**THE NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER** **The captivating new novel from the multi-million-bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and The Japanese Lover** In some of the most beautiful passages in the novel, Allende explores the gentle but redemptive depths of mature love and the paths it can take .
"e;Both a pleasure and a testament to life in Ukraine, before"e; Sunday Times"e;Ukraine's greatest living novelist"e; New European"e;A Ukrainian Murakami"e; GuardianA love letter to the beautiful city of Lviv, by the author of Death and the Penguin and Grey Bees.
A middle-aged filmmaker visits Indonesia and becomes entranced by the Toraja custom of interning the bodies of very young deceased children in the trunks of trees.
Yalo was a soldier on one of the many sides in Lebanon's sectarian civil war, before becoming a deserter and a thief, a nightwatchman in Paris, an arms smuggler, and then a rapist.
Powerful and compelling' Guardian'Mathieu, a wonderful writer, echoes the grittiness and compassion of mile Zola in Germinal' Sunday TimesAfter the closure of a small-town factory is announced, the local community is hit by the prospect of mass unemployment.
From the author of Thirteen Hours - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pick***Why would a mathematics professor from Cambridge University, renting a holiday home outside Cape Town, require a false identity and three bodyguards?
Written as a book 'for children and those who love children', Johanna Spyri's affectionate account of Swiss mountain life is one of the bestselling books ever written, and a joyous portrait of the innocence of childhood.
"e;Rebecka Martinsson: the new Scandi-noir heroine to rival Saga Noren and Sarah Lund"e; iNews"e;Asa Larsson is as deft at writing heart-stopping scenes as she is at getting inside the heads of characters"e; Washington PostTWO WOMEN FOLLOW A KILLER'S TRAIL INTO THE HEART OF DARKNESSThe frozen body of a woman is found in a fishing ark on the ice near Tornetr sk in northern Sweden.
"e;Compassionate and complex"e; Financial Times"e;Stridsberg writes with chilling poise"e; New York Times"e;A haunting portrait of the starkest meanings of love and family.
Charles Dexter Ward, ein junger Mann aus einer angesehenen Familie von Providence, ist aus der Nervenheilanstalt entflohen, in die er aufgrund merkwürdiger Persönlichkeitsveränderungen eingewiesen wurde.
A biting satire of the Age of Enlightenment, Voltaire's classic tale Candide, or the Optimist remains a bestseller over two centuries after its initial publication.
Despite the heavy rain, the officer at Polling Station 14 finds it odd that by midday on National Election day, only a handful of voters have turned out.
Egdar "e;Lefty"e; Mendieta investigates the death of a notorious stripper in this second sweltering "e;Narco-lit"e; noir from the Godfather of Mexican crime fictionAn intelligent, atmospheric police procedural series for fans of John Le Carr and Mick HeronWhen the mutilated body of Mayra Cabral de Melo is found in a dusty field, Detective Edgar "e;Lefty"e; Mendieta has personal reasons for bringing the culprit to justice.
'At once a suspenseful manhunt story and a knowing portrait of the perils of ordinary life in Hitler's Germany, The Seventh Cross is not only an important novel, but an important historical document.
NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES, COMING VALENTINE'S DAY 2022 'An absolute scorcher' Evening Standard'The book about infidelity that has shaken up Italy'The Times'Intimate and ultimately moving.
Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2016Clarisse Rivi re's life is shaped by a refusal to admit to her husband Richard and to her daughter Ladivine that her mother is a poor black housekeeper.
This is the story of a child with black eyes that float in and out of focus, a child soft and round, with translucent, blue-veined legs unable to hold his weight, an eternal baby.
The stunning new novel from the author of the global bestseller, The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair"e;Sweeping, clever, heartbreaking and memorable.
