Showing results for "John" in Women's Fiction

When travel blogger Sophie West flees London and her toxic ex for a fresh start in Santorini, the last thing she expects is to be mugged at the port—or rescued by a mysterious artist whose eyes hold secrets deeper than the Aegean Sea. Ethan Carter sketches tourists for pocket change, but Sophie glimpses the dangerous man hidden beneath his easy smile. When she stumbles into a high-stakes art auction involving Russian criminals and a lost Leonardo da Vinci, Ethan's carefully constructed new life comes apart.

An emotionally powerful novel about four women and the incredible strength it takes to live a life made invisible by others. When you can't get out, let kindness in. In a non-descript building in a gentrifying corner of London, Penny is doing daily battle with her mind. She is convinced that the...

A haunting and tragicomic tale of the end of childhood, Annie John is told with Jamaica Kincaid’s trademark candour and complexity, and is a true coming-of-age classic. An adored only child growing up in Antigua, Annie has until recently lived a peaceful and content life. She is inseparable...

Is duty enough reason to live a lie? When John meets Savannah, he realises he is ready to make some changes. Always the angry rebel at school, he has enlisted in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his life. Now he's ready to turn over a new leaf for the woman who has captured his heart. What neither realises is that the events of 9/11 will change everything. John is prompted to re-enlist and fulfil what he feels is his duty to his country. But the lovers are young and their separation is long.

When Wren’s mother posts a cryptic message online—one that turns family heartbreak into public spectacle—it shatters the fragile peace Wren has spent years trying to build. What follows isn’t a single explosion but a slow unraveling: missed milestones, empty chairs, unanswered invitations, and the quiet realization that love without effort isn’t love at all. Through weddings, book signings, and the silence that follows, Wren learns that grief doesn’t always come from loss—it comes from waiting for people who never arrive.

'Vital, bang-on, and seriously funny' Roddy Doyle The second novel from the Costa Prize shortlisted author of Big Girl, Small Town. Smart-mouthed and filthy-minded, Maeve Murray has always felt like an outsider in the shitty wee town in Northern Ireland that she calls home. She hopes her exam...

An unforgettable love story set in Siberia during the Second World War and of living with impossible choices. Lena knows she hasn't got long left. While a nurse administers morphine to ease her pain, she relives her life. Growing up in a small town in Poland, she was an earnest young girl...

Fifteen-year-old Ana Canción never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. But when Juan Ruiz proposes and promises to take her to New York City, she must say yes. It doesn't matter that he is twice her age, that there is no love between them. Their marriage is an opportunity for her entire close-knit family to eventually immigrate. So on New Year's Day, 1965, Ana leaves behind everything she knows and becomes Ana Ruiz, a wife confined to a cold six-floor walk-up in Washington Heights.

'An incredible debut from a blazing new voice in Scottish fiction' Image 'Beautifully captures the pain of growing into yourself, and the intensity of all-consuming female friendship' ROSE WILDING 'I inhaled Gender Theory in one intoxicating sitting . . . a powerful and necessary novel' RACHEL...

'Tara Stringfellow will be an author to watch for years to come . . . A stellar debut' Jacqueline Woodson, bestselling author of Red at the Bone A spellbinding ode to Memphis, as well as a celebration of the strength and defiance of three generations of a Southern black family who live there...

Der Roman über John Lennons erste Liebe und die Geburtsstunde der Beatles. Liverpool, 1957: Der durch den Unfalltod seiner Mutter traumatisierte junge John Lennon rebelliert gegen alles - und will doch nur Musik machen. Dann begegnet er der schönen, stillen Cynthia, die von seinem düsteren Charisma sofort in den Bann gezogen wird. An ihrer Seite erlebt John jene Beständigkeit und Liebe, die er in seiner Familie nie erfahren hat. Gemeinsam mit Paul McCartney schreibt er nun die ersten eigenen Songs, und schon bald sind die Bühnenauftritte von The Silver Beatles legendär.

John might have the last name of Saint, but his family swears he made a deal with the Devil. Not one person from Ozarks to the Appalachias could strum a mandolin like him. And while he loved the harmonies he helped his family achieve on stage, he always felt something was missing inside. Until that night she came into The Fiddler's Cave, and for the first time in his life he thought there might be someone who felt like he did.

En la apacible isla tropical de Antigua, Annie John vive su infancia en un entorno paradisiaco, al amparo de sus padres y educada en un buen colegio. Pero, como en la mayoría de los paraísos, en algún oscuro rincón acecha la serpiente. A medida que Annie deja atrás la niñez, las inevitables transformaciones físicas y emocionales anuncian otra etapa, marcada por la rebeldía, el cuestionamiento de su pequeño universo y, para su disgusto, los cambios en su progenitora, quien de pronto sustituye su amor incondicional por una desconcertante rivalidad femenina.

Publicado em 1985, Annie John é um romance intimista e poderoso sobre relações familiares, autodescoberta e identidade. Ao narrar a trajetória da jovem Annie para a vida adulta em Antígua, Jamaica Kincaid — um dos maiores nomes da literatura caribenha — usa sua prosa lírica e marcante...

Johnny was my first. I was seventeen and I was only brave enough to talk to him after I'd had three vodkas. He was only brave enough to kiss me when no-one else was around. Dave was different. We didn't go out or see friends. We were each other's world. Dave was all I needed. We were toxic before it became fashionable. Kyle was my best friend. And that was the problem. Or at least that's what he said was the problem.

We know so little about Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist. Only two verses mention her in the Bible. But we know she had to raise her son on her own, in a time of great tumult. How did she do it? This is her story, an inspirational tale for believers of all faiths...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SOON TO BE A MAJOR FILM PRODUCED BY JULIA ROBERTS A provocative and hauntingly powerful debut novel reminiscent of Sliding Doors, The Bookseller follows a woman in the 1960s who must reconcile her reality with the tantalizing alternate world of her dreams. Nothing...

'A stunning debut' Guardian LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 The extraordinary first novel from the author of the prize-winning An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It. It seemed, at times, an act of profound selfishness, to have a child so that I...

'INSTANTLY GRIPPING' JENNIFER EGAN The lives of five women collide in the Arabian Gulf as each looks for a way to rewrite their future. Dounia, a young Saudi finds herself alienated and alone as she prepares for motherhood in an air-conditioned mansion in the middle of the desert. After losing...

Ich wurde 1927 auf einer Tanzfläche in Buenos Aires gezeugt … So beginnt Litas wundersame Reise mit ihrer schönen Mutter Fabiola, die neben Schuhen vor allem Tango liebt und so manches Chaos anzieht. Als die beiden dank dieser Eigenschaft gezwungen sind, ihre Heimat Hals über Kopf zu...