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_________________ A stunning, atmospheric novel set in 1940s South of France. 'Should be on everyone's summer reading lists' CLARE MACKINTOSH 'GLORIOUS! Hugely enjoyable escapism. I enjoyed it ENORMOUSLY.' MARIAN KEYES 'A delicious, escapist read' MY WEEKLY London 1948: Eve Forrester is trapped in a loveless marriage, in a gloomy house, in a grey suburb. Out of the blue, she receives a solicitor's letter. A wealthy stranger has left her a mystery inheritance but in order to find out more, she must travel to the glittering French Riviera. Eve discovers her legacy is an enchanting villa overlooking the Mediterranean sea and suddenly, life could not be more glamorous. But under the heat of the sun, all is not as it seems. Now, Eve must unlock the story behind her surprise bequest - before things spiral out of control... A Fatal Inheritance is an intoxicating story of glamour, intrigue and desire, set against the razzle-dazzle of the French Riviera. Pre-order the brand new book from Rachel Rhys: ISLAND OF SECRETS, due out in 2020 'Transporting' SUNDAY TIMES 'An atmospheric page-turner' DAILY MIRROR 'An essential summer read!' LISA JEWELL 'Deliciously intoxicating' HEAT _________________

I've planted my feet on Fijian earth and I intend to stay here until the last sunset . Why don't you join me? Leave behind everything that didn't work out! When recently-widowed Kat writes to her four old school friends, inviting them to live with her on a cocoa plantation in the South Pacific, they swap icy pavements and TV dinners for a tropical breeze and an azure-blue ocean. Leaving behind loneliness, dead-end jobs and marriages that have gone sour, they settle into the Women's House, surrounded by palms and cocoa trees; and locals with the puzzling habit of exploding into laughter for no discernible reason. Each of the women has her issues to resolve, and secrets to keep. But together the friends find a new purpose, starting a business making chocolate: bittersweet, succulent pieces of happiness. As they embrace a new culture that views ageing so differently from their own, will they learn to accept and forgive: to discover the value of friendship, and a better way to live?

A murder... a tragic accident... or just parents behaving badly? What's indisputable is that someone is dead. But who did what? Big Little Lies follows three women, each at a crossroads

París, 1942. Rose Picard y Jacob Levy, dos jóvenes judíos, se enamoran apasionadamente en los días previos a la ocupación de la ciudad por los nazis. Cape Cod. En la actualidad. La nieta de Rose, Hope, deberá encontrar a las personas que su abuela le ha escrito en una lista de nombres que desconoce. Tendrá que viajar a París para reconstruir el pasado de su abuela, una historia que cambiará su vida para siempre.

Imagine your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret - something with the potential to destroy not just the life you built together, but the lives of others too. Imagine, then, that you stumble across that letter while your husband is still very much alive

Welcome to St Ambrose Primary School. A world of friendships, fights and feuding. And that's just the mothers. It's the start of another school year at St Ambrose. But while the children are in the classroom colouring in, their mothers are learning sharper lessons on the other side of the school gates. Lessons in friendship. Lessons in betrayal. Lessons in the laws of community, the transience of power...and how to get invited to lunch. Beatrice - undisputed queen bee. Ruler, by Divine Right, of all school fund-raising, this year, last year and, surely, for many years to come. Heather - desperate to volunteer, desperate to be noticed, desperate just to belong. Georgie - desperate for a fag. And Rachel - watching them all, keeping her distance. But soon to discover that the line between amused observer and miserable outcast is a thin one. The Hive is an irresistible, brilliantly observed novel - warm, witty and true. Wickedly funny, it is also a fascinating and subtle story about group politics and female friendship.From the joys and perils (well, mainly perils) of the Lunch Ladder, to the military operation that is the Car Boot Sale, via the dos and don'ts of dressing your child as a dalek, all human life is here.

