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James is an enthralling and ferociously funny novel that leaves an indelible mark, forcing us to see Mark Twain''s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in a wholly new and transformative light. From the shadows of Huck Finn''s mischievous spirit, Jim emerges to reclaim his voice, defying the conventions that have consigned him to the margins. Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize for his novel The Trees, Professor Percival Everett is one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime.
1861, The Mississippi River. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new owner in New Orleans and separated from his wife and daughter for ever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson''s Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, who recently returned to town. Thus begins a dangerous and transcendent journey by raft along the Mississippi River, toward the elusive promise of the free states and beyond. As James and Huck begin to navigate the treacherous waters, each bend in the river holds the promise of both salvation and demise.
With rumours of a brewing war, James must face the burden he carries: the family he cannot protect and the constant lie he must live. Together, the unlikely pair must face the most dangerous odyssey of them all . . . -
''The multi-award winning Charlotte Mendelson is famous for whipping up the hottest, messiest, family dramas as a writer of literary fiction can . . . Irresistible'' The Times The longer the marriage, the harder truth becomes . . . Meet the Hanrahan family, gathering for a momentous weekend as famous artist and notorious egoist Ray Hanrahan prepares for a new exhibition of his art - the first in many decades - and one he is sure will burnish his reputation for good. His three children will be there: beautiful Leah, always her father''s biggest champion; sensitive Patrick, who has finally decided to strike out on his own; and insecure Jess, the youngest, who has her own momentous decision to make . . . And what of Lucia, Ray''s steadfast and selfless wife? She is an artist, too, but has always had to put her roles as wife and mother first. What will happen if she decides to change? For Lucia is hiding secrets of her own, and as the weekend unfolds and the exhibition approaches, she must finally make a choice. The Exhibitionist is the extraordinary fifth novel from Charlotte Mendelson, a dazzling exploration of art, sacrifice, toxic family politics, queer desire, and personal freedom.
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres , Jane Smiley, The Strays of Paris is a captivating story of three extraordinary animals - and one little boy - whose lives cross paths in Paris. Paras is a spirited young racehorse living in a stable in the French countryside. That is until one afternoon, when she pushes open the gate of her stall and, travelling through the night, arrives quite by chance in the dazzling streets of Paris. She soon meets a German shorthaired pointer named Frida, two irrepressible ducks and an opinionated crow, and life amongst the animals in the city's lush green spaces is enjoyable for a time. But everything changes when Paras meets a human boy, etienne, and discovers a new, otherworldly part of Paris: the secluded, ivy-walled house where the boy and his nearly-one-hundred-year-old great grandmother live quietly and unto themselves. As the cold weather of Christmas nears, the unlikeliest of friendships bloom among humans and animals alike. But how long can a runaway horse live undiscovered in Paris? And how long can one boy keep her all to himself? Charming and beguiling in equal measure, Jane Smiley's novel celebrates the intrinsic need for friendship, love, and freedom, whomever you may be . . .
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Meet Art and Mimi Brotherton. Devoted siblings and housemates, they''re bound together by the tragic death of their parents. They agree on not quite everything. Art thinks people are incapable of making sensible decisions, especially when it comes to love. That''s what algorithms are for. Mimi knows her brother is a mathematical genius, but thinks maths isn''t the answer to everything. When Mimi decides she needs more from life than devoting herself to her brilliant brother, she starts looking for love. But Art has a condition: that she find her soulmate using a strict mathematical principle. Initially, things seem promising. That is, until Mimi meets Frank: a romantic, spontaneous stargazer, and also a mathematician. But definitely not algorithm-approved. As Art''s mistrust of Frank grows, so do Mimi''s feelings, and the siblings'' relationship is tested to breaking point. Something about Frank doesn''t quite add up, and only Art can see it . . . The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything by Kara Gnodde is a tender, intelligent and uplifting novel about brothers and sisters, true love in all its forms, and how life is more than just a numbers game . . .
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''A masterpiece. A thrilling historical murder tale but so much more. Vivid, evocative and full of humanity'' - Janice Hallett, bestselling author of The Appeal and The Twyford Code "In the end, it did not matter what I said at my trial. No one believed me." Edinburgh, October 1679. Lady Christian Nimmo is arrested and charged with the murder of her lover, James Forrester. News of her imprisonment and subsequent trial is splashed across the broadsides, with headlines that leave little room for doubt: Adulteress. Whore. Murderess. Only a year before, Christian was leading a life of privilege and respectability. So, what led her to risk everything for an affair? And does that make her guilty of murder? She wasn''t the only woman in Forrester''s life, and certainly not the only one who might have had cause to wish him dead . . . Inspired by a real-life case, The Maiden gives a voice to women otherwise silenced by history. A remarkable story with a feminist revisionist twist, it clearly marks Kate Foster as a name to watch.
