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Alfa and Mademba are two of the many Senegalese soldiers fighting in the Great War. Together they climb dutifully out of their trenches to attack France. German enemies whenever the whistle blows, until Mademba is wounded, and dies in a shell hole with his belly torn open. Without his more-than-brother, Alfa is alone and lost amidst the savagery of the conflict. He devotes himself to the war, to violence and death, but soon begins to frighten even his own comrades in arms. How far will Alfa go to make amends to his dead friend?

When writer Paul Stewart heads to the idyllic Italian town of Montalcino to finish his already late book, it seems like the perfect escape from stressful city life. Upon landing, however, things quickly take a turn for the worse when he discovers his hired car is nowhere to be found. With no record of any reservation and no other cars available, it looks like Paul is stuck at the airport. That is, until an enterprising stranger offers him an unexpected alternative.

A moving love story inspired by a true story and perfect for fans of The Help In a time of hate, would you stand up for love? Shalerville, Kentucky, 1939. A world where black maids and handymen are trusted to raise white children and tend to white houses, but from which they are banished after...

Joey Cooley is a golden-curled child film star, the idol of American motherhood. Reginald, Third Earl of Havershot, is a boxing blue on a mission to save his wayward cousin from the fleshpots of Hollywood. Both are under anaesthetic at the dentists when something strange happens - and their identities are swapped. Suddenly Joey can use his six-foot frame to get his own back on his Hollywood persecutors. But Reggie has to endure everything Joey had to put up with in the horrible life of a child star - including kidnap.

This is... Denise. Married to Ray, her first and only love, Denise has never, for one moment, regretted putting the husband she idolised on a pedestal above everyone and everything else. But, after forty years of marriage, he is gone, leaving Denise to discover that their perfect marriage was fatally flawed. Now she faces a future alone. But first, she must face the betrayals of the past. This is... Claire. The estranged daughter of Denise, the woman who put her husband before her children, Claire took the opposite path and devoted her life to raising her family, sacrificing.

When Joss, an adopted child, discovers that her real mother has left the beautiful family home, Belheddon Hall, to her, she is thrilled, until she discovers that the Hall is haunted by a presence which will not tolerate husbands or sons living in the house. Joss Grant is eager to begin a new...

Adam and Rachel are getting married at last. Childhood sweethearts whose lives and families have been intertwined for years; theirs is set to be the wedding of the year. But then Rachel's cousin Ellie makes an unexpected return to the family fold. As the long-awaited wedding approaches, Adam is torn between duty and temptation, security and freedom, and must make a choice that will break either one heart, or many.

Historian Anna Bennett has a book to write. She also has an insomniac toddler, a precocious, death-obsessed seven-year-old, and a frequently-absent ecologist husband who has brought them all to Colsay, a desolate island in the Hebrides, so he can count the puffins. Ferociously sleep-deprived, torn between mothering and her desire for the pleasures of work and solitude, Anna becomes haunted by the discovery of a baby's skeleton in the garden of their house.

Mark Renton has it all: he's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at university. But there's no room for him in the 1980s. Thatcher's government is destroying working-class communities across Britain, and the post-war certainties of full employment, educational opportunity...

Former Australian Army officer Mike Williams is trying to forget a troubled past - with a carefree existence as an overland tour guide in Africa. But then one day on the road, he receives word that the South African Police have some news for him. A bloody and tragic run-in with ivory hunters in Mozambique the year before had left Mike's world in shreds. But now the authorities are on the poachers' trail and they need his help to catch them.

Tenacious English journalist Sarah Thatcher is along for the ride, and insists on becoming involved.

On two remote islands off the coast of Maine, the local lobstermen have fought savagely for generations over the fishing rights to the ocean waters between them. Young Ruth Thomas is born into this feud, the daughter of one of the greediest lobstermen in Maine. Eighteen years old, as smart as a whip and irredeemably unromantic, Ruth returns home from boarding school determined to throw her education overboard and join the 'stern men'.

