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Rembrandts Promise


Hanging beside the door is a painting of a wedding feast. ­ The light is centred on the bride; the guests are banished to the shade. ­ That is how it is when he looks at her: all others fade away. 1642. ­The Dutch Golden Age is underway, with Amsterdam at the height of its powers. Geertje, an impoverished widow from Edam, enters a melting pot of wealth and culture when she becomes nursemaid in the house of renowned painter Rembrandt. After Rembrandt's wife dies, Geertje is drawn deeper into his world and despite her friends' warnings, she begins a passionate affair with the master of light and shadow, with devastating results. Based on the true account of a wronged woman who demanded justice, with themes of feminism, loss, ambition and redemption, this is a remarkable debut, perfect for fans of sumptuous historical fiction.
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16,45 €

The Bloody Branch


Man is cruel but the flowers will take their revenge. In an ancient land, three heroines must join forces against a dangerous power. Darkness is falling across the land. All that stands against it are three determined women: slave queen Goewin, the reclusive sorceress Arianrhod, and Blodeuwedd, a woman conjured from flowers. Can they unite against the deadly force who threatens them all? The sadistic ambition of the magician Gwydion wreaks havoc across the forests, cliffs and fields of the kingdom. With their world at stake, Goewin, Arianrhod and Blodeuwedd must unleash their most uncanny powers to challenge him. In this vital and visceral novel, Brigid Lowe casts ancient light on desire, sex and our relationship with nature to bring these Celtic heroines to explosive, sensuous, blossoming new life.
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25,95 €

This Book Made Me Think of You


Twelve stories. Twelve months. Once chance to heal her heart... When Tilly Nightingale receives a call telling her there's a birthday gift from her husband waiting for her at her local bookshop, it couldn't come as more of a shock. Partly, because she can't remember the last time she read a book for pleasure. Mainly, because Joe died five months ago… The gift is simple - twelve carefully chosen books from Joe, one for each month, to help her turn the page on her first year without him. And so begins a reading-inspired journey that takes Tilly around the world; from bustling sidewalks in New York and the tree-lined avenues of Paris to the tranquil Tuscan countryside and the white sands of Bali. With the help of the bookshop owner, Alfie, Tilly starts to discover who she is now, after Joe. But can Tilly's year of books show her how to love again?
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22,45 €

Run On Red


Two women. A rural country road. No phone signal for miles. A terrifying game of cat-and-mouse. By the time Laura and Olivia notice the headlights tailing them through the hills, it's too late. What seems, at first, like a case of road rage quickly unfolds into a heart-pounding chase - and a battle for survival. Who are the men in the truck? What do they want? And can Laura and Olivia outrun - and outsmart - them long enough to call for help, even if it means taking their chances in the hills on foot? As their situation grows more perilous, the girls realize that the real terror has only just begun. But flight won't save them from their pursuers. If they're going to make it home alive, they'll have to fight . . . From bestselling BookTok sensation Noelle W. Ihli comes Run on Red, a twisting mystery thriller perfect for true crime addicts, that will grab you from the first page and won't let you go . . .
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16,45 €

The Bone Garden


Buried in the shadows and roots of the forest is a deadly secret that was never meant to come out . . .Driving through the mountains in a fierce winter storm, David Hunter is forced to seek shelter at a remote village. But a one-night stop-over at the dilapidated Hillside House becomes deadly after a gruesome discovery in the depths of the surrounding forest.With communications down and the only road washed out by the storm, Hunter is unsure who - if anyone - he can trust. And as long-buried secrets of a feud amongst the locals begin to emerge, he knows that whatever dark past the isolated community might be hiding, there''s no one he can call on for help.This time he''s on his own.The Bone Garden is an atmospheric and utterly gripping mystery set in the shadows of the Cumbrian mountains, that will chill the reader to their very bones.
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29,49 €

