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The Sunday Times bestseller - an intensely moving and beautifully written new novel from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders and Waterland

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2017 Universal and essential, the heart-breaking story of an ordinary American family shaped by tragedy Michael is a precocious kid, smart and funny, obsessed with books and music. His sister Celia is the sensible one in the family: tougher than the boys, unshakeably certain about how the world works. And then there's Alec, the most ambitious and also the most sensitive, growing up in the shadow of his older siblings. While all three are still young, the course of their lives is changed forever. In a family marked by tragedy, Michael, Celia and Alec struggle for years to save one another from the destructive legacy of guilt. Weaving together the voices of five family members, Adam Haslett imagines how a single event can define many lives, unfolding a rich and painful novel that has all the makings of an American classic.

When psychotherapist Frieda Klein left the sleepy Suffolk coastal town in which she grew up, she never intended to return. Left behind were friends, family, lives and loves but alongside them, painful memories; a past she wouldn't allow to destroy her. Then, years later, an old classmate appears in London, asking Frieda to help her teenage daughter, and long-buried memories resurface. Death soon follows, leaving Frieda no choice but to return home to confront her past. And the monsters no one else believed were real . . . Through a fog of conflicting accounts, hidden agendas and questionable alibis, Frieda can trust no one as she tries to piece together the shocking truth, past and present. Before another innocent dies. When it comes to psychological suspense, there's none better than Nicci French. And Thursday's Children is Nicci French at her very best. Praise for Nicci French 'Brilliantly crafted.' Daily Mirror 'Magnificent.' Evening Standard

1965. Leo Demidov, ex agente della polizia segreta, è costretto dal granitico apparato sovietico a restare a Mosca mentre la moglie e le figlie partono per New York in missione diplomatica. Il viaggio finisce in tragedia e Leo chiede di indagare sul terrorista che ha attaccato la sua famiglia. La risposta è di nuovo e sempre una: NIET. Assetato di giustizia e di verità, Leo inizia allora la sua personale ricerca, da Mosca all’America degli anni Sessanta fino all'Afghanistan tormentato dall'invasione russa degli anni Ottanta, in un’odissea che svela i lati nascosti della storia, della politica e, in ultima istanza, della natura umana.

It is the time of the Great Terror. Inspector Pekkala - known as the Emerald Eye - was the most famous detective in all Russia. He was the favourite of the Tsar. Now he is the prisoner of the men he once hunted.Like millions of others, he has been sent to the gulags in Siberia and, as far as the rest of the world is concerned, he is as good as dead. But a reprieve comes when he is summoned by Stalin himself to investigate a crime. His mission - to uncover the men who really killed the Tsar and his family, and to locate the Tsar's treasure. The reward for success will be his freedom and the chance to re-unite with a woman he would have married if the Revolution had not torn them apart. The price of failure - death. Set against the backdrop of the paranoid and brutal country that Russia became under the rule of Stalin, Eye of the Red Tsar introduces a compelling new figure to readers of crime fiction

Van je familie moet je het hebben bevat een zorgvuldig en kundig samengestelde en ingeleide selectie door Aaf Brandt Corstius van David Sedaris' mooiste, ontroerendste en vooral geestigste verhalen: ze gaan over de dood, over zijn knotsgekke familie, over nudistencampings, over roken, over de zes tot acht zwarte mannen die Sinterklaas assisteren, over dwangneuroses, lichamelijk verval, over shoppen met zijn zus Amy, en over nog meer dood.David Sedaris is een fenomeen in de Verenigde Staten: van zijn boeken zijn meer dan een miljoen exemplaren verkocht. Zijn verhalen verschijnen in The New Yorker, hij leest voor op National Public Radio, en is regelmatig te zien bij David Letterman. Ook in België is zijn faam groot: 'Is David Sedaris de grappigste schrijver ter wereld? Wij zijn er alvast van overtuigd,' schreef Het Nieuwsblad geheel terecht.

Nina Landry is supposed to be taking her two children away for Christmas. However, her 15-year-old daughter, Charlie, has gone missing. Has Charlie run away? Or has something more sinister happened to her? And why will nobody take her disappearance seriously?