After believing she had conquered darkness, Karin Schaeffer discovers that evil has resurfaced, presenting new challenges and threats. As she navigates this renewed struggle, she must confront her past and the lingering shadows that haunt her. The story delves into themes of resilience and the ongoing battle against malevolence, showcasing Karin's determination to protect what she holds dear while facing the complexities of her own journey.

When Rachel's boyfriend decides they should break-up, her friends come up with the ultimate break-up cure--the single girl's to-do list. A list of of all the things Rachel should see and do to take her mind off Simon. But nothing could have prepared these three friends for the hilarious adventures that are about to unfold.

De man op wie een nog jonge weduwe verliefd wordt, blijkt de advocaat te zijn van de mensen die haar tegenwerken.

París, julio de 1942. Las autoridades arrestan a 13.000 judíos ante la mirada de los parisinos, que guardan silencio por miedo, indiferencia o simple interés, pues esperan ocupar las viviendas vacías. El pequeño Michel se oculta en un armario para huir de la redada. Su hermana Sarah cierra la puerta para protegerle y se gua rda la llave, pensando que va a regresar en unas horas. Sin embargo, el destino de los Starzynski es protagonizar una de las páginas más luctuosas de la historia gala. Los gendarmes confinan a los miles de detenidos durante cinco días en el Velódromo de Invierno, cerca de la Torre Eiffel, sin comida ni agua. Después envían a las familias a un campo de concentración francés, donde los separan como paso previo a su posterior traslado a Auschwitz.

Remember the wonderfully romantic book of letters by Beethoven, Byron and Napoleon that featured in the Sex and the City film? That collection didn't actually exist, but all of the letters referenced in the film were real; so Macmillan decided to create Love Letters of Great Men . . .

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A gorgeously written novel that weaves class, wealth, race, and fate into a brilliant portrait of a first lady—from the author of Rodham and Eligible “Terrific . . . an intelligent, bighearted novel about a controversial political dynasty.”—Entertainment Weekly NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time • People • Entertainment Weekly A kind, bookish only child born in the 1940s, Alice Lindgren has no idea that she will one day end up in the White House, married to the president. In her small Wisconsin hometown she learns the virtues of politeness, but a tragic accident when she is seventeen shatters her identity and changes the trajectory of her life. More than a decade later, when the charismatic son of a powerful Republican family sweeps her off her feet, she is surprised to find herself admitted into a world of privilege. And when her husband unexpectedly becomes governor and then president, she discovers that she is married to a man she both loves and fundamentally disagrees with—and that her private beliefs increasingly run against her public persona. As her husband’s presidency enters its second term, Alice must confront contradictions years in the making and face questions nearly impossible to answer. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review • Chicago Tribune • NPR • Rocky Mountain News • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Washington Post Book World

Het boek begint wanneer 's ochtends vroeg de telefoon overgaat in het huis waar Susanna Sonnenberg samen met haar man en twee zonen woont. Het is haar tante, om te vertellen dat Susanna's moeder na een zwaar auto-ongeluk in coma ligt. Ze is in levensgevaar. Elke dochter zou in zo'n geval als een speer duizenden mijlen afleggen om naar haar moeder te gaan. Maar Susanna kan zich daar niet toe zetten. In haar moedige memoires legt ze uit waarom niet. Sonnenberg's moeder was geraffineerd, charismatisch en een dwangmatige leugenaar die iedereen verleidde die haar territorium betrad. Als kind zag Susanna haar moeders groeiende verslaving aan slaapmiddelen en cocaïne, leerde ze dat seks boven alles het gebied is om in uit te blinken en dat leugens de normaalste zaak van de wereld zijn. Sonnenberg beschrijft haar stormachtige zoektocht naar een eigen identiteit en het gevecht om een moeder en vrouw te worden die in staat is anderen te vertrouwen. Mijn onmogelijke moeder is aangrijpend, verbijsterend en adembenemend geschreven.

