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Brought to you by Penguin. Discover the sweeping Sunday Times bestselling and prize-winning novel, made into a major motion picture starring Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbender, and Rachel Weisz. After experiencing the horrors of The Western Front, Tom moves to Janus Island to work as a...

Cousins Masha and Rachel Morgenstern board the luxury liner the SS Manhattan bound for New York, desperate to escape the concentration camps that claimed the rest of their family. America offers a safe haven, but to reach it they must survive a hazardous Atlantic crossing. Among their fellow passengers fleeing the war, each with their own conflicts, secrets, and surprises, are the composer Igor Stravinsky, making a new start after a decade of tragedy, and Rose Kennedy, determined to keep her four children from harm.

The Great Ocean Road extends 400 kilometres, or 248-and-a-half miles, along the southwest coastline of Victoria, which is Australia’s most southern mainland state. It takes the traveller through sandy coastal villages and glitzy holiday towns, from dramatic beach cliff-faces to old-growth rainforests and from surfing havens to waterfalls. To drive the length of it takes about four hours from near Victoria’s capital city of Melbourne to the impressive coastal rock structures known as the Twelve Apostles.

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY AMY LIPTROT SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 1994 WINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY LITERARY AWARD 1994 'Intimate, humorous, effortlessly combining the strands of history and folklore, the past and the present, this is a deceptively simple book, like a tale told to a child...

"Masterful...A big story about human connection and emotional survival" - Los Angeles Times The first book ever chosen by Oprah's Book Club Few first novels receive the kind of attention and acclaim showered on this powerful story—a nationwide bestseller, a critical success, and the first...

From the author of the number one international bestseller The History of Bees, a captivating new novel about the threat of a worldwide water shortage as seen through the eyes of a father and daughter. In 2019, seventy-year-old Signe sets out on a hazardous voyage to cross an entire ocean in...

Wartime intrigue spans the lives of three women—past and present—in this emotional novel from the acclaimed author of The Last Year of the War. February, 1946. World War Two is over, but the recovery from the most intimate of its horrors has only just begun for Annaliese Lange, a German...

The whales of Bathsheba's pod live for the hunt. Led by the formidable Captain Alexandra, they fight a never-ending war against men. Then the whales attack a man ship, and instead of easy prey they find the trail of a myth, a monster, perhaps the devil himself.... With their relentless Captain leading the chase, they embark on the final hunt, one that will forever change the worlds of whales and men.

On her 49th birthday, Anna Fergusson, Boston neuroscientist and dedicated introvert, arrives at an unwanted crossroads when the funding for her research lab is cut. With her confidence shattered and her future uncertain, on impulse she rents a cabin for a year on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. However Turtle Island, alive with sea birds and nesting Green turtles, is not the retreat she expected. 

The mother of the revolutionary firebrand Malcolm X was a Grenadian woman born at the turn of the 20th century in a small rural community in a deeply colonial society where access to education had only just begun for the children of working people. She emigrated to Canada and then the USA, where she became involved in the struggle for Black civil rights led by Marcus Garvey.

Their story begins with a goodbye. Polly and Frank are young and in love, a lifetime together before them. But one evening in 1981, as the Texas sun sets over their shoulders, the world is suddenly pulled apart by a deadly virus. Within months, Frank is dying. Polly can save him, but only if she agrees to a radical plan: to time travel to 1993 for a corporation who can fund his life-saving treatment. She can only go forward, she cannot go back. 

Libéré de l'horreur des tranchées où il a combattu, Tom Sherbourne, de retour en Australie, devient gardien de phare sur l'île de Janus, une île sur les Lights, sauvage et reculée. À l'abri du tumulte du monde, il coule des jours heureux avec sa femme Isabel ; un bonheur peu à peu contrarié par l'impossibilité d'avoir un enfant.

Ein grausiger Anblick erwartet eines Morgens die Gäste auf einer exklusiven Ferieninsel vor der Golfküste Floridas: Am Strand des tropischen Urlaubsparadieses werden über hundert identische blaue Sneaker angeschwemmt - und in jedem Schuh steckt ein menschlicher Fuß! Special Agent Pendergast ist sich sicher, dass die Gliedmaßen nicht von den Insassen eines kubanischen Gefängnisses stammen, wie die Küstenwache vermutet. Auf eigene Faust lässt er von der Ozeanografin Pamela Gladstone ein Strömungsprofil erstellen, das in eine ebenso unvermutete wie tödliche Richtung weist.

A shortlisted finalist for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the ALA 2019 Reading List for Science Fiction “Thea Lim’s An Ocean of Minutes is that rare thing—a speculative novel that is as heartfelt as it is philosophical. In lucid prose, Lim lays bare the complexities of migration and...

The captivating and beautiful years-long New York Times bestseller and major motion picture, now in a gorgeous new package designed for the modern reader. After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock...

When the world drowns, how far will a father go to find what’s left of family? After rising seas consume the world’s great cities, Sam Saphire and his young son join a refugee convoy, steering across a flooded Earth in search of the ones they can’t bear to lose. Behind them—ruins of civilization. Ahead—storms, hunger, desperate strangers, and fragile new societies struggling to be born. Every mile forces Sam to confront what survival truly means—endurance? sacrifice? hope?

Ni la peur ni la fierté ne valent de tourner le dos au bonheur. Sur les hauteurs du Pays basque, le phare domine la baie et guide les marins à bon port depuis près de deux siècles. C'est peut-être une nouvelle direction que cherche Julie en contemplant l'océan depuis sa chambre. À 31 ans...

Ma sœur Dinah est tout ce qu'il me reste. Elle est ma seule famille. Pour nous offrir le meilleur, elle n'a pas hésité à nous embarquer dans une effroyable « chasse à l'homme fortuné ». Mais j’en ai ma claque de tout ça.

Robots, androïdes... Pendant des décennies ils ont effectué les tâches les plus ingrates, ont travaillé sur les chantiers les plus dangereux. Ils nous ont servi de partenaires sexuels, se sont occupés de nos malades et de nos proches en perte d'autonomie. Un jour, confrontées à notre refus de les émanciper, certaines de ces machines ont commencé à nous exterminer. Quinze ans après l'assassinat du dernier humain, les Intelligence-Mondes et leurs armées de facettes se livrent un combat sans merci pour la domination totale de la planète.

Robert Porter has quit the FBI in search of his long-lost (and presumed dead) love, Noa, only to find himself on the wind-raked shores of Southern Africa working for a seal-rescue organization. When a confrontation with local sealers ends in murder, Robert must abandon the seals and his search to join a private intelligence firm seeking to locate an activist who stole files from one of the world’s largest biotech companies.