Narrated by BAFTA award-winning actor and writer, Katherine Parkinson - currently starring in comedy-drama Rivals (previously Here We Go, Humans, The IT Crowd) 'Hilarious, brilliant, utterly exhilarating' MONICA ALI 'Sharply observed and deeply relatable comedy' GUARDIAN, 70 brilliant books for...

Von der Autorin der Outline-Trilogie: Ein meisterhafter Sommerroman über weibliches Schicksal und männliches Privileg Eine Frau lädt einen berühmten Maler in ihr Haus in einer abgelegenen Küstenregion ein. Es ist ein erdrückend heißer Sommer, und sie hofft, sein künstlerischer Blick werde das Geheimnis ihres Lebens und ihrer Landschaft lüften.

Es un gusto para la editorial El Narrador poder traer ante ustedes este compendio de historias, narraciones y escritos de dudosa procedencia qué nacieron en las entrañas del Internet. Un conjunto de narraciones qué pertenece ya al bagaje cultural y la literatura de calle reconocible el folklore actual de México.

>One king. A group of incorrigible women. Nine nights. The demon-king, Mahisha, rules Jambudvipa with an iron fist. He wears the horns of a buffalo and has the will of a bull. With allies far and wide, his kingdom—usurped from the Aryas—is prosperous. All seems aboveboard. But Jambudvipa's underbelly rots. Teeming with crime, sin, and greed, the city and its people are not what they seem. Most of all, Mahisha himself.

पढ़ाई-लिखाई पूरी करने के बाद अपने गाँव या शहर को छोड़कर नौकरी करने या फिर बिजनेस करने के लिए दूसरे शहरों में जाकर बस जाने की प्रक्रिया इंसान की जिंदगी में बहुत झंझावात लेकर आती है। इस प्रक्रिया में बिछड़े हुए लोग अगर प्रिय हों, प्रेमी हों या प्रेमिकाएँ हों, तो फिर जिंदगी बार कहती है कि रिटर्न टिकट लेकर लौट जाओ अपनी जड़ों की तरफ। लेकिन जिंदगी सबको लौट जाने का मौका नहीं देती।

एक उपन्यासकार का मस्तिष्क बहुत हाल के नहीं अपने पूर्वज उपन्यासकारों के पाठ और कथा-विवेक से बनता है। यहाँ एक सुविधा के लिए मान लीजिए कि अब तक हुए सुप्रतिष्ठित उपन्यासकारों के मार्ग विविध-विभिन्न सही, पर उनका केंद्रीय लक्ष्य एक ही रहा होगा—उपन्यास की अब तक प्रस्तुत-प्रचलित परिभाषाओं, कथाओं और संरचनाओं से बाहर चले जाना। इसमें

गृहयुद्ध में तबाह सीरिया वहाँ की स्त्रियों के लिए भयावह यातनाघर बन गया। चोटिल देह और आत्मा लिए भारतीय मूल की एक सीरियाई लड़की भारत आती है। यहाँ उसकी मुलाक़ात भारतीय सेना के उस ऑफ़िसर से होती है, जो आतंकवाद से लड़ने में अपना बहुत-कुछ गँवा चुका है।

A female driller takes charge of an isolated offshore oil rig with an entirely male crew in this propulsive literary debut about ambition, greed and the deadly consequences of ignoring Mother Nature. For readers of Greenwood and Wild Dark Shore. When Zainab, an expert driller, is tasked with...

Ioana powert sich aus: im Job und dabei, stets die Erwartungen ihrer rumänischen Familie zu erfüllen. Als ihr Großvater stirbt, gerät sie an ihre Grenzen – und muss sich dabei neu erfinden. Alexandra-Maria Pipos erzählt humorvoll und temporeich von einer jungen Heldin im Spagat zwischen zwei Ländern und verschiedenen Versionen ihrer selbst. Sowohl in ihrem Job bei Cadris Consulting als auch als aufopferungsvolle Tochter: Ioana glaubt an Leistung. Dass die Grenzen zwischen Selbstoptimierung und Wahn fließend ineinander übergehen, ignoriert sie.