“Hesh Kestin's THE IRON WILL OF SHOESHINE CATS was a major find for me a couple of years ago. That book was brilliant. THE LIE is equally so, but more: it's a page-turner that will engage your mind and emotions in a way few novels do. The narrative is headlong, the issues have never been more...
In the turbulent final years of the Yuan Dynasty, Wang Meng is a low-level bureaucrat, employed by the government of Mongol conquerors established by the Khublai Khan. Though he wonders about his own complicity with this regime, he prefers not to dwell on his official duties, choosing instead...
What happens when life forces you to grow up too quickly?
Ash is only thirteen when his father is sent to prison and he’s left to fend for himself. Luckily his dad’s friend Kieran is on hand to distract social services, and soon Ash has dropped out of school forever, teamed up with...
THE FAIR FIGHT to debiutancka powieść historyczna Anny Freeman. Autorka przenosi nas w realia XVIII w. Bristolu. Żywa fabuła oraz wyjątkowy i zabawny styl Freeman sprawiają, że warto sięgnąć po maszynopis do recenzji!
Anna Freeman’s debut THE FAIR FIGHT, is a pulsating historical novel...
The one and only Fannie Flagg, beloved author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café, Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You, is at her hilarious and superb best in this new comic mystery novel about two women who are forced to reimagine who they are, and what they...
#GIRLBOSS, a sassy and irreverent manifesto for ambitious young women by the founder of Nasty Gal, Sophie Amoruso.
At seventeen, Sophia Amoruso decided to forgo continuing education to pursue a life of hitchhiking, dumpster diving, and petty thievery. Now, at twenty-nine, she is the...
IT'S A PERFECT READ FOR FANS OF DAVID ATTENBOROUGH, ROBERT MACFARLANE AND RICHARD MABEY - AND FOR ALL ALL THOSE INTERESTED IN THE NATURAL WORLD!
Synopsis
This story is a quest for an animal so rare that a sighting has never been recorded. The Somali golden mole was first...
Amanda Knox spent four years in a foreign prison for a crime she did not commit.
In the fall of 2007, the 20-year-old college coed left Seattle to study abroad in Italy, but her life was shattered when her roommate was murdered in their apartment.
After a controversial trial, Amanda...
In 1975, fresh out of law school and working a numbing job at the Treasury Department, John Rizzo took “a total shot in the dark” and sent his résumé to the Central Intelligence Agency. He had no notion that more than thirty years later, after serving under eleven CIA directors and seven...
The Bell Jar meets The Rachel Papers for Generation Y.
Meet 2014's most outrageous, funny and shocking anti-heroine: Ann-Marie.She's 23, her life has collapsed, and she's blaming everyone but herself. Heartbroken, skint and furious, she's convinced that love - sweet love! - is the answer...
Heart-shaped food for ones you love
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- Surprise mum on Mother's Day with pretty lace-pancakes
- Prepare a romantic meal for two with steak and heart-shaped potato chips
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Writing with an exuberant love of language and detail, Anjelica Huston shares her enchanted childhood in Ireland, her teen years in London, and her coming of age as a model and nascent actress in New York.
John Huston was filming The African Queen—in the Belgian Congo—when he received a...
"The world of WONDERLAND is authentic, vibrant, and genuine. Stacey D’Erasmo explores the delight and terror of second chances. A great read!" - Michael Stipe
"WONDERLAND is a witty and unflinching novel about life, love, art and sound checks. A deep howl and a bittersweet song, this is...
One evening,
my father asked me if I would
like to become a ghost bride…
Li Lan, a young Chinese woman, lives in 1890s colonial Malaya with her quietly ruined father, who returns one evening with a proposition — the fabulously wealthy Lim family want Li Lan to marry their son. The...
THE VISIONIST was picked as one of Barnes and Noble’s great new writers for Spring 2014, and has received the following praise:
“Urquhart constructs this debut novel around a seminal era in Shaker history. Set in New England in the mid-nineteenth century during the “Era of...
The image of “fascism” is evident in our culture – the very word sparks visions of devout masses following chauvinistic leaders, marching militias dressed in black or brown, violence against dissidents, world war and the horrors of the Holocaust.
But this image is just a description of...
Ester Nilsson is 31 years old. She is a poet and an essayist and a sensible person in a sensible relationship. One day in June she receives a phone call and she is requested to give a lecture on the artist Hugo Rask. In the audience sits the artist himself, spellbound, and they meet for the...
The novel is based on the relationship between the individual and the crowd: His father’s involvement in human trafficking introduces a nine-year-old boy to the phenomenon of illegal migration. His upbringing forces him to witness the crushing reality of socio-economic inequality.
A young...
“2011 THE BEST NOVEL OF THE YEAR IN TURKEY”
The 'FEW'... A little word, a huge novel
The story of the lives, which were crossed in a graveyard, of 11 year old Derdâ, the daughter of a ranger who was wed with the son of a cult sheikh, and Derda the 'graveyard kid', the same age son of...
