Stambulskie szepty

A lifetime of duty
Widowed at just seven-and-twenty from her marriage of convenience, Eliza, now Countess of Somerset, is bequeathed a fortune, hers to keep – provided she can steer clear of scandal.

The promise of love
The last thing she expects is to be torn between two very different men – a face from the past, whose loss she’s always mourned, and a roguish poet, who scorns convention.

A taste of freedom
But a lady’s reputation is fragile and with jealous eyes on Eliza’s fortune, it will only take one whisper of gossip for her to lose it all…

'How cool was Will Freeman?'

Too cool! At thirty-six, he's as hip as a teenager. He's single, child-free, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He's also found a great way to score with women: attend single parents' groups full of available (and grateful) mothers, all hoping to meet a Nice Guy.

Which is how Will meets Marcus, the oldest twelve-year-old on the planet. Marcus is a bit strange: he listens to Joni Mitchell and Mozart, looks after his mum and has never owned a pair of trainers. But Marcus latches on to Will - and won't let go. Can Will teach Marcus how to grow up cool? And can Marcus help Will just to grow up?

This astonishing novel, now a modern classic, was adapted for the acclaimed 2002 film About A Boy, starring Hugh Grant and Nicholas Hoult. Fans of One Day by David Nicholls and Any Human Heart by William Boyd will devour this book, as will lovers of fiction everywhere.

'A stunner of a novel. Utterly read-in-one-day, forget-where-you-are-on-the-tube-gripping' Marie Claire

'About the awful, hilarious, embarrassing places where children and adults meet, and Hornby has captured it with delightful precision' Irish Times

'It takes a writer with real talent to make this work, and Hornby has it - in buckets' Literary Review

She's twenty-three and in love with love. He's older, and the most beautiful man she's ever seen. The affair is quickly consuming.

But this relationship is unpredictable, and behind his perfect looks is a mean streak. She's intent on winning him over, but neither is living up to the other's ideals. He keeps emailing his thin, glamorous ex, and she's starting to give in to secret, shameful cravings of her own. The search for a fix is frantic, and taking a dangerous turn...

Zakłamani Zakochani Uzależnieni On nie wyobraża sobie wyjść z domu bez butelki whisky. Ona ciągle szuka nowych wrażeń z kolejnymi facetami. Lily i Lo znają się od dziecka. Teraz, gdy razem studiują, za wszelką cenę próbują zachować pozory normalności i nie wzbudzać niczyich podejrzeń, zwłaszcza swoich rodzin. Choć pochodzą z nieziemsko bogatych domów i wydawać by się mogło, że niczego nie powinno im brakować, ich życie dalekie jest od ideału… Co stanie się, gdy niedotrzymane obietnice zaprowadzą ich na skraj przepaści, a misternie tkane kłamstwo zacznie się rozpadać jak domek z kart? Co zrobią, gdy okaże się, że prawdziwym nałogiem jest… to drugie?

BY THE WINNER OF THE 2021 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE

'Riveting and heartbreaking ... A compelling novel, one that gathers close all those who were meant to be forgotten, and refuses their erasure' Maaza Mengiste, Guardian

'A brilliant and important book for our times, by a wondrous writer' Philippe Sands, New Statesman, Books of the Year

While he was still a little boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the German colonial troops. After years away, fighting in a war against his own people, he returns to his village to find his parents gone, and his sister Afiya given away.

Another young man returns at the same time. Hamza was not stolen for the war, but sold into it; he has grown up at the right hand of an officer whose protection has marked him life. With nothing but the clothes on his back, he seeks only work and security – and the love of the beautiful Afiya.

As fate knots these young people together, as they live and work and fall in love, the shadow of a new war on another continent lengthens and darkens, ready to snatch them up and carry them away…

Pasjonujący thriller polityczny australijskiego pisarza, dwukrotnego laureata Nagrody Bookera.

Jak młoda kobieta z australijskiej prowincji stała się wrogiem publicznym numer 1 w Ameryce?

Gdy Gaby wpuszcza wirusa do australijskiego systemu zarządzania więzieniami, setki przestępców wychodzą na wolność. Wirus rozprzestrzenia się i przenika do amerykańskiego systemu zabezpieczeń.

Dziennikarskie śledztwo podejmuje Felix Moor, znajdujący się chwilowo na życiowym i zawodowym zakręcie, niedawno skazany za zniesławienie.

Czy był to zwykły błąd, czy może młoda kobieta celowo wytoczyła cyberwojnę potężnym Stanom Zjednoczonym?