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Mariagiulia Castagnone

    The Chilbury Ladies' Choir
    Reencuentro
    City of Bones
    The drop
    Lost Light
    Ask the Dust
    • Light Perpetual

      • 336 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      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.

      Light Perpetual2022
      3,6
    • The Women In Black

      • 187 páginas
      • 7 horas de lectura

      A lost Australian classic, from the Booker shortlisted author, Madelaine St John

      The Women In Black2019
      3,3
    • The Chilbury Ladies' Choir

      • 464 páginas
      • 17 horas de lectura

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

      The Chilbury Ladies' Choir2017
      4,0
    • Number 11

      • 360 páginas
      • 13 horas de lectura

      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.

      Number 112016
      3,7
    • The drop

      • 512 páginas
      • 18 horas de lectura

      Harry Bosch is facing the end of the line. He's been put on the DROP - Deferred Retirement Option Plan - and given three years before his retirement is enforced. Seeing the end of the mission coming, he's anxious for cases. He doesn't have to wait long!

      The drop2014
      4,1
    • Debolsillo: Una verdad delicada

      • 359 páginas
      • 13 horas de lectura

      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?

      Debolsillo: Una verdad delicada2013
      3,8
    • Heartburn

      • 160 páginas
      • 6 horas de lectura

      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.

      Heartburn2009
      3,8
    • Lost Light

      • 368 páginas
      • 13 horas de lectura

      The vision has haunted him for four years--a young woman lying crumpled in death, her hand outstretched in silent supplication. Harry Bosch was taken off the Angella Benton murder case when the production assistant's death was linked with the violent theft of two million dollars from a movie set. Both files were never closed. Now retired from the L.A.P.D., Bosch is determined to find justice for Angella. Without a badge to open doors and strike fear into the guilty, he's on his own. And even in the face of an opponent more powerful and ruthless than any he's ever encountered, Bosch is not backing down

      Lost Light2006
      4,2
    • Tiempo de lobos

      • 384 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      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.

      Tiempo de lobos2005
      3,9
    • City of Bones

      • 416 páginas
      • 15 horas de lectura

      A dazzling new thriller in which Detective Harry Bosch tears open a 20-year old murder case - with an explosive ending guaranteed to leave all Bosch fans shocked and breathless

      City of Bones2005
      4,1
    • The fifth child

      • 160 páginas
      • 6 horas de lectura

      A classic tale from Doris Lessing, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007, of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben, their feral fifth child.

      The fifth child2000
      3,6
    • Ask the Dust

      • 165 páginas
      • 6 horas de lectura

      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.

      Ask the Dust1994
      4,2
    • Narradores del Mundo: Buena terrorista, la

      • 329 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      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.

      Narradores del Mundo: Buena terrorista, la1994
      3,7
    • Reencuentro

      • 122 páginas
      • 5 horas de lectura

      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.

      Reencuentro1986
      4,0