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藤原道長が恐れ、紫式部を苛立たせた書。それが随筆の傑作「枕草子」だ。

江戸時代の日本は徳川将軍家が率いる幕府と、三百諸侯と称された大名家が率いる実数約260もの藩が共同統治する時代であった。

Against the mythical dreamscape of America, Auster brilliantly weaves the bizarre narrative of Marco Stanley Fogg, an orphan searching for love, his father, and the key to the riddle of his origin and fate.

Les Misérables is set in Paris after the French Revolution. In the sewers and backstreets, we encounter "the wolf-like tread of crime", and assassination for a few sous is all in a day's work. We weep with the unlucky and heart-broken Fantine, and we exult with the heroic revolutionaries of the barricades; but above all we thrill to the steadfast courage and nobility of soul of ex-convict Jean Valjean, always in danger from the relentless pursuit of the diabolical Inspector Javert.

With the closure of the cotton mills, the rich become poor and the poor even poorer Sally Grimes is a mill girl, the eldest of a family of six surviving children. When the mills stop work completely, they have nothing left to live on. The family decide to emigrate to America where the mills are...

The breathtaking and consequential first novel in nearly two decades from the award-winning author of the cult sensation, The Orange Eats Creeps. "Meticulously realized and yet brazenly fresh, Acid Green Velvet is a marvel of character and situation. Krilanovich writes unlike any other writer."...

Jessica Steele and her family are finding their footing after a series of unexpected challenges. And a whirlwind of revealed secrets and joyous surprises has them finally feeling at home in the beautiful old beach house in Driftwood Key. But between her own financial uncertainty and the danger of the approaching hurricane, Jess is worried that the house might not be a home much longer. After all they've been through to get here, Jess and her girls are not ready to give up without a fight. And Jess knows that each one of them will have her back in the face of any storm.

A broken woman, New York, 2016. A fearless rebel, Dublin 1916. And a gripping story that spans a century. During a time of great upheaval and unrest in Ireland, as men and women run to take up arms against the tyranny and occupation of the British Empire, the lives of three women are forever...

Lara Perryman has spent her life carefully planning and saving for her future. She is looking forward to the prospect of spending the rest of her days in comfort in a leisure village in Wiltshire and the adventure that her new life will bring. But when long-standing arrangements crumble, her situation quickly becomes worrying. With her dreams in disarray, Lara makes friends with the other residents and finds herself entangled in the ups and downs, triumphs and tragedies of her new community, hoping against hope that her independence will one day be restored.

Über Nacht verändern sich die Straßen von Wolnopol: Dünen wehen über die Promenade, künstlich anmutende Wirbelstürme reißen Schneisen durch die ukrainische Küstenstadt. Inmitten dieses Chaos macht Maksym Karriere – als Dealer von synthetischen Drogen. Sein Großvater Bohdan, der den Gulag überstanden hat, bringt ihm Schach bei und zitiert Puschkin. Seine Mutter Nadia, Herzchirurgin des Städtischen Klinikums, traut weder Staat noch Menschen. Doch während die Stadt im Sand zu verschwinden droht, gerät auch die Familie ins Wanken.

In 1854, on the lawless western edge of Virginia, Elizabeth Young stands among the throngs and watches as her beloved uncle is hanged for murder. There is more to this spectacle than meets the eye, she can tell, and she vows then and there she’ll get to the bottom, she’ll uncover truths, then she’ll leave these godforsaken mountains. She’ll go where the land is flat, where life is in the open, where dreams have room to roam. But fate has another idea.

Une grande saga féministe et romanesque du XVIIe siècle à nos jours Dans un village du duché de Savoie, les habitants font toujours appel à la veuve Catherine pour soigner leurs maux. Mais quand la guérisseuse échoue à endiguer l’épidémie qui décime les hameaux, elle subira un sort...

Brought to you by Penguin. A TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING MASTERPIECE WITH A NEW PREFACE FROM THE AUTHOR High in the Himalayas sits a dilapidated mansion, home to three people, each dreaming of another time. The judge, broken by a world too messy for justice, is...

Christmas morning, 1963. Fifteen-year-old Kitty Doherty gives birth in a cold, unfriendly Irish convent. She knows her beautiful baby boy presents a huge danger to her family's Catholic community back in Liverpool's Four Streets. When her baby is adopted by a wealthy family in Chicago, Kitty considers the problem solved. But soon it's obvious the baby is very sick and only his birth mother can save him. In Liverpool, a charismatic new priest has arrived.

The nurses of Lovely Lane – Dana, Victoria, Pammy and Beth – are now in their second year and are about to face some truly harrowing and difficult times on the wards. St Angelus needs a new assistant matron, but the members of the Liverpool District Hospital Board have overruled Emily Haycock and Dr Gaskell in their choice. Enter the mysterious Miss Van Gilder from somewhere down south. The life of St Angelus is soon disrupted as her proposals turn the running of the hospital upside down and threaten the jobs of the domestics and porters.

Shelves of sequins in a kaleidoscope of colours. Bolts of silk and tulle against the back wall. The sewing room was the last place anyone had seen her daughter alive. Manchester, 1942. Flora Toussaint packs parachutes for the RAF, haunted by the twin daughters she was forced to give up eighteen...

Skeletal hollows transfixed on twinkling space. Empty sockets full of vibrant memories of the living. Dark boney holes, dazed and bamboozled by the expanse of the afterlife. The Galaxy of the Dead. Wooden gnarled hollows deep as the midnight sky above. An untold guardian of spirit portals linked to our mysterious universe. Trees who know the true origin story of their Mother Earth. There is an ancient secret scrolled across our living wood. Angelic engravings more vital and wise than we could have ever imagined.

Shadow of a Century is the story of three women, whose stories are inextricably linked over the span of a century.

In the Four Streets, a dreadful murder has been committed and 14-year-old Kitty Doherty is pregnant with the dead man's child. This secret is so dangerous that it is decided Kitty must go to Ireland to await the baby's birth. But in Liverpool, the police aren't giving up their search for the truth. Somewhere, in this tight-knit Irish Catholic community, someone must know something. The streets are alive with gossip and rumour, and it isn't easy to keep a secret that big.

Noleen Delaney is one of an army of night cleaners at St Angelus Hospital. Son Finn has done something unheard-of and passed his Eleven Plus exam. How on earth will they pay for his books, his grammar school uniform and shoes? Bronia Ryan has battled depression since her husband died and now one of her sons is in prison. Her youngest, Lorcan, wants no part of a life of crime, but how can he ever escape? Or protect his mother from her vicious eldest son?