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Pre-empting novels such as the Booker Prize-winning "Time’s Arrow" by as much as 20 years, Counter-Clock World is a story of racial tensions told against the background of the year 1998, in which time flows in reverse as people are born old only to grow younger and younger.

When eighteen-year-old Ian Bedloe pricks the bubble of his family's optimistic self-deception, his brother Danny drives into a wall, his sister-in-law falls apart, and his parents age before his eyes. Consumed by guilt Ian finds the hope of forgiveness at the Church of the Second Chance, and...

“A thrilling tour de force of a novel. I’ll be recommending this book to everyone.”—ANN PATCHETT “[A] gorgeous and powerful debut.”—TOMMY ORANGE, The New York Times “A stunning read.”—KHALED HOSSEINI “Utterly addictive, Good People will have everyone talking.”—PAULA...

From the bestselling author of the wildly inventive Strange Pictures and a phenomenon in Japan—unnatural layouts, trap doors, windowless rooms— a sinister conspiracy is concealed within a house’s warped and unsettling floor plans When a writer fascinated by the macabre is approached by an...

The instant No.1 Sunday Times bestseller! The gripping and exciting first book in a brand new crime thriller series from the global sensation Karin Slaughter. 'A powerful and gripping read' Shari Lapena 'Explosive from the very start' Cara Hunter 'This is a huge novel with an even bigger heart'...

זוכה פרס ספיר לספרות לשנת 2001. 'מישהו לרוץ אתו' הוא סיפור מתח, וחיפוש, ואהבה. אסף, נער ביישן וגמלוני בן שש-עשרה, נעקר משגרת-יומו כשהוא נשלח למשימה חסרת-סיכוי: לאתר את הבעלים של כלב גדול ופרוע שנמצא משוטט ברחובות ירושלים – והוא זה שיריץ כבסחרחורת את העלילה של אסף בספר. כך מגיע אסף לאנשים ולמקומות שבאמצעותם נגלה לו, כמו בפאזל, סיפור מופלא השואב אותו לתוכו – סיפורה של תמר, נערה בודדה וסוערת, שנלכדה בסבך של עולם אפל ומסוכן, ונאבקת בו באומץ. לתמר תוכנית-הצלה נועזת, כמעט מטורפת, ולאסף הנדהם והמוקסם אין ברירה אלא להילכד איתה בסיפור שלה, לרוץ איתה עוד לפני שהוא פוגש אותה ממש. 

It is a June day in London in 1923, and the lovely Clarissa Dalloway is having a party. Whom will she see? Her friend Peter, back from India, who has never really stopped loving her? What about Sally, with whom Clarissa had her life’s happiest moment? Meanwhile, the shell-shocked Septimus Smith is struggling with his life on the same London day.

""It began as a mistake."" By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In a world where his three true, bitter pleasures are women, booze, and racetrack betting, he somehow drags his hangover out of bed every dawn to lug waterlogged...

W. G. Sebald’s celebrated masterpiece, “one of the supreme works of art of our time” (The Guardian), follows a man’s search for the answer to his life’s central riddle. “Haunting . . . a powerful and resonant work of the historical imagination . . . Reminiscent at once of Ingmar...

Du même auteur que le roman à succès Newton, la science du complot. Un suspense historique qui ne vous laissera pas pantois ! En 1632, Émile de Villars, un jeune homme dévot et sûr de sa foi en Dieu et des enseignements que lui prodiguent les Jésuites, est sur le point de terminer son noviciat et de prononcer ses vœux. Sa vie n’est plus la même depuis la mort violente et inexpliquée de son père, et par la même occasion, la boutade de sa mère, qui lui a carrément tourné le dos à la suite de ce triste événement.

When a search dog locates a mass burial ground in the Oregon forest, Detective Noelle Marshall is plunged into a hunt for a killer who’s hiding in plain sight. The key to her case lies in a decades-old secret: a lone survivor who escaped and is still out there, living in fear. The murderer is a phantom who left behind a collection of victims with nothing in common but their final resting place.

Accanto al corpo della moglie appena morta, un uomo cammina nella stanza e parla. Si è gettata dalla finestra poche ore prima. Ora lui tenta disperatamente di ricostruire ciò che è accaduto: il loro incontro, il matrimonio, i silenzi, le tensioni che hanno lentamente incrinato la loro vita insieme. Nel suo monologo febbrile, il narratore cerca di spiegare il gesto della giovane donna che lui continua a chiamare la mite.

Vuelve la autora que ha convertido el healing fiction japonés en un fenómeno global, con más de 2 millones de lectores en 30 países. Michiko Aoyama regresa con Mis lunes con aroma a matcha, la segunda entrega de su exitosa bilogía El pequeño café de Tokio, galardonada con el Premio...

A mysterious stranger covered in bandages arrives in the quiet village of Iping hiding a terrifying secret: he is Griffin, a brilliant scientist who discovered the formula for invisibility. What seemed like humanity's greatest triumph quickly turns into a nightmare when he cannot reverse the process. Trapped by his own genius and driven mad by frustration, Griffin unleashes a violent reign of terror over the region. The invisible hunter soon becomes the prey in a desperate manhunt. Can the world stop a monster it cannot even see?

The minds of five normal people merge in a beautiful, unnerving first contact story where the strangest thing humanity has to face is each other, from the critically acclaimed author of Sleeping Giants. “I’m you now. We all are.” When advertising executive Carole Veilleux loses it at...

1918. Elian wakes at 4 AM to bake bread in a small-town bakery. His brother Thomas is gone. The dreamer, the singer, the one who was supposed to come home. All that remains is an iron key hanging above the oven, a promise that will never be kept. Yet Elian keeps baking. Keeps feeding the strangers who wander in. Keeps humming the four-note melody Thomas taught him in a summer meadow, years before the war took everything.

Professor Seymour T. Baumgartner, unter Freunden Sy, ist ein über siebzigjähriger emeritierter Phänomenologe aus Princeton, der sich dem Schreiben philosophischer Bücher und, zunehmend, seinen Jugendreminiszenzen widmet: seiner kleinbürgerlichen Herkunft aus Newark; der schwierigen Ehe der Eltern, dem Collegebesuch und einem Studienaufenthalt in Paris; schließlich der wie ein Blitz einschlagenden Liebe zur Übersetzerin und Dichterin Anna, mit der er die glücklichsten Jahre verbrachte, bevor sie vor zehn Jahren einem Badeunfall zum Opfer fiel.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A young woman pretends to be someone she isn’t in this “spellbinding” (Vogue), “smoldering” (The Washington Post) novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls. “Under Cline’s command, every sentence as sharp as a scalpel, a woman toeing the...

Adele has had a colorful romantic past, but she's finally found her soulmate in Tom. They're engaged, and she's looking forward to a future of blissful happiness. But then she realizes her ex-boyfriends are turning up dead. At first, the deaths seem accidental, but soon a sinister pattern emerges. All of Adele’s former partners are being killed off—in the order she dated them. As the body count grows, Adele has to figure out who is doing this and why. Otherwise, it’s only a matter of time until the killer gets to Tom.

When Sarah was 17 years old, she hid in a wardrobe while her mother was murdered in the bedroom. As the weeks and months passed, Sarah gradually moved on from the horror of that night and managed to settle into her changed family life. After the police confirm that her mother was one of three similar victims, the case goes cold. Until Sarah receives a letter: 'I didn't know you were there, or I would never have done that. Sincerely, Yours.' And, so begins a terrifying game of cat and mouse as the killer collects more victims and continues to elude police.