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Clara and Francis are in love, but nobody knows it. They find themselves in a strange and unfamiliar city: a place where adulterers can live openly as couples, without fear of consequence, putting the theory of their love into practice. How do you know when you've found true love? How much would you sacrifice to keep hold of it? And how long can you stay in paradise before the cracks start to show?

When Mrs Sidhu is hired as the caterer for the opening of Berkshire's swankiest new art gallery, she can't believe her luck. Then the gallery's star painting is stolen. And worse than that, Mrs Sidhu's best and sweetest waitress – with her whole life ahead of her – is found dead. Mrs Sidhu wants answers. As she casts her eye over Berkshire's art scene – the murderously competitive collectors, critics and creatives – she uncovers a dastardly knot of greed and deception, obsession and revenge.

Simon has always been a good boy. But when his best and only friend, Josh, moves out of their shared flat, Simon is lonelier than ever – until in moves a new flatmate, the strange (and strangely sexy) Massimo. Massimo's brought something with him. Odd sounds emerge from Massimo's room, smells of earth and meat drift through the corridor and Simon's nights fill with disturbing and tantalizing dreams.

Als de Nazi's België binnenvallen, weigert de jonge koning Leopold III naar Engeland te vluchten. Hij blijft in het kasteel van Laken, onder bewaking van de Duitse kolonel Werner Kiewitz. Kiewitz wordt de schaduw van de koning, een machteloze figuur in een overrompeld land. Hun relatie wordt persoonlijker, een spel van aantrekken en afstoten. Kiewitz wordt het slachtoffer van een omgekeerd Stockholm-syndroom: de gijzelnemer laat zich "verleiden" door de gijzelaar.

Mehmet woont op het platteland in Anatolië en leeft zonder problemen volgens de conservatieve normen en waarden. Maar wanneer hij met een gescheiden vrouw trouwt, verliest hij zijn goede reputatie en acceptatie van zijn familie en de gemeenschap. Samen vertrekken ze naar Nederland voor een vrijer bestaan, maar ook hier wordt Mehmet op de proef gesteld. Kan hij zijn dromen verwezenlijken als Turkse migrant in het Brabantse Tilburg?

Spinning at the Edges has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

The Eighth Life (for Brilka) has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

A dazzlingly original and bleakly funny debut novel that follows one harried working mother before and after a devastating weather event, capturing the everyday wonders and infuriating indignities of mothering in a time of ecological crisis.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Christina Baker Kline comes a boldly original reimagining of an astonishing true story: two sisters in nineteenth-century North Carolina—Kline’s own distant relatives—who married world-famous conjoined twins from Siam.

When you immigrate, you leave a copy of yourself behind. One person enters their new country, the other stays trapped at home. Some instances keep in touch, call each other daily, keep their lives and minds in sync in the hopes of reintegrating and resuming a life as one person. Others, like Soyoung Rose Kang, leave home at ten and never speak to their other selves again. Rose, in America, never imagined going back to Korea until her grandfather dies and her Korean instance calls her home for the funeral.

Rosy Winter is dying. Something is growing in her. A hard knot in her chest. A dark spot that cannot be cut out, now seeping outward. Her husband, Charlie—kind, supportive, but somewhat out of his depth—offers what relief he can as she suffers. His sister, Sally, offers even less, distracted by a shift within her own husband. But beyond the homeopathic remedies, the dinner party obligations, the snatched whispers on wards and in staffrooms, a force —murderous, sensual, feverish—has been awoken and is stirring within her.

Mass-murdering authors. Writers at the head of a football-hooligan ring. A pilot who crafts his poetry in the sky. A tour de force of black humor and imaginary erudition, Nazi Literature in the Americas presents itself as a biographical dictionary of pan-American writers who espoused extreme right-wing ideologies in the 20th and 21st centuries. Terrifyingly witty and remarkably inventive, this is the virtuosic, one-of-a-kind masterpiece which brought Bolaño fame throughout the Spanish-speaking world.

Annie and Hector have been hosting their friends Candace, Edouard, and their son, Remy, in the guest house of their Connecticut home for many months while their friends’ home undergoes renovations. As a thank-you, Candace gifts Annie French lessons with twenty-six-year-old local French tutor, Thierry. Hector, an actor, goes to film on location, leaving Annie—newly bereaving her mother—to single-parent their two kids.

'De prijs die we betalen' schetst in elf korte essays de (voor)geschiedenis van 7 oktober als een serie van desastreuze beslissingen van een nationalistische en alleen op machtsbehoud gefocuste regering, voor wie taal, cultuur en de vrijheid van het denken geen onbetwistbare waarden meer zijn. Is er onder deze deplorabele toestanden überhaupt nog een perspectief van een 'naast elkaar' denkbaar?

Twins Tessa and Theo had always shared everything – until the summer Tessa spent studying in France. She hasn't been the same since. Determined to carve her own path, Tessa joins the clandestine Special Operations Executive, slipping into the shadows of occupied France. It will be dangerous work, but France is the home of her greatest love – and her darkest secret. Tessa has many reasons for wanting to return. Two years later, Theo comes home. Tessa does not.

Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix is dying. A priest, a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a poet, in his feverish delirium the crucial events of his past swell around him. From glimpses of the great poet Pablo Neruda, the German writer Ernst Junger and his one-time student, General Pinochet, to nightmarish flashes of falcons and falconers, the Chilean landscape and faces of those now dead, reality and imagination crowd and clamber in pursuit of the 'wizened youth' who still haunts Father Lacroix all these years later.

Orphaned overnight as a teenager, she drops out of school and drifts into the bad company of two criminals her brother brings home. As the four of them plot a fantastical crime, Bianca learns she can drift even lower... Electric and tense with foreboding, A Little Lumpen Novelita - one of the last novellas Roberto Bolaño published – delivers a fractured fairy tale of taking control of one's fate.

À la fin du XIXe siècle, l'Irlande vit toujours au rythme de ses légendes : forêts enchantées et mystérieuses ensorceleuses. Nostalgique de sa terre, Sir John quitte Londres pour s'installer sur l'île d'Albans, à l'endroit même où il est né. Griselda, la troisième de ses cinq filles, rêve d'ailleurs. Rebelle dans l'âme, la jeune femme à la chevelure d'or se languit dans la demeure de ses ancêtres, vaste prison gardée par l'océan. Du haut de ses murailles, elle attend qu'on vienne la délivrer...

Longtemps, Murakami a couru. De cette passion, il a tiré un livre étonnant, entre éloge de l'effort, leçon de sagesse et mémoires inattendus. Car le maître ose une comparaison surprenante : si ténacité, capacité de concentration et talent sont les qualités requises d'un romancier, la course à pied permet de cultiver la patience et la persévérance.

Die Villa Sanddorn gibt Rätsel auf: Nik und Ziska sorgen sich um die Sanddornpflanzen, die von einer geheimnisvollen Krankheit befallen sind. Seit Pilotin Anke von einer Vorfahrin weiß, die sich auf Rügen für die Armen eingesetzt hat, zweifelt sie immer mehr an ihrem Traumberuf. Der Journalist Bernd ist nach Rügen gekommen, um seine Chronik der Villa Sanddorn zu überarbeiten. Dabei deckt er gemeinsam mit Anke die erschütternde Geschichte ihrer Vorfahrin auf.