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1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters and girls sell dances for a shilling a time. The notorious queen of this glittering world is Nellie Coker, ruthless but also ambitious to advance her six children, including the enigmatic eldest, Niven whose character has been forged in the crucible of the Somme. But success breeds enemies and Nellie's empire faces threats from without and within.

Ruby Lennox was conceived grudgingly by Bunty and born while her father, George, was in the Dog and Hare in Doncaster, telling a woman in an emerald dress and a D cup that he wasn't married. Bunty had never wanted to marry George, but there she was, stuck in a flat above the pet shop in an ancient street beneath York Minster, with sensible and sardonic Patrica, aged five; greedy, cross-patch Gillian, who refused to be ignored; and Ruby...

In einer heißen Sommernacht verschwindet die kleine Olivia spurlos. Die Familie, deren absoluter Liebling sie war, zerbricht an diesem Unglück. Vor allem für die drei älteren Schwestern dreht sich fortan alles um diesen Verlust und die Beantwortung der Frage nach dem Warum. Dreißig Jahre später taucht Olivias Lieblingsspielzeug wieder auf. Sie beauftragen den Privatdetektiv Jackson Brodie, der jedoch kaum Hoffnung hat, den Fall nach all den Jahren lösen zu können. Für die drei Schwestern ist Olivias Verschwinden das Drama ihres Lebens.

In 1940, 18-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathisers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past for ever. Ten years later, now a producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her past. A different war is being fought now, on a different battleground, but Juliet finds herself once more under threat.

Cambridge is sweltering, during an unusually hot summer. To Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, the world consists of one accounting sheet--"lost" on the left, "found" on the right--and the two never seem to balance. Jackson has never felt at home in Cambridge and has a failed marriage to prove it.

Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village in North Yorkshire, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son Nathan and ageing Labrador Dido, both at the discretion of his former partner Julia. It’s a picturesque setting, but there’s something darker lurking behind the scenes. Jackson’s current job, gathering proof of an unfaithful husband for his suspicious wife, seems straightforward, but a chance encounter with a desperate man on a crumbling cliff leads him into a sinister network - and back into the path of someone from his past.

One of the world's great storytellers conjures a captivating new book. In this first full collection since Not the End of the World, we meet a queen who makes a bargain she cannot keep; a secretary who watches over the life she has just left; and a man whose luck changes when a horse speaks to him. Witty and wise, with subtle connections between the stories, Normal Rules Don't Apply is a startling , and funny feast for the imagination. In Kate Atkinson's world nothing is over until 'the talking dog speaks'.

"Die beste Detektivgeschichte des Jahrzehnts!" - Stephen King. Seit der Aufklärung seines letzten Falls hat sich das Leben des unkonventionellen Privatermittlers Jackson Brodie grundlegend verändert. Er ist zu Geld gekommen und hat seinen Job an den Nagel gehängt. Doch glücklich ist er nicht. Im Gegensatz zu seiner Freundin, der Schauspielerin Julia, kann er das süße Nichtstun nicht wirklich genießen. Ein Mann ohne Arbeit, das passt nicht in Brodies Weltbild. Zudem langweilt er sich gehörig, und daran ändert auch der Aufenthalt in Edinburgh nichts.

It's a day like any other for security chief Tracy Waterhouse, until she makes a purchase she hadn't bargained for. One moment of madness is all it takes for Tracy's humdrum world to be turned upside down, the tedium of everyday life replaced by fear and danger at every turn.

Jackson Brodie has been summoned by two siblings to the home of a deceased romantic novelist to investigate a missing painting - also the mother's carer, who conveniently went missing at the same time. Lady Milton is living in very reduced circumstances at Burton Makepeace House. Her son has very modern ideas making money, few of which appeal to her. And now their prize painting by Turner has gone missing. Indeed so has her helper, Sophie - the only person she felt she could really talk to. Th person called to investigate this case is DC Reggie Chase.

Joanna Hunter, 36 Jahre alt, hat alles, was man sich nur wünschen kann: ein schönes Haus, einen guten Job als Ärztin, einen treuen Hund und einen attraktiven Mann. Doch ihr ganzes Glück ist ihr kleiner Sohn Gabriel. Für ihn würde sie alles tun. Wie wunderbar muss es sein, mit dieser Frau in diesem Haus zu leben, denkt sich das Kindermädchen Reggie. Mit ihren 16 Jahren hat sie schon alles gesehen und erlebt. Joanna lässt sie wieder an das Gute in der Welt glauben. Für sie würde Reggie alles tun.

What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to?

In rural Devon, six-year-old Joanna Mason witnesses an appalling crime. Thirty years later the man convicted of the crime is released from prison. In Edinburgh, sixteen-year-old Reggie works as a nanny for a G.P. But Dr Hunter has gone missing and Reggie seems to be the only person who is worried. Across town, Detective Chief Inspector Louise Monroe is also looking for a missing person, unaware that hurtling towards her is an old friend, Jackson Brodie, himself on a journey that becomes fatally interrupted.

On a peat and heather island off the west coast of Scotland, Effie and her mother Nora take refuge in the large decaying house of their ancestors and tell each other stories. Nora, at first, recounts nothing that Effie really wants to hear, like who her father was - variously Jimmy, Jack, or Ernie.

The person you are with is just like you: same background, same age, same interests. The perfect match. And it is an unmitigated disaster. Then, when and where you least expect it, you meet someone new. You seem to have nothing in common and yet, somehow, it feels totally right. Nick Hornby's brilliantly observed, tender but also brutally funny new novel gets to the heart of what it means to fall surprisingly and headlong in love with the best possible person - someone who is not just like you at all.

Tommy, Andy und Steve leben in gut situierten Verhältnissen. Sie sind verheiratet, haben Kinder, sind beliebte Mitglieder im Golfclub und trinken hier und da ein Bierchen miteinander: Wer würde sie nicht für fürsorgliche Familienväter halten? Niemand ahnt etwas von ihrem lukrativen Nebengeschäft; einem Geschäft, das einst von Männern betrieben wurde, die ebenso wie sie als anständig galten. Alles könnte so reibungslos weiterlaufen wie bisher, denn ihre Ware ist begehrt.

Once it had been the great forest of Lythe--a vast and impenetrable thicket of green. And here, in the beginning, lived the Fairfaxes, grandly, at Fairfax Manor, visited once by the great Gloriana herself. But over the centuries, the forest had been destroyed, replaced by Streets of Trees. The Fairfaxes have dwindled, too; now they live in Arden, at the end of Hawthorne Close, and are hardly a family at all.

Kate Atkinson’s dazzling Life After Life, one of the top-selling adult books of 2014, explored the possibility of infinite chances, as Ursula Todd lived through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. In A God in Ruins, Atkinson turns her focus on Ursula’s beloved younger brother, Teddy – would-be poet, RAF bomber pilot, husband, and father – as he navigates the perils and progress of the 20th century. For all Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge will be to face living in a future he never expected to have.

It is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident--an incident which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander--until he becomes a suspect. With Case Histories, Kate Atkinson showed how brilliantly she could explore the crime genre and make it her own. In One Good Turn, she takes her masterful plotting one step further.

The Greek myths are amongst the greatest stories ever told, passed down through millennia and inspiring writers and artists as varied as Shakespeare, Michelangelo, James Joyce and Walt Disney. They are embedded deeply in the traditions, tales and cultural DNA of the West. You'll fall in love with Zeus, marvel at the birth of Athena, wince at Cronus and Gaia's revenge on Ouranos, weep with King Midas and hunt with the beautiful and ferocious Artemis.