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A moving portrayal of the struggle between desire and duty in nineteenth-century New York high societyNewland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a pretty ingenue, when Mays cousin, Countess Olenska, is introduced into their circle. The Countess brings with her an aura of European sophistication and a hint of scandal, having left her husband and claimed her independence.Her sorrowful eyes, her tragic worldliness and her air of unapproachability attract the sensitive Newland and, almost against their will, a passionate bond develops between them. But Archers life has no place for passion and, with society on the side of May and all she stands for, he finds himself drawn into a bitter conflict between love and duty.

A queen on the edge.Anne Boleyn has mesmerised the English public for centuries. Her tragic execution, orchestrated by her own husband, never ceases to intrigue. How did this courtiers daughter become the queen of England, and what was it that really tore apart this illustrious marriage, making her the whore of England, an abandoned woman executed on the scaffold? While many stories of Anne Boleyns downfall have been told, few have truly traced the origins of her tragic fate.In Thorns, Lust and Glory, Estelle Paranque takes us back to where it all started: to France, where Anne learned the lessons that would set her on the path to becoming one of Englands most infamous queens. At the court of the French king as a resourceful teenage girl, Annes journey to infamy began, and this landmark biography explores the world that shaped her, and how these loyalties would leave her vulnerable, leading to her ruin at the court of Henry VIII.A fascinating new perspective on Tudor historys most enduring story, Thorns, Lust and Glory is an unmissable account of a queen on the edge.

A THE TIMES BEST CRIME BOOK OF 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE ILP JOHN CREASEY FIRST NOVEL DAGGER 2025Extraordinary . . . both a madcap crime caper and a savage state-of-the-nation novel . . . Anders Lustgarten writes like a man possessed: bursting with energy The TimesAn electrifying wild ride of a debut novel from award-winning playwright Anders LustgartenMeet Cherry, a bandit queen on the run, driving a pink soft-top convertible through the badlands of South-East England. Shes never felt more Thelma & Louise in her life - except there are three of them in the car and one of them is dead.How did a head nurse and mother of two end up driving a handcuffed policeman and the corpse of a murdered refugee on a journey to find justice? Pursued by a racist, roid-raged, shaven-headed officer of the law - not to mention by her husband and daughter - what else can a woman with a conscience do in modern Britain?Thrilling, radical and darkly comedic, Anders Lustgartens open-hearted storm of a book explores pressing political concerns with clear-sightedness and holds a mirror up to contemporary Britain.An irreverent, tragicomic tour de force as absurd and as urgent as hope . . . Lustgartens novel is comedy as weapon and deep moral inquiry Guardian

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERDr Jessica Taylor grew up on a council estate where brutality and coercion were normalised, and where substance abuse was a day-to-day occurrence. Now one of the UKs most spirited advocates for womens rights, and a leading chartered psychologist helping women and girls subjected to violence and trauma, Jessica shares her own personal journey for the very first time.Told through a series of absorbing vignettes spanning from her childhood days to gaining her PhD in forensic psychology, Underclass is a memoir about extraordinary strength, the complexities of belonging, and finding your power even when it feels as though the world is against you. Do you bend to fit in, or do you accept that you will always stand out? Do you run away from your roots, or love them for making you who you are? Do you fade into mediocrity, or do you change the world?Taylor recounts with dark humour and unflinching detail the various lives shes lived, covering the violence suffered at the hands of her abusers, the realities of becoming a mother in her teenage years, coming to terms with her sexuality, putting herself through university, and overcoming underhand discrimination at work. She poignantly delves into both the classist and misogynistic double standards that she has faced throughout her life, whether she was waking up on a roundabout by the estate or chairing a parliamentary conference. You can take the girl out of the council estate, but you cant take the council estate out of the girl. Especially when it made her who she is today.The result is deeply moving, searingly honest, horribly funny and, above all, unforgettable; a memoir that stays with you long after youve turned the last page.

