FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF CALL ME BY YOUR NAME'A top-notch beach read.' DAILY MAIL'Absorbing.' MAIL ON SUNDAY'The perfect escapist read.' INEWSHave you ever had the sense that maybe all lives are nothing more than the chronicle of countless stinging might-have-beens that continue to haunt us?In the scorching New York heat, a hundred people wait to be selected as jurors. Paul is reading a newspaper. Catherine is reading a novel. So begins a whirlwind flirtation: over cappuccinos in Manhattan and gallery trips to Chelsea, Paul and Catherine escape into the illusion of an Italian getaway. Their feelings quickly evolve into something deeper, something - as mature adults with lives of their own - Paul and Catherine must carry on in secret, with the understanding that anything more than a casual crush is out of the question.
Mehdi se sécha, enfila un tee-shirt propre et un pantalon de toile, et il chercha au fond de sa sacoche le livre qu'il avait acheté pour sa fille. Il poserait sa main sur son épaule, il lui sourirait et lui ordonnerait de ne jamais se retourner. "Mia, va-t'en et ne rentre pas. Ces histoires de racines, ce n'est rien d'autre qu'une maniere de te clouer au sol, alors peu importent le passe, la maison, les objets, les souvenirs. Allume un grand incendie et emporte le feu. "" Enfants de la troisieme generation de la famille Belhaj, Mia et Ines sont nees dans les annees 1980. Comme leur grand-mere Mathilde, leur mere Aicha ou leur tante Selma, elles cherchent a etre libres chacune a sa façon, dans l'exil ou dans la solitude. Il leur faudra se faire une place, apprendre de nouveaux codes, affronter les prejuges, le racisme parfois. Leila Slimani acheve ici de façon splendide la trilogie du Pays des autres, fresque familiale emportee par une poesie vigoureuse et un souffle d'une grande puissance.
Three women in three different eras encounter danger and witchcraft in this eerie multigenerational horror saga from the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic.'Back then, when I was a young woman, there were still witches': that was how Nana Alba always began the stories she told her great-granddaughter Minerva - stories that have stayed with Minerva all her life. Perhaps that's why Minerva has become a graduate student focused on the history of horror literature and is researching the life of Beatrice Tremblay, an obscure author of macabre tales.In the course of assembling her thesis, Minerva uncovers information that reveals that Tremblay's most famous novel, The Vanishing, was inspired by a true story: decades earlier, during the Great Depression, Tremblay attended the same university where Minerva is now studying and became obsessed with her beautiful and otherworldly roommate, who then disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
Els animals no humans són subjectes, i no els objectes en què els convertim, i són capaços de sentir dolor, angoixa i tristesa. Tot això, però, preferim apartar-ho de la nostra mirada. Aquest llibre
Le nouveau roman de Guillaume Musso, enfin en poche !Une policière enquête sur le meurtre d''une riche héritière et plonge en eaux troubles. « Il y a trois vérités : ma vérité, ta vérité, la vérité.
Book 18 in the hugely popular 44 Scotland Street series by worldwide bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith"It's like ice cream, Mr Flynn," Bertie continued. "When you have ice cream, you need to eat it straight away, otherwise it melts. If there are people who haven't got any, you should share it, if you can."When despair for the world grows, Bertie's theory of ice cream reminds us that it's the simple pleasures in life that we should hold onto. And everyone's favourite seven-year-old has a lot to put up with: at home, Irene is planning lessons on Irish Culture for Bertie; at school, he is forced to join Olive and Pansy's book group, and during a day out with his best friend Ranald Braveheart Macpherson, the boys find themselves unexpectedly invited to a wedding.Meanwhile, Bruce's latest property venture goes horribly wrong after trying to move a flat's front door to give it a more prestigious address. At Nine Mile Burn, Matthew and the triplets try to adopt an unwillingly-vegan dog. And Sister Maria-Fiori dei Fiore Montagna discovers the missing part of the Stone of Scone in Drummond Place Gardens.Filled with Alexander McCall Smith's trademark warmth and humour, this latest book in the series is a must-read.
Entre els quatre llibres que s’agrupen amb el nom col·lectiu d’"El Color" —el darrer dels quals és "Comèdia" (1960)— i "Els fets" (1974), aparegué el 1967 L’Evangeli segons un de tants, que connecta
A spellbinding masterpiece' SANTA MONTEFIORE'Isabel Allende is a literary treasure' KRISTIN HANNAHEmilia del Valle was always destined for great things.Abandoned at birth by her Chilean aristocrat father, Emilia comes of age in nineteenth-century San Francisco as an independent and fiercely ambitious young woman, decades ahead of her time. She will do whatever it takes to pursue her life's passion for writing, even if it means publishing under a man's name.When Emilia lands a position as a journalist for the Daily Examiner, her unwavering sense of adventure - and new-found determination to survive in her own name - leads her to seize the chance to cover a brewing civil war in Chile alongside another talented reporter.But the assignment offers Emilia more than just an opportunity to prove herself as a writer. Before long she embarks on a treacherous, life-changing journey in a homeland she never knew, to uncover the truth about her father - and herself.