David Sedaris moved from New York to Paris where he attempted to learn French. His teacher, a sadist, declared that every day spent with him was like giving birth the Caesarean way! These hilarious essays were inspired by that move.

Unione Sovietica, 1956. Tre anni dopo la morte di Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev presenta il Rapporto Segreto che denuncia i crimini del dittatore, scatenando una caccia alle streghe. Gli ex eroi, compresi i membri della polizia, vengono marchiati come criminali, mentre i veri colpevoli si trasformano in vittime. In questo clima di terrore, Leo Demidov, ex agente della Sicurezza di Stato e protagonista di Bambino 44, si trova in pericolo. Tre anni prima, aveva compiuto un atto eroico per fermare un assassino e, come ricompensa, gli era stato affidato il compito di fondare un Dipartimento Omicidi a Mosca. Leo lotta per la giustizia e cerca di costruire una nuova vita con la moglie Raisa. Tuttavia, il suo passato lo perseguita: le due bambine adottate lo accusano per il ruolo avuto nell'assassinio dei loro genitori, e qualcuno vicino a lui, animato da un odio implacabile, minaccia la sua famiglia. La sua disperata missione per proteggerli lo porterà dalle atrocità di un gulag siberiano al turbolento mondo della malavita, fino alla Budapest in rivolta. In questo inferno, la redenzione è fragile come il vetro.

A haunting psychological suspense novel, now re-released to tie in to the major new film starring George Clooney

Bonnie finds her summer fling boyfriend and fellow band member, Hayden, dead on the floor of a friend's London apartment. She proceeds to hide the corpse and obliterate every sign of her presence at the crime scene. Hayden's well-known involvement with other women could have provided Bonnie a motive for murder. To complicate matters, at least one more person appears to have altered the crime scene.

MGB officer Leo is a man who never questions the Party Line. He arrests whomever he is told to arrest. He dismisses the horrific death of a young boy because he is told to, because he believes the Party stance that there can be no murder in Communist Russia. Leo is the perfect soldier of the regime. But suddenly his confidence that everything he does serves a great good is shaken. He is forced to watch a man he knows to be innocent be brutally tortured. And then he is told to arrest his own wife. Leo understands how the State works: Trust and check, but check particularly on those we trust. He faces a stark choice: his wife or his life. And still the killings of children continue...

Bundel met acht heel uiteenlopende detectiveverhalen.

Nicci French, bestselling author of thriller Blue Monday, tells the dark story of a woman trying to discover what happened to her husband in What To Do When Someone Dies. Ellie Faulkner's world has been destroyed. Her husband Greg died in a car crash - and he wasn't alone. In the passenger seat was the body of Milena Livingstone - a woman Ellie's never heard of. But Ellie refuses to leap to the obvious conclusion, despite all the whispers and suspicions. Maybe it's the grief, but Ellie has to find out who this woman was - and prove Greg wasn't having an affair. Soon she is certain their deaths were no accident. Are Ellie's accusations of murder her way of avoiding the truth about her marriage? Or does an even more sinister discovery await her? 'You'll be hooked from the first page. A compulsive page-turner' Daily Express Nicci French is the pseudonym for the writing partnership of journalists Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. Together they have written 13 books, including Losing You, The Safe House and Until It's Over.

A murder case pushes six roommates to their breaking point, in this chilling and erotic new thriller.

Scottish homicide detective John Rebus has been sent to help London police catch a serial killer with a gruesome M.O. Teamed with a London cop, Rebus lets a psychologist into the case and develops a bizarre portrait of a vicious killer. Now it's only question of who is going to get busted first: the cop with the accent who breaks all the rules--or the psycho painting London with blood

