Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties - successful, competent and apparently unassailable. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother.
The sequel to the prize-winning, bestselling novel "Brooklyn". Heartbreaking and propulsive, "Long Island" reunites us with the beloved characters of "Brooklyn".
A jaded journalist takes his spiky mother and her ill-gotten wealth on a road trip in this tragicomic and absurd novel
''Odd and evocative, a frolicking rumination'' TIMES CRITICS'' BEST BOOK OF 2024
''Hilarious, unsettling and unexpectedly moving'' FINANCIAL TIMES BEST TRANSLATED BOOK OF 2024
Realising he and she are the very worst kind of people, a middle-aged man embarks on a dubious road trip through Switzerland with his mother, recently discharged from a psychiatric facility. En route, they attempt to give away the wealth she has amassed from investing in the arms industry, but a fortune of such immensity is hard to squander. Haunted in different ways by the figure of her Nazi-supporting father, on their tragicomic quest mother and son cannot avoid delving into the darkest parts of their past.
Praise for Christian Kracht:
''Christian Kracht is the great German-language writer of his generation'' Joshua Cohen
''Astonishing and captivating'' Karl Ove Knausgaard
Midway through his life, an artist begins to paint upside down. In Paris, a woman is attacked by a stranger in the street. A mother dies. A man falls to his death. Couples seek escape in distant lands. "Parade" is a path-breaking novel of art, womanhood and violence, from the author of the Outline trilogy.
''IT MOVED ME DEEPLY'' LIV LITTLE
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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF CLEOPATRA AND FRANKENSTEIN
''It will make you laugh, cry deeply, and want to call your siblings'' Cosmopolitan
''Even better than Cleopatra and Frankenstein'' Grazia
The Blue sisters have always been exceptional - and exceptionally different.
Avery, a strait-laced lawyer living in London, is the typical eldest daughter, though she''s hiding a secret that could undo her perfect life forever.
Bonnie was a boxer but, following a devastating defeat, she''s been working as a bouncer in LA - until a reckless act one night threatens to drive her out of the city.
And Lucky, the rebellious youngest, is a model in Paris whose hard-partying ways are finally catching up with her.
Then there was Nicky, the beloved fourth sister, whose unexpected death left Avery, Bonnie and Lucky reeling.
When, a year later, the three of them must reunite in New York to stop the sale of their childhood home, they find that it''s only by returning to each other that they can navigate their grief, addiction and heartbreak and learn to fall in love with life again.
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This is the story of one lost poem, two great rivers, and three remarkable lives - all connected by a single drop of water. A dazzling feat of storytelling from one of the greatest writers of our time, Elif Shafak's "There are Rivers in the Sky" is a rich, sweeping novel that spans centuries, continents and cultures, entwined by rivers, rains, and waterdrops.
"Playground" follows four lives -a marine biologist, an artist, a schoolteacher, and an AI pioneer -that intersect on an island in French Polynesia when it is chosen as a base for seasteading, humanity's next great adventure.
Cyrus Shams is lost.Ever since his mother's plane was senselessly shot down over the Persian Gulf when he was just a baby, Cyrus has been grappling with her death. Now, newly sober, he is set to learn the truth of her life.When an encounter with a dying artist leads Cyrus towards the mysteries of his past - an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as an Angel of Death, a haunting work of art by an exiled painter - he finds himself once again caught up in the story of his mother, who may not have been who or what she seemed. As Cyrus searches for meaning in the scattered clues of his life, a final revelation transforms everything he thought he knew.Electrifying, funny, wholly original, and profound, Martyr! heralds the arrival of a blazing and essential new voice in contemporary fiction.
"A stunning novel about the stories that we tell about our lives and our loves, and how we sustain relationships throughout time--it''s beyond remarkable, both funny and heartbreaking, sometimes on the same page. --NPR
When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the gritty ''90s Chicago art scene, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in the thriving underground scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast-forward twenty years to suburban married life, and alongside the challenges of parenting, they encounter the often-baffling pursuits of health and happiness from polyamorous would-be suitors to home-renovation hysteria.
For the first time, Jack and Elizabeth struggle to recognize each other, and the no-longer-youthful dreamers are forced to face their demons, from unfulfilled career ambitions to childhood memories of their own dysfunctional families. In the process, Jack and Elizabeth must undertake separate, personal excavations, or risk losing the best thing in their lives: each other.
