Résultats pour "Julia" dans Littérature et fiction

'A truly monstrous romance' JULIA ARMFIELD, AUTHOR OF OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA 'An exciting new hybrid horror-romance novel' THE NEW YORK TIMES 'Lesbian pulp meets literary horror' YAEL VAN DER WOUDEN, AUTHOR OF THE SAFEKEEP ‘A heady novel of desire and despair’ – SFX Magazine A...

A sweeping epic in the vein of Philipp Meyer’s The Son and Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko and inspired by a true story, this stunning US literary debut captures the never-before-told journey of the Baleine Brides: a ship full of young women plucked from a Paris asylum and sent to marry settlers in...

With an imminent mayoral election, her vindictive ex a candidate, and an arsonist on the loose, Eve Maguire's profession as chief of police in Paradise Pines is her sole focus. That consummate kiss with an anonymous stranger was just her stirring libido. After her unfaithful ex, she has no...

In this queer political necromantasy, a secret marriage pact for suvival might undo a kingdom ... As the daughter of a foreign ambassador, Rissa hoped living abroad would protect her from home’s puritanical customs where women are forbidden to walk at night or use magic except to support a...

REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK | NATIONAL BESTSELLER Named a Best Book of 2025 by Time, NPR, Goodreads, and others. “[A] propulsive puzzle of a novel.” —The New York Times Book Review “This story swept me away with its big dreams, love, and unexpected twists.” —Reese Witherspoon In this...

They are just two girls sitting on a bench on a windy pier but this summer will change them both forever. A captivating story of love, betrayal and family secrets set in a Victorian seaside holiday town. Martha’s life has been turned upside down. Her father, her home, her prospects – all...

A morte em Veneza, publicada em 1912, é uma das mais reconhecidas obras de Thomas Mann. Na versão em audiolivro, Guilherme Weber conduz os leitores pelos canais dessa novela misteriosa, onde amor e morte se encontram. Gustav von Aschenbach é um reconhecido e diligente escritor de meia idade, que dedicou toda a sua existência à sua obra. Fatigado, ele parte em viagem para Veneza, onde, certo dia, se depara com Tadzio, um adolescente polonês hospedado no mesmo hotel.

When Sara Foster runs away from home at 16, she leaves behind not only the losses that have shattered her world but the girl she once was, capable of trust and intimacy. Years later, in Los Angeles, she is a sought-after bartender, renowned as much for her brilliant cocktails as for the mystery that clings to her. Across the city, Emilie Dubois is in a holding pattern. In her seventh year and fifth major as an undergraduate, she yearns for the beauty and community her Creole grandparents cultivated but is unable to commit.

'Bold, dazzling, hilarious' FERNANDA MELCHOR 'A revelation' NEW YORK TIMES 'As sultry as the summer weather' GUARDIAN 'Sensual and dirty, absurdist and tragic. Abreu's talent is thrilling' IRISH TIMES Stuck in a working-class neighbourhood, high up among Tenerife's volcanoes, a ten-year-old girl...

In Julia Glass's fifth book since her acclaimed novel Three Junes won the National Book Award, she gives us the story of an unusual bond between a world-famous writer and his assistant—a richly plotted novel of friendship and love, artistic ambition, the perils of celebrity, and the power of...

Three Junes is a vividly textured symphonic novel set on both sides of the Atlantic during three fateful summers in the lives of a Scottish family. Three Junes "almost threatens to burst with all the life it contains...extraordinary," says Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours.

In a small Kentucky college town in 1953, two married women desperately fall in love with each other, until a moment of indiscretion threatens to destroy both their lives. In her new adult novel, award-winning author Julia Watts creates a compelling, emotional queer tale of power and passion...

Paparazzi trap the president’s all-American boy with the self-proclaimed prince of Myrtle Beach - and Ben’s forced into a fake relationship with Wilder Ryder in this opposites attract gay comedy...Ben Quincy: I thought he'd make a good quickie, but we got caught. Then the stupid twink barfed on me at the top of the Ferris wheel - in the middle of a national broadcast. He's sexy as sin, but I’m saddled with a go-kart riding minigolf champ all summer long. The only good part is the hate sex. Someone save me from Wilder Ryder before something awful happens. Like more snakes.

From the author of the beloved novel Three Junes comes a rich and commanding story about the accidents, both grand and small, that determine our choices in love and marriage. Greenie Duquette, openhearted yet stubborn, devotes most of her passionate attention to her Greenwich Village bakery and...

Solitary vampire Fallon Underwood gets all the social interaction he needs being the silent partner at the Dead and Breakfast B and B high in the Colorado mountains. Change is hard for Fallon, so when his business partner, Tanner, suggests hiring a new manager for the inn, he's adamant that they don't need help, especially not in the form of bouncy werecat Carter Hughes. Carter is a happy-go-lucky kitty, and he loves the hospitality industry, so the D and B ought to be a great place for him. He falls for Fallon as soon as he picks up one of Fallon's novels and begins to woo the vamp.

Freddy left her childhood home in Newhaven twenty-two years ago and swore never to return. But now her parents are dead, and she's back in her hometown to help her brothers manage the family fishmonger. Nothing here has changed: the stink of fish coming up from the marshes; the shopping trolleys...

Jack and Karen are an ordinary, happily married couple. They've been together for years and are convinced every problem can be worked through. Until Karen finds an odd text on Jack's phone, and her confrontation leads to a shock revelation: Jack is gay, and he wants a male lover. Seeking stability for themselves and security for their teenage children, they settle on a 'closed loop' arrangement, whereby they stay together and Jack has a boyfriend. So begins a new type of marriage, where small deceptions and unspoken fantasies are replaced with radical honesty.

"Full of sensory details, vivid characters, and moment after moment of gorgeously rendered ordinary life, this audiobook is a queer must-listen." -AudioFile This program is masterfully narrated by award-winning "Golden Voice" narrator Julia Whelan. Yerba Buena is the debut adult novel by the...

'This is a wonderful novel, powerful, humane and moving. It's also one of the best police procedurals I've read this year' Ann Cleeves A groundbreaking story of love and hate, loyalty and betrayal, in a world of change. How far would you go to protect your child? Can you really keep them safe?...

When a young drifter is found murdered in the desert outside of Palm Springs, the police start their investigation - but it's crime reporter Sam Perry who gets to the bottom of the story. Working her way backward to piece together the victim's mysterious life, Sam gets drawn into the seedier side of the glamorous resort town, a world of strip clubs, blackmail, and betrayal. All suspicions point toward former A-list actress and now mayoral candidate Ellen Konrad, a woman that Sam can't quite figure out.