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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...

Le Carré, John

Penguin Books

Tessa Quayle, a brilliant and beautiful young social activist, has been found brutally murdered by Lake Turkana in Nairobi. The rumours are that she was faithless, careless, but her husband Justin, a reserved, garden-loving British diplomat, refuses to believe them. As he sets out to discover what really happened to Tessa, he unearths a conspiracy more disturbing, and more dea...

Le Carré, John

Editorial Planeta

El mejor homenaje a John le Carré, el maestro de espías. Las cartas de toda una vida.John le Carré fue uno de los más grandes novelistas de su generación. También tuvo una vida extraordinaria. Esta obra es la historia de esa vida contada a través de la voz de este magistral escritor. Esta obra abarca siete décadas y narra no solo la propia vida de le Carré, sino también los ti...

Le Carré, John

Edicions Seixantados

«Hi ha persones a qui no hem de trair mai, costi el que costi. Jo no soc una d'elles». En Julian Lawndsley ha renunciat a la seva bona feina a la City per una vida més senzilla portant una llibreria en una petita localitat costanera anglesa. Però tot just un parell de mesos després, un visitant altera la seva rutina. L'Edward, un emigrat polonès que viu a Silverview, la casa g...

Le Carré, John

Editorial Planeta

Julian Lawndsley ha renunciado a su exigente empleo en la City de Londres para llevar una vida más sencilla como propietario de una librería en una pequeña ciudad costera. Sin embargo, un par de meses después de la inauguración, la tranquilidad de Julian se ve interrumpida por una visita: Edward Avon, un inmigrante polaco que vive en Silverview, la gran mansión a las afueras d...

Le Carré, John

Editorial Planeta

A la sombra del reciente Muro de Berlín, Alec Leamas asiste al asesinato de su último agente, muerto de un disparo a manos de los guardias de la RDA. Para Leamas, antiguo responsable del espionaje inglés en Alemania Oriental, la guerra fría se ha acabado. Mientras se enfrenta a la perspectiva de retirarse, o aún peor, de trabajar en una oficina, Control le ofrece una oportunid...

Le Carré, John

Penguin Books

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