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The Funeral Cryer long ago accepted the mundane realities of her life: avoided by fellow villagers because of the stigma attached to her job as a professional mourner and under-appreciated by The Husband, whose fecklessness has pushed the couple close to the brink of break-up. But just when things couldn’t be…
Brian, an aimless slacker, works doubles at his shift job, forgets to clean his room and lays about with his friends Nik and Darby. He’s been struggling to manage his transition to adulthood almost as much as his monthly transitions to a werewolf. Really, he is not great at the whole werewolf thing, and his…
This is the captivating story of mathematics’ greatest ever idea: calculus. Without it, there would be no computers, no microwave ovens, no GPS, and no space travel. But before it gave modern man almost infinite powers, calculus was behind centuries of controversy, competition, and even death. Taking us on a…
***SOON TO BE A MAJOR HOLLYWOOD FILM***
’This is aerial drama at its best. Fast, powerful, and moving.’ Erik Larson
Devotion tells the gripping story of the US Navy’s most famous aviator duo – Tom Hudner, a white New Englander, and Jesse Brown, a black sharecropper’s son from Mississippi.…
SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS’ CRIME FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR_________________________________*** A Top Ten Kindle Bestseller ***’Pure nerve-shredding suspense from the first page to the last’ Erin Kelly’Blair Witch meets Fleabag … pure mastery’ Janice…
We have entered a new Cold War, even if most people choose not to admit it. The contest between America and China is global and unbridgeable, and it encompasses all major instruments of statecraft: diplomacy, technology, military power, intelligence, trade and investment. It has its tinder box: Taiwan. And both…
Everyone knows the story of the girl from widow hills…
When Arden Maynor was six years old, she was swept away in a terrifying storm and went missing for days. Against all odds, she was found alive, clinging to a storm drain. Fame followed, and so did fans, creeps and stalkers.
As soon as she was old enough,…
It is generally accepted that the European Renaissance began in Italy. However, a historical transformation of similar magnitude also took place in northern Europe at the same time. This ’Other Renaissance’ was initially centred on the city of Bruges in Flanders (modern Belgium), but its influence was soon…
A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for fifteen years, reckon with the terrifying events of the summer that changed their lives.
In the seaside town of Kinlough, on Ireland’s west coast, three old friends are thrown together for the first time in years.…
Kategorier: Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Personliga berättelser
’I raced through this book and was gripped by every page.” – Sophie Heawood
’Exciting and full of bluster… A rowdy, dirty-pleasure story.’ – Kirkus ’A raucous debut memoir… an entertaining, wised-up account of the dark arts of reputation laundering.’ –…
’Historical fiction at its finest’ – Belfast TelegraphDorset, 1642. When bloody civil war breaks out between the King and Parliament, families and communities across England are riven by different allegiances. A rare few choose neutrality.
One such is Jayne Swift, a Dorset physician from a Royalist…
’Haunting and surreal, And Then She Fell had me questioning reality alongside Alice as she grappled with motherhood, being a writer, a wife, and feeling like an outsider in her own life. With its sharp wit and beautiful writing, this book had me flying through the pages.’ Ana Reyes, New York Times…
The USA Today bestseller!
’A good old-fashioned freight train of an adventure story’ Sara Novic
A feminist coming-of-age tale from a debut author – playful, feminist historical fiction for readers of Sarah Waters, Charles Portis and Anna North
In the summer of 1877, Bridget is orphaned when her…
’Ruthlessly unguarded, surgically self-parodic and infinitely funny … An indispensable book about friendship and intimacy; I alternately laughed and shivered as I turned the pages’ Guardian
The first new poetry collection since Evolution from the peerless writer, activist and poet Eileen Myles, a…
’Gorgeously written and devastating’ Kate Riordan ’One of the best novels I’ve read’ Gill Paul
’Desperately romantic’ Katie Fforde
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A family secret.A lost love.A life-changing journey to the Arctic . . .
*Caroline Gillan and her new husband Alasdair have moved back to Kelly…
A retreat doesn’t always mean safety…
Following the death of her husband, Emily is happy to find herself surrounded by friends and fellow Oxford peers at the rustic Chalet des Anglais in the French Alps. With no electricity, running water, or access by car, surely this trip will offer her the time and space…
’Powerful’ Financial Times’More twists and turns than a Hollywood spy thriller’ Spectator’A story we all need to hear’ New Statesman’Gripping… Araujo’s accretion of detail has a powerful effect’ New York Times’Excellent’ Kirkus Reviews
Deep in the…
Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells us the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life – having nothing but his own wits to help him…
A brilliant and soulful biography of one of today’s most acclaimed singer-songwriters, Nick Cave.
Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing ’Fascinating… There is something wondrous in Milman’s revelation of our fragile dependency on insect life as well as its beauty and strangeness.’ Guardian
’Gripping and especially unnerving.’ David Wallace-Wells
When is…
’An accomplished and memorable debut full of heart and heartbreak – an absolute corker for reading groups!’ Ruth Hogan, bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things
Val, a widow living in Weston-super-Mare, spends lonely evenings dressing up as the movie star Elizabeth Taylor. It seems to be a way…
’A masterly debut… If Bernard Cornwell and George R.R. Martin had a lovechild, it would look like A Mighty Dawn. I devoured it late into the night, and eagerly await the sequel’ THE TIMES’Gripping. Gut-wrenching’ ERIC SCHUMACHER
An epic, spellbinding Viking fantasy of blood and battle,…
’Sometimes when you’re reading Neal Stephenson, he doesn’t just seem like one of the best novelists writing in English right now; he seems like the only one.’ Time One of the most talented and creative authors working today, Neal Stephenson is renowned for his exceptional novels – works…
’Every essay in this book is magnificent… Mesmerizing.’ New York Times’How we interact with animals has preoccupied philosophers, poets, and naturalists for ages,’ writes Susan Orlean. Since the age of six, when Orlean wrote and illustrated a book called Herbert the Near-Sighted Pigeon,…
’The quintessential holiday rom-com…Three Holidays and a Wedding combines two budding romances, a massive snowstorm, unlikely friends, meddling family members, and one magical small town for the most festive book you’ll read this year’ CARLEY FORTUNEThree times the holiday magic. Three times the…
New mother Dani has a lot going on. She’s just moved back to her hometown, where her father was once known as the Garbage King; she’s fed up of not being a manicure-sporting, perfectly coiffed Normal Woman; and most of all, she’s worried that her seemingly healthy husband, Clark, will drop dead,…
’A wonderful book… Delightfully varied… As with all the best science writing, this book doesn’t just give answers, it also asks interesting questions.’ Daily Mail’Captivating and intelligent! Who knew death could be this much fun?’ Richard OsmanAsteroids, killer sharks,…
***LONGLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS’ ASSOCIATION DEBUT CROWN 2022***
***’Superb storytelling. […] Readers everywhere are in for a treat!’ – Tracy Chevalier***
***’Multi-layered, compelling and intriguing, The Silver Wolf draws us into the murky underbelly of Europe’s…
Kategorier: Biografi: allmänt Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc.
***THE INSPIRATION FOR CHRISTOPHER NOLAN’S FORTHCOMING NEW FILM OPPENHEIMER***
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION
’Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying’ Sunday TimesPhysicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics, J. Robert Oppenheimer…
Welcome to Samsara, a world-class spa nestled in the Indian Himalayas where all your wishes are just a gilded notecard away. Ro Krishna has just checked in. With his rakish charm, Oxford education, perfect hair, he has it all – well, until he loses his job at the hands of a white woman with a vendetta. It’s…
Man has always been fascinated by Equus caballus, recasting horse power into many forms: a hunk of meat, an industrial and agricultural machine, a luxury good, a cherished dancer, a comrade in arms and a symbol of a mythical past. From the wild tarpans sought by the Nazis to jade-laden treasure steeds in Ancient China,…
A stunning, powerful new novel from the acclaimed author of The Slap and Barracuda.
Kategorier: Författningsrätt och förvaltningsrätt Juridik Mänskliga och medborgerliga rättigheter Särskilda rättsområden
BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2022, NEW STATESMAN & CITY AM
Chosen as one of the Financial Time’s Best Summer Books of 2022
Longlisted for the Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing
’Compelling, powerful and necessary.’ Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance…
Growing up , TJ was Cam’s boy next door. When Cam needed a home, TJ’s parents – Mae and Jin – took him in. Their family bakery became Cam’s safe place. Until he left, and it wasn’t anymore.
Years later, Cam’s world is falling apart. The love of his life, Kai, is gone: but his…
The trip was supposed to be fun. When Kit’s best friend gets dumped by his boyfriend, he begs her to ditch her family responsibilities for a quick, idyllic weekend in the Montana mountains. They’ll soak in hot springs, then sneak a vape into the local dive bar like old times. But it’s soon clear that…
Many books have been written, and continue to be written, about the Second World War: military histories, histories of the Holocaust, the war in Asia, or collaboration and resistance in Europe. Few books have taken a close look at the immediate aftermath of the worldwide catastrophe. Drawing on hundreds of eyewitness…
Comedian Robin Ince quickly abandoned science at school, bored by a fog of dull lessons and intimidated by the barrage of equations. But, twenty years later, he fell in love and he now presents one of the world’s most popular science podcasts. Every year he meets hundreds of the world’s greatest…