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A heartbreaking novel of family secrets from one of the masters of modern fiction, The Rain Before it Falls is part of our Penguin Essentials series which spotlights the very best of our modern classicsDeeply moving and compelling, The Rain Before it Falls is the story of three generations of one family riven by tragedy. When Rosamund, a reluctant bearer of family secrets, dies suddenly, a mystery is left for her niece Gill to unravel. Some photograph albums and tapes point towards a blind girl named Imogen whom no one has seen in twenty years. The search for Imogen and the truth of her inheritance becomes a shocking story of mothers and daughters and of how sadness, like a musical refrain, may haunt us down the years.A sad, often very moving story of mothers and daughters GuardianEntirely compelling...the plot will keep you rapt...reminiscent of Ian McEwan at his most effective New Statesman

Una novel·la sobre salut mental i maternitat en què una diputada pateix depressió postpart. Un viatge per ferides personals i lluites universals mitjançant l'art i la literatura. El que hauria d'have

THE TIKTOK SENSATIONMeet BUNNY: the darkly funny, spellbinding trip of a novel that EVERYONE is talking about'No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled. O Bunny you are sooo genius!' MARGARET ATWOODWe call them Bunnies because that is what they call each other. Seriously.Bunny. Samantha Heather Mackey is an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at Warren University. In fact, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort - a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other 'Bunny'.But then the Bunnies issue her with an invitation and Samantha finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door, across the threshold, and down their rabbit hole. Blending sharp satire with fairytale horror, Bunny provides a hilarious look at the dark side of female friendship from one of fiction's most original voices. 'The Secret History meets Jennifer's Body.Brilliant, sharp, weird... I loved it and I couldn't put it down.' KRISTEN ROUPENIAN 'Made me nod and cackle in terrified recognition.' LENA DUNHAM 'Hilarious, hallucinogenic freakery.' DAILY MAIL 'Cerebral and complusively readable.' VANITY FAIR

First book in The Villains series, a dark romance exploring power and desire.

My name is Ernest Cunningham.Im not a detective. I just happen to have a knack for what makes mysteries tick. Id hoped, this Christmas, that any self-respecting murderer would kick their feet up and take it easy over the holidays.I was wrong.So here I am, backstage at the Christmas show of world-famous magician Rylan Blaze, whose benefactor has just been murdered. From the magicians assistant to the hypnotist, my suspects are all professional tricksters. Masters in the art of misdirection.Solving the murder is the only gift I want this year. But can I catch a killer, and make it home for Christmas alive?

Morgan Grant and her sixteen-year-old daughter, Clara, would like nothing more than to be nothing alike.Morgan is determined to prevent her daughter from making the same mistakes she did. By getting pregnant and married way too young, Morgan put her own dreams on hold. Clara doesnt want to follow in her mothers footsteps. Her predictable mother doesnt have a spontaneous bone in her body.With warring personalities and conflicting goals, Morgan and Clara find it increasingly difficult to coexist. The only person who can bring peace to the household is ChrisMorgans husband, Claras father, and the family anchor. But that peace is shattered when Chris is involved in a tragic and questionable accident. The heartbreaking and long-lasting consequences will reach far beyond just Morgan and Clara.While struggling to rebuild everything that crashed around them, Morgan finds comfort in the last person she expects to, and Clara turns to the one boy shes been forbidden to see. With each passing day, new secrets, resentment, and misunderstandings make mother and daughter fall further apart. So far apart, it might be impossible for them to ever fall back together.

Brandon Sanderson's epic fantasy trilogy overturns the expectations of readers and then goes on to tell the epic story of evil overturned in a richly imagined world. A thousand years ago evil came to the land and has ruled with an iron hand ever since. The sun shines fitfully under clouds of ash that float down endlessly from the constant eruption of volcanoes. A dark lord rules through the aristocratic families and ordinary folk are condemned to lives in servitude, sold as goods, labouring in the ash fields. But now a troublemaker has arrived and there is rumour of revolt. A revolt that depends on criminal that no-one can trust and a young girl who must master Allomancy - the magic that lies in all metals. A word of mouth success in the states the Mistborn trilogy has, this year, broken onto the New York Times Bestseller list. The time is ripe for its success to cross the Atlantic

