Coming of Age

Teeming with life and crackling with energy, told through many distinctive voices, this novel follows the lives of 12 very different characters.... 

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2008.
The city is a revelation. Balram becomes aware of immense wealth all around him, and realizes the only way he can become part of it is by murdering his master....

Luc O'Donnell is tangentially - and reluctantly - famous. His rock-star parents split when he was young, and the father he's never met spent the next 20 years cruising in and out of rehab. Now that his dad's making a comeback, Luc's back in the public eye....

A masterpiece from the Orange Prize-winning, New York Times number one best-selling author of Commonwealth and Bel Canto: a story of love, family, sacrifice and the power of place....

A Hindi translation of Ruskin Bond’s A Handful of Nuts by Rachna Bhola ‘Yamini’, this novel is the story of a 21-year-old writer in a small town in India....

Giovanna’s pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks. Giovanna, he says, is looking more like her Aunt Vittoria every day....

A story of love and redemption, faith and forgiveness, Ask Again, Yes reveals the way childhood memories change when viewed from the distance of adulthood - villains lose their menace, and those who appeared innocent seem less so....

Set in a terrifyingly brutal Rome-like world, An Ember in the Ashes is an epic fantasy debut about an orphan fighting for her family and a soldier fighting for his freedom.....

Hello. I'm Oliver Tate, the protagonist. I am likely to use words like protagonist and, moments later, words like twonk....

Enter a school of magic unlike any you have ever encountered. There are no teachers, no holidays, friendships are purely strategic and the odds of survival are never equal....

Moving, funny, tender, and triumphant, Barbery's novel exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us....

When an aging brother and sister adopt an orphan boy to help with chores around their farm, neither is prepared for the feisty and imaginative redheaded girl who is mistakenly brought to them....

London 1960: Als ihre Mutter stirbt, verliert die achtzehnjährige Erica Hart den Boden unter den Füßen. Da bekommt sie einen Brief von Charmian Clift, einer Freundin ihrer Mutter, die sie auf die griechische Insel Hydra einlädt. Erica zögert nicht lange und reist mit ihrer großen Liebe Jimmy in den Süden. Auf Hydra werden sie Teil einer Künstlergemeinschaft - darunter der norwegische Schriftsteller Axel Jensen, seine Frau Marianne Ihlen und der kanadische Musiker Leonard Cohen. Sie genießen die lauten Abendessen, die nächtlichen Spaziergänge und das Baden bei Mondlicht.

Down market lanes crammed with too many people, dogs, and rickshaws lies a jumble of tin-roofed homes where nine-year-old Jai lives with his family. From his doorway, he can spot the glittering lights of the city’s fancy high-rises, and though his mother works as a maid in one, to him they seem 1,000 miles away. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line plunges listeners deep into this neighborhood to trace the unfolding of a tragedy through the eyes of a child as he has his first perilous collisions with an unjust and complicated wider world.

In 1922, Paul Beckermann arrives at the Bauhaus art school and is immediately seduced by both the charismatic teaching and his fellow students. Eccentric and alluring, the more time Paul spends with his new friends the closer they become, and the deeper he falls in love with the mesmerising Charlotte. But Paul is not the only one vying for her affections, and soon an insidious rivalry takes root.

Chesapeake Bay, 1980. Eighteen-year-old Verity Vergennes is the captain of the USS Nepenthe, and her seven younger siblings are her crew. The ship - an oyster boat transformed into a make-believe destroyer - is the heart of the Vergennes family, a place both to play and to learn responsibility. But Verity’s had it with being tied to the ship and secretly applies to a distant college. If only her parents could bear to let her go. Maeve and Arthur Vergennes already suffered one loss when, five years earlier, their eldest son, Jude, stormed out and never returned.

Quando a settembre riapre la scuola, il liceo Tommaseo viene travolto da una scoperta che lascia tutti senza fiato: quattro ragazzi, gli unici maschi della quinta C, sono spariti. Erano in vacanza in Grecia, ma dal 22 luglio nessuno sa più niente di loro. E mentre un funzionario della Farnesina viene incaricato di assistere i genitori nel tentativo di capire cosa sia successo, uno dei quattro torna a casa, illeso ma chiuso in un mutismo inattaccabile. Fra di loro c'era un patto, e romperlo significherebbe tradire la fiducia degli altri.

Contains books five and six of the Richard Jackson Saga, a coming-of-age adventure series: Star to Deckhand, book 5, and Surfing Dude, book 6.