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Sacred Hunger
WINNER OF THE 1992 BOOKER PRIZE 'Gripping . . . SACRED HUNGER covers a period between 1752 and 1765 . . . it concerns the entangled and conflicted fortunes of two cousins: Erasmus Kemp, the son of a Lancashire merchant, and Matthew Paris, a scholar and surgeon just released from prison for "denying Holy Writ" . . . the Liverpool Merchant is the vessel on which the whole of the novel hinges, and it carries the reader deep into the history of man's iniquitous greed . . . AS REGARDS ITS DRAMATIC BREADTH AND ENERGY, NO RECENT DOMESTIC NOVEL HAS COME WITHIN A MILE OF IT' - Anthony Quinn in the Independent
Lady Susan (Penguin Little Black Classics)
'Of what a mistake were you guilty in marrying a Man of his age! - just old enough to be formal, ungovernable and to have the Gout - too old to be agreable, and too young to die.' The scheming and unscrupulous Lady Susan is unlike any Austen heroine you've met in this fascinating early novella. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
Hotel Du Lac
Winner of the Booker Prize 'The Hotel du Lac was a dignified building, a house of repute, a traditional establishment, used to welcoming the prudent, the well-to-do, the retired, the self-effacing, the respected patrons of an earlier era' Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself and her friends. She has refused to sacrifice her ideals and remains stubbornly single. But among the pampered women and minor nobility Edith finds Mr Neville, and her chance to escape from a life of humiliating loneliness is renewed . . . 'A classic . . . a book which will be read with pleasure a hundred years from now' Spectator
The Modern Classics Myth of Sisyphus (Penguin Modern Classics)
The summation of the existentialist philosophy threaded throughout all his writing, Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus is translated by Justin O'Brien with an introduction by James Wood in Penguin Books Ltd. In this profound and moving philosophical statement, Camus poses the fundamental question: is life worth living? If human existence holds no significance, what can keep us from suicide? As Camus argues, if there is no God to give meaning to our lives, humans must take on that purpose themselves. This is our 'absurd' task, like Sisyphus forever rolling his rock up a hill, as the inevitability of death constantly overshadows us. Written during the bleakest days of the Second World War, The Myth of Sisyphus (Le Mythe de Sisyphe) argues for an acceptance of reality that encompasses revolt, passion and, above all, liberty. This volume contains several other essays, including lyrical evocations of the sunlit cities of Algiers and Oran, the settings of his great novels The Outsider and The Plague. Albert Camus (1913-60) is the author of a number of best-selling and highly influential works, all of which are published by Penguin. They include The Fall, The Outsider and The First Man. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, Camus is remembered as one of the few writers to have shaped the intellectual climate of post-war France, but beyond that, his fame has been international. If you enjoyed The Myth of Sisyphus, you might like Camus' The Outsider, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'Camus could never cease to be one of the principal forces in our domain, nor to represent, in his own way, the history of France and of this century' Jean-Paul Sartre
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time.In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the café’s time-travelling offer, in order to: confront the man who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early onset Alzheimer's, to see their sister one last time, and to meet the daughter they never got the chance to know.But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the café, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold . . .Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s beautiful, moving story explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?
The Line of Beauty
It is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest, an innocent in the matters of politics and money, has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious new Tory MP, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their children Toby and Catherine. Nick had idolized Toby at Oxford, but in his London life it will be the troubled Catherine who becomes his friend and his uneasy responsibility. At the boom years of the mid-80s unfold, Nick becomes caught up in the Feddens' world. In an era of endless possibility, Nick finds himself able to pursue his own private obsession, with beauty a prize as compelling to him as power and riches are to his friends.
Guest Cat
A couple in their thirties live in a small rented cottage in a quiet part of Tokyo. They work at home as freelance writers. They no longer have very much to say to one another.One day a cat invites itself into their small kitchen. She is a beautiful creature. She leaves, but the next day comes again, and then again and again. New, small joys accompany the cat: the days have more light and colour. Life suddenly seems to have more promise for the husband and wife: they go walking together, talk and share stories of the cat and its little ways, play in the nearby garden. But then something happens that will change everything again.The Guest Cat is an exceptionally moving and beautiful novel about the nature of life and the way it feels to live it. The book won Japan's Kiyama Shohei Literary Award, and was a bestseller in France and America.
