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The Tides are a family with dark secrets. Haunted by the events of one tragic day ten years ago, they are each, in their own way, struggling to move forwards with their lives. Dora, the youngest daughter, lives in a ramshackle East End warehouse with her artist boyfriend Dan. Dora is doing a...

Peter Robinson's psychological thriller Caedmon's Song follows two characters and their mysterious connection. On a balmy June night, Kirsten, a young university student, strolls home through a silent moonlit park. Suddenly her tranquil mood is shattered as she is viciously attacked. When she...

Usually, this is where we'd tell you what this book is about. But with Chris Cleave, it's a bit different. Because if you've read The Other Hand or Incendiary, you'll know that what his books are about is only part of the story - what really matters is how they make you feel. Gold is about the limits of human endurance, both physical and emotional. It will make you cry. Gold is about what drives us to succeed - and what we choose to sacrifice for success. It will make you feel glad to be alive.

Clodagh was 19 when her parents packed her off to college and a relative’s house in Maida Vale, two years after the death on the pylon. They blamed her for it, everyone did....It was hardly surprising that she fell into the arms of Silver. In his flat at the top of his parents’ house, he played host to a strange crew of young drop-outs whose pleasure was to range the rooftops....

Wie erkennen wir unsere Privilegien? Wie können Weiße die Realität von Schwarzen sehen? Männliche Muslime die von weißen Frauen? Und weiße Frauen die von männlichen Muslimen? Die Aktivistin und Politologin Emilia Roig zeigt - auch anhand der Geschichte ihrer eigenen Familie, in der wie unter einem Brennglas Rassismus und Black Pride, Antisemitismus und Ausschwitz, Homophobie und Queerness, Patriarchat und Feminismus aufeinanderprallen -, wie sich Rassismus im Alltag mit anderen Arten der Diskriminierung überschneidet.

ROMANTIC THRILL. Willa ist die Tochter eines Milliardärs. Er besitzt nur das, was er am Leib trägt. Willa fehlen Erinnerungen. Seine sind schwarz wie der Tod. Willa ist neunzehn, außergewöhnlich feinfühlig und der Liebling ihres Dads, einem der reichsten Männer Amerikas. Als sie gezwungen wird, sich einer Bande skrupelloser Entführer auszuliefern, wird sie aus ihrem goldenen Käfig direkt in Dreck und Finsternis katapultiert. Wochen des Schreckens folgen, denn die Männer bringen ihr nur Verachtung entgegen. Vor allem ihr junger brutaler Anführer scheint sie abgrundtief zu hassen.

London, 1905: The city is alight with change, and the Stephen siblings are at the forefront. Vanessa, Virginia, Thoby, and Adrian are leaving behind their childhood home and taking a house in the leafy heart of avant-garde Bloomsbury. There they bring together a glittering circle of bright, outrageous artistic friends who will grow into legend and come to be known as the Bloomsbury Group. And at the center of this charmed circle are the devoted, gifted sisters: Vanessa, the painter, and Virginia, the writer.

The stories and the people involved in the history of murder are stranger, darker and more compulsive than any crime fiction. There’s Richard Parker, the cannibalized cabin boy whose death at the hands of his hungry crewmates led the Victorian courts to decisively outlaw a defence of necessity to murder. Dr Percy Bateman, the incompetent GP whose violent disregard for his patient changed the law on manslaughter. Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in England in the 1950s, played a crucial role in changes to the law around provocation in murder cases.

Leon von Bergh ist ein frauenverachtender Kotzbrocken. Emma Klein ist eine geheimnisumwitterte Bestsellerautorin. Sieben Jahre und vier Sommer sind vergangen, seit sich die beiden das erste Mal begegnet sind. Was Leon und Emma verbindet, ist die einzig wahre und große Liebe. Was sie trennt? Ein tragisches Verbrechen, das vor sieben Jahren ihre Welt auf den Kopf gestellt hat. Erst wenn Emma herausfindet, was damals wirklich geschehen ist, hat ihre Liebe eine Chance.

Josie Jenkins, aged eight and three quarters, can do a few tricks, but she astonishes herself and everyone else when she finds she can lift a table, a car and even a bus with no effort at all.