Dante


For her, he would break all his rules…He’s the kind of evil that makes even devils cry…Katerina Everson despises Dante Moretti. Ruthless, calculating and vicious, he’s notorious for the tragedy that haunts his past. When he takes her freedom in exchange for her brother''s debt, Kat finds herself ensnared in his gilded cage. Escape is impossible; he is always watching.Suffocating. All consuming. Intoxicating.Yet beneath his icy exterior lies an inferno of passion that ignites something deep within her. Why does he see through her defences, into her soul like no one else can? Why does his touch set her heart ablaz? y mom warned me never to play with matches. But if Dante Moretti is fire, I want to burn.
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13,49 €

Departure 37


‘If you loved The Twilight Zone, this is for you. It's a mind-blower.’ STEPHEN KING "The future of warfare – if not humanity – changed on a hot August day on the grounds of a naval base more than 1,000 miles from the nearest ocean. The discovery involved a single scientist and a model airplane." When every pilot in the country receives a call from their mother begging them not to fly, air travel comes to a halt. But none of the mothers remember making these calls – and some weren’t alive to make them. As senior officials scramble for answers, a teenager named Charlie makes online documentaries about her new home, a place where locals insist they saw passengers survive a plane crash, only to be reported as dead. And, unknown to Charlie, a place where renowned scientist Marty Hazelton once conducted experiments for making planes disappear… With the growing threats of nuclear weaponry and artificial intelligence, what begins as a ground stop becomes a threat to civilization as we know it in this high-octane, political thriller perfect for fans of Dan Brown and Frederick Forsyth. ‘Part Cold War thriller, part Twilight Zone episode and part Stephen King-like yarn about regular people in extraordinary circumstances.’ NEW YORK TIMES –––––––––––––––– PRAISE FOR SCOTT CARSON ‘One of the best of the best.’ MICHAEL CONNELLY ‘Terrific suspense.’ DEAN KOONTZ ‘DEPARTURE 37 is a rollicking, and at times terrifying, mashup of the 20th and 21st century political, nuclear, and technological tensions and ambitions. It's smart, inventive, breathlessly paced, and most importantly, humane.’ PAUL TREMBLAY ‘In this striking thriller, Carson nimbly entwines a contemporary coming-of-age story with a tale of Cold War paranoia. It’s a winner.’ PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ‘Wildly imaginative and genuinely, nailbitingly suspenseful.’ BOOKLIST
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13,49 €

Legacy of Menace


‘Who had smashed up our young lives? Was it the murderous Kray twins? Or was it the police, cynically using the criminal justice system to hide their own failure?’Bobby David and Alfie Teale were deeply trusted confidants of the notorious Kray twins, but when the Krays grew more extreme in their violence, Bobby secretly became a police informer to stop them. Then, supposedly for their own protection, Bobby, David and Alfie were all arrested on a fitted-up charge of demanding money with menaces, and sentenced to three years in prison. When the Krays were eventually arrested, each of the brothers gave evidence at the trial. The Krays went down. The police were suddenly heroes - while Bobby vanished, in fear of his life, and David and Alfie were left to pick up the pieces of theirs. In this extraordinary three-way memoir, you will see who the real heroes are, and it’s the Teales’s story which will endure as the real version of history.
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14,99 €

The Love Letter


Scandal. Love. Murder. When Sir James Harrison, one of the greatest actors of his generation, passes away at the age of ninety-five, he leaves behind not just a heartbroken family, but also a secret so shocking, so devastating, that it could rock the British Establishment to its core . . . Joanna Haslam is an ambitious young journalist, assigned to cover the legendary actor’s funeral. The biggest icons of the celebrity world are in attendance. But Joanna stumbles on something dark beneath the glamour: the mention of a letter James Harrison has left behind, the contents of which others have been desperate to conceal for over seventy years. As she peels back the veil of lies that have shrouded the secret, she realises that she’s close to uncovering something deadly serious. But someone is on her tracks, and they’ll stop at nothing to reach the letter before she does . . . The Love Letter is a thrilling love story full of twists from the author of The Seven Sisters series, Lucinda Riley. Discover this evocative and fast-paced reimagined novel from an author loved by millions of readers worldwide. Praise for Lucinda Riley:‘Complex characters and a fast-paced plot’ – Sunday Express‘Plenty of twists, flashbacks, and a dash of romance keep the suspense high’ – Booklist‘A brilliant page-turner’ – Daily Mail
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13,49 €

