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Written in a Yorkshire dialect that brings a place and its people magnificently to life, We Pretty Pieces of Flesh takes you by the hand and drags you through Doncaster’s schoolyards, alleyways and nightclubs, bringing back the intimate treachery of adolescence and how we betray ourselves when we don’t trust our friends. Like The Glorious Heresies and Shuggie Bain, it tracks hard-edged lives and makes them sing, turning one overlooked and forgotten place into the very centre of the world.

Inside the beleaguered city of Rome in 1944, the Contessa Giovanna Landini is a member of the band of Escape Line activists known as ‘The Choir’. Their mission is to smuggle refugees to safety and help Allied soldiers, all under the nose of Gestapo boss Paul Hauptmann. During a ferocious morning air raid a mysterious parachutist lands in Rome and disappears into the backstreets. Is he an ally or an imposter? His fate will come to put the whole Escape Line at risk.

"Olalla" is a dark tale of love, secrets, and heritage. In a Spanish house full of secrets, a Scottish soldier falls in love with the beautiful Olalla. But will their love survive the family's dark secrets? This is a story that will draw you into its intriguing web and won't let you escape.

In the quiet corners of an English estate, where shadows stretch long and secrets linger, a sinister force is unleashed. "The Beast with Five Fingers" unfolds with an unsettling mystery that will grip your imagination and chill your soul. When the reclusive scholar Adrian Borlsover dies unexpectedly, a macabre discovery awaits his family and friends: a disembodied hand that refuses to remain still.

In the ancient lands of Judea, where the boundary between life and death is both sacred and feared, one man crosses that divide and returns irrevocably changed. Lazarus, raised from the grave by the hand of Christ, emerges not as the man he once was but as a shadow of his former self, haunted by the specter of death. The miracle of Lazarus's resurrection reverberates across the land, drawing pilgrims and skeptics alike. Yet, as Lazarus walks among the living, he carries with him an unsettling aura that instills dread and despair in all who encounter him.

G.W. Pabst, one of cinema's greatest, perhaps the greatest director of his era: when the Nazis seized power he was filming in France, to escape the horrors of the new Germany he flees to Hollywood. But under the blinding California sun, the world-famous director suddenly looks like a nobody. Not even Greta Garbo, who he made famous, can help him. And thus, almost through no fault of his own, he finds himself back in his homeland of Austria, which is now called Ostmark.

Celestine Samuels is making the biggest trip of her life, from Guyana to the United States for college. At first, she is relieved to get away from her primadonna sister, neglectful mother, and troublemaker brother and eager to embrace the new freedoms of the United States like Starbucks, bagels, and wild college parties. Reality sets in when she gets the news that her aunt and uncle in Guyana have been shot in an act of political violence. Unable to go home, Celestine decides to find justice by championing the cause of an African Dance group on her small midwestern campus.

Pearl Silver was happy. She had a good job teaching young nurses. She was married to a good man who loved her. She had a son who made her proud every day. Most of the time, her memories of her time fighting in the skies over Europe remained a distant part of her past. Something she was proud to have done, but that time was over. Her life twenty years later was very different, and she didn’t have much reason to tap into her psychic power—or to stay in touch with her old comrades in arms.

After receiving a mysterious letter from a local celebrity, Charlotte Bardot (an investigate author) gets a strange feeling that she can't seem to kick. The sender is a former teacher who gained notoriety after he was left for dead on the side of the highway. Now with one person in prison for that crime and another who can't leave her house, Charlotte realizes that there is something deeper going on.

Rab they call me. Or the "little gypsy." Lucky parentage they say. If only! Irrepressible - whatever that means. Happy-go-lucky. Hah! Like they know. I wonder who the hell I really am. Coal miner, footballer, husband, father, lover, fighter? Always being defined by other. Anyhow, that 97/98 season were a belter. We were top of the league. I were playing my best. Selina, the missus, got pregnant. Then I met Ada.

Orphaned Jane emerges from a cold, hostile upbringing at Lowood Institution to take her place as governess at Thornfield, home of Mr Rochester. Her petulant but loving charge, Adele, and the housekeeper, Mrs Fairfax, are her sole company, while Rochester remains a distant, mysterious and yet imposing presence.