Gabriel Drax is a young man haunted by the memories of his youth: every night, when sleep finally comes, he dreams about his childhood home in flames. His days are spent on the move as a travel writer, capturing the changing, intriguing landscapes of a world in the grip of the Cold War, and very occasionally couriering packages and obscure messages for his brother.
Part historical, part horror, part breathless thriller, part wilderness survival tale,
Lauren Groff just reinvented the adventure novel."--
Glorioussurroundings come alive in prose that lives and breathes upon the page." --
A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited girl alone in the wilderness, trying to survive
A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her.
Lauren Groffs new novel is at once a thrilling adventure story and a penetrating fable about trying to find a new way of living in a world succumbing to the churn of colonialism.
A group of college friends find themselves marooned at a luxurious hotel on the Amalfi Coast in Italy. While their boat is being repaired, they can't help but observe the daily routine of a fellow hotel guest - a mysterious, white-bearded stranger who sits on the veranda each night and smokes one cigarette, sometimes two.
The Kingsbridge Novels are Ken Follett''s classic historical masterpieces. Set in the city of Kingsbridge, Follett brings his rich expertise to this immersive and epic saga - full of ambition, love, power and family conflict. The story begins in The Pillars of the Earth, which centres on the struggles of Prior Phillip and his mason-turned-architect Tom as they attempt to build the greatest gothic cathedral in the medieval world.
The sequel, World Without End, is set two centuries later and follows the lives of four children who witness two men being killed the day after Halloween. From that moment, their lives are bound together by love and revenge, as they confront the Black Death and the beginning of the Hundred Years War. The saga continues in the third novel, A Column of Fire. Beginning in 1558, it charts the star-crossed romance between Will Willard and Margery Fitzgerald over half a century. Meanwhile, Europe turns against England when Elizabeth Tudor becomes queen and finds herself beset by plots to dethrone her. The Pillars of the Earth, starring Rufus Sewell and Eddie Redmayne, and World Without End, starring Cynthia Nixon, have been adapted for television.
When retired Maths teacher Grace is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan. Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the Balearics, Grace searches for answers about her friend's life, and how it ended.
When the immortal goddess Hera helps her brother Zeus to overthrow their tyrannical father, the ancient Titan Cronos, she dreams of ruling the world at his side. But as they establish their reign on Mount Olympus, Hera begins to see another side to Zeus, a side just as ruthless and cruel as Cronos was.
''Ingenious'' THE TIMES, Book of the Month
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''A triumph... beyond admiration'' PHILIP PULLMAN
''Spellbinding.... Chevalier at her fabulous best'' ELIF SHAFAK
''A spectacular feat, crafted by a maestra at the top of her game'' SPECTATOR
FROM THE GLOBALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING
Venice, 1486. Across the lagoon lies Murano. Time flows differently here - like the glass the island''s maestros spend their lives learning to handle.
Women are not meant to work with glass, but Orsola Rosso flouts convention to save her family from ruin. She works in secret, knowing her creations must be perfect to be accepted by men. But perfection may take a lifetime.
Skipping like a stone through the centuries, we follow Orsola as she hones her craft through war and plague, tragedy and triumph, love and loss.
The beads she creates will adorn the necks of empresses and courtesans from Paris to Vienna - but will she ever earn the respect of those closest to her?
Tracy Chevalier is a master of her own craft, and The Glassmaker is vivid, inventive, spellbinding: a virtuoso portrait of a woman, a family and a city that are as everlasting as their glass.
''Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going'' GILLIAN FLYNN
''Delightfully disturbing''
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''A blood-soaked, gothic nightmare''
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From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a women''s asylum in the nineteenth century, and a terrifying doctor who wants to change the world.
In this harrowing story based on authentic historical documents, we follow the career of Dr. Silas Weir, ''Father of Gyno-Psychiatry,'' as he ascends from professional anonymity to national renown. Humiliated by a procedure gone terribly wrong, Weir is forced to take a position at the New Jersey Asylum for Female Lunatics, where he reigns. There, he is allowed to continue his practice, unchecked for decades, making a name for himself by focusing on women who have been neglected by the state-women he subjects to the most grotesque modes of experimentation. As he begins to establish himself as a pioneer of nineteenth-century surgery, Weir''s ambition is fueled by his obsessive fascination with a young Irish indentured servant named Brigit, who becomes not only Weir''s primary experimental subject, but also the agent of his destruction.
