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From the author of The Cassandra (“Quirky, funny, dark,” Margaret Atwood), a historical reimagining of Hans Christian Andersen’s life and a love letter to storytelling as an act of survival In the early nineteenth century, a boy named Hans—the son of an illiterate washerwoman and a...

Godtfred Christiansen soll in die Fußstapfen seines Vaters Ole treten und die Firma LEGO in die Zukunft führen. Doch seine Brüder betrachten seine Ernennung zum Juniordirektor mit Missgunst. Zum Glück findet Godtfred mit der Kaufmannstochter Edith sein privates Glück. Auch das Geschäft läuft gut, seit Vater und Sohn auf ein neues Material setzen: Kunststoff. Insbesondere die bunten Bausteine, die Godtfred perfektioniert hat, werden zum Verkaufsschlager. Als seine Cousine Dagny in den Familienbetrieb eintritt, trifft technischer Erfindergeist auf Kreativität.

Frühling 1940: Nur wenige Tage nach seinem Amtsantritt steht der britische Premierminister Winston Churchill vor einer der schwersten Entscheidungen seines Lebens: Soll er sich Hitler-Deutschland um des Friedens willen annähern oder sein Land in den Krieg führen? Innerhalb von nur 25 Tagen muss er handeln und gleichzeitig den König und das britische Volk auf seine Seite bringen.

New York Times bestselling novelist Jeff Shaara brings to vivid life the man, public and private, who guided the U.S.A. through it's most troubled, conflicted time: Abraham Lincoln. "It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus...

Mit der deutschen Besatzung beginnt für das jüdische Ehepaar Schapiro ein unerträglicher Leidensweg: Um ihre Tochter Tamar vor der Verfolgung durch die Nationalsozialisten zu schützen, verstecken Jetta und Jascha sie unter falschem Namen in einem Kloster. Doch als ihre Tarnung auffliegt, bleibt ihnen nichts anderes übrig, als die Vierjährige in den unmenschlich harten Ghettoalltag zu holen. Nach der Deportation ins Lager Tauroggen gelingt Jetta mit Tamar das Unglaubliche: die Flucht. Damit beginnt für die beiden ein neues Kapitel des Leidens und des Überlebenskampfes.

Mit der deutschen Besatzung beginnt für das jüdische Ehepaar Schapiro ein unerträglicher Leidensweg: Um ihre Tochter Tamar vor der Verfolgung durch die Nationalsozialisten zu schützen, verstecken Jetta und Jascha sie unter falschem Namen in einem Kloster. Doch als ihre Tarnung auffliegt, bleibt ihnen nichts anderes übrig, als die Vierjährige in den unmenschlich harten Ghettoalltag zu holen. Nach der Deportation ins Lager Tauroggen gelingt Jetta mit Tamar das Unglaubliche: die Flucht. Damit beginnt für die beiden ein neues Kapitel des Leidens und des Überlebenskampfes.

A surreal and intimate novel about a disillusioned artist who, plagued by mysterious visions, must navigate a series of personal and existential crises that upend their way of life, by the award-winning author of Brown Girls. Fresh off the success of their first novel, a writer – intense...

Acclaimed Pulitzer-Prize finalist Yiyun Li, returns with a sweeping historical epic, following two extraordinary musicians on the rise. In Dublin, as the eighteenth century nears its end, a young musical virtuoso comes of age. John Field is able to hear notes in the air, and his family aspires...

Ambition. Sorcery. Treason. How far will one woman dare to go? Eleanor Cobham arrived at court with nothing — her greatest hope was simply to marry well. But her ambition carried her further than any woman before her had dared. She wanted to rule her own destiny. To rule England itself. They...

From New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas—a sweeping, richly layered Victorian novel about a trailblazing female economist who’s determined to build Britain’s first women’s bank, but she must fight both financial corruption and a system intent on destroying the newly found...

Can one rash decision prove the difference between a life well lived and a life destroyed? When the Marquess of Queensberry left his calling card at the Albemarle Club in February 1895, it bore only his name and five words: “For Oscar Wilde, posing somdomite.” The most celebrated playwright...

Brought to you by Penguin. Can one rash decision prove the difference between a life well lived and a life destroyed? When the Marquis of Queensbury left his calling card at the Albemarle Club in February 1895, it bore only his name and five words: ‘For Oscar Wilde, posing Somdomite’. The...

Called ""a near-seamless meshing of family feeling, history and imagination"" by the New York Times Book Review and the inspiration for the film starring Kate Winslet. Escaping gray London in 1972, a beautiful, determined mother takes her daughters, aged five and seven, to Morocco in search of...

Based on a true story, Strandloper tells the extraordinary tale of a nineteenth-century Englishman, William Buckley, who was convicted and transported to Australia. Refusing to accept his fate he escaped and lived among the Aborigines for thirty years. In this visionary novel, Alan Garner is as true to William the Cheshire bricklayer and William the Aboriginal spiritual leader, as William is true to his fate. The result is extraordinary.

Against this rapidly shifting landscape, Tennyson Bouguereau - freed man, devoted brother, nascent singer, conflicted soldier and wanted man - journeys to find meaning and belonging. From the relative safety of home in Tennessee with his sister Rosalee, he is offered the possibility of a whole new life in Nashville, until a surprising trip to Victorian England changes everything.

Brought to you by Penguin. Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize 2025 The knock on the door changed everything. Until then, we were happy; we knew who we were. ‘You’ve got the wrong person,’ I told him. ‘My wife is gentle and kind. She wouldn’t hurt a fly.’ In 1939, when she was...

In 1904, Ota Benga, a young Congolese 'pygmy' - a person of petite stature - arrived from central Africa and was featured in an anthropology exhibit at the St. Louis World's Fair. Two years later, the New York Zoological Gardens displayed him in its Monkey House, caging the slight 103-pound...

From the critically acclaimed author of the Outline trilogy, an irresistible novel of fame, power, beauty, and truth—and a blazing renovation of the form. M is a famous actor. She has been famous since she was a child. With such fame, her life has the appearance of freedom: people are...

Brought to you by Penguin. Charles Highway is every mother's worst nightmare. Precociously intelligent, mercilessly manipulative and highly sexed, Charles devotes the last of his teenage years to bedding girls and evading the half-arsed overtures of his distant parents. That is, until, he meets...

The film star M is one of the most recognizable faces of our time. Now, a writer has decided to pay close attention to M's life, in the hope of understanding who she really is. In this astonishing, explosive novel, Rachel Cusk hunts for the nature of truth without ever swerving away into self-deceptions. She investigates who we are, and pretend to be, at this late stage of modern life when we are hypnotized, more and more effectively, by the images we see everywhere.