**Selected as a book of summer 2025 by the Guardian, Daily Mail, Sunday Times and i paper**Wolf Hall meets Demon Copperhead in a sharply ambitious, brilliantly imagined and hugely entertaining story of intrigue, deceit, revenge and ambition'An absolute delight Funny, moving, filthy and original A frontrunner for historical fiction book of the year' The Times'A bold and brilliant comedy of royal intrigue' Guardian, Book of the day'A vivid, transporting feat of imagination' Maggie Shipstead'Witty, poignant, wildly engaging, and with a huge heart - I loved it' Sarah Waters'Brilliantly buoyant, clever, funny, original, vivid, witty' Joanna Quinn'The Pretender has everything: history richly drawn, amazing characterisation, humour, wit, vigour and bravery' Emma Stonex'Funny and devastating.
Fully illustrated collection of rare and previously unpublished tales of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, retold for a new generation by leading Arthurian expert, John Matthews, introduced by Sir John Boorman, director of the classic film, Excalibur, and illustrated with paintings and drawings by Tolkien artist, John Howe.
Giuliano reist durch das zerstörte Nachkriegseuropa auf der Suche nach seiner Vergangenheit – und nach seiner ZukunftItalien in den 1950er-Jahren: Giuliano erlebt und beobachtet in Rom und Neapel das totale Chaos aller Institutionen, die Kämpfe zwischen Royalisten und Kommunisten und die beginnende Modernisierung.
The Best Women's Erotica series is known for its sexual honesty and intensity, presenting stories that tell the truth about women's sexuality in all its variety and emotional depth.
A woman who cannot leave her house loses everything, her only companion a garrulous radio talk show host; a house fire sets into motion the end of a marriage; a teenage girl cannot extract herself from a doomed relationship with a heroin addict.
"e;This gripping novel is as good at describing the magnificent seascapes and the unforgiving elements as it is at examining the inner lives of the besieged crew, toiling ceaselessly against implacable nature"e; -Financial Times BOOKS OF THE YEAR"e;Gripping and Exciting"e; The Sunday Times BOOKS OF THE YEARIn February 1959, several Icelandic trawlers were caught in a storm off Newfoundland's Grand Banks.
After her ex-husband dies unexpectedly, Nora Garcia travels to the funeral, back to a Mexican village from her past and the art and music of their life together.
Vor einem Panorama überwältigender Natur – drei unnachgiebige Frauen einer sámischen Familie kämpfen um ihre HeimatJedes Jahr im Frühling kehren sie nach dem Winter in ihr »Sommerland« am See im Nordwesten Schwedens zurück.
'Etgar Keret's short stories are fierce, funny, full of energy and insight, and at the same time they are often deep, tragic and very moving' - Amos OzAt a children's tea party, a magician tries to pull a rabbit out of a hat, but takes out only its head; a young man has a mother and girlfriend who each demand that he gives them the other one's heart; while a Nobel Laureate asks an orphan to perform a very strange task.
THE PULSE-RAISING NEW WISTING NOVEL FROM 10 MILLION COPY BESTSELLER J RN LIER HORST, NOW A MAJOR BBC 4 TV SHOW'Up there with the best of the Nordic crime writers' THE TIMES'One of the most brilliantly understated crime novelists writing today' SUNDAY TIMESA BODY IN THE LAKE.
From Governor General's Literary Awards finalist Maria Mutch comes a startlingly inventive debut collection that recalls the works of Margaret Atwood, Kelly Link, Karen Russell, and Heather O'Neill.
Zu entdecken: Ein vergessenes Meisterwerk, eine moderne Odyssee, ein grandioses Meeres-EposDie Landschaften um die Straße von Messina bilden die Brücke zwischen den Mythen der Antike und der Gegenwart.
Alf layla wa layla (known in English as A Thousand and One Nights or The Arabian Nights) changed the world on a scale unrivalled by any other literary text.
_______________'His novels probe the sore spots and raw wounds of contemporary Spain, their cunning and complexity leavened by a light touch and an easy, graceful style' - Boyd Tonkin, Independent on Sunday'The beauty of this intelligently probing novel is that one is left wondering if we ever truly know anything about anybody that anybody including ourselves' - Scotsman'Compelling .
From the award-winning pen of Achmat Dangor comes a subtle and multi-layered collection of short stories that showcases an unusual and illuminating take on 'the struggle years', and how the past impacts on us in a variety of ways.
Peter H eg's first novel is an interweaving of the lives and loves of four families, within which histories time expands, clocks stop or race forward at will.
In New Bad News, the frenetic and far-out worlds of fading celebrities, failed festival promoters, underemployed adjuncts, and overly aware chatbots collide.
The remarkable new work of fiction from the Booker Prize-winning author ofLast Orders,WaterlandandMothering Sunday'His archly modulated, precise prose, reminiscent at times of his friend Kazuo Ishiguro's, has lost none of its power .
In this collection of Greek fiction written between the first and fourth centuries AD, 'Callirhoe' is the stirring tale of star-crossed lovers Chaereas and Callirhoe, torn apart when she is kidnapped and sold as a slave, while 'Daphnis and Chloe' tells of a boy and girl abandoned at birth, who grow up to fall in love and battle pirates.
The dark side of a seemingly perfect Connecticut suburb comes to light when one womans long-buried secrets refuse to stay in the past, in this engrossing debut novel of psychological suspense.
Members of the Detection Club, the most prestigious group of crime writers in the world, celebrate the eightieth birthday of their former president - the original king of cozy crime, Simon Brett - with this stunning collection of all-new short stories.
