Parade

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...

Cusk, Rachel

Libros del Asteroide

En la mitad de su vida, el artista G empieza a pintarlo todo al revés. Con el tiempo, acaba dibujando a su mujer cabeza abajo. También la retrata poco agraciada. Los cuadros consiguen un enorme éxito.En París, una mujer ataca a otra en la calle. La atacante huye, pero no sin antes darse la vuelta para contemplar a su víctima, como un pintor alejándose unos pasos del lienzo. A ...

Cusk, Rachel

Libros del Asteroide

«Mi marido y yo nos separamos recientemente y, en cuestión de unas semanas, la vida que habíamos construido juntos se desarmó, como un puzle convertido en un montón de piezas con los bordes recortados.» En 2009, el matrimonio de Rachel Cusk llegó a su fin y su mundo se fracturó «como un puzle convertido en un montón de piezas con los bordes recortados». Despojos es el relato d...

Cusk, Rachel

Libros del Asteroide

En un avión, una mujer escucha a su vecino de vuelo contarle la historia de su vida: su trabajo, su matrimonio y la horrible noche que acaba de pasar enterrando al perro de la familia. Esta mujer es Faye, una escritora que viaja a Europa para promocionar un libro que acaba de publicar. Ya en su destino, las conversaciones que mantiene con la gente que se encuentra —sobre famil...

Cusk, Rachel

Faber And Faber

New paperback edition of the novel from the dazzlingly talented author of the Baileys-shortlisted Outline.In the wake of family collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions - personal, moral, artistic, practical - as she endeavours to construct a new reality for herself and her children.Filtered t...

Cusk, Rachel

Les Hores

A la meitat de la seva vida, l'artista G comença a pintar-ho tot del revés. Amb el temps, acaba dibuixant la seva dona cap per avall. També la retrata poc afavorida i els quadres aconsegueixen un èxit enorme. A París, una dona n'ataca una altra al carrer. L'atacant fuig, però abans de fer-ho es gira per contemplar la seva víctima, com una pintora allunyant-se uns passos de la ...

Cusk, Rachel

Faber And Faber

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