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From the author of Golden Hill 'Glorious.' Evening Standard'Exhilarating.' TLS'Brilliant.' Observer'Dazzling.' The Times'Extraordinary.' Financial Times'Superb.' Guardian'My god he can write.

Sydney 1950. Sui manichini spiccano le gonne a balze e i corpetti arricchiti degli accessori più preziosi. Ma Goode's non sono solo i più grandi magazzini della città, dove trovare l'abito all'ultima moda. Per quattro donne che lavorano sono anche l'unica occasione di indipendenza. Mentre con le loro eleganti divise di colore nero consigliano le clienti su tessuti e modelli, nel loro intimo coltivano sogni di libertà, di un ruolo diverso da quello di figlia, moglie e madre. Lesley sogna di continuare a studiare, anche se il padre non ne vuole sentir parlare. Poi c'è Patty che solo sul lavoro sente di valere qualcosa, mentre a casa il marito la tratta come fosse trasparente. Anche per Fay andare al grande magazzino ogni mattina significa sentirsi meno sola. A sorvergliarle come una madre c'è Magda: le sprona a inseguire i loro desideri e a trovare il proprio stile nel vestire, a coltivare l'idea che una donna possa raggiungere qualsiasi obiettivo. Per tutte è in arrivo un tempo di grandi cambiamenti e opportunità inaspettate. Tra un party, un nuovo vestito e nuove consapevolezze, Lesley, Patty, Fay e Magda vivranno il momento magico in cui si decide chi si vuole essere davvero. Madeleine St. John è una delle più grandi autrici del Novecento. È stata la prima autrice australiana candidata al Man Booker Prize.

'The writing glows with emotional intelligence. This atmospheric debut...had me sniffing copiously' Daily Mail

Childhood friends Rachel and Alison are about to go on a journey into the strange, surreal heart of Britain in the early years of our new century. Helplessly swept along on tides they can no more understand than control, Rachel and Alison discover a nation disillusioned by reality yet obsessed with reality TV. They encounter morally bankrupt bankers and people queuing at food banks. And at the centre of this new state of things they find an old family who will do anything to ensure that the country is run for their benefit.

Harry Bosch has been given three years before he must retire from the LAPD, and he wants cases more fiercely than ever. In one morning, he gets two. DNA from a 1989 rape and murder matches a 29-year-old convicted rapist. Was he an eight-year-old killer or has something gone terribly wrong in the new Regional Crime Lab? The latter possibility could compromise all of the lab's DNA cases currently in court. Then Bosch and his partner are called to a death scene fraught with internal politics. Councilman Irvin Irving's son jumped or was pushed from a window at the Chateau Marmont. Irving, Bosch's longtime nemesis, has demanded that Harry handle the investigation. Relentlessly pursuing both cases, Bosch makes two chilling discoveries: a killer operating unknown in the city for as many as three decades, and a political conspiracy that goes back into the dark history of the police department.

Una operación antiterrorismo, nombre en código Wildlife, se lleva a cabo en la colonia británica de Gibraltar. El objetivo es capturar a un poderoso traficante de armas islamista. Los ideadores son un ambicioso ministro de Asuntos Exteriores del Reino Unido y un contratista de Defensa, amigo del ministro. La operación es tan secreta que ni siquiera Toby Bell, el secretario personal del ministro, está al tanto. Sospechando un complot con resultados desastrosos, Toby intenta detenerlo, pero es trasladado al extranjero para otro cargo. Tres años después, es convocado a su deteriorado castillo en Cornualles por Sir Christopher Probyn, un diplomático retirado, y bajo la vigilancia de su hija Emily. Toby deberá elegir entre lo que le dicta su conciencia y sus obligaciones hacia las instituciones para las que trabaja. Si la única condición necesaria para que el mal triunfe es que las personas honestas no hagan nada, ¿cómo se puede permanecer en silencio?

Is it possible to write a sidesplitting novel about the breakup of the perfect marriage? If the writer is Nora Ephron, the answer is a resounding yes. For in this inspired confection of adultery, revenge, group therapy, and pot roast, the creator of Sleepless in Seattle reminds us that comedy depends on anguish as surely as a proper gravy depends on flour and butter. Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel Samstat discovers that her husband, Mark, is in love with another woman. The fact that the other woman has "a neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thumb and you should see her legs" is no consolation. Food sometimes is, though, since Rachel writes cookbooks for a living. And in between trying to win Mark back and loudly wishing him dead, Ephron's irrepressible heroine offers some of her favorite recipes. Heartburn is a sinfully delicious novel, as soul-satisfying as mashed potatoes and as airy as a perfect soufflé.

Bosch is back in the new blockbusting paperback from this international bestseller

Pasha Ivanov, uno de los nuevos multimillonarios de Rusia, está muerto: se ha suicidado –aparentemente– arrojándose desde el balcón de su ultramoderno apartamento de Moscú. Arkady Renko, el recordado detective de Parque Gorki, regresará para resolver su caso más enigmático. Los indicios lo conducirán hasta Chernóbil, un mundo radiactivo y fantasmal, en una historia llena de tensión.

Detective Harry Bosch tears open a 20-year-old murder case - with an explosive ending that leave all Bosch fans hungrily awaiting the next instalment. When the bones of a twelve-year-old boy are found scattered in the Hollywood Hills, Harry Bosch is drawn into a case that brings up the darkest memories from his own haunted past. The bones have been buried for years, but the cold case doesn't deter Bosch. Unearthing hidden stories, he finds the child's identity and reconstructs his fractured life, determined that he not be forgotten. At the same time, a new love affair with a female cop begins to blossom for Bosch - until a stunningly blown mission leaves him in more trouble than ever before in his turbulent career. The investigation races to a shocking conclusion and leaves Bosch on the brink of an unimaginable decision.

This volume is part of a new series of novels, plays and stories at GCSE/Key Stage 4 level, designed to meet the needs of the National Curriculum syllabus. Each text includes an introduction, pre-reading activities, notes and coursework activities. Also provided is a section on the process of writing, often compiled by the author.

Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. Struggling to survive, he perseveres until, at last, his first novel is published. But the bright light of success is extinguished when Camilla has a nervous breakdown and disappears . . . and Bandini forever rejects the writer's life he fought so hard to attain.

En un barrio burgués de Londres, un grupo de jóvenes ocupa una casa que ha sido declarada inhabitable por las autoridades. Alice, la protagonista, es cálida y solidaria, transformando el deteriorado refugio de sus compañeros militantes en un 'hogar' a través de arduas negociaciones con las autoridades y dedicando toda su energía física y mental, a pesar de que sus aspiraciones burguesas son objeto de burla entre sus 'camaradas'. Sin embargo, detrás de su aparente altruismo, Alice alberga un profundo odio hacia el establecimiento burgués. Este resentimiento, junto con un difuso radicalismo de izquierda, lo comparte con sus amigos, quienes buscan contactos con la IRA, el movimiento de independencia irlandés. Mientras planean y ejecutan un atentado, ignoran que el servicio secreto británico ya tiene sus propios planes para ellos.

Dos jovenes de 16 años -uno judio, otro rico aristocrata aleman- coinciden en la Alemania de 1932. Tan solo mucho tiempo despues volveran a encontrarse.