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LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 The new novel by Charlotte Wood, the Stella Prize-winning author of The Natural Way of Things and The Weekend. A fearless exploration of forgiveness, grief and the complicated beauty of female friendship. Burnt out and in need of retreat, a middle-aged woman...

Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen by bestselling historian Alison Weir, author of The Lost Tudor Princess, is the first in a spellbinding six novel series about Henry VIII's Queens. Alison takes you on an engrossing journey at Katherine's side and shows her extraordinary strength of character...

Finalist for the French-American Florence Gould Translation Prize A novel by the iconic Simone de Beauvoir of an intense and vivid girlhood friendship that, unpublished in her lifetime, displays “Beauvoir's genius as a fiction writer” (Wall Street Journal) From the moment Sylvie and Andrée...

Marie Sklodowska, 25, is studying science at the Sorbonne—one of the only universities in the world that has begun to admit women. A thousand miles from her native Poland, with no money and the odds stacked against any woman daring to pursue a career in such a rigorous field, Marie throws herself into her studies. She’s certain that to succeed in a man’s world, she will have to go it alone.

A historical novel about Noor...

মহেশ্বতা দেবী তাঁর জীবনে নানা বিষয় নানা জীবনকে কেন্দ্র করে নিজের লেখায় তাদের অমর করে তুলেছেন। মহাশ্বেতা দেবীর...

A groundbreaking novel of historical fiction based on the real experiences of two of the Golden Age of Pirates’ most infamous women, Anne Bonny and Mary Read, who dared to subvert the rules and gender roles of their time. 1721, Spanish Town, Jamaica. Captured, convicted, and pregnant...

বিশ্বসাহিত্যের এক মহান শিল্পী লেভ তলস্তয়। তাঁর উপন্যাস ও ছোটগল্পে অমর হয়ে রয়েছে তাঁর দেশ, দেশের আত্মা ও দেশের...

Following the tremendous success of her first novel, Innocent Traitor, acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author Alison Weir turns her masterly storytelling skills to the early life of young Elizabeth Tudor, who would grow up to become England’s most intriguing and powerful...

THE NEW INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF DAYS WITHOUT END AND OLD GOD'S TIME 'A masterly work of historical witness and moral reckoning' OBSERVER An immersive and unforgettable novel of one man's life in the aftermath of the American Civil War. I knew as I made my way home that there...

Christina Baker Kline’s national bestseller is now an Earphone Awards Winner! Beloved narrator Marin Ireland’s rich voice and sensitive performance bring this immersive story to life. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Christina Baker Kline comes a boldly original reimagining of the...

Lever les yeux vers les étoiles. Aussi, à défaut de pouvoir les approcher, dans un monde où le métier d'astronaute est réservé aux hommes, elle est devenue astrophysicienne. Mais le jour où elle apprend que la NASA recrute des scientifiques, consciente des sacrifices qui s'annoncent, elle saisit sa chance. Ce matin de décembre 1984, quand Joan arrive au centre de contrôle à Houston, elle s'attend à vivre une journée comme les autres.

With his characteristic raw and minimalist style, Charles Bukowski takes us on a walk through his side of town in Hot Water Music. He gives us little vignettes of depravity and lasciviousness, bite sized pieces of what is both beautiful and grotesque. The stories in Hot Water Music dash around...

A trio of novels by the renowned author, dramatised for BBC Radio Guyanese writer E. R. Braithwaite is probably best known for his semi-autobiograpical, internationally bestselling novel To Sir with Love, which was adapted as an award-winning film starring Sidney Poitier. Collected here are...

The First World War is over. Eric Vernon is on the cusp of adulthood. Tall, bony and awkward, he finds himself torn between a desire to emulate his heroic father, who led a life of quiet sacrifice, and resentment toward his father’s roguish friend Edward Blake, who survived the war only to throw himself into gay life in Berlin.

Nell's dream of traveling on a transatlantic steamship is about to come true. Although not in the way she expected. Life is hard, and with only three women working amongst a crew of eighty, there are challenges Nell had not foreseen. While she struggles to cope with the constant attention of her colleagues, not to mention their criticisms, there are some who will do whatever they can to support her.

India, 1947. Una familia de tres hermanas vive en una aldea rural de Bengala. Priya, inteligente e idealista, sueña con seguir los pasos de su padre y convertirse en médica, desafiando las normas que impone la sociedad. Deepa, la belleza de la familia, aspira a un matrimonio que eleve el estatus familiar. Jamini, devota y perspicaz, es una prodigiosa artesana de colchas, pero sus anhelos más profundos permanecen ocultos. La paz y el amor que comparten en su hogar son un refugio contra los violentos acontecimientos que se viven en la India.

“Oblomovismo” è un modo di vivere, anzi, una malattia, il cui termine viene coniato dall’amico del protagonista di questo romanzo di Gonciarov, diventato famoso per la proverbiale pigrizia. Ma non è solo Oblomov, di cui si parla, è tutta la Russia, la vecchia Russia del 1859, anno in cui fu scritto il libro, che viene salutata con un addio nelle pagine finali del libro.L’edizione letta è della UTET, 1932, tradotta e ridotta a cura di Giorgio Leblanc.Cornice musicale : Eugene Onegin, di Tchaikovsky.

Fremd in der Heimat: mit Kindern, Koffer und Kulturschock zurück nach Kroatien.Nach 27 Jahren in Deutschland zieht Tajana mit ihren kleinen "Afro-Svaben" zurück in ihre Geburtsstadt Karlovac und stellt schnell fest: Heimat ist ein Gefühl mit Stolpersteinen. Zwischen Balkan-Bürokratie, der...

From the peaks of Kilimanjaro to the sands of Mleiha, Bodour Al Qasimi embarks on a journey where reality and vision intertwine. With every step, the echoes of Arab queens rise: Mavya the warrior, Zenobia the scholar, Shams the wise, and the moon queens of Sheba. Each footprint uncovers a trace in the land and a resonance within, where forgotten grandmothers whisper of a time when history began not with kings but with Arab women who built the first kingdoms on pillars of wisdom, peace, and reverence for the earth and its people.