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'I utterly believed in the residents of Beartown, and felt ripped apart by the events in the book' Jojo Moyes Can a broken town survive a second tragedy? By the time the last goal is scored, someone in Beartown will be dead . . . Us Against You is the story of two towns, two teams and what it means to believe in something bigger than yourself. It's about how people come together - sometimes in anger, often in sorrow, but also through love. And how, when we stand together, we can bring a town back to life. Praise for Beartown and Fredrik Backman 'A mature, compassionate novel' Sunday Times 'Backman can tickle the funny bone and tug on the heart strings when he needs to, and is a clever enough storyteller to not overindulge in either' Independent 'As popular Swedish exports go, Backman is up there with ABBA and Stieg Larsson' The New York Times Book Review 'A story about families, about friendship and loyalty, inequality, female vulnerability, male back-slapping, and parenthood ... No person's story is too little to be told, Backman includes them all. A novel with a big heart' Jönköpings-Posten, Sweden

En trenta-dos contes publicats entre 1902 i 1907, Víctor Català passeja els ulls pels racons foscos de la vida i fa servir tots els diamants de la llengua per dir les mil i una formes que pren la vio

Pour se défendre dans un procès qu’il s’intente à lui-même, l’auteur fait défiler au galop un passé évanoui. Il va de l’âge d’or d’un classicisme qui règne sur l’Europe à l’effondrement de ce «monde

Con“Feliz Idade”, Olga Novo tende unha mechadesde a xeración que a precedeu á que lle segue;entre o onte e o mañá da estirpe, alén do pasamento do paie da nenez da filla. Nese punto, no territorio pu

FROM THE MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF EILEENTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Savage, funny, frequently on the verge of teetering into lunacy... My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a non-negotiable in your holiday carry-on this summer' VogueIts the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong?Our narrator has many of the advantages of life: Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance. But there is a vacuum at the heart of things, and it isnt just the loss of her parents in college, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her alleged best friend.Blackly funny, both merciless and compassionate dangling its legs over the ledge of 9/11 My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a showcase for the gifts of one of Americas major young writers.

THE FAMILIARS

THE WONDERFUL FINAL INSTALMENT TO THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING SERIES THAT BEGAN WITH THE ROSIE PROJECT 'Heart-warming and clever' Daily Mail 'Incredibly funny, life-affirming and warm-hearted' Heat __________ Big-hearted, hilarious and exuberantly life-affirming, The Rosie Result is a story of overcoming life's obstacles with a little love and a lot of overthinking. Meet Don Tillman, the genetics professor with a scientific approach to everything. But he's facing a set of human dilemmas tougher than the trickiest of equations. Right now he is in professional hot water after a lecture goes viral for all the wrong reasons; his wife of 4,380 days, Rosie, is about to lose the research job she loves; and - the most serious problem of all - their eleven-year-old son, Hudson, is struggling at school. He's a smart kid, but socially awkward and not fitting in. Fortunately, Don's had a lifetime's experience of not fitting in. And he's going to share the solutions with Hudson. He'll need the help of old friends and new, lock horns with the education system, and face some big questions about himself. As well as opening the world's best cocktail bar. If you liked The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, and The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, then you'll love The Rosie Project series.

This Akutagawa-prize winning novel follows the everyday activities of an unconventional woman who finds happiness in convenience store work, despite mounting familial pressure to marry or move along to a different kind of life. *Also appeared in March Buyer's Notes*

GENERAL FICTION - LIBRO PERFECTO

A provocative, wildly funny, intellectually rigorous and engrossing novel, punctuated by Siri Hustvedt's own illustrations - a tour de force by one of America's most acclaimed and beloved writers. Fresh from Minnesota and hungry for all New York has to offer, twenty-three-year-old S.H. embarks on a year that proves both exhilarating and frightening - from bruising encounters with men to the increasingly ominous monologues of the woman next door. Forty years on, those pivotal months come back to vibrant life when S.H. discovers the notebook in which she recorded her adventures alongside drafts of a novel. Measuring what she remembers against what she wrote, she regards her younger self with curiosity and often amusement. Anger too, for how much has really changed in a world where the female presidential candidate is called an abomination?