VOLUME ONE OF TWOA huge, eye-opening, mind-blowing surprise Lisa Tuttle, Guardian A genre-defining-and redefining-collection of fictions boldest, most rebellious, and most prescient genre, featuring a smorgasbord of stories from across the globeIn The Big Book of Cyberpunk, award-winning anthologist Jared Shurin brings together over a hundred stories from more than twenty-five different countries. Here are tales that both establish and subvert the classic Cyberpunk tropes and aesthetic from gritty, near-future noir to pulse-pounding action. Urban rebels undermine their monolithic corporate overlords, daring heists are conducted through back alleys and the darkest parts of the online world, and dangerous new technology, cybernetic enhancements, scheming AIs, corporate mercenaries, improbable weapons and roguish hackers all collide into rich, thrilling entertainment. Set across two volumes, these are stories that examine the near-now, extrapolating the most provocative trends into fascinating and plausible futures.We live in an increasingly Cyberpunk world, packed with complex technologies and globalised social trends. It is a world so bizarre that even the futurists couldnt explain it though many authors in this book have come closer than most. As both an introduction to the genre and the perfect compendium for the lifelong fan, The Big Book of Cyberpunk Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 offer more than a hundred ways to understand where we are, and where were going or simply the opportunity to venture down dazzling, neon-slicked streets.

With over 6000 islands, 19,491 miles of coastline and 120 mountains, the UK is jam packed with options for adventure, you just need to know where to look A beautifully presented collection of the very best in UK adventure, this book is designed to change the way people view the UK by showcasing the possibilities for extraordinary experiences we have right here on our doorstep. Charlie Wild and Jessica Last (aka @the.travel.project) have spent the past 2 years exploring and documenting this set of islands unearthing what they call Achievable Adventures in a bid to open up regular, environmentally conscious and affordable adventure to everyone. Through story-led photography, sharp design and well researched bite-size info, this book reveals 52 of the UKs very best adventures. Here youll find something for everyone.

Et si le pouvoir de décision était essentiel à notre humanité ?David Lisner, jeune chercheur ambitieux et cartésien, vit chez « les Réguliers », une société hyper-développée, hyper-connectée qui veil

Les dieux sont en guerre, les Titans ont été libérés et Hadès et Perséphone doivent se battre bec et ongles pour obtenir une fin heureuse. Perséphone, déesse du Printemps, n’aurait jamais imaginé qu’

Dans lunivers hostile du Grand Nord, personne ne vous entend crier.NORFERVILLE, LE NOUVEAU FRANCK THILLIEZ :Détective et criminologue à Lyon, Teddy Schaffran apprend que le corps de sa fille a été dé

If you want to develop real strength and resilience, read this book. Tom DaleyNile Wilson has always been one of lifes winners; a charismatic young man with an Olympic bronze medal in the Horizontal Bar at just 21 years old. But after a serious neck injury, forcing him to retire early and miss taking part in the Tokyo Olympics, Niles world fell apart.Swamped with depression, anxiety and addictive behaviours, his mental health went over a cliff. Over the past few years, Nile has had to face down his demons and accept his new reality, and this is the book he wish hed been given before it all began.Based on 15 hard-won lessons, Nile will guide you through the tools that have helped him come to back from the brink and find, for the first time, a sense of inner calm and renewed purpose. From recognizing destructive patterns, redefining success and managing self-talk, The Lessons will inspire and guide you through the ups and downs of life, and help you to build resilience and self-belief, no matter what.

An essential and fascinating book ... enriches and deepens our understanding of this nation - Bernardine EvaristoA powerful book that brings the history of the Empire home literally - David OlusogaThe countryside is cherished by many Britons. There is a depth of feeling about rural places, the moors and lochs, valleys and mountains, cottages and country houses. Yet the British countryside, so integral to our national identity, is rarely seen as having anything to do with British colonialism. Where the countryside is celebrated, histories of empire are forgotten. In Our Island Stories, historian Corinne Fowler brings rural life and colonial rule together with transformative results. Through ten country walks, roaming the island with varied companions, Fowler combines local and global history, connecting the Cotswolds to Calcutta, Dolgellau to Virginia, and Grasmere to Canton.Empire transformed rural lives for better and for worse: whether in Welsh sheep farms or Cornish copper mines, it offered both opportunity and exploitation. Fowler shows how the booming profits of overseas colonial activities, and the select few who benefited, directly contributed to enclosure, land clearances and dispossession. These histories, usually considered separately, continue to shape lives across Britain today.To give an honest account, to offer both affection and criticism, is a matter of respect: we should not knowingly tell half a history. This new knowledge of our island stories, once gained, can only deepen Britons relationship with their beloved landscape.