Vita da poliziotto, quella del sergente John Rebus. Una vita in cui il crimine è un appuntamento quotidiano, il senso d’impotenza è una costante inalterabile, le sigarette e l’alcol sono gli unici alleati per non soccombere di fronte all’angoscia delle miserie umane… Eppure nulla, nella tormentata vita di Rebus, è paragonabile alla disperazione che si è abbattuta su di lui e sulla sua città da quando è entrato in azione lo «Strangolatore di Edimburgo», che ha già ucciso due ragazzine e minaccia di colpire ancora. C’è infatti qualcosa, in quell’assassino, che perseguita John Rebus come uno spettro, che lo spinge a indagare fin nei recessi più oscuri della città, nonostante la diffidenza dei superiori, cercando anche il più piccolo indizio che serva a spiegare l’inspiegabile. Ma lui non può sapere che sta cercando nel posto e nel tempo sbagliati. Perché ciò che lo collega all’assassino non appartiene né a Edimburgo né al presente: è qualcosa che si trova nella mente stessa di Rebus, in attesa dietro la porta sprangata del suo passato. Gli ci vorranno l’affetto di una collega, la comprensiva ispettrice Gill Templer, la testardaggine del giornalista Jack Morton e l’inatteso, sofferto intervento del fratello Michael, per trovare il coraggio di capire, per individuare la strada giusta. Una strada segnata da una serie di cerchi e croci…

Edinburgh is a city steeped in history and tradition, a seat of learning, of elegant living, known as the 'Athens of the North'. But that isn't all. The city's flip-side is a city of grudges, blackmail, violence, greed and fear - where past and present clash and old wounds fester. In any year Detective Inspector John Rebus can expect gang warfare, murder, assault and battery at the very least. In this collection he investigates the hanging of a student actor during the Festival, an arson attack on a bird watcher and the witnessing of an apparent miracle...

A junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat, spreadeagled, cross-like on the floor, between two burned-down candles, a five-pointed star daubed on the wall above. Just another dead addict - until John Rebus begins to chip away at the indifference, treachery, deceit and sleaze that lurks behind the facade of the Edinburgh familiar to tourists. Only Rebus seems to care about a death which looks more like a murder every day, about a seductive danger he can almost taste, appealing to the darkest corners of his mind . . .

Bundeling van twee romans waarin de communicatie tussen mensen en paarden en wolven een grote rol speelt.

Minette Walters has had an illustrious career, in the respect that her first three novels won a major prize, and The Sculptress was adapted as a major BBC drama. The Echo is her latest novel in the crime genre.

An eccentric Count who runs a famous Paris horror theatre, cursed with unexpected death . . . A beautiful young heiress and aspiring leading lady who just might be involved in the dark arts . . . An enigmatic gentleman whose shadowed past will at last be exposed. Their fates and hidden agendas intertwine in Sarah Smith’s compelling novel of an ancient house, dark arts, and love gone wrong–a murderous tale unfolding in the shadow of the guillotine. . . .

From an award-acceptance speech at a New England liberal arts college to a lecture on evil in Amsterdam, Elizabeth Costello is a distinguished and aging Australian novelist whose life is revealed through a series of eight formal addresses

It is 1945. As the German Army retreats and the tide of war sweeps back over Eastern Europe, the lives of the inhabitants are changed forever.

In una mattina d'inverno Grace, unica figlia di Annie, una giovane donna in carriera, e di Robert, un avvocato, viene travolta da un camion mentre è in sella al suo cavallo. La ragazzina, in seguito alla caduta, deve subire l'amputazione della gamba, ma anche Pilgrim, l'amato cavallo di Grace, è gravemente ferito e dovrebbe essere abbattuto. Tornati a casa, sia Grace che Pilgrim manifestano i sintomi di un grave trauma psicologico: Grace ha perso completamente la gioia di vivere, Pilgrim sembra in preda a una oscura follia e nessuno lo può avvicinare. Consapevole del legame che unisce sua figlia all'animale, sicura che guarirà solo se guarirà Pilgrim, Annie ricorre all'aiuto di un cowboy che ha il "dono" di saper ammansire i cavalli selvaggi.

Een vrouw krijgt tegelijk de zorg voor haar pasgeboren kind en haar ongeneeslijk zieke moeder.

È un gelido inverno quello in cui una famiglia borghese di Chicago viene travolta, nel giro di pochi mesi, da un duplice, inaccettabile lutto. E così Dave, ventiduenne, si ritrova da un giorno all'altro a fare da padre e madre al piccolo Toph, di soli otto anni. Il mondo li attende e loro due non hanno nessuna intenzione di farlo aspettare: Dave vende la casa di famiglia, sale in macchina e si dirige insieme al fratellino verso il sole della California, trasformando un evento devastante nell'inizio di una nuova vita piena di libertà... Comincia così il racconto, imbevuto di tenerezza, candore, coscienza di sé e disarmante megalomania, delle vicende di un ventenne di oggi alle prese con baby-sitter, cene precotte, MTV e la rivoluzione digitale. L'opera struggente di un formidabile genio è un libro inatteso e irresistibile, ma è anche e soprattutto un'affascinante esplorazione delle nuove frontiere della letteratura contemporanea.

