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Growing up in Kenya in the early twentieth century, the brothers Matu and Muthegi are raised according to customs that, they are told, have existed since the beginning of the world. But when the 'red' strangers come, sunburned Europeans who seek to colonize their homeland, the lives of the two Kikuyu tribesmen begin to change in dramatic new ways. Soon, their people are overwhelmed by unknown diseases that traditional magic seems powerless to control.

Chloé sillonne en skateboard les rues désertes d’une basse-ville de Québec confinée. En accompagnant Patrick, un homme en fin de vie, elle cherche un sens à sa propre existence dans un monde bouleversé. Menishpun accueille chez elle Étienne, jeune charpentier venu bâtir le premier monastère du pays. Ils tentent ensemble d’ériger un foyer qui résistera aux saisons et aux assauts de rois en guerre. Quatre cents hivers séparent ces deux récits, mais un lieu les réunit : l’Hôpital général de Québec et ses environs. Sur les bords de la rivière aux mille détours, ce roman remonte le temps.

As a young parish priest, Father Christopher has heard many confessions, but his own tale is more astounding than any revelation he has ever encountered in the confessional - for Chris was once a pirate captain, hundreds of years before his birth. Fresh from the monastery, the former novice finds himself inexplicably transported back to the Golden Age of Piracy, where an unexpected new life awaits him.

It is 1938 and the prospect of war hangs over every London inhabitant. But the city doesn't stop. Everywhere people continue to work, drink, fall in love, fight and struggle to get on in life. At the lodging-house at No.10 Dulcimer Street, Kennington, the buttoned-up clerk Mr Josser returns home with the clock he has received as a retirement gift.

From one of America's greatest men of letters, our sublime master of manners, comes his novel, Her Infinite Variety. Louis Auchincloss has been called "our most astute observer of moral paradox among the affluent" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.), and his fiction described as that which "has always examined what makes life worth living" (Washington Post Book World). Now he brings us the rollicking tale of an unforgettable woman of mid-twentieth century America: the devilish, forever plotting, yet wholly beguiling Clara Hoyt.

A moving and original debut novel. Observant, warm, and extraordinary. "There is an other-worldly quality about the Abrolhos which is beyond the reach of ordinary storytelling. Emily Brugman has captured them, staked them to the page in all their isolation and aridity and scoured indifference, because her storytelling is extraordinary." —Jock Serong, bestselling author of Preservation. "Strongly written, deeply felt, original." —Tegan Bennett Daylight. "Beautiful, fresh, wise and true—startlingly good." —Robert Drewe, award-winning author of Whipbird.

From the author of The Mercy Seat and Fire in Beulah comes a new collection of six stories troubled by ghosts that linger in our present moment. Set primarily in eastern Oklahoma during the 1970s, The Hungry and the Haunted is Rilla Askew's testament to young women and other outsiders navigating relationships, social change, and the power of place during increasingly precarious times. Some haunted by ancient wrongs, others yearning to escape or reckoning with primal griefs, each character wrestles with the bonds that wound them and the places that keep them tethered to their roots.

'Pavese's novels are works of an extraordinary depth where one never stops finding new levels, new meanings' Italo Calvino. June, 1943. Allied aircraft are bombing Turin; fascist Italy is on its knees. Every evening, after a day's teaching in the city, Corrado returns to the safety of the hills and the care of his two doting landladies. He has no attachments, no obligations.

'Exquisite... a classic tour de force' —The New York Times. 'It struggled to keep itself aloft, to gain height. But then it suddenly gave up, and dropped as though it were breaking into many pieces.' Early on a cold Sunday morning, forty-five-year-old Edgardo Limentani gets up to join a shooting party in the countryside surrounding the town of Ferrara. As the day passes, he contemplates his past, his disappointments, and how he has got here. Like the birds he shoots, he realizes he is trapped, broken, waiting alone for the final coup de grâce. Then he sees a way out.

'Wonderful story which transfixes you from the start – this is the first novel I've read by this author but definitely not the last. The characters are beautifully written and the author effortlessly sucks you in to their worlds.' Reader review 5 Stars 'A beautifully written historical page-turner.' Reader review 5 Stars Two women. One house. Centuries of secrets. East Sussex Coast, 1855. Violet Hargreaves is the lonely daughter of a widowed industrialist, and an aspiring Pre-Raphaelite painter.