Resultados Editorial "Saga Egmont" en Ficción contemporánea

Roberta Laub hat den sinnvollsten Beruf der Welt: Sie ist Tramfahrerin. Mit einem Augenzwinkern berichtet sie von Schienencowboys und Pufferküssern, von Schwarz- und Nacktfahrern. Dass man sich auch mit einer Straßenbahn verfahren kann und wie es ist, im Traum mit der Tram abzuheben, gehört zu den Geheimnissen, die sie uns verrät. Meistens aber bleibt Roberta Laub auf dem Boden der Tatsachen: Sie liebt ihren Beruf und ihre Fahrgäste - und sie löst manches Problem so ganz auf ihre Weise.

Emmis Tod bringt die vier Schulfreunde wieder zusammen. Viel ist inzwischen geschehen, und noch mehr wird sich ereignen, wenn sie herausfinden...

"So eilte er vorwärts, gerade hinein, wo der Wald am dichtesten war. Der Mond musste höher gestiegen sein, denn zuweilen lag ein Lichtflitter auf dem Moose, dann aber wurde die Finsternis wieder so schwarz, dass Arwed nur mit Mühe seinen Weg finden konnte. An dem Duft spürte er es, wenn er an einer Birke vorüberkam, die dort im Dunkel stand. Etwas berührte seine Wange wie mit weichen kleinen Tierpfoten, das war dann ein blühender Weidenzweig, der ihn streifte."

Una mattina di dicembre, davanti a una platea di bambini e insegnanti, una mamma infrange irrimediabilmente il più grande tabù attorno al Natale. Intorno a lei si leva un’ondata di sdegno, capace di travolgere tutto e di scaraventarla indietro, al cuore della sua infelicità.Antonia, detta Toni, è una brillante scrittrice di libri illustrati, che il suo ex marito chiama mélomamma. Toni non molla, ogni mattina si sveglia e affronta una nuova giornata, anche quando il Natale si avvicina, con i suoi obblighi di riunioni familiari e tintinnante felicità di plastica.

En mysig och mystisk uppföljare till "Skärgårdsdrömmar och familjehemligheter"! I andra delen i "Det stormar på Hasslö"-serien möter vi återigen Rebecca i fiskarstugan i Blekinge skärgård. Brottsliga grannar och en stressfylld utlandsresa krossar drömmen om skärgårdsidyllen. Kommer Rebecca någonsin bli lycklig på Hasslö? "Hemligheter på Hasslö" är en feelgood med mycket värme. Boken bygger på verkliga händelser, men författaren har valt att blanda fakta med fantasi.

"What were we, then, if ‘English’ was a prize out of our reach and ‘Tunisian’ was the mask we wore at home?" Caught between cultures and struggling to find her identity, Nessie, a Londoner with Tunisian roots, navigates the complexities of belonging. With her multiple name - Nesrine, Susu, Nessie - and a yearning for acceptance, she grapples with not being "enough" for anyone. But when Mrs Brown enters their lives, her charismatic presence becomes the glue holding their dysfunctional family together - until a catastrophic betrayal tears them apart.

Two rivals. One winner. Fresh off his fourth-place finish in his first Olympic final, British long jumper Adam Lowe finds himself standing face-to-face with the man who beat him to a medal. Little does he know, this chance encounter will spark a rivalry that, for Lowe, will become all-consuming. Through epic victories and crushing defeats, Lowe pushes himself to the brink, testing his mental, physical, professional, and personal limits.

Welke bloem past bij jouw emotie? Victoria Jones is de enige die het weet! Als kind groeide ze op in 32 verschillende pleeghuizen, liefdeloos en moederziel alleen. Door de traumatische gebeurtenissen uit haar jeugd heeft ze zich volledig afgesloten voor alles en iedereen. Op achttienjarige leeftijd vindt ze een baantje als bloemist en weet door haar diepe connectie met bloemen zich open te stellen voor mensen. De Victoriaanse taal van bloemen is de enige taal die ze spreekt, totdat een mysterieuze bloemenhandelaar haar hart verovert.

Two worlds, two timelines and one person's impact. Manhattan, 1963: weeks before the assassination of President Kennedy, fresh-faced Raymond Wallace lands in the New York Times newsroom on a three-month bursary from Cambridge University. He soon discovers his elusive boss, Bukowski, is being covertly blackmailed by an estranged wife, and that he himself is to assist the straight-laced Doty on an article about the ‘explosion of overt homosexuality’.

Ferocious and irreverent, this multiple prize-winning novel burns down the pretensions of a pompous literary establishment and takes no prisoners. Ellinor is thirty-six. She wears soft black sweatpants and a Michelin Man jacket. She fights. Smart and unsentimental, she tries her hand at online dating, only to be stranded in a snowstorm with a literary critic. Cut to Max Lamas, an author who dreams of a polyglot lover, a woman who will understand him in every tongue. His search takes him to Italy, where he befriends a Marchesa whose old Roman family is on the brink of ruin.

