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'Full of heart and humour . . . I loved it.' Ruth Hogan

'Will stay with you for a long time.' Anstey Harris

'I defy you to put it down once you've started' Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night cleaner shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium. Ever since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat over thirty years ago keeping busy has helped her cope. One night she...

Flor has a gift: she can predict when someone will die. When she decides she wants a living wake her sisters are surprised. Has Flor forseen her own death? Or someone else's? Does she have other motives?

Told with Elizabeth Acevedo's inimitable and incandescent voice, this is an indelible portrait of one family's journey through their history helping them better navigate all that is to come.

From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a hilarious horror satire about a family of professional killers responsible for the most atrocious events in history and the young brothers that are destined to take over.

Meet Otto and Cecil. Two brothers growing up privileged in the Welsh countryside. They enjoy watching nature shows, playing with their pet pony, impersonating their Grandfather...and killing the help. Murder is the family business after all. Downton Abbey, this is not.

Howeve...

This morning, I met the man who started the fire. The fire ran all the way down to the sea where it met with its reflection. A family from two nations, England and Greece, live a simple life on a tiny Greek island: Irini, Tasso and their daughter, lovely, sweet Chara, whose name means joy.

One family's search for a better life: an immersive, kaleidoscopic debut for fans of Half of a Yellow Sun, Homegoing and Pachinko

FOUR GENERATIONS. THREE SISTERS. ONE DIVIDED NATION.

India, 1898. Pirbhai is thirteen when he steps into a dhow on the vague promise of work. The voyage is long. He has no money, no voice, no power -- and will make impossible choices in the name of survival.

Sonal is fierce and loving, always willing to fight for what she believes in. When a young man called Pirbha...

'Your job is to bind the books, not read them.'

When the men of Oxford University Press leave for the Western Front, Peggy, her twin sister Maude and their friends in the bookbindery must shoulder the burden at home. As Peggy moves between her narrowboat full of memories and the demands of the Press, her dreams of studying feel ever more remote. She must know her place, fold her pages and never stop to savour the precious words in front of her.

From volunteer nurses to refugees fleeing the ho...

t is 1921 and at Cassowary House in the Straits Settlements of Penang, Robert Hamlyn is a well-to-do lawyer and his steely wife Lesley a society hostess. Their lives are invigorated when Willie, an old friend of Robert's, comes to stay.

Willie Somerset Maugham is one of the greatest writers of his day. But he is beleaguered by an unhappy marriage, ill-health and business interests that have gone badly awry. He is also struggling to write. The more Lesley's friendship with Willie grow...

De bundel heeft geen motto. Hoewel een aantal verzen ook als één geheel kunnen worden gelezen zijn het merendeels korte gedichtjes.

We waren in de Berbice. Berbice was een Nederlandse kolonie, aan de noordkust van Zuid-Amerika, in de 17e en 18e eeuw gelegen aan de Rio (rivier) Berbice met als hoofdstad van 1627 tot 1785 Fort Nassau en van 1785 tot 1815 Nieuw-Amsterdam. De kolonie Berbice was een onderdeel van Nederlands-Guiana.

De Zeeuwse koopman Abraham van (de) Peere had in 1627 het patroonschap van de kolonie Berbice gekregen van de West-Indische Compagnie; dit gaf hem het recht de kolonie te stichten aan de Berbice-ri...

¿Recuerdas la última vez que tomaste una decisión y te arrepentiste? ¿Cuándo fue la última vez que viajaste con tus amigos? ¿Cuál ha sido la distancia más larga que has recorrido por amor?

En “Galion. El Viaje.” nos adentraremos en la historia narrada por Ulrick, un elfo de las tierras meridionales. Una aventura que va más allá de las fronteras interespecies en un mundo en el que una posición social y económica parece separar la vida de dos hermanos, pero que las distintas ev...