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In a crumbling neighbourhood in New Delhi, a child waits for a mother to return home from work. And, in parallel, in a snow-swept town in Germany on the Baltic Sea coast a woman, her memory fading, shows up at a deserted hotel. Worlds apart, both embark, in the course of that night, on...

Una historia de memoria, deseo, duelo y revelación que captura, como pocas, la adolescencia cuando empieza a dejar de serlo. En el Madrid de 1995, Angie Llovet se enfrenta al verano que marcará para siempre su paso a la vida adulta. A su alrededor se alza Torres Blancas, un laberinto...

Juliet was my childhood sweetheart, my wife, my everything—until she betrayed me to the authorities for my "dangerous" research. I cut her out of my life, but I couldn't cut out my obsession. Now the Brotherhood has given me the chance to take her back. All Brothers must choose a Ward. For me, there's only Juliet. But she has a dark side I never knew existed. Masked men, punishment, and a desperate need for a master. I can deliver it all—if she doesn't know it's me. She'll wake, trapped in a dungeon from the video game she designed.

Desempregada, divorciada e sozinha em Nova York, Sally Porter está sempre questionando a própria vida. São frequentes as vezes em que acorda no meio de uma enrascada depois de sentir uma forte dor de cabeça e de apagar, sem se lembrar do que a levou àquela situação. Quando Sally decide buscar uma solução para esses episódios, o psiquiatra dr. Roger Ash lhe revela o inesperado: outras identidades completamente diferentes entre si habitam dentro da jovem. Assim, ela embarca em uma longa jornada de descobrimento e aceitação, tratamento e integração.

When the body of a young mother is discovered in an East London park during a blistering summer, D.I. Matthew Denning is thrust into a high-pressure investigation. As another woman dies in similar circumstances, it becomes clear a killer is stalking the city's streets. But when young, ambitious, D.S. Molly Fisher discovers a horrifying link to these deaths and a killing spree in South London a decade ago – by a psychopath dubbed 'The Bermondsey Ripper' – the case is blown wide open.

For readers of Shark Heart and Hollow Kingdom, a funny, magical, and tender novel following a lonely, conflict-averse man whose sudden ability to understand animals sends him on a wild romp around NYC, and ultimately helps him discover his own voice. Strolling through Central Park on a blind...

IT MAY BE QUIET IN THE SUBURBS, BUT IT'S FAR FROM PEACEFUL. . . 'A fantastic frothy read about suburbia with all Tom Allen's great style' JACQUELINE WILSON, international #1 bestseller 'A deliciously witty suburban comedy of manners with real bite, shot through with Tom Allen's trademark humour...

Stefan Zweig was born on the 28th November 1881 in Vienna, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and into a wealthy Jewish family with interests in banking and textiles. Zweig first published in 1900 and two decades later was a popular and highly regarded author in many parts of the world, although not in England. He was also the librettist with Richard Strauss of two operas and a keen collector of autographed musical manuscripts. His collection of over two hundred pieces was later donated to the British Library.

At what point does a group of strangers become a community? When young Bendigo Shafter and a ragtag bunch of travelers settle in the rugged Wyoming mountains, they quickly come to depend on a toughness and wisdom many of them never knew they possessed. Led by the beautiful and resourceful widow...

Von Sigrid Nunez, Bestseller-Autorin von »Der Freund«, kommt dieser faszinierende, autobiographische Roman über ihre Jugend in New York City. Eine junge Frau blickt zurück auf ihre Anfänge: den chinesisch-panamaischen Vater und die deutsche Mutter, die sich im Nachkriegsdeutschland begegnen und zusammen nach New York City gehen. In den fünfziger und sechziger Jahren dort aufwachsend, flüchtet sie sich in Träume, die von den Geschichten ihrer Eltern inspiriert sind, und dann in die Welt des Balletts.

Berlin 1897 Der Hilfsarbeiter Eduard Krause erlebt den schlimmsten Samstag seines Lebens. Erst verlässt ihn Grete, seine Angebetete. Dann bricht er nach einem kapitalen Besäufnis zusammen und erwacht als neugeborener Vampir. Sein neues Leben eröffnet ungeahnte Möglichkeiten. Doch seine verflixte Blutgier bringt Grete in Gefahr, die er um jeden Preis wiedersehen will.

Die junge Mrs. Hawkins ist eine wunderbare Frau, die Ruhe in Person und stets für alle da. Mit ihrer mütterlichen und lebensfrohen Opulenz gibt sie dem erfolglosen Londoner Verlagshaus, bei dem sie arbeitet, Halt und Kraft. Genauso verlässlich wehrt sie aber auch mit wohlgezielter Garstigkeit nervtötende Schreiberlinge ab. Jahrzehnte später ist Mrs. Hawkins zur schlanken Nancy geworden und nimmt uns mit zurück ins Kensington der Fünfzigerjahre, das voller raffinierter, ja sogar böser Überraschungen steckt.

¿Embarazada? ¡¿Cómo era posible?! Sí…, aquello era una pregunta retórica. Lindsay Madock tenía marcado a fuego en la memoria cómo y… con quién. El verdadero problema era otro: un bebé es cosa de dos y él… no tenía motivos ni para sospechar. Por desgracia, la gala centrada en la...

Callie Renfew didn’t go looking for trouble, but now it’s at her door there’s no way she’s backing down. It’s been a year since Callie last saw her useless husband Gavin and although everyone else thinks he’s dead, Callie has an uneasy feeling that her husband is still alive and waiting to make his final vengeful move… Until then, Callie plans to get on with her life and pushes forward with a new business scheme with her new millionaire business partner, enigmatic Spaniard Carlos Martinez.

Natalie is a girl who should be going somewhere. Beautiful, bright and ambitious, she's stuck in a dead-end job in the accounts department of Nu-Line Telecommunications, living her life through wild weekends and yearning for something more. When she sees a chance to change her life, she takes it. After all, it's only a minor crime. Nobody's going to get hurt. But other people do get hurt, because Natalie's actions do have consequences – tragic consequences.

Jack Middleton likes to imagine himself a country squire. At weekends he retires to Laverings Estate with his wife, Catherine. He may be pompous, and they may seem ill-matched, but the couple are devoted to each other. When Jack's widowed sister, Lilian, and her two stepchildren arrive to spend...

En apparence, Diane forme un couple parfait avec Hervé, son mari : une jolie maison, une fille qui a pris son envol, un groupe d’amis fidèles et elle possède sa propre boutique de décoration qui ne désemplit pas. Pourtant, une petite boule s’est logée dans sa gorge et ne cesse de...

Brought to you by Penguin. 'Marriage was the biggest decision of their lives and yet they made it so lightly it was barely a decision at all’ As schoolgirls, Justine and her best friend Iseult dreamed of a future that revolved around marriage. They saw it as a happy ending, never imagining for...

Mark Helprin, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Oceans and the Stars, Winter's Tale, and A Soldier of the Great War, returns with an unforgettable tale of love, loss, and remembrance set in Brooklyn. High in a subsidized studio apartment, the unnamed 82-year-old narrator of Elegy...

« Je voulais ouvrir un magasin où on écoute les histoires des autres. Sous quelque forme que ce soit. » Cachée au milieu de vieilles maisons et de petits cafés, la boutique Geulwoll n’est pas une simple papeterie : c’est un magasin de lettres. Et si Hyoyeong avait su cela en arrivant...