The Borough Press How Hard Can It Be? Пирсон Эллисон

Jeremy Clarkson had a dream. A world where the nonsensical made sense, the idiotic was abolished and the sheer bloody brilliant was embraced. In How Hard Can It Be? our hero embarks on a quest to set the world to rights. Again.En-route he discovers how rhubarb will become the new crack, that a comb over will end anyone's quest for global domination and what unites a Filipino chambermaid in Abergavenny with Prince Andrew.For anyone who's ever woken up and thought the time has come to stop the nonsense and celebrate the sensational, read on. Because seriously, how hard can it be?Jeremy Clarkson began his writing career on the Rotherham Advertiser. He now writes for the Sun and the Sunday Times and is the tallest person working in British television

Роман "Как убить свою семью" Беллы Маки - одна из лучших книг по версии Amazon в 2022 году • Они говорят, что ты не можешь выбрать свою семью. Но ты можешь убить их • Познакомься с Грейс Бернард • Дочь, сестра, серийный убийца… • Грейс потеряла все • И она ни перед чем не остановится, чтобы отомстить • Книга на английском языке • They say you can’t choose your family. But you can kill them • Meet Grace Bernard • Daughter, sister, serial killer… • Grace has lost everything • And she will stop at nothing to get revenge

It’s 1985 in The Territory and it always will be • It’s so cold you can’t feel your feet and from here the outside world is just a dream, but two humans and one animal will show us the way. They’re each searching for someone, a woman who washed up on the shores of this far-flung town and then disappeared. To find her they will have to look deep into the darkness that lies at the edge of love • Heartbreaker is an astounding feat of imagination with its own riotous rhythm and the resounding message that humanity can be found in the wildest of places

Paris, 1891 Laura is living on the streets, far from the American Prairies where she was born. When rescued by the entrancing aerialists, Ena and Auguste Gaudron, she soon finds herself ensconced in the family hot air balloon business, and offered the chance to learn how to fly • Cardiff, 1896 The Gaudrons accept an invitation to be part of the Cardiff Fine Art, Industrial and Maritime Exhibition, presenting a daring show of balloon ascents and parachute descents • Then late one night, a young girl, Grace, knocks on the Gaudrons’ door. She is desperate to fly, whatever the cost • As Grace’s dreams begin to take wing, can Laura be the one to keep her grounded? Or will both girls risk it all for one dazzling moment of flight?

In this compelling debut, an unknowable legacy passes through generations of one family living on the beautiful island of Barbados • There is Iapetus, a lonely soul haunted by the memory of his father; his son Atlas, dreaming of a life far removed from his reality; Atlas’s daughter Calypso, struggling to find her place in an unforgiving society; and her son Nautilus, grappling with various parts of a complex identity • Each of them longs to escape – to go beyond the borders and circumstances that have contained them for so long – but each finds that they are trapped by a history found only in whispers and half-remembered fragments; and that it is dictating a future over which they have little control • With every passing decade another generation must contend with the same doubts about their identity, about their place in the small world they have carved out for themselves and the same question: how can the things we don’t know define our futures? • Perfect for fans of Girl, Woman, Other and Homegoing, THE ISLAND OF FORGETTING is a powerful story of family and hope, and marks the arrival of a stunning new voice in literary fiction

Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, sat on a busy street corner with a sky-blue Olivetti typewriter and asked the world a simple, direct question: Can you please tell me a love story? • A blind man yearns to see the face of his wife of 30 years. A divorced mother has a secret affair with a travelling priest. A widower miraculously finds a three-minute video recorded by his wife before she died. A lumberjack's heart falls in a forest. A working mum contemplates taking the photographs of her late husband down from the fridge. A girl writes her last letter to the grandfather she adored, then sets it on fire. A palliative care nurse helps a dying woman converse with the angel at the end of her bed. A renowned 100-year-old scientist ponders the one great earthly puzzle he was never able to solve: What is love? • Endless stories

For fans of Half of a Yellow Sun, a stunning novel set in 1930s Somalia spanning a decade of war and upheaval, all seen through the eyes of a small boy alone in the world • Aden,1935; a city vibrant, alive, and full of hidden dangers. And home to Jama, a ten year-old boy. But then his mother dies unexpectedly and he finds himself alone in the world • Jama is forced home to his native Somalia, the land of his nomadic ancestors. War is on the horizon and the fascist Italian forces who control parts of East Africa are preparing for battle. Yet Jama cannot rest until he discovers whether his father, who has been absent from his life since he was a baby, is alive somewhere • This story of one boy's long walk to freedom is also the story of how the Second World War affected Africa and its people; a story of displacement and family

There’s something not quite right about Linda • Her house is ordinary, even though she doesn't feel quite at home • Her husband is ordinary, even if he never notices her • Her life is ordinary, but that just means Linda doesn't have to think about what happened before • Anyway, none of that matters now she has her new best friend Rebecca • Not even when the murders start • And Linda still might be able to get the tidy ending she deserves…

How can you write other people's stories, when you won't admit the truth of your own? • Journalist and single mother Suzy Hamilton gets a shocking phone call one morning: the subject of one of her investigative exposes, 25-year-old wellness blogger Tracey Doran, has killed herself overnight • Horrified by this news, she copes in the only way she knows how - throwing herself into work, looking after her young daughter and carrying on with two ill-advised affairs • But no one can make their own story disappear, and soon Suzy's life is spiralling into chaos: will it end in violence or redemption?

How do you solve a mystery when you can’t understand the clues? • There are three things you need to know about Jasper • 1. He sees the world completely differently • 2. He can’t recognise faces – not even his own • 3. He is the only witness to the murder of his neighbour, Bee Larkham • But uncovering the truth about that night will change his world forever… • An extraordinary and compelling debut which will make you see the world in a way you’ve never seen it before

The year is 1999. Returning to practice after a suspension for stealing opioids, a young Scottish doctor takes the only job he can find: a post as a senior house officer in the struggling east London hospital of St Luke’s • Amid the maelstrom of sick patients, over-worked staff and underfunded wards a darker secret soon declares itself: too many patients are dying • Which of the medical professionals our protagonist has encountered is behind the murders? And can our unnamed narrator’s version of the events be trusted?

The first novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk about Kevin is a compelling and provocative story of love and how we suffer for it • Still unattached and childless at fifty-nine, world-renowned anthropologist Gray Kaiser is seemingly invincible-and untouchable. Returning to make a documentary at the site of her first great triumph in Kenya, she is accompanied by her faithful middle-aged assistant, Errol McEchern, who has loved her for years in silence • When young graduate assistant Raphael Sarasola arrives on the scene, Gray is captivated and falls hopelessly in love-before an amazed Errol's eyes. As he follows their affair with jealous fascination, Errol watches helplessly from the sidelines as a proud and fierce woman is reduced to miserable dependence through miserable dependence