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Shadows in the Moonlight
A FORBIDDEN LOVE.
AN IMPOSSIBLE CHOICE...
When Pixie Tate is summoned to the wild Cornish coast to investigate a mystery at St Sidwell Manor she senses that something malevolent is hiding in its shadows.
Over one hundred years ago, in the deepest night, a little boy vanished from his bed - and Pixie must find out what happened to him.
But Pixie is no ordinary detective. She has a unique gift: she can travel through time. As she slips back to 1895, secrets are revealed, love affairs exposed and, ultimately, Pixie will be forced to make a devastating choice that will change her life forever...
Shadows in the Moonlight is a sweeping and devastatingly romantic time-travel mystery, and the first book in Santa Montefiore's sensational new series.
The Portrait Artist
One morning in 1890, a painting wrapped in brown paper appears on the steps of the National Gallery and causes a sensation. It's clearly by Timothy Ponden-Hall, whose paintings were celebrated and debated not just for their beauty, but for the rumours behind them: they were believed to immortalise the souls of their subjects. But Ponden-Hall has been thought dead for the last 50 years. . .
In a bid to quiet the gossip and rumours that swirl around the streets of London, the gallery brings in renowned and reluctant art historian Solomon Oak to investigate. Oak is assisted by an unlikely aide: his daughter Alice. A passionate but sheltered student, Alice has worldly desires which eclipse the life she's expected to lead. Together they discover that exposing Ponden-Hall's legacy will prove more controversial than they could ever have imagined for their family, and for Victorian society.
Set between London and Oxford, The Portrait Artist is a twisting debut exploring race, fame and long-kept secrets.
The Stolen Heart
Samson Kolechko has been assigned a most perplexing case - though it is mostly perplexing because it's hard to understand why selling the meat of one's own pig constitutes a crime.
But apparently it does, and at the insistence of the Chekist secret police officer assigned to "reinforce" the Lybid police station, Samson does his diligent - if diffident - best.
Yet no sooner has he got started than his live-in fiancée Nadezhda is abducted by striking railway workers who object to the census she's carrying out. And when you factor in a mysterious thief in the police station itself, a deadly tram accident that may have been pre-meditated, and the potential reappearance of the culprit in the case of the silver bone, it's no wonder the "meat case" takes a back seat.
But it is in the pursuit of that petty-fogging, seemingly mundane matter that Samson's fate lies - and Nadezhda's too, for the two are inextricably entwined.
Translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk
Green Dot
Hera is in her mid-twenties, which seems young to everyone except people in their mid-twenties.
Since leaving school, she has been trying to kick and scream into existence a life she cares about, but with little success so far.
Until she meets Arthur.
He works with her, he is older than her, he is also married. But in her soulless office - the large cold room she feels destined to spend her life in - he is a source of much-needed sustenance.
And though Hera has previously dated women, she soon falls headlong into a workplace romance that will quickly consume her life.
Laugh-out-loud funny, deeply moving and whip smart, Green Dot is a story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises nothing and the winding, torturous, often hilarious journey we take in deciding who we are and who we want to be.
May You Have Delicious Meals
The power dynamics of the office are never more obvious than when it comes to food: mandatory lunches with the boss, the colleague who tries to curry favour with home-baked goods, discovering the discarded remnants of someone else's late-night binge . . .
In their Saitama office, Ashikawa is the kind of woman Nitani knows he will likely marry: sweet, obliging, and determined to wean him off his addiction to instant noodles. But he finds himself increasingly unable to respect her – or the sugary treats she shares around the workplace, winning their colleagues’ affection with baking rather than hard work.
Oshio is bolder and uninhibited – she is Nitani's drinking buddy. In the oppressive office atmosphere, the pair grows closer, both outsiders struggling with the rigid status quo.
Driven to behave in increasingly absurd ways by the workplace rules that govern their lives, they must navigate the tensions of modern life: between leisure and hard work; indulgence and restraint; the promise of delicious food, and the reality of a lonely pot noodle.
Kluci z Glasgow
Strhující debut zkoumající sílu identity a komunity
Navzdory nešťastnému dětství a těžkým podmínkám začal osmnáctiletý Finlay právě studovat ošetřovatelství na Glasgowské univerzitě. V dětství si prošel ústavní péčí a pěstounstvím, což znamená, že se teď na prahu dospělosti nemá o koho opřít. Jako by svět nebyl sám o sobě děsivý. Jak má psát eseje, soustředit se na ošetřovatelskou praxi a žít normálním studentským životem, když se sotva dokáže uživit?
