Fourteen years after independence, the enduring childhood friendship of three women has carried them through times of violence and loss in Kenya, their chosen homeland. However, their inability to have children puts Sarah's relationship with her husband and his family under increasing pressure.
'A very special book about a family with a secret. It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me think.' Liane Moriarty, No. 1 bestselling author of BIG LITTLE LIES.All happy families are alike. But happy can be complicated...
With Wizard's First Rule and seven subsequent masterpieces, Terry Goodkind has thrilled readers worldwide with the unique sweep of his storytelling. Now Goodkind returns with a new story of Richard and Kahlan, the beginning of a three-part sequence that will bring their epic story to its culmination.
Reluctant hero turned magical warrior Richard, Lord of Rahl has long since learned the wizard's first rule (people are stupid and will believe almost anything) and has accepted his fate. He has battled unearthly adversaries, military foes and wild magic of the Old World. Now he faces new challenges.
Robert Langdon, professeur de symbologie à Harvard, se réveille en pleine nuit à l'hôpital. Désorienté, blessé à la tête, il n'a aucun souvenir des dernières trente-six heures. Pourquoi se retrouve-t-il à Florence ? D'où vient cet objet macabre que les médecins ont découvert dans ses affaires ? Quand son monde vire brutalement au cauchemar, Langdon va s'enfuir avec une jeune femme, Sienna Brooks. Rapidement, Langdon comprend qu'il est en possession d'un message codé créé par un éminent scientifique - un génie qui a voué sa vie à éviter la fin du monde, une obsession qui n'a d'égale que sa passion pour l'une des oeuvres de Dante Alighieri: le grand poème épique Inferno. Pris dans une course contre la montre, Langdon et Sienna remontent le temps à travers un dédale de lieux mythiques, explorant passages dérobés et secrets anciens, pour retrouver l'ultime création du scientifique - véritable bombe à retardement - dont personne ne sait si elle va améliorer la vie sur terre ou la détruire.
From the NEW YORK TIMES number one bestselling author of RED QUEEN. If there's one thing Mare Barrow knows, it's that she's different. Mare's blood is red - the colour of common folk - but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court wants to control. Pursued by the vengeful Silver king, Mare sets out to find and recruit other Red-and-Silver fighters to join the rebellion. But Mare finds herself on a deadly path, at risk of becoming exactly the kind of monster she is trying to defeat. Will she shatter under the weight of the lives that are the cost of rebellion? Or have treachery and betrayal hardened her forever?
Robert Langdon, professeur en symbologie, est convoqué d'urgence par son ami Peter Solomon, philanthrope et maçon de haut grade, pour une conférence à donner le soir même. En rejoignant la rotonde du Capitole, il fait une macabre découverte. Ce sera le premier indice d'une quête haletante, des sous-sols de la Bibliothèque du Congrès aux temples maçonniques, à la recherche du secret le mieux gardé de la franc-maçonnerie. Une aventure où s'affrontent les traditions ésotériques et la formidable intelligence de Robert Langdon.Par l’auteur du Da Vinci code.On ne peut s’empêcher de tourner les pages de ce Bob Morane pour adultes. Éric Neuhoff, Madame Figaro.
Perfect for fans of THE TEA PLANTER'S WIFE and A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW 'This has everything - engaging characters, a thrilling story and beautiful scenery' KATIE FFORDE ________________________ The start of a war. The end of a dynasty. VIENNA, 1911. Greta Goldbaum has always dreamed of being free to choose her own life's path, but the Goldbaum family, one of the wealthiest in the world, has different expectations. United across Europe, Goldbaum men are bankers, while Goldbaum women marry Goldbaum men to produce Goldbaum children. So when Greta is sent to England to marry Albert, a distant cousin she has never met, the two form an instant dislike for one another. Defiant and lonely, Greta longs for a connection and a place to call her own. When Albert's mother gives Greta a garden, things begin to change. But just as she begins to taste an unexpected happiness, the Great War breaks out, threatening to tear everything away. For the first time in two hundred years, the family will find themselves on opposing sides. How will Greta choose between the family she's created and the one she was forced to leave behind?
The start of an incredibly addictive new fantasy series - perfect for readers of Trudi Canavan, Robin Hobb and Brent Weeks. Winner of the 2012 David Gemmell 'Morningstar' Award.
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE THEAKSTON'S OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2016 LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2016 Imagine if the next thriller you opened was all about you. 'An addictive novel with shades of Gone Girl' Sunday Times When an intriguing novel appears on Catherine's bedside table, she curls up and begins to read. But as she turns the pages she is horrified to realize she is a key character, a main player. This story will reveal her darkest secret. A secret she thought no one else knew...
Clover, Addison, Mia, and Jane were roommates at Harvard until their graduation in 1989. Twenty years later, their lives are in free fall. Clover, once a securities broker, is out of a job and struggling to reproduce before her fertility window shuts. Addison's marriage to a writer's-blocked novelist is as stale as her so-called career as a painter. Hollywood closed its gold-plated gates to Mia, who now stays home with her children, renovating and acquiring faster than her husband can pay the bills. Jane, the Paris bureau chief for a newspaper whose foreign bureaus are now shuttered, is caught in a vortex of loss. Like all Harvard grads, they've kept abreast of one another via the red book, a class report published every five years, containing alumni autobiographical essays. But there's the story we tell the world, and then there's the real story, as these former classmates will learn during their twentieth reunion, a relationship-changing, score-settling, unforgettable weekend.
