Olive Kitteridge

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...

Strout, Elizabeth

Edicions de 1984, S. L.

Strout torna amb una novel·la esperançadora sobre noves amistats, vells amors i el desig humà de deixar una empremta al món. La tardor ha arribat a Crosby, Maine, i l’advocat Bob Burgess decideix acceptar el cas d’un home solitari investigat per assassinat. Paral·lelament, el vincle entre en Bob i la Lucy Barton —l’aclamada escriptora que viu am...

Strout, Elizabeth

Alfaguara

LA DESGARRADORA HISTORIA DEL AMOR ENTRE UNA MADRE Y UNA HIJA QUE SE CONVIRTIÓ EN UN FENÓMENO LITERARIO EN TODO EL MUNDO CON MÁS DE 3 MILLONES Y MEDIO DE LECTORES Libro del año por The New York Times y The Washington Post y finalista del Booker, por la ganadora del Premio Pulitzer. «Una escritora formidable».Zadie Smith «Una forma de narrar que hipnotiza.»Manuel Vilas L...

Strout, Elizabeth

Edicions de 1984, S. L.

El març del 2020, en William, l'exmarit de la Lucy, li demana que deixi Nova York i se'n vagi amb ell a una casa que ha llogat a la costa de Maine. Ella hi accedeix a contracor i marxa pensant que tornarà al cap d'una o dues setmanes. Però les setmanes es converteixen en mesos, i només queden la Lucy, en William i el seu complex passat junts en una caseta arran de mar. Farcid...

Strout, Elizabeth

Alfaguara

UNO DE LOS MEJORES LIBROS DEL AÑO SEGÚN THE NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW OF BOOKS, THE NEW YORKER Y TIME, ENTRE OTROS. Vuelve la icónica Lucy Barton en esta deslumbrante novela sobre el amor, la pérdida y la esperanza. A medida que el miedo se apodera de su ciudad, Lucy Barton abandona Manhattan y se confina en un pueblo de Maine con su exmarido, William. Durante los siguientes meses...

Strout, Elizabeth

Duomo

Una magistral novela sobre aquello que nos asombra y fascina de la vidaTyler Caskey es como un soplo de aire fresco para la comunidad de West Annett: es joven, carismático, sus sermones son brillantes y de gran sensibilidad. Sin embargo, en cualquier momento las cosas pueden cambiar, y lo que antes era atractivo puede dar lugar a calumnias y murmuraciones. La repentina muerte ...

Strout, Elizabeth

Edicions de 1984, S. L.

La Lucy Barton, mare de dues filles adultes i vídua des de fa poc, és una escriptora d'èxit que viu a Nova York. Malgrat la seva separació, encara manté l'amistat amb en William, el seu primer marit i confident durant molt de temps. Tot recordant els anys d'universitat, el naixement de les filles, la dolorosa dissolució del seu matrimoni i les vides que van construir amb altre...