A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024THE POWERFUL NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE OVERSTORY AND BEWILDERMENTPowerful, mesmerically beautiful MAIL ON SUNDAYOne long, clever magic trick OBSERVERMagisterial, moving and thought-provoking a beautiful love letter to our oceans NEW SCIENTISTPlayground follows four lives - a pioneering marine biologist, a free-spirited artist, and two polar opposites whose boyhood bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game sends one into literature and the other onto an AI breakthrough. In the worlds largest ocean, the four are reunited on a history-scarred French Polynesian island chosen as the site for seasteading - sending floating, autonomous cities into the open sea. Standing on the shores of the last wild place yet to be colonised, the residents must first vote to decide if their home will become the launchpad for humanitys next great adventure.Praise for Richard Powers:'Powers has extraordinary gifts as a writer' GUARDIAN'Impressively precise in its scientific conjectures, Bewilderment is no less rich or wise in its emotionality' OBSERVER'He composes some of the most beautiful sentences I've ever read. I'm in awe of his talent' OPRAH WINFREY'It is impossible to deny the importance of Powers's message' SUNDAY TIMES'Refreshing, original and moving' EVENING STANDARD
Bestselling sensation Jacqueline Wilson is back with an adult sequel to her beloved children's novel THE ILLUSTRATED MUM - pre-order now!Will Dolphin retrace old patterns - or illustrate her own?Sorry to wake you in the middle of the night, but we have a lady here whos not very well. She says shes called Marigold, Queen of the Sky?Dolphin Westward spent her childhood as the supporting character in the story of her beautiful, wild, volatile mother Marigold. Now thirty-three, shes painfully aware that not much has changed. She lives in a tiny bedsit, works in a tattoo shop by day and collects her illustrated mum from police stations by night.
Mont Perdu a des rêves qui ne sont pas ceux de son village des Pyrénées encore aux prises avec des traditions archaïques. L’adolescente, corpulente, lesbienne, victime de harcèlement, trouve refuge a
Parthenia raconte l’histoire croisée de Baptiste, jeune homme désabusé après une rupture, qui s’enfonce dans les forums de séduction et les discours misogynes, et de Léa, attachée parlementaire engag
From the bestselling author of PS I Love You comes a story of finding yourself - and finding your way home.Pip's world is small. But it's about to become a whole lot bigger.For years she's tucked away her dreams, shrinking herself into the space left behind - like the delicate origami she creates alone in her room.Then hope comes from an unlikely place: an astronomer from the local observatory. He teaches her to look up at the stars, and to see a world far bigger and more beautiful than she ever imagined.And perhaps in that big, beautiful universe there's someone waiting for her.If she can find the courage to open her heart.Pip never stopped dreaming, but now it's time for her to live - and maybe even to fall in love.
Le vendredi 12 août 2022, au bout d'une vallée étincelante dans la province de Bolzano, un couple affranchi de toute contrainte s'envole l'un à la suite de l'autre, en parapente. Cédric et Mathilde,
_Onada_ és el segon llibre que va publicar Teresa d'Arenys, el 1980, quatre anys després d'obtenir el premi Amadeu Oller amb _Aor_. _Onada_ recull una suite de poemes, emmarcats per unes poques proses breus i l'ombra d'Omar Khayyam, en record de l'amic poeta Pep Coll, que, com diu l'endreça inicial, en preferir la mar, vas escriure el darrer dels teus versos. Amb un nou proleg d'Oriol Izquierdo, marmessor de l'obra de l'escriptora, aquesta edicio rescata el llibre i alguns elements del seu singular proces de creacio i d'edicio, a cavall entre Horta de Sant Joan i el Maresme. Per convidar el lector a seguir el consell amb que Valeria Pujol tancava el proleg fa quaranta-cinc anys: Caldra potser mirar els estels per tal de no perdre's i invocar vents favorables.
À la mort de sa mère, Sarah reçoit pour tout héritage les clés d’une bicoque perdue au bout du monde et une consigne énigmatique : « Trouve Elora. »Direction l’Albanie, où elle découvre un village ou
La Marta, en Jim, la Rita i en Guillem sestimen, se senten a prop els uns dels altres perque totsarrosseguen ferides des que eren petits. En un moment determinat, han de fer front a un gran daltabaixi cadascun ho fa a la seva manera.Aquesta novella ens proposa conjugar el verb reconciliar-se. Amb els que estimem, amb els que ens hanfet mal, amb el nostre passat, amb la vida... Un cant a lamor en totes les seves formes.
