«Mi resi conto allora che il mio cuore era diviso a metà tra i vivi e i morti. E di più, che stavo desiderando, mentre il mio piede scendeva il primo gradino, di lasciare i vivi per unirmi ai morti». Poco più che ragazzi, Helen e Frank si sono innamorati a bordo della Innisfree, imparando insieme a navigare in mare aperto. Oggi vivono a Londra con Nicholas, il loro figlio undicenne, e aspettano un secondo bambino. In mare il loro è stato un amore travolgente, mentre sulla terraferma si r...

Polly Clark’s poetry inhabits a world that is strange, unsettling, and edged with danger.This retrospective of her work drawns upon her collections Kiss (2000), the T.S. Eliot Prize shortlisted Take Me with You (2005), and Farewell My Lovely (2009), plus Afterlife, a collection of new poems.Her debut, Kiss, journeys inward, exploring the self with an unflinching gaze, before Take Me with You turns outwar...

A powerful yacht, a warring family, the unforgiving deep...Caught in a terrorist explosion on the London Underground, inner-city schoolteacher Helen is pregnant and lost until a stranger leads her to safety then vanishes. Obsessed with finding him, she begins to lose her grip on reality – and her family.As their marriage fractures, her husband Frank proposes a daring plan: sell up and sail the Atlantic with their son Nicholas and troubled foster daughter Si...

"Era come se la tigre le stesse comunicando un messaggio, come se ci fosse un patto, che lei aveva stretto senza sapere quale fosse". Per i popoli siberiani incontrare una tigre significa assistere allo svelamento di una verità assoluta: tutte le cose della natura si incarnano le une nelle altre, e la tigre rappresenta l'incarnazione vivente di qualcosa che va oltre l'umano, qualcosa al tempo stesso di enigmatico, meraviglioso e tremendo. Per Frieda, primatologa inglese appassionata di sci...

'Gripping' Margaret Atwood'Captivating' Louis de Bernières'Magnificent' Alexander McCall SmithIn 1930, a young man, torn apart by his illegal desire, stands on a deserted Scottish beach. Wystan H. Auden is only twenty-four and longing to be a great poet; longing too, for someone who understands him. He scribbles his telephone number on a piece of paper, puts it in an empty milk bottle, and flings it into the sea.Decades later, Dora Fi...

**The thrilling new novel by the prize-winning author of Larchfield**'Passionate, remarkable and uplifting novel' Guardian'Grabbed me by the imagination and carried me into the wild' Laline PaullSet across two continents, Tiger is a sweeping story of survival and redeeming love that plunges the reader into one of the world's last wildernesses with blistering authenticity.Frieda is a...

Für Frieda, eine englische Primatenforscherin, sind Tiger nichts als wilde Tiere, fremd und roh in ihrer Aggression. Aber seit sie in einem kleinen Zoo in Devon arbeitet, begegnet sie den Wildkatzen täglich. Nach und nach beginnt sie sich für das Wesen der Tiger zu interessieren; dann, sie zu verstehen, und schließlich, sie zu lieben. Durch sie lernt sie einen Teil von sich selbst neu zu entdecken und begibt sich auf eine Reise, die sie bis nach Sibirien führt, wo ihr eigenes Schicksal sic...

****The thrilling new novel by the prize-winning author of Larchfield**'Passionate, remarkable and uplifting novel' Guardian'Grabbed me by the imagination and carried me into the wild' Laline Paull**Set across two continents, Tiger is a sweeping story of survival and redeeming love that plunges the reader into one of the world's last wildernesses with blistering authenticity.Frieda is a primatologist, sensitive and solitary, until a...

A bank manager arrives at work one day to find himself the new employer of his ex-wife.In the middle of a shift a divorced bus driver abandons his vehicle, to search for his estranged son.Two sisters come to terms with their father’s disappearance with the help of a skeleton called Indira.The stories in Ellipsis 2 explore the inherent dysfunctionality of almost all relationships, their aftermaths, and the lengths people go to to redeem them. From the ingrained resen...

"A skilfully suspenseful story with all the charm of Chichester Clark’s picture books." Daily TelegraphAn enchanting and divinely illustrated young fiction novel about a kind girl and a lost bear cub, with a classic feel from the much-loved, award-winning author-illustrator.Are you brave enough to enter the Wild Bear Woods?Polly Pecorino rescues animals, and she can talk to them too. She spends all of her time cari...

A captivating, young fiction novel about a kind girl and a lost bear cub, with a classic feel from the much-loved, award-winning author-illustrator.Are you brave enough to enter the Wild Bear Woods?Polly Pecorino rescues animals, and she can talk to them too. She spends all of her time caring for those at Happy Days Zoo, where the devious owners, Mr and Mrs Snell, will do anything to make money. One day they steal a bear cub, certain that he will do wonders for ticket sales...

The next book in the wonderful, bestselling Harpers Emporium series from Rosie ClarkeThe Harpers Girls come face to face with the harsh reality of the cruelty of war.Oxford Street, London 1915Sally Harper quietly battles to keep Harpers afloat in the difficult days of the war, whilst husband Ben is working all hours for the War Office.Beth Burrow is fighting concern for her husband Jack, now at sea with the Merchant Navy, ...