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This Year, Maybe
'A moving novel with unforgettable characters' - Closer 'A brilliant read' - Bella Sometimes you have to fall apart to become whole again... Kate is a successful interior designer with two wonderful kids. Kate is also a recent widow, a grieving daughter and worrying about how to pay the bills. Her life might look perfect from the outside, but making things look better than they are is just how Kate copes. Her mother, Jean, worries about her - but she has her own problems. A mystery from the past has come back to haunt her, and she decides now is the time to put the pieces together. When romance makes an appearance in both their lives, can mother and daughter lay the past to rest - and begin again? 'A great piece of storytelling - it swept me away' Sue Moorcroft on A Gift in December
A Gift in December
A glamorous Christmas trip to Norway might not be the break Jane wants, but it could be the break she needs. 'Fabulously festive, swoonfully romantic and endlessly enjoyable' Isabelle Broom 'A feel-good festive debut that sparkles with wit, warmth, romance and mystery' Ella Griffin *********************** Jane Brook has given up on love. She might have uncovered the news scandal of the year, but she's also been dumped by boyfriend Simon, and has spent the last month avoiding him at the office. When her boss offers her the chance to go on a luxurious press trip to Norway to cover the story of the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree, she takes it - albeit reluctantly, for she would much rather wal...
Über uns funkeln die Sterne
Winterzauber in Norwegen: glitzernder Schnee, endlose Wälder und eine Liebe unter dem Sternenhimmel Ganz London strahlt im vorweihnachtlichen Lichterglanz, doch die Journalistin Jane würde sich am liebsten zu Hause verkriechen und ihrem Ex-Freund hinterhertrauern. Stattdessen soll sie an einer Pressereise nach Norwegen teilnehmen, wo wie jedes Jahr ein prächtiger Weihnachtsbaum für den Trafalgar Square ausgewählt wird. Wider Erwarten ist Jane vollkommen fasziniert vom Zauber der tief verschneiten Wälder, glitzernden Fjorde und sternenklaren Nächte. Und als sie auf die unglaubliche Geschichte einer großen Liebe im Zweiten Weltkrieg stößt, öffnet auch sie ihr Herz für die wahre Liebe ... Dieser zutiefst berührende Roman beruht auf einer wahren Begebenheit: Jedes Jahr im Dezember schenkt das Land Norwegen der Stadt London einen Weihnachtsbaum, der auf dem Trafalgar Square aufgestellt wird – als Dank für die Unterstützung im Zweiten Weltkrieg. »Die perfekte Lektüre für lange Winternächte.« Sun »Ein Wohlfühlroman für die Feiertage, mit wunderschönem Setting und viel Romantik.« Woman's Weekly
Talking to Strangers
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Compelling, haunting, tragic stories . . . resonate long after you put the book down' James McConnachie, Sunday Times Book of the Year The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we so often get other people wrong? Why is it so hard to detect a lie, read a face or judge a stranger's motives? Using stories of deceit and fatal errors to cast doubt on our strategies for dealing with the unknown, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual adventure into the darker side of human nature, where strangers are never simple and misreading them can have disastrous consequences.
Moving
Don't miss the unforgettable new novel from Jenny Eclair - INHERITANCE is out now ___________ 'Both heart-rending and compelling' Clare Mackintosh 'I loved it SO MUCH' Marian Keyes 'It occupied my mind constantly' Jo Brand It only took one night to tear a family apart. Artist and illustrator Edwina Spinner used to have a busy family life. Now she lives alone, in a house that has grown too big for her. She has decided to sell it. As Edwina takes the estate agent from room to room, she finds herself transported back to her life as a young mother. Back to her twins, Rowena and Charlie, and a stepson she cannot bring herself to mention by name. As the house reveals its secrets, Edwina is forced ...
Notes from an Apocalypse
AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • An absorbing, deeply felt book about our anxious present tense—and coming to grips with the future, by the author of the award-winning To Be a Machine. “Deeply funny and life-affirming, with a warm, generous outlook even on the most challenging of subjects.” —Esquire We’re alive in a time of worst-case scenarios: The weather has gone uncanny. A pandemic draws our global community to a halt. Everywhere you look there’s an omen, a joke whose punchline is the end of the world. How is a person supposed to live in the shadow of such a grim future? What might it be like to live through the worst? And what on earth is anybody doing about it? Dublin-based...
Notebooks/Memoirs/Archives
Since The Grass is Singing was published in 1950, Doris Lessing has commanded a widespread and heterogeneous readership. Written from a feminist political perspective, and employing diverse modes of critical analysis, the present volume, originally published in 1982, aims to combine detailed technical exploration of Lessing’s work with a sense of this extraordinary writer’s historical, political and personal development. The essays, placed in political and biographical context by the editor’s introduction, span the entire length of Lessing’s career, up to Canopus in Argos, and includes studies of A Man and Two Women, The Golden Notebook and The Children of Violence as well as an interview with David Gladwell, director of Memoirs of a Survivor.
Bad Island
'Bad Island is an extraordinary, unsettling document: a silent species-history in eighty frames, a mute future archive. I can imagine it discovered in the remnants of a civilisation; a set of runes found amid the ruins. Stark in its lines and dark in its vision, Bad Island reads you more than you read it' Robert Macfarlane 'I've read lots of Stanley's stuff and it's always good and I am in no way biased' Thom Yorke, lead singer of Radiohead From cult graphic designer and long-time Radiohead collaborator Stanley Donwood comes a starkly beautiful graphic novel about the end of the world. A wild seascape, a distant island, a full moon. Gradually the island grows nearer until we land on a primeval wilderness, rich in vegetation and huge, strange beasts. Time passes and things do not go well for the island. Civilization rises as towers of stone and metal and smoke, choking the undergrowth and the creatures who once moved through it. This is not a happy story and it will not have a happy ending. Working in his distinctive, monochromatic lino-cut style, Stanley Donwood carves out a mesmerizing, stark parable on environmentalism and the history of humankind.
Creative Calling
Life isn’t about “finding” fulfillment and success – it’s about creating it. Why then has creativity been given a back seat in our culture? No longer. ** A Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and Publishers Weekly Bestseller ** Creativity is a force inside every person that, when unleashed, transforms our lives and delivers vitality to everything we do. Establishing a creative practice is therefore our most valuable and urgent task - as important to our well-being as exercise or nutrition. The good news? Renowned artist, author, and CreativeLive founder, Chase Jarvis, reminds us that creativity isn't a skill—it's a habit available to everyone: beginners and lifelong creators, ...
Un regalo sotto l'albero
Una lettera del passato può cambiare il presente? Proprio quando uno scoop stava per far decollare la sua carriera, Jane Brook, giornalista, è stata piantata in asso dal fidanzato e tutto è andato a rotoli. Con il Natale alle porte, Jane vorrebbe soltanto chiudersi in casa e prendersi cura del suo cuore spezzato, ma il capo ha altri progetti per lei e la invia in Norvegia per un reportage sulla “Regina della Foresta”, l’albero di Natale che ogni anno il Paese scandinavo regala alla città di Londra. La aspetta una settimana di hotel di lusso e festeggiamenti, il tutto in compagnia dell’affascinante ma scorbutico presentatore televisivo Philip Donnelly. Forse è proprio questo ciò...
