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The new novel by legendary Irish author Edna O'Brien, award-winning author of The Little Red Chairs starring on BBC Imagine in July 2019: who, in her ninth decade has produced her most searing, urgent fiction in this portrait of one woman's abduction by Boko Haram. Captured, abducted and married into Boko Haram, the narrator of this story witnesses and suffers the horrors of a community of men governed by a brutal code of violence. Barely more than a girl herself, she must soon learn how to survive as a woman with a child of her own. Just as the world around her seems entirely consumed by madness, bound for hell, she is offered an escape of sorts - but only into another landscape of trials and terrors amidst the unforgiving wilds of northeastern Nigeria, through the forest and beyond; a place where her traumas are met with the blinkered judgement of a society in denial. How do we love in a world that has lost its moorings? How can we comprehend the barbarism of our enemies, and learn forgiveness for atrocities committed in the name of ideology? Edna O'Brien's new novel pierces to the heart of these questions: and the result is her masterpiece.

A woman is murdered on a train. When Miss Marple telephones her friend Lucy Eyelesbarrow and asks her to go undercover to investigate, Lucy quickly accepts the challenge! Who is the dead woman? What was the motive for her murder? And why was the body thrown from the train and later hidden at Rutherford Hall? When a second murder takes place, everyone at Rutherford Hall seems in danger, so Miss Marple sets a trap to catch the murderer.

Rencontres improbables sous les Tropiques : un capitaine nordique et une émigrée russe sur la piste de danse d'une taverne bavaroise, un colonel blasé face à une magicienne des mots. Destins contrariés : le mariage arrangé d'une jeune fille confortablement dotée, une maîtresse d'école à la retraite coupable de meurtre, une mère de famille à la poursuite de ses chimères, une vielle dame en odeur de sainteté... Entre rêve et réalité, illusions et confusions, des êtres se croisent et se connaissent, parfois s'aiment ou se séparent...

Best friends Emelie and Matthew ride to her rescue with an entirely new kind of list - The Single Girl's To-Do List. Rachel doesn't know it, but it will take her on all kinds of wild adventures - and get her in some romantic pickles too. And then it won't be a case of what but who she decides to tick off !

Es ist tiefster Winter auf Sandhamn, ein eisiger Sturm fegt durch die leeren Straßen. An Heiligabend nimmt eine verängstigte Frau das letzte Schiff auf die Insel. Als man ihre gefrorene Leiche am nächsten Tag vor dem Seglerhotel findet, wird Thomas Andreasson nach Sandhamn gerufen. War es ein Unfall ?

Konzentrierte Spannung vor dem Start der berühmten Segelregatta vor den schwedischen Schäreninseln. Alle erwarten, dass das neue Boot von Oscar Juliander vorne liegen wird doch Juliander wird erschossen, zeitgleich mit dem Startschuss und vor den Augen des Regattapublikums. Ein packender Krimi, in dem Kommissar Andreasson in der Welt der Schönen und Reichen ermittelt - der zweite Fall der Erfolgsserie.

Mittsommernacht auf Sandhamn : Alle Menschen sind auf den Beinen, um den längsten Tag im Jahr mit Trinken, Essen und Tanzen zu feiern. Doch als der neue Tag beginnt, wird ein Jugendlicher tot am Strand gefunden. Wer ist der Tote ? Und warum musste das Fest für ihn so enden ?

Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the years following World War Two. Though skilled at bookkeeping, Eilis cannot find a proper job in the miserable Irish economy. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn visits the household and offers to sponsor Eilis in Americaùto live and work in a Brooklyn neighborhood "just like Ireland"ùshe realizes she must go, leaving her fragile mother and sister behind. Eilis finds work in a department store on Fulton Street, and studies accounting at Brooklyn College, and, when she least expects it, finds love. Tony, a blond Italian, slowly wins her over with persistent charm. He takes Eilis to Coney Island and Ebbets Field, and home to dinner in the two-room apartment he shares with his brothers and parents. Eilis is in love. But just as she begins to consider what this means, devastating news from Ireland threatens the promise of her new life.

In a Swiss sanatorium, a brilliant psychiatrist encounters a rich young patient whose problems exert a seductive fascination. After their marriage, they live on the French Riviera. There, set against the sun-baked stone houses and the drama of the sea, Dick and Nicole Diver's glamour and wealth suggest a fabled existence - the charmed lives of the seriously and breathtakingly frivolous. But, as with all confidence tricks, luck can run out.

It is a few days before Christmas. For forty-six years Sterling has lingered in the celestial waiting room outside the heavenly gates, awaiting summons by the Heavenly Council. Will he be deemed fit for entrance into heaven ? At last the day comes and the council settles on a test for Sterling - he will be sent back to earth and given an opportunity to prove his worthiness by helping someone else.

Un homme ouvre une lettre adressée à sa femme qui vient de mourir et découvre qu'elle lui est envoyée par un ancien amant. Il décide de lui répondre en se faisant passer pour l'infidèle afin de trouver qui est "l'autre"...

In 1993, Greg Mortenson tried to climb K2 in honor of his younger sister, but when another member of this group got sick, they turned around, and Greg became lost in the mountains of Pakistan. He wandered into a poor village, where the village chief and his people took him in. Moved by their kindness, he promised to return and build a school for the children. Over the next decade, Mortenson built more than sixty schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan. He has endured death threats, a kidnapping, and more to dedicate his life to building literacy and peace, one child at a time.

For more than a hundred years, "Waltzing Matilda" has been Australia's best loved song and unofficial national anthem. Written by our most popular poet, Banjo Paterson, at a pivotal time in Australia's history, it is as important to Australian culture as the Eureka Stockade and Ned Kelly - yet few of us know its secret history.

As if from nowhere, she appears one day on a seaside promenade, with a black flower and a horrifying story about where she's been. But telling that story will start a chain reaction of dangerous lies and deadly illusions that will claim many more victims in the years to come. Neil Dawson has grown up wanting to be like his father—a writer. When his father commits suicide, he is devastated. But through his grief, Neil knows something isn't right. Looking through his father's papers, he finds a copy of an old novel, The Black Flower. Opening it will take Neil into an investigation full of danger, pain and subterfuge. Hannah Price is also mourning her father. She followed his footsteps into the police force, and knows she has a big reputation to live up to. When she gets assigned to Neil's father's case, it will lead her on a journey into her own past and to the heart of a shattering secret.