Ergebnis für "The Group" in Literatur & Belletristik

Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and...

A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK (BOOKER PRIZE GEMS) London 1862. Sue Trinder, orphaned at birth, grows up among petty thieves - fingersmiths - under the rough but loving care of Mrs Sucksby and her 'family'. But from the moment she draws breath, Sue's fate is linked to that of...

Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this was a girl: the most marvellous girl - I knew it at once! - that I had ever seen. A saucy, sensuous and multi-layered historical romance, Tipping the Velvet follows the glittering career of...

'Superbly plotted...pure escapism and utterly joyful' JOANNA CANNON 'Vivid and entertaining, and powered by such a wonderfully dry wit' THE TIMES 'An excellent mystery...superbly rendered' GUARDIAN 'A beautifully woven debut full of escalating secrets...hugely enjoyable' AJ PEARCE 'An...

Returning to rural Vermont for her senior year after time abroad, New Yorker Daphne Howard just wants to make it to graduation. She’s still processing the sting of her social circle moving off-campus under the thrall of Serena Vigil, a talented poet from Texas who happens to be Daphne’s nemesis. But when a gruesome story overheard at a local bar leads Daphne to consider an unusual artifact discovered on campus in a new light, friends, lovers, and others unite to confront the collision of present and past, political, and personal.

Now a major motion picture starring Domhnall Gleeson, Ruth Wilson, Will Poulter and Charlotte Rampling, and directed by Lenny Abrahamson. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 'Sarah Waters's masterly novel is . . . gripping, confident, unnerving and supremely entertaining' Hilary Mantel After...

The funny, wise and brilliant new novel from the star of QI and the author of Between the Stops - an instant Sunday Times bestseller 'Warm, witty and wise . . . the perfect balm for these turbulent times' GRAHAM NORTON After much searching, the happily married young couple, Amber and Stevie...

Luca is the new queen of Balladaire. Her empire is already splintering in her hands. Her uncle wasn't the only traitor in the court, and the Withering plague will decimate her people if she can't unearth Balladaire's magic. Touraine is Luca's general. While Luca looks within Balladaire's borders, Touraine looks outward—the alliance with Qazal is brittle and Balladaire's neighbors are ready to pounce on its new weakness. A storm is coming. Touraine and Luca will stand against it together, or it will tear them apart once and for all.

Sarcastic, snarky, and totally fabulous, when single dad and bioethicist Jayne is cornered by his abusive ex-boyfriend on a night out, he comes up with an escape plan on the fly - find the biggest, strongest, and thirstiest man in the club, and seduce him into giving Jayne safe passage home. Easy. Over the last few years, in a bid to mask the pain of loss, Jayne’s bedded more men who fit that description than he can count, and he knows he won’t have any trouble bagging one tonight. Until one becomes two, and suddenly, nothing’s so certain anymore.

'I raced through it, breathing fast and when I had finished had to reread parts of the wonderful early chapters. I don't like historical novels but this is the exception. I shall let a few months go by and then read it all over again with, I'm sure, undiminished pleasure' Ruth Rendall, Guardian...

Vincent’s past threatens to overthrow his future. The solution? He’s about to find it in the storage closet at his friend’s wedding. All single dad Vincent is expecting from his friend’s wedding is a good time...not an irresistible older omega named Mal who slips into his heart as quickly as he slips into his bed. With a job relocation to the city on the horizon, a relationship isn’t off the table, but there’s a catch. There’s something about Vincent’s past his prospective lover needs to know - something he’d rather leave behind.

Dedicated, determined, and head-over-heels in love, Aaron is ready to settle down with the man of his dreams — his best friend, Gage. With a prestigious degree under his belt, a promising career ahead of him, and a loving boyfriend to pamper and spoil for the rest of their lives, the future is brighter than it’s ever been.

What eternal bachelor and Wall Street mogul Damien Bigg wants more than anything is a boy of his own to cherish, but after years of heartbreak, he's given up hope. No boy will ever love him as much as they love his wallet. Which is true up until he meets his best friend's son, Matthew Gwynn—a timid single dad almost twenty years his junior who Damien knows he cannot live without. No matter what it takes, Damien will love him, protect him, and spoil him. And one day, if he's lucky, maybe sweet Matthew will be the answer his lonely heart has been looking for all along.

'Had me laughing, wincing, cheering, recognising, admiring - and turning pages, rapidly' MAGGIE NELSON 'A masterful contribution to the canon of queer women's literature. A smart and uncomfortable dissection of longing' SHON FAYE 'Sophie out-jars The Bell Jar with this dark and gleaming...

Loosely inspired by a true story, this tender portrait of marriage asks: what do you do when the person you love has to change? It starts with a question, a simple favour asked by a wife of her husband while both are painting in their studio, setting off a transformation neither can anticipate.

'A SEXY SUMMER ROMANCE' DAILY MAIL 'A GRIPPING MODERN LOVE STORY' THE TIMES 'SOME OF THE BEST SEX SCENES I'VE READ THIS YEAR' GUARDIAN 'ONE FOR ROMANCE FANS EVERYWHERE' MARIE CLAIRE 'THIS SUMMER'S SMART BEACH READ' GRAZIA 'WILL BREAK YOU THEN PUT YOU BACK TOGETHER AGAIN' STYLIST 'UNBEARABLY...

'MOONFLOW will sink its tendrils into you and infest you with its spores . . . and you'll enjoy it' Drew Huff Moonflow is three-time Hugo Award nominee Bitter Karella's debut horror novel - a gloriously queer and irreverent psychedelic trip into the heart of an eldritch wood and the horrors of...

'Original, tender, thoughtful and true. Can't wait for people to read!' Reese Witherspoon 'Part tender coming of age story, part electrifying tale of political awakening, part heartfelt love letter to Deaf culture, True Biz is a wholly a wonder' Celeste Ng A transporting novel that follows a...

Give My Love to Berlin follows the lives of two gay couples—Tillie and Ruth, and their best friends, James and Ernesto—trying to navigate falling in love, thriving in their community, and coming to terms with the danger they are in just by being who they are. The novel jumps between the twenties and thirties and the early nineties and a young woman named Thea. Thea is dealing with the onset of her grandmother's dementia, and discovers secrets hidden away that her grandmother never intended for her to uncover.

Nicolas is traveling down some dark roads. Ever since he came home from his last deployment to a cheating wife and a bastard baby, nothing has been the same. With his divorce freshly inked, his mind shattered, and nowhere safe left to land, all Nicolas has is the G-MIL support group...and Jaren. It would be a mistake to think that bright, vibrant, funny Jaren could make everything okay again. After all, Nicolas has never so much as kissed a man before him. But as their bonds of friendship grow stronger, so does the trust building in Nicolas' heart.