The Woman in White


Marian and her sister Laura live a quiet life under their uncle's guardianship until Laura's marriage to Sir Percival Glyde. Sir Percival is a man of many secrets - is one of them connected to the strange appearances of a young woman dressed all in white? And what does his charismatic friend, Count Fosco, with his pet white mice running in and out of his brightly coloured waistcoat, have to do with it all? Marian and the girls' drawing master, Walter, have to turn detective in order to work out what is going on, and to protect Laura from a fatal plot… A beautiful deluxe gift edition of the great Victorian mystery novel with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.
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27,95 €

Mrs Dalloway


A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Woolf's great masterpiece with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. Clarissa Dalloway is preparing to give a party. Over the course of one day, as she readies her house, Clarissa is flooded with memories and re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life. Virginia Woolf started writing Mrs Dalloway in 1922 as a short story. Its publication in 1925 was met with modest commercial success but the novel went on to become one of the most vital works of literature of the last century.
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Oliver Twist


A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Dickens's unforgettable novel with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. Oliver is an orphan living on the dangerous London streets with no one but himself to rely on. Fleeing from poverty and hardship, he falls in with a criminal street gang who will not let him go, however hard he tries to escape. Dickens graphically conjures up the capital's underworld, full of sex workers, thieves and lost and homeless children, and gives a voice to the disadvantaged and abused.
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Not Quite Done with Dating


One bad date too many calls for desperate measures ... Nora is well and truly fed up. After more painfully bad dates than she can count, she's had enough of leaving it to fate to find her perfect match - but she's not quite ready to give up on her love life just yet. As a statistician, Nora trusts numbers more than her gut, so when she finds a formula that could help her conquer the dating game, she has to give it a go. Putting her love theory to the test takes Nora to some questionable places with some even more questionable men, but she won't be deterred - she knows that 'the one' must be out there, somewhere. Even if he's the last person she'd have expected ... You can expect ... * Slow burn * Second chances * Found family
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14,45 €

Smoking Kills


'Hilarious' Daily Mail'Superbly over-the-top' The TimesHow far would you go to enjoy a cigarette? When headhunter Fabrice Valantine faces a smoking ban at work, he decides to undergo hypnotherapy to help him kick the habit.The treatment is all too effective - Fabrice can no longer enjoy his favourite vice, even when he does light up. Then, in the aftermath of a horrific incident, he rediscovers the buzz of his very first cigarette, and his delight is positively criminal...This original and totally French black comedy asks how far you would go for pleasure - and just where any of us would stop.Translated by Louise Rogers Lalaurie. Antoine Laurain worked as a journalist and in the world of antiques before becoming the award-winning author of ten novels, including The Red Notebook and The President's Hat. His books have been translated into 25 languages and sold more than 200,000 copies in English. He lives in Paris.Louise Rogers Lalaurie is a writer and translator from French, including Frédéric Dard's The King of Fools and The Inspector of Strange and Unexplained Deaths by Olivier Barde-Cabuçon, both published by Pushkin Vertigo. Her work has been shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award, the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature and the Crime Writers Association International Dagger.
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14,99 €