Ez nuen leihorik ireki behar izan gertatuko zitzaidana ezagutzeko, horixe da eleberriaren lehen perpausa. Martzelinaren bihozkada hori nagusitzen da hasiera-hasieratik; eta nobela zehazki ez dakigun gertakariaren inguruko informazioa antolatzen igaroko da. Baserri giroko trajedia bat da eleberri hau. Indarrean eta afanean oinarritzen den kontakizuna: apostulari baten heriotza du gertaera nagusi. Pertsonaia desberdinen eta ikuspuntu desberdinetan oinarrituz, emakume baten bakardade eta sofrimenduaren ikuspegi sakona eskaini du idazleak. Ikuspuntuaren erabilera erabakigarria gertatzen da. Bernardo Atxagaren Bi Anairekin batera hauxe da 80eko euskal nobelarik lortuena. Sotelo

Els contes complets de Pere Calders en una edició màgica il·lustrada per Ignasi Font. Amb aquesta edició que aplega en dos volums tots els contes de Pere Calders, i fins i tot alguns inèdits o mai re

Els contes complets de Pere Calders en una edició màgica il·lustrada per Ignasi Font. Amb aquesta edició que aplega en dos volums tots els contes de Pere Calders, i fins i tot alguns inèdits o mai re

Justine vit avec son cousin et ses grands-parents depuis la mort accidentelle de ses parents. Murés dans le silence, ces derniers refusent d'évoquer le passé. Elle se tourne vers les résidents de la maison de retraite où elle travaille et écoute leurs souvenirs, notamment ceux d'Hélène qui dévoile un amour ayant survécu aux malheurs. Premier roman. Prix intergénération (Forêt des livres 2015).

Oedipa Maas, recent heiress, enquires into the nature of her inheritance:trying to understand her own life and the motivation of her dead lover, she is led on am ambiguous trail of clues. The moment of revelation hovers on the horizon like a mirage. Pynchon's shortest novel, and one of his best.

«L’amistat deu ser això: els lligams invisibles amb algú que fa quinze anys que no has vist i és com si hi haguessis parlat abans-d’ahir». El Kim i la Laura es coneixen a la universitat. Vénen de mon

Richard Morgan has always been one of our most successful SF authors with his fast-moving and brutal storylines, blistering plots and a powerful social conscience behind his work.And now he''s back, with his first SF novel for eight years . . . and it promises to be a publication to remember.An ex-corporate enforcer, Hakan Veil, is forced to bodyguard Madison Madekwe, part of a colonial audit team investigating a disappeared lottery winner on Mars. But when Madekwe is abducted, and Hakan nearly killed, the investigation takes him farther and deeper than he had ever expected. And soon Hakan discovers the heavy price he may have to pay to learn the truth.

From the National Book Award-winning author comes a luminous, deeply humane novel about three generations of an Irish immigrant family in 1940s and 1950s Brooklyn - for those who love Colm Toibin, Anne Enright and Anne Tyler On a dim winter afternoon in a Brooklyn tenement, a young Irish immigrant unhooks the oven gas, and inhales. In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, an ageing nun appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and unborn child. This is how Sally comes to grow up in the convent laundry, amidst the crank of the wringer and the hiss of the iron, her universe governed by the strange, kind and mysterious Little Nursing Sisters of the Sick Poor. But although superstition and shame will collude to erase Sally's father's brief existence, his suicide will reverberate through many lives and over many decades. And when she comes of age, Sally will commit her own irrevocable deed, sacrificing her grace at the altar of human love.

FROM THE MAN BOOKER AND ORANGE PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF HALF BLOOD BLUES 'A masterpiece' Attica Locke 'High adventure fraught with cliffhanger twists mark this runaway-slave narrative, which leaps, sails, and soars ... broadens inventive possibilities for the antebellum novel' Kirkus starred review When two English brothers take the helm of a Barbados sugar plantation, Washington Black - an eleven year-old field slave - finds himself selected as personal servant to one of these men. The eccentric Christopher 'Titch' Wilde is a naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor and abolitionist, whose single-minded pursuit of the perfect aerial machine mystifies all around him. Titch's idealistic plans are soon shattered and Washington finds himself in mortal danger. They escape the island together, but then then Titch disappears and Washington must make his way alone, following the promise of freedom further than he ever dreamed possible. From the blistering cane fields of Barbados to the icy wastes of the Canadian Arctic, from the mud-drowned streets of London to the eerie deserts of Morocco, Washington Black teems with all the strangeness and mystery of life. Inspired by a true story, Washington Black is the extraordinary tale of a world destroyed and made whole again.

