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The new captivating novel from the author of The Island, The Return, The Thread, The Sunrise and Cartes Postales from Greece 'Hislop's passionate love of the country breathes from every page' Daily Mail on Cartes Postales from Greece 'Fascinating and moving . . . Hislop writes unforgettably about Cyprus and its people' The Times on The Sunrise 'Intricate, beautifully observed and with a painter's eye for imagery, in these stories Hislop evokes Greece, its people, its customs and traditions with a sensitivity that reveals her deep knowledge of not just the place but also the human condition' Express on The Last Dance and Other Stories 'Sweeping, magnificently detailed and ambitious' The Sunday Times on The Thread 'Meticulously researched historical narrative and imaginative storytelling' Telegraph on The Return 'This is a vivid, moving and absorbing tale . . . Her message seems as relevant today as it would have been a century ago' Observer

WINNER FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 Chance. Luck. Choice. The addictive, darkly funny novel of one mans rise and fall.'A revelatory novel' Sunday Times'Brilliance on every page' Samantha Harvey, author of OrbitalA propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp.Fifteen-year-old Istvan lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he is unfamiliar with the social rituals at school and soon becomes isolated, with his neighbour a married woman close to his mothers age as his only companion. These encounters shift into a clandestine relationship that Istvan himself can barely understand, and his life soon spirals out of control.As the years pass, he is carried gradually upwards on the twenty-first centurys tides of money and power, moving from the army to the company of Londons super-rich, with his own competing impulses for love, intimacy, status and wealth winning him unimaginable riches, until they threaten to undo him completely.Spare and penetrating, Flesh is the finest novel yet by a master of realism, asking profound questions about what drives a life: what makes it worth living, and what breaks it.Chosen as a Best Book of 2025 by the Guardian, Observer, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph and Daily MailFlesh is a wonderful novel so brilliant and wise on chance, love, sex, money' David Nicholls, author of One Day'Its been a long time since Ive been swallowed whole by a novel the way I was by this one ... So much searing insight into the way we live now' Observer'Compelling and elegant, merciless and poignant. David Szalay is an extraordinary writer' Tessa Hadley

WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 'Modern classics in this genre are rare, and instant ones even rarer; The Loney, however, looks as though it may be both' Sunday Telegraph If it had another name, I never knew, but the locals called it the Loney - that strange nowhere between the Wyre and the Lune where Hanny and I went every Easter time with Mummer, Farther, Mr and Mrs Belderboss and Father Wilfred, the parish priest. It was impossible to truly know the place. It changed with each influx and retreat, and the neap tides would reveal the skeletons of those who thought they could escape its insidious currents. No one ever went near the water. No one apart from us, that is. I suppose I always knew that what happened there wouldn't stay hidden for ever, no matter how much I wanted it to. No matter how hard I tried to forget ...

Ez da normala izango, esan zion medikuak haurrak urtebete zuenean. Jaio aurretik, ordea, Amak jakin bazekien barruan zeraman haurra ez zela besteak bezalakoa izango. Amak alaba etxean isolatu zuen, eta herritarren txutxu-mutxuak areagotu egin ziren. Hain zen estua bien arteko harremana, beste alaba baten jaiotzak ez baitzuen hori haustea lortu.Etxe heze eta ilunean sustraituko dira hiru emakumeak, asinkronia batean; bizilagunen usteak inguratuta, sufrikario eta errezoen artean, patu ankerrari begira. Etxe horretan ez dira, inolaz ere, hain erraz ustelduko sekretuak.Emakumeen sufrimendua, osasun mentala eta familiarteko dinamikak ardatz ditu Puntobobo eleberriak. Itxaso Martinek ez du eufemismorik erabiltzen; estilo intimista eta soil batez idatzi du istorio honen errealitate gordina. Ez da eleberri kostunbrista bat, protagonisten psikologian sakonduz idazleak ateratako argazki gardena baizik.

