Mariagiulia Castagnone Boeken

Harry Bosch is facing the end of the line. He's been put on the DROP - Deferred Retirement Option Plan - and given three years before his retirement is enforced. Seeing the end of the mission coming, he's anxious for cases. He doesn't have to wait long!

L'esperienza dell'arcano che si insedia nella quotidianità e nella domesticità, fra suspance e realismo. " ... Io mi sono chiesta: e se nel ventesimo secolo venisse al mondo un elfo, una creatura di un'altra epoca? Nella nostra società apparirebbe "cattivo", portatore di male: ma in un contesto diverso non susciterebbe pregiudizi. Come reagiremmo se capitasse tra noi uno così? Noi siamo pigri, quando le cose sono un po' problematiche le nascondiamo sotto il tappeto. Questo libro l'ho scritto due volte. La prima versione era meno cruda, poi mi sono detta: "cara mia, stai barando. Se succedesse davvero, sarebbe molto peggio di così." E allora l'ho riscritto portandolo alle conseguenze estreme." Doris Lessing

Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. Struggling to survive, he perseveres until, at last, his first novel is published. But the bright light of success is extinguished when Camilla has a nervous breakdown and disappears . . . and Bandini forever rejects the writer's life he fought so hard to attain.

A dazzling new thriller in which Detective Harry Bosch tears open a 20-year old murder case - with an explosive ending guaranteed to leave all Bosch fans shocked and breathless

FROM THE PUBLISHERS OF STONER AND REVOLUTIONARY ROAD COMES REUNIONReunion is a little-known novel. Middle-class Hans is intrigued by the aristocratic new boy, Konradin, and before long they become best friends. Powerful, delicate and daring, Reunion is a story of the fragility, and strength, of the bonds between friends.

Tsjernobyl, bijna twintig jaar na de kernramp van 1986. Het officiële dodental ligt op eenenveertig, maar volgens deskundigen loopt het werkelijke aantal inmiddels in de miljoenen. Arkady Renko heeft de overgang van de Sovjetunie naar het nieuwe Rusland overleefd, al is het maar nauwelijks. Hij moet nu constateren dat zijn zo ingrijpend veranderde vaderland nog net zo geobsedeerd is met geheimhouding, corruptie en geweld als tijdens de oude communistische dictatuur. De dood van een miljardair voert Renko naar de Afgesloten Zone rondom Tsjernobyl. Een verlaten stad omgeven door platteland vol ontvolkte boerendorpen en door uitgestrekte terreinen vol vrachtwagens en helikopters die te radioactief zijn om ooit nog gebruikt te worden. Renko’s tocht door deze schemerwereld, en de misdrijven en de duistere geheimen van het Nieuwe Rusland die hij daar aan het licht brengt, zorgen voor een verhaal dat voortsnelt naar een onverwachte en explosieve ontknoping.

Op de Rots van Gibraltar wordt in het diepste geheim een antiterrorisme-operatie met de codenaam Wildlife voorbereid. Het doel is om een belangrijke jihadistische wapenhandelaar op te pakken. Het plan wordt gesmeed door een ambitieuze minister van Buitenlandse Zaken en een bevriende privélegerleider. De operatie is zo broos dat zelfs de secretaris van de minister, Toby Bell, er niet bij betrokken is.Toby vermoedt een rampzalige samenzwering en probeert deze te verijdelen, maar hij wordt prompt overgeplaatst naar het buitenland. Drie jaar later zorgt een boodschap uit het dodenrijk ervoor dat hij in contact komt met Kit Probyn, destijds betrokken bij Wildlife, en dan moet Toby kiezen tussen zijn geweten en zijn trouw aan de Dienst.

Is it possible to write a sidesplitting novel about the breakup of the perfect marriage? If the writer is Nora Ephron, the answer is a resounding yes. For in this inspired confection of adultery, revenge, group therapy, and pot roast, the creator of Sleepless in Seattle reminds us that comedy depends on anguish as surely as a proper gravy depends on flour and butter. Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel Samstat discovers that her husband, Mark, is in love with another woman. The fact that the other woman has "a neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thumb and you should see her legs" is no consolation. Food sometimes is, though, since Rachel writes cookbooks for a living. And in between trying to win Mark back and loudly wishing him dead, Ephron's irrepressible heroine offers some of her favorite recipes. Heartburn is a sinfully delicious novel, as soul-satisfying as mashed potatoes and as airy as a perfect soufflé.

A hugely significant political novel for the late twentieth century from one of the outstanding writers of the modern era In a London squat a band of bourgeois revolutionaries are united by a loathing of the waste and cruelty they see around them. These maladjusted malcontents try desperately to become involved in terrorist activities far beyond their level of competence. Only Alice seems capable of organising anything. Motherly, practical and determined, she is also easily exploited by the group and ideal fodder for a more dangerous and potent cause. Eventually their naive radical fantasies turn into a chaos of real destruction, but the aftermath is not as exciting as they had hoped. Nonetheless, while they may not have changed the world, their lives will never be the same again...

Childhood friends Rachel and Alison are about to go on a journey into the strange, surreal heart of Britain in the early years of our new century. Helplessly swept along on tides they can no more understand than control, Rachel and Alison discover a nation disillusioned by reality yet obsessed with reality TV. They encounter morally bankrupt bankers and people queuing at food banks. And at the centre of this new state of things they find an old family who will do anything to ensure that the country is run for their benefit.