Isabella Zani Books

With the possible exception of the crucifixion of Christ no moment of history is more universally familiar and more often depicted than the assassination of Julius Caesar. Caesar is in the prime of his life and the height of his powers as the novel opens. A man of contradictions, Caesar is happily married yet at the same time the lover of the enigmatic and subtle Egyptian ruler, Cleopatra. He is at once a great general who commands the instinctive loyalty of Rome's legions, and a man who wishes to bring to an end Rome's endless civil and external wars, a man not only conscious of his own power, and contemptuous of lesser men, but respectful of the republic, and determined not to be worshipped as a living god or crowned as an emperor, a man whose very greatness attracts envy and jealousy to a dangerous degree. With her extraordinary knowledge of Roman history, Colleen McCullough brings Caesar to life as nobody has ever done before, and surrounds him with an enormous and vivid cast of historical characters, portrayed here not as literary figures, but as real, living people, trying to control and master enormous political events and survive.

Marie-Laure has been blind since the age of six. Her father builds a perfect miniature of their Paris neighbourhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. But when the Nazis invade, father and daughter flee with a dangerous secret. Werner is a German orphan, destined to labour in the same mine that claimed his father's life, until he discovers a knack for engineering. His talent wins him a place at a brutal military academy, but his way out of obscurity is built on suffering. At the same time, far away in a walled city by the sea, an old man discovers new worlds without ever setting foot outside his home. But all around him, impending danger closes in. Doerr's combination of soaring imagination and meticulous observation is electric.

A rapturous novel of star-crossed love in a time of war—from the international bestselling author of The Secret of Clouds. During the last moments of calm in prewar Prague, Lenka, a young art student, and Josef, who is studying medicine, fall in love. With the promise of a better future, they marry—only to have their dreams shattered by the imminent Nazi invasion. Like so many others, they are torn apart by the currents of war. Now a successful obstetrician in America, Josef has never forgotten the wife he believes died in the war. But in the Nazi ghetto of Terezín, Lenka survived, relying on her skills as an artist and the memories of a husband she would never see again. Then, decades later and thousands of miles away, an unexpected encounter in New York leads to an inescapable glance of recognition, and the realization that providence has given Lenka and Josef one more chance. From the glamorous ease of life in Prague before the occupation to the horrors of Nazi Europe, The Lost Wife explores the power of first love, the resilience of the human spirit, and our capacity to remember.

THE ADDICTIVE No.1 BESTSELLER THAT EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT Who are you? What have we done to each other? These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they weren't made by him. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what really did happen to Nick's beautiful wife?

Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting mother to her new baby Violet that she herself never had. But in the thick of motherhood's exhausting early days, Blythe becomes convinced that something is wrong with her daughter-she doesn't behave like most children do. Or is it all in Blythe's head? Her husband, Fox, says she's imagining things. The more Fox dismisses her fears, the more Blythe begins to question her own sanity, and the more we begin to question what Blythe is telling us about her life as well. Then their son Sam is born-and with him, Blythe has the blissful connection she'd always imagined with her child. Even Violet seems to love her little brother. But when life as they know it is changed in an instant, the devastating fall-out forces Blythe to face the truth. The Push is a tour de force you will read in a sitting, an utterly immersive novel that will challenge everything you think you know about motherhood, about what we owe our children, and what it feels like when women are not believed

Miss Pettigrew, a governess looking for work, is sent by mistake to the home of Delysia LaFosse, a glamorous nightclub singer involved with three different men and is invited to stay after offering Miss LaFosse common sense advice about her love life.

Lacy Johnson è stata tenuta prigioniera in una stanza insonorizzata in un appartamento seminterrato che il suo ex fidanzato aveva affittato e attrezzato con il solo scopo di violentarla e ucciderla. È riuscita a scappare, ma non senza conseguenze. Il libro è il racconto inquietante di una relazione prima appassionata e poi abusiva, degli eventi che hanno portato al rapimento e alla prigionia di Johnson, della sua drammatica fuga e della sua difficile lotta per recuperare. In un linguaggio sia crudo che poetico, Johnson intreccia una narrazione riccamente personale con rapporti di polizia, valutazioni psicologiche e indagini neurobiologiche, sollevando domande inquietanti e attuali sui ruoli di genere e sull'epidemia di violenza contro le donne.

A murder has been committed - but as the victim is a rapist, recently released from prison, no one is that concerned about the crime. That is, until Detective Inspector John Rebus and DS Siobhan Clarke uncover evidence that a serial killer is on the loose . . . When Rebus also starts looking into the apparent suicide of an MP, he is abruptly warned off the case, not least because the G8 leaders have gathered in Scotland, and Rebus's bosses want him well out of the way. But Rebus has never been one to stick to the rules, and when Siobhan has a very personal reason for hunting down a riot cop, it looks as though both Rebus and Clarke may be up against their own side . . .

Un serial killer e il suo imitatore sono coinvolti in un violento gioco del gatto e del topo. Quando la detective ispettore Anjelica Henley torna in servizio attivo con l'Unità Crimini Seriali, viene chiamata sulla scena di un crimine. Sono stati trovati pezzi di corpi smembrati di due vittime lungo il fiume. Il modus operandi presenta una sorprendente somiglianza con Peter Olivier, il noto Jigsaw Killer, che ha trascorso gli ultimi due anni in prigione. Quando scopre che qualcuno sta appropriandosi della sua firma macabra - l'arrangiamento degli arti delle vittime in forme di pezzi di puzzle - decide di prendere in mano la situazione. Con il numero dei cadaveri in aumento, la detective ispettore Anjelica Henley si trova di fronte a una nuova minaccia inimmaginabile. Riuscirà ad arrestare l'imitatore prima che Olivier trovi un modo per colpirlo per primo? O diventerà lei stessa la prossima vittima?

Sun kissed beaches, palm trees, the warm breeze on a clear sea. Maui is a paradise island and the perfect location for a glamorous, glossy magazine photo shoot. But all is not as it seems and the tranquillity is shattered when a series of beautiful swimwear models start to go missing. When their bodies are discovered, one after another, each more brutally murdered that the last, the hunt is on for the perpetrator of these violent killings. But has someone been watching the murderer all along? Ben Hawkins, thriller writer turned private detective knows more than he is letting on too. He quickly befriends one of the dead girls' parents and involves himself in the case but to what lengths is he willing to go to get his hands on his next number one book? The heat is on in James Patterson's latest blockbusting thriller. Dark, gripping and a sensational read, Swimsuit is filled with shocking twists and a blistering pace that will have the pages turning themselves.

This gripping literary thriller follows a meth-addicted grave robber who unearths Montezuma's death mask, igniting a violent conflict among a drug lord, a mad collector, a corrupt curator, and a desperate looter. Central to the story is Anna Ramsey, a woman with a troubled past seeking the courage to reveal her true self.