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Kennedy Marr is a novelist from the old school. Irish, acerbic, and a borderline alcoholic and sex addict, his mantra is drink hard, write hard and try to screw every woman you meet. He's writing film scripts in LA, fucking, drinking and insulting his way through Californian society but also suffering from writer's block and unpaid taxes. Then a solution presents itself - Marr is to be the unlikely recipient of the W. F. Bingham Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Modern Literature, an award worth half a million pounds.

Fay Langdon and Julia Morton might have met far earlier, since Fay was once a successful singer and Julia a famous diseuse. From the outset, theirs is a precarious friendship, both out of step with their times, allied by the disappointments that age brings.

Brenda has had a long and eventful life and she has come to Whitby to run a B&B in search of some peace and quiet. She and her best friend Effie like nothing better than going out for tea and keeping their eyes open for any of the mysterious goings on in town. But the oddest thing in Whitby may well be Brenda herself. With her terrible scars, her strange lack of a surname or the fact that she takes two different shoe sizes, Brenda should have known that people as, well, unique as she is, just aren’t destined for a quiet life.

1967. While London comes alive with the new youth revolution, the suburban Fischer family seems to belong to an older world of conventional stability: pretty, dutiful homemaker Phyllis is married to Roger, a devoted father with a career in the Foreign Office. Their children are Colette, a bookish teenager, and Hugh, the golden boy. But when the 20-something son of an old friend pays the Fischers a visit one hot summer evening, and kisses Phyllis in the dark garden after dinner, something in her catches fire.

Henry Tillotson, a generous, genial man, rescues Margaret from a disastrous marriage in Egypt and brings her home to the West Country as his new wife. On the threshold she gives him a black eye and retires straight to bed where she remains, apart from the occasional malevolent outburst, for the rest of her life.

In this stunning new novel, the inventor of the world's first clock is punished for trying to measure time. He is banished to a cave for centuries and forced to listen to the voices of all who come after him seeking more years for themselves. At last, with his soul nearly broken, Father Time is...

As plain-clothes men go, Dangerous Davies looks like a non-starter. The small fry of petty larceny and minor disturbances in the backwaters of north-west London are his daily round. His philosophising Welsh drinking companion Mod, his outsized and unruly dog Kitty, his quarrels with his landlady Mrs Fulljames - none of these bodes well for the efficient solving of crimes and the outwitting of villainy. But Davies is encouraged by his beautiful friend, Jemma, and every so often he stumbles upon something really big.

'Will you marry me?' I think of you, then. I think of you every day. But usually in the quietest part of the morning, or the darkest part of the night. Not when my boyfriend of two years has just proposed. I look up at Richard with his hopeful eyes. 'Lily?' he prompts. It's been ten years, but...

Kate Telman is a senior executive officer in The Business, a powerful and massively discreet transglobal organisation whose origins predate the Christian Church. Financially transparent, internally democratic it wants to buy its own state in order to acquire a seat at the United Nations. Kate's job is to keep abreast of current technological developments and her global reach encompasses Silicon Valley to the remote Himalayas.

The Judds, formerly of London N1, but now scattered, are about to be thrown together again by the shockwaves of their eldest child Juliet's release from prison in New York State. The family is devastated by Juliet's conviction and imprisonment for an art theft, and the nature of this theft and the reasons for it plague all the protagonists.

Lester Ferris needs a rest. He's spent his life being shot at, and Afghanistan was the last stop on his road to exhaustion. Mancreu is the ideal place for Lester to relax. A former British colony, soon to be destroyed because of its very special version of toxic pollution. But Lester Ferris makes a friend: a street kid with a comicbook fixation who will need a home - who might, Lester hopes, become an adopted son. But in a place like Mancreu, just what sort of hero will the boy need?

Obra literária obrigatória para os vestibulares UEL 2025 e UFSC 2025. Um texto épico e lírico, realista e mágico que revela, para além de sua trama, um poderoso elemento de insubordinação social. Nas profundezas do sertão baiano, as irmãs Bibiana e Belonísia encontram uma velha e misteriosa faca na mala guardada sob a cama da avó. Ocorre então um acidente. E para sempre suas vidas estarão ligadas — a ponto de uma precisar ser a voz da outra. Numa trama conduzida com maestria e com uma prosa melodiosa, o romance conta uma história de vida e morte, de combate e redenção.

Ruby has spent her twenties scraping by in unfulfilling jobs. But now she's tasting her first success as a film director – and she's caught the eye of Ellen, an iconoclastic feminist filmmaker, critical darling and Ruby's idol. When Ellen invites Ruby down to her sprawling country house and offers to mentor her through writing her next film, Ruby can't believe her luck. Arriving in the middle of an oppressive heat wave, she is overawed by the glamour of the house – and finds herself quickly drawn into the middle of a dangerous dynamic between Ellen and her elusive daughter Lara.

遺された謎が解けたとき、涙があふれだす　巣鴨の路地裏にたたずむ、遺影専門の写真館《雨利写真館》。先月急逝した祖母が撮影されたときの話を聞くために、黒子ハナは写真館を訪れる。

灼熱の夏、彼女はなぜ、幼な子二人をマンションに置き去りにしたのか。追い詰められた母親。死に行く子供たち。無力な受難者の心の内は、小説でしか描けない。痛ましい事件の深層に、何があったのか。本当に罪深いのは誰――虐げられる者たちの心理に深く分け入る迫真の衝撃作。

人生のダメな時期、万歳。人生のスランプ、万々歳。青春小説の金字塔、待望の続篇。バブル最後の売り手市場に乗り遅れ、バイトとパチンコで食いつなぐこの男。名を横道世之介という。いわゆる人生のダメな時期にあるのだが、なぜか彼の周りには笑顔が絶えない。鮨職人を目指す女友達、大学時代からの親友、美しきヤンママとその息子。そんな人々の思いが交錯する27年後。

おいしい料理×謎解き！　シリーズ13万部突破！やさしくて少しビターな日常ミステリー　待望の第7巻！「あの、靖子先生にお話を聞いてもらいたくて──」菜の花食堂は四季折々の新鮮な野菜たっぷりのランチと予約制のディナー、カフェタイムも楽しめてオリジナルの瓶詰も評判の人気店。

David Luna is a sad sack: separated from his wife, at odds with his daughter, and periodically battling addiction and insomnia. But when he learns that he can magically teleport into the pages of a children’s book he is forced to question his reality, his relationship choices, and the trajectory of his life.

娘の目に映った“不世出の詩人”の真実――父はお酒を飲むと、まるでたあいない子供になってしまう。そして酔ってくると、次第にお酒をびしゃびしゃお膳にこぼしはじめ、それにつれてお菜を、膝の上から畳の上一面にこぼすのだった。――　室生犀星をして“不世出の詩人”と言わしめた萩原朔太郎。

世界的ベストセラーの新装版第２弾本の街・神保町で近代文学を専門に扱う古書店「森崎書店」。貴子の叔父・サトルが経営するこの店は、かつて失意のどん底にあった彼女の心を癒やしてくれた場所だ。一時期出奔していたサトルの妻・桃子も店を手伝うようになり、貴子も休日のたびに顔を出していた。