The Sea
Ninth House
*The adult debut from the author of SHADOW AND BONE - now a Netflix Original series!*The instant SUNDAY TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES bestseller that Stephen King calls 'Impossible to put down'.Galaxy 'Alex' Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. A dropout and the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved crime, Alex was hoping for a fresh start. But a free ride to one of the world's most prestigious universities was bound to come with a catch.Alex has been tasked with monitoring the mysterious activities of Yale's secret societies - well-known haunts of the rich and powerful. Now there's a dead girl on campus and Alex seems to be the only person who won't accept the neat answer the police and campus administration have come up with for her murder.Because Alex knows the secret societies are far more sinister and extraordinary than anyone ever imagined. They tamper with forbidden magic. They raise the dead. And sometimes they prey on the living . . .'One of the best fantasy novels I've read in years' Lev Grossman, bestselling author'[A] mesmerising novel' Charlaine Harris, bestselling author'Ninth House rocked my world' Joe Hill, bestselling author
Girl in Pieces
A Barnes & Noble Best Young Adult Books of 2016 | A New York Public Library Best Books for Teens in 2016| An Amazon Best YA Books of 2016Charlie Davis is in pieces. At seventeen, she’s already lost more than most people lose in a lifetime. But she’s learned how to forget it through cutting: the pain washes out the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. She doesn't have to think about her father or what happened under the bridge. Her best friend, Ellis, who is gone forever. Or the mother who has nothing left to give her. Kicked out of a special treatment center when her insurance runs out, Charlie finds herself in the bright and wild landscape of Tucson, Arizona, where she begins the unthinkable: the long journey of putting herself back together.
Heat and Dust
The beautiful, spoiled and bored Olivia, married to a civil servant, outrages society in the tiny, suffocating town of Satipur by eloping with an Indian prince. Fifty years later, her step-granddaughter goes back to the heat, the dust and the squalor of the bazaars to solve the enigma of Olivia's scandal. 'A superb book. A complex story line, handled with dazzling assurance ...moving and profound. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has not only written a love story, she has also exposed the soul and nerve ends of a fascinating and compelling country. This is a book of cool, controlled brilliance. It is a jewel to be treasured' THE TIMES
The Running Grave
In the seventh installment in the "outrageously entertaining" Strike series, detective duo Cormoran and Robin must rescue a man ensnared in the trap of a dangerous cult. (Financial Times)Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, Will, has gone to join a religious cult in the depths of the Norfolk countryside.The Universal Humanitarian Church is, on the surface, a peaceable organization that campaigns for a better world. Yet Strike discovers that beneath the surface there are deeply sinister undertones, and unexplained deaths.In order to try to rescue Will, Strike's business partner, Robin Ellacott, decides to infiltrate the cult, and she travels to Norfolk to live incognito among its members. But in doing so, she is unprepared for the dangers that await her there or for the toll it will take on her. . .Utterly page-turning, The Running Grave moves Strike's and Robin's story forward in this epic, unforgettable seventh installment of the series.
The Fine Print: the TikTok sensation! Meet the Dreamland Billionaires…
**THE TIKTOK SENSATION**RowanI'm in the business of creating fairy tales.Theme parks. Production companies. Five-star hotels.Everything could be all mine if I renovated Dreamland.My initial idea of hiring Zahra was good in theory, but then I kissed her.Things spiraled out of control once I texted her using an alias.By the time I realized where I went wrong, it was too late.People like me don't get happy endings.Not when we're destined to ruin them.ZahraAfter submitting a drunk proposal criticizing Dreamland's most expensive ride, I should have been fired.Instead, Rowan Kane offered me a dream job.The catch? I had to work for the most difficult boss I'd ever met.Rowan was rude and completely off-limits, but my heart didn't care.At least not until I discovered his secret.It was time to teach the billionaire that money couldn't fix everything.Especially not us.The Fine Print is the first book in a series of spicy standalone novels featuring three billionaire brothers.
