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Dramatisations of Thomas Mann’s three bestselling novels '"his collection of radio plays is a wonderful way to explore the world of Thomas Mann and comes strongly recommended." - Entertainment Focus One of Germany’s greatest and most revered writers, Thomas Mann won the Nobel Prize for...

Brought to you by Penguin. Frank and Chrissy meet a few days into ’70. Frank has been travelling around California for a while with friends, when someone tells him about a house in the desert two hours east of LA where the walls are steel and the glass shimmers. Frank tells himself: I have to...

With unerring insight and emotional power, Belva Plain, in her extraordinary novel, tells the story of a family divided and of the proud matriarch who takes a bold last stand to unite her warring children in what may be their last Homecoming. It is a crisp December day when Annette Byrne walks...

A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed. In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love...

När Simon plötsligt dyker upp och vill bli en del av Emilies liv igen går hennes känslor isär. Kan hon förlåta honom och lita på att han verkligen har förändrats? Odd kämpar med att rädda verksamheten när banken plötsligt kräver full återbetalning av lånet. På något sätt måste han få ihop flera tusen dollar inom två veckor. "Sagan om Emilie" är en släktkrönika fylld av hemligheter och kärleksintriger. Vi följer den vackra torpardottern Emilie i norska Trøndelag på 1880-talet, ett samhälle med stora klyftor mellan rika och fattiga.

Isak, a strong, stoical ‘tiller of the ground, body and soul’, makes his way into the Norwegian hinterlands and settles on an area of land that suits him, unaware that it belongs to the state. He fashions the land into a farm, named ‘Sellanraa’ by the enigmatic Lensmand Geissler, and builds a life for himself with his wife, Inger, and their children. Together they endure the seasons and the encroachment of industrialisation as they cultivate the land and make it fertile, proving that fulfilment lies with the soil.

Anthony C. Yu’s translation of The Journey to the West, initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese novel in its entirety for the first time. Written in the sixteenth century, The Journey to the West tells the story of the fourteen-year pilgrimage of the monk Xuanzang, one of China’s most famous religious heroes, and his three supernatural disciples, in search of Buddhist scriptures. 

August 1939: Thirteen-year-old Poppy Brown is evacuated to a village in Dorset. Tired and frightened, she arrives with nothing but her gas mask and a change of clothes to her name. Billeted at a grand country house, Poppy is received with cold indifference above stairs and gets little better...

Quando Edward Cullen e Bella Swan si sono incontrati in Twilight, una storia d'amore destinata a diventare iconica ha avuto inizio. Finalmente, i lettori possono conoscere la versione di Edward in quest'attesissimo nuovo romanzo, Midnight Sun. Vissuta nei panni del bellissimo vampiro, questa storia assume una veste tutta nuova, decisamente più cupa. L'incontro con Bella è la cosa più spaventosa e più intrigante che gli sia mai successa nella sua lunga vita da vampiro.

At the Church of Fire and Brimstone and Gods Almighty Baptizing Wind, Grandpa Herman makes the rules for everyone, and everyone obeys, or else. Try as she might, Ninah hasn't succeeded in resisting temptation her prayer partner, James and finds herself pregnant. She fears the wrath of Grandpa...

La historia lo ha olvidado, pero la leyenda lo recuerda. La Saga de los Ancestros nos invita a un viaje épico 40 000 años atrás para sumergirnos en nuestro oscuro pasado. Mientras el mundo se tambalea al borde de otro invierno glacial, el Homo sapiens no es la única especie humana que camina sobre la Tierra. Cuando el destino de toda la raza humana pende de un hilo, el premio para los supervivientes será la propia Tierra.

Auftakt einer Landlust-Saga von Bestsellerautorin Linda Winterberg. Amrei stand am Seeufer und ließ ihren Blick über die funkelnde Wasseroberfläche hinweg bis zur Fraueninsel gleiten. Tief atmete sie den vertrauten Duft ihrer Heimat ein, diese herrliche Mischung aus Seewasser und Blumendüften.

Ambientado em Florença e em outras pequenas cidades italianas, O colibri é a história de quatro gerações da família Carrera. O ponto de vista é o de Marco, filho médico do casal Letizia e Probo, irmão de Irene e Giacomo, pai de Adele e avô de Miraijin. Marco Carrera é o colibri, um homem com uma habilidade quase sobrenatural de pairar, permanecer firme, sem perder o ânimo em meio ao caos de um mundo em constante transformação, de uma vida com alegrias, mas também coincidências fatais, perdas atrozes e amores absolutos.

West Yorkshire 1939 When the world goes to war, a workforce of women must take the strain. As the storm clouds of the Second World War gather over Huddersfield, Briony and Jan Van Leyden are at the helm of Lockwood Mill. With government contracts demanding endless khaki cloth for uniforms, the...

La novena entrega y continuación de Los Australianos, la inolvidable saga épica escrita por Vivian Stuart que, con estilo envolvente y habilidad excepcional para crear personajes llenos de fuerza, nos transporta a los orígenes de Australia: un territorio salvaje, indómito y lleno de oportunidades… pero también de injusticias, peligros y luchas por la supervivencia. Tras la desgarradora batalla de Waterloo del 18 de junio de 1815, Murdoch Maclaine logra restañar sus heridas adoptando, como por prodigio, una nueva identidad.

After spending her childhood in Haddon House Children's Hostel, Alice Tucker is selected to go into service at Holmorton Lodge. Left behind in the workhouse after the death of her father and the disappearance of her mother, the only clues to Alice's past lie in hazy childhood memories. Now, ten years later, she longs to uncover the truth about her family and who she really is. When a chance discovery leads her from a Welsh nursing home to a solicitor's office in Manchester, Alice begins to unravel a story far more tangled than she imagined.

Ironbridge, 1911: Childhood sweethearts Jo and Alfie Woodvine couldn't be happier to finally be married with a home of their very own. But when their son, Harry, arrives, Jo finds herself quickly cut off from the world. Though she loves her baby, she hadn't anticipated the confines of motherhood...

Salzkammergut, 1837: Während der Kaiser nach Ischl reist, um die Sommerfrische zu genießen, will sich Bäckerstochter Lisa in der Kurstadt ihren Traum erfüllen: In der Hofkonditorei Zauner möchte sie die edle Kunst der Zuckerbäcker erlernen, doch Frauen bleibt der Beruf verwehrt. Stattdessen bietet ihr Johann Zauner an, als "Zaunerin" im Verkauf zu arbeiten. Nur heimlich ist Lisa an der Herstellung köstlicher Kreationen beteiligt, die sogar die junge Kaiserin Elisabeth begeistern.

From the lauded, bestselling author of The Cazalet Chronicles, After Julius is Elizabeth Jane Howard's funny yet touching story of a family brought together yet falling apart. 'A novel that commands both respect and applause' – Sunday Times It is twenty years since Julius died, but his last...

A graceful and intimate portrait of a family caught between centuries-old tradition and the rising tide of modernity Told through the eyes of Kwei-lan, a young Chinese woman raised in strict Confucian customs, East Wind: West Wind follows her arranged marriage to a Western-educated doctor whose...