De leden van een moderne familie voelen veel (zakelijke) verplichtingen waardoor hun onderlinge verstandhouding in de knel dreigt te raken.

This gripping thriller—and profoundly spiritual journey—reveals the greatest story never told. A GRIPPING THRILLER AND A PROFOUND SPIRITUAL JOURNEY THAT REVEALS THE GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD! Two thousand years ago, in the French Pyrenees, Mary Magdalene hid a gospel that contained her own version of the events and characters of the New Testament. Protected by supernatural forces, these sacred scrolls could be uncovered only by a special seeker, one who fulfills the ancient prophecy of l'attendue -- The Expected One. When journalist Maureen Paschal begins the research for a new book, she has no idea that she is stepping into an ancient mystery so secret, so revolutionary, that thousands of people have killed and died for it. As the eerie prophecy of The Expected One casts a shadow over her life and work, a long-buried family secret comes to light. Ultimately she, and the reader, come face-to-face with Jesus Christ, Mary Magdalene, John the Baptist, Judas, and Salome in the pages of a deeply moving new gospel, the life of Jesus as told by Mary Magdalene. CONTAINS NEW, UNPUBLISHED MATERIAL FROM THE ARQUES GOSPEL

New York heeft een nieuwe killer... Twee vrouwen worden op gruwelijke wijze vermoord. Bij elk van de verminkte lichamen wordt een bizar schilderij aangetroffen. De New Yorkse recherche roept de hulp in van kunthistorica Kate McKinnon, die er in eerste instantie niets voor voelt om haar veilige leven achter zich te laten. Maar dan brengt de moordenaar Kate een afschuwelijke slag toe. Gedreven door woede en verdriet zet ze alles op alles om de wrede moordenaar te vinden. Het resultaat is een grimmig kat-en-muisspel waarin niets is wat het lijkt en waarin zelfs Kates vertrouwelingen haar lijken te verraden...

A major national media event when published in hardcover, this delicious follow-up to Bergdorf Blondes was an immediate New York Times bestseller and confirmed Plum Sykes' status as a literary superstar.Sylvie Mortimer has just married and is blissfully happy with The Divine New Husband, Hunter. Sylvie's new friend, Lauren Blount, is very rich, very young, very thin, very pretty -- and very, very divorced. The most reckless and glamorous of Manhattan's Debutante Divorc+e set, Lauren captivates Sylvie, the group's token newlywed. But while Lauren sets out on a morality-lite, orgasm-heavy "Make Out Challenge," Sylvie discovers her marriage isn't exactly an Eternity ad -- especially when the city's most notorious Husband Huntress zeros in on her spouse.The Debutante Divorc+e delivers all the wit and charm that made Bergdorf Blondes a smash hit. This juicy new tale delighted Sykes' many fans in hardcover and will continue to earn her new ones in this dazzling, chic paperback edition.

Tense and suspense-filled thriller from the author of The Straw Men and The Lonely Dead.

El relato empieza cuando McCourt tiene 27 años e, instalado en Nueva York, inicia una actividad académica para la cual sus estudios universitarios no han acabado de formarle. En efecto, las realidades sociales en un entorno tan duro como el neoyorquino resultan difíciles de digerir por parte de este inmigrante irlandés. Haciendo más caso a su intuición y a lo que le dicta su conciencia que a las directrices académicas, consigue despertar el interés de sus alumnos. Para ello, decide bajarse del pedestal en el que viven instalados la mayoría de profesores y se dedica a escuchar a sus alumnos y a aprender de ellos, poniéndose a su altura para conocer sus inquietudes, sus gustos y su forma de ver el mundo.

Set in New England mainly and London partly, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love. For the Belseys and the Kipps, the confusions - both personal and political - of our uncertain age are about to be brought close to home: right to the heart of family.