Roland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. Its February 1980 and he has just come from lunch with Francois Mitterrand, a slippery politician locked in a battle for the Presidency. Barthes dies soon afterwards. History tells us it was an accident.But what if it were an assassination? What if Barthes was carrying a document of unbelievable, global importance? A document explaining the seventh function of language an idea so powerful it gives whoever masters it the ability to convince anyone, in any situation, to do anything.Police Captain Jacques Bayard and his reluctant accomplice Simon Herzog set off on a chase that takes them from the corridors of power and academia to backstreet saunas and midnight rendezvous. What they discover is a worldwide conspiracy involving the President, murderous Bulgarians and a secret international debating society.In the world of intellectuals and politicians, everyone is a suspect. Who can you trust when the idea of truth itself is at stake?

Je pourrais dire que cest un recueil de nouvelles, que ce sont des histoires, quil y en a sept en tout et quelles commencent toutes a la premiere personne du singulier mais je ne le vois pas ainsi. Pour moi, ce ne sont pas des histoires et encore moins des personnages, ce sont des gens. De vraies gens.Ils parlent pour essayer dy voir clair, ils se devoilent, ils se confient, ils fendent larmure. Tous ny parviennent pas mais de les regarder essayer, deja, cela ma emue. Cest pretentieux de parler de ses propres personnages en avouant quils vous ont emue mais je vous le repete : pour moi ce ne sont pas des personnages, ce sont des gens, de reelles gens, de nouvelles gens, et cest eux que je vous confie aujourdhui.Anne Gavalda.

In honour of the centennial of the birth of J.D. Salinger in 1919, Penguin reissues all four of his books in beautiful commemorative hardback editions - with artwork and text based on the very first Salinger editions published in the 1950s and 1960s. The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield... One of the greatest American novels of all time, The Catcher in the Rye is a classic coming-of-age story: an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the deeply human need for connection and the bewildering sense of loss as we leave childhood behind. 'A perfect novel ... it changed US culture forever' Independent 'It was a very pure voice he had. There was no one like him' Martin Amis 'He was the poet of youthful alienation before youth really knew what that was' Sunday Times 'His work meant a lot to me when I was a young person and his writing still sings now' Dave Eggers

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A heartbreaking novel of family secrets from one of the masters of modern fiction, The Rain Before it Falls is part of our Penguin Essentials series which spotlights the very best of our modern classicsDeeply moving and compelling, The Rain Before it Falls is the story of three generations of one family riven by tragedy. When Rosamund, a reluctant bearer of family secrets, dies suddenly, a mystery is left for her niece Gill to unravel. Some photograph albums and tapes point towards a blind girl named Imogen whom no one has seen in twenty years. The search for Imogen and the truth of her inheritance becomes a shocking story of mothers and daughters and of how sadness, like a musical refrain, may haunt us down the years.A sad, often very moving story of mothers and daughters GuardianEntirely compelling...the plot will keep you rapt...reminiscent of Ian McEwan at his most effective New Statesman

Una novel·la sobre salut mental i maternitat en què una diputada pateix depressió postpart. Un viatge per ferides personals i lluites universals mitjançant l'art i la literatura. El que hauria d'have

THE TIKTOK SENSATIONMeet BUNNY: the darkly funny, spellbinding trip of a novel that EVERYONE is talking about'No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled. O Bunny you are sooo genius!' MARGARET ATWOODWe call them Bunnies because that is what they call each other. Seriously.Bunny. Samantha Heather Mackey is an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at Warren University. In fact, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort - a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other 'Bunny'.But then the Bunnies issue her with an invitation and Samantha finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door, across the threshold, and down their rabbit hole. Blending sharp satire with fairytale horror, Bunny provides a hilarious look at the dark side of female friendship from one of fiction's most original voices. 'The Secret History meets Jennifer's Body.Brilliant, sharp, weird... I loved it and I couldn't put it down.' KRISTEN ROUPENIAN 'Made me nod and cackle in terrified recognition.' LENA DUNHAM 'Hilarious, hallucinogenic freakery.' DAILY MAIL 'Cerebral and complusively readable.' VANITY FAIR

First book in The Villains series, a dark romance exploring power and desire.

My name is Ernest Cunningham.Im not a detective. I just happen to have a knack for what makes mysteries tick. Id hoped, this Christmas, that any self-respecting murderer would kick their feet up and take it easy over the holidays.I was wrong.So here I am, backstage at the Christmas show of world-famous magician Rylan Blaze, whose benefactor has just been murdered. From the magicians assistant to the hypnotist, my suspects are all professional tricksters. Masters in the art of misdirection.Solving the murder is the only gift I want this year. But can I catch a killer, and make it home for Christmas alive?

Morgan Grant and her sixteen-year-old daughter, Clara, would like nothing more than to be nothing alike.Morgan is determined to prevent her daughter from making the same mistakes she did. By getting pregnant and married way too young, Morgan put her own dreams on hold. Clara doesnt want to follow in her mothers footsteps. Her predictable mother doesnt have a spontaneous bone in her body.With warring personalities and conflicting goals, Morgan and Clara find it increasingly difficult to coexist. The only person who can bring peace to the household is ChrisMorgans husband, Claras father, and the family anchor. But that peace is shattered when Chris is involved in a tragic and questionable accident. The heartbreaking and long-lasting consequences will reach far beyond just Morgan and Clara.While struggling to rebuild everything that crashed around them, Morgan finds comfort in the last person she expects to, and Clara turns to the one boy shes been forbidden to see. With each passing day, new secrets, resentment, and misunderstandings make mother and daughter fall further apart. So far apart, it might be impossible for them to ever fall back together.

Brandon Sanderson's epic fantasy trilogy overturns the expectations of readers and then goes on to tell the epic story of evil overturned in a richly imagined world. A thousand years ago evil came to the land and has ruled with an iron hand ever since. The sun shines fitfully under clouds of ash that float down endlessly from the constant eruption of volcanoes. A dark lord rules through the aristocratic families and ordinary folk are condemned to lives in servitude, sold as goods, labouring in the ash fields. But now a troublemaker has arrived and there is rumour of revolt. A revolt that depends on criminal that no-one can trust and a young girl who must master Allomancy - the magic that lies in all metals. A word of mouth success in the states the Mistborn trilogy has, this year, broken onto the New York Times Bestseller list. The time is ripe for its success to cross the Atlantic

Ez nuen leihorik ireki behar izan gertatuko zitzaidana ezagutzeko, horixe da eleberriaren lehen perpausa. Martzelinaren bihozkada hori nagusitzen da hasiera-hasieratik; eta nobela zehazki ez dakigun gertakariaren inguruko informazioa antolatzen igaroko da. Baserri giroko trajedia bat da eleberri hau. Indarrean eta afanean oinarritzen den kontakizuna: apostulari baten heriotza du gertaera nagusi. Pertsonaia desberdinen eta ikuspuntu desberdinetan oinarrituz, emakume baten bakardade eta sofrimenduaren ikuspegi sakona eskaini du idazleak. Ikuspuntuaren erabilera erabakigarria gertatzen da. Bernardo Atxagaren Bi Anairekin batera hauxe da 80eko euskal nobelarik lortuena. Sotelo

Els contes complets de Pere Calders en una edició màgica il·lustrada per Ignasi Font. Amb aquesta edició que aplega en dos volums tots els contes de Pere Calders, i fins i tot alguns inèdits o mai re

Els contes complets de Pere Calders en una edició màgica il·lustrada per Ignasi Font. Amb aquesta edició que aplega en dos volums tots els contes de Pere Calders, i fins i tot alguns inèdits o mai re

Justine vit avec son cousin et ses grands-parents depuis la mort accidentelle de ses parents. Murés dans le silence, ces derniers refusent d'évoquer le passé. Elle se tourne vers les résidents de la maison de retraite où elle travaille et écoute leurs souvenirs, notamment ceux d'Hélène qui dévoile un amour ayant survécu aux malheurs. Premier roman. Prix intergénération (Forêt des livres 2015).

Oedipa Maas, recent heiress, enquires into the nature of her inheritance:trying to understand her own life and the motivation of her dead lover, she is led on am ambiguous trail of clues. The moment of revelation hovers on the horizon like a mirage. Pynchon's shortest novel, and one of his best.

«L’amistat deu ser això: els lligams invisibles amb algú que fa quinze anys que no has vist i és com si hi haguessis parlat abans-d’ahir». El Kim i la Laura es coneixen a la universitat. Vénen de mon

Richard Morgan has always been one of our most successful SF authors with his fast-moving and brutal storylines, blistering plots and a powerful social conscience behind his work.And now he''s back, with his first SF novel for eight years . . . and it promises to be a publication to remember.An ex-corporate enforcer, Hakan Veil, is forced to bodyguard Madison Madekwe, part of a colonial audit team investigating a disappeared lottery winner on Mars. But when Madekwe is abducted, and Hakan nearly killed, the investigation takes him farther and deeper than he had ever expected. And soon Hakan discovers the heavy price he may have to pay to learn the truth.