Sedmnáctiletý Banjo se mezitím pokouší usadit v nové pěstounské rodině, dokončit střední školu a udržet si práci. Perou se v něm však hněv a strach a ohrožují jeho už tak nejistou budoucnost. Neví, co s ním bude, ale tuší, že nic hezkého ho nečeká.
Ještě před třemi lety si Finlay a Banjo byli blízcí jako bratři. Jenže se mezi nimi něco stalo a jejich cesty se rozešly. Společná minulost je oba pronásleduje a brání jim posunout se dál. Pokud si chtějí udržet své blízké, musejí si vzájemně odpustit. A taky najít způsob, jak odpustit sami sobě.
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The Women
The Number One bestselling novel which has captured the hearts of readers across the world. The Women is a novel of epic love and devastating loss. And it is a story of a memorable heroine, and her deep friendships, whose idealism and courage under fire will define an era.
Their friendship changed lives. Their bravery changed history.
'Women can be heroes, too'. When twenty-year-old nursing student, Frances "Frankie" McGrath, hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on California's idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different path for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the Army Nurses Corps and follows his path.
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 friendship and the heartbreak that love can cause.
Glorious People
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (MARIE CLAIRE): A sweeping historical fiction novel about the fall of the Soviet Union, told through the eyes of Ukrainian mothers and daughters over 4 decades
"An astute, deeply empathic portrayal of the dislocation of first-generation immigrants and intergenerational trauma" - Financial Times
In this stunning work of political historical fiction, loaded with "vibrancy and humour", the collapse of the Soviet Union reverberates throughout multiple generations of 2 families-presaging and foreshadowing conflicts in Russia's Ukraine War (TLS).
As a child, Lena longs to pick hazelnuts in the woods with her grandmother. Instead, she is raised to be a good socialist: sent to Pioneer summer camps where she's taught to worship Lenin and sing songs in praise of the glorious Soviet Union. But perestroika is coming. Lena's corner of the USSR is now Ukraine, and corruption and patronage are the only ways to get by-to secure a place at university, an apartment, treatment for a sick baby.
For Tatjana, the shock of the new means the first McDonald's in the Soviet Union and certified foreign whisky, but no food in the shops; it means terrible choices about how to love. Eventually both women must decide whether to stay or to emigrate, but the trauma they carry is handed down to their daughters, who struggle to make sense of their own identities.
Engrossing, rich in detail, and full of unforgettable characters, this is a captivating love letter to mothers and daughters from one of Europe's most powerful voices in political fiction.
The Paris Dancer
A heart-wrenching and unforgettable story of courage, friendship and resistance, inspired by the incredible true story of a Jewish ballroom dancer in Paris during WWII, perfect for fans of The Paris Library.
Paris, 1938. Annie Mayer arrives in France with dreams of becoming a ballerina. But when the war reaches Paris, she's forced to keep her Jewish heritage a secret. Then a fellow dancer offers her a lifeline: a ballroom partnership that gives her a new identity. Together, Annie and her partner captivate audiences across occupied Europe, using her newfound fame and alias to aid the Resistance.
New York, 2012. Miriam, haunted by her past, travels from London to New York to settle her great-aunt Esther's estate. Among Esther's belongings, she discovers notebooks detailing a secret family history and the story of a brave dancer who risked everything to help Jewish families during the war.
As Miriam uncovers Esther's life in Europe, she realises the story has been left for her to finish. Grappling with loss and the possibility of new love, Miriam must find the strength to reconcile her past and embrace her future.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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'My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.'
In the midst of revolution, when fundamental social upheaval was reshaping France and America, writer and philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft made an impassioned argument for women to have a place in this new world. Her demands laid out in this 1792 essay, to treat women as human beings deserving of a rational education, self-determination and equal rights alongside men, laid the foundation for modern feminism.
Wollstonecraft has been admired and loathed: called a 'hyena in petticoats' by Horace Walpole and an inspiration to writers and feminists such as George Eliot and Millicent Fawcett. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is a key text to understand the making of the modern world.
