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Burlington Books

Set in 1797, this is the story of 14-year-old Ann Telford's difficult journey from the slums of Durham in England, through the horrors of Durham Jail to a convict ship bound for faraway Australia. Jailed for seven years for stealing food for her brother and herself, Ann Telford must survive the harsh conditions to build a better future. ...

Salinger, J. D.

Penguin Books

The Catcher in Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his ...

Didion, Joan

Fourth State

A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The Last Thing He Wanted and A Book of Common Prayer. Somewhere out beyond Hollywood, resting actress Maria Wyeth drifts along the freeway in perpetual motion, anaesthetized to pain and pleasure, seemingly untainted by her personal history. She finds herself, in her early thirties, radically divorced ...

Munro, Alice

Club Editor

?Mestressa de casa troba temps per escriure relats?, declarava el titular d?un dels primers reportatges sobre la jove Alice Munro, l?any 1961. Cinquanta anys més tard, al Canadà li diuen ?el nostre Txèkhov?, els grans autors americans la consideren una mestra, el públic d?arreu del món la llegeix en una vintena llarga de llengües i el 2013 li han concedit el Nobel. Els seus es...

Taylor Coleridge, Samuel

Editorial Pre-Textos

Libro inclasificable donde los haya, Biographia Literaria constituye uno de los hitos que han alimentado la imagen legendaria, sorprendente y paradójica de Coleridge. En él se dan la mano la recapitulación y la semblanza, el apunte crítico y la indagación filosófica, la autofabulación y el consejo al joven hombre de letras. De hecho, si se contempla a la luz de la cronología, ...

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Edicions del Salobre

En el més selvàtic extrem d'una parròquia coberta d'aiguamolls, lluny de la vista de tota casa humana, s'alça entre els brucs un munt de pedres, i una mica més a l'est, al vessant d'un monticle, un monument amb alguns versos mig esborrats. Allí fou on Chaverhouse matà amb les seves pròpies mans el Teixidor Penitent de Balweary; i el cisell de "Vell Mortalitat" havia dringat so...

Cisneros, Sandra

Vintage Books

Struggling to find a voice above the boom of her brothers and to understand her place on this side of the border and that, Lala is a shrewd observer of family life. But when she starts telling the Awful Grandmother's life story, seeking clues to how she got to be so awful, grandmother accuses Lala of exaggerating. Soon, a multigenerational family narrative turns into a whirlwi...

Highsmith, Patricia

Vintage Books

Tom Ripley is struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors and the law, when an unexpected acquaintance offers him a free trip to Europe and a chance to start over.Ripley wants money, success and the good life and he's willing to kill for it. When his new-found happiness is threatened, his response is as swift as it is shocking. ...

Kennedy, Elle

Piatkus

Discover the addictive world of the Off-Campus series from The Queen of Hockey Romance, Elle Kennedy!Read The Deal now for the perfect fake-dating romance!She's about to make a deal with the college bad boy . . .Hannah Wells has finally found someone who turns her on. But while she might be confident in every other area of her life, she's carting around a full set of baggage w...

Hope, Anna

Penguin Books

he Brooke family are gathering in their eighteenth-century ancestral home - at the heart of a thousand acres of English countryside - to bury Philip: husband, father and the blinding sun around which they have all orbited for as long as they can remember. They must grapple with their shared grief as well as their shared inheritance. Each of his children is adamant that their f...

Preston & Child

Bloomsbury Publishing

FBI Special Agent Pendergast and Constance Greene take a final stand against the deadliest serial killer in the history of New York: Pendergast's own ancestor, Dr. Enoch Leng. The latest thrilling timeslip adventure in the New York Times-bestselling series from Preston and Child.A desperate bargain is broken... A clever trap is set... A vengeful angel will not be deterred...Ha...

Allende, Isabel

Vintage Books

As a girl, Clara del Valle can read fortunes, make objects move as if they had lives of their own, and predict the future. Following the mysterious death of her sister, Rosa the Beautiful, Clara is mute for nine years. When she breaks her silence, it is to announce that she will be married soon to the stern and volatile landowner Esteban Trueba.Set in an unnamed Latin American...

Bendicho, Núria

3Timesrebel

Jon was shot in the back, in an isolated house where the only other occupants were his family. Who pulled the trigger? 13 characters. 13 different points of view. Dead Lands is the story of a cursed lineage, a kaleidoscopic narrative that unfurls an atavistic universe where characters are burdened by savage origins, two deaths, and a dark secret. ...

Enriquez, Mariana

Portobello Books

Thrilling and terrifying, Things We Lost in the Fire takes the reader into a world of Argentine Gothic. A world of sharp-toothed children and young girls racked by desire, where demons lurk beneath the river and stolen skulls litter the pavements. A world where the secrets half-buried under Argentina's terrible dictatorship rise up to haunt the present day, and where women, ex...

Le Guin, Ursula K.

Orion Books

Ursula Le Guin took readers to imaginary worlds for decades. In her last great frontier of life, old age, she explored a new literary territory: the blog, a forum where she shone. The collected best of Le Guin's blog, No Time to Spare, presents perfectly crystallised dispatches on what mattered to her late in life, her concerns with the world and her wonder at it.She brings he...

Beaton, M.c.

