Domaren
Fiona May är hovrättsdomare specialiserad på familjerättsfrågor och dömer i fall där man måste prioritera mellan barns välfärd och religiösa fri- och rättigheter. Hennes professionella framgångar förmörkas dock av att hennes barnlösa äktensk...
Machines Like Me
Random House presents the audiobook edition of Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan, read by Billy Howle. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever â?? a love triangle soon forms.
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The Daydreamer
He's a quiet ten year old who can't help himself from dropping out of reality and into the amazing world of his vivid imagination. His daydreams are fantastic and fascinating - only in the bizarre and disturbing world of dreams can he swap bodies ...
Penguin Readers Level 7: The Children Act (ELT Graded Reader)
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting materia...
Comfort of Strangers
Rediscover the classic novel of love, violence and obsessions from Booker prize-winning Sunday Times bestselling author Ian McEwan. Colin and Mary are a couple whose intimacy knows no bounds. Away on a holiday together in a nameless city, they get...
The Daydreamer
Peter Fortune is a boy who likes to daydream. He dreams about swapping bodies with his cat and with his baby cousin, but he gets so lost he's unsure where one fantasy finishes and the next begins. Cartwheeling through these transformations, Peter ...
Rose Blanche
Rose Blanche was the name of a group of young German citizens who, at their peril, protested against the war. Like them, Rose observes all the changes going on around her which others choose to ignore. She watches as the streets of her small Germa...
Children Act
A brilliant, emotionally wrenching new novel from the author of Atonement and Amsterdam. Fiona Maye, a leading High Court judge, renowned for her fierce intelligence and sensitivity is called on to try an urgent case. For religious reasons, a seve...
Sweet Tooth
'A web of spying, subterfuge, deceit and betrayal... Acute, witty...winningly cunning' Sunday Times The year is 1972, the Cold War is far from over and Serena Frome, in her final year at Cambridge, is being groomed for MI5. Sent on Operation Sweet...
Enduring Love
Unknown to Rose, something passes between them - something that gives birth in Parry to an obsession so powerful that it will test to the limits Rose's beloved scientific rationalism, threaten the love of his wife Clarissa and drive him to the bri...
What We Can Know
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the Booker prize-winning, bestselling author of Atonement and Saturday, a genre-bending new novel full of secrets and surprises; an immersive exploration, across time and history, of what can ever be truly known. 'It gave me so much pleasure I sometimes felt like laughing. . . . It's a sophisticated entertainment of a high order.' --The New York Times 'Brilliantly, and surprisingly, plotted.'--The Washington Post - 'A novelist of consummate skill.'--The Wall Street Journal - 'Elegantly structured and provocative.'--Los Angeles Times 2014: At a dinner for close friends and colleagues, renowned poet Francis Blundy honors his wife's birthday by reading aloud a new poem dedicated to her, 'A Corona for Vivien'. Much wine is drunk as the guests listen, and a delicious meal consumed. Little does anyone gathered around the candlelit table know that for generations to come people will speculate about the message of this poem, a copy of which has never been
On Chesil Beach
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE AND NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE A warm treat of a read for the cold winter nights. It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in thei...
Atonement
On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, lik...
Atonement
The publication of Atonement cemented Ian McEwan's reputation as one of the most exciting and accomplished writers of his generation. From its breath-taking opening section, telling the events of a fateful summer's day in 1935, McEwan unravels a t...
Machines Like Me
**Number One Sunday Times Bestseller** Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch...
The Children Act
A brilliant, emotionally wrenching novel from the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement about a leading High Court judge who must resolve an urgent case--as well as her crumbling marriage. One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, BookRiot 'Fantastically pleasurable.... Anything we want a novelist to do, he can do.... Unsurpassable.' --Chicago Tribune Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge who presides over cases in the family division. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactitude, and sensitivity. But her professional success belies private sorrow and domestic strife. There is the lingering regret of her childlessness, and now her marriage of thirty years is in crisis. At the same time, she is called on to try an urgent case: Adam, a beautiful seventeen-year-old boy, is refusing for religious reasons the medical treatment that could save his life, and his devout parents echo his wishes. Time is running out. Should the secular
First Love, Last Rites
Taut, brooding and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can result from adolescent curiosity, and sheer evil might be the solution to unbearable loneliness.
What We Can Know
'McEwan's most richly layered work' Sunday Times 'A gripping page-turner' Observer 'A daring, beautiful novel, full of wisdom and heart' Elif Shafak 'A big, unabashed crowd-pleaser' TLS A quest, a literary thriller and a love story, What We Can Kn...
Atonement
On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, lik...
Atonement
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness that provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from the acclaimed Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author. One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century - A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century 'A beautiful and majestic fictional panorama.' --John Updike, The New Yorker On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a moment's flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant and Cecilia's childhood friend. But Briony's incomplete grasp of adult motives--together with her precocious literary gifts--brings about a crime that will change all their lives. As it follows that crime's repercussions through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century, Atonement engages the reader on every
Amsterdam
Two old friends - Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday - meet at the funeral of gorgeous, witty Molly Lane. Both men had been Molly's lovers years before their dazzling success; Clive is Britain's most eminent modern composer and Vernon is the editor ...
Enduring Love
**AS FEATURED ON BBC2'S BETWEEN THE COVERS** Discover the tragic masterpiece from Booker prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling Ian McEwan. One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm, organised life is shattered by a ballooning acciden...
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Die Abgründe und die Macht der Leidenschaft und der Phantasie: An einem heißen Tag im Sommer 1935 spielt die dreizehnjährige Briony Tallis Schicksal und verändert dadurch für immer das Leben dreier Menschen.
Saturday
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Nötskal
Trudy är tjugoåtta år, höggravid och har ett hemligt förhållande med sin svåger. Tillsammans smider kärleksparet planer för att göra sig av med den blivande fadern. Men det finns någon som hör allt om deras onda avsikter: det lilla barnet i ...
Science
'This is a history of intellectual courage, hard work, occasional inspiration and every conceivable form of human failing. It is also an extended invitation to wonder, to pleasure' How far have we come in our understanding of the world around us? ...
Kärlekens raseri
Det var menat att bli en romantisk picknick när vetenskapsjournalisten Joe Rose och hans fru, Keatsforskaren Clarissa, återförenades efter sex veckor ifrån varandra. I stället inträffar en händelse som drastiskt förändrar alla de närvaran...