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Brilliant and witty . . . Mendelson''s second bewitchingly erotic and darkly dramatic novel confirms her as a stylish, perceptive chronicler of the heart''s hidden desires>
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The Girl Who Reads on the Metro is the French phenomenon by Christine Feret-Fleury ready to charm book-lovers everywhere, f or fans of The Little Paris Bookshop and The Elegance of the Hedgehog. When Juliette takes the metro to her loathed office job each morning, her only escape is in books - she avidly reads on her journey and imagines what her fellow commuters'' choices might say about them. But when, one day, she decides to alight the train a few stops early and meets Soliman - the mysterious owner of the most enchanting bookshop Juliette has ever seen - she is sure her life will never be the same again . . . For Soliman also believes in the power of books to change the course of a life - entrusting his passeurs with the task of giving each book to the person who needs it most - and he thinks Juliette is perfect for the job. And so, leaving her old life behind, Juliette will discover the true power a book can have . . .
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#10 KINDLE COUNTY LEGAL THRILLER series COMPLEX LEGAL THRILLER From the bestselling author of PRESUMED INNOCENT (#1) His most twist-filled thriller to date Courtroom drama set in the INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT of the HAGUE Defence Lawyer, Bill ten Boom, is hired as a prosecutor to investigate the massacre of 400 Romany Gypsies in Bosnia over ten years previously. But the US Government, who had soldiers stationed nearby at the time, are holding something back.
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B>From the bestselling author of Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow's The Last Trial recounts the final case of Kindle County's most revered courtroom advocate, Sandy Stern. /b>Already eighty-five years old, and in precarious health, Stern has been persuaded to defend an old friend, Pavel Pafko. A former Nobel Prize-winner in Medicine, Pafko, shockingly, has been charged in a federal racketeering indictment with fraud, insider trading and murder. As the trial progresses, Stern will question everything he thought he knew about his friend. Despite Pafko's many failings, is he innocent of the terrible charges laid against him? How far will Stern go to save his friend, and--no matter the trial's outcome--will he ever know the truth? Stern's duty to defend his client and his belief in the power of the judicial system both face a final, terrible test in the courtroom, where the evidence and reality are sometimes worlds apart.Full of the deep insights into the spaces where the fragility of human nature and the justice system collide, Scott Turow's The Last Trial is a masterful legal thriller that unfolds in page-turning suspense--and questions how we measure a life.
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THE BARBAROTTI SERIES # 1 THE DARKEST DAY IS THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE FIVE PART INSPECTOR BARBAROTTI SERIES FROM RENOWNED SWEDISH CRIME AUTHOR HAKAN NESSER.
It's December in the quiet Swedish town of Kymlinge, and the Hermansson family are gathering to celebrate father Karl-Erik and eldest daughter Ebba's joint landmark birthdays. But beneath the guise of happy festivities, tensions are running high, and it's not long before the night takes a dark and unexpected turn . . . Before the weekend is over, two members of the Hermansson family are missing, and it's up to Inspector Barbarotti - a detective who spends as much of his time debating the existence of God as he does solving cases - to determine exactly what has happened. And he soon discovers he'll have to unravel a whole tangle of sinister family secrets in the process . . . -
THE KING'S WITCHES ; A BEWITCHING HISTORICAL NOVEL FROM WOMEN S PRIZE LONGLISTED AUTHOR
Kate Foster
- Mantle
- 6 Juin 2024
- 9781529091786
The King''s Witches is Kate Foster''s gripping and beautiful second novel, giving an unforgettable voice to the women at the heart of the real-life witch trials in sixteenth-century Scotland. Her debut novel, The Maiden, was a Times bestseller and winner of the Bloody Scotland Debut of the Year 2023.
Women whisper secrets to each other; it is how we survive
Denmark, 1589. Princess Anne is betrothed to King James VI of Scotland - a royal union designed to forever unite the two countries. But first, she must pass the trial period: one year of marriage in which she must prove herself worthy of being Scotland''s new Queen. If the King and the Scottish royal court in Edinburgh find her wanting, she faces permanent exile to a convent. Determined to fulfil her duties to King and country, Anne resolves to be the perfect royal bride. Until she meets Lord Henry.
By her side is Kirsten Sorenson, her loyal and pious lady''s maid. But whilst tending to Anne''s every need, she has her own secret motives for the royal marriage to be a success . . .
Meanwhile, on the other side of the England-Scotland border, a young housemaid by the name of Jura is dreaming of a new life. She practises the healing charms taught to her by her mother, and when she realises she is no longer safe under her master''s roof, she escapes to Edinburgh. But it isn''t long before she finds herself caught up in the witchcraft mania that has gripped not just the capital but the new queen . . .