The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig
Perfectly paced and brimming with passion - twenty-two tales from a master storyteller of the twentieth century
In this indispensable collection of short stories, Stefan Zweig captures the best and worst of human nature. At the heart of these tales lies passion - from a humble waiter's love for an aristocratic guest to an exiled Frenchwoman's longing for the glitter of court life, and a bookseller's fatal lust for print in wartime Vienna.
Translated by the award-winning Anthea Bell, and spanning a prolific literary career, these stories form a map of the human soul, drawn by a writer both tender and perceptive.
Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature, hand-picked from around the globe.
Translated by Anthea Bell.
Perfection
Millennial expat couple Anna and Tom are living the dream in Berlin, in a bright, affordable, plant-filled apartment. Their life as young digital creatives revolves around slow cooking, Danish furniture, sexual experimentation and the city’s twenty-four-hour party scene – an ideal existence shared by an entire generation and tantalizingly lived out on social media. But beyond the images, dissatisfaction and ennui burgeon.
Work becomes repetitive. Friends move back home, have children, grow up. Frustrated that their progressive politics amount to little more in practice than boycotting Uber, tipping in cash, or never eating tuna, Anna and Tom make a fruitless attempt at political activism.
Feeling increasingly trapped in their picture-perfect life, the couple takes ever more radical steps in the pursuit of an authenticity and a sense of purpose perennially beyond their grasp. Superbly translated by Sophie Hughes, Vincenzo Latronico’s Perfection is a taut, spare sociological novel about the emptiness of contemporary existence, scathing and brilliantly affecting.
1984
Píše sa rok 1984. Možno je to inak, ale nik sa neodváži spochybniť oficiálny údaj. Londýn aj celá Oceánia sú v područí totalitného režimu. Úradník Winston Smith pracuje na Ministerstve pravdy, kde upravuje alebo likviduje historické záznamy podľa ideologických požiadaviek vládnucej Strany. S každou ďalšou lžou, ktorú napíše, s každým skartovaným dokumentom rastie vo Winstonovi nenávisť k Strane. Zakázané je aj intímne zblíženie, no napriek hrozbe trestu smrti sa tajne stretáva s mladou kolegyňou Juliou, ktorá mu jedného dňa podstrčí papierik s odkazom. Vtedy sa vo Winstonovi začnú rodiť pochybnosti o vodcovi a podvedome hľadá spriaznenca. Veľký brat však netoleruje odpor ani len v myšlienkach. Tých, ktorí sa odvážia čo i len zapochybovať o hlásajúcej pravde, čaká peklo.
Román 1984 je dnes rovnako aktuálny ako v čase svojho vydania. Varuje nás pred nekontrolovanou mocou a apeluje na dôležitosť ochrany slobodného prejavu. Orwellov legendárny antiutopický román je nadčasovým dielom, ktoré je stále podnetom na zamyslenie.
Z anglického originálu 1984 preložil Milan Kopecký.
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Julia
Je rok 1984, hoci istý si nemôže byť nik. Julia Worthingová opravuje automaty na tvorbu románov na Ministerstve pravdy. Julia je príkladnou občiankou spoločnosti, ktorá sa riadi ideológiou angsocu a ktorej vládne Strana na čele s vodcom Veľkým bratom. Je cynická, v nič neverí a politika je jej ukradnutá. Pravidelne porušuje pravidlá, ale ak si to situácia vyžaduje, neváha spolupracovať s režimom. Juliu majú všetci radi. Je usilovná členka Ligy mládeže proti sexu (napriek tomu, že vedie tajný promiskuitný život) a vie sa pohybovať vo svete, kde všetkých neustále sleduje Ideopolícia, vo svete novoreči, dvojmyšlienkarstva a čierneho obchodu. Skrátka, Julia vie, ako prežiť v totalitnej spoločnosti.
Raz ju však počas dvoch minút nenávisti zaujme kolega z Oddelenia dokumentácie, úradník Winston Smith. Na chodbe mu bez rozmyslu podstrčí papierik s odkazom, čo už je samo osebe potenciálne samovražedné gesto. Od tej chvíle začína strácať kontrolu nad svojimi krokmi a svet, v ktorom sa predtým vyznala, už pre ňu nie je bezpečný.
Sedemdesiatpäť rokov po vydaní Orwellovho kultového románu 1984 sa spisovateľka Sandra Newman popasovala so svetom Veľkého brata a ponúka nám dramaticky inú, feministickú verziu tejto známej dystopie a zároveň zostáva verná pôvodnému textu.
