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A monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern—this is Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans, noble crusader against a world of dunces. The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged. Ignatius ignores them, heaving his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him: Ignatius must get a job. Undaunted, he uses his new-found employment to further his mission.

Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, has hit bottom. Years ago he left Albany in a hurry after killing a scab during a trolley workers' strike; he ran away again after accidentally – and fatally – dropping his infant son. Now, in 1938, Francis is back in town, roaming the old familiar streets with his hobo pal, Helen, trying to make peace with the ghosts of the past and the present.

Charlotte Kingston, étudiante en dernière année d'université, mène deux vies et les réussit toutes les deux. Le jour, elle est la parfaite fille de sororité, une étudiante en génie biomédical et la fille adoptive d'une famille de surdoués. La nuit, elle est Charlie : une casse-cou qui...

Diverse and moving, these six outstanding stories are meditations on grief and loss, love, communication and loneliness. Each one will take the reader on a brief yet unforgettable journey into private worlds and unexpected corners of the human heart.

This year's shortlist of six exceptional stories each take the listener on an intense and gripping journey into the human heart. With poise, precision, and a light-footed grace, they conjure dramatically different, starkly real worlds. Hailing from Ireland, the United States and The Bahamas, the finalists of 2020 share stories on subjects as far apart as their settings, exploring among them romantic and marital discord, dark secrets, homelessness and even a high school football team; yet each one opens doors into its characters' lives in surprising and moving ways.

Premiul "Romanul românesc în mileniul 3", Festivalul Internaţional de Carte Transilvania, ediţia 2017 Premiul "Ovidiu Cotruş" al revistei Familia, ediţia 2017 Premiul "Radu Petrescu" al Societăţii Scriitorilor din Bistriţa-Năsăud şi al Bibliotecii Judeţene "George Coşbuc"...

It's the 1960s, and the fashion culture of New York, Paris, and Milan is starting to make an impression on the mid-century American woman. Jackie Kennedy's effortless style leads the nation, although Mia's bustling bakery job doesn't often give her the time or money to craft a stylish closet after her idol in the White House. But when a mysterious stranger suddenly offers her a modeling job in Paris at the esteemed House of Rousseau, she takes a chance on it, despite knowing nothing about the world of fashion.

Le second tome de la série Campus Diaries est hilarant et torride, et se déroule dans le même univers que Off Campus et Briar U. « Je leur ai dit que j'avais une petite amie. Je me mets à rire. – Oh, il y a mieux, Dixon. Je leur ai dit que c'était toi. » Diana Dixon a beaucoup de choses...

Bloomsbury presents Trespasses by Louise Kennedy, read by Brid Brennan. **SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES – COMING SOON TO CHANNEL 4** THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER (The Times), SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023 'Intense, unflinchingly honest, it broke my heart a million times' MARIAN...

Arthur Miller’s most famous play, Death of a Salesman, has become a key text in Western literature. This unusually powerful recording, made for radio in 1953, was directed by Elia Kazan who premiered the play. It features Thomas Mitchell and Arthur Kennedy as father and son. Willy, a travelling salesman, based in New York, relentlessly chases material success.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Great Wide Open written by Douglas Kennedy, read by Regina Reagan. “All families are secret societies. Realms of intrigue and internal warfare, governed by their own rules . . .” It’s 1980s New York. Heady, excessive times. Alice Burns - a...

Thomas Nesbitt is a divorced American writer in the midst of a rueful middle age. Living a very private life in Maine - in touch only with his daughter and still trying to reconcile him to the end of a long marriage that he knew was flawed from the outset - he finds his solitude disrupted by the arrival, one wintry morning, of a box postmarked Berlin. The return address on the box - Dussmann - unsettles him completely.

On the night of her 13th birthday, Jane Howard made a vow to her warring parents – she would never get married and she would never have children. But life, as Jane comes to discover, is a profoundly random business. Many years and many lives later, she is a professor in Boston, in love with a brilliant, erratic man named Theo....

Le premier livre de la série Campus Diaries, un spin-off des séries Off-Campus et Briar U, de Elle Kennedy. Gigi Graham a trois objectifs : se qualifier pour l'équipe nationale de hockey féminin, remporter l'or olympique et sortir de l'ombre de son célèbre père. Jusque-là, tout va bien...

'Chilling and addictive. . . lingers in the memory long after you put it down' The Herald 'An impressive, assured psychological thriller' The Scotsman A stunning debut novel. Beautifully constructed, it thrums with mystery and tension. A magnificent achievement' NICOLA STURGEON 'I absolutely...

Cornwall, Midsummer 1947. Pendizack Manor Hotel is buried in the rubble of a collapsed cliff. Seven guests have perished, but is it murder, and what brought this strange assembly together for a moonlit feast before this Act of God - or Man? Over the week before the landslide, we meet the hotel guests in all their eccentric glory: and as friendships form and romances blossom, sins are revealed, and the cliff cracks widen....

William Kennedy’s latest novel is a tale of revolutionary intrigue, heroic journalism, crooked politicians, drug-running gangsters, Albany race riots, and the improbable rise of Fidel Castro. The epic journey of Quinn carries him through the nightclubs and jungles of Cuba and into the newsrooms and racially charged streets of Albany on the day than Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated in 1968. The odyssey brings Quinn and his exotic Cuban wife, Renata, face-to-face with the darkest facets of human nature.

Manhattan 1945. Krigen er forbi, og USA koger af begejstring. Til en fest hos sin bror i bohemekvarteret, Greenwich Village, møder Sara en ung skribent, den netop hjemvendte krigskorrespondent, Jack Malone. Den regelrette, uniformsklædte Jack passer ikke ind i selskabet af bøsser, kunstnere, forfattere og studerende, men Sara falder omgående for ham. De to indleder et intenst kærlighedsforhold, der bliver skæbnesvangert for dem begge. For inden længe afløses optimismen i kølvandet på krigens afslutning af skræk og paranoia. McCarthys heksejagt sætter ind.

Teaching nine-year-olds on Zoom. A relationship interrupted by enforced distance. A teenaged son who cannot leave the house. Anna McCormick is already struggling to cope with the unwanted twists 2020 has served up. But when an unstamped envelope arrives overnight, her past begins to cast its own long shadow on the present. With an uncaring government compounding her woes and a hostile threat drawing closer, Anna must dig deep to keep hope alive for herself and those around her.

Paris in the early '70s. Sam, an American student, meets a woman in a bookshop. Isabelle is enigmatic, beautiful, older and, unlike Sam, experienced in love's many contradictions. Sam is instantly smitten - but wary of the wedding ring on her finger. What begins as a regular arrangement in Isabelle’s tiny Parisian apartment transforms into a true affair of the heart, and one which lasts for decades to come.  Isabelle in the Afternoon is a novel that questions what we seek, what we find and what we settle for.