Elsa et Vincent se croisent chaque mercredi dans la salle dattente de leur psychiatre. Elle est écorchée et mordante. Il est rêveur et intranquille. Elle est conseillère funéraire. Il est romancier.

La saison touristique touche à sa fin dans ce village niché sur les rives du lac d’Annecy. Comme souvent, Antoine passe la soirée au Café des Sports avec les habitués. L’atmosphère est à la fête. Mai

The New York Times bestselling author of THE PARIS LIBRARY returns with a moving new novel based on the true story of a New York librarian determined to bring books to the children of war-torn France. An instant USA Today bestseller. A rich, glorious life-affirming ode to the power of books and female solidarityKATE THOMPSONA wonderful story about the power books have not only to inspire, but also to rescue and restoreRUTH HOGAN------------------------Under what was left of the roof of the ruined cottage, a girl with pigtails perched on a pile of rubble, hunched over a book...1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson leaves the New York Public Library for the American Committee for Devastated France. Joining the women rebuilding French communities, Jessie strives to establish something new - childrens libraries. She turns ambulances into bookmobiles and trains the first French female librarians. Then she disappears.1987: Librarian Wendy Peterson stumbles across a reference to Jessie Carson in the archives. Consumed by her story, Wendy learns that she and the elusive librarian have more in common than the NYPL. Wendys obsession leads to their paths converging in surprising ways across time.*Published under the title Miss Morgans Book Brigade in the US*------------------------Readers adore THE LIBRARIANS OF RUE DE PICARDIE:Beautifully written... unforgettable! Inspiring A great book for book-club discussions I will be thinking of these brave women for a long time to come A beautiful story of female courage, friendship and the power of books An enthralling, emotional story rich in historical detail... Charles has done real justice to the legacy of these courageous women; this wonderful book is a gift to the readerLiese OHalloran SchwarzA moving novel of sacrifice, heroism, and inspired storytelling immersed in the power of books to change our livesPatti Callahan HenryBibliophiles are in for a treatPublishers Weekly

A "propulsive page-turner" (Alyssa Cole) and "thriller not to be missed" (Michael Connelly) from the award-winning author of Like a Sister, in which a woman thinks shes waking up to a romantic vacationonly to find a body in her rental home and her boyfriend gone.The truth is never skin deep. It was supposed to be a romantic getaway weekend in New York City. Breannas new boyfriend, Ty, took care of everythingthe train tickets, the dinner reservations, the rented four-story luxury rowhouse in Jersey City with a beautiful view of the Manhattan skyline. But when Bree comes downstairs their final morning, shes shocked. Theres a stranger laying dead in the foyer, and Ty is nowhere to be found. A Black woman alone in a new city, Bree is stranded and out of her depthespecially when it becomes clear the dead woman is none other than Janelle Beckett, the missing woman the entire Internet has become obsessed with. Theres only one person Bree can turn to: her ex-best friend, a lawyer with whom she shares a very complicated past. As the police and a social media mob close in, all looking for #JusticeForJanelle, Bree realizes that the only way she can help Tyor herselfis to figure out what really happened that last night. But when people only see what they want to see, can she uncover the truth hiding in plain sight?"Fantastic. Only Garrett could craft a tale so adroitly attuned to our everyday fears." S. A. Cosby, New York Times bestselling author of All the Sinners Bleed"A propulsive murder mystery with relatable characters and heart-stopping twists."Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author of Local Woman Missing and Just the Nicest Couple"Bree is unforgettable . . . you are in for such a ride." Rachel Hawkins, New York Times bestselling author of The Villa

From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays about food, offering a banquet of tastes, smells, memories, associations, and marvelous curiosities from natureIn Bite by Bite, poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil explores the way food and drink evoke our associations and remembrancesa subtext or layering, a flavor tinged with joy, shame, exuberance, grief, desire, or nostalgia.Nezhukumatathil restores our astonishment and wonder about food through her encounters with a range of foods and food traditions. From shave ice to lumpia, mangoes to pecans, rambutan to vanilla, she investigates how food marks our experiences and identities and explores the boundaries between heritage and memory.Bite by Bite offers a rich and textured kaleidoscope of vignettes and visions into the world of food and nature, drawn together by intimate and humorous personal reflections, with Fumi Nakamuras gorgeous imagery and illustration.