A twisting, pulse-pounding psychological thriller from Freida McFadden, the Sunday Times bestselling author of the highly addictive global bestselling Housemaid series.***"You must be our new neighbors!" Mrs. Lowell gushes and waves across the picket fence. I clutch my daughter's hand and smile back: but the second Mrs. Lowell sees my husband a strange expression crosses her face. In that moment I make a promise. We finally have a family home. My past is far, far behind us. And I'll do anything to keep it that wayI used to clean other people's housesnow, I can't believe this home is actually mine. The charming kitchen, the quiet cul-de-sac, the huge yard where my kids can play. My husband and I saved for years to give our children the life they deserve.Even still, I'm wary of our new neighbor Mrs. Lowell. When she invites us over for dinner it's our chance to make friends. Her maid opens the door wearing a white apron, her hair in a tight bun. I know exactly what it's like to be in her shoes. But her cold stare gives me chillsThe Lowells' maid isn't the only strange thing on our street. I'm sure I see a shadowy figure watching us. My husband leaves the house late at night. And when I meet a woman who lives across the way, her words chill me to the bone: Be careful of your neighbors.Did I make a terrible mistake moving my family here?I thought I'd left my darkest secrets behind. But could this quiet suburban street be the most dangerous place of all?Unbelievably twisty and tension-packed, The Housemaid is Watching can be enjoyed as a standalone read: and once you start, it will have you up all night racing through the pages until the final explosive twist.

A fairytale romance where curses and fate collide, introducing Evangeline Fox and the Prince of Hearts.

BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS, THE

John Irving, one of the world's greatest novelists, returns with his first novel in seven years - a ghost story, a love story, and a lifetime of sexual politics.In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor.Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years later, looking for answers, Adam will go to Aspen. In the Hotel Jerome, where he was conceived, Adam will meet some ghosts; in The Last Chairlift, they aren't the first or the last ghosts he sees.

The most hotly anticipated thriller of 2018 follows our hero Jack Reacher on a quest into his father''s past, and climaxes in the most blood-curdling ticking time bomb of an adventure yet.The present can be tense . . . A young couple trying to get to New York City are stranded at a lonely motel in the middle of nowhere. Before long theyre trapped in an ominous game of life and death.But the past can be worse . . .Meanwhile, Jack Reacher sets out on an epic road trip across America. He doesnt get far. Deep in the New England woods, he sees a sign to a place he has never been - the town where his father was born. But when he arrives he is told no one named Reacher ever lived there. Now he wonders: whos lying?As the tension ratchets up and these two stories begin to entwine, the stakes have never been higher for Reacher.Thats for damn sure.

Gives readers a taste of the Classics huge range and diversity with works from around the world and across the centuries including fables decadence heartbreak tall tales satire ghosts battl

Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of The Poppy War Absolutely phenomenal. One of the most brilliant, razor-sharp books I've had the pleasure of reading that isn't just an alternative fantastical history, but an interrogative one; one that grabs colonial history and the Industrial Revolution, turns it over, and shakes it out. -- Shannon Chakraborty, bestselling author of The City of BrassFrom award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire.Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day hell enroll in Oxford Universitys prestigious Royal Institute of Translationalso known as Babel.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WITH A NEW CHAPTER ON TURNING THIRTY.READ AND LOVED IT? GIFT IT TO A FRIEND!'There is no writer quite like Dolly Alderton working today and very soon the world will know it' Lisa Taddeo, author Three Women'The book we will thrust into our friends' hands. Alderton feels like a best friend and your older sister all rolled into one and her pages wrap around you like a warm hug'Evening StandardAward-winning journalist Dolly Alderton survived her twenties (just about) and in Everything I Know About Love, she gives an unflinching account of the bad dates and squalid flat-shares, the heartaches and humiliations, and most importantly, the unbreakable female friendships that helped her to hold it all together. Glittering with wit, heart and humour, this is a book to press into the hands of every woman who has ever been there or is about to find themselves taking that first step towards the rest of their lives.

La novel·la en català més divertida i esbojarrada del moment.Una història per riure, plorar i reconciliar-se amb la vida. La Rita Racons se’n va als Estats Units a fer d’au-pair sense saber-ho del to

How do you solve a mystery when you cant understand the clues?A rich tapestry distinctive and compelling ObserverA stunning whodunnit Mail on SundayA beautiful, original novel, at once funny and tragic and brave Sarah PinboroughThere are three things you need to know about Jasper.1. He sees the world completely differently.2. He cant recognise faces not even his own.3. He is the only witness to the murder of his neighbour, Bee Larkham.But uncovering the truth about that night will change his world foreverAn extraordinary and compelling debut which will make you see the world in a way youve never seen it before

Sal planned it for almost a year before they ran. And now Sal knows a lot of stuff. Like how to build a shelter and start a fire. How to estimate distances, snare rabbits and shoot an airgun. And how to protect her sister, Peppa. Because Peppa is ten, which is how old Sal was when Robert started on her.Told in Sal''s distinctive voice, and filled with the silent, dizzying beauty of rural Scotland, Sal is a disturbing, uplifting story of survival, of the kindness of strangers, and the irrepressible power of sisterly love; a love that can lead us to do extraordinary and unimaginable things.

