Engelstalige historische romans
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Cloud Cuckoo Land
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ‘A dazzling epic of love, war and the joy of books’ Guardian
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Whale Fall
Chosen as an Observer Debut of the Year, with fans including Maggie O’Farrell, Colm Tóibín, Maggie Shipstead, Anne Enright and many more.
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Weep Not, Child
The Nobel Prize-nominated Kenyan writer's powerful first novelTwo brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stand on a garbage heap and look into their futures: Njoroge is to attend school, while Kamau will train to be a carpenter. But this is Kenya, and the times are against them: In the forests, the Mau Mau is waging war against the white government, and the two brothers and their family need to decide where their loyalties lie. For the practical Kamau, the choice is simple, but for Njoroge the scholar, the dream of progress through learning is a hard one to give up.The first East African novel published in English, Weep Not, Child explores the effects of the infamous Mau Mau uprising on the lives of ordinary men and women, and on one family in particular.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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An Angel Behind Black Curtains
The Secret of the Berghof Klara is a typical young girl-until you look at the man she calls "Papa." In the sun-drenched peaks of the Bavarian Alps, twelve-year-old Klara lives a life of fairy-tale opulence. While a continent trembles under the shadow of the swastika, her days are filled with the simple joys of childhood: the exhilaration of skiing at Berchtesgaden, the magic of the theater, and the laughter of a girl shielded by the highest walls in the Reich. As the daughter of Adolf Hitler and his devoted mistress, Eva Braun, Klara is the most protected secret in Germany-a child raised in a bubble of privilege and propaganda. But as the tide of the Second World War turns, the mountain air grows heavy with the scent of woodsmoke and defeat. The "Thousand-Year Reich" is beginning to fracture, and even the daughter of the Führer cannot remain insulated from the encroaching rot.From Opulence to the Abyss The transition from the Alpine splendor of the Berghof to the terrifying reality of a collapsing empire is swift and brutal. Klara's journey takes her from the heights of privilege into the heart of the darkness her father created. She experiences the bone-shaking terror of the Munich bombings and the haunting, silent gaze of Jewish prisoners-encounters that force her to question the "glory" of the Reich for the first time. By the spring of 1945, the dancing girl of the mountains is submerged in a different world: the claustrophobic, concrete tomb of the Führerbunker beneath the ruined streets of Berlin. Here, amidst the flickering lights and the smell of diesel, the myth of her father begins to crumble.A Choice That Will Shake the Bunker With the Soviet Army's artillery echoing overhead and her father's plans for a final, macabre family suicide taking shape, Eva Braun is forced into a desperate act of motherhood. In a bid to save her daughter from the fate Hitler has decreed for them all, she makes a choice that defies the man she has spent her life serving. Klara is cast out into the ruins of Germany, entrusted to Jan Helmbrecht-a high-ranking SS officer and the family's personal driver. Their journey is a harrowing race through occupied territory, a landscape of rubble, betrayal, and ghosts. But the greatest danger Klara faces is not the falling bombs or the advancing enemy; it is the truth about the man she is traveling with. As they navigate the wreckage of a fallen empire, Klara discovers that Jan is harboring a secret identity. This revelation will shake the very foundations of her soul and force her to redefine everything she knows about loyalty, family, and herself.
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Acadian Shorelines
Patrick d'Entremont is a former newspaper and magazine columnist who now writesnovels set in rural Nova Scotia, based on his childhood growing up in the 1960s. This ishis first published novel.Patrick grew up in West Pubnico, a fishing community in the Acadian region founded in1653, where descendants of the original families continue to live to this day. His coming-of-age stories reflect how growing up in this milieu shaped who he became as an adult, areminiscing that he hopes resonates with many people, whether or not of Acadiandescent.Patrick lives in Halifax with his wife, Cindy.
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In the Family Way
Laney Katz Becker is an award-winning author, writer, and a former literary agent. Her books include the debut novel Dear Stranger, Dearest Friend, and the nonfiction anthology Three Times Chai, a collection of rabbis’ favorite stories. When she’s not writing, Laney enjoys drawing, sewing, reading, long walks, and canasta. She is a graduate of Northwestern University, raised her two children in Westchester County, New York, and currently lives on the east coast of Florida with her husband and their Havanese. You can reach Laney through her website at laneykatzbecker.net
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Indignation
"Mesmerizing … Philip Roth’s intrepid novel of self-revelation demands to be read in one sitting. It’s that good. It’s that audacious. It’s that compelling.” —The Seattle Times “He is a master. And the short form serves the story: The shocking rush from this book comes from watching Roth expertly and quickly build up to a half-dozen final pages that absolutely deliver the kill.” —Entertainment Weekly Against the backdrop of the Korean War, a young man faces life’s unimagined chances and terrifying consequences in his sophomore year far from home on the conservative campus of Ohio’s Winesburg College. It is 1951 in America. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio’s Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at the local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hard-working neighborhood butcher, seems to have gone mad—mad with fear and apprehension of the dangers of adult life, the dangers of the world, the dangers he sees in every corner for his beloved boy. As the long-suffering, desperately harassed mother tells her son, the father’s fear arises from love and pride. Perhaps, but it produces too much anger in Marcus for him to endure living with his parents any longer. He leaves them and, far from Newark, in the midwestern college, has to find his way amid the customs and constrictions of another American world.
