Gefunden 3418 Dokumente.
The ministry of time / Kaliane Bradley
London : Sceptre, 2024
Titel / Autor: The ministry of time / Kaliane Bradley
Veröffentlichung: London : Sceptre, 2024
Physische Beschreibung: 353 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9781399726351
Datum:2024
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she’ll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering “expats” from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible—for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time. She is tasked with working as a “bridge”: living with, assisting, and monitoring the expat known as “1847” or Commander Graham Gore.
This strange eventful history : a novel / Claire Messud
New York [etc.] : W. W. Norton & Company, 2024
Titel / Autor: This strange eventful history : a novel / Claire Messud
Veröffentlichung: New York [etc.] : W. W. Norton & Company, 2024
Physische Beschreibung: 428 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9780393635041
Datum:2024
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: Over seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the pieds-noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state—separated in the chaos of World War II, running from a complicated colonial homeland, and, after Algerian independence, without a homeland at all.
London [etc.] : Bloomsbury, 2024
Titel / Autor: Hey, Zoey / Sarah Crossan
Veröffentlichung: London [etc.] : Bloomsbury, 2024
Physische Beschreibung: 312 p. ; 23 cm
ISBN: 9781526619860
Datum:2024
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: 43-year-old Dolores O'Shea is logical, organized, and prepared to handle whatever comes her way. She keeps up with her job and housework, takes care of her mentally declining mother, and remains close with her old friends and her younger sister who's moved to New York. Though her marriage with David, an anesthesiologist, isn't what is used to be, nothing can quite prepare her for Zoey, the $8,000 AI sex doll that David has secretly purchased and stuffed away in the garage.
Tell me everything : a novel / Elizabeth Strout
London : Penguin : Viking, 2024
Titel / Autor: Tell me everything : a novel / Elizabeth Strout
Veröffentlichung: London : Penguin : Viking, 2024
Physische Beschreibung: 326 p. ; 21 cm
ISBN: 9780241634356
Datum:2024
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: It’s autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer Lucy Barton, who lives down the road in a house by the sea with her ex-husband, William. Together, Lucy and Bob go on walks and talk about their lives, their fears and regrets, and what might have been.
London : Sceptre, 2024
Titel / Autor: You are here / David Nicholls
Veröffentlichung: London : Sceptre, 2024
Physische Beschreibung: 349 p. ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9781444715446
Datum:2024
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his wife's departure, he has begun taking himself on long, solitary walks across the English countryside. Marnie, on the other hand, is stuck. Hiding alone in her London flat, she avoids old friends and any reminders of her rotten, selfish ex-husband. When a persistent mutual friend and some very unpredictable weather conspire to toss Michael and Marnie together on the most epic of ten-day hikes, neither of them can think of anything worse.
London : Jonathan Cape, 2024
Titel / Autor: Wild houses / Colin Barrett
Veröffentlichung: London : Jonathan Cape, 2024
Physische Beschreibung: 254, [1] p. ; 23 cm
ISBN: 9780224099851
Datum:2024
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: As Ballina prepares for its biggest weekend of the year, introspective loner Dev answers his door on Friday night to find Doll English—younger brother of small-time local dealer Cillian English—bruised and in the clutches of Gabe and Sketch Ferdia, County Mayo’s fraternal enforcers and Dev’s cousins. Dev’s quiet homelife is upturned as he is quickly and unwillingly drawn headlong into the Ferdias' frenetic revenge plot against Cillian.
London : Doubleday, 2024
Titel / Autor: Sandwich / Catherine Newman
Veröffentlichung: London : Doubleday, 2024
Physische Beschreibung: 229 p. ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9780857529930
Datum:2024
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: For the past two decades, Rocky has looked forward to her family’s yearly escape to Cape Cod. Their humble beach-town rental has been the site of sweet memories, sunny days, great meals, and messes of all kinds: emotional, marital, and - thanks to the cottage’s ancient plumbing - septic too. This year’s vacation, with Rocky sandwiched between her half-grown kids and fully aging parents, promises to be just as delightful as summers past - except, perhaps, for Rocky’s hormonal bouts of rage and melancholy.
London : Viking, 2024
Titel / Autor: My friends / Hisham Matar
Veröffentlichung: London : Viking, 2024
Physische Beschreibung: 457 p. ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9780241409497
Datum:2024
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: Khaled and Mustafa meet at university in two Libyan eighteen-year-olds expecting to return home after their studies. In a moment of recklessness and courage, they travel to London to join a demonstration in front of the Libyan embassy. When government officials open fire on protestors in broad daylight, both friends are wounded, and their lives forever changed.
The rich people have gone away / Regina Porter
London : Jonathan Cape, 2024
Titel / Autor: The rich people have gone away / Regina Porter
Veröffentlichung: London : Jonathan Cape, 2024
Physische Beschreibung: 342 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
ISBN: 9781787335288
Datum:2024
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: Brooklyn, 2020. Theo Harper and his pregnant wife, Darla, head upstate to their summer cottage to wait out the lockdown. During an upstate hike on the aptly named Devil’s Path, Theo divulges a long-held secret—and when Darla disappears after the ensuing argument, he finds himself the prime suspect.
I was a teenage slasher : a novel / Stephen Graham Jones
London : Titan books, 2024
Titel / Autor: I was a teenage slasher : a novel / Stephen Graham Jones
Veröffentlichung: London : Titan books, 2024
Physische Beschreibung: 377 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781835410288
Datum:2024
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: 1989, Lamesa, Texas. A community driven by oil and cotton – a town where everyone knows everyone else’s business. Tolly Driver, seventeen, a good kid with more potential than application, exists on the outskirts with his best friend, Amber. They navigate the hellscape of the teenage social scene, sticking together in a place that doesn’t know how to be different. But when they go to a fateful party at Deek Masterton’s house – a party that ends in a series of gruesome, brutal and extravagant murders – Tolly’s world gets flipped upside-down.
