LOUIS DE BERNIERES

Rosie and Daniel have moved to Ceylon with their little daughter to start a new life at the dawn of the 1920s, attempting to put the trauma of the First World War behind them, and to rekindle a marriage that gets colder every day. However, even in the lush plantation hills it is hard for them to escape the ties of home and the yearning for fulfilment that threatens their marriage.Back in England, Rosie's three sisters are dealing with different challenges in their searches for family, purpose and happiness. These are precarious times, and they find themselves using unconventional means to achieve their desires. Around them the world is changing, and when Daniel finds himself in Germany he witnesses events taking a dark and forbidding turn.

Set in North London during the Winter of Discontent, A Partisan's Daughter features the relationship between Chris, an unhappily-married, middle-aged Englishman and Roza, a young Serbian woman who has recently moved to London. While driving through Archway in the course of his job as a medical rep, Chris is captivated by a young woman on a street corner. Clumsily, he engages her in conversation, and he secures an invitation to return one day for a coffee. His visits become more frequent and Roza starts to tell him the story of her life, drawing him increasingly into her world - from her childhood as a daughter of one of Tito's partisans, through her journey to England and on to her more recent colourful and dangerous past in London. A Partisan's Daughter is about the power of storytelling. It is also a beautifully wrought and unlikely love story which is both compelling and moving to read. Here is another wonderful novel from the author of the bestselling Birds Without Wings and Captain Correlli's Mandolin.

The new novel from the acclaimed author of "Birds Without Wings" and "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" is a love story at once raw and sweetly funny, wry and heartbreakingly sad. Chris is bored, lonely, trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage. In his forties, he's a stranger to the 1970s youth culture of London, a stranger to himself on the night he invites a hooker into his car. Roza is Yugoslavian, recently moved to London, the daughter of one of Tito's partisans. She's in her twenties, but has already lived a life filled with danger, misadventure, romance, and tragedy. And though she's not a hooker, when she's propositioned by Chris, she gets into his car anyway.Over the next few months Roza tells Chris the stories of her past. She's a fast-talking Scheherazade, saving her own life by telling it to Chris. And he takes in her tales as if they were oxygen in an otherwise airless world. But is Roza telling the truth? Does Chris hear the stories through the filter of his own need? Does it even matter? This deeply moving novel of their unlikely love - narrated in the moment and through recollection, each of their voices deftly realized - is also a brilliantly subtle commentary on storytelling: its seductions and powers, and its ultimately unavoidable dangers.

Elle se tenait au coin de la rue, comme si elle faisait mine d'attendre quelqu'un. Elle portait une minijupe et des bottes à talons, et son visage était outrageusement maquillé. Je me souviens d'un rouge à lèvres couleur lilas, mais il est possible que je l'aie inventé par la suite... J'ai dit " Vous travaillez ? " Elle m'a dévisagé d'un air perplexe et puis elle a compris et fini par éclater de rire : " Oh, a-t-elle fait, vous pensez que je suis une fille de mauvaise vie ! " J'étais atterré et je me suis mis à bafouiller : " je suis désolé, je ne savais pas, oh mon dieu, je suis tellement désolé... " A partir du jour où son chemin croise celui de Roza, plus rien ne sera jamais comme avant pour Chris, qui s'ennuie tellement clans son travail, son foyer, son quotidien. Il va se laisser charmer, envoûter, subjuguer par ce que, jour après jour, elle va lui raconter. Elle est serbe et sa vie n'a été que violence, aventures et malheurs. Elle a été enlevée, violée, elle s'est enfuie, elle a aimé, elle a vécu cent vies... Mais dit-elle la vérité ou s'agit-il d'une extraordinaire affabulatrice, une Shéhérazade moderne qui s'amuse ? Qui est donc Roza, finalement ?

Contemporary / British English (Available June 2008) This is a great love story set in the tragedy of war. It is 1941. The Italian officer, Captain Corelli, falls in love with Pelagia, a young Greek girl. But Pelegia's fiancé is fighting the Italian army… Captain Corelli's Mandolin is now a film, starring Nicolas Cage.

From the author of Captain Corellis Mandolin, the spellbinding story of a young boy and his dog adventuring through the outback.When a family tragedy means Mick is sent to the outback to live with his Granpa, it looks as if he has a lonely life ahead of him. The cattle station is a tough place for a child, where nature is brutal and the men must work hard in the heat and dust. However, after a cyclone hits, things change for Mick. Exploring the floodwaters, he finds a lost puppy covered in mud and half-drowned. Mick and his dog immediately become inseparable as they take on the adventures offered by their unusual home, and the business of growing up, together.In this charming prequel to the much-loved Red Dog, Louis de Bernieres tells the moving story of a young boy and his Granpa, and the charismatic and entertaining dog who so many readers hold close to their hearts.

Set on an idyllic Greek island, the story of an Italian army captain's love affair during World War II is a bestselling novel. The rustic charm contrasts dramatically with the horror of war in this reading by Robert Powell, first heard on BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime, which won a Talkie Award for Best Abridged Modern Fiction.

En esta novela, una opera prima furiosa, los protagonistas son arrastrados por los acontecimientos incesantes provocados por un hecho trivial: la frívola y sensual Doña Constanza no soporta que su piscina esté falta de agua, por lo que hace desviar el cauce de un rio.

In this entertaining collection of stories, Louis de Bernieres introduces us to a man who turns his life around through developing his hobby of collecting cat-food tin labels. We also meet a traveller who embarks on a confusing love affair in Colombia, a dolphin romance and, in 'Gunter Weber's Confession', we return to the much-loved characters of Captain Corelli's Mandolin.Louis de Bernieres is one of our most treasured writers and these stories show his imaginative range and unique storytelling power.

When the spoilt and haughty Dona Constanza tries to divert a river to fill her swimming pool, she starts a running battle with the locals. The skirmishes are so sever that the Government dispatches a squadron of soldiers led by the fat, brutal and stupid Figueras to deal with them. Despite visiting plagues of laughing fits and giant cats upon the troops, the villagers know that to escape the cruel and unusual tortures planned for them, they must run. Thus they plan to head for the mountains and start a new and convivial civilisation. The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts is the first novel in a trilogy set in South America. It won a Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1991.

Extravagant, inventive, emotionally sweeping, Captain Corelli's Mandolin is the story of a timeless place that one day wakes up to find itself in the jaws of history. The place is the Greek island of Cephallonia, where gods once dabbled in the affairs of men and the local saint periodically rises from his sarcophagus to cure the mad. Then the tide of World War II rolls onto the island's shores in the form of the conquering Italian army. Caught in the occupation are Pelagia, a willful, beautiful young woman, and the two suitors vying for her love: Mandras, a gentle fisherman turned ruthless guerilla, and the charming, mandolin-playing Captain Corelli, a reluctant officer of the Italian garrison on the island. Rich with loyalties and betrayals, and set against a landscape where the factual blends seamlessly with the fantastic, Captain Corelli's Mandolin is a passionate novel as rich in ideas as it is genuinely moving.