Haynes is the modern embodiment of the best of Homer' Radio TimesNo Friend to This House is an extraordinary reimagining of the myth of Medea from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes.This is what no one tells you, in the songs sung about Jason and the Argo. This part of his quest has been forgotten, by everyone but me . . .Jason and his Argonauts set sail to find the Golden Fleece. The journey is filled with danger, for him and everyone he meets. But if he ever reaches the distant land he seeks, he faces almost certain death.Medea priestess, witch, and daughter of a brutal king has the power to save the life of a stranger. Will she betray her family and her home, and what will she demand in return?Medea and Jason seize their one chance of a life together, as the gods intend. But their love is steeped in vengeance from the beginning, and no one not even those closest to them will be safe.Based on the classic tragedy by Euripides, this is Medea as you've never seen her before . . .
Au coeur de l'Europe, une dictatrice déchaînée, qui exige d'être appelée "le Prince", règne sur sa nation à coups de décrets. Son nom ? Nerona. Paranoïaque, autoritaire, climatosceptique, égérie de l
Une page du roman britannique se tourne avec Mrs Dalloway, au rythme des heures égrenées par l'horloge de Big Ben.Clarissa Dalloway est sortie acheter des fleurs. En chemin, elle repense à son mariag
Publicada en 1955, esta é a novela coa que Cunqueiro comezou a súa obra narrativa logo de escribir varios libros de poemas. A historia dun Merlín xa vello e refuxiado nas terras da Miranda luguesa chega ao lector a traves do relato dunha testemuña directa, o paxe Felipe de Amancia, que lembra os tempos nos que traballou como criado do mago. A historia desenvolvese cunha permanente tension entre o marabilloso e o cotian; pola casa de Merlin pasan numerosos e curiosos personaxes na procura de consello, mais tamen se narran as aventuras de Felipe cando vai facer os encargos do seu amo. Un universo unico na literatura xorde nas fascinantes e engaioladoras historias que conta esta novela, que desde o momento da sua publicacion supuxo un fito no tocante a renovacion da narrativa galega. En Cunqueiro, a arte do narrador, adobiada dun fino sesgo humoristico, sorprende pola capacidade para facer convivir o mito co mundo cotian.O libro fundacional da narrativa de Cunqueiro, poboado de personaxes inverosimiles pero absolutamente verdadeiros cos que a invencion do seu autor chega a cotas prodixiosas.
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024THE POWERFUL NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE OVERSTORY AND BEWILDERMENTPowerful, mesmerically beautiful MAIL ON SUNDAYOne long, clever magic trick OBSERVERMagisterial, moving and thought-provoking a beautiful love letter to our oceans NEW SCIENTISTPlayground follows four lives - a pioneering marine biologist, a free-spirited artist, and two polar opposites whose boyhood bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game sends one into literature and the other onto an AI breakthrough. In the worlds largest ocean, the four are reunited on a history-scarred French Polynesian island chosen as the site for seasteading - sending floating, autonomous cities into the open sea. Standing on the shores of the last wild place yet to be colonised, the residents must first vote to decide if their home will become the launchpad for humanitys next great adventure.Praise for Richard Powers:'Powers has extraordinary gifts as a writer' GUARDIAN'Impressively precise in its scientific conjectures, Bewilderment is no less rich or wise in its emotionality' OBSERVER'He composes some of the most beautiful sentences I've ever read. I'm in awe of his talent' OPRAH WINFREY'It is impossible to deny the importance of Powers's message' SUNDAY TIMES'Refreshing, original and moving' EVENING STANDARD
Bestselling sensation Jacqueline Wilson is back with an adult sequel to her beloved children's novel THE ILLUSTRATED MUM - pre-order now!Will Dolphin retrace old patterns - or illustrate her own?Sorry to wake you in the middle of the night, but we have a lady here whos not very well. She says shes called Marigold, Queen of the Sky?Dolphin Westward spent her childhood as the supporting character in the story of her beautiful, wild, volatile mother Marigold. Now thirty-three, shes painfully aware that not much has changed. She lives in a tiny bedsit, works in a tattoo shop by day and collects her illustrated mum from police stations by night.
Mont Perdu a des rêves qui ne sont pas ceux de son village des Pyrénées encore aux prises avec des traditions archaïques. L’adolescente, corpulente, lesbienne, victime de harcèlement, trouve refuge a
Parthenia raconte l’histoire croisée de Baptiste, jeune homme désabusé après une rupture, qui s’enfonce dans les forums de séduction et les discours misogynes, et de Léa, attachée parlementaire engag
From the bestselling author of PS I Love You comes a story of finding yourself - and finding your way home.Pip's world is small. But it's about to become a whole lot bigger.For years she's tucked away her dreams, shrinking herself into the space left behind - like the delicate origami she creates alone in her room.Then hope comes from an unlikely place: an astronomer from the local observatory. He teaches her to look up at the stars, and to see a world far bigger and more beautiful than she ever imagined.And perhaps in that big, beautiful universe there's someone waiting for her.If she can find the courage to open her heart.Pip never stopped dreaming, but now it's time for her to live - and maybe even to fall in love.
