Abandoned and alone, you'll do anything to survive… The dramatic novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author. ABANDONED On the cold stone steps of an orphanage, only a few hours old and clutching the object which was to give her name, Pearl Button had a hard start to life. ALONE Now 16, she's finally managed to escape the cruel confines of the orphanage. Finding work at a...
It is the summer of 1960. The times, they are a'changing. The social conservatism of Dwight Eisenhower is about to give way to the progressive ambitions of John F. Kennedy. And three brothers, brought up in a suburb community in upstate New York, are travelling across the Atlantic to Austria, which only 15 years earlier had been part of the German Reich, to spend part of the summer with one of their grandfathers for the first time. Michael Ladner's new novel is an exploration of changing cultura...
El Muro de Berlín se construyó para separar. Dos jóvenes se toman de la mano frente al Muro de Berlín, aún a medio construir. Una se queda en el Este, la otra en el Oeste. Es 23 de agosto de 1961 y el Muro apenas lleva diez días en pie, pero ya separa el barrio de Rosemarie del de Kriemhild, que no saben cuándo volverán a verse. Pero ningún muro puede dividir una buena amistad. Elena acaba de mudarse de Madrid a Berlín cuando descubre, en el pequeño museo donde trabaja, una fotografía que le...
An American literary take on the Nordic noir genre Unfolding during the moody Pacific Northwest winter of 1951, we follow Bernadette Baston, scholar of child development and language acquisition, as she travels to a penitentiary on the remote island Elita in the Puget Sound to consult on a curious case: two guards have discovered an animal-like adolescent girl living alone in the cold woods beyond the prison’s walls. There are few answers, but many people who know more than they are saying. Acco...
SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR ‘A superb novel, evoking a bygone era when women could not afford to put a foot wrong’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘This isn't just a mystery novel: it's a window into a vanished world’ TANA FRENCH Some stories demand to be told. They keep coming back, echoing down through the decades, until they find a teller . . . Dublin, 1943 Actress Julia Bridges disappears. Her body is never found. Dublin, 1968 The bones of Julia Bridges are discovered...
1966, China is on the cusp of a decade of upheaval, and the furnaces of Old Kiln have never been this cold. The village’s once-famed ceramics production has almost ground to a halt. Only ancient grudges smoulder beneath its poverty-stricken streets, never forgotten by the two families that preside over the village. Between them stands the adopted Inkcap, whose mysterious origins leave him unloved and barely tolerated. When the faraway capital demands a purer party line, the directive trickles d...
At the end of the 1980s, a writer who very much resembles Günter Grass passes through East Germany on a book tour and visits the Cathedral of Naumburg with its famous twelve donor statues. He invites the sculptor's models to dinner—and they come, not as ghosts, but just as alive as they were in the thirteenth century. Toward the end of dinner, after drinking an icy Coca-Cola, the model for the famed beauty Uta von Naumburg declares she has to go to work: she's a living statue. As he continues t...
A panoramic novel of European history, by an internationally bestselling writer. The whole truth, as the name implies, is the collective knowledge of all those involved. Which is why you can never piece it together again properly afterwards. Because a few of those who possessed a part of it are always already dead. Or lying, or their memories are bad. It’s 1989, and in a small town on the Austria–Hungary border, nobody talks about the war; the older residents pretend not to remember, and the y...
The war may nearly be over, but danger is ever-present as storms lie ahead…Even with peace on the horizon, Met WAAF Jenny Hazleton is as busy as ever. Her keen weather forecasting allows the pilots to continue their missions, including food drops to starving allies and the repatriation of prisoners of war. Navigating many of these missions is Flying Officer Edwin Holland, whose rejection of her advances at Christmas still stings. Edwin is increasingly haunted by his role in the war, including t...
In the late 1980s, a coven of queer witches on New York's Fire Island strives to protect a young man facing a devastating tragedy. A gripping novel of magic, romance, and hope—perfect for fans of The House in the Cerulean Sea, the Tales of the City series, and Red, White, and Royal Blue. It’s 1989, and Joe Agabian and his best friend Ronnie set out to spend their first summer working in the hedonistic gay paradise of Fire Island Pines. Joe is desperate to let loose and finally move beyond th...
Kerouac's last published novel, Pic is an endearing portrait of a road trip across America, seen through the eyes of one innocent, adventurous boy.'Pic', or Pictorial Review Jackson, is a ten-year-old boy from North Carolina. When his grandfather dies and he is sent to live with another relative, his older brother, Slim, comes to rescue him. Together they hitch to New York City and, eventually, all the way to California, encountering hardship, kindness, music, love and danger as they go.
