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The beautiful and heartbreaking new novel from Sarah Winman, author of the international bestseller WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT. 'Her best novel to date' Observer 'An exquisitely crafted tale of love and loss' Guardian 'A marvel' Sunday Express 'Astoundingly beautiful' Matt Haig It begins with a...

Now a major motion picture A Man Called Otto starring Tom Hanks! #1 New York Times bestseller—more than 3 million copies sold! Meet Ove. He’s a curmudgeon—the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles...

WINNER OF THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE AND A NATIONAL BESTSELLER Finalist for the Kirkus Prize | Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence From “the shrewdest writer on contemporary masculinity we have” (Esquire), a “captivating...hypnotic...virtuosic” (The Baffler) novel about a man...

'I absolutely loved this book!' Maxine Morrey Madison reckons she’s a pretty good judge of character. When a disaster at work brings professional photographer Toby into her life, she has him all worked out within minutes. As their work collaboration blossoms into friendship, her preconceptions...

Some people just look destined for great things. And sometimes, life has other ideas. Ever since The Incident, James DeWitt has stayed on the safe side. He likes to know what happens next. Danny Allen is not on the safe side. He is more past the point of no return. But it's funny the way life is...

A captivating novel about family ties, romance and leaving the past behind - THE PERFECT MAN by No. 1 bestselling author Sheila O'Flangan. A perfect read for fans of Liane Moriarty and Kathryn Hughes. Brit doesn't believe in love. One painful mistake was all it took. So she's as surprised as...

In 1897, Pieter Rijken is a young Dutch Calvinist schoolteacher who wants to be a good man, but he thinks it may be impossible. After going too far with one of his students, he is forced to flee to Southern Africa. On the way there he meets Bertram Hugin, a happy-go-lucky German with a knack for getting Pieter into trouble. Once there, Pieter meets Jaap and his daughter, Dien, mixed-race Africans who challenge everything the young man believes in—and especially Pieter himself. Along the way, all of them must overcome violence, rape, and betrayal if they are to achieve their dreams.

An elderly bookseller improbably keeps his shop open in Palestine, telling a foreign correspondent the ways in which literature has provided him with refuge and inspiration. “An essential novel to remind us that those in Gaza continue to read, they continue to exist.” —David Diop, author...

Ellie has the perfect life: a happy marriage, a gorgeous daughter and a baby on the way. But when her husband, Max, suddenly develops amnesia, he forgets everything about the last five years...including his relationship with Ellie. Now the man she said ‘I do’ to has become a stranger; he’s not who she married at all. Yet Ellie is determined to get to the bottom of his memory loss and find her Max again - he has to be in there somewhere, right? As they get to know one another afresh, Ellie finds herself seeing Max clearly for the first time.

En este “encantador debut” (People) y bestseller del New York Times —que próximamente será una gran producción cinematográfica protagonizada por Tom Hanks— de uno de los autores suecos más exitosos, un hombre gruñón pero adorable encuentra su solitario mundo patas arriba cuando...

Seit Kurzem lebt sie mit ihrem Traummann Nick zusammen, doch nun entpuppt sich ausgerechnet die Weihnachtszeit als fieser Beziehungstest: Erst nennt er ihre Adventsdeko Kitschkrempel, und dann werden auch noch ihre geliebten Weihnachtsrituale zum Brandbeschleuniger ernsthafter Startschwierigkeiten der frischgebackenen Patchworkfamilie. Als dann auch noch die teuren Präsente für Neles Kinder in der Post verloren gehen, legt Weihnachten den Schleudergang ein. Notgedrungen muss Nele mit ihren Freundinnen Fiona und Hermine Hobbydetektivin spielen.

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance. When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and...

The new novel from the award-winning writer, Ben Fergusson, author of The Spring of Kasper Meier and The Other Hoffmann Sister. In West Berlin in 1989, eighteen-year-old Ralf has just left school and is living a final golden summer with his three best friends. They spend their days swimming...