Will Anne, Kirsten and Jura be able to save each other and, in doing so, save themselves? -
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''Kate Foster is an exceptional writer and masterful storyteller'' - Janice Hallett, bestselling author of The Appeal
Inspired by the infamous real-life case of Maggie Dickson, The Mourning Necklace is an unforgettable historical novel from Women''s Prize-longlisted author, Kate Foster.
They said I would swing for the crime and I did . . . Surely, they can''t hang me twice?
1724. In a village tavern on the outskirts of Edinburgh, Maggie Dickson''s family drown their sorrows, mourning her death yet relieved she is gone. Shame haunts them. Passers-by avert their eyes from the cheap-looking coffin on the rickety cart. Despite protesting her innocence, Maggie was hanged that morning for the murder of her new-born child. But as her family pray her soul rests in peace, a figure appears at the door. It is Maggie. She has survived her execution.
Whether Maggie bribed the hangman or has been touched by God matters little now. What matters is proving her innocence before she is hanged again . . .
Praise for Kate Foster:
''Exceptional - a tense, thrilling investigation, with a decidedly feminist slant'' - Daily Mail on The Maiden
''Riveting . . . the tension persists until the last page'' - The Times on The Maiden
''Enthralling, compelling and at times chilling . . . An utterly timely tale'' - D. V. Bishop, prize-winning author of Ritual of Fire, on The King''s Witches -
THE KAMOGAWA FOOD DETECTIVES - THE HEARTWARMING JAPANESE BESTSELLER
Hisashi Kashiwai
- Mantle
- 5 Octobre 2023
- 9781035009572
The Kamogawa Food Detectives is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese series.
What''s the one dish you''d do anything to taste just one more time?
Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant called the Kamogawa Diner run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare. Customers who can find the hidden establishment are treated to an extravagant meal, but it''s not the main reason for visiting . . .
The father-daughter duo have started advertising their services as ''food detectives'', capable of recreating a dish from their customers'' pasts that may well hold the key to forgotten memories and ongoing happiness. From the widower looking for a specific noodle dish that his wife used to cook to a first love''s beef stew, the restaurant of lost recipes provides a link to the past and a way to a more contented future.
A bestseller in Japan, The Kamogawa Food Detectives is a celebration of good company and the power of a delicious meal. -
A sweeping and epic story of adventure and hardship, injustice and triumph, The Map of Bones by Kate Mosse is the sequel to the No. 1 bestselling The Ghost Ship, and the fourth - and final - novel of The Joubert Family Chronicles.
Olifantshoek, 1688. When the violent Cape wind blows from the south-east, they say the voices of the unquiet dead can be heard whispering through the deserted valley. Suzanne Joubert, a Huguenot refugee from war-torn France, is here to walk in her cousin''s footsteps. Louise Reydon-Joubert, the notorious she-captain and pirate commander, landed at the Cape of Good Hope more than sixty years ago, then disappeared from the record as if she had never existed. Suzanne has come to find her - to lay the stories to rest. But all is not as it seems . . .
Franschhoek, 1862. Nearly one hundred and eighty years after Suzanne''s perilous journey, another intrepid and courageous woman of the Joubert family - Isabelle Lepard - has journeyed to the small frontier town once known as Oliftantshoek in search of her long-lost relations. A journalist and travel writer, intent on putting the women of her family back into the history books, she quickly discovers that the tragedies and crimes of the past are far from over. Isabelle faces a race against time if she is not only going to discover the truth but escape with her life . . . -
A mother''s secret past collides with her daughter''s present in this intoxicating novel from Jane Healey, the author of The Animals at Lockwood Manor. In the summer of 1973, teenage Ruth and her four friends are obsessed with pre-Raphaelite paintings, and a little bit obsessed with each other. They spend the scorching summer days in the river by Ruth''s grand family home, pretending to be the drowning Ophelia and recreating tableaus of other tragic mythical heroines. But by the end of the summer, real tragedy has found them. Twenty-four years later, Ruth is a wife and mother of three children, and moves her family into her still-grand, but now somewhat dilapidated, childhood home following the death of her father. Her seventeen-year-old daughter, Maeve, is officially in remission and having been discharged from hospital can finally start acting like a ''normal'' teenager with the whole summer ahead of her. It''s just the five of them until Stuart, a handsome photographer and old friend of her parents, comes to stay. And there''s something about Stuart that makes Maeve feel more alive than all of her life-saving treatments put together . . . As the heat of the summer burns, how long can the family go before long-held secrets threaten to burst their banks and drown them all? Set between two fateful summers, The Ophelia Girls is a visceral, heady exploration of illicit desire, infatuation, and the perils and power of being a young woman.
