Titoli in Vita familiare

"An unforgiving tale of political horror and womanhood... Fascinating." ―Mariana Enriquez THREE SISTERS. A CARETAKER, A TRAVELLER, AND A BRIDE. Mutiara and Maya's lives are irrevocably altered when their younger sister Annisa straps a bomb to her waist and commits a devastating act. As they...

When Arthur Montana, world-renowned 'Emperor of Soul', is found dead in a London pub, his grief stricken brother looks back over thirty years in the lives of their group of friends: from their childhood spent preaching and singing in Harlem churches, to their struggles with war and poverty, and...

Narrated by Jasmine Blackborow, who stars in Netflix's brand-new television adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Jane Austen's iconic love story and beloved classic - Now with an introduction from Dolly Alderton, award-winning author of Everything I Know About Love SOON TO BE A NETFLIX SERIES...

Discover the next BRAND NEW instalment in the gripping wartime Harbour House series from BESTSELLER Fenella J Miller 1942: Chance has brought them together, will war keep them apart? Widowed Eloise Roby is surrounded by family at Harbour House, yet she can’t shake the feeling that something is...

Jane has everything under control. Though her ex-husband has moved an hour away, totally disrupting her daughters' routines, and her mother has died, her publisher has dropped her and her literary agent no longer wants to represent her. She's even organised enough to be able to stand in for an...

Don't miss the festive and romantic new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Cathy Bramley - available now! 'No-one gives you the joy and magic of a second-chance romance like Cathy' MILLY JOHNSON 'A gorgeous hug of a book with all the festive feels anyone could ever want' PHILLIPA ASHLEY...

Your 15-year-old son stands accused of something terrible. Who is to blame? His friends? Social media? Or, as his mother, is it your fault? When Amanda finds out her teenage son, Nathan, is accused of being among a group of boys sexually bullying a young woman and causing her to take her own...

Eine Reise in den Rausch! Nach ihrem Hörbuch über den Opernball legt Stefanie Sargnagel mit einem weiteren Abenteuer nach: Allen Warnungen zum Trotz und in ein Dirndl geschnürt begibt sie sich an einen Ort, der für viele eine Zumutung ist und für andere der Himmel: das Münchner Oktoberfest. Das bietet viel Anlass zum Nachdenken über die liebenswerten und weniger schmeichelhaften Gemeinsamkeiten von Österreich und Bayern.

The gripping new mystery in the Hidden Norfolk series, from multi-million-copy bestselling author J M Dalgliesh. A family estate with a deadly secret… When a young man’s body is discovered on a remote stretch of farmland in Norfolk, DI Tom Jannsen’s quiet morning is shattered. He is...

Is your Christmas to-do list more like a never-ending roll-call of obligations? Are your fairy lights more tangled than your tights drawer? And are your homemade mince pies more pie in the sky than reality? Join the club. Meet Laurie: a working mother of two who is at the end of her tinsel. All...

'Spellbinding' ELIF SHAFAK 'Ingenious' THE TIMES, Book of the Year 'Sparkling' OBSERVER 'A triumph' PHILIP PULLMAN 'As finely wrought as a dazzling Murano bead' INDEPENDENT 'Meticulously researched and evoking the beauty of the Venice lagoon’ PHILIPPA GREGORY ‘A spectacular feat, crafted by...

Nineteen-year-old identical twins Violet and Daisie Chettle can hardly believe their luck when they are recruited as maids to accompany the queen's lady-in-waiting on the royal tour to Australia in 1954. It's just the ticket they need away from cold, grey England and the tension that's been brewing at home since the loss of their parents. However, life on board the SS Gothic, and indeed in the colony, is far from the glamorous adventure they expected, and their relationship becomes even more strained when one twin discovers her sister's unconscionable act of betrayal.

Le opere di Italo Svevo sono un tentativo di penetrare i più nascosti recessi della mente attraverso un'introspezione psicologica che si converte in pura narrazione. Il tipico personaggio delle opere di Svevo è un perdente, un uomo incapace di vivere eccetto che a livello mentale, a causa di una costante autoanalisi che paralizza il desiderio di agire e lo lascia del tutto cosciente della sua malattia e della sua sconfitta.

READ BY THE AUTHOR. The acclaimed, prize-winning #1 New York Times bestselling writer returns with a moving, luminous novel that reminds us of the sweetness and impermanence of life and the power of connection to defy time. When Daphne Fuller and her husband Jonathan visit the Metropolitan...

Soojin e Mirae sono sorelle e, come tutte le donne della famiglia Han, possiedono la capacità di resuscitare i morti. Quando però Mirae viene trovata misteriosamente annegata nel fiume vicino a casa, Soojin è talmente devastata dal dolore che decide di riportarla in vita. Mirae si stanca di nascondersi dal mondo. Diventa inquieta. E affamata. Spinta da un insaziabile desiderio di portare a termine ciò che ha iniziato da viva, di svelare la verità che ha distrutto la sua famiglia anni prima, Mirae è in cerca di vendetta.

Luca, de catorce años, vive con sus padres y su hermano mayor en un pueblo junto al mar, donde todo parece inmutable; un refugio seguro que, con la llegada del buen tiempo, cobra vida con ritmos conocidos y rostros que regresan. Un verano, una chica llena de vida se convierte en su primer sueño de amor. Pero cuando ella desaparece y los carabinieri llaman una noche a su puerta, la existencia de Luca y la de los suyos cambia para siempre.

Cuando el deseo también es el peligro Vera ha seguido siempre las reglas: ha vivido durante más de veinte años con la elegancia, la discreción y la dignidad exigidas a la esposa de un marqués. Pero ahora, a los cuarenta y cinco, recién separada y sin nadie que le dicte qué hacer, empieza...

Brought to you by Penguin. *NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES STARRING FLORENCE PUGH* 'There is only one book to a man,' Steinbeck wrote of East of Eden, his most ambitious novel. Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the intertwined...

Set during the time of the Napoleonic Wars, this classic gives a satirical picture of a worldly society. The novel revolves around the exploits of the impoverished but beautiful and devious Becky Sharp who craves wealth and a position in society. Calculating and determined to succeed, she charms, deceives and manipulates everyone she meets. A novel of early 19th-century English society, it takes its title from the place designated as the centre of human corruption in John Bunyan's 17th-century allegory.

Luigi Pirandello ci presenta la storia di Marta Ajala, vero e proprio simbolo delle contraddizioni e dell'ipocrisia che regolano la nostra società. Il marito, Rocco Pentagora, la scopre mentre sta leggendo una lettera con delle avances da parte di un uomo. Lei però ha sempre respinto quelle proposte ed è rimasta fedele al marito che, però, non le crede. E così Rocco decide di cacciare di casa la moglie perché adultera. All'improvviso Marta si ritrova esclusa dalla vita sociale con tutti i conoscenti che iniziano ad ignorarla e ad evitarla.