Legal, illegal – ganz egal! Drei Frauen auf der Suche nach Gerechtigkeit und Liebe Als die drei Freundinnen Nele, Fiona und Hermine unverschuldet in existenzielle Nöte geraten, ist Schluss mit lieb und nett. Um sich und ihre Kinder über Wasser zu halten, gehen sie aufs Ganze: Mit Witz, Fantasie und einer guten Portion krimineller Energie holen sie sich einfach, was sie brauchen. Dabei geraten sie in jede Menge skurriler Situationen und finden am Ende, womit sie am wenigsten gerechnet haben: die Liebe. Eine charmante Komödie über Haben und Sein, nicht zuletzt auch über die ganz großen Gefühle.

Hebamme Luisa ist alleinerziehend. Ihr Ex entzieht sich seinen Verpflichtungen, wo er kann. Als Luisas Rücken die Notbremse zieht, muss sie mit ihrer kleinen Tochter eine Auszeit nehmen: bei der exzentrischen Tante in St. Peter-Ording. Die geschickten Hände des verschlossenen Physiotherapeuten Tom helfen ihr wieder auf die Beine, doch die Seele will nicht recht nachziehen. Bis sie am Strand auf ein Grüppchen Frauen trifft, das es sich zum Motto gemacht hat, fünfe gerade sein zu lassen. Und auch Tom ist auf einmal nicht mehr so verschlossen.

The Handsome Man is a collection of linked stories that follow several years of the life of a young man as he is drawn around the world: from Toronto to Montreal, New York, Ohio, New Mexico, British Columbia, Berlin, Rome, and Northern Ontario, along the way meeting hippies, healers, drinkers, movie stars, old friends, and welcoming strangers. He isn’t traveling, however; he’s running away. But as far and fast as he runs, the world won’t let him disappear, and each new encounter and every lost soul he meets along this journey brings him closer and closer to certain truths he’d locked away.

Marina ha sette anni quando entra in orfanotrofio dopo la morte dei genitori in un incidente, ma è molto diversa dalle altre bambine. Sulle compagne esercita un fascino oscuro che le attira almeno quanto le respinge. Il desiderio di qualcosa che non si comprende si sovrappone alla sofferenza di non appartenere al gruppo, così i rituali quotidiani della ricreazione, del pranzo e della buonanotte sono scanditi da una paura lambita dalle fiamme dell'amore. Finché, in un atto di ribellione alla realtà, l'immaginazione di Marina inventa "il gioco".

In this #1 international bestseller, an old man who is young at heart proves that life doesn't stop once you enter a nursing home, perfect for fans of A Man Called Ove. Technically speaking, Hendrik Groen is elderly. But at age 83 and one quarter, this feisty curmudgeon has no plans to go out...

Efervescència i melancolia: una novel·la sobre l'amistat en un món abocat al col·lapse. La Rita viu a la Colònia, dalt d'un cim on homes cansats buiden una mina a punt d'esgotar-se. Des d'allí, contempla el poble enfonsat a la vall, i els boscos que, tot d'una, comencen a cremar. En Líton, que va créixer a ciutat, apaga el foc amb la resta de joves del Servei. Aquesta novel·la ressegueix la història dels dos amics: la infantesa en contextos oposats, el descobriment del desig, els seus amors amb en Fèlix i en René –i la nostàlgia del futur que no serà.

I denna uppföljare till "Tre män på en båt" åker de tre vännerna på en cykeltur genom den tyska Svarta skogen. Ett årtionde senare är de äldre, men inte visare. Alla är ivriga att komma bort från England igen. Deras resa blir ett äventyr fyllt av humor, mystik och otaliga värdshus i den täta skogen. Jerome K. Jerome föddes 1859 och dog 1927. Han var en brittisk författare och dramatiker. Mest känd är han för den historiska romanen "Tre män i en båt" (1889).