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Three months after the beginning of WWII, in November 1939 the Soviet Union invaded their tiny and relatively defenceless neighbour Finland. So began what is known as the Winter War. Against overwhelming odds the makeshift Finnish army not only resisted the Red Army, they forced it to offer terms for peace.
Washed-up American heart-throb George Abercrombie hates India, even from the rarified heights of his apartment on the 68th floor of the Pinnacle, Mumbai’s grandest luxury skyscraper. He hates the noise, he hates the heat and maybe he’s even grown to hate his much younger wife, the newest queen of Bollywood, Sweety Sahota. When George wakes from a drunken stupor to find Sweety murdered in their bedroom, he knows he will be the prime suspect. But where is her computer, her phone – and where has his personal assistant gone? As George scrambles to piece together the night, others in the building are covering their tracks. Sweety’s assistant must find who is blackmailing her, and a servant who knows too much goes on the run.
“This is a book about all the kinds of love: friends, family, partners… All are Loved Ones. It is a book about grief and death and about how life goes on. It is a bit sad but also joyful and even boastful. It is a debut and it has some faults, but it is a promising debut and I can already see this adapted for television or made into a film.”
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‘THE FUNNIEST BOOK YOU’LL EVER READ ABOUT GRIEF’ MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD
‘PERFECTLY CAPTURES THE MESSINESS, HEARTACHE AND BEAUTY OF GRIEF’ RED MAGAZINE
A gripping, inventive and terrifying speculative mystery about privacy, freedom and survival – from the Pulitzer Prize and Booker Prize nominated author
In lines perfectly constructed and as beautiful as they are plain-spoken, Philip Larkin found a way of delineating our most difficult emotions – giving them back to us in images and formulations that help us both comprehend and contain ourselves.
June 22, 1941: Launch of Operation Barbarossa. Hitler invades the Soviet Union. Vasily Grossman soon begins a new career as a war reporter. During the next four years, he covers all the major battles of the Eastern Front, from Stalingrad to Berlin, crafting brutally vivid reports that were read by millions of soldiers and civilians alike. And, as the war draws to a close, he was one of the first to expose the horrors of the Treblinka death camp. Grossman had a remarkable memory and the ability to win the trust of men and women from all walks of life: snipers, generals, fighter pilots, peasants, soldiers in a Soviet penal battalion and German prisoners of war. This collection brings together the best of the 49 articles he wrote for the ‘Red Star’ newspaper, often in newly unearthed versions that have not been distorted by censors.
Amalfi Coast, 1961. Beautiful young bride Clara Carmichael and her wealthy new husband Spencer arrive on the Amalfi Coast. A glorious month of dazzling blue seas, lemon trees heavy with fruit, and their sparkling, marble-clad honeymoon suite stretches ahead of them. For the newlyweds, the days slip by in a haze of boat rides, sun-bathing on the private beach, and cocktails beneath a star-studded sky. It’s paradise – until a note is slipped under their door, and everything unravels. In black ink, the message is unmistakable: He’s lying to you. Suddenly, Clara questions everything. Why does Spencer seem so familiar with their hotel? Why does she have the feeling she’s being watched? As she winds through the twists and turns of Amalfi Coast’s sun-bleached alleyways and jagged cliffs, Clara is forced to confront the truth: the man she married may not be who he says he is. And the closer she gets to the answers, the more danger she’s in.
Katie Caruso is a completely normal 25-year-old girl. She likes glitter and sequins and flirting with cute boys at bars. She’s also a proud ghost-writer for Meredith Bradford, the bestselling romance novelist of all time. Tyler McNally is a sleeve-tattooed, Ivy League-educated aspiring literary fiction novelist who literally can’t think of anything worse than romance novels, but whose agent forces him to agree to ghost-write one. When the pair meet to begin work, each is as stunned as the other to see who their writing partner is meant to be. Connected by a shared tragedy, the pair are ex’s, who haven’t seen or spoken to each other since the overdose death of Katie’s older brother. Tyler was her brother’s best friend, and Katie, naturally, was the girl next door. As the summer unfolds they soon discover that dozens of classic romance tropes, including the ones they’re crafting on page, are mysteriously playing out in their real lives.
On a bright summer night in 1990s Connecticut, fourteen-year-old Emily Vidal stands on her parents’ lawn, watching the adults arrive. Her mother is hosting a lavish birthday party for her father, even though he is about to leave her for another woman. Adrift between her feuding parents and eccentric neighbours, Emily is closer than she knows to the choices and heartbreaks that will define her in the years ahead.
In the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, dwells the mysterious Hawthorn family. There, they tend and harvest the enchanted willows and honour an ancient compact to sing to them in thanks for their magic. None more devotedly than the family’s latest daughters, Esther and Ysabel, who cherish each other as much as they cherish the ancient trees. But when Esther rejects a forceful suitor in favour of a lover from the land of Faerie, not only the sisters’ bond but also their lives will be at risk.
From the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The Women and The Nightingale, Summer Island is a poignant, warm and tender novel about a mother and daughter and the complex ties that bind them.
The brand new instalment in the highly acclaimed international bestselling series, featuring Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott, written by Robert Galbraith, a pseudonym of J.K. Rowling
Fleeing a pitch-dark past, Emilia Innocenti arrives in a tiny village deep in the mountains of Piedmont, Northern Italy, with one aim; to hide away from the world. Surrounded only by a handful of inhabitants, the looming Alps and the weight of her own terrible crime, Emilia is determined to let isolation be her punishment. Equally intent on cutting himself off from the world is Bruno, one of her only neighbours. In the wake of a devastating loss, living in complete solitude seems like the perfect complement to the pain in his heart. But when Emilia and Bruno meet, the two realise they can’t be alone forever – and maybe, they no longer want to be. As Emilia’s dark secret threatens to break the surface, both will question everything they thought they knew about each other – and themselves.
A defiantly feminist retelling of the myth of Medea from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stone Blind.
Beloved New York Times bestselling author Lisa See draws on the vibrancy and turmoil of post-Civil War Los Angeles to tell the story of three Chinese women who managed to survive and, eventually, thrive, despite all odds.
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