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A story of homecoming, this engrossing novel opens with a young, city-based lawyer setting out on her first visit to ancestral country. Candice arrives at ‘the place where the rivers meet’, the camp of the Eualeyai where in 1918 her grandmother Garibooli was abducted. As Garibooli takes up the story of Candice’s Aboriginal family, the twentieth century falls away. Garibooli, now renamed Elizabeth, is sent to work as a housemaid, but marriage soon offers escape from the terror of the master’s night-time visits.

Undue Influence is the 19th novel by Anita Brookner, the Booker Prize-winning author of Hotel du Lac. Enigmatic Claire is 30 and lives alone. When she meets Martin Gibson, a faded scholar, she becomes inordinately interested. She is even more interested when she meets his wife, a far more spectacular personality. But the unexpected news of this woman's death releases emotions that were not entirely foreseen.

In the summer of 1969, 14-year-old Lucas Painter carries a huge weight on his shoulders. His brother is fighting in Vietnam. His embattled parents are locked in a never-ending war. And his best friend, Connor, is struggling with his own family issues. To find relief from the chaos, Lucas takes long, meandering walks, and one day he veers into the woods.

National Bestseller Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize "A warm, funny, loving novel. . . . It's an American original."—Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Tom Lake "Searing and sublime … Walter is a slyly adept social critic, and has clearly invested his protagonist...

Ronald Pickup, Paul Ritter and Kate Duchêne star in Nick Warburton’s comedy about one community’s attempts to resist change When Richard and Clare Wells inherit a clifftop house in Yorkshire, they also inherit a sitting tenant, John Hector, who treats their home as his own and the local...

Lark Rise is Flora Thompson's childhood memories of a north Oxfordshire village, the people who lived and worked in it, and a way of life that has totally disappeared. The story is built around Laura and her brother Edmund, through whose eyes are seen 'old Sally', whose grandfather built the house she lived in before the enclosure of the heathland, children's games, the interaction of village and gentry, and the way in which the seasons governed life.

With unprecedented scope and consummate skill, Norman Mailer unfolds a rich and riveting epic of an American spy. Harry Hubbard is the son and godson of CIA legends. His journey to learn the secrets of his society - and his own past - takes him through the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the "momentous catastrophe" of the Kennedy assassination. All the while, Hubbard is haunted by women who were loved by both his godfather and President Kennedy.

One night. No names. No commitment. That was our agreement. But Spencer Lancaster was addictive. And I was high. High off his taste, starved for his kiss, and desperate for his touch. So when he asked me to stay, to enjoy his company for more nights than I knew I should, I wasn't in the right mind to say no. Everything was perfect. A dream come true. But half a world away, there were secrets. Lies. Insecurities. All of the truths that could tear us apart.

Long overshadowed by Jane Eyre, Villette is widely admired as one of Charlotte Bronte's finest works. This story of a young teacher at a girlâ¿¿s school in the city of Villette is a particular challenge for the young reader, for it requires maturity of vision, a fine narrative sense - and a command of French! Mandy Weston, a newcomer to Naxos AudioBooks, tells the story magnificently.

This is the story of a young country workman obsessed by his ambition to become an Oxford student, interwoven with his fraught relationships with two women.

The year is 1928. On the outskirts of a large German city, three young men are earning a thin and precarious living. Fully armed young storm troopers swagger in the streets. Restlessness, poverty, and violence are everywhere. For these three, friendship is the only refuge from the chaos around them. Then the youngest of them falls in love and brings into the group a young woman who will become a comrade as well, as they are all tested in ways they can have never imagined.

Elizabeth Gaskell was one of Victorian England's pre-eminent female novelists. Admired by Charles Dickens, who described her as his 'dear Scheherazade', she mingled storytelling and social realism to superb effect in her highly acclaimed fiction. This comprehensive collection comprises dramas and readings of her finest works and some lesser-known pieces.

The central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia. His name is Daniel Isaacson, and as the story opens, his parents have been dead for many years. He has had a long time to adjust to their deaths. He has not adjusted...

Seuls les habitués et les clients guidés par le destin trouvent leur chemin jusqu'à la petite bâtisse cachée dans les ruelles de Kyoto, qui propose à ses convives de recréer les délicieux mets qui ont marqué leur vie. Pour chaque nouveau plat, Nagare Kamogawa et sa fille Koishi offrent à leurs clients une plongée dans le goût inimitable du souvenir.

C'est l'histoire d'une fille qui n'est pas d'accord avec l'ordre social. De l'enfance à l'écriture, en passant par un bar mystérieux, une maison abandonnée, un immeuble rempli de sectes, ou le sommet d'une montagne, la narratrice nous entraîne dans une odyssée parsemée de miroirs homériques, de chants d'aèdes qui nous montrent le livre en train de se faire. Les Forces reprend et détourne les motifs du roman d'apprentissage. Alternant le prosaïque et le théorique en un éclair, le livre se déploie dans une narration allant du tragique au comique.

Dans La Semaine perpétuelle, les récits et les voix s'entremêlent : adolescents, personnes âgées, gens d'internet. Écriture animiste, où toutes les choses du monde peuvent parler – où le monde est possédé. Un livre audio à la vivacité poétique frappante, la découverte d'une voix. Comme tous les grands romans, La Semaine perpétuelle a pour sujets la vie, le temps et la mort.

Autrice d'une vingtaine de livres, parmi lesquels Elle s'appelait Sarah, Boomerang et Sentinelle de la pluie, Tatiana de Rosnay fait partie des écrivains de fiction les plus vendus dans le monde. Ses livres sont traduits en 30 langues et ont donné lieu à de nombreuses adaptations cinématographiques. Après Manderley for ever (2015) et Poussière blonde (2024), Les Cœurs sont faits pour être brisés confirme le grand retour de Tatiana de Rosnay.

Als ein Neugeborenes nachts auf ihrem Bauernhof abgelegt wird, ist Babett sicher, dass der kleine Junge der Sohn ihrer früheren Freundin Evelin ist. Nun nimmt sie das Findelkind wie ein eigenes bei sich auf. Nicht ahnend, dass sie damit nicht nur das Leben des Jungen und ihrer eigenen Tochter, sondern auch das einer jungen Frau in der dritten Generation beeinflussen wird. SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin Gina Mayer verwebt in ihrem neuen großen Roman die bewegende Geschichte dreier Frauen.

ఈ నవలకి ' ఉదయం'వారపత్రిక 1990 నవలలో పోటీలో ప్రథమ బహుమతి లభించింది. "ఆ స్కూలు చాలా మంచి స్కూలు. గుంటూర్లోని మధ్య...

Director Vamsy is one of the versatile filmmakers in the Telugu cinema industry. He has a special page in the history of Telugu cinema for portraying the beauty of the Godavari and the villages through which the river flows. In every film, he focused on the lives of villagers and their innocence...