One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five. Then, in April 1975, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city, forcing Ung's family to flee and, eventually, to disperse. Loung was trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, her siblings were sent to labor camps, and those who survived the horrors would not be reunited until the Khmer Rouge was destroyed. Harrowing yet hopeful, Loung's powerful story is an unforgettable account of a family shaken and shattered, yet miraculously sustained by courage and love in the face of unspeakable brutality.

Het seizoen van de kersenbloesem schetst een fascinerend en intiem beeld van een land waarvan wij zo weinig weten. Het tekent een eerlijk en gevoelig portret van een onvergetelijke familie en een bijzondere vrouw. Het seizoen van de kersenbloesem begint in de jaren zeventig van de negentiende eeuw. De zoon van grootgrondbezitter Miwa is de meest begeerde vrijgezel uit de omgeving. Tot ieders verbazing kiest de familie echter de dochter van de eenvoudige dokter Shirai tot zijn bruid: Ayako, die zo mooi is dat mannen die haar tegenkomen pardoes in het water vallen. Ayako krijgt vier kinderen, waaronder Haruko. Haruko´s leven speelt zich aanvankelijk af op het platteland, binnen de muren van de hofstee waar ze woont met haar familie en bedienden. Hun huis fungeert als middelpunt van de gemeenschap, waar de dagen en seizoenen volgens vastgestelde patronen verlopen. Maar de tijden veranderen, en de traditionele maatschappij komt steeds meer onder druk van buitenaf te staan. Het seizoen van de kersenbloesem is de liefdevolle, geromantiseerde biografie over de moeder van de auteur, op wie Haruko werd gebaseerd. Ruriko Pilgrim schreef een buitengewoon aangrijpend portret van eenJapanse familie in een tjidperk waarin Japan veranderde van een introverte, traditionele maatschappij naar een moderne, op het Westen gerichte economische wereldmacht.

A chilling novella of prejudice, ambition and cunning as villagers react to a brutal double murder.

Twelve hours after a women's broken body is washed up on shore, her traumatised 3-year old daughter is discovered 20 miles away, alone & abandoned. Police suspicion falls on an actor whose boat is moored yards from the toddler & the victim's husband.

Une enseigne au néon, flamand rose éblouissant, surplombe la route côtière à la sortie de Jacksonville (Floride), indiquant le Flamingo, le plus grand cinéma en plein air du monde. Le nuit, l'immense écran s'éclaire et la magie des images venues d'Hollywood éclate en plein ciel. C'est dans ce décor incarnant les rêves un peu mégalomanes d'Hubert Lee, son propriétaire - et peut-être le rêve américain des années 60 - que le narrateur, Abe Lee, a grandi. Aujourd'hui, il repasse le film de sa vie : les rivalités entre son père et Turner West, l'entrepreneur de pompes funèbres voisin ; son coup de foudre contrarié pour Grace, la fille de Turner ; la sérénité de sa mère qui dissimulait si bien les secrets de son cœur ; l'étonnante séduction du " juge " habile à piloter, mais si maladroit à terre... Retraçant le face-à-face de deux familles par la voix de son témoin le plus sensible, Flamingo a l'exubérance et le pouvoir envoûtant des grandes sagas du Sud, où les destins se nouent et se dénouent au rythme des passions et des discordes. C'est le roman d'une Amérique mythique qui symbolisait encore la réussite, la grandeur et la liberté. Un choc de lecture intense. Une formidable réussite romanesque, comparée aux Etats-Unis à celle du Monde selon Garp de John Irving ou du Prince des marées de Pat Conroy.

Een misdaadverslaggeefster raakt er steeds meer van overtuigd dat een seriemoordenaar de moord waarvoor hij ter dood is veroordeeld, niet heeft gepleegd.