Normal People

Feito, Virginia

"Sensationally unhinged" - SUNDAY TIMES"Simmering with rage, propulsive and laugh-out-loud funny" - CATRIONA WARD""Weird and wonderful" - LUCY MANGAN, GUARDIANWinifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect Victorian governess. She'll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating children. But the long...

Rooney, Sally

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney. From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller Normal People, an exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties - successful, compe...

Alice Oseman

harlie and Nick are at the same school, but they've never met ... until one day when they're made to sit together. They quickly become friends, and soon Charlie is falling hard for Nick, even though he doesn't think he has a chance.But love works in surprising ways, and Nick is more interested in Charlie than either of them realised.By Alice Oseman, winner of the YA Book Prize,...

Vallejo, Irene

A fascinating and profound, yet delightfully personal take on books in the ancient world, with many illuminating insights into more modern literature and life.' - Paul Strathern, author of Ten Cities that Led the World Long before books were mass produced, those made of reeds from along the Nile were worth fighting and dying for. Journeying along the battlefields of Alexander t...

Bechdel, Alison

All her life, Alison Bechdel has searched for an elusive secret. The secret to superhuman strength. She has looked for it in her favourite books, the lives of her heroes, celibacy, polyamory, activism, therapy, and most obsessively, in her lifelong passion for exercise. Skiing, running, karate, cycling, yoga, weight lifting - you name it, she´s tried it. "Oh, to be self-suffici...

O'farrell, Maggie

A stunning new departure for Maggie O'Farrell's fiction, HAMNET is the heart-stopping story behind Shakespeare's most famous play.On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home?Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medici...

Rooney, Sally

El libro más esperado del año. La nueva novela de Sally Rooney, la aclamada autora de Gente normal. «El fenómeno literario de la década».The Guardian «Su talento es excepcional».Zadie Smith«Las palabras son su superpoder».The New Yorker A pesar de ser hermanos, Peter e Ivan Koubek tienen poco en común. Peter, de treinta y pocos, es un carismático y renombrado abogado en Dublín ...

Rooney, Sally

En Peter i l'Ivan són germans, però no sembla que tinguin res en comú. El primer és un advocat carismàtic instal·lat a la trentena, que aparenta tenir-ho tot sota control però que depèn de la medicació per superar la mort del pare i gestionar les seves relacions amoroses. El segon és un jugador d'escacs professional que sempre s'ha considerat un inadaptat social, l'antítesi del...

Rooney, Sally

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney. From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller Normal People, an exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties - successful, compe...

Rooney, Sally

L'Alice se n'ha anat a viure a una mansió d'un poble on ningú sap qui és ni a què es dedica. Al cap de poc, coneixerà en Felix, un mosso de magatzem. Mentrestant, a Dublín, la seva amiga Eileen intenta arribar a final de mes mentre es recupera d'una ruptura amorosa flirtejant amb un vell conegut, en Simon. A través dels missatges que s'envien les amigues, comprendrem la importà...

Rooney, Sally

Después de Conversaciones entre amigos, Sally Rooney vuelve a deslumbrarnos con una historia sobre la fascinación mutua entre dos personas que no consiguen encontrarse. Ganador del Costa Novel Award.Ganador del Irish Novel of the Year.Finalista del Man Booker Prize.Finalista del Women's Prize for Fiction.Marianne y Connell son compañeros de instituto pero no se cruzan palabra. ...

Rooney, Sally

En Connell i la Marianne han crescut al mateix poble de l'interior d'Irlanda, però en realitat provenen de dos mons molt diferents. La Marianne és una noia orgullosa, inadaptada i solitària. En Connell és un dels nois més populars de l'institut. També és el fill de la dona de fer feines de la mansió on viu la Marianne. Quan, tot i les diferències socials, sorgeix entre ells una...