Narrated by Silas Weir''s eldest son, who has repudiated his father''s brutal legacy, Butcher is a unique blend of fiction and fact, a nightmare voyage through the darkest regions of the American psyche conjoined, in its startling conclusion, with unexpected romance. Once again, Joyce Carol Oates has written a spellbinding novel confirming her position as one of our celebrated American visionaries of the imagination.
Discover the story of a Native American community told through the generations, from the prize-winning author of There There
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'No one knows how to express tenderness and yearning like Tommy Orange' Louise Erdrich, author of The Night Watchman
Following its unforgettable characters through almost two centuries of history, from the horrors of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 to the aftermath of a shooting in the early 21st century, Wandering Stars is an indelible novel of America's war on its own people.
It is also the tender, shattering story of many generations of a Native American family, searching for ways through displacement, addiction and pain, towards home and hope.
Readers of Orange's classic debut There There will know some of these characters and will be eager to learn what happened to Orvil Red Feather after the Oakland Powwow. New readers will discover a wondrous novel of poetry, music, rage and love, from one of the most astonishing voices of his generation.
'A towering achievement' New York Times
'As vital as air' Guardian
'Wondrous' Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Chain-Gang All-Stars
'This novel is alive' Tess Gunty, author of The Rabbit Hutch
A 2024 literary highlight for the Sunday Times, The Times, Observer, Financial Times, Guardian, Independent, BBC, Grazia, Evening Standard, ELLE, Dazed, Sunday Express, GQ, i-D, Stylist, Bookseller and Literary Friction
''A thrilling debut . . . It''s very smart; it''s very silly; and the obvious fun never obscures completely the sheer, gorgeous, wild stretch of her ideas''
GUARDIAN
''Fast moving and riotously entertaining, a genre-busting blend of wit and wonder''
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''Terrific, moving . . . Crack this book open and you''ll see how time can disappear''
FINANCIAL TIMES
''I loved its combination of extreme whimsy, high seriousness and cool understatement''
THE TIMES
''A high-energy story with thoughtful things to say about belonging''
INDEPENDENT
''Utterly winning . . . Readers, I envy you: There''s a smart, witty novel in your future''
WASHINGTON POST
''Clever, witty and thought-provoking''
KATE MOSSE, author of The Ghost Ship
''Make room on your bookshelves for a new classic''
MAX PORTER, author of Shy
''As electric, charming, whimsical and strange as its ripped-from-history cast''
EMILY HENRY, author of Happy Place
''Thought-provoking and horribly clever - but it also made me laugh out loud''
ALICE WINN, author of In Memoriam
''A feast of a novel - singular, alarming and (above all) incredibly sexy''
JULIA ARMFIELD, author of Our Wives Under the Sea
''A weird, kind, clever, heartsick little time bomb of a book''
FRANCIS SPUFFORD, author of Golden Hill
A BOY MEETS A GIRL. THE PAST MEETS THE FUTURE. A FINGER MEETS A TRIGGER. THE BEGINNING MEETS THE END. ENGLAND IS FOREVER. ENGLAND MUST FALL.
In the near future, a disaffected civil servant is offered a lucrative job in a mysterious new government ministry gathering ''expats'' from across history to test the limits of time-travel.
Her role is to work as a ''bridge'': living with, assisting and monitoring the expat known as ''1847'' - Commander Graham Gore. As far as history is concerned, Commander Gore died on Sir John Franklin''s doomed expedition to the Arctic, so he''s a little disoriented to find himself alive and surrounded by outlandish concepts such as ''washing machine'', ''Spotify'' and ''the collapse of the British Empire''. With an appetite for discovery and a seven-a-day cigarette habit, he soon adjusts; and during a long, sultry summer he and his bridge move from awkwardness to genuine friendship, to something more.
But as the true shape of the project that brought them together begins to emerge, Gore and the bridge are forced to confront their past choices and imagined futures. Can love triumph over the structures and histories that have shaped them? And how do you defy history when history is living in your house?
The highly anticipated sequel to "The Cat Who Saved Books", this is a wise and wonderful tale from Japan about a talking cat, a book-loving girl, and the power of books to make a difference in the world.
As green and inexperienced as the young men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is overwhelmed by the chaos and destruction of war, as well as the unexpected trauma of coming home to a changed America. Frankie will also discover the true value of female fri