In 1996, Francisco "Pipín" Ferreras, a native Cuban and a world champion in the dangerous and controversial sport of free diving, met Audrey Mestre, a beautiful French marine biology student. A passionate romance immediately bloomed between the two, and their love was bonded by a shared fascination with and devotion to the ocean. They soon became free diving's power couple, testing the limits of their wills and bodies by descending to unthinkable depths. Then, on October 12, 2002, in a dive off the coast of the Dominican Republic, tragedy struck: Audrey's attempt to break the world record of 170 meters ended in her death. Now, for the first time, Pipín tells his story. He shares the heart-pounding adventure and fierce competition that fuel the sport of free diving and his own addiction to it. He addresses the controversy that has followed him throughout his career and that spun out of control after Audrey's death. And he relates the haunting story of his relationship with Audrey -- a unique and complicated tale of love and obsession taken to extreme depths.

De avonturen van Flash Jackson is het verhaal over de wildebras Haley, bijgenaamd Flash Jackson, en haar behoefte om zich los te maken uit haar bekrompen, kortzichtige milieu. Ze bevindt zich in een wereld die, in haar woorden, 'niet is ontworpen voor meisjes' en ze probeert zich hieraan aan te passen zonder haar innig gekoesterde onafhankelijkheid op te geven. De zomer van haar zeventiende levensjaar treedt ze met grootse verwachtingen tegemoet. Maar als Haley door het verrotte dak van de schuur valt, moet ze de zomer met haar been in het gips bij haar moeder doorbrengen en bezoekjes verduren van haar mysterieuze, onnavolgbare grootmoeder

مرد و زن با هم متفاوت‌اند‏.‏ نه بهتر و نه بدتر، بلکه متفاوت‏.‏ تنها چیزی هر دو در آن شریک‌اند تعلق به یک نوع از جانداران است‏.‏ آن دو در دنیایی با ارزش‌ها و قواعد متفاوت زندگی می‌کنند‏.‏ همه این را می‌دانند اما تعداد بسیار اندکی، به ویژه از مردها حاضر به پذیرش آن هستند‏.‏ نگاهی به شواهد بکنید‏.‏ در کشورهای غربی نزدیک به 50 درصد از ازدواج‌ها به طلاق منجر می‌شوند و روابط بسیار جدی دیرپا نیستند و از هم می‌گسلند‏.‏ مردان و زنان از هر فرهنگ و نژاد و رنگ و کشوری مدام عقاید، رفتار، گرایشات و اعتقادات یکدیگر را مورد انتقاد قرار می‌دهند‏.‏ مردها از رانندگی زنان، از سر و ته گرفتن نقشه، نداشتن حس جهت‌یابی، زیاد حرف زدن آن‌ها شکایت دارند‏.‏ مردها هرگز نمی‌توانند لنگه جورابشان را که گوشه‌ای پرت کرده‌اند، پیدا کنند اما سی‌دی‌های موسیقی‌شان را به طور الفبایی و مرتب بایگانی می‌کنند‏.‏ زن‌ها همیشه می‌توانند سوییچ گمشده‌ی ماشین را پیدا کنند، اما به ندرت مقصدی را در مسیری سرراست می‌یابند‏.‏ مردان فکر می‌کنند که منطقی‌ترند و زن‌ها اطمینان دارند که منطقی‌ترین‌اند‏.‏ این کتاب تقدیم به مردان و زنانی می‌شود که نیمه‌شب از شدت عصبانیت موی سر می‌کنند و به شریک زندگی‌شان می‌گویند‏:‏ «آخر چرا نمی‌خواهی بفهمی؟»‏.‏ روابط از هم می‌گسلند برای اینکه مردان نمی‌توانند درک کنند چرا زن‌ها مثل آن‌ها نیستند و زنان انتظار دارند مردها رفتاری مثل آن‌ها داشته باشند‏.‏ این کتاب نه تنها کمک می‌کند که زن و مرد یکدیگر را بهتر درک کنند، بلکه آن‌ها را یاری دهد خود را بهتر بشناسند و طریقه‌ی زندگی سعادتمندتر، سالم‌تر و هماهنگ‌تری که بتواند لذتبخش و ارضاکننده باشد بیاموزند‏.‏