Lost at sea . . . with your one-night stand'I adored it, it was so romantic' Marian Keyes'Feels like a brand new version of romance . . . I drowned happily in this book' Jodi PicoultLexi is looking for no-strings-attached fun.Zeke is looking for love.Neither of them were looking for a one-night stand to become their one and only lifeline.But when they wake up after an unforgettable night together, the houseboat they stayed on has been swept out to sea. There's no signal, no steering and no sign of rescue.And as the waves pick up and supplies run low, Zeke and Lexi realise there's much more on the line than their new relationship.
A phenomenally immersive read' Claire Lombardo'Brings its setting and its large ensemble of characters vividly to life' Sunday Times'Funny and imaginative with real emotional heft' Irish Independent
Friedrich Schiller diu que el poeta ingenu viu en harmonia amb la naturalesa, coneix la bellesa per intuïció i transmet la realitat com la veu. En canvi, el poeta sentimental s’integra al món a travé
The stunning new novel from the Booker Prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo. 'John of John has the emotional range and sense of sympathy of his earlier books, but this book is special, it has an urgency, an immediacy, a brilliant sense of place, the drama of fierce emotion repressed, concealed and volcanically exposed' - Colm Toibin 'To read John of John is to move to the Isle of Harris and take up residence in the family croft. The novel is so immersive, so all-encompassing, that I felt like I was living in it. Douglas Stuart has written something brilliant and rare' - Ann Patchett Out of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry home to the island of Harris to find that not much has changed except for him. In the windswept croft where he grew up, Cal resumes his old life, caught between the two poles of his childhood: his father John, a sheep farmer, weaver, and pillar of their local Presbyterian church, and his Glaswegian grandmother Ella, who has kept a faltering peace with her son-in-law for decades. While Cal wonders if any lonely men might be found on the barren hillsides of home, John is dismayed by his son's long hair and how he seems unwilling to be Saved. As the seasons pass, everything is poised to change as the threads holding together the fragile community become increasingly entangled. John of John is the heartbreaking story of a young man's return home and how the bonds of family life are torn by the weight of expectation. It confirms Douglas Stuart as one of the great British writers at work today.
In this sizzling dystopian romance, perfect for fans of Fourth Wing and The Hunger Games, your secrets can be a death sentence, and there are rules to survival:TRUST NO ONE.Twenty-year-old Wren Darlington is not your ordinary Mod. Shes one of the most powerful in existence.But her world is divided. On the Continent, being a known Modified means certain death, as the Primes - those immune to the biotoxin that nearly wiped out the population 150 years ago - want nothing more than to eliminate those who were enhanced by the toxin and developed psychic powers.
The #1 Sunday Times bestselling sensation When the Moon Hatched continues with the second book in The Moonfall Series, The Ballad of Falling DragonsDiscover the phenomenon everyone's falling for:With dragons, doomed lovers and magic, this will be huge' Stylist'Hailed as the fantasy phenomenon of 2024 You'll be transported into a world of magic, dragons and love'Sun
Una novel·la sobre el dol, la necessitat d'entendre els altres -i a un mateix- i el veritable significat d'estimar Tres germans. Tres maneres de viure, de callar, de retreure. Ja adults, davant del notari, escolten el testament del pare: el pis de Gracia repartit a parts iguals i l'Aurelia com a unica hereva de la casa familiar a Guimera. Amb aquest llegat inesperat a les mans, l'Aurelia es pregunta quin es el veritable sentit de ser una familia: acceptar la rancunia de la Gisela i la indiferencia d'en Guillem?, conviure amb la veu absent de la mare? Potser la familia es sobretot el pare que ella ha cuidat i la filla que ha engendrat. Mai mes sera dimecres desplega el passat i el present de l'Aurelia Alzina Amat en capitols concisos que fan aflorar contradiccions i flaqueses i ens parlen dels vincles familiars i de la recerca de la propia identitat.
"Fins que un dia, sense que jo en fos plenament conscient, el cor se'm va cremar. Va saltar pels aires transformat en pols de cendra, la mateixa que em tacava la cara a mesura que m'endinsava en allo que se suposava que havia estat la nostra llar." La Hanna recorre el seu pis reduit a cendres despres que un fort incendi hagi arrassat amb tot. El lector acompanyara la protagonista en aquest viatge per les restes del foc i la memoria, descobrint tot un llegat de secrets amagats. El pis de l'avia, on ha viscut els anys d'amor amb en Carlos, ha desaparegut amb la virulencia de les flames. Pero sota la destruccio tambe pot amagar-se un nou inici. Amb el foc com a fil conductor, Cendra es una novel·la visceral i colpidora que entrellaça les ferides de la Hanna amb les de la seva avia per revelar fins a quin punt el dolor pot ser una herencia familiar.
Què estan disposades a fer per estimar-se, una mare i una filla? "Des que he nascut, puc morir en qualsevol moment". Aquesta és una història sobre créixer en un entorn hostil. La protagonista d'aques
Aya has gone missing after Kakos brutal attack on Dunmeaden. Will is desperately searching for her, joined by Aidon, whos on the run after revealing his forbidden power. But what no one knows is that Aya has been abducted by the vindictive first saint, Evie, who plans to join Kakos and help destroy the gods who killed her 500 years ago. Aya must decide her true fate. Can she fulfil the prophecy and save the realm from the destruction Evie will inevitably bring in her search for vengence? Or should the gods pay for what theyve done?
Una novel·la de passions i silencis en què tres veus reconstrueixen una veritat tràgica que confon memòria, bogeria i desig A principis del segle XX, en un poble de Ponent envoltat de paisatges rúste
