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It’s time for a w(h)ine “God, she’s funny” – Jilly Cooper ‘Oh, for f*ck’s sake’ muttered Claire under her breath, as she opened the fridge to see what she could find for a no effort dinner. The children continued to fight behind her. They regarded any form of fish not encased in...

Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she overheard the Third Reich's plans while at her husband's side, understanding more than anyone would guess. She devised a plan to flee in disguise from their castle, and the whirlwind escape landed her in Hollywood. She became Hedy Lamarr, screen star.

Anne Neville and her sister Isabel are daughters of the most powerful magnate in 15th century England. Ever ruthless, always plotting, in the absence of a son and heir, Warwick sets about using his daughters as pawns in his political games. Anne grows from a delightful child brought up at the...

Legendary fashion designer Coco Chanel is revered for her sophisticated style - the iconic little black dress - and famed for her intoxicating perfume Chanel No. 5. Yet behind the public persona is a complicated woman of intrigue, shadowed by mysterious rumors. The Queen of Paris, the new novel from award-winning author Pamela Binnings Ewen, vividly imagines the hidden life of Chanel during the four years of Nazi occupation in Paris in the midst of WWII - as discovered in recently unearthed wartime files.

This audiobook is narrated with stunning authenticity by the author, Graeme Armstrong. The Times Top Ten Bestseller A Granta Best of Young British Novelist ‘Trainspotting for a new generation’ – Independent ‘An instant Scottish classic’ – The Skinny 2005. Glasgow is named Europe’s...

A family torn apart. A king with an iron fist. Will their faith be strong enough to survive persecution and reunite? Jeanne is the wife of a wealthy merchant, but now she risks losing everything. Louis XIV's soldiers will stop at nothing to forcibly convert the country's Protestants to the "true" faith. The men ransack Jeanne's belongings and threaten her children. If Jeanne and Jacob can't find a way to evade the soldiers' clutches, their family will face a fate far worse than poverty and imprisonment. They may never see each other again....

Brought to you by Penguin. Jack Kerouac's classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of nature A witty, moving philosophical novel, Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums is a journey of self-discovery through the lens of Zen Buddhist thought. This Penguin Modern Classics...

When Tiro, the confidential secretary of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events which will eventually propel his master into one of the most famous courtroom dramas in history.

Brought to you by Penguin. Listen. My one-time friend Maria did tell me once: "Make your own paradise, Tibb, since this world is no sweet place for people like us." Born a vagabond, Tibb Ingleby has never had a roof of her own. But her mother has taught her that if you're not too bound by the...

Standing by the mailbox in Ithaca, New York, Elaine thinks of her child and husband, an Ivy League academic, inside her house and wonders...is this it? As she begins to push back against the strictures of her life in 1950s America, she undertakes a disastrous affair that ends her marriage and upends her life. Based on the intimate diaries Will Self's mother kept for over forty years, Elaine is a writer's attempt to reach the almost unimaginable realm of a parent's interior life prior to his own existence.

Britannia, 45 AD: Vespasian's brother, Sabinus, is captured by druids. The druids want to offer a potent sacrifice to their gods – not just one Roman Legate, but two. They know that Vespasian will come after his brother and they plan to sacrifice the siblings on midsummer's day. Vespasian must strive to save his brother whilst completing the conquest of the south-west of the haunted isle, before he is drawn inexorably back to Rome and the heart of Imperial politics.

My name is Elena and I used to be a human being. Now I am a sex slave. If you are reading this diary then I am either dead or I have managed to escape... Trafficked: The Diary of a Sex Slave is a gritty, gripping, and tear-jerking fictional audiobook, inspired by real victims' accounts and research into the sex trafficking underworld.

Kunne vi have været noget andet, hvis vi havde truffet andre valg i livet? Hvis vi var drejet til højre i stedet for til venstre? Vi er i Danmark i 90’erne med klaphatte, prinsesse Diana i sladderbladene … und alles. Maja har via Arbejdsformidlingen fået job på den campingplads i...

”Norske Sandra Lillebø romandebuterer med en bog, som balancerer mellem respekten for hendes psykisk syge mor og sit eget behov for at formulere og dele sin smertefulde erfaring.”– Information. Tingenes tilstand er et opgør med en psykisk syg mor. Den er et åbenlyst sorgarbejde og en...

JEG UDÅNDER SPØGELSER er en kvindes historie om at befinde sig imellem fødsel og død; at få et barn og miste sin mor i løbet af den samme vinter. I den uge, hvor hun føder sit tredje barn, en lille søn, får hendes egen mor en terminal kræftdiagnose. Midt i hverdagslivets balancegang...

En mørk familiehistorie. Kompromisløs og krybende. Og du? Hvor er du, siger jeg. Vent lidt, siger du, først skal vi have min far placeret. Han er nemlig allerede på vej ind i spisestuen. Kan du høre ham? Ja, siger jeg. Hvordan lyder han? Efter hvad min far har fortalt, var han hurtig i...

Et fængende, sitrende drama ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Jyllands-Posten Om et ungt menneske, der snubler på vej ind i voksenlivet. Information Et voldsomt, velskrevet og vedkommende værk. Litteratursiden Talmagi holder livsleden i skak i Louise Juhl Dalsgaards subtile...

”Hendes mesterværk gjorde mig lykkelig. Det gør denne roman også.” ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Politiken ”Fyldt med vidunderlige billeder.” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Kristeligt Dagblad ”Måske hovedværket om forbudt kærlighed mellem to kvinder.” Weekendavisen ’Møde...

