Olivia es una adolescente inglesa de clase acomodada que es enviada por su familia a un internado francés a proseguir su educación bajo una metodología más liberal y laica.
Multi-prizewinning and internationally acclaimed Yan Lianke -- 'China's most controversial novelist' (New Yorker) -- returns with a campus novel like no other following a young Buddhist as she journeys through worldly temptationTo tell the truth, religious faith is really just a matter of believing stories.
*WINNER OF THE WRITERS' PRIZE - BOOK OF THE YEAR*Inspired by a true story, The Home Child is a beautiful novel-in-verse about a child far from home Ground-breaking Benjamin Zephaniah Beautifully crafted Guardian Extraordinary Hannah LoweIn 1908, Eliza Showell, twelve years old and newly orphaned, boards a ship that will carry her from the slums of the Black Country to rural Nova Scotia.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2023AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEARIt s time to dance, to love, to be free Mesmerising BERNARDINE EVARISTO, author of Girl, Woman, Other Fabulous MAGGIE O'FARRELL, author of Hamnet Beautiful CALEB AZUMAH NELSON, author of Open WaterYamaye lives for the weekend, when she can go raving with her friends at The Crypt, an underground club on the outskirts of London.
'One of the best books I have read' Reviewer *****'A compelling story of bravery, love and survival' Reviewer *****'The twists and turns will keep you engrossed all the way through' Reviewer *****'Powerful and truly moving' Reviewer *****-----THE NEXT WORDS HE WRITES COULD BE HIS LAST .
Mount Everest, and all it means to royalty, explorers, imperialists, and two sherpas, perched on a cliffside, waiting for a man on the ledge below to move.
The Peacock Spring is a beautiful and heartbreaking novel of loss of innocence and coming-of-age from Rumer Godden, the acclaimed author of Black Narcissus and The Greengage Summer.
From the NUMBER ONE bestselling author of A Christmas Murder, Mary GrandIsland life suits Susan, and she can't imagine ever moving from her beloved Isle of Wight.
Auf Norderney wartet dein GlückIm Wohlfühlroman »Die Inselschäferin« ist Weltenbummlerin Ruth auf der Suche nach einem echten Zuhause – und nach der Liebe.
Auf dem Balkon einer Brünner Wohnung wächst in der unmittelbaren Nachkriegszeit ein Kaninchen heran, das Heiligabend in die Pfanne gehauen werden soll.
Die junge Trompeterin Karla Klimentová aus der südmährischen Barockstadt Kroměříž wird vom verheerenden Tsunami zu Weihnachten 2004 nicht nur ihrer Eltern beraubt, sondern auch ihrer Fähigkeit zu musizieren und zu komponieren.
Este libro es una creación de Manuel García, una auténtica mina de placeres prohibidos y encuentros apasionados, diseñada especialmente para satisfacer los apetitos eróticos más audaces de los lectores adultos homosexuales.
Arare feat for any book of poems, let alone a debut, in that the lines, wrought with such deft precision and care, mark the sum total of a life richly lived and felt at the seat of poetry.
A masterful political thriller from the author of Shining City thrusts veteran Washington fixers Peter Rena and Randi Brooks into a dark world of cyberattacks, a new era of foreign espionage, and a risky, classified plan to save the world from environmental disasterBillionaire entrepreneur David Traynor has big dreams for fixing a broken government in his first term as president of the United States.
