Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler's assistant, both arrogant and insecure who - while the Second World War rages - sings songs and tells jokes to endear himself to the grown-ups of his town - particularly jokes about his sister, who they all know as the town's 'mattress'.
'The most addictive of writers' Observer 'High up in Montmartre, there was a festive atmosphere, people were crowding round the little tables where ros wine was being served .
"e;Expertly told, the plot crackles with life"e; DAILY MAILTHE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO HAS FRESH OUTRAGE TO AVENGEAs Salander follows the scorched trail of her twin sister to Moscow, Blomkvist fears for her safety.
Durch seine Sprache, die Verwendung diverser Dialekte und die intensive Schilderung der dramatischen Stimmungswechsel des Helden sehr lebendig geschriebenes Werk, das mehrfach als Filmvorlage diente, u.
"e;Stridsberg has perfected a kind of contemporary fairy tale with a bracing Scandinavian edge, here elegantly translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner"e; Christian House, Financial TimesA young woman becomes obsessed with her psychoanalyst's daughter.
Venezuela 2012: The President's illness casts a shadow over the lives of his citizens - he divides opinion, but life without him is almost unimaginable.
'Cool, meticulously crafted and mordantly amusing' Irish Times 'A chilling insight into a flawed justice system' Daily Mail A young lawyer puts aside her sense of justice to succeed at her new firm.
The International Bestseller of the Spanish Civil War - Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction PrizeIn the final moments of the Spanish Civil War, fifty prominent Nationalist prisoners are executed by firing squad.
**Sunday Times Best Books of 2018**"e;Funny, irreverent and scathing"e; Guardian"e;Virginie Despentes is a true original, a punk rock George Eliot"e; ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN, author of You Too Could Have a Body Like MineRock star Alexandre Bleach might be dead, but he has a secret.
'There they stood, bumbling into lines with a bit of difficulty: Mother Finland's chosen sacrifice to world history'Unknown Soldiers follows the fates of a ramshackle troupe of machine-gunners in the Second World War, as they argue, joke, swear, cadge a loaf of bread or a cigarette, combat both boredom and horror in the swamps and pine forests - and discover that war will make or break them.
One of the most widely read books of all time, Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio is a riotous, tragicomic tale that will charm young and old with its endearing blend of mischief and magic.
Olivier Norek: Former police officer, writer on SPIRAL and a million-copy bestseller"e;The greatest exponent of the policier at work today"e; Mark Sanderson, The Times"e;Exhilarating .
One of the Sunday Times 100 Best Crime Novels and Thrillers Since 1945Now on Netflix, the Commandant Servaz series: The Frozen Dead'Great storytelling, with a creeping sense of dread that would not disgrace Stephen King at his best' Daily MailOne winter morning, in a small town nestled in the Pyrenees, a group of workers discover the headless body of a horse, hanging suspended from a frozen cliff.
AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE ICELANDIC LITERATURE PRIZE"e;The Icelandic Dickens"e; Irish Examiner"e;Stef nsson shares the elemental grandeur of Cormac McCarthy"e; EILEEN BATTERSBY, T.
"e;Rebecka Martinsson: the new Scandi-noir heroine to rival Saga Noren and Sarah Lund"e; iNews "e;In a television world now awash in female coppers, there aren't many as interesting and human as Rebecka"e; Wall Street JournalIn the first thaw of spring the body of a young woman surfaces in the River Torne in the far north of Sweden.
The second part in an epic historical trilogy - The Estonian answer to Wolf Hall - by the nation's greatest modern writer The year is 1563, and by any account Balthasar Russow can be said to have risen in the world.
'The Kreutzer Sonata' is the self-lacerating confession of a man consumed by sexual jealousy and eaten up by shame and eventually driven to murder his wife.
An absolutely heartbreaking and gripping historical novel based on a true story, for fans of Suzanne Goldring, Bridgerton and The Girl Behind the Gates.
A landmark work of fiction from one of Britain's most exciting new writers: The Harmony Silk Factory is a devastating love story set against the turmoil of mid-twentieth century Malaysia.