The Rock of Tanios
An exploration of myth, passion and loyalty from the Lebanon's troubled past, The Rock of Tanios is another superbly rich and rewarding novel from the author of Samarkand and Leo the African. Expertly controlling his multi-faceted narrative with prose of great beauty and power, Maalouf delves into the history of an extraordinary life: that of Tanois, child of the mountains.
The Gardens of Light
Born in a Mesopotamian village in the third century, the son of a Parthian warrior, Mani grows up in a volatile and dangerous world. As battle rages for control over the Middle East between the great Roman and Persian empires, as Jews and Christians, Buddhists and Zoroastrians fight for ascendency, Mani- painter, mystic, physician and prophet- makes his way through the battlefields to preach to his incandescent doctrine of humility, tolerance and love, a doctrine that comes to be known as Manicheanism.A vivid glimpse of the ancient world in all its perfumed splendour and cruelty, an elegantly philosophical discourse on the fall of man, THE GARDENS OF LIGHT is a story of great beauty and resonance, exquisitely told.
The First Century After Beatrice
A French entomologist, attending a symposium in Cairo, finds a cruious kind of bean being on a market stall. It is claimed the beans, derived from the scarab beetle, have magic powers: specifically the power to guarantee the brith of a male infant - and when the entomologist does some research in to the matter, discovering the incidence of female birth has become increasingly rare, he is left in no doubt that the world has entered intoa critical phase of its history.As this beloved daughter Beatrice approaches maturity, the entomologist and his partner question the validity of gender bias, and attempt to redress the growing imbalance before it reaches irreversible proportions. But in the poverty and famine of the South, where male children can mean the difference between survival and starvation, the popularity of the scarab beans is already taking devastating effect.
Samarkand
The Love Hypothesis: The Tiktok sensation and romcom of the year!
Based on the available information and the data hitherto collected, my hypothesis is that the further I stay away from love, the better off I will be.'Contemporary romance's unicorn: the elusive marriage of deeply brainy and delightfully escapist.' Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners*When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman's carefully calculated theories on love into chaos.As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationships but her best friend does, and that's what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive on her way to a happily ever after was always going to be tough, scientists require proof. So, like any self-respecting woman, Olive panics and kisses the first man she sees.That man is none other than Adam Carlsen, a young hotshot professor and well-known ass. Which is why Olive is positively floored when he agrees to keep her charade a secret and be her fake boyfriend. But when a big science conference goes haywire and Adam surprises her again with his unyielding support (and his unyielding abs), their little experiment feels dangerously close to combustion.Olive soon discovers that the only thing more complicated than a hypothesis on love is putting her own heart under the microscope.What the five star reviews are saying about The Love Hypothesis:'Did I read this in 24 hours? Yes.''Funny. Snarky. Intelligent. Real.''If you're even slightly thinking about getting this book to read, just go a head and do it''Adam is just *swoon*''Ali Hazelwood has made herself an auto-buy author''It was just... perfect.''A heroine you will instantly fall in love with'
L’Écume Des Jours (Ldp Litterature)
Un titre léger et lumineux qui annonce une histoire d'amour drôle ou grinçante, tendre ou grave, fascinante et inoubliable, composée par un écrivain de vingt-six ans. C'est un conte de l'époque du jazz et de la science-fiction, à la fois comique et poignant, heureux et tragique, féerique et déchirant. Dans cette oeuvre d'une modernité insolente, livre culte depuis plus de cinquante ans, Duke Ellington croise le dessin animé, Sartre devient une marionnette burlesque, la mort prend la forme d'un nénuphar, le cauchemar va jusqu'au bout du désespoir.Mais seules deux choses demeurent éternelles et triomphantes: le bonheur ineffable de l'amour absolu et la musique des Noirs américains...
