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Anne Enright's entire backlist to be reissued in sumptuous new series style • 'What is a really good novel like? This for a start' The Times • When Maria turns twenty, she falls in love. She is in the wrong town, and he is the wrong sort of man. Going through his things, she finds a photo of herself when she was twelve years old. She has the same smile, but she is wearing the wrong clothes: she is the same, only different • Anne Enright's astonishing novel moves between Dublin, New York and London, following the lives of the real Maria and the girl in the picture. Stepping through the mirror to tell the story of the two women, both haunted by their missing selves, What Are You Like? is an exquisitely written disquisition on families and identity

In 1969, Jane Mixer, a first-year law student at the University of Michigan, posted a note on a student noticeboard to share a lift back to her hometown of Muskegon for spring break. She never made it: she was brutally murdered, her body found a few miles from campus the following day • The Red Parts is Maggie Nelson’s singular account of her aunt Jane’s death, and the trial that took place some 35 years afterward. Officially unsolved for decades, the case was reopened in 2004 after a DNA match identified a new suspect, who would soon be arrested and tried. In 2005, Nelson found herself attending the trial, and reflecting with fresh urgency on our relentless obsession with violence, particularly against women • Resurrecting her interior world during the trial – in all its horror, grief, obsession, recklessness, scepticism and downright confusion – Maggie Nelson has produced a work of profound integrity and, in its subtle indeterminacy, deadly moral precision

'Darling, this is Younes. Yesterday he was my nephew, today he is our son' • Younes' life is changed forever when his poverty-stricken parents surrender him to the care of his more affluent uncle. Re-named Jonas, he grows up in a colourful colonial Algerian town, and forges a unique friendship with a group of boys, an enduring bond that nothing - not even the Algerian Revolt - will shake. He meets Emilie - a beautiful, beguiling girl who captures the hearts of all who see her - and an epic love story is set in motion • Time and again Jonas is forced to to choose between two worlds: Algerian or European; past or present; love or loyalty, and finally decide if he will surrender to fate or take control of his own destiny at last

We need to rethink the conversation around mental health - psychologist Lucy Foulkes explores how and why • How do mental health problems arise? • How do we distinguish between the 'normal' challenges of modern life and actual illness? • Is society really experiencing a new mental health crisis? • In this urgently needed book, psychologist Lucy Foulkes investigates what we know about mental illness - and shines a light on what we don't. It offers a profound new approach to how we think, talk and help when it comes to mental health

Когда Люси Нельсон была еще ребенком, ее безответственный отец-алкоголик попал в тюрьму. С тех пор Люси превратилась в разъяренного подростка, выступающего против жизни среднего класса и провинциального американского благочестия, намеревающегося изменить окружающих ее мужчин: особенно своего некомпетентного маменькиного сынка-мужа Роя. Время идет, Люси изо всех сил пытается освободиться от ужасного разочарования, вызванного ее отцом, и вечно тоскует по мужчине, которым он никогда не смог бы стать • В романе "Когда она была хорошей" с точностью, подобной скальпелю, Рот изображает ярость, ненависть и неистовство чувств, которые вскоре овладевают жизнью Люси • Книга на английском языке • When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her irresponsible, alcoholic father thrown in jail

Nevil Shute wrote this prophetic novel just before the start of the Second World War. In it he describes the devastation that results from an aerial bomb attack on Southampton that destroys the city's infrastructure and leaves the inhabitants at the mercy of cholera and further assaults. The story follows the trials and tribulations of the Corbett family as they try to get to safety

В 1982 году, продав свой джаз-бар, чтобы посвятить себя писательству, Мураками начал бегать, чтобы поддерживать себя в форме. Год спустя он прошел одиночный курс от Афин до Марафона, и теперь, после десятков таких забегов, он размышляет о том влиянии, которое спорт оказал на его жизнь и на его творчество • Эти откровенные мемуары, в равной степени состоящие из рассказа о путешествиях, журнала тренировок и воспоминаний, рассказывают о его четырехмесячной подготовке к Нью-Йоркскому марафону 2005 года и о местах, начиная от токийских садов Дзингу Гайен, где он однажды разделял дистанцию с олимпийцем, и заканчивая Чарльз-Ривер в Бостоне • Смешная и отрезвляющая, игривая и философская, она обязательна к прочтению поклонникам этого мастерского, но в то же время закрытого писателя, а также растущему числу спортсменов, которые находят такое же удовлетворение в беге на длинные дистанции

Две семьи. Семь дней. Один дом • Анджела и ее брат Ричард провели двадцать лет, избегая друг друга. Теперь, после смерти их матери, они собирают свои семьи вместе на каникулы в арендованном доме на границе с Уэльсом. Четверо взрослых и четверо детей. Семь дней совместных трапез, разведения костров, карточных игр и прогулок по мокрому снегу • Но в тишине и неподвижности долины начинают появляться призраки. Родители, которые, как думал Ричард, были у него. Родители, которые, как думала Анджела, были у нее. Прошлые и настоящие любовники. Друзья, враги, жертвы, спасители • Марк Хэддон, автор книг "Любопытный случай с собакой в ночное время" и "Место беспокойства", написал роман "Красный дом", который является забавным, пронзительным и глубоко проницательным о человеческих жизнях

Momik, the only child of two survivors, is brought up in Israel by a family seeking to ignore the past. No-one will explain to him what life was like 'Over There' or what the 'Nazi Beast' is. His 9-year-old mind imagines a Nazi Beast hiding in the cellar, waiting to feed on Jews. Momik increasingly shields himself from all feeling and attachment. But through the stories his great-uncle tells him-the same stories he told the commandant of a Nazi concentration camp-Momik, too, becomes "infected with humanity." • See Under: Love is a luminously imaginative and profoundly affecting work

What do you and an ancient philosopher have in common? It turns out much more than you might think… • Aristotle was an extraordinary thinker yet he was preoccupied by an ordinary question: how to be happy. In this handbook to his timeless teachings, Professor Edith Hall shows how ancient thinking is precisely what we need today, even if you don’t know your Odyssey from your Iliad. In ten practical lessons you can learn how to make good decisions, how to ace an interview, how to choose a partner and how to face death. This is advice that won’t go out of fashion

What would happen if society was run by women? Charlotte Perkins Gilman imagines the result • When three American men discover a community of women, living in perfect isolation in the Amazon, they decide there simply must be men somewhere. How could these women survive without man's knowledge, experience and strength, not to mention reproductive power? In fact, what they have found is a civilisation free from disease, poverty and the weight of tradition. All alone, the women have created a society of calm and prosperity, a feminist utopia that dares to threaten the very concept of male superiority

What if your son was the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll? • From the moment she first holds him, Gladys Presley loves her son Elvis ferociously. She is the one by his side when his father is in the jailhouse; as they move from place to place skirting poverty; as Elvis’s obsession with music grows and he begins his whirlwind rise to never-before-seen success. But while he brings audiences across the land to their knees and achieves unimagined wealth and fame, there is another story – of drinking and diet pills, loneliness and loss – and at the height of his power Elvis finds that even kings must go on alone