Corsair

Can the feisty Agatha cut it as a private investigator? She soon learns that running her own detective agency in the Cotswolds is not quite like starring in a Raymond Chandler movie. But then in walks wealthy divorcee Catherine Laggat-Brown, and Agatha is given her first real case. Death threats, blackmail. and physical attakcs soon follow, and once again Agatha is off scourin...

Barnes, Julian

Jonathan Cape

Departure(s) is the story of a man called Stephen and a woman called Jean, who fall in love when they are young and again when they are old. It is the story of an elderly Jack Russell called Jimmy, enviably oblivious to his own mortality.It is also the story of how the body fails us, whether through age, illness, accident or intent. And it is the story of how experiences fade ...

Herron, Mick

John Murray

In Slough House, the backwatr for failed spies, memories are stirring, all of them bad. Catherine Standish is buying booze again, Louisa Guy is raking over the ashes of lost love, and new recruit Lech Wicinski, whose sins make him an outcast even among the slow horses, is determined to discover who destroyed his career, even if he tears his life apart in the process.As winter ...

Smith, Zadie

Penguin Books

She takes an exhilaratingly close look at artist Toyin Ojih Odutola, Kara Walker and Celia Paul. She invites us along to the movies, to see and to think about Tár, and to Glastonbury to witness the ascendance of Stormzy. She takes us on a walk down Kilburn High Road in her beloved north-west London and invites us to mourn with her the passing of writers Joan Didion, Martin Ami...

Hustvedt, Siri

Hodder & Stoughton

The tender memoir of the forty-three years Siri Hustvedt spent with her husband, writer, poet and filmmaker Paul Auster - from their first encounter in 1980s New York to his death in 2024Ghost Stories is Siri Hustvedt's most personal work yet, a searing and intimate meditation on grief, memory and enduring love, written in the aftermath of the death of her husband, writer, poe...

Connolly, John

Hodder & Stoughton

The ghosts of Charlie Parker's past watch over him as danger moves ever closer, in this spellbinding new novel in the number one bestselling series.The players call it The Game. There are just two rules:No killing close to home.No Killing outside the gameBut what happens when those rules get broken?When the drowned body of a troubled teenager is recovered from a river in Maine...

Keefe, Patrick Radden

Pan Macmillan Uk

From the Baillie Gifford Prize-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing comes a riveting story of wealth, violence and deceit at the heart of a glittering city.'Gripping, rigorous, smart . . .breathtaking' - Jon Ronson'Patrick Radden Keefe [is] one of the top narrative nonfiction authors of his generation' - TIME'A phenomenal book that will...

Beaton, M.c.

Corsair

When he vicar of a nearby village asks Agatha to help publicise the church fête Agatha agrees -especially when the event organiser, George Selby, turns out to be a handsome widower.Agatha brings out the crowds for the fête all right, but there's more going on than innocent village fun. Several of the offerings in the jam-tasting booth turn out to be poisoned and the festive en...

Christie, Agatha

Fourth State

A full-length novel by Charles Osborne adapted from Agatha Christie's stage play, in which a diplomat's wife finds a body that mustn't be discovered... Following BLACK COFFEE and THE UNEXPECTED GUEST comes the final Agatha Christie play novelisation, bringing her superb storytelling to a new legion of fans. Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreami...

Stuart, Douglas

Pan Macmillan Uk

Out of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry home to the island of Harris to find that not much has changed except for him. In the windswept croft where he grew up, Cal resumes his old life, caught between the two poles of his childhood: his father John, a sheep farmer, weaver, and pillar of their local Presbyterian chur...

Beaton, M.c.

Corsair

Agatha Raisin thinks she's in for a treat when her ex-husband James Lacey invites her on holiday but -horrors!- his idea of an idyllic break is the small, run-down resort of Burryhill-on-Sea. And from there, things go from bad to worse. When a fellow guest in their hotel is found murdered, Agatha herself is chief suspect -and has to solve this case from a locked police cell! ...

Christie, Agatha

Fourth State

A collection of short stories featuring some of Agatha Christie's best-loved detectives - Hercule Poirot, Parker Pyne, Mr Satterthwaite and Harley Quin... All great crime writers have their favourite creations. Similarly, every great sleuth has his, or her, own preferred method of deduction.Take the charming Parker Pyne, who relies upon an intuitive knowledge of human nature t...

Christie, Agatha

Fourth State

A beautiful heiress is fatally poisoned in a West End restaurant...Six people sit down to dinner at a table laid for seven. In front of the empty place is a sprig of rosemary - in solemn memory of Rosemary Barton who died at the same table exactly one year previously.No one present on that fateful night would ever forget the woman's face, contorted beyond recognition - or what...

Miller, Madeline

Bloomsbury

Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Despite their differences, Achilles befriends the shamed prince, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine, their bond blossoms into something deeper - despite the displeasure of Achilles's mother Thetis, a cru...

Hayes, Terry

Transworldbooks

It is a textbook murder - and Pilgrim wrote the book. Pilgrim will have to make a journey from a public beheading in Mecca to a deserted ruins on the Turkish coast via a Nazi death camp in Alsace and the barren wilderness of the Hindu Kush in search of the faceless man who would commit an appalling act of mass murder in the name of his God.Terry Hayes's debut thriller. ...