| |
We all have our dreams. But how far would we go to protect them?Lulu longs for a loving man and father figure for her young son. In a perfect world, this would be her gorgeous boss, Ben Arlington. He is her dream man, and likely to remain so - as he's also a highly...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2010-12-15
ePub
|
‘This book is Jacobson’s masterpiece’ Jonathan Freedland'A work of genius' A.C. Grayling, The TimesWild, angry and uproarious, Kalooki Nights is a darkly comic, timely novel of what it means to be human. Max Glickman is son to an atheist boxer, Jack 'The Jew' Glickman,...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-12-15
ePub
|
No man has ever loved a woman and not imagined her in the arms of someone else.Felix Quinn calls himself a happy man. He owns one of London's oldest antiquarian bookshops. He is married to and adores the beautiful Marisa. But a childhood experience has taught him that...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-12-15
ePub
|
Even as little girls, Sarah and Emily are very different from each other. Emily looks up to her wiser and more stable older sister and is jealous of her relationship with their absent father, and later her seemingly golden marriage. The path she chooses for herself is...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-12-14
ePub
|
'Witty, original, inventive...utterly compelling' Daily MailWinner of the Man Booker Prize The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped -...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-12-14
ePub
|
'Broad and ambitious...beautifully written...at the heart of O'Connor's masterful epic lies a universal hope for something better' Observer1865. The American Civil War is ending, but for Eliza Duane Mooney her journey across a devastated America has only just...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-12-14
ePub
|
'A tale of true tragedy - a man of potential brought down by his own fatal flaw - wonderfully vivid and strong' Joanna TrollopeThe Mayor of Casterbridge is a man haunted by his past. In his youth he betrayed his wife and baby daughter in a shocking incident that led him...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-12-07
ePub
|
Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is about to celebrate her son Ofer's release from army service when he returns to the front for a major offensive. Instead of waiting at home for the 'notifiers' who could arrive at any moment to tell her of her son's fate, she sets...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-12-07
ePub
|
An international bestseller from the author of Follow Your Heart, which has sold over 15 million copies worldwide.'I kill you in order that I may live. I kill you in order that I may possess. I kill you in order that I may be free of you.' Thus the protagonist Rosa...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-11-30
ePub
|
The English village is a place where people come to lick their wounds. Dorothy has walked away from a bad thirty-year marriage, an affair gone sour and a dangerous obsession. Between her visits to the doctor and the music lessons she gives to bored teenagers, she is...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-11-30
ePub
|
Meet Akhilandeswari, Akhila for short: forty-five and single, an income-tax clerk, and a woman who has never been allowed to live her own life - always the daughter, the sister, the aunt, the provider. Until the day she gets herself a one-way ticket to the seaside town...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-11-30
ePub
|
Jennifer M. Wilson has decided to become a voice. A professional enunciator, an announcer, a voice-over artist, she has retreated into a world of words. Behind the sound-proof double doors of the recording studio she must surely be safe from the painful inconveniences...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-11-30
ePub
|
In the bitter cold of Danish Jutland, where the sea freezes over and the Nazis have yet to invade, a young girl dreams of one day going on a great journey to Siberia, while her beloved brother Jesper yearns for the warmer climes of Morocco. Their home, with a pious...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-11-30
ePub
|
Meet Chloe Zhivago, 43, married - and asking, is that it? Monogamy forever and ever...? A brilliantly entertaining novel from a major new talent in women's fiction.Chloe has been married for what feels like all eternity to Greg who tests his memory in infuriating ways,...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2010-11-25
ePub
|
Paris 1940. The civilised, upper-class life of film producer Jean Casson ends with the German occupation of the city. Out of money and almost out of luck, Casson attempts to work with a German film company but finds himself drawn into the dark world of espionage and...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2010-11-25
ePub
|
A playful and inventive work from the bestselling author of SOPHIE'S WORLD.A box of Latin manuscripts comes to light in an Argentine flea market. An apocryphal invention by some 17th or 18th century scolar, or a transcript of what it appears to be - a hitherto unheard...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2010-11-25
ePub
|
'Think The Devil Wears Prada with paintbrushes' GraziaLacey Yeager is beautiful, captivating, and ambitious enough to take the New York art world by storm.She sparkles in auction houses, selling Old Master paintings to the fabulously wealthy, and in edgy Downtown...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2010-11-25
ePub
|
Absorbed in her own failings, 43-year-old Clara Purdy crashes her life into a sharp left turn, taking the young family in the other car along with her. When bruises on the mother, Lorraine, prove to be late-stage cancer, Clara moves the three children and their terrible...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2010-11-23
ePub
|
'Spellbinding' NEW YORK TIMES'Entrancingly good' FINANCIAL TIMES'A narrative gift that can raise the hairs at the top of the spine' SUNDAY TIMESIn the six stories that make up The Unfinished Novel, Valerie Martin turns an unflinching eye upon artists - driven and...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2010-11-18
ePub
|
The author of international phenomenon THE READER returns with a tale of old jealousies, explosive politics and uncertain futures. Meet the Baader-Meinhof Group, 25 years on...Old friends and lovers reunite for a weekend in a secluded country home after spending decades...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2010-11-04
ePub
|