Our Souls At Night

Mcfadden, Freida

Piatkus

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Welcome to the family," Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh.I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I'll soon learn that the Winchesters' secrets are far more dangerous than my own... Every day I clean the Win...

Kuan, R.f.

Harpercollins Publishers, Ltd

Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld.Grad student Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become the brightest mind in the field of analytic magick.But the only person who can make her dream come true is dead and - inconveniently - in Hell. And Alice, along with her biggest rival Peter Murdoch, is going after him.But Hell is not as t...

Ypi, Lea

Allen & Uwin

‘There is something about the human spirit, she would say, that withstands all attempts at offence, injury or humiliation ... we call it dignity'When Lea Ypi discovers a photo of her grandmother, Leman, honeymooning in the Alps in 1941 posted by a stranger on social media, she is faced with unsettling questions. Growing up, she was told records of her grandmother's youth were ...

Orwell, George

Vintage Books

JOIN THE OBSESSION'These might be the most beautiful books I've ever seen? Get them in an art gallery''The marbled paper ...

Welsh, Irvine

Jonathan Cape

It is the late 1980s, the closing years of Thatcher's Britain. For the Trainspotting crew, a new era is about to begin - a time for hope, for love, for raving.Leaving heroin behind and separated after a drug deal gone wrong, Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie each want to feel alive. They fill their days with sex and romance and trying to get ahead; they follow the call of the ...

Oates, Joyce Carol

Fourth State

Who is Francis Fox? A charming English teacher new to the idyllic Langhorne Academy, Fox beguiles many of his students, their parents, and his colleagues at the elite boarding school, while leaving others wondering where he came from and why his biography is so enigmatic. When two brothers discover Fox's car half-submerged in a pond in a local nature preserve and parts of an u...

Haruf, Kent

Periscopi

L'Edith Goodnough, que té vuitanta anys, es recupera en un llit d'hospital sota la vigilància d'un policia després d'haver estat acusada d'assassinar el seu germà. A través de la mirada del seu veí, en Sanders Roscoe, es desplega la vida tràgica d'aquesta dona que ha sacrificat la pròpia identitat per ajudar i donar suport a la família, doblegant-se als codis morals del Colora...

Haruf, Kent

Periscopi

En Dad Lewis va perdre el seu fill, amb qui no es parlava, per una discussió, i ara, un cop li han diagnosticat un càncer terminal, sap que aviat perdrà la vida. La seva dona i la seva filla s'esforcen perquè els seus últims dies siguin còmodes, però alguns canvis subtils en la tranquil·la comunitat on viuen, com ara l'arribada d'un nou predicador de Denver, han remogut record...

Haruf, Kent

Periscopi

Dos anys després del naixement de la seva filla Katie, la Victoria Roubideaux aconsegueix anar a la universitat, i els germans McPheron es troben amb un hivern llarg i fred al davant. A Holt la vida segueix el seu curs, plena de noves històries: un nen que neteja el jardí de la veïna i es fa càrrec del seu avi, una treballadora social, una mare soltera i una parella amb dificu...

Haruf, Kent

Picador

Set in Kent Haruf's fictional landscape of Holt County, Colorado, Plainsong is a story of simple lives told with extraordinary empathy. Tom Guthrie is struggling to bring up his two young sons alone. In the same town, school girl Victoria Roubideaux finds herself pregnant and homeless. Whilst Tom's sons find their way forward without their mother, quiet and gentle Harold and R...

Haruf, Kent

Picador

Following the astonishing Plainsong, Eventide is Kent Haruf's second novel set in his imaginary landscape of Holt, Colorado.Harold and Raymond McPheron are finally waving goodbye to their beloved Victoria, a young mother with a first chance at an education. Betty and Luther Wallace are struggling to keep their heads above water and their children out of care, and in the same t...

Haruf, Kent

Picador

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