Showing results for "Passion" in Genre Fiction

In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, an unnamed narrator attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her two-year relationship with a married foreigner where every word, event, and person either provides a connection with her beloved or is subject to her cold indifference. With courage and exactitude, she seeks the truth behind an existence lived entirely for someone else, and, in the pieces of its aftermath, she is able to find it.

Ce dimanche matin, Frances, professeure de droit se réveille, le corps meurtri, soulagée d'entendre son mari partir pour l'hippodrome de Longchamp. Depuis plusieurs mois, Mathias multiplie les violences, tant physiques que psychologiques. Deux jours plus tard, un cadavre nu et atrocement défiguré est repéré dans le chenal du port de La Rochelle, tandis que la voiture de Mathias est retrouvée, l'habitacle maculé de sang, sur une petite route de campagne, à une centaine de kilomètres de Paris.

Passionen sveper iväg mig, jag bryr mig inte om något annat än att vara tillsammans med den jag träffat, vi gör allt för att vara tillsammans, sviker andra som älskar oss, det enda som gäller är att vi hör ihop. Men hur klarar denna starka passion vardagen, klarar den äktenskap, barn...

Om liv, politik och passion under sextiotalets sista turbulenta år. Det är en tid av politisk hetta i slutet av sextiotalet. Lena och David reser till Paris för att leva på ett nytt sätt, fria och starka i sitt skrivande. Tillsammans ska de erövra världen, som Jean-Paul Sartre och Simone...

"[A] noir delight of a novel . . . . Evil Genius is deceptively light on its feet, skittering across the page to deliver its scorpion sting.” — New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) A Recommended Read from: Alta * Bustle * Electric Literature * Forbes * LitHub * Los Angeles Times *...

Beginning in Paris in 1796, the saga continues as Josephine awakens to her new life as Mrs. Napoleon Bonaparte. Through her intimate diary entries and Napoleon's impassioned love letters, an astonishing portrait of an incredible woman emerges. Gulland transports us into the ballrooms and bedrooms of exquisite palaces and onto the blood-soaked fields of Napoleon's campaigns.

Set in mid-century Rome and England, this forbidden slow-burn love story will take your breath away SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE SHORTLISED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR FICTION ‘Lush, evocative and sexy’ – The Sunday Times 'A thrilling love story of intellect and...

The new novel from the international no. 1 bestselling author. Izzie Silver left the small Irish town of Tamarin behind her for life in New York. She's big, beautiful, and dreams of her own model agency for plus-sized women (what her grandmother would call healthy.) Life is good – but she's...

Relive the witty and romantic story of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy once again in this charming Pride and Prejudice retelling from Darcy’s point of view. For fans of historical romance like the Bridgerton novels to lovers of alternative point-of-view books like E. L. James’ Grey and...

A crime would bring them together, grief would bind them and love would make them famous. Parish “Pain” Wells is a man freshly reintroduced to society, after serving time in state prison. Prior to his fall, Pain had been a heist man who showed the promise of someone who could go on to be a...

Businesswoman Leigh Taylor Cole and islander Deke Kearney have nothing in common. Nothing, that is, but a sizzling chemistry that turns their lives upside down. As they fight to keep Deke's son safe from kidnappers, Leigh begins to question the promise she made her mentor to find Deke and bring him 'home' to Seattle. The provocative breezes of Maui force Leigh to unlock a secret buried so deeply in her past, she's hidden it even from herself. She and Deke discover that when love blooms - passions flower.

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Efter at have levet sammen med den mere og mere psykotiske Simo i 14 år, flygter Cecilia. Hun kan stadig mærke ham i kroppen og huske det lys, der omgav ham. Men hun husker også de nætter, hvor han forbød hende at sove, og den altid låste dør til hans arbejdsværelse. Nu er han død, og Cecilia er på vej til Canada for at mødes med Will Haze - den sidste, der så Simo i live. Annette Lindegaard (f. 1957) er en dansk forfatter. Hun debuterede i 1994 med romanen "Manden fra Mars" og har siden skrevet flere bøger for både børn og voksne.

Bloomsbury presents The Great Passion by James Runcie, read by Pip Torrens. A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A masterpiece' SCOTSMAN 'A wise, refreshing novel, and a touching human story ... Runcie has an expert imagination' HILARY MANTEL Love and Death. Grief and Joy. Music that lasts forever...

For Tim Roxham, a young railway policeman, and Fay Rossiter, the problems of relationships across the social divide in pre-war England pale into insignificance when Mr Chamberlain's tired voice announces that the country is at war with Germany. Now it's not just their love that is threatened but their very lives. Against a background of increasingly disturbing events in Europe, and fierce resistance from Fay's wealthy family and friends, they fight for their relationship in the face of adversity. But as the war rips them apart, only time will tell if they are strong enough to win through.

Set against the glorious backdrops of Rome, Florence, and Genoa, and Naples, peopled with historical characters and filled with the details of the life of a 17th-century painter, The Passion of Artemisia is the story of Gentileschi's struggle to find love, forgiveness, and wholeness through her art.

Roman fantastique qui se passe dans le monde réel, contemporain, qui bascule lorsque les reflets des personnes dans les miroirs tentent de prendre leur place. Ils ne veulent plus les suivre comme de simples marionnettes. Au fil des jours, de plus en plus de reflets traversent les miroirs, en tentant d'entraîner les personnes reflétées de l'autre côté.

Charente, 1925. Lorsque la foudre frappe les étendoirs du Moulin du Loup, provoquant un incendie qui ravage la majeure partie des bâtiments, Claire Roy est seule dans le logis qui, miraculeusement, est épargné par les flammes. Elle attend Jean, son mari, parti pour le Canada avec Angela, leur fille adoptive. Quand il rentre enfin, elle retrouve un homme taciturne et distant... Devant la famille réunie, Angela, enceinte, fait éclater la tempête qui brise les cœurs et les âmes, en clamant son amour pour Jean. Trahie et humiliée, Claire les chasse du moulin.

A beautiful and talented actress, Mary Robinson was one of the most famous women of her time. But Mary was destined always to be betrayed by the men she loved: by her father, who abandoned his family; by her husband, who bankrupted the family with his gambling and humiliated his young wife with numerous affairs; and by the Prince of Wales, later King George IV, who fell in love with Mary when he saw her playing Perdita in A Winter's Tale.

Burned-by-love architect Hunter McKay came home to Phoenix to open her own firm, not rekindle her fleeting high school romance with playboy Tyson Steele. But when she runs into the sexy surgeon at a nightclub—and he unleashes that legendary Steele charm—Hunter fears she’s headed straight for heartbreak once again.