visit. He holds a secret deep in his soul: one that he is desperate to unburden himself of to Marian, if he can only find the courage. As he recalls his friendship with Will, from the training ground at Aldershot to the trenches of Northern France, he speaks of how the intensity of their friendship brought him both happiness and self-discovery as well as despair and pain. The Absolutist is a novel that examines the events of the Great War from the perspective of two young soldiers, both struggling with the complexity of their emotions and the confusion of their friendship.

The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father promised he wouldn't go away to fight - but he broke that promise the following day. Four years later, Alfie doesn't know where his father might be, other than that he's away on a special, secret mission. Then, while shining shoes at King's Cross Station, Alfie unexpectedly sees his father's name - on a sheaf of papers belonging to a military doctor. Bewildered and confused, Alfie realises his father is in a hospital close by - a hospital treating soldiers with shell-shock. Alfie isn't sure what shell-shock is, but is determined to rescue his father from this strange, unnerving place...

Von einem, der auszog, den Mut zu findenEines Morgens lauft Noah von zu Hause fort. Ein einsamer Waldweg fuhrt ihn zu einem Spielzeugladen voller Zauber und Magie. Hier lernt Noah einen sehr ungewohnlichen Spielzeugmacher kennen.Der alte Mann hat viel zu erzahlen. In seiner Geschichte geht es um Abenteuer, Wunder und gebrochene Versprechen. So nimmt er Noah mit auf eine Reise.Eine Reise, die Noahs Leben verandern wird.Und die auch unser Leben verandern konnte.Eine marchenhafte Parabel uber den Trost des Erzahlens.

Ein neuer Roman von Bestsellerautor John BoyneEs gibt sie, diese winzigen Momente, die ein Leben fur immer verandern. Fur Danny und seine Familie kommt ein solcher Moment, als Dannys Mutter einen kleinen Jungen mit dem Auto anfahrt. Qualende Schuldgefuhle lassen sie nicht mehr los, die Familie droht auseinanderzubrechen.Der Text besticht durch eine spannende Handlung und die groartig eingefangene Atmosphare. John Boyne erzahlt unmittelbar aus der Sicht des zwolfjahrigen Danny und schafft so einen eindringlichen Roman uber Schuld, Schicksal und die Kunst, zu verzeihen.

Odran Yates enters Clonliffe Seminary in 1972 after his mother informs him that he has a vocation to the priesthood. He goes in full of ambition and hope, dedicated to his studies and keen to make friends. Forty years later, Odran's devotion has been challenged by the revelations that have shattered the Irish people's faith in the church. He has seen friends stand trial, colleagues jailed, the lives of young parishioners destroyed and has become nervous of venturing out in public for fear of disapproving stares and insulting remarks. But when a family tragedy opens wounds from his past, he is forced to confront the demons that have raged within a once respected institution and recognise his own complicity in their propagation. It has taken John Boyne fifteen years and twelve novels to write about his home country of Ireland but he has done so now in his most powerful novel to date, a novel about blind dogma and moral courage, and about the dark places where the two can meet. At once courageous and intensely personal, A History of Loneliness confirms Boyne as one of the most searching chroniclers of his generation.

Odran Yates enters Clonliffe Seminary in 1972 after his mother informs him that he has a vocation to the priesthood. He goes in full of ambition and hope, dedicated to his studies and keen to make friends. Forty years later, Odran's devotion has been challenged by the revelations that have shattered the Irish people's faith in the church. He has seen friends stand trial, colleagues jailed, the lives of young parishioners destroyed and has become nervous of venturing out in public for fear of disapproving stares and insulting remarks. But when a family tragedy opens wounds from his past, he is forced to confront the demons that have raged within a once respected institution and recognise his own complicity in their propagation. It has taken John Boyne fifteen years and twelve novels to write about his home country of Ireland but he has done so now in his most powerful novel to date, a novel about blind dogma and moral courage, and about the dark places where the two can meet. At once courageous and intensely personal, A History of Loneliness confirms Boyne as one of the most searching chroniclers of his generation.

Edición en Coreano.

O terceiro fillo do señor e da señora Brocket naceu desafiando a lei da gravidade. Os seus pais son fanáticos da "normalidade" e non aturan que o neno teña a rara habilidade de flotar. Tras botalo da casa, Barnaby coñece mundo e fai amigos que, coma el, representan a diferenza e a diversidade nun mundo pouco tolerante.