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The Eights
Four young women. Four very different lives. One unshakeable friendship. Following the unlikely friendship of four women in the first female class at Oxford, their unshakable bond in the face of male contempt, and their coming of age in a world forever changed by World War I. "Entertaining and moving...I came to love these four women as though they were my sisters." --Tracy Chevalier, #1 New York Times bestselling author In 1920, in the wake of World War I and for the first time in its one-thousand-year history, Oxford University officially admits female students. Bursting with dreams, four young women move into Corridor 8. Beatrice, Dora, Marianne, and Otto--collectively known as The Eights--come from all walks of life, each searching for an unknown future while holding tight to their secrets. A brash socialite too smart for her own good. A beautiful sister arriving in place of her lost soldier brother. A too-tall daughter desperate to escape her famous suffragette mother. A timid scholarship student with the biggest secret of all. Their unlikely friendship will change them in ways they could never have imagined. Among the historic spires and hallowed halls, and in the dark shadow of the Great War, the four women must rely on one another to survive a turbulent world where misogyny is rife, influenza is still a threat, and the ghosts of our great loves don't always remain dead.
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Little Wild
'Absolutely mesmerising' - Lucy Rose, bestselling author of The LambAtonement meets Weyward in this striking historical debut from new talent Laura Evans about queer love, privilege and the intoxicating dangers of embracing the wild . . .Suffolk, 1937. During a sweltering heatwave, preparations for a party are in full swing at Snare House. The Winthers' only daughter, Joanie, is returning from a summer abroad before starting university. Only Margaret, ward of the family and Joanie's closest friend, knows the truth: Joanie and Margaret are in love and plan to run away together.But when Joanie's father discovers their secret, Margaret's world is turned upside down. Exiled to a tumble-down lodge in the woods with her estranged father and his colony of magpies, she finds herself becoming wild. As the heatwave refuses to break, Margaret must decide whether to give in to her new, dark impulses in a bid to get what she most desires . . .'Debut novels don't get much better than this' - Erin Kelly, author of The House of Mirrors'A country house novel with claws' - Danielle Giles, author of Mere
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Elphie
Once upon a time in the land of Oz, a green little girl was born... ELPHIE: A WICKED CHILDHOOD is the captivating coming-of-age story of the most iconic witch ever to grace our screens and bookshelves. Young Elphaba is destined to be a witch, she bears the markings from childhood. But what happened before her powers took hold?Elphie is a girl like any other and no other. Nothing like her parents - one beautiful, the other pious - nor her saintly sister, Nessarose. Her skin is green, her mind is cunning. One day she will command this strange and wonderful world. For now, her journey is just beginning.The road ahead is full of lessons and heartbreak, the first bruising attempts at friendship - and tantalising whispers of magic.It will lead Elphie to the doors of Shiz University, and to the girl who will change her life forever...
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Soul Objective
A psychological family drama set between 1970's Greater London and New York City.
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The In-Between Bookstore
“What would you tell your teen self if you could go back in time? Underhill’s tender, innovative debut is the smartest take on this trope I’ve ever read. . . and for the record, I read it in a single sitting. A beautiful, thoughtful study of how we find our truest selves, and whom we choose to trust with that gift.” — Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author A poignant and enchanting novel about a magical bookstore that transports a trans man through time and brings him face-to-face with his teenage self, offering him the chance of a lifetime to examine his life and identity to find a new beginning. When Darby finds himself unemployed and in need of a fresh start, he moves back to the small Illinois town he left behind. But Oak Falls has changed almost as much as he has since he left. One thing is familiar: In Between Books, Darby’s refuge growing up and eventual high school job. When he walks into the bookstore now, Darby feels an eerie sense of déjà vu—everything is exactly the same. Even the newspapers are dated 2009. And behind the register is a teen who looks a lot like Darby did at sixteen. . . who just might give Darby the opportunity to change his own present for the better—if he can figure out how before his connection to the past vanishes forever. The In-Between Bookstore is a stunning novel of love, self-discovery, and the choices that come with both, for anyone who has ever wondered what their life might be like if they had the chance to go back and take a bigger, braver risk.
€ 18,50