The Berlin sisters / Soraya M. Lane
Seattle : Lake Union, 2024
Titel / Autor: The Berlin sisters / Soraya M. Lane
Veröffentlichung: Seattle : Lake Union, 2024
Physische Beschreibung: 273, [16] p. ; 19 cm
ISBN: 9781662504099
Datum:2024
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: Berlin, 1943: Ava Müller is a proud supporter of the German war effort, working for Joseph Goebbels alongside her father, a high-ranking official in the Reich. With her sister Hanna, a nurse, braving bombing raids to save lives, they are a model Nazi family. Until Ava discovers her parents and Hanna are secretly working for the resistance…
Catch your death / Ravena Guron
London : Usborne, 2023
Titel / Autor: Catch your death / Ravena Guron
Veröffentlichung: London : Usborne, 2023
Physische Beschreibung: 439, [1] p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781803705422
Datum:2023
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: When three girls are stranded at the grand Bramble Estate in the middle of a snowstorm, they stumble into a murder plot. Someone has poisoned wealthy Emily Vanforte in the middle of a family dinner - which means Devi, Lizzie and Jayne are trapped in the house with a killer and a mystery to solve. With knives under floorboards, vanishing guns and secret passages in the walls, no one is safe and everyone is a suspect. But in a house of liars and corruption, will the girls save themselves..or learn to fit in?
The lost bookshop / Evie Woods
London : Harper Collins, 2023
Titel / Autor: The lost bookshop / Evie Woods
Veröffentlichung: London : Harper Collins, 2023
Physische Beschreibung: 434 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9780008609214
Datum:2023
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: The Echo of Old Books meets The Lost Apothecary in this evocative and charming novel full of mystery and secrets. ‘The thing about books,’ she said ‘is that they help you to imagine a life bigger and better than you could ever dream of.’ On a quiet street in Dublin, a lost bookshop is waiting to be found… For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives. But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are every bit as extraordinary as the ones found in the pages of their beloved books.
The last devil to die / Richard Osman
London : Viking, 2023
Titel / Autor: The last devil to die / Richard Osman
Veröffentlichung: London : Viking, 2023
Physische Beschreibung: 421, [1] p. ; 23 cm
ISBN: 9780241512456
Datum:2023
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: An old friend in the antiques business has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing. As the gang springs into action they encounter art forgers, online fraudsters and drug dealers, as well as heartache close to home. With the body count rising, the package still missing and trouble firmly on their tail, has their luck finally run out? And who will be the last devil to die?
Ordinary human failings : a novel / Megan Nolan
London : Jonathan Cape, 2023
Titel / Autor: Ordinary human failings : a novel / Megan Nolan
Veröffentlichung: London : Jonathan Cape, 2023
Physische Beschreibung: 218 p. ; 23 cm
ISBN: 9781787332508
Datum:2023
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the "peasants"- ordinary people, his readers, easy tabloid fodder. His star seems set to rise when he stumbles across a sensational scoop: a dead child on a London estate, grieving parents beloved across the neighborhood, and the finger of suspicion pointing at one reclusive family of Irish immigrants and “bad apples”: the Greens.
London : Oneworld, 2023
Titel / Autor: Prophet song / Paul Lynch
Veröffentlichung: London : Oneworld, 2023
Physische Beschreibung: 309 p. ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9780861546459
Datum:2023
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and Eilish can only watch helplessly as the world she knew disappears.
The Heaven & Earth grocery store / James McBride
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2023
Titel / Autor: The Heaven & Earth grocery store / James McBride
Veröffentlichung: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2023
Physische Beschreibung: 385 p. ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9781399620406
Datum:2023
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows.
Good material / Dolly Alderton
London : Fig tree, 2023
Titel / Autor: Good material / Dolly Alderton
Veröffentlichung: London : Fig tree, 2023
Physische Beschreibung: 345 p. ; 23 cm
ISBN: 9780241523667
Datum:2023
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: Set adrift on the sea of heartbreak, Andy clings to the idea of solving the puzzle of his ruined relationship. Because if he can find the answer to that, then maybe Jen can find her way back to him. But Andy still has a lot to learn, not least his ex-girlfriend's side of the story…
Study for obedience / Sarah Bernstein
London : Granta, 2023
Titel / Autor: Study for obedience / Sarah Bernstein
Veröffentlichung: London : Granta, 2023
Physische Beschreibung: 192, [1] p. ; 21 cm
ISBN: 9781783789931
Datum:2023
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: A young woman moves from the place of her birth to the remote northern country of her forebears to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has recently left him. Soon after her arrival, a series of inexplicable events occurs - collective bovine hysteria; the demise of a ewe and her nearly born lamb; a local dog's phantom pregnancy; a potato blight.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023
Titel / Autor: Absolution / Alice McDermott
Veröffentlichung: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023
Physische Beschreibung: 324 p. ; 22 cm
ISBN: 9780374610487
Datum:2023
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: American women―American wives―have been mostly minor characters in the literature of the Vietnam War, but in Absolution they take center stage. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney on loan to navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a bully. In Saigon in 1963, the two women form a wary alliance as they balance the era’s mandate to be “helpmeets” to their ambitious husbands with their own inchoate impulse to “do good” for the people of Vietnam.