Origines (Ldp Litterature)
Il était une fois deux frères, Gebrayel et Botros, nés dans ce Liban de la fin du xixe siècle encore partie intégrante de l’Empire ottoman. Le premier rêve de conquérir le monde et quitte l’Orient natal pour faire souche à Cuba. Le second, homme de pensée et de livres, reste au pays. Ainsi commence la saga des Maalouf, sédentaires ou nomades, emportés par l’histoire dans une diaspora familiale, et que relient, du Brésil à l’Australie et des Etats-Unis à la France, le bruissement d’un nom et la conscience d’une origine commune.C’est à cette « tribu », dont il reconstitue l’histoire avec la rigueur d’un archiviste et l’empathie d’un romancier, que l’auteur du Rocher de Tanios (prix Goncourt 1993) rend un magnifique hommage d’amour et de fidélité. Pour l’écrivain, lui-même en exil, n’est-elle pas sa seule patrie ?Ce livre a obtenu le prix Méditerranée 2004.
Les Echelles du Levant
«Echelles du Levant», c'est le nom qu'on donnait autrefois à ce chapelet de cités marchandes par lesquelles les voyageurs d'Europe accédaient à l'Orient. De Constantinople à Alexandrie, en passant par Smyrne, Adana ou Beyrouth, ces villes ont longtemps été des lieux de brassage où se côtoyaient langues, coutumes et croyances. Des univers précaires que l'Histoire avait lentement façonnés, avant de les démolir. Brisant, au passage, d'innombrables vies.Le héros de ce roman, Ossyane, est l'un de ces hommes au destin détourné. De l'agonie de l'Empire ottoman aux deux guerres mondiales et aux tragédies qui, aujourd'hui encore, déchirent le Proche-Orient, sa vie ne pèsera guère plus qu'un brin de paille dans la tourmente. Patiemment, il se souvient, il raconte son enfance princière, sa grand-mère démente, son père révolté, son frère déchu, son séjour en France sous l'Occupation, sa rencontre avec Clara, leurs moments de ferveur, d'héroïsme et de rêve : puis la descente aux enfers.Dépossédé de son avenir, de sa dignité, privé des joies les plus simples, que lui reste-t-il ? Un amour en attente. Un amour tranquille, mais puissant. Peut-être, en fin de compte, plus puissant que l'Histoire.Il est des personnages de roman qui s'imposent par l'universalité de leur histoire. Leur destin particulier porte témoignage de millions d'autres : à travers leurs amours, leurs drames, leurs espérances, des peuples se reconnaissent... Ossyane est de ces héros romanesques qui ont la présence des personnages mythiques.Pierre-Robert Leclercq, Le Monde.
Le Rocher de Tanios (Ldp Litterature)
« Le destin passe et repasse à travers nous, comme l'aiguille du cordonnier à travers le cuir qu'il façonne. » Pour Tanios, enfant des montagnes libanaises, le destin se marque d'abord dans le mystère qui entoure sa naissance : fils de la trop belle Lamia, des murmures courent le pays sur l'identité de son vrai père. Le destin passera de nouveau, dans ces années 1830 où l'Empire ottoman, l'Egypte, l'Angleterre se disputent ce pays promis aux déchirements, le jour où l'assassinat d'un chef religieux contraindra Tanios à l'exil...Mêlant l'histoire et la légende, la sagesse et la folie des hommes, le romancier de Léon l'Africain et du Premier Siècle après Béatrice nous entraîne dans un prodigieux voyage romanesque qui lui a valu le prix Goncourt 1993.
Le Periple De Baldassare (Ldp Litterature)
« Ce que la présence de cette femme a apaisé en moi, ce n’est pas la soif charnelle d’un voyageur, c’est ma détresse originelle. Je suis né étranger, j’ai vécu étranger et je mourrai plus étranger encore. Je suis trop orgueilleux pour parlerd’hostilité, d’humiliations, de rancœur, de souffrances, mais je sais reconnaître les regards et les gestes. Il y a des bras de femmes qui sont des lieux d’exil, et d’autres qui sont la terre natale. »Parti sur les routes en 1665, le narrateur de cette histoire, Baldassare Embriaco, Génois d’Orient et négociant en curiosités, est à la poursuite d’un livre qui est censé apporter le Salut à un monde désemparé. Sans doute est-il aussi à la recherche de ce qui pourrait encore donner un sens à sa propre existence.Au cours de son périple, en Méditerranée et au-delà, Baldassare traverse des pays en perdition, des villes en feu, des communautés en attente. Il rencontre la peur, la tromperie et la désillusion : mais également l’amour, à l’heure où il ne l’attendait plus.