England 1648. A dangerous time for a woman to be different . . .Midsummers Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even to the remote Tidelands the marshy landscape of the south coast.Alinor, a descendant of wise women, crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her abusive husband. Instead she meets James, a young man on the run, and shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marsh, not knowing that she is leading disaster into the heart of her life.Suspected of possessing dark secrets in superstitious times, Alinors ambition and determination mark her out from her neighbours. This is the time of witch-mania, and Alinor, a woman without a husband, skilled with herbs, suddenly enriched, arouses envy in her rivals and fear among the villagers, who are ready to take lethal action into their own hands.

These stories are linked by common themes of belonging, dislocation and identity, and together they take the pulse of a country in turmoil.In The Opposite of Death Roberto Saviano writes about a town in southern Italy haunted by the war in Afghanistan, where one by one its sons are dying. Carlo Lucarelli (Ferengi) explores the colonial war in Eritrea through the eyes of a maid working for a sick man who begs her to end his suffering. Piero Colapricos Grade C is a breathless Milanese crime thriller in miniature, while Valeria Parrellas The Prize, set during World War II, reminds us that revenge is a dish best served cold.Contains stories by Roberto Saviano, Carlo Lucarelli, Valeria Parrella, Piero Colaprico, Wu Ming, and Simona Vinci.

Una celebració ferotge de la segona meitat de la vidaLa protagonista d’aquesta història hi ha un dia que diu "fins aquí". Després de mitja vida emmotllant-se al patró que tocava —esposa exemplar, mar

Hong Kong. American journalist Paul and his Chinese girlfriend face a crisis. A troubling letter arrives from mainland China from Christines long lost brother and they feel compelled to come to his rescue. There they find a village in turmoil and his brothers life in disarray.Their dangerous quest for justice begins set against a China beset by corrupt politicians, ruthless business interests where citizens, still in the long shadow of the Cultural Revolution have few rights in the face of an all-powerful system.Sendkers world is rich and intense: his books weave together love story and crime thriller, the wisdom of Confucius and the thoughts of Mao, between the emotive West and the fatalistic, philosophical East. And above all a sense of deep, honest faith in the human spirit.

The new captivating novel from the author of The Island, The Return, The Thread, The Sunrise and Cartes Postales from Greece 'Hislop's passionate love of the country breathes from every page' Daily Mail on Cartes Postales from Greece 'Fascinating and moving . . . Hislop writes unforgettably about Cyprus and its people' The Times on The Sunrise 'Intricate, beautifully observed and with a painter's eye for imagery, in these stories Hislop evokes Greece, its people, its customs and traditions with a sensitivity that reveals her deep knowledge of not just the place but also the human condition' Express on The Last Dance and Other Stories 'Sweeping, magnificently detailed and ambitious' The Sunday Times on The Thread 'Meticulously researched historical narrative and imaginative storytelling' Telegraph on The Return 'This is a vivid, moving and absorbing tale . . . Her message seems as relevant today as it would have been a century ago' Observer

WINNER FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 Chance. Luck. Choice. The addictive, darkly funny novel of one mans rise and fall.'A revelatory novel' Sunday Times'Brilliance on every page' Samantha Harvey, author of OrbitalA propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp.Fifteen-year-old Istvan lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he is unfamiliar with the social rituals at school and soon becomes isolated, with his neighbour a married woman close to his mothers age as his only companion. These encounters shift into a clandestine relationship that Istvan himself can barely understand, and his life soon spirals out of control.As the years pass, he is carried gradually upwards on the twenty-first centurys tides of money and power, moving from the army to the company of Londons super-rich, with his own competing impulses for love, intimacy, status and wealth winning him unimaginable riches, until they threaten to undo him completely.Spare and penetrating, Flesh is the finest novel yet by a master of realism, asking profound questions about what drives a life: what makes it worth living, and what breaks it.Chosen as a Best Book of 2025 by the Guardian, Observer, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph and Daily MailFlesh is a wonderful novel so brilliant and wise on chance, love, sex, money' David Nicholls, author of One Day'Its been a long time since Ive been swallowed whole by a novel the way I was by this one ... So much searing insight into the way we live now' Observer'Compelling and elegant, merciless and poignant. David Szalay is an extraordinary writer' Tessa Hadley

WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 'Modern classics in this genre are rare, and instant ones even rarer; The Loney, however, looks as though it may be both' Sunday Telegraph If it had another name, I never knew, but the locals called it the Loney - that strange nowhere between the Wyre and the Lune where Hanny and I went every Easter time with Mummer, Farther, Mr and Mrs Belderboss and Father Wilfred, the parish priest. It was impossible to truly know the place. It changed with each influx and retreat, and the neap tides would reveal the skeletons of those who thought they could escape its insidious currents. No one ever went near the water. No one apart from us, that is. I suppose I always knew that what happened there wouldn't stay hidden for ever, no matter how much I wanted it to. No matter how hard I tried to forget ...

