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A CRIME STORY. A LOVE STORY. A WORLDWIDE PHENOMENON. MORE THAN 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD "It's that most engaging of treats, a big, fat, intelligent thriller" SIMON MAYO "It's a terrific story and I'm loving it" PHILIP SCHOFIELD August 30, 1975. The day of the disappearance. The day Somerset, New Hampshire, lost its innocence. That summer, struggling author Harry Quebert fell in love with fifteen-year-old Nola Kellergan. Thirty-three years later, her body is dug up from his yard, along with a manuscript copy of the novel that made him a household name. Quebert is the only suspect. Marcus Goldman - Quebert's most gifted protégé - throws off his writer's block to clear his mentor's name. Solving the case and penning a new bestseller soon merge into one. As his book begins to take on a life of its own, the nation is gripped by the mystery of 'The Girl Who Touched the Heart of America'. But with Nola, in death as in life, nothing is ever as it seems. Translated from the French by Sam Taylor

Sweeping, clever, heartbreaking and memorable. The perfect summer read Henrietta Richman Grazia 20170522

Londra, 1940. Per evitare l'annientamento dell'esercito britannico a Dunkerque, Churchill ha un'idea che cambierà il corso della guerra: creare una squadra di servizi segreti che lavori nella segretezza più assoluta, la SOE, Special Operations Executive. La SOE è incaricata di azioni di sabotaggio e intelligence tra le linee nemiche e coinvolge persone tra la popolazione locale più insospettabile. Il giovane Paul-Émile lascia Parigi per Londra nella speranza di unirsi alla Resistenza. Reclutato dalla SOE, è inserito in un gruppo di connazionali che diventeranno suoi compagni e amici del cuore. Addestrati in Inghilterra, i soldati verranno rimandati nella Francia occupata e scopriranno presto che il controspionaggio tedesco è già in allerta. Settant'anni dopo i fatti narrati, ''Gli ultimi giorni dei nostri padri'' è uno dei primi romanzi a evocare la creazione della SOE e a raccontare le vere relazioni tra la Resistenza e l'Inghilterra di Churchill. Titolo originale: ''Les derniers jours de nos pères'' (2012).

A controversial, intelligent, and mordantly funny new novel from France’s most famous living literary figure It’s 2022. François is bored. He’s a middle-aged lecturer at the New Sorbonne University and an expert on J. K. Huysmans, the famed nineteenth-century novelist associated with the Decadent movement. But François’s own decadence is of considerably smaller scale. He sleeps with his students, eats microwave dinners, and watches YouPorn. Meanwhile, it’s election season, and in an alliance with the Socialists, France’s new Islamic party sweeps to power—and Islamic law is instituted. Women are veiled, polygamy is encouraged, and François is offered an irresistible academic advancement—on the condition that he converts to Islam. A darkly comic masterpiece from one of France’s great writers, Submission by Michel Houellebecq has become an international sensation and one of the most discussed novels of our time.

Alex Garland's international bestseller, The Beach, received extraordinary praise, and his writing was compared to Hemingway, Greene, Conrad, Golding, and Huxley. His new novel, The Tesseract, is a bold departure from The Beach, and demonstrates the enormous range of Garland's talent. The Tesseract is a Chinese puzzle of a novel, beautifully written and suspensefully crafted. Set in the Philippines and spanning three generations, it follows three stories whose characters' fates are intertwined: gangsters on a chase through the streets of Manila; middle-class parents putting their children to bed in the suburbs; and a couple of street kids and the wealthy psychologist who is studying their dreams. It is a novel that balances science against religion, and our wills against our fates, asking the ever elusive question of where meaning lies.