David Nicholls Książki

Zawsze 15 lipca... Emma i Dex? Doprawdy, trudno o mniej dobraną parę. Ona – zakompleksiona idealistka w grubych okularach. On – superprzystojniak z poczuciem, że świat należy do niego. Ona na wszystko musi ciężko zapracować. Jemu natychmiast udaje się to, o czym zamarzy. Ona szuka miłości, on seksu... Jest rok 1988. Oboje dostają dyplomy uniwersyteckie i spędzają ze sobą noc, chociaż nie taką, jaką sobie wyobrażacie, bo... zbyt dobrze się rozumieją! Emma dostaje pracę w podrzędnej knajpie, Dex robi karierę w telewizji. Ich drogi będą się schodzić i rozchodzić, aż po zaskakujący finał. Wspaniała powieść dla wszystkich – o tym, jak się zmieniamy: my sami, nasze marzenia, widzenie świata, priorytety, jak coś tracimy, by co innego zyskać. Cudowne dialogi, żywe jak... samo życie.

Lato, które odmieni ich życie. Nowa powieść Davida Nichollsa Słodki smutek to hymn ku chwale zwykłego, tragikomicznego życia, celebracja ożywczej mocy przyjaźni i krótka, oślepiająca eksplozja pierwszej miłości, którą w pełni można dostrzec dopiero wtedy, gdy się wypali. A początek jest niepozorny, szesnastoletni Charlie spotyka Fran...

On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar with her boardinghouse roommate stretching three dollars as far as it will go when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker with royal blue eyes and a tempered smile, happens to sit at the neighboring table. This chance encounter and its startling consequences propel Katey on a yearlong journey from a Wall Street secretarial pool toward the upper echelons of New York society and the executive suites of Condé Nast—rarefied environs where she will have little to rely upon other than a bracing wit and her own brand of cool nerve. Wooed in turn by a shy, principled multi-millionaire, and an irrepressible Upper East Side ne'er-do-well, befriended by a single-minded widow who is ahead of her time, and challenged by an imperious mentor, Katey experiences firsthand the poise secured by wealth and station and the failed aspirations that reside just below the surface. Even as she waits for circumstances to bring Tinker back into her life, she begins to realize how our most promising choices inevitably lay the groundwork for our regrets.

Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his wife's departure, he has begun taking himself on long, solitary walks across the English countryside. Becoming ever more reclusive, he'll do anything to avoid his empty house. Marnie, on the other hand, is stuck. Hiding alone in her London flat, she avoids old friends and any reminders of her rotten, selfish ex-husband. Curled up with a good book, she's battling the long afternoons of a life that feels like it's passing her by. When a persistent mutual friend and some very unpredictable weather conspire to toss Michael and Marnie together on the most epic of ten-day hikes, neither of them can think of anything worse. Until, of course, they discover exactly what they've been looking for. Michael and Marnie are on the precipice of a bright future... if they can survive the journey.

'Bad News' takes Patrick into his early 20s. Constrained to fly to New York to collect his monstrous father's ashes, fully in the grip of massive addiction, he endures a weekend hunting for drugs and attempting to avoid figures from David Melrose's life.

David Nicholls brings to bear all the wit and intelligence that graced ONE DAY in this brilliant, bittersweet novel about love and family, husbands and wives, parents and children. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2014. 'I was looking forward to us growing old together. Me and you, growing old and dying together.' 'Douglas, who in their right mind would look forward to that?' Douglas Petersen understands his wife's need to 'rediscover herself' now that their son is leaving home. He just thought they'd be doing their rediscovering together. So when Connie announces that she will be leaving, too, he resolves to make their last family holiday into the trip of a lifetime: one that will draw the three of them closer, and win the respect of his son. One that will make Connie fall in love with him all over again. The hotels are booked, the tickets bought, the itinerary planned and printed. What could possibly go wrong?

It's 1985 and Brian Jackson has arrived at university with a burning ambition - to make it onto TV's foremost general knowledge quiz. But no sooner has he embarked on 'The Challenge' than he finds himself falling hopelessly in love with his teammate, the beautiful and charismatic would-be actress, Alice Harbinson. When Alice fails to fall for his slightly over-eager charms, Brian comes up with a foolproof plan to capture her heart once and for all. He's going to win the game, at any cost, because - after all - everyone knows that what a woman really wants from a man is a comprehensive grasp of general knowledge . . . STARTER FOR TEN is a comedy about love, class, growing-up and the all-important difference between knowledge and wisdom. Are you up to the challenge of the funniest novel in years?