I "Kvinna till salu" möter vi Louise, som har påbörjat den långa processen av att lämna ett liv som prostituerad bakom sig. Genom terapisamtal får vi ta del av Louises historia, som börjar vid de sexuella övergrepp hon fick genomlida som barn, groomingen som får in henne i prostitutionen som tonåring, och hennes komplicerade familjeförhållanden. Som 45-åring for hon nog. Kroppen gör ont, själen gör ont, och Louise är redo att finna sig ett nytt liv. "Kvinna till salu" är baserad på verkliga händelser.

A widow spends weeks haunting a cemetery, desperate to track down an unknown woman who keeps leaving flowers on her husband’s grave; A daughter searches a foreign city for her father, trying to understand why he disappeared forty-five years ago; A former gay lover of Roger Casement stands among the crowds at his state funeral in 1965, paying silent homage to the closeted world they were forced to inhabit at the dawning of the Irish State. A writer at a book launch comes face to face with the person secretly responsible for his success.

Monsoon Memories is an unforgettable journey through a mesmerizing, passionate land of contrasts – with a family whose story will touch your heart. Anyone who enjoys the storytelling of Jodi Picoult, Diane Chamberlain, or Dorothy Koomson will love this. Exiled from her family in India for more than a decade, Shirin and her husband lead a comfortable but empty life in London. Memories of her childhood – exotic fragrances, colours, stifling heat and tropical storms – fill Shirin with a familiar and growing ache for the land and the people that she loves.

I walk slowly to the kitchen counter, staring out the window as Ceci rocks back and forth on the swing. My beautiful darling girl has been through so much already. How can I tell her that her life is about to change forever? When the woman from the hospital tells me that my husband Drew is in a coma my world comes crashing down. In an instant, I see our whole married life flashing before my eyes: the way our children ran into his arms when he came home from work, the way his face lit up when he read to them.

Rose Gregory has suffered a devastating blow, a double bereavement from which months later she is still reeling. Sanctuary and rest are prescribed by her doctor. But when she arrives at her refuge, a dank and decaying monastery, she finds it is not the haven promised. Despite the veneer of calm contemplation, the monastery turns out to be a hotbed of intrigue and disharmony. Rose witnesses bullying and cruelty and ultimately in defence of the vulnerable turns to violence herself.

Nature or nurture? The impact of traumatic childhood experiences reverberates into the grown-up world of Frank, Alice and Henry – children from three families suffering the fall-out from their early life. Frank, a working-class boy abused by his step-father. Alice, physically handicapped and frustrated. Henry, the less clever son of wealthy ambitious parents. From a rundown estate in Eastleigh, a small town in Darlington and an affluent Cotswold home, each character grapples with the life fate has handed them.

"Vi måste avsluta vårt samarbete". Orden träffar Courtney som ett slag i magen. Låten hon nyss spelat upp för skivbolagets chef PW skulle ju bli en nystart, inte slutet på hennes tjugoåriga karriär som schlagerdrottning. Drömmen att få visa vem hon verkligen är med egna låtar i en annan genre, har gått i kras. Med en kalender som gapar tom bestämmer sig Courtney för att flytta ut till väninnan Bea på skärgårdsön Svarvö en tid.

Ibsen och bästa vännen Ika ska börja ettan. Detta är något som Ibsen verkligen skulle se fram emot om det inte vore för hans konstiga föräldrar som tvingar honom ha på sig rosa skor för att bryta normer. Vad betyder ens normer? Det dröjer inte länge förrän de superläskiga tredjeklassarna Jings och Jangs onda öga vänds mot Ibsen och hans rosa skor. Nu måste han akta sig för att inte bli nedkastad i källaren där vaktmästarspöket Hängde Hassan ryktas härja.

At a run-down brothel in Caudal, Spain, the prostitutes are collecting stray dogs. Each is named after a famous male writer: Dante, Chaucer, and Bret Easton Ellis. When a john is cruel, the dogs are fed rotten meat. To the east, in Barcelona, an unflappable teenage girl is endeavouring to trace the peculiarities of her life back to one woman: Alba Camb, writer of violent short stories, who left Caudal as a girl and never went back.

Smash all the Windows won the inaugural Selfies Book Award in 2019. It has taken conviction to right the wrongs. It will take courage to learn how to live again. London, 22 August 2003. A day that began like any other would end in tragedy. Fifty-eight people set off for work, only to never return. For more than thirteen years, the search for truth has eaten up everything: marriages, families, health, careers and finances. A flawed justice system failed the victims' kin, but hope arises when a rookie law student scrutinizes the disaster and uncovers potential answers.