THE GRIPPING ESPIONAGE THRILLER FROM AWARD-WINNER RJ ELLORY'This tense, atmospheric, totally believable thriller harks back to the golden age of espionage but is also about how well we really know our friends' THE SUN* * * * *The mission was supposed to be simple.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUXThree men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt 'Papa Doc' and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police.
By the Sunday Times bestselling author of ROMANTIC COMEDY and PREP'Honest, wonderful and smart as hell' Guardian'Curtis Sittenfeld is in a league of her own' ObserverAll I did is marry him.
VINTAGE CLASSICS' HARLEM RENAISSANCE SERIES Celebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern history.
WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024'A masterpiece of historical fiction' MONICA ALI, chair of judges for the Women's Prize for Fiction Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor.
FROM THE AUTHOR OF STASILAND & WIFEDOMA powerful love story that tells the heroic and tragic true story of the German resistance in World War II that resonates deeply in today s political climate.
A LAUGH-OUT-LOUD NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A SHORT HISTORY OF TRACTORS IN UKRAINIANAfter walking out on his wife to shack up with 'Brexit Brenda' next door, George Pantis thinks he's got it made - especially when he wins millions on a Kosovan lottery he barely remembers entering.
Claudius, Kaiser wider Willen, der im Herzen ein überzeugter Demokrat geblieben ist, von seiner vierten Frau, Agrippina, der Mutter Neros, vergiftet - seinem Schicksal nicht entging: Dieser Herrscher ist im Urteil der Zeitgenossen schlecht weggekommen.
In diesem Roman entfaltet Literaturnobelpreisträger Camilo José Cela das Panoptikum des Allzumenschlichen - die Liebe, die Eifersucht, der Ehebruch vor dem Hintergrund des Franco Regimes.
Der neue große Roman von Uwe Timm - »ein wuchtiges Nachkriegsepos« Der SpiegelDeutschland Ende April 1945: Michael Hansen, 25, kehrt als amerikanischer Offizier in das Land seiner Geburt zurück und übernimmt einen Auftrag des Geheimdienstes.
»Die Zollbeamtin sieht mich an, schaut kurz auf meinen Pass und schreibt ›Karel‹, meinen zweiten Vornamen … der Nachname kommt von ›Koninkrijk der Nederlanden‹, Königreich der Niederlanden, was fett auf dem holländischen Pass steht.
In ihrem ebenso witzigen wie klugen Roman "Was Schildkröten im Schilde führen" erzählt Maria Keim humorvoll und zugleich berührend von Freundschaft und Familie, von Verlust und Neuanfang – und von einer umweltaktivistischen Schildkröte.
Im Deltagebiet des Mekong, zwischen Wasser und Land, leben Fischer, Entenzüchter, Erntehelfer, alte, schweigsame und skurrile Männer, unglückliche Frauen und allein gelassene Kinder.
En 1920, el departamento de Instruccion Publica encargo a Anton Semionovich Makarenko (1888-1939) que organizara en las cercanias de Poltava, una colonia para delincuentes menores de edad que, posteriormente, recibio el nombre de colonia Maximo Gorki.
An extraordinary new writer makes her literary debut with this suspenseful novel of desire, obsession, power and vulnerability, in which a crisis of inheritance leads to the downfall of a wealthy family of Persian Jews in early twentieth-century Iran.
Author ofThe Association of Small Bombs, longlisted for the National Book AwardRakesh Ahuja, a Government Minister in New Delhi, is beset by problems: thirteen children and another on the way; a wife who mourns the loss of her favorite TV star; and a teenaged son with somereallystrong opinions about family planning.
Leading a mission to capture master terrorist, Abu Nazir, CIA operations officer Carrie Mathison discovers a dangerous threat inside the Agency in this thrilling second official prequel novel to Showtimes Emmy Award-winning hit series Homeland.
'An endless moral maze, introducing literature's first Romantic, Satan' John CareyIn his epic poem Paradise Lost Milton conjured up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos ranging across huge tracts of space and time.
