Tristao Raposo, a nineteen-year-old black child of the Rio slums, and Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl, meet on Copacabana Beach; their flight into marriage takes them to the farthest reaches of Brazil's wild west.
It’s 1989, and Harry ‘Rabbit’ Angstrom is far from restful. Fifty-six and overweight, he has a struggling business on his hands and a heart that is starting to fail.
It's 1979 and Rabbit is no longer running. He's walking, and beginning to get out of breath. That's ok, though - it gives him the chance to enjoy the wealth that comes with middle age.
It’s 1969, and the times are changing. America is about to land a man on the moon, the Vietnamese war is in full swing, and racial tension is on the rise.
In his extraordinary and highly charged new novel, John Updike tackles one of America's most burning issues – the threat of Islamist terror from within.
After traveling the world to exotic lands, Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie–now widowed but still witches–return to the Rhode Island seaside town of Eastwick, “the scene of their primes,” site of their enchanted mischief more than three decades ago.
When a group of scientific researchers, isolated in Antarctica, stumble across an alien spaceship buried in the ice it seems like an incredible opportunity.
Octavius, Großneffe und Adoptivsohn von Julius Caesar, später Kaiser Augustus: Williams schildert das Wirken und Leben dieses außergewöhnlichen Mannes so plastisch, so mitreißend, als würden sich die Geschehnisse in unseren Tagen ereignen.
Will Andrews is no academic. He longs for wildness, freedom, hope and vigour. He leaves Harvard and sets out for the West to discover a new way of living.
Amb Stoner, John Williams aconsegueix condensar tota una vida en una novel·la. Una obra mestra que, en paraules del narrador, recrea com "a algú se li va concedir la saviesa i al cap dels anys va trobar la ignorancia".
The disturbing post-apocalyptic novel The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, author of The Day of the Triffids and The Kraken Wakes and dramatised on BBC Radio 4.
Lou est une fille ordinaire qui mene une vie monotone dans un trou paumé de l’Angleterre dont elle n’est jamais sortie. Quand elle se retrouve au chômage, elle accepte un contrat de six mois pour tenir compagnie a un handicapé.
Lou Clark tiene muchas preguntas: ?Por qué ha terminado trabajando en el pub irlandés de un aeropuerto donde cada día tiene que ver cómo otras personas se van de viaje a conocer sitios nuevos?