Le vendredi 12 août 2022, au bout d'une vallée étincelante dans la province de Bolzano, un couple affranchi de toute contrainte s'envole l'un à la suite de l'autre, en parapente. Cédric et Mathilde,
_Onada_ és el segon llibre que va publicar Teresa d'Arenys, el 1980, quatre anys després d'obtenir el premi Amadeu Oller amb _Aor_. _Onada_ recull una suite de poemes, emmarcats per unes poques proses breus i l'ombra d'Omar Khayyam, en record de l'amic poeta Pep Coll, que, com diu l'endreça inicial, en preferir la mar, vas escriure el darrer dels teus versos. Amb un nou proleg d'Oriol Izquierdo, marmessor de l'obra de l'escriptora, aquesta edicio rescata el llibre i alguns elements del seu singular proces de creacio i d'edicio, a cavall entre Horta de Sant Joan i el Maresme. Per convidar el lector a seguir el consell amb que Valeria Pujol tancava el proleg fa quaranta-cinc anys: Caldra potser mirar els estels per tal de no perdre's i invocar vents favorables.
À la mort de sa mère, Sarah reçoit pour tout héritage les clés d’une bicoque perdue au bout du monde et une consigne énigmatique : « Trouve Elora. »Direction l’Albanie, où elle découvre un village ou
La Marta, en Jim, la Rita i en Guillem sestimen, se senten a prop els uns dels altres perque totsarrosseguen ferides des que eren petits. En un moment determinat, han de fer front a un gran daltabaixi cadascun ho fa a la seva manera.Aquesta novella ens proposa conjugar el verb reconciliar-se. Amb els que estimem, amb els que ens hanfet mal, amb el nostre passat, amb la vida... Un cant a lamor en totes les seves formes.
Haynes is the modern embodiment of the best of Homer' Radio TimesNo Friend to This House is an extraordinary reimagining of the myth of Medea from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes.This is what no one tells you, in the songs sung about Jason and the Argo. This part of his quest has been forgotten, by everyone but me . . .Jason and his Argonauts set sail to find the Golden Fleece. The journey is filled with danger, for him and everyone he meets. But if he ever reaches the distant land he seeks, he faces almost certain death.Medea priestess, witch, and daughter of a brutal king has the power to save the life of a stranger. Will she betray her family and her home, and what will she demand in return?Medea and Jason seize their one chance of a life together, as the gods intend. But their love is steeped in vengeance from the beginning, and no one not even those closest to them will be safe.Based on the classic tragedy by Euripides, this is Medea as you've never seen her before . . .
Au coeur de l'Europe, une dictatrice déchaînée, qui exige d'être appelée "le Prince", règne sur sa nation à coups de décrets. Son nom ? Nerona. Paranoïaque, autoritaire, climatosceptique, égérie de l
Une page du roman britannique se tourne avec Mrs Dalloway, au rythme des heures égrenées par l'horloge de Big Ben.Clarissa Dalloway est sortie acheter des fleurs. En chemin, elle repense à son mariag
Publicada en 1955, esta é a novela coa que Cunqueiro comezou a súa obra narrativa logo de escribir varios libros de poemas. A historia dun Merlín xa vello e refuxiado nas terras da Miranda luguesa chega ao lector a traves do relato dunha testemuña directa, o paxe Felipe de Amancia, que lembra os tempos nos que traballou como criado do mago. A historia desenvolvese cunha permanente tension entre o marabilloso e o cotian; pola casa de Merlin pasan numerosos e curiosos personaxes na procura de consello, mais tamen se narran as aventuras de Felipe cando vai facer os encargos do seu amo. Un universo unico na literatura xorde nas fascinantes e engaioladoras historias que conta esta novela, que desde o momento da sua publicacion supuxo un fito no tocante a renovacion da narrativa galega. En Cunqueiro, a arte do narrador, adobiada dun fino sesgo humoristico, sorprende pola capacidade para facer convivir o mito co mundo cotian.O libro fundacional da narrativa de Cunqueiro, poboado de personaxes inverosimiles pero absolutamente verdadeiros cos que a invencion do seu autor chega a cotas prodixiosas.