Von den Abenteuern eines vergesslichen Mannes. Daniel Koch ist sportlich, freundlich und fühlt sich topfit. Dass er manchmal Sachen vergisst, kümmert ihn nicht, das passiert ja jedem mal. Dann aber sagt ihm seine Ärztin, dass er Alzheimer hat und der Verlauf der Erkrankung nicht aufzuhalten sei. Und tatsächlich, Daniel driftet sehr rasch immer mehr aus der Realität ab.

The Fantasies of Future Things follows two Black men working for the real estate development company responsible for the revitalization of Summerhill in Atlanta, Georgia, for the 1996 Olympics. But Summerhill is a predominantly Black neighborhood, and real estate agents Jacob and Daniel know that “revitalization” is code for “gentrification”—which means they will be tasked with displacing people from their own community.

Tartufo is much more than a charming romp through the foothills of Tuscany. Written in the same enchanting style and raucous humor that defines Hollow Kingdom and Feral Creatures, Buxton’s newest story is a reflection on the interconnectedness of life in all its manifestations—and how holding on to harmony in the face of hardship can grow something beautiful and rare beneath the surface.

On a bright spring afternoon, Ciara Fay makes a split-second decision that will change everything. Grabbing an armful of clothes off the clothesline, she straps her two young daughters into her car and drives away. Head spinning, all she knows for certain is that home is no longer safe—and that this time, when she leaves, she must stay away.

Кто последний уедет из города — потушите свет на вокзале». Про ваш город так говорят? Вот и про Заводск тоже. Людей становится меньше. Каждый уходит своим путем. Не прощаясь, так уж заведено. Один за другим... А может, уже и вовсе никого не осталось, и однажды, выскочив за хлебом к ужину, ты не встретишь на улицах ни души — ни живой, ни мертвой. С Балбесовки, где ветшают деревенские дома да зарастают бурьяном огороды, поднимется волна тоскливого собачьего воя.

Обретение любви, надежды или даже своей судьбы не может обеспечить счастья, пока ты не найдешь себя… У Иден была идеальная жизнь в Нью-Йорке: любимая работа преподавателя, завидный жених, отличная квартирка в Верхнем Вест-Сайде. Но за одну ночь весь ее мир разрушился, и ей пришлось сбежать в крошечную английскую деревню. Здесь Иден знакомится со старой травницей — последней в многовековой череде целительниц — и сама учится готовить лечебные отвары и снадобья. Она, следуя своей давней мечте, начинает писать книгу о знахарстве.

Перевернутый Гражданской войной Крым 1920 года, нидерландский Делфт времен расцвета голландской живописи, придворные интриги вокруг последних из Габсбургов в Испании XVII века и Москва несколько лет назад. И три кольца с вензелем ICE испанской принцессы Изабеллы Клары Евгении, запечатленные на ее портрете работы фламандского художника Адриана Брауэра, и с тех пор гуляющие по свету. Где и когда они встретятся в следующий раз? Конец эпох, конец правлений, конец прошлой жизни. Конец как начало. Вторая книга трилогии Елены Афанасьевой Театр тающих теней.

Кадзу родился в 1933 году, в том же году, что и император, и вся его жизнь благодаря ряду совпадений была связана с императорской семьей, а также с парком возле станции Уэно. Здесь началась жизнь Кадзу в Токио в качестве чернорабочего в преддверии Олимпийских игр 1964 года, и здесь же он, шокированный цунами 2011 года и разгневанный объявлением Олимпийских игр 2020 года, закончил свои дни, живя в палатке в деревне для бездомных.

Идея Оплота возникла у Теодора Драйзера еще в 1912 году. Считая книгу необычайно значимой и личной, автор никак не мог добиться желаемого совершенства. Раз за разом переписывая текст, он работал над рукописью почти до самой смерти. В итоге роман был опубликован лишь в 1946 году, спустя несколько месяцев после кончины писателя. Банковский казначей Солон Барнс воспитывался в семье квакеров — представителей радикального протестантского течения. Переняв суровые религиозные взгляды отца, Солон пытается воспитывать в схожей строгости и собственных детей.