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In house in a wood, Ada and her father live peacefully, tending to their garden and the wildlife in it. They are not human though. Ada was made by her father from the Ground, a unique patch of earth with birthing and healing properties. Though perhaps he didn’t get her quite right. They spend their days healing the local human folk – named Cures - who visit them, suspiciously, with their ailments • When Ada embarks on a relationship with a local Cure named Samson, and is forced to choose between her old life with her father, and a new one with her human lover. Her decision will uproot the town – and the Ground itself – for ever • A poised and simmering tour-de-force, Follow Me To Ground is a sinister vision of desire and freewill, voiced in earthy prose and eviscerating detail by an astoundingly original new writer

In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, pursued by the constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them • In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted River - John Irving's twelfth novel - depicts the recent half-century in the United States as a world 'where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course.' • From the novel's taut opening sentence to its elegiac final chapter, what distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the author's unmistakable voice, the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller

Kate Atkinson's dazzling Life After Life, one of the top selling adult books of 2014, explored the possibility of infinite chances, as Ursula Todd lived through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. In A God in Ruins, Atkinson turns her focus on Ursula's beloved younger brother Teddy - would-be poet, RAF bomber pilot, husband and father - as he navigates the perils and progress of the 20th century. For all Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge will be to face living in a future he never expected to have. A God in Ruins is a masterful companion to Life After Life, and will prove once again that Kate Atkinson is one of the finest novelists of our age

This story begins with a letter • From a housewife • to the gentle curator • Of an extraordinary museum • Where lies peacefully • An ancient exhibit • That holds the key • To Everything • We are • Meet Me at the Museum tells of a connection made across oceans and against all the odds. Through intimate stories of joy, despair, and discovery, two people are drawn inexorably towards the other, until a shattering revelation pushes their friendship to the very edge • This deeply affecting debut novel by seventy-three year-old Anne Youngson won the Paul Torday Memorial Prize and was dramatized on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour

Winner of the 2015 Costa Novel Award • A God in Ruins relates the life of Teddy Todd - would-be poet, heroic World War II bomber pilot, husband, father, and grandfather - as he navigates the perils and progress of the 20th century. For all Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge will be to face living in a future he never expected to have • This gripping, often deliriously funny yet emotionally devastating book looks at war - that great fall of Man from grace - and the effect it has, not only on those who live through it, but on the lives of the subsequent generations. It is also about the infinite magic of fiction. Those who loved the bestselling Life After Life will recognize Teddy as Ursula Todd's adored younger brother - but for those who have not read it, A God in Ruins stands fully on its own

What happens when 'I do' turns into 'I don't know'? • Jeannie always wanted to fall in love, and now she's finally got the whirlwind romance she dreamed of. Dan's gorgeous, he's a successful young vet, and he flew her to New York and proposed on Brooklyn Bridge. Jeannie has to remind herself this is actually her life. It seems too perfect, too magical, to be real. Yet it is • But now she's on her way to the wedding she can't shake off the tight sensation crushing her chest. Is it just nerves . . . or is this all happening a bit too fast? • Jeannie has one last chance to shout, 'Stop!' But just as she grabs it, a twist of fate throws everything she knows into the air like confetti. What Jeannie learns about Dan, about her own heart, and about the power of love itself, will change her world for ever

Лекси очнулась в больнице после ужасающей аварии, уверенная, что сейчас 2004-й год, и она двадцатипятилетняя девушка с кривыми зубами и неудавшейся личной жизнью • Но, вопреки ее внутренним убеждениям, на самом деле сейчас 2007-й — и ей 28 лет, у нее весьма крепкие и здоровые зубы, и она босс собственного департамента — и она замужем! За обаятельным миллионером! Каким же волшебным образом ей удалось воплотить свою мечту в жизнь?! • Ей сложно поверить в свою фантастическую удачу — тем более, когда она видит свой шикарный новый дом. Она уверена, что ее ждет идеальный брак, как только она заново узнает своего мужа. Он составил для нее «руководство по браку», которое должно будет в этом помочь • Но по мере того, как она узнает больше о себе новой, в ее идеальной жизни начинают появляться пробелы

Эмоционально насыщенный, остроумный роман автора бестселлера номер один Софи Кинселлы о любви и выживании в длительных отношениях — и о том, как те, кого, как нам кажется, мы знаем лучше всех, порой нас больше всего удивляют… • Прожив вместе десять лет, Сильвия и Дэн обзавелись уютным домом, хорошей работой, красивыми девочками-близняшками и общаются так непринужденно, что заканчивают предложения друг за друга. У них счастливый брак, и они верят, что знают друг о друге все, что только можно знать. Пока в разговоре с ними случайно не упоминается, что они могли бы быть вместе еще шестьдесят восемь лет... и начинается паника • Они быстро решают преподносить друг другу маленькие сюрпризы, чтобы их отношения оставались свежими и веселыми. Но в процессе реализации проекта «Удиви меня» — от неожиданных подарков до свиданий в ресторане и фотосессий — возникают проблемы, которые приводят к катастрофическим и комичным последствиям

Не так-то просто рассказать в двух словах об этой удивительной книге. Обычно аннотация дает читателю понять, о чем пойдет речь, но в данном случае мы опасаемся, что любые предварительные выводы или подсказки только помешают ему. Нам представляется очень важным, чтобы вы начали читать, не ведая, что вас ждет. Скажем лишь, что вас ждет необычное и завораживающее путешествие вместе с девятилетним мальчиком по имени Бруно. Вот только сразу предупреждаем, что книга эта никак не предназначена для детей девятилетнего возраста, напротив, это очень взрослая книга, обращенная к людям, которые знают, что такое колючая проволока. Именно колючая проволока вырастет на вашем с Бруно пути. Такого рода ограждения достаточно распространены в нашем мире. И нам остается только надеяться, что вы лично в реальной жизни не столкнетесь ни с чем подобным

In the aftermath of Ireland’s financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As violence flares, the characters face a battle between public persona and inner desires. Through a chorus of unique voices, each struggling to tell their own kind of truth, a single authentic tale unfolds • The Spinning Heart speaks for contemporary Ireland like no other novel. Wry, vulnerable, all-too human, it captures the language and spirit of rural Ireland and with uncanny perception articulates the words and thoughts of a generation. Technically daring and evocative of Patrick McCabe and J.M. Synge, this novel of small-town life is witty, dark and sweetly poignant

In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past for ever • Ten years later, now a producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her past. A different war is being fought now, on a different battleground, but Juliet finds herself once more under threat. A bill of reckoning is due, and she finally begins to realize that there is no action without consequence • Transcription is a work of rare depth and texture, a bravura modern novel of extraordinary power, wit and empathy

In a spirited opening piece, John Irving explains how he became a writer. There follow six scintillating stories written over the past twenty years, inlcuding The Pension Grillparzer, previously only to be found inside The World According to Garp, and now given its first independent airing