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Det økonomiske kollaps og finanskrisen forårsager farlige spaendinger mellem indbyggerne i en lille by. Grådighed graver grøfter mellem tidligere venner. Arbejdsløshed, sorte penge, et mord og en barnebortførelse sender chokbølger gennem det lille samfund.

Brought to you by Penguin. From the multi-award-winning author of the number one bestseller, STRANGE FLOWERS, a searing, jubilant story about four generations of women and fierce love. The Aylward women of Nenagh, Tipperary, are mad about each other, but you wouldn't always think it. You'd have...

שלושה גברים. כל אחד מהם מחפש משהו שאבד לו. אצל פארוק, המשפחה עומדת מעל לכול. הוא רוצה להגן על אשתו ועל בתו כמיטב יכולתו מהמלחמה ומהשנאה המשסעות את סוריה, מולדתו. אם...

Brought to you by Penguin. ‘I said it before. Madness comes circling around. Ten-year cycles, as true as the sun will rise…’ Some things can send a heart spinning; others will crack it in two. In a small town in rural Ireland, the local people have weathered the storms of economic collapse...

Brought to you by Penguin. ‘He heard Daddy one time saying he was a grand quiet boy to Mother when he thought Johnsey couldn’t hear them talking. Mother must have been giving out about him being a gom and Daddy was defending him. He heard the fondness in Daddy’s voice. But you’d have...

Brought to you by Penguin. Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2013 Shortlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Literary Award 2014 Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013 Winner of Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2012 In the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse, dangerous tensions...

In 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home and disappears. Bewildered and distraught, Paddy and Kit must confront an unbearable prospect: that they will never see their daughter again. Five years later, Moll returns. What - and who - she brings with her will...

Random House presents the audiobook edition of From a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan, read by Stephen Hogan, Gerry O'Brien and Ramon Tikaram. Farouk’s country has been torn apart by war. Lampy’s heart has been laid waste by Chloe. John’s past torments him as he nears his end. The refugee...

Als Melodys Mann sich nach zwei Fehlgeburten heimlich sterilisieren lässt, beantwortet sie diesen Vertrauensbruch mit einer Affäre und wird schwanger - von einem ihrer Schüler. Das hat Konsequenzen im erzkatho­lischen Irland. Melody schwankt zwischen dem stillen Glück, das das werdende Leben in ihr auslöst, und der Schuld, die sie mit seiner Entstehung auf sich geladen hat. Doch die Entscheidung, die sie letztlich trifft, ist so unkon­ventionell wie mutig.

Fünf Jahre war Moll Gladney verschwunden. Fünf Jahre, in denen ihre Eltern versucht haben, die Trümmer ihres Lebens zusammenzuhalten. Doch plötzlich ist ihre Tochter wieder da, 25 inzwischen. Ohne ein Wort, wo sie gewesen ist, einen Hinweis, warum sie sich nie gemeldet hat. Gerade als sich die Wogen aus Klatsch und Tratsch in der kleinen irischen Gemeinde beinahe wieder gelegt haben, klopft die Polizei an die Tür der Gladneys – mit unfassbaren Neuigkeiten.

Farouks Leben ist am Ende, weil er verloren hat, was ihm am meisten bedeutete. Lampys Leben sollte gerade so richtig anfangen, doch dann ließ ihn seine große Liebe Chloé einfach stehen. John hat sein Leben lang andere betrogen und hofft nun verzweifelt auf Gottes Vergebung. In einer kleinen Stadt in Irland werden diese drei Männer sich auf unwahrscheinliche Weise begegnen. Mit fatalen Folgen.

Brought to you by Penguin. **WINNER of the EU Prize for Literature** Dr Jonathan Murray fears his new-born daughter is not as harmless as she seems. Sammy Agnew is wrestling with his dark past, and fears the violence in his blood lurks in his son, too. The city is in flames and the authorities...

Love is not a singular concept. In this collection, seven award-winning authors explore seven concepts of love: from philautia (self-love) to agape (love for humanity) and from storge (a natural affection for family) to mania (a frenzied, obsessive love).

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Parson's Pleasure by Roald Dahl read by Derek Jacobi. In Parson's Pleasure, Roald Dahl tells a sinister story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a priceless piece of furniture is the subject of a deceitful bargain . . . Parson's Pleasure is...

Brought to you by Penguin. 'Weird, tender, haunted. A deeply affecting spectacle, equal parts beauty and horror, and unlike anything you will read this year’ TEA OBREHT, author of Orange Prize winner, The Tiger’s Wife LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOT PRIZE 2019 'Fierce, palpable, hynoptic...

Brought to you by Penguin. ‘A profound examination of friendship, romantic confusion and mortality’ John Boyne One summer’s evening, two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant. Old friends, now married and with grown-up children, their lives have taken seemingly similar paths. But Joe has a...

Random House presents the audiobook edition of A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne, read by Richard E. Grant, Richard Cordery, Nina Sosanya and Laurence Kennedy. A psychological drama of cat and mouse, A Ladder to the Sky shows how easy it is to achieve the world if you are prepared to sacrifice...

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Warlight by Michael Ondaatje, read by George Blagden. 'Our book of the year – and maybe of Ondaatje's career' Daily Telegraph Books of the Year LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 An elegiac, dreamlike novel set in post-WW2 London about...

Brought to you by Penguin. Just moved into a new apartment, alone for the first time in years, Victor Forde goes every evening to Donnelly’s pub for a pint, a slow one. One evening his drink is interrupted. A man in shorts and a pink shirt brings over his pint and sits down. He seems to know...

Brought to you by Penguin. I've had some pretty bad New Year's Eves in my life. But this one was officially... The! Worst! Ever! My wife had just given birth to a baby that wasn't mine. My son had just walked out on his bride-to-be on the eve of their wedding. And my old dear was making threats...