Engelska

The Bridge Kingdom [Bok / Häftad]

<p>The branch he sat on was creaking under his weight, but he didn´t seem to notice or care. He was shouting about being angry at his brother. I stood by the trunk and cried and begged him to come down, but he wouldn´t listen. </p><p>I will not come down until Gregoris has apologised to you! he insisted. There were two birds in the tree with my grandfather, one on each side of him. One of the birds was a dove, the other some sort of bird of prey, like a hawk or a falcon. </p><p>"If you won´t come down, will you at least save the dove? And look out for the other bird!" I cried out. Just as my grandfather reached out to the dove, the branch snapped.</p>

<p>Spanning a lifetime of love and loss, crossing borders and oceans, Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt, co-authored by her son Harry Whittaker, draws Lucinda Riley's Seven Sisters series to its stunning, unforgettable conclusion.</p><p>1928, Paris</p><p>A boy is found, moments from death, and taken in by a kindly family. Gentle, precocious, talented, he flourishes in his new home, and the family show him a life he hadn't dreamed possible. But he refuses to speak a word about who he really is.</p><p>As he grows into a young man, falling in love and taking classes at the prestigious Conservatoire de Paris, he can almost forget the terrors of his past, or the promise he has vowed to keep. But across Europe an evil is rising, and no-one's safety is certain. In his heart, he knows the time will come where he must flee once more.</p><p>2008, the Aegean</p><p>The seven sisters are gathered together for the first time, on board the Titan to say a final goodbye to the enigmatic father they loved so dearly.</p><p>To the surprise of everyone, it is the missing sister who Pa Salt has chosen to entrust with the clue to their pasts. But for every truth revealed, another question emerges. The sisters must confront the idea that their adored father was someone they barely knew. And even more shockingly: that these long-buried secrets may still have consequences for them today. </p>

<p><b>A genre-bending story about love and loss, hope and heartbreak, and the healing to be found in lifes little limbos, those in-between spaces where youre no longer who you were and not yet the person you will be  </b></p><p>Following a breakup, Kate and Finn decide to keep sharing their house until the lease runs out in twelve weeks, alternating week by week so that they are occupying the same space but never at the same time. Practically, the plan makes sense, but coming back each Sunday to a home where Finn has been feels far too much like living with a ghost. Soon Kate finds herself adrift in her own subconscious, trapped in the liminal space between loving someone and letting go.</p>

<p><b>Marnie is stuck.<br/></b>Stuck working alone in her London flat, stuck battling the long afternoons and a life that increasingly feels like it's passing her by.<br/><br/><b>Michael is coming undone.<br/></b>Reeling from his wife's departure, increasingly reclusive, taking himself on long, solitary walks across the moors and fells.<br/><br/>When a persistent mutual friend and some very English weather conspire to bring them together, Marnie and Michael suddenly find themselves alone on the most epic of walks and on the precipice of a new friendship.<br/><br/><b>But can it survive the journey?<br/></b><br/>A new love story by beloved bestseller David Nicholls, <i>You Are Here</i> is a novel of first encounters, second chances and finding the way home.</p>

<p><b>*Now an acclaimed live-action Netflix series!* </b><b>Packed with stunning artwork from the bestselling Heartstopper series, this unique colouring book allows you to relax with Nick, Charlie and friends - and also includes several exclusive never-before-seen images. </b><br/><br/><b>Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. </b><br/><br/>This beautiful colouring book contains all the fan favourite characters and scenes such as Nick and Charlie's first kiss and their trip to Paris, plus guest appearances from Nellie, Tao and Ellie, Tara and Darcy and many more! Featuring some empty speech bubbles to fill in with your own creative thoughts, and the entire Tara/Darcy mini-comic to colour at the end, this book has something for everyone.<br/><br/>Celebrate the power of love and friendship, while becoming involved in the Heartstopper world in a truly interactive way.<br/><br/><i>Praise for Heartstopper:</i><br/><br/>'Absolutely delightful. Sweet, romantic, kind. Beautifully paced. I loved this book.' RAINBOW ROWELL, author of <i>Carry On</i><br/><br/>'The queer graphic novel we wished we had at high school.' <i>Gay Times</i></p>

<p>A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited girl alone in the wilderness, trying to survive </p><p>"Lauren Groff just reinvented the adventure novel."-- Los Angeles Times </p><p>"Glorioussurroundings come alive in prose that lives and breathes upon the page." -- Boston Globe </p><p>"I know of few other writers whose sentences are so beautiful and so propulsive." -- New York Times Book Review </p><p>A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her.</p><p>Lauren Groff's new novel is at once a thrilling adventure story and a penetrating fable about trying to find a new way of living in a world succumbing to the churn of colonialism. The Vaster Wilds is a work of raw and prophetic power that tells the story of America in miniature, through one girl at a hinge point in history, to ask how-and if-we can adapt quickly enough to save ourselves. </p>