The Wasp Trap


The outstanding new psychological thriller from the 5 million copy-bestselling author of Here to Stay and The Magpies“I loved this brilliant, edgy, character driven thriller with a passion. So clever and fresh with a wild and incredibly satisfying twist at the end.” Lisa Jewell''I devoured it in two compulsive sittings. ''Gripped'' doesn''t even come close!!'' Marian Keyes''A fast-paced thriller, full of twists upon twists and tension you could cut with a knife. Hugely enjoyable.'' Alex Michaelides''Tense, artful and satisfying'' Louise Candlish''Highly entertaining...kept me guessing to the very last page'' Liz Nugent, author of Strange Sally Diamond''The most gripping book I''ve read in ages'' William Shaw******Summer 1999. Will joins five other idealistic graduates working for an eccentric psychology professor. They’re going to launch a website to change online dating forever.No-one expects it to end in tragedy.Twenty-five years later, Will gets an invitation: a dinner party. A chance to see the old gang again.But as soon as he arrives, something doesn’t seem right.There’s an unexpected guest. The hosts are clearly keeping a secret. And on the way in, Will is sure he heard crying.Everyone has something to hide about what really happened that summer.But only one of them is willing to kill to find the truth…PRAISE FOR MARK EDWARDS''I kept wanting to tear my eyes away but had to keep reading'' IAN RANKIN''Edwards is at the top of his game'' ERIN KELLY''Twisting and terrifying, the kind of haunting, pacy, spine-chiller that Mark Edwards is the absolute master of.'' CHRIS WHITAKER ''I was hooked by this clever, fast paced and addictive thriller... I loved it'' CLAIRE DOUGLAS''Fast-paced and twisted: it’s another Mark Edwards sensation'' CLARE MACKINTOSH
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13,49 €

Ghost Season


A beautifully dynamic novel which connects five characters caught in the crosshairs of conflict on the Sudanese border.A mysterious burnt corpse appears one morning in Saraaya, a remote border town between northern and southern Sudan. For five strangers on an NGO compound, this discovery foreshadows more trouble to come.Everyone has a different story. William, a South Sudanese translator, connects the corpse to the sudden disappearance of cook Layla, a nomad from the north with whom he''s fallen in love. Amidst the chaos, Dena, a Sudanese-American filmmaker, struggles to find a connection with her homeland. There is Alex, a white aid worker from the American Midwest whose plans in the country are derailed by a rapidly changing climate and an impending civil war. And then there is Mustafa, a precocious twelve-year-old boy, whose plans to escape poverty set off a series of cataclysmic events on the compound.Living in a Sudan riven by conflict presents challenges for William, Layla, Dena, Alex and Mustafa. To overcome them, they must forge bonds stronger than the blood they don''t share. Fatin Abbas weaves a story of Sudan''s partition into the fabric of her characters identities while exploring the porous and perilous nature of borders. Ghost Season is a gripping, must-have debut that announces Abbas as a powerful new voice in fiction.
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14,99 €

The Chemist


*The Sunday Times top ten bestseller* *A Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month* * Longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award and The Ian Fleming Steel Dagger CWA award! * *Pre-order The Kingpin now* ***** Is revenge the most lethal dose of all? ‘Without a doubt the best crime thriller I’ve read this year … A story of loyalties and desperation. A brilliant read’ Reader review ? 'A. A. Dhand is masterful within the gangland genre. He grabs the reader’s attention from the start, and we remain gripped to the end' Reader review ? * * * * Local pharmacist and pillar of the community, Idris Khan, spends his days doling out methadone to the hundreds of addicts in his care. They trust Idris with their secrets, and so he knows more than his mild manner suggests. So when his childhood sweetheart, Rebecca, doesn't turn up for her daily methadone dose, Idris is worried. Worried enough to go looking for her in the most deprived area of Leeds, alone. The mess Idris finds catapults him into the middle of a turf war between the two most powerful drug cartels in Yorkshire. Now, he must use every bit of intelligence and cunning he has to keep those he loves safe. Because a war is on the way. And when Idris goes after his enemies, they won't see him coming. * * * * Praise for A. A. Dhand: ‘Dark, daring and utterly propulsive … blurs the lines between hero and villain’ Kia Abdullah, author of Those People Next Door ‘Terrific … dispensing thrills and tension from start to finish’ Trevor Wood, author of The Man on the Street ‘Gritty, dark, and visceral … If I read a better book in the next year, it's probably because I've read this one twice’ Neil Lancaster, author of Dead Man’s Grave ‘The Chemist is absolutely compelling, inventive and original … Simply brilliant. State of the art British Crime fiction. Read it as soon as you can!’ Reader review ?
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We All Come Home Alive