A Palestinian prisoners memoir of thirty years captivity, and a love letter to the wall that encircles and comforts him This is the story of a wall that somehow chose me as the witness of what it said and didNasser Abu Srour grew up in a refugee camp in the West Bank, on the outskirts of Bethlehem. As a child, he played in its shadow and explored the little world within the camp. As he grew older, he began questioning the boundaries that limited his existence. Later, sentenced to life in prison, with no hope of parole, he found himself surrounded by a physical wall.This is the story of how, over thirty years in captivity, he crafted a new definition of freedom. Turning to writings by philosophers as varied as Derrida, Kirkegaard and Freud, he begins to let go of freedom as a question that demanded an answer, in order to preserve it as a dream. The wall becomes his stable point of reference, his anchor, both physically and psychologically.As each year brings with it new waves of releases of prisoners, he dares to hope, and seeks refuge in the wall when these hopes are dashed. And, in a small miracle, he finds love with a lawyer from the outside while in her absence, the wall is his solace and his curse.A testimony of how the most difficult of circumstances can build a person up instead of tearing them down, The Tale of a Wall is an extraordinary record of the vast confinement and power of the mind.

PaytonOp je zeventiende van huis weglopen, is moeilijk. En laten we eerlijk zijn, mijn leven voor die beslissing en mijn leven erna is nooit makkelijk geweest. Maar het gaat goed met me. Redelijk goed zelfs. Ik moet gewoon de eindjes aan elkaar blijven knopen en niet opvallen. Weg blijven van mensen, zodat niemand aan me denkt.Wanneer een man zo maar door mijn openstaande tuindeuren mijn huis binnenstapt, zou ik eigenlijk doodsbang moeten zijn. Maar ik ben vast meer gebroken dan ik ooit had gedacht, want ik ben niet bang. Ik ben nieuwsgierig.En ineens vraag ik me af of mijn leven in zijn handen leggen niet juist de manier is om de zeggenschap over mijn leven terug te krijgen.NeroDe eerste keer dat ik iemand vermoordde, wist ik dat ik een pad was ingeslagen waarvan er geen weg terug is. Ik zou geen normaal leven meer kunnen leiden. Maar in plaats van te stoppen met moorden, stapelden de lijken zich op en gaf ik vorm aan mijn eigen lot.En dat vond ik prima. Prima genoeg om door te gaan.Tot ik over die drempel stapte en haar leven binnenliep.Ik had me om moeten keren en weg moeten gaan. Maar dat deed ik niet. En nu is haar leven in gevaar. Maar dat is het nu juist als je een man bent zoals ik Ik ben niet bang. Ik leef voor gevaar. En ik zou met plezier de straten laten overstromen met het bloed van degenen die iets van mij af willen nemen. Ik bescherm wat mij toebehoort.En Payton is van mij. Of ze dat nu zelf doorheeft of niet.

A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful, witty, and wildly imaginative ode to magical girl manga.Twenty-nine, depressed, and drowning in credit card debt after losing her job during the pandemic, a millennial woman decides to end her troubles by jumping off Seouls Mapo Bridge.But her suicide attempt is interrupted by a girl dressed all in whiteher guardian angel. Ah Roa is a clairvoyant magical girl on a mission to find the greatest magical girl of all time. And our protagonist just may be that special someone.But the young womans initial excitement turns to frustration when she learns being a magical girl in real life is much different than how its portrayed in stories. It isnt just destinyits work. Magical girls go to job fairs, join trade unions, attend classes. And for this magical girl there are no special powers and no great perks, and despite being magical, she still battles with low self-esteem. Her magic wand . . . is a credit cardwhich she must use to defeat a terrifying threat that isnt a monster or an intergalactic war. Its global climate change. Because magical girls need to think about sustainability, too.Park Seolyeon reimagines classic fantasy tropes in a novel that explores real-world challenges that are both deeply personal and universal: the search for meaning and the desire to do good in a world that feels like its ending. A fun, fast-paced, and enchanting narrative that sparkles thanks to award-nominated translator Anton Hur, A Magical Girl Retires reminds us that we are all magical girlsthat fighting evil by moonlight and winning love by daylight can be anyones game.Translated from the Korean by Anton Hur

Neste bestseller português, com mais de 25 mil exemplares vendidos, a autora reflete sobre a efemeridade da felicidade numa noite de más escolhas. Chocante e comovente."Éramos felizes, verdadeiros ca