Ez da normala izango, esan zion medikuak haurrak urtebete zuenean. Jaio aurretik, ordea, Amak jakin bazekien barruan zeraman haurra ez zela besteak bezalakoa izango. Amak alaba etxean isolatu zuen, eta herritarren txutxu-mutxuak areagotu egin ziren. Hain zen estua bien arteko harremana, beste alaba baten jaiotzak ez baitzuen hori haustea lortu.Etxe heze eta ilunean sustraituko dira hiru emakumeak, asinkronia batean; bizilagunen usteak inguratuta, sufrikario eta errezoen artean, patu ankerrari begira. Etxe horretan ez dira, inolaz ere, hain erraz ustelduko sekretuak.Emakumeen sufrimendua, osasun mentala eta familiarteko dinamikak ardatz ditu Puntobobo eleberriak. Itxaso Martinek ez du eufemismorik erabiltzen; estilo intimista eta soil batez idatzi du istorio honen errealitate gordina. Ez da eleberri kostunbrista bat, protagonisten psikologian sakonduz idazleak ateratako argazki gardena baizik.

A twisting, pulse-pounding psychological thriller from Freida McFadden, the Sunday Times bestselling author of the highly addictive global bestselling Housemaid series.***"You must be our new neighbors!" Mrs. Lowell gushes and waves across the picket fence. I clutch my daughter's hand and smile back: but the second Mrs. Lowell sees my husband a strange expression crosses her face. In that moment I make a promise. We finally have a family home. My past is far, far behind us. And I'll do anything to keep it that wayI used to clean other people's housesnow, I can't believe this home is actually mine. The charming kitchen, the quiet cul-de-sac, the huge yard where my kids can play. My husband and I saved for years to give our children the life they deserve.Even still, I'm wary of our new neighbor Mrs. Lowell. When she invites us over for dinner it's our chance to make friends. Her maid opens the door wearing a white apron, her hair in a tight bun. I know exactly what it's like to be in her shoes. But her cold stare gives me chillsThe Lowells' maid isn't the only strange thing on our street. I'm sure I see a shadowy figure watching us. My husband leaves the house late at night. And when I meet a woman who lives across the way, her words chill me to the bone: Be careful of your neighbors.Did I make a terrible mistake moving my family here?I thought I'd left my darkest secrets behind. But could this quiet suburban street be the most dangerous place of all?Unbelievably twisty and tension-packed, The Housemaid is Watching can be enjoyed as a standalone read: and once you start, it will have you up all night racing through the pages until the final explosive twist.

A fairytale romance where curses and fate collide, introducing Evangeline Fox and the Prince of Hearts.

BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS, THE

John Irving, one of the world's greatest novelists, returns with his first novel in seven years - a ghost story, a love story, and a lifetime of sexual politics.In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor.Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years later, looking for answers, Adam will go to Aspen. In the Hotel Jerome, where he was conceived, Adam will meet some ghosts; in The Last Chairlift, they aren't the first or the last ghosts he sees.

The most hotly anticipated thriller of 2018 follows our hero Jack Reacher on a quest into his father''s past, and climaxes in the most blood-curdling ticking time bomb of an adventure yet.The present can be tense . . . A young couple trying to get to New York City are stranded at a lonely motel in the middle of nowhere. Before long theyre trapped in an ominous game of life and death.But the past can be worse . . .Meanwhile, Jack Reacher sets out on an epic road trip across America. He doesnt get far. Deep in the New England woods, he sees a sign to a place he has never been - the town where his father was born. But when he arrives he is told no one named Reacher ever lived there. Now he wonders: whos lying?As the tension ratchets up and these two stories begin to entwine, the stakes have never been higher for Reacher.Thats for damn sure.