'Profoundly affecting' GUARDIAN'Extraordinary. It made me cry' MELISSA HARRISON'Wise and beautifully written' SINÉAD GLEESON'Made me feel that I too was more alive' LUCY CALDWELLA life is made up of many shocks -The scream of wheels over asphalt as cars collide. The unexpected death of a loved one and the long trek of grief. The brutality of teenage girlhood. The abiding temptation of hunger. The stumbling spinning magic of drunkenness. The falling into love, for once utterly awake. The tearing open of a body and of reality itself that comes with birth and motherhood. Anna Beecher tells the story of her life through the moments which remade her in these wise and luminously beautiful essays, for readers of Ann Patchett's These Precious Days or Maggie O'Farrell's I Am, I Am, I Am.
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14,99 €

Enchanting the Fae Queen


A seductive fae queen meets her unexpected match in the enemy empire’s valiant general. Enchanting the Fae Queen is the second instalment in Stephanie Burgis' irreverent and sparkling Queens of Villainy series. Queen Lorelei is a notorious fae seductress, with a trail of broken hearts in her wake. But behind her glamorous lifestyle and sparkling mask lurks a dangerously intelligent woman who’d do anything to keep her people safe, even kidnap the empire’s most famous hero. The virtuous high general Gerard de Moireul represents all that is moral and true. He has to – after his parents were executed for treason. The last thing he needs is the Queen of Balravia, who showers glitter and rainbow-colored sparkles everywhere she goes without the slightest regard for good taste, decorum or royal dignity. They’re opposites in every way, but when they’re swept up together in a grand - and deadly - fae tournament, they discover all of each other’s most hidden truths - and how perfectly they might be suited for each other after all. Readers love Stephanie Burgis and the Queens of Villainy:'So heartwarming and swoony''These characters have my heart''The yearning in this book went so crazy''Had me grinning from ear to ear from start to end!'
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Beletria je často nazývaná aj krásnou, alebo umeleckou literatúrou. Toto označenie pochádza z francúzskeho názvu belles lettres (krásna literatúra)Výrazom beletria sa súhrnne označujú umelecké prozaické diela. K najznámejším beletristickým žánrom patrí poviedka, novela, román, črta či umelecká reportáž.

Romány, poviedky a novely ponúkajú pútavé príbehy s výraznými postavami a atmosférou. Divadelné hry zase slúžia ako materiál pre divadelné predstavenia a prinášajú konverzácie, dramatické situácie a komediálne alebo tragické prvky.

Beletria je neoddeliteľnou súčasťou literatúry, ktorá obohacuje naše vnímanie sveta a poskytuje nám príležitosť prežívať rôznorodé príbehy a vstúpiť do rôznych svetov. Bez ohľadu na to, či preferujete dobrodružstvo, romantiku alebo reflexiu, beletria vám umožní objaviť nové myšlienky, inšpirácie a zábavu.

Hľadáte knižných hrdinov, ktorí vás zavedú do sveta romantiky, histórie, sci-fi či fantasy? Prinášame vám ten najlepší výber skutočných príbehov, románov, detektívok, noviel a poviedok. K úspešným autorom beletrie patria Jozef KarikaDominik Dán, Róbert Bryndza, Kristína Tormová, Urbaníková EvitaTáňa Keleová Vasilková a Stephen King