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Marnie is stuck. Stuck working alone in her London flat, stuck battling the long afternoons and a life that increasingly feels like it’s passing her by. Michael is coming undone. Reeling from his wife’s departure, increasingly reclusive, taking himself on long, solitary walks across the...

Twenty years, two people, ONE DAY. 15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. So where will they be on this one day next year? And the year after that? And every year that follows? “Destined to be a...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop. Hardborough becomes a battleground. Florence has tried to change the way things have always been done, and as a result, she has to take on not...

Douglas Petersen's family is on the brink of dissolution. His marriage of twenty-one years to Connie is almost over. When autumn comes around, their son Albie will leave for college. Connie has decided to leave soon after. But before everything falls apart, there's still the summer holidays to...

A brand-new recording narrated by Annabel Scholey, star of Being Human and Walking on Sunshine. TWENTY YEARS, TWO PEOPLE, ONE DAY 15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. So where will they be on this one...

Starter for Ten is a comedy about love, class, growing-up and the all-important difference between knowledge and wisdom from the author of the smash hit One Day. It's 1985 and Brian Jackson has arrived at university with a burning ambition – to make it onto TV's foremost general knowledge quiz...

Man Booker Prize-listad 2014 Av författaren till En dag! “Jag såg fram emot att vi skulle åldras tillsammans. Du och jag, vi skulle bli gamla och sen dö tillsammans.” “Douglas, vilken ”frisk” människa skulle se fram emot det?” Men han trodde bara att de skulle göra sin...

NOW A NETFLIX SERIES NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER TWO PEOPLE. ONE DAY. TWENTY YEARS. What starts as a fleeting connection between two strangers soon becomes a deep bond that spans decades. "[An] instant classic. . . . One of the most ...emotionally riveting love stories you’ll...

Dexter Mayhew e Emma Morley se conheceram em 1988. Ambos sabem que no dia seguinte, após a formatura na universidade, deverão trilhar caminhos diferentes. Mas, depois de apenas um dia juntos, não conseguem parar de pensar um no outro. Os anos se passam e Dex e Em levam vidas isoladas—vidas muito diferentes daquelas que eles sonhavam ter. Porém, incapazes de esquecer o sentimento muito especial que os arrebatou naquela primeira noite, surge uma extraordinária relação entre os dois.

É 1997 e Charles Lewis passa os dias quentes das férias andando de bicicleta pela cidade. Às vezes ele também lê. Não há nada mais para fazer quando se está afastado dos amigos, a família está caindo aos pedaços e não se tem ideia de qual será o próximo passo. Mas os dias tediosos e vazios de Charlie estão prestes a ter fim. Ao se deparar com uma companhia de teatro ensaiando Romeu e Julieta, sua primeira reação é fugir, mas ele talvez tenha encontrado um bom motivo para ficar: Julieta.

Certa noite, Douglas Petersen, um bioquímico de 54 anos apaixonado pela profissão, por organização e limpeza, é acordado por Connie, sua esposa há 25 anos, e ela lhe diz que quer o divórcio. O momento não poderia ser pior. Com o objetivo de estimular os talentos artísticos do filho, Albie, que acabou de entrar para a faculdade de fotografia, Connie planejou uma viagem de um mês pela Europa, uma chance de conhecerem em família as grandes obras de arte do continente.

On n'oublie jamais son premier amour... Été 97. Les frères Gallagher chantent toujours ensemble, Lady Di vit ses derniers jours et Charlie Lewis, 16 ans, vient de finir ses années lycée. Le temps s'étire lentement entre la miteuse station-service où il officie quelques heures par semaine, ses balades à vélo dans la campagne et ses soirées avec son paternel dépressif. Mais une rencontre va tout changer. Fran Fisher, une beauté céleste, incandescente ; une tornade d'énergie et de charisme, qu'il croise un beau jour, au beau milieu d'un champ où il lit distraitement.

One life-changing summer, Charlie meets Fran...David Nicholls’s highly anticipated new novel, narrated by Rory Kinnear In 1997, Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you don't remember in the school photograph. His exams have not gone well. At home he is looking after his father, when surely it...

Lydbogen handler om Emma og Dexter, som i filmen er spillet af de kendte stjerner Anne Hathaway og Jim Sturgess, hvis liv vi følger én dag om året altid den 15. juli, fra de vågner op sammen efter deres dimissionsfest. "Jeg kan godt forestille mig dig som fyrreårig," sagde hun lidt ondskabsfuldt. "Faktisk kan jeg se det for mig lige nu" Han smilede uden at åbne øjnene. "Fortæl mig om det."

The Understudy is a scintillating comedy of ambition, celebrity, jealousy and love from the author of the smash hit One Day. For Josh Harper, being in show business means money, fame, a beautiful wife and a lead role on the London stage. For Stephen C McQueen it means a disastrous career playing...

Manches im Leben strahlt so hell, dass es erst aus der Entfernung wirklich gesehen werden kann. Die erste große Liebe ist so eine Sache, die immer noch leuchtet, auch wenn sie längst verglüht ist. Und jeder ist der Hauptdarsteller seiner ersten Liebesgeschichte. Auch Charlie Lewis. Nichts an ihm ist ansonsten besonders. Er sieht ok aus, seine Noten sind so mittel, selbst die Scheidung seiner Eltern ist nur normal unglücklich. Dann begegnet er Fran Fisher, und seine Welt steht Kopf.

Manchmal muss man sich verlaufen, um anzukommen. Der neue große Liebesroman von Bestseller-Autor David Nicholls! Marnie steckt fest. Sie arbeitet allein in ihrer Londoner Wohnung, kämpft mit den langen Nachmittagen und einem Leben, das zunehmend an ihr vorbeizuziehen scheint. Michael ist dabei, sich zu verlieren. Er leidet unter der Trennung von seiner Frau, zieht sich immer mehr zurück und unternimmt lange, einsame Spaziergänge im Moor.

SOON TO BE A BBC AND STARZ SERIES AN INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Good Housekeeping "Book We're Most Looking Forward To" A GQ Magazine (UK) "Best Book of the Year" A Harper’s Bazaar (UK) "Best Novels to Read" "Captivating [and] flawless. . . . An affectingly hard-won...

Wie hält man seine große Liebe fest? Douglas Petersen fällt aus allen Wolken, als ihm seine geliebte Ehefrau Connie eröffnet, dass sie einen Neuanfang will. Bald wird ihr Sohn Albie ausziehen, damit ist für Connie der ideale Zeitpunkt für die Trennung gekommen. Die seit langem geplante...

David Starkey's ‘Monarchy’ charts the rise of the British monarchy from the War of the Roses, the English Civil War and the Georgians, right up until the present day monarchs of the 20th Century. With both authority and verve, David Starkey unmasks the personalities and achievements, the...