Deborah Moggach Libri

Nella Amsterdam del 1636, animata dal culto del denaro e da quello della bellezza, tra le botteghe dei commercianti e dei pittori più straordinari, gli speculatori spingono alle stelle il prezzo dei bulbi di tulipano. Pare facilissimo arricchirsi senza fatica, e la città palpita di nuove e attraenti possibilità. Cornelis Sandvoort, un ricco e maturo mercante, decide di commissionare il ritratto della sua sposa, la bella Sophia, a un promettente pittore dal talento eccezionale, Jan van Loos. È un incontro fatale, segnato da una sensualità travolgente ma anche dai mille pericoli che i due amanti dovranno affrontare, nel clima surriscaldato di un'euforia finanziaria al limite della follia.

From the author of THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL, an irresistible collection of stories, now published in one volume číst celé

Always a rebel, Marianne was the first girl in her class to bleach her hair and learn how to smoke. A few boyfriends and one abortion later she falls in love with Salim, the proud and elegant Pakistani with eyes like traeacle. East meets West in a passionate mixed marriage. However, Marianne knows little of the Islamic view of motherhood. When his wife proves unfaithful, Salim reasons that she is morally incapable of bringing up her children and kidnaps them while she is at work. . . . .

Because I am a girl I am less likely to go to school Because I am a girl I am more likely to suffer from malnutritionBecause I am a girl I am more likely to suffer violence in the homeBecause I am a girl I am more likely to marry and start a family before I reach my twenties.

Seventeen-year-old Hannah disappears without a trace. Her family receives a ransom note demanding half a million pounds for Hannah's safe return. But it's when Hannah comes home that the story really begins. The family loses their house, their wealth, and disintegrates under the pressures of guilt and poverty, forced to confront their true selves.

From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold HotelAt school they called her Porky on account of the pigs her family kept outside their bungalow near Heathrow. Only a child robbed of her childhood can know too late what it means to be loved too little and loved too much...

James is getting on a bit and needs full-time help. So Phoebe and Robert, his middle-aged offspring, employ Mandy, who seems willing to take him off their hands. But as James regales his family with tales of Mandy's virtues, their shopping trips, and the shared pleasure of their journeys to garden centres, Phoebe and Robert sense something is amiss. Is this really their father, the distant figure who never once turned up for a sports day, now happily chortling over cuckoo clocks and television soaps? Then something happens that throws everything into new relief, and Phoebe and Robert discover that life most definitely does not stop for the elderly. It just moves onto a very different plane - changing all the stories they thought they knew so well.

Young love, heartbreak and growing up - the first novel, newly republished, by Sunday Times bestselling author Deborah Moggach, author of THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL

Beautiful, bright and ambitious, Natalie is stuck in a dead end job, living her life through wild weekend, yearning for something more. When she sees a chance to change her life, she takes it. After all, its only a minor crime. Nobody will be hurt, will they? But Colin gets hurt. He's the man who Natalie marries.