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Bloomsbury presents Beastings by Benjamin Myers, read by Ralph Ineson. Winner of the Portico Prize for Literature and the Northern Writers’ Award ‘A brilliant, brutal novel’ ROBERT MACFARLANE A girl and a baby. A priest and a poacher. A savage pursuit through the landscape of a changing...

Bloomsbury presents Pig Iron by Benjamin Myers, read by Ralph Ineson. WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE An unflinching portrait of contemporary Traveller culture by the award-winning author of The Gallows Pole John-John wants to escape his past. But the legacy of brutality left by his boxer father...

Benjamin Weis erblickt 1919 in Frankfurt als Sohn der ledigen Kanzleigehilfin Anna das Licht der Welt, vom Vater fehlt jede Spur. Der Anwalt Fritz Bernoulli nimmt sich der jungen Familie an, stellt Wohnung und Unterhalt zur Verfügung. So wächst Benjamin trotz der widrigen Umstände behütet in der Bergerstraße heran. Er taucht ein in die Welt von Don Quijote und Robinson Crusoe und erlebt mit seinen Freunden kleine und große Abenteuer.

Benjamin Frankiln’s Bastard by Sally Cabot is an absorbing and compelling work of literary historical fiction that brings to life a little-known chapter of the American Revolution — the story of Benjamin Franklin and his bastard son, and the women who loved them both. William Franklin, the...

Treacherous Freeman never had a fair chance in life since the day he was born. Never having the opportunity to know his biological mother, he was raised by his father, who happened to be one of the biggest gangsters around. Deprived of a normal childhood, his father educated him for what awaited him on the streets of Virginia. When the time comes for Treacherous to make some sudden decisions, he has no idea they will land him in the very place that he is trying to avoid.