Joan Brossa va transgredir constantment els límits entre art, poesia i vida. Aquesta màxima també la va traslladar a la seva immensa i, quasi diríem, inabastable creació literària. Va ser un autor pr

Mark Renton is finally a success. An international jet-setter, he now makes significant money managing DJs, but the constant travel, airport lounges, soulless hotel rooms and broken relationships have left him dissatisfied with his life. Hes then rocked by a chance encounter with Frank Begbie, from whom hed been hiding for years after a terrible betrayal and the resulting debt. But the psychotic Begbie appears to have reinvented himself as a celebrated artist and much to Marks astonishment doesnt seem interested in revenge. Sick Boy and Spud, who have agendas of their own, are intrigued to learn that their old friends are back in town, but when they enter the bleak world of organ-harvesting, things start to go so badly wrong. Lurching from crisis to crisis, the four men circle each other, driven by their personal histories and addictions, confused, angry so desperate that even Hibs winning the Scottish Cup doesnt really help. One of these four will not survive to the end of this book. Which one of them is wearing Dead Mens Trousers?

Un matí d''octubre del 1920 la Maria Dolors arriba a Manresa amb el tren de Lleida. És una de tantes noies que han deixat la seva família a pagès per anar a ciutat a servir. Entrarà de cuinera

NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES ***'Thriller of the Year' Daily Mail 'Hypnotic and scary' Stephen King'Examines the fine line between seduction and stalking . . . Ludicrously readable' GuardianWhen aspiring writer Guinevere Beck strides into the bookstore where Joe works, he is instantly smitten.But there's more to Joe than Beck realises and much more to Beck than her perfect facade. And the obsessive relationship quickly spirals into a whirlwind of deadly consequences...

Premio Blanco Amor 2018A vida está chea de casualidades, de situacións baixo o ditado das coincidencias e os caprichos do destino. O curso para a recuperación do carné de conducir é un lugar e un tempo no que cadran un mangado de homes e mulleres singulares mais que teñen algo en comun. Descoñecidos entre si, as circunstancias fan que agora aparezan como o que son: persoas solitarias, mozos a espreita, biografia indecisas e, asi e todo, dispostas a arriscarse para conseguir unha pingas de cariño. Por puntos e o retrato -por veces sentimental, por veces traxicomico, outras acedo e corrosivo- dunha realidade proxima e cotia que endexamais deixa de ser sorprendente. Entre venres e sabados, durante catro xornadas, os personaxes desta novela deixan entrever as suas grandezas e as suas miserias, as suas coitas, os seus devezos e inseguridades. A mala sorte contraponse a esperanza, a frustracion vaina frear un futuro ainda aberto: a pesar de todo, poida que o amor ocupe a mesa do lado.

« Il y a lieu de croire que Rogojine éprouva cette brusque sensation d'épouvante ; venant s'ajouter à tant d'autres émotions, elle l'immobilisa sur place et sauva le prince du coup de couteau qui allait inévitablement s'abattre sur lui. Rogojine n'avait pas eu le temps de se rendre compte de l'attaque qui terrassait son adversaire. Mais, ayant vu celui-ci chanceler et tomber soudainement à la renverse dans l'escalier, la nuque portant contre une marche de pierre, il était descendu quatre à quatre en évitant le corps étendu et s'était enfui de l'hôtel presque comme un fou. »

Un trompetista aconsegueix finalment el somni que ha acariciat durant setmanes: sortir amb la vedette del teatre on treballa. Per agafar coratge, durant el sopar beu molt més del que ell considera recomanable. Per aixo sadona que, de tan borratxo com va, si realment assoleix endur-se la vedette al llit, potser no estara a laltura. Aquest es linici de La magnitud de la tragedia, una novel·la sobre lamor, lodi, la solitud, el pas inapel·lable del temps i la inevitabilitat de la mort.