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Von der Autorin der Outline-Trilogie: Ein meisterhafter Sommerroman über weibliches Schicksal und männliches Privileg Eine Frau lädt einen berühmten Maler in ihr Haus in einer abgelegenen Küstenregion ein. Es ist ein erdrückend heißer Sommer, und sie hofft, sein künstlerischer Blick werde das Geheimnis ihres Lebens und ihrer Landschaft lüften.

Innehalten, Durchatmen, zu sich kommen. Gelassenheit und inneren Frieden finden. In einem Wort: Muße! Immer mehr Menschen sehnen sich danach, weil sie spüren, dass genau das Seele und Körper wieder ins Gleichgewicht bringt. Die bekannte Meditationsexpertin Nicole Stern teilt in diesem Buch ihre inspirierenden spirituellen Reise: von einer Krise, die alles veränderte, über tiefe Erfahrungen im Zen-Kloster bis zu den Herausforderungen im Alltag und Beruf. Ein Weg, der sie durch die vielen Facetten der Muße und ihrer transformierenden Kraft führte. Muße liegt näher, als du denkst.

"Nuförtiden är alla dagar som första april. Vi behöver därför ständigt hålla utkik efter falska eller feltolkade påståenden." Hur avgör du vad som är vinklade nyheter och rena påhitt? Och är vetenskapliga rön ens vetenskapliga? I tider av "alternativa fakta", fejknyheter och...

Eine State-of-the-Art-Spionagesoftware, die in Deutschland entwickelt wurde und in die ganze Welt verkauft wird, richtet sich plötzlich gegen Europa und droht, es ins Chaos zu stürzen. Währenddessen bekommt BOA den Auftrag, den Investigativ-Journalisten Sven Schell aus einem Gefängnis in Vietnam zu befreien und nach Hause zu bringen. Schon bald erkennt Anna, dass die Befreiungsaktion nur dazu dient, die Wahrheit über den gefährlichen Staatstrojaner, welcher Sven Schell auf die Spur gekommen ist, zu verschleiern.

A middle class woman at her wits' end and a struggling migrant worker with few options for survival. When tensions boil over, who will be the first to snap? Will it be Theodora, finally breaking under the pressure? Or Mona, desperate to find a way out? Two women. Two stories. Who do you believe?...

During a cold, British winter, three women reach crisis point. Emily, an immigrant survivor of the Rwandan genocide is existing but not living. Vera, a Christian Londoner is striving to live a moral life, undermined by secrets from her past. Lynn, battling a disease, is consumed by resentment of...

In the middle of the night, a woman wraps herself in a blanket and starts writing. In answer to a question you asked a long time ago, she writes, and so begins a letter that both women have preferred to forget. She writes night after night - a letter of friendship, by turns a belated outlet of...

Alison Hart, a medium by trade, tours the dormitory towns of London’s orbital ring road with her flint-hearted sidekick, Colette, passing on messages from beloved dead ancestors. But behind her plump, smiling persona hides a desperate woman: she knows the terrors the next life holds but must...

On a sharp winter's morning, a man turns his back on prison. He's lost almost everything; all he has left are his three children but he is not allowed anywhere near them. This is the story of Joseph, who killed his wife, Zoe. Of their three children who witnessed the event. Of Zoe's parents...

Eva, Peggy and Kathleen were sisters, living in a terraced house on a rough street. As they grew up, they dreamed of escaping their violent father. Peggy was a studious girl who became a Communist. Beautiful Kathleen married an abusive man and later - during the Second World War - fell in love...

The collection begins in the 1950s in an insular northern village 'scoured by bitter winds and rough gossip tongues.' For the child narrator, the only way to survive is to get up, get on, get out. The title story sees our narrator ironing out her northern vowels with the help of an ex-actress...

From the bestselling author of The Hidden Hours. Lizzie Burdett was eighteen when she vanished, and Noah Carruso has never forgotten her. She was his first crush, his unrequited love. She was also his brother Tom’s girlfriend. Twelve years later, an inquest into Lizzie’s disappearance is...

The summer of 1976 was the hottest in living memory. In the Botanical Gardens at Kew, a lost little girl, dizzied by the heat, thought she saw a woman lying dead on the ground. But when she opened her eyes, the woman had gone. Forty years later, Stella Darnell, the detective's daughter, is...

Rosa Hyde is the daughter of a time-traveller, stuck in the year 1945; forced to live through it again, and again. The same bulletins, the same bombs, the same raucous victory celebrations. At last she breaks out and falls through time, slipping from one century to another and she is not alone...

It begins and ends with Keepsake, the house that holds its shadows too tightly. From Harriet Evans, the author of Richard and Judy Summer Book Club pick The Wildflowers and Sunday Times bestseller A Place For Us, The Butterfly Summer is the IDEAL book to curl up with as the nights draw in. Nina...

For Kay, living on her husband Bror's country estate, the Nazi invasion is a time of uncertainty. Bror is desperate to preserve the legacy of his home, even if it means co-existing with the enemy; Kay cannot do the same. She is lured by British Intelligence into a world of resistance. Tasked...

This is a book about memories, love, sex and the power of the imagination to see us through the most difficult times. The women of Reality, Reality are mesmerising, whether in love or in solitude. Jackie Kay’s newest and most luminous of collections is full of compassion, generosity, sorrow...

Sitting in her Bloomsbury home, with her two birds for company, elderly Harriet Baxter sets out to relate the story of her acquaintance with Ned Gillespie, a talented artist who never achieved the fame he deserved. Back in 1888, after a chance encounter, young Harriet befriends the Gillespie...

After the sudden death of David Bryant, the charismatic owner of a Derbyshire parkland, three people are left to mourn him in very different ways. Maggie, David’s young widow; Louisa, who has harboured an infatuation with David since her youth; and Christopher, David's eccentric teenage son...

Guardian Angel is that rare memoir that grabs you by the shoulders with an urgency that screams, “PAY ATTENTION!” It leaps off the page with an immediacy and relevance that few books achieve. Beginning with her solitary childhood in London, it took years for Melanie Phillips to understand...