To moja pierwsza sprawa o morderstwo powiedział ze złością Wexford. Nie ma żadnej tajemnicy. Herbert Arthur Painter zabił swoją 90-letnią pracodawczynię uderzając ją siekierą w głowę. Zrobił to za 200 funtów Główny Inspektor Wexford, jest pewny, że morderstwo starszej pani zostało popełnione przez pracownika i sąd zgodził się z nim. Ale Henry Archery, który jest zaręczony z córką Paintera zaczyna powątpiewać i zadawać pytania Książka zawiera płytę CD.

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop.

***Pre-order David Nicholls' new novel YOU ARE HERE now - Coming April 2024*** A COMIC MASTERPIECE BY BELOVED BESTSELLER DAVID NICHOLLS A scintillating comedy of ambition, celebrity, jealousy and love 'Irresistible' DAILY MAIL 'Wonderfully chaotic' THE TIMES 'Delightful' OBSERVER 'Brilliant' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING 'Funniest book of the year' MARIE CLAIRE For Josh Harper, being in show-business means everything he ever wanted: money, fame, a beautiful wife and a lead role on the London stage. For Stephen C. McQueen, it means being stuck with an unfortunate name, a hopeless agent and a job as understudy to Josh Harper, the 12th Sexiest Man in the World. When Stephen falls in love with Josh's clever, funny wife, Nora, things get even more difficult. But might there yet be a way for Stephen to get his big break? ONE OF BRITAIN'S MOST ACCLAIMED WRITERS 'One of the most astute chroniclers of England as it is now' FINANCIAL TIMES 'An uncanny ability to make us laugh out loud, but also care passionately about his characters' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Nicholls writes with such tender precision about love' THE TIMES 'No one else writes novels that are both relatable and revelatory in the way he does' EVENING STANDARD 'Genuinely brilliant' NEW STATESMAN

Ova gorko-slatka romansa započinje 15. srpnja 1988. na Dan svetoga Swithina, britansku inačicu Dana svisca. Emma i Dexter provode noć nakon što su diplomirali. Između njih razvija se neobičan odnos čije uspone i padove pratimo tijekom idućih dvadeset godina – uvijek na isti dan, 15. srpnja. Ona je ljevičarka, želi spasiti svijet, protivi se imperijalnoj politici zapadnoga svijeta, želi pisati, radi u meksičkom restoranu, putuje s kazališnom grupom… On je dokoni sin dobrostojećih roditelja, samodopadni egoist burnoga seksualnog života. Njegova je karijera u usponu. On je mladi televizijski voditelj imbecilnih emisija. Previše razlika? Ne, između njih postoji ono nešto... “Jedan dan” moderna je ljubavna priča koja je u kratkom roku potukla sve rekorde čitanosti u svijetu.

Douglas Petersen may be mild-mannered, but behind his reserve lies a sense of humor that, against all odds, seduces beautiful Connie into a second date and eventually into marriage. Now, almost three decades after their relationship first blossomed in London, they live more or less happily in the suburbs with their moody seventeen-year-old son, Albie; then Connie tells him she thinks she wants a divorce. The timing couldn’t be worse. Hoping to encourage her son’s artistic interests, Connie has planned a month-long tour of European capitals, a chance to experience the world’s greatest works of art as a family, and she can’t bring herself to cancel. And maybe going ahead with the original plan is for the best anyway. Douglas is privately convinced that this landmark trip will rekindle the romance in the marriage and might even help him bond with Albie. Narrated from Douglas’s endearingly honest, slyly witty, and at times achingly optimistic point of view, Us is the story of a man trying to rescue his relationship with the woman he loves and learning how to get closer to a son who’s always felt like a stranger.

Wie hält man seine große Liebe fest? Douglas Petersen fällt aus allen Wolken, als ihm seine geliebte Ehefrau Connie eröffnet, dass sie einen Neuanfang will. Bald wird ihr Sohn Albie ausziehen, damit ist für Connie der ideale Zeitpunkt für die Trennung gekommen. Die seit langem geplante Europareise wird ihre letzte Reise zu dritt werden. Für Douglas steht fest: Er wird die gemeinsame Zeit nutzen, um seine Frau zurückzugewinnen. Eine akribische Planung soll ihm dabei helfen. Doch er hat nicht mit den vielen kleinen Katastrophen auf Reisen gerechnet. Am Ende sind es nicht die Schönheiten von Venedig, Barcelona und München, die Connies Herz bewegen. »David Nicholls hält meisterhaft die Balance zwischen Tragik und Witz.« Der Spiegel »Höchst unterhaltsam erzählt, man lacht viel, und doch ist da die ernste Frage: wie kann eine Familie ihr Glück erhalten?« Elke Heidenreich