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One of Sweden''s best crime writers>
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The twenty-eighth and final novel in the thrilling, wickedly funny Inspector Montalbano Mysteries series by bestselling author Andrea Camilleri.
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Debut Adult Novel dt: Der Tag, an dem Dido das Glück fand, Klappenbroschur 6.2018 Familiengeschichte, Dido, 6 Jahre, Einzelkind, alleinerziehend, hat die coolste Mutter der Welt, aber ein Familie sind sie trotzdem nicht.
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WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW ; CATCHING THE KILLER IS JUST THE BEGINNING...
Joann Chaney
- Mantle
- 9 Février 2017
- 9781509824298
JoAnn Chaney's dark debut, What You Don't Know, tells the story of the three victims the murderer didn't kill but whose lives he ruined all the same. This is a chilling thriller about the lasting effects of a neighbourhood serial killer; think Peter Robinson's breakthrough novel Aftermath meets Michael Connelly's breakthrough novel The Poet.
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THE REST OF THEIR LIVES ; AN UNLIKELY LOVE STORY
Jean-Paul Didierlaurent
- Mantle
- 19 Octobre 2017
- 9781509840359
«THE READER ON THE 6.27» !CH INTEREST !
Filled with all the larger-than-life characters and enchanting storytelling that made readers fall for The Reader on the 6.27, Jean-Paul Didierlaurent's follow-up novel, The Rest of Their Lives, is set to charm the world. It's difficult to find love in a profession like Ambroise's - even his father despises what he does . . . And while Manelle, a home-help for the elderly in the same small French town, adores her days spent with her eccentric clients, she too often ends her evenings alone. So when an unusual request from Manelle's favourite client - eighty-two-year-old retired chef-gourmand Samuel - brings the two of them together for an unlikely road-trip to Switzerland, along with Ambroise's cake-loving grandmother, it might just be time for the rest of their lives to begin . . . -
Trade Sales Day 2017 Schüsse in einer Primarschule, ein Amoklauf, erlebt und erzählt aus der Sicht eines 7-Jährigen.
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Tudor England is brought vividly to life in Tombland , the seventh novel in C. J. Sansom''s number one bestselling Shardlake series. Summer, 1549. Two years after the death of Henry VIII, England is sliding into chaos . . . The nominal king, Edward VI, is eleven years old. His uncle Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, rules as Protector. The destruction of the old religion by radical Protestants is stirring discontent among the populace while the Protector''s prolonged war with Scotland is proving a disastrous failure and threatens to involve France. Worst of all, the economy is in collapse, inflation rages and rebellion is stirring among the peasantry. Since the old King''s death, Matthew Shardlake has been working as a lawyer in the service of Henry''s younger daughter, the Lady Elizabeth. The gruesome murder of Edith Boleyn, the wife of John Boleyn - a distant Norfolk relation of Elizabeth''s mother - which could have political implications for Elizabeth, brings Shardlake and his assistant Nicholas Overton to the summer assizes at Norwich. There they are reunited with Shardlake''s former assistant Jack Barak. The three find layers of mystery and danger surrounding Edith''s death, as a second murder is committed. And then East Anglia explodes, as peasant rebellion breaks out across the country. The yeoman Robert Kett leads a force of thousands in overthrowing the landlords and establishing a vast camp outside Norwich. Soon the rebels have taken over the city. Barak throws in his lot with the rebels; Nicholas, opposed to them, becomes a prisoner in Norwich Castle; while Shardlake has to decide where his ultimate loyalties lie, as government forces in London prepare to march north and destroy the rebels. Meanwhile he discovers that the murder of Edith Boleyn may have connections reaching into both the heart of the rebel camp and of the Norfolk gentry . . . Includes an Historical Essay from the author on Reimagining Kett''s Rebellion. The previous books in the bestselling historical crime series are Dissolution, Dark Fire, Sovereign, Revelation, Heartstone and Lamentation .
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Salutation Road by Salma Ibrahim is a beautifully told, speculative literary debut about the everyday struggles of immigration, love and letting go of a past that never really existed. For fans of Nadifa Mohamed and Mohsin Hamid.
23-year-old Sirad Ali is a woman adrift. Abandoned by her father in childhood, she does her best to support her mother and younger brother in their small flat in South London. But she can''t help but wonder if this is the life she really wants.
Until one morning, when she boards the bus to work in Greenwich, she finds herself transported to an alternate reality in present-day Mogadishu. There she encounters her double, Ubah - the woman she could have been had her parents never fled to London during the Somali Civil War. And what follows will change both of their lives for ever . . .
