Joanne Harris

La singular Vianne Rocher vive en una casa flotante en el Sena con su familia. Cuando recibe la carta de su vieja amiga Armande donde le pide que ponga flores en su tumba y recoja los melocotones de su jardin, sabe que no puede negarse y debe regresar a Lansquenet, el lugar que marco su destino. Pero alli todo ha cambiado: la chocolateria donde vendia sus sueños, pequeños consuelos, dulces e inofensivas tentaciones, que tanto revoluciono la vida del pueblo y la suya propia, se ha convertido en una escuela. El malestar y la desconfianza, por otra parte, recorren ahora las estrechas y empedradas calles de entonces, el paisaje es tan distinto que, incluso el parroco, ya no teme a Vianne y requiere, en cambio, su indispensable ayuda.

After thirty years at St Oswalds Grammar in North Yorkshire, Latin master Roy Straitley has seen all kinds of boys come and go. But every so often theres a boy who doesnt fit the mould. A troublemaker. A boy with hidden shadows inside.A new broom has arrived, bringing Powerpoint, sharp suits and even sixth form girls to the dusty corridors. But while Straitley does his sardonic best to resist this march to the future, a shadow from his past is stirring. A boy who even twenty years on haunts his teachers dreams. A boy capable of bad things.

Five past midnight, three years after the End of the World, and, as usual, there was nothing to be seen or heard in the catacombs except, of course , for the rats and (if you believed in them) the ghosts of the dead.Runelight is set in a world coming back to life, but it is also a world in conflict. For Maddy, born with the mark of magic on her hand, the return of the old gods and the overthrow of the brutal Order who suppressed them is a time of excitement. But for Maggie, raised as part of the Order, it is a time of chaos and desolation, as her family and values are wiped out.Like the two girls, the new world remains divided the old regime has gone but with nothing to take its place, anarchy is beginning to spreadJoanne Harris draws us back into the richly imagined world first introduced in Runemarks -a world not unlike our own, had it been shaped by the Vikings instead of the Romans. But if its inhabitants, including Maddy and Maggie, cant solve their differences soon, they will destroy their world altogether.