Ruby Genie is an orphan. Everyone expects her to have the same fantastic magical powers as her famous parents did, but Ruby can't do any magic at all - or so she thinks. and feels a complete failure. Then she begins to get smaller . . . and smaller . . . and smaller. With a cast of unforgettable...

From best-selling creator Debi Gliori comes an audio collection of some of her best picture books, brilliantly read by Emilia Fox. From an irresistible bedtime lullaby to an energetic cautionary tale addressing concerns about the environment to her best-selling picture book about unconditional love, there is something for every child in this stand-out collection.

Deși destul de diferite între ele prin subiectele abordate și prin personajele cărora le dau viață, toate poveștile sunt, de fapt, fețe ale aceleiași monede; sau, pentru a folosi drept metaforă titlul uneia dintre ele, fațete ale aceluiași „cub al fericirii“. Pentru că toate cuprind lecții importante de viață, foarte folositoare celor mici, oferă răspunsuri la unele dintre cele mai dificile întrebări ale copilăriei și sunt un îndemn de a privi mereu dincolo de aparențe și de a crede în tine până la capăt.

Als eine geheimnisvolle Nachricht May Wexler in eine Bikerbar in der Innenstadt von New Orleans führt, weiß sie, dass etwas gewaltig schiefgelaufen sein muss. Sie denkt, der Notruf sei von ihrer Schwester, doch als May eintrifft, ist diese nirgends zu finden. Dafür ist May selbst plötzlich in Schwierigkeiten - sie trägt rosafarbene Espadrilles, hat einen Chihuahua in der Handtasche und gerät in einen Schusswechsel. Als ihr der große, muskulöse Ozzie zu Hilfe eilt, bleibt May nichts anderes übrig, als sich von ihm in Sicherheit bringen zu lassen.

Eis essen mit einem Brontosaurus? Ein Basketball-Match mit Michael Jordan? Alles kein Problem im Virtual-Reality-Resort Pangalaman Island. Derek, Sohn der Besitzerin, konnte seine kühnsten Träume schon als Kind ausleben. Nun hat er das ganze Imperium geerbt–und steht vor einem Problem: Der Promi Mr. Wagner ist in einem virtuellen Abenteuer verschwunden.

“Haven’t you heard about the virus?” When her BFF asks this question at the bus stop, there was no way 10-year-old Emilia could know that the global pandemic of COVID-19 was about to turn her life upside down. Based on true events, this story follows the journey of Emilia, who lives in South Korea with her teacher mother, where they both enjoy their international school community. Life is wonderful until the rapidly spreading global pandemic of COVID-19 prompts her mother to take Emilia from her home in Korea to her home in New Zealand.

Haunting, uplifting, beautiful: the final work from Helen Dunmore. Helen Dunmore passed away in June 2017, leaving behind this remarkable collection of short stories. With her trademark imagination and gift for making history human, she explores the fragile ties between passion, love, family, friendship and grief, often through people facing turning points in their lives.

Katie Piper was 24 and well on her way to fulfilling her dream of becoming a model. She has the world at her feet – but then she meets Daniel Lynch on Facebook. After a horrific rape and acid attack her mind, body and spirit are snatched away. This is the inspiring story of her fight to get them back.

Winner of the British Book Awards, Newcomer of the Year, 2007.
Shortlisted for the British Book Awards, Book of the Year, 2007.
Alexis Fielding longs to find out about her mother's past, but Sofia has never spoken of it. She only admits to growing up in a small Cretan village before moving to London.

Wie weit würdest du für deine große Liebe gehen? Als Taylor Jensen an ein und demselben Tag nicht nur ihren Job an einen Kollegen verliert, sondern auch ihren Freund beim Fremdgehen erwischt, hat sie von Männern erst einmal genug. Völlig verzweifelt läuft sie Daniel Grant in die Arme, der ihr ein Zimmer in seiner WG anbietet. Einst waren sie beste Freunde, aber ein männlicher Mitbewohner mit sexy Tattoos und einem unwiderstehlichen Lächeln ist das Letzte, was Tae jetzt gebrauchen kann.