Z anglického originálu Julia (Granta, Veľká Británia 2023) preložila Kristína Karabová.
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Plowing the Dark
On the west coast of America, virtual reality researchers race to complete the Cavern, a plain white room that can become a jungle, a painting or a vast Byzantine cathedral. Adie Klarpol, a disillusioned artist, is fascinated by this cutting-edge technology.
In a war-torn city on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, an American teacher - Taimur Martin - is held hostage, chained to a radiator in an empty white room.
What can possibly join two such remote places? Only the shared imagination, a room that these two people unwittingly build in common...
Je matka mrtvá
Malířka Johanna žila posledních třicet let s manželem a synem v USA. Syn už má ale vlastní život, manžel zemřel a Johanna dostala od galerie v Oslu nabídku na velkou samostatnou výstavu. A tak se vrací do Norska.
Skutečný důvod návratu je však jiný, Johanna se chce setkat s matkou, s níž tři desítky let neměla téměř žádný kontakt. Impulzivně zvedne telefon a zavolá jí. Na druhé straně ji však čeká odmítnutí. Přání promluvit si s matkou, pochopit pravý důvod jejich rozkolu, sahající hluboko do minulosti, se postupně mění v posedlost. Emocionální napětí se stupňuje s každým zoufalým pokusem matku kontaktovat či o ní něco zjistit a s každou další vzpomínkou na dětství a dospívání ve zdánlivě dokonalé rodině. Která verze vzpomínek je ta pravdivá? Lze matku vyškrtnout ze života? Může být matka mrtvá, i když ještě žije?
Román Je matka mrtvá přináší intenzivní, horečně a úsečně vyprávěný příběh o tom nejbližším, a přitom nejsložitějším mezilidském vztahu. Vypráví o touze po blízkosti, pochopení a přijetí, ale také po seberealizaci, nezávislosti a svobodě.
Vydání knihy podpořila Nadace norské literatury v zahraničí NORLA.
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We All Live Here
Welcome to the Kennedy household:
Lila wrote a bestseller about keeping your marriage alive, before discovering her ex was playing happy families with another woman. A woman she sees everyday at school pick-up.
Bill, her stepdad, moved in after Lila's mum died. He's kind, old-fashioned and driving her absolutely nuts.
Celie, Lila's eldest, hates school. Hates it so much she's stopped going. Her mother's fine with that - because she doesn't know yet.
Violet is nine and sings age-inappropriate rap songs, laughs at fart jokes and Lila dearly hopes she'll never, ever change.
And Truant the dog, who has just bitten the American actor who's suddenly landed on the Kennedys' doorstep.
This is Gene - Lila's estranged father, and no one's idea of a role model. He walked out on Lila and her mum years ago - and wherever he goes domestic discord follows.
Because Gene's presence changes things in unexpected ways. Soon the girls discover a kindred spirit in a man always chasing life's joy. Bill even loosens up. And Lila finds herself, astonishingly, dating.
Something is happening to the Kennedy household - but what is it?
And will it break, or save, their family?
The Cafe with No Name
It is 1966, and Robert Simon has just fulfilled his dream by taking over a café on the corner of a bustling Vienna market. He recruits a barmaid, Mila, and soon the customers flock in. Factory workers, market traders, elderly ladies, a wrestler, a painter, an unemployed seamstress in search of a job, each bring their stories and their plans for the future. As Robert listens and Mila refills their glasses, romances bloom, friendships are made and fortunes change. And change is coming to the city around them, to the little café, and to Robert's dream.
A story of the hopes, kindnesses and everyday heroism of one community, The Café with No Name has charmed millions of European readers. It is an unforgettable novel about how we carry each other through good and bad times, and how even the most ordinary life is, in its own way, quite extraordinary.
Živly 1: Voda
Keď Vanessa Carvinová príde na ostrov, ako prvé si zmení meno. Pre miestnych je Willow Haleová, osamelá cudzinka, ktorá utiekla z Dublinu a usadila sa v domčeku bokom od ostatných. Škandály ju však prenasledujú ako svorka loveckých psov. Okrem toho si musí odpovedať na určité otázky. Ak je jej bývalý manžel netvor, za akého ho všetci pokladajú, do akej miery sa Vanessa podieľala na jeho zločinoch? Útek pred starým životom vyzerá ako dobrý nápad, no rozhodnutia v minulosti majú svoje následky aj v súčasnom živote.
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