Gives readers a taste of the Classics huge range and diversity with works from around the world and across the centuries including fables decadence heartbreak tall tales satire ghosts battl

Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of The Poppy War Absolutely phenomenal. One of the most brilliant, razor-sharp books I've had the pleasure of reading that isn't just an alternative fantastical history, but an interrogative one; one that grabs colonial history and the Industrial Revolution, turns it over, and shakes it out. -- Shannon Chakraborty, bestselling author of The City of BrassFrom award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire.Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day hell enroll in Oxford Universitys prestigious Royal Institute of Translationalso known as Babel.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WITH A NEW CHAPTER ON TURNING THIRTY.READ AND LOVED IT? GIFT IT TO A FRIEND!'There is no writer quite like Dolly Alderton working today and very soon the world will know it' Lisa Taddeo, author Three Women'The book we will thrust into our friends' hands. Alderton feels like a best friend and your older sister all rolled into one and her pages wrap around you like a warm hug'Evening StandardAward-winning journalist Dolly Alderton survived her twenties (just about) and in Everything I Know About Love, she gives an unflinching account of the bad dates and squalid flat-shares, the heartaches and humiliations, and most importantly, the unbreakable female friendships that helped her to hold it all together. Glittering with wit, heart and humour, this is a book to press into the hands of every woman who has ever been there or is about to find themselves taking that first step towards the rest of their lives.

La novel·la en català més divertida i esbojarrada del moment.Una història per riure, plorar i reconciliar-se amb la vida. La Rita Racons se’n va als Estats Units a fer d’au-pair sense saber-ho del to

How do you solve a mystery when you cant understand the clues?A rich tapestry distinctive and compelling ObserverA stunning whodunnit Mail on SundayA beautiful, original novel, at once funny and tragic and brave Sarah PinboroughThere are three things you need to know about Jasper.1. He sees the world completely differently.2. He cant recognise faces not even his own.3. He is the only witness to the murder of his neighbour, Bee Larkham.But uncovering the truth about that night will change his world foreverAn extraordinary and compelling debut which will make you see the world in a way youve never seen it before

Sal planned it for almost a year before they ran. And now Sal knows a lot of stuff. Like how to build a shelter and start a fire. How to estimate distances, snare rabbits and shoot an airgun. And how to protect her sister, Peppa. Because Peppa is ten, which is how old Sal was when Robert started on her.Told in Sal''s distinctive voice, and filled with the silent, dizzying beauty of rural Scotland, Sal is a disturbing, uplifting story of survival, of the kindness of strangers, and the irrepressible power of sisterly love; a love that can lead us to do extraordinary and unimaginable things.

England 1648. A dangerous time for a woman to be different . . .Midsummers Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even to the remote Tidelands the marshy landscape of the south coast.Alinor, a descendant of wise women, crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her abusive husband. Instead she meets James, a young man on the run, and shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marsh, not knowing that she is leading disaster into the heart of her life.Suspected of possessing dark secrets in superstitious times, Alinors ambition and determination mark her out from her neighbours. This is the time of witch-mania, and Alinor, a woman without a husband, skilled with herbs, suddenly enriched, arouses envy in her rivals and fear among the villagers, who are ready to take lethal action into their own hands.

These stories are linked by common themes of belonging, dislocation and identity, and together they take the pulse of a country in turmoil.In The Opposite of Death Roberto Saviano writes about a town in southern Italy haunted by the war in Afghanistan, where one by one its sons are dying. Carlo Lucarelli (Ferengi) explores the colonial war in Eritrea through the eyes of a maid working for a sick man who begs her to end his suffering. Piero Colapricos Grade C is a breathless Milanese crime thriller in miniature, while Valeria Parrellas The Prize, set during World War II, reminds us that revenge is a dish best served cold.Contains stories by Roberto Saviano, Carlo Lucarelli, Valeria Parrella, Piero Colaprico, Wu Ming, and Simona Vinci.

Una celebració ferotge de la segona meitat de la vidaLa protagonista d’aquesta història hi ha un dia que diu "fins aquí". Després de mitja vida emmotllant-se al patró que tocava —esposa exemplar, mar

Hong Kong. American journalist Paul and his Chinese girlfriend face a crisis. A troubling letter arrives from mainland China from Christines long lost brother and they feel compelled to come to his rescue. There they find a village in turmoil and his brothers life in disarray.Their dangerous quest for justice begins set against a China beset by corrupt politicians, ruthless business interests where citizens, still in the long shadow of the Cultural Revolution have few rights in the face of an all-powerful system.Sendkers world is rich and intense: his books weave together love story and crime thriller, the wisdom of Confucius and the thoughts of Mao, between the emotive West and the fatalistic, philosophical East. And above all a sense of deep, honest faith in the human spirit.