De mooie jonge Grace Marks verdwijnt op haar zestiende achter de tralies vanwege de koelbloedige moord op haar werkgever, waarvan zij zich niets meer kan herinneren. De geheugenverliesexpert Jordan probeert erachter te komen of zij onschuldig of werkelijk een gevaarlijke moordenares is. In "Alias Grace" plaatst Atwood een van de meest raadselachtige en beruchte figuren uit de Canadese geschiedenis in het brandpunt van deze fascinerende roman.
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian was bestselling author Marina Lewycka's bestselling debut novel which has sold over one million copies worldwide. Lewycka tells the side-splittingly funny story of two feuding sisters, Vera and Nadezhda, who join forces against their father's new, gold-digging girlfriend. Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcée. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside. Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must aside a lifetime of feuding to save their émigré engineer father from voluptuous gold-digger Valentina. With her proclivity for green satin underwear and boil-in-the-bag cuisine, she will stop at nothing in her pursuit of Western wealth. But the sisters' campaign to oust Valentina unearths family secrets, uncovers fifty years of Europe's darkest history and sends them back to roots they'd much rather forget . . . .