Writer for Hire Veronica Blackstone is asked to write a celebration of life book for a former client's funeral, but was the death as straightforward as was reported?
Martha and the infamous League of Pensioners are back in The Little Old Lady Strikes Back, from the author of the smash-hit The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021**From the bestselling author of Homegoing**______________________________________________As a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey from Ghana to Alabama, seeking escape in myths of heroism and romance.
In ihrem beeindruckenden und unter die Haut gehenden Roman "Wovon wir nicht sprechen" erzählt SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin Joanne Fedler ("Weiberabend") die Geschichte einer Liebe in Zeiten von Angst und Gewalt.
Riotously fun and uplifting, a coming-of-age story about difficult friendships, delicious feasts, and taking control of your body and your happiness - a richly indulgent and life-affirming novel from one of the most exciting new voices in literatureWINNER of the GUARDIAN 'NOT THE BOOKER' PRIZE 2019Selected in BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - Vogue, TIME, Vulture, Woman and Home 'Subversive, radical, written with total glee and rollicking sense of unlimited possibility.
FROM THE CLASSIC SCI-FI WRITER AND AUTHOR OF THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS A disturbing post-nuclear apocalypse story of genetic mutation that explores the lengths the intolerant will go to keep themselves pure.
Look at the Birdie evokes a world in which squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town Lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented affluence.
All the stories in Standing Her Ground have been chosen to celebrate the skill, the passion and achievements of women writers spanning one hundred years of innovation.
Der vierte Fall für Vic Warshawski - ihr ausgeprägtes soziales Gewissen und ihre Allergie gegen Ungerechtigkeit lassen sie nicht ruhenNotaufnahme - Vics Freundin stirbt!
Der elfte Fall für die »Detektivin mit Seidenstrümpfen« Eines Tages erhält die Privatdetektivin Vic Warshawski einen ungewöhnlichen Auftrag: Sie soll ein altes, verlassenes Herrenhaus observieren, in dem nachts ungebetene Gäste ihr Unwesen treiben.
From Oxford during the dark days of the Second World War to contemporary London, this is Alan Hollinghurst's intimate novel about sexuality, art and family secrets.
Ein spannungsgeladener Thriller aus der Influencer-Szene, der am Fuße des berühmten Matterhorns spieltFünf Influencer werden von einem anonymen Auftraggeber zu einer Challenge in ein einsames Chalet in den Schweizer Alpen eingeladen.
Einfallsreich folgt Vic Warshawski in ihrem neunten Fall der Spur zu den mächtigsten Männern Chicagos und stößt dabei in ein lebensgefährliches Wespennest aus Korruption und politischen IntrigenWarum musste die Einwanderin Nicola Aguinaldo auf so gewaltsame Weise sterben?
From the number one bestselling author of TrainspottingMeet Lucy Brennan an aggressive personal trainer who has just become a media hero after taking down a would-be gunman in Miami.
Evolution is no longer just a theory - and nature is more of a bitch goddess than a kindly mother - in this tense science thriller from the author of the Nebula Award-winning Darwin's RadioStella Nova is one of the 'virus children', a generation of genetically enhanced babies born a dozen years before to mothers infected with the SHEVA virus.
The opening book in the Nobel Prize for Literature winner's 'Children of Violence' series tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa to old age in post-nuclear Britain.
The first novel in the bestselling Karen Pirie seriesThe award-winning Number One bestseller and Queen of crime fiction Val McDermid carves out a stunning psychological thriller.
The Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing's first novel is a taut and tragic portrayal of a crumbling marriage, set in South Africa during the years of Arpartheid.
Social mores come under bestselling author Philippa Gregory's acute scrutiny in this reissue of a long-unavailable novel of betrayal, revenge and liberation.
'Campbell Road was home to the most notorious criminals: thieves, prostitutes, fraudsters - every sort of rogue and vagabond drifted through this slum.
