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Wenn Liebe auf Ehrgeiz trifft, sprühen die Funken. Rachel Holmes ist eine erfolgreiche PR-Managerin, die ganz auf ihre Karriere fokussiert ist. Ihr Leben dreht sich nur darum, den nächsten großen Deal an Land zu ziehen.

Three witches. One impossible wish. A cozy magical mystery where longing turns lethal. Spring has arrived in Winterset—and with it, miracles. Lost rings return, fortunes change, and broken hearts start mending overnight. At least until the wishes bite back. When every dream in town begins to twist into something darker, The Hearth is once again in demand and in over its collective head.

La escritora escocesa Ali Smith es una de las autoras más destacadas de los últimos años en el Reino Unido y su Cuarteto estacional, uno de los proyectos más ambiciosos e inspiradores de la literatura europea actual. 

Este libro, en el que nos encontramos con algunos de sus mejores textos, contiene doce cuentos en los que el amor, la tristeza y, muy especialmente, los libros y los libreros son los protagonistas.

Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new set of circumstances? Ali Smith's remix of Ovid's most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind of fluidity that can't be bottled and sold. It is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love...

¿Qué une a Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, el Brexit, el presente, el pasado, un hombre de luto por los tiempos perdidos, una mujer atrapada en los tiempos modernos? La respuesta está en Primavera, una novela luminosa, generosa y llena de esperanza, en la que, al igual que en Otoño e Invierno, la autora escocesa está haciendo algo más que analizar las injusticias de nuestra época: nos ilumina el camino para salir de la pesadilla.

Dios había muerto: para empezar. Y el romanticismo había muerto. La gallardía había muerto. La poesía, la novela, la pintura, todas habían muerto, y el arte había muerto. El teatro y el cine habían muerto. La literatura había muerto. Muchísimas cosas habían muerto. Sin embargo, otras no habían muerto, de momento. La vida todavía no había muerto. La revolución no había muerto. La igualdad racial no había muerto. El odio no había muerto.

From the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet 'Artful is a revelation; a new kind of book altogether . . . it could have only been written by Ali Smith. An intimate study of grief that makes you glad to be alive' Jackie Kay 'Playful...

Brought to you by Penguin. O brave new world, that has such people in't. Once upon a time not very far from now, two children come home to find a line of wet red paint encircling the outside of their house. What does it mean? It’s a truism of our time that it’ll be the next generation...

Der sensationelle Nummer-1-Bestseller aus Großbritannien: Das fulminante Meisterwerk von Booker-Prize-Finalistin Ali Smith. England im Herbst 2016: Das Land hat einen historischen Sommer hinter sich, die Nation ist tief gespalten, und Angst macht sich breit. Mitten in dieser Zeit des Umbruchs besucht die junge Kunsthistorikerin Elisabeth einen alten Weggefährten im Heim. Daniel ist ein Jahrhundert alt. Er war einst ihr Nachbar und hat ihr als Kind die Welt der Fantasie eröffnet.

En el presente, Sacha sabe que el mundo está en problemas. Su hermano Robert sólo es un problema. Su madre y su padre están teniendo problemas. Mientras tanto, el mundo está en crisis, y la verdadera debacle ni siquiera ha comenzado todavía. En el pasado, un verano encantador. Un Un hermano y una hermana diferentes saben que están viviendo en el tiempo prestado.

Two overworked doctors. One stolen coffee break at a time. Lily Harper has her life under control—structured routines, surgical precision, and absolutely no room for distractions. Especially not Noah Carter, the reckless, annoyingly charming ER doctor who thrives on chaos and seems determined to push her buttons. But when late-night shifts force them into each other’s orbit, their rivalry turns into something far more dangerous—midnight conversations, lingering glances, and a chemistry neither of them can ignore.

Three witches. One haunted orchard. A cozy magical mystery where gratitude turns deadly. Maeven Foxglove, Ivy Calder, and Juno Merrin aren’t the sort of witches who go looking for trouble—but it keeps leaving offerings at their door. Life at The Hearth is all sarcasm, tea, and mild spellwork until the orchard on the hill starts whispering the names of the dead. When a haunting twists into something far darker, the coven must uncover who—or what—is turning gratitude into vengeance.

Three witches. One furious storm. A cozy magical mystery where emotion becomes elemental. Maeven Foxglove, Ivy Calder, and Juno Merrin have weathered curses, hauntings, and the occasional exploding kettle—but nothing like this. When a sentient storm starts screaming over Winterset and lightning strikes in rhythm with broken hearts, the coven is dragged into a mystery written in thunder. As tempers flare and the town’s emotions spiral out of control, the witches must uncover who—or what—is conducting the chaos before the skies bring the roof down for good.

Grief. Guilt. Gardening. And one very inconvenient crush. She came back to fix her life. She didn’t expect to inherit half a garden centre—and a love triangle. Jess Bennett thought she'd left small-town Ashcombe behind for good. But when her London life goes up in flames, she returns home to sort out her mum’s affairs… and discovers she’s now co-owner of Fletcher’s Garden Centre. Unfortunately, the other owner is Callum Fletcher—grumpy, buttoned-up, and inconveniently handsome. Even worse? His younger brother Jamie just joined the team, bringing charm, chaos, and smoothie-related flirtation.

Some stories deserve a second chance—even if it’s with your biggest rival. Grace Hampton plays by the rules. Paul Callaghan never even reads them. Once, they were the dream team of Sheffield Uni’s student paper—and a couple on the brink of forever. But when Grace landed the internship Paul wanted, he walked out of her life with a parting shot and a grudge the size of Fleet Street. Now, after a brutal media merger, the pair are forced to co-write a column neither of them wants… while sharing an office, a byline, and a history neither can ignore.

Seine Muse ist verschwunden. Sein Manuskript ein Chaos. Und seine einzige Hoffnung? Die Frau, die nicht mehr an Happy Ends glaubt. Lara Yates repariert beruflich Liebesgeschichten – doch sie selbst hat schon lange aufgehört, an sie zu glauben. Als scharfzüngige Lektorin weiß sie, dass Liebesromane einer Formel folgen und das wahre Leben selten das perfekte Ende bereithält. Bestsellerautor Rory Keane hingegen hat seine Karriere auf Happy Ends aufgebaut – bis ihn eine Schreibblockade lahmlegt. Die Deadline rückt immer näher und sein Buch droht zu scheitern.

Lara Yates fixes love stories for a living, but she stopped believing in them a long time ago. As a sharp-tongued editor, she knows romance follows a formula, and real life rarely delivers the perfect ending. Bestselling author Rory Keane, on the other hand, has built his career on happily-ever-afters—until he hits a creative wall. With a deadline looming and his book falling apart, he needs help, and Lara is the only one who can whip his manuscript (and him) into shape.

As an only child reeling from the demolition of her parents’ toxic marriage, the New York City underground music scene offers a young Ali a different family of misfits and talented outsiders to belong to. She becomes the bass player for edgy band Speedball Baby, a decision that will take her around the world—from onstage at the legendary CBGBs to the red-light district of Amsterdam. She’s often the only girl in a broken-down tour van, being strip-searched at the Croatian border, chased by lunatics, and navigating the seedy underbelly of a male-dominated music scene.

Brought to you by Penguin. THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Discover Ali Smith's dazzling, once-in-a-generation series, the Seasonal Quartet, a tour-de-force quartet of novels about love, time, art, politics, and how we live right now What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin...