Titres dans Vie de famille

Ein virtuoser Roman über einen Jungen, der in Russland bei einem homosexuellen Paar aufwächst. Mikita wird nach dem Tod seiner Mutter von ihrem Bruder adoptiert, er ist fünf Jahre alt. Mit Slawa und dessen Partner Lew genießt er eine fröhliche Kindheit. Aber mit der Einschulung beginnt das Versteckspiel, das Lügen. Wenn Besuch kommt, müssen Fotos weggeräumt, in Aufsätzen müssen Dinge verschwiegen oder erfunden werden, und Mikita schlagen Vorurteile entgegen. Er verliert seinen Frohsinn, wird wütend, aggressiv, depressiv.

Lynn Pinchas, a 50-year-old gay man, is approached by a younger man named Mark, who appears out of nowhere and claims he is Lynn’s son. Is this a scam? Apparently, Lynn’s father had taken him to a female prostitute when he was 18 to “prove” his son wasn’t gay. Could Mark’s mother actually be this prostitute? Through DNA testing, various scenarios are revealed as to the authenticity of Mark’s claim. And just when you think you’ve figured out the mystery, a 50-year-old secret held by Lynn’s dead mother is revealed.

Growing up on a homophobic council estate in South Wales with an abusive veteran father made Jamie Taylor’s life intolerable. Her only release was feeding her obsession for rich kid Heather Gardner.

As a young mother with a toddler and a live-in boyfriend, Maggie Fisher's job at a checkout counter in downtown Phoenix doesn't afford her much financial flexibility. She dreams of going to college and becoming a teacher, options she squandered when she fled her family home as a teenager. When Maggie stumbles onto an ad offering thousands of dollars to women who are willing to gestate other people's babies, she at first finds the concept laughable. Before long, however, she's been seduced by all the ways the extra money could improve her life.

When his father falls ill, Andrés, a professor of public health, returns to his suburban hometown to tend to his father's recovery. Reevaluating his rocky marriage in the wake of his husband’s infidelity and with little else to do, he decides to attend his 20-year high school reunion, where he runs into the long-lost characters of his youth.

Bestselling author Deborah Challinor returns with a spellbinding novel about a woman living in Sydney's notorious King's Cross in 1964. Polly Manaia is living in Sydney's notorious Kings Cross, working as an exotic dancer. She's desperate to bring her young daughter to live with her, but beneath...

A “big-hearted, lively, and expansive portrait of a family” that follows a neurodivergent father, his nonbinary teenager, and the sudden, catastrophic reappearance of the woman who abandoned them (Claire Lombardo, New York Times bestselling author). Morgan Flowers just wants to hide. Raised...

Winner of the Crook’s Corner Book Prize One of Vanity Fair's Best Books of the Year A bighearted and moving debut about a wry retired schoolteacher whose decade-old secret threatens to come to light and send shockwaves through her small Texas town. Billington, Texas, is a place where nothing...

Poet Omar Sakr’s debut novel is a fierce and fantastic force that illuminates the bonds that bind families together as well as what can break them. An estranged father. An abused and abusive mother. An army of relatives. A tapestry of violence, woven across generations and geographies, from...

Have you discovered the gangland crime series everyone is talking about? ‘If you like Martina Cole and Kimberley Chambers you will LOVE [Caz Finlay]’ Reader Review You’re either with them The Carters have always run the streets of Liverpool, but now there’s a new family in town who think...

En El delfín, Mark Haddon ha elaborado una recreación contemporánea de una de las tragedias menos conocidas de Shakespeare, Pericles, príncipe de Tiro, versión a su vez de la leyenda de Apolonio de Tiro. El relato clásico narra la huida del héroe, perseguido por el rey Antíoco, tras haber revelado la relación incestuosa del rey y su hija.

En kvindes forvandling er en autobiografisk roman om Édouard Louis' mor. Om hendes triste tilværelse gennem hans barndom og hendes frigørelse sent i livet. Lige dele tragisk forfaldshistorie og smuk genforeningshistorie. Både et råt portræt af et miljø gennemsyret af armod og et livsbekræftende vidnesbyrd om forvandlingens evige mulighed.

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FIREWATCHING AND NIGHTHAWKING 'A rollercoaster ride of a thriller . . .will keep you hanging on by your fingertips until the tense final moments' PETER ROBINSON _____________________________ THE DARKNESS FROM HIS PAST WILL FINALLY COME TO LIGHT The death of DS...

'The dank underside of social media, its cruelty and delusions . . . superbly poised, psychologically astute and subtle' - Ian McEwan, author of Atonement 'A glimpse of the foetid underbelly of the internet' - The Times We Had To Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets is a chilling, powerful and...

Rachel Saunders knows gossip is the price you pay for a rural lifestyle and outstanding schools. The latest town scandal is her divorce - and the fact that her new girlfriend has moved into the family home. Laura Spence lives in a poky bedsit on the wrong side of town. She and her son, Max, don’t really belong, and his violent tantrums are threatening to expose the very thing she’s trying to hide. When the local school introduces a new inclusive curriculum, Rachel and Laura find themselves on opposite sides of a fearsome debate.

Alani Baum, a nonbinary photographer and teacher, hasn’t seen their mother since they ran away with their girlfriend when they were 17 - almost 30 years ago. But when Alani gets a call from a doctor at the assisted-living facility where their mother has been for the last five years, they learn that their mother’s dementia has worsened and appears to have taken away her ability to speak. As a result, Alani suddenly find themselves running away again - only this time, they’re running back to their mother.

Laura has left Paris to return to her childhood home, to act as carer to her ageing, but still brilliantly sharp, mother. Ben has moved away from his beautiful and loyal wife to support his brother, alone since their own mother's death. A chance encounter will remind Ben and Laura both of the relationship they once shared, many years ago. On one day, they will come face-to-face with the feelings they had, the chemistry that still lies between them and the choices they must make: to be true to themselves or true only to what they believe to be right.

Being the middle son is never easy, especially when your brothers are perfect. T.K. is 14 and has a true talent for getting into trouble. He tries to keep his temper under control, but it’s a difficult task with so many freaking jerks around. T.K. feels like his life has been flushed down the toilet, but soon he’s able to join the football team, and then there’s Finn, the hottie newly hired to help out on the farm. T.K. believes he might finally be happy, but when he spots a blond angel, he realizes he didn’t know what happiness means.

The Prize-Winning International Bestseller 'I can't help but be moved by a story about women meeting, fighting, helping each other, looking after one another, and raising their voices against the prejudice and criticism they are subject to.' Cho Nam-joo, author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 When a...

Thomas McGurrin is a fourth-grade teacher and openly gay man at a private primary school serving Portland, Oregon's wealthy progressive elite when he is falsely accused of inappropriately touching a male student. The accusation comes just as Thomas is thrust back into the center of his unusual family by his younger brother's battle with cancer. Although cleared of the accusation, Thomas is forced to resign from a job he loves during a potentially life-changing family drama.