The first Jackson Brodie novel: literary crime from the prizewinning, number-one bestselling author of Big Sky and Transcription. 'An astonishingly complex and moving literary detective story that made me sob but also snort with laughter. It's the sort of novel you have to start rereading the minute you've finished it' Guardian Cambridge is sweltering, during an unusually hot summer. To Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, the world consists of one accounting sheet - Lost on the left, Found on the right - and the two never seem to balance. Surrounded by death, intrigue and misfortune, his own life haunted by a family tragedy, Jackson attempts to unravel three disparate case histories and begins to realise that in spite of apparent diversity, everything is connected... Kate Atkinson, Sunday Times bestseller, September 2024
Nascosta tra le montagne innevate, la Dark Swans Academy è un luogo dove la perfezione è un'ossessione e il talento si misura in sacrificio. Un castello lontano da tutto che profuma di fiaba... e di mistero. Quest'anno, il consueto spettacolo finale sarà Il lago dei cigni, il sogno che Shailene e Thalia Hargrave, due gemelle identiche nell'aspetto, rincorrono da tutta la vita. Ora è lì, a un passo dal diventare realtà, ma solo per una di loro. Thalia dovrà resistere alla severità di Elias Eisenhart, il ballerino glaciale che tutti considerano una leggenda e che giudicherà ogni suo movimento; Shailene, invece, si troverà davanti a Deimos Lankov e a un'offerta impossibile da rifiutare. Intorno a loro, la Dark Swans inghiotte chiunque, anche chi, come Heloise Rockfeller, combatte su un campo minato fatto di segreti, guerra fredda e due coinquilini inaspettati; o chi, come Wrynn Okley, vuol passare inosservata. Ma gli occhi vuoti di un principe finiranno per trovarla, sempre. Perché qui ogni legame è un riflesso. Ogni sentimento, un rischio. E quando la Dark Swans ti mette davanti allo specchio... non puoi più fingere. contributori LE Caterina Bano LE Giorgia Carnevale LE Carlo Cravino LE Francesco De Marco
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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO WILD SWANS, THE MULTI-MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATION A Book of the Year in The Times; Daily Telegraph; Financial Times and Waterstones 'A must-read ... magnificent' DAILY TELEGRAPH ***** 'Beautiful and moving' ELIF SHAFAK, OBSERVER Jung Chang's Wild Swans was a book that defined a generation, an epic personal history of Jung, her mother and grandmother - 'three daughters of China'. The book opens in 1909 with her grandmother's birth - and foot-binding - when China was under the last emperor, moving through Mao Zedong's rule, especially the Cultural Revolution during which Jung's parents were subjected to horrendous ordeals because of their courage. It finishes in 1978 when Deng Xiaoping officially ended the Mao era and started the 'reforms'. Jung, at that propitious juncture, became one of the first Chinese to leave Communist China for the West. Nearly half a century on, China has risen from a decrepit and isolated state to a global power, the challenger to the United States' dominant position in the world. Through those decades, Jung's life has been intimately entwined with her native land. Her experiences dealing with the regime in those years were rich and revealing - especially so because all her books were (and are) banned. Fly, Wild Swans is the follow-up to Wild Swans and brings the story of Jung's family - along with that of China - up to date. The book is in many ways Jung's love letter to her mother. It is inevitably also about her grandmother and father, both of whom died tragically in the Cultural Revolution but are often recalled in this book. In fact, the past is never far away in Jung's subsequent life. It has shaped her, and moulded the present China, and what's more, it promises to herald the future. China is now at another watershed moment with the era of Chairman Xi Jinping greatly affecting the lives of Jung and her mother. Fly, Wild Swans is Jung's heartfelt response to that experience, and a book filled with drama, love, curiosity and incredible history - both personal and global. Ultimately uplifting, told in Jung's clear, honest and compelling voice, it is memoir writing at its best. 'Profoundly revealing as a portrait both of a family and of the deeper traumas that lie at the heart of modern China' RORY STEWART 'Another wonder book from Jung Chang...I am quite blown away by it' LADY ANTONIA FRASER
Eine geheimnisvolle Seuche breitet sich im Dornenland aus, die magischen Ursprungs ist. Als Königin des Reiches will Schamanin Eugenie Markham der Sache auf den Grund gehen. Unterstützung erhält sie von Feenkönig Dorian. Doch kann sie ihm wirklich trauen? Und auch Eugenies Ex-Geliebter, der Gestaltwandler Kiyo, scheint Geheimnisse vor ihr zu verbergen.
Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed, reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Hours, and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu. Rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true. The Beast stands ahead of you in line at the convenience store, buying smokes and a Slim Jim, his devouring smile aimed at the cashier. A malformed little man with a knack for minor acts of wizardry goes to disastrous lengths to procure a child. A loutish and lazy Jack prefers living in his mother's basement to getting a job, until the day he trades a cow for a handful of magic beans. In A Wild Swan and Other Tales, the people and the talismans of lands far, far away - the mythic figures of our childhoods and the source of so much of our wonder - are transformed by Michael Cunningham into stories of sublime revelation.