From the National Book Award-winning author comes a luminous, deeply humane novel about three generations of an Irish immigrant family in 1940s and 1950s Brooklyn - for those who love Colm Toibin, Anne Enright and Anne Tyler On a dim winter afternoon in a Brooklyn tenement, a young Irish immigrant unhooks the oven gas, and inhales. In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, an ageing nun appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and unborn child. This is how Sally comes to grow up in the convent laundry, amidst the crank of the wringer and the hiss of the iron, her universe governed by the strange, kind and mysterious Little Nursing Sisters of the Sick Poor. But although superstition and shame will collude to erase Sally's father's brief existence, his suicide will reverberate through many lives and over many decades. And when she comes of age, Sally will commit her own irrevocable deed, sacrificing her grace at the altar of human love.

FROM THE MAN BOOKER AND ORANGE PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF HALF BLOOD BLUES 'A masterpiece' Attica Locke 'High adventure fraught with cliffhanger twists mark this runaway-slave narrative, which leaps, sails, and soars ... broadens inventive possibilities for the antebellum novel' Kirkus starred review When two English brothers take the helm of a Barbados sugar plantation, Washington Black - an eleven year-old field slave - finds himself selected as personal servant to one of these men. The eccentric Christopher 'Titch' Wilde is a naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor and abolitionist, whose single-minded pursuit of the perfect aerial machine mystifies all around him. Titch's idealistic plans are soon shattered and Washington finds himself in mortal danger. They escape the island together, but then then Titch disappears and Washington must make his way alone, following the promise of freedom further than he ever dreamed possible. From the blistering cane fields of Barbados to the icy wastes of the Canadian Arctic, from the mud-drowned streets of London to the eerie deserts of Morocco, Washington Black teems with all the strangeness and mystery of life. Inspired by a true story, Washington Black is the extraordinary tale of a world destroyed and made whole again.

Roland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. Its February 1980 and he has just come from lunch with Francois Mitterrand, a slippery politician locked in a battle for the Presidency. Barthes dies soon afterwards. History tells us it was an accident.But what if it were an assassination? What if Barthes was carrying a document of unbelievable, global importance? A document explaining the seventh function of language an idea so powerful it gives whoever masters it the ability to convince anyone, in any situation, to do anything.Police Captain Jacques Bayard and his reluctant accomplice Simon Herzog set off on a chase that takes them from the corridors of power and academia to backstreet saunas and midnight rendezvous. What they discover is a worldwide conspiracy involving the President, murderous Bulgarians and a secret international debating society.In the world of intellectuals and politicians, everyone is a suspect. Who can you trust when the idea of truth itself is at stake?

Je pourrais dire que cest un recueil de nouvelles, que ce sont des histoires, quil y en a sept en tout et quelles commencent toutes a la premiere personne du singulier mais je ne le vois pas ainsi. Pour moi, ce ne sont pas des histoires et encore moins des personnages, ce sont des gens. De vraies gens.Ils parlent pour essayer dy voir clair, ils se devoilent, ils se confient, ils fendent larmure. Tous ny parviennent pas mais de les regarder essayer, deja, cela ma emue. Cest pretentieux de parler de ses propres personnages en avouant quils vous ont emue mais je vous le repete : pour moi ce ne sont pas des personnages, ce sont des gens, de reelles gens, de nouvelles gens, et cest eux que je vous confie aujourdhui.Anne Gavalda.

In honour of the centennial of the birth of J.D. Salinger in 1919, Penguin reissues all four of his books in beautiful commemorative hardback editions - with artwork and text based on the very first Salinger editions published in the 1950s and 1960s. The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield... One of the greatest American novels of all time, The Catcher in the Rye is a classic coming-of-age story: an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the deeply human need for connection and the bewildering sense of loss as we leave childhood behind. 'A perfect novel ... it changed US culture forever' Independent 'It was a very pure voice he had. There was no one like him' Martin Amis 'He was the poet of youthful alienation before youth really knew what that was' Sunday Times 'His work meant a lot to me when I was a young person and his writing still sings now' Dave Eggers

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