Kate Howard is no longer a struggling author. A successful writer, for the past three years she has lived happily with her lover Stewart and her daughter Lucy in an old farmhouse in the beautiful, wild Auverge region of central France. When her son announces that he too intends to move to France, it would seem that life for Kate could not be sweeter. Then comes a bolt from the blue, a phone call from Kate’s literary agent in London that threatens her whole way of life. But worse is to follow with the arrival of newcomers Mo and Tristram. Mo is a striking beauty and charming—when it suits her. As Kate discovers, she’s one of those people who brings chaos to other people’s lives, and Kate’s is no exception.

Tijdens het Halloween-feest op een landgoed wordt het een jonge vrouw, kind van beroemde acteurs, duidelijk dat de drank en de drugs die rondgaan tot méér dienen dan enkel een decadent feest.

De University of the Archangels and Saint Jo the Dine is niet zomaar een universiteit. Hier worden studenten ingewijd in eeuwenoude heksenpraktijken en magisch rituelen. Minder bekend is dat de universiteit - een geheimzinnige plek waar dag en nacht verlicht altaren bewaakt door stenen engelen de sfeer bepalen - ook de thuisplaats is van de Benandanti, een sekte die zich tot doel heeft gesteld de herrijzenis van de maan in, een uiterst duistere macht, te voorkomen. Nog minder bekend is dat de Benandanti door de eeuwen heen elke regering, elke religie en elk invloedrijk instituut middels ontoelaatbare praktijken manipuleerden. De sympathieke Katherine Sweeney Cassidy ontdekt bij toeval het bestaan van de Benandanti, die ook de universiteit besturen. Aanvankelijk besteedt ze er weinig aandacht aan. Immers, de campus is voor haar in de eerste plaats een plek om te experimenteren, om nieuwe vrienden te maken, een tijd van vrijheid en ontdekkingen. Zoals met Oliver en Angelica, wier heftig liefdesleven, bij voorkeur beleefd onder een volle maan direct aanzet is tot de wederopstanding van de Maangodin...

Twenty years after her parents are killed in a dangerous ceremony intended to release the old gods back to Earth, Truth Blackburn returns to the family estate to learn the truth and confronts the leader of her parent's revived cult.

Ongeacht de gelegenheid - informeel, speciaal, spontaan of formeel - biedt Donna Hay's entertaining het menu, de sfeer, de drankjes en het eten. Deze verfrissend originele, praktische en inspirerende benadering vult je tafel en picknickmand, ontbijt, lunch en diner met eindeloze onweerstaanbare maar eenvoudig te maken gerechten en simpele maar geweldige ideeën. Plannen, voorbereiden, koken en serveren - altijd met eenvoud en stijl - maken deel uit van de succesvolle en plezierige entertaining ervaring.

A stunning, shocking, wonderfully well written debut reminiscent of James Patterson and one that will catapault Boris Starling to the front rank of thriller writers. London is in the grip of a heatwave: airless days, strange steamy nights and a killer stalking the streets. Wealthy men are being murdered to some mysterious pattern, with no clues left behind, only corpses with silver spoons in place of their tongues... Set against this merciless butcher is DCI Red Metcalfe, an investigator with a celebrated ability to get under the skin and into the minds of the deranged killers he hunts. But as the city swelters and the body count rises, Red's own tortured past begins to turn against him - and the city is safe for no one. Sometimes, it is said, it takes a killer to catch a killer... The most compelling and suspenseful British thriller to come along in years, and Boris Starling is a startling and powerful talent to watch. Messiah is guaranteed to haunt your dreams...

Tijdens het samen maken van een quilt leren twee kleindochters veel levenswijsheid van hun grootmoeder.

Voorbeelden van lichaamsbeschildering.