SHORTLISTET TIL BOGFORUMS DEBUTANTPRIS ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Anne-Helene Merkelsen skriver mørket frem i en roman, hvis kvalitet i sig selv er et lyspunkt." Berlingske Til læsere af Linn Ullmann, Elena Ferrante og Delphine de Vigan: Et rystende vidnesbyrd om svigt fra højeste...

Psykologisk bestseller-romanserie om veninderne og livsvidnerne Katrine og Vicki. Om skår, der skal klinkes, hvis de kan og om lukkede hjerter og tilgivelsens inderste natur. GØR MIG BLOT ONDT MED SANDHED, MEN TRØST MIG ALDRIG MED LØGN. Barndomsveninderne Katrine og Vicki, der nu er i...

"Danmarks grimmeste by" som smuk prisme i fabulerende mosaik-roman. Helsinge er blevet kaldt "Danmarks grimmeste by" og "Nordsjællands røvhul". Det vrimler med kuriøse skæbner og typer i Helsinge. Og de udgør fortællingen om Danmarks udvikling og 1980'ernes sorte krise og pastelfarvede...

Om liv, politik och passion under sextiotalets sista turbulenta år. Det är en tid av politisk hetta i slutet av sextiotalet. Lena och David reser till Paris för att leva på ett nytt sätt, fria och starka i sitt skrivande. Tillsammans ska de erövra världen, som Jean-Paul Sartre och Simone...

Passionen sveper iväg mig, jag bryr mig inte om något annat än att vara tillsammans med den jag träffat, vi gör allt för att vara tillsammans, sviker andra som älskar oss, det enda som gäller är att vi hör ihop. Men hur klarar denna starka passion vardagen, klarar den äktenskap, barn...

Manuel, el joven reportero del Philadelphia Examiner, recibe un encargo de su jefe: se trata de entrevistar a Ernest Hemingway, quien acababa de recibir el Premio Nobel de Literatura. Todos en la editorial saben que el encargo es imposible; es por eso que se lo asignaron al más junior. Manuel no solo logra conseguir la entrevista, sino que, a través de una serie de circunstancias, se llegan a conocer y se hacen amigos.

Die Entstehungsgeschichte ihres ungewöhnlichsten Bildes: Als Lucian Freud, Enkel Sigmund Freuds, die Queen bittet, ihr Porträt malen zu dürfen, ist er fast 80 Jahre alt und in einer persönlichen Krise. Queen Elizabeth II. hat nach dem Unfalltod von Lady Di ein massives Imageproblem. Obwohl Freud als unberechenbar gilt, willigt sie ein und sitzt ihm von Mai 2000 bis Dezember 2001 in monatlichen mehrstündigen Sitzungen Modell. Der Roman erzählt, was hinter verschlossenen Türen geschah.

Continuously available in print since 1968, this novel has become embedded in progressive anti-racist culture with wide circulation of the book and hotly debated film. A literary classic, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is a strong comment on entrenched racial inequities in the United States in...

Bosworth 1485: After victory against King Richard III, Henry Tudor becomes King of England. Rebels and pretenders plot to seize his throne. The barons resent his plans to curb their power and he wonders who he can trust. He hopes to unite Lancaster and York through marriage to the beautiful Elizabeth of York. With help from his mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort, he learns to keep a fragile peace. He chooses a Spanish Princess, Catherine of Aragon, as a wife for his son Prince Arthur.

For readers of Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir comes a dramatic novel of the beloved Empress Maria, the Danish princess who became the mother of the last Russian tsar. “This epic tale is captivating and beautifully told.”—Lisa Wingate, New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were...

From Brexit to Covid, parties to pig culling, the Conservative government has lurched from crisis to crisis. With a front-row seat on the, erm, backbenches, the Secret Tory has picked up on all the petty rivalries, bad decision-making and scandalous affairs that Whitehall has to offer. And he’s got no qualms about sharing it. All. Join the mystery MP as he drunk-texts Liz Truss after a crate of WKD, accompanies Jacob Rees-Mogg (and his kids) to picket a foodbank, takes on the French in the ‘Trawler Wars’, and euthanises Rishi Sunak’s dog—and that’s just October.

Rosalind Franklin has always been an outsider - brilliant, but different. Whether working at the laboratory she adored in Paris or toiling at a university in London, she feels closest to the science, those unchanging laws of physics and chemistry that guide her experiments. When she is assigned to work on DNA, she believes she can unearth its secrets. Rosalind knows if she just takes one more X-ray picture - one more after thousands - she can unlock the building blocks of life.

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 The new novel by Charlotte Wood, the Stella Prize-winning author of The Natural Way of Things and The Weekend. A fearless exploration of forgiveness, grief and the complicated beauty of female friendship. Burnt out and in need of retreat, a middle-aged woman...

Marghanita Laski’s novel Little Boy Lost is as enthralling as it is heart-wrenching. A man grapples with questions of emotional responsibility, fatherhood, and memory. Laski describes a much-changed France, struggling to rebuild its morale after the ruin caused by wartime bombing and...

Ebenezer Le Page, cantankerous, opinionated and charming, is one of the most compelling literary creations of the late 20th century. Eighty years old, Ebenezer has lived his whole life on the Channel Island of Guernsey, a stony speck of a place caught between England and France yet a world away from either. Ebenezer himself is fiercely independent, but as he reaches the end of his life he is determined to tell his own story and the story of those he has known.

In the throes of crisis, Rome braces for change. Caesar, Rome’s greatest general and conqueror of Gaul, now faces being stripped of his command and dragged back to Italy for prosecution by his enemies. His former ally, Pompey, has sided with his opponents in the Senate and frustrates all efforts to find peace. With no alternatives, Caesar crosses the Rubicon and spearheads an invasion of Rome with Mark Antony at his side, throwing the empire into civil war. Will Antony rise to the heights of power or be executed as a traitor?