The Bee Sting

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...

Murray, Paul

Anagrama

CANDIDAT PREMI NOLLEGIU 2025 Una saga familiar ambientada en la Irlanda rural que narra cómo la crisis económica afecta a una familia disfuncional. Los Barnes, una familia infeliz de cuatro maneras diferentes. Un padre al borde de la bancarrota, una madre que acarrea fantasmas del pasado, una hija adolescente en pleno descubrimiento de los placeres y peligros de la vida y un h...

Murray, Paul

Pálido Fuego

Daniel "Skippy" Juster, alumno de catorce años de un exclusivo internado católico irlandés, fallece inexplicablemente antes siquiera de dar comienzo la novela. Con estos sencillos y, en apariencia, anticlimáticos mimbres, Paul Murray logra armar una narración perfecta sobre la pérdida de la inociencia y la fragmentación de la sociedad actual. La novela, ambientada en 2003, rad...