Anne Jongeling Książki

'A coming-of-age story filled with magic in language and plot: beautiful and devastating' Observer, Books of the Year 'I felt consumed by this book. I loved it, you will love it' Daisy Johnson, author of Sisters 'A page-turning Appalachian coming-of-age story told in undulating prose that settles right into you' Naoise Dolan, author of Exciting Times 'Vivid and lucid, Betty has stayed with me' Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies 'I loved Betty' Fiona Mozley, author of Hot Stew 'Breahtaking' Vogue 'A GIRL COMES OF AGE AGAINST THE KNIFE' So begins the story of Betty Carpenter. Born in a bathtub in 1954 to a white mother and a Cherokee father, Betty is the sixth of eight siblings: the world they inhabit in the rural town of Breathed, Ohio, is one of poverty and loss, of lush landscapes and blazing stars. Despite the hardships she encounters, Betty is resilient. Her curiosity about the natural world, her fierce love for her sisters and her father's brilliant stories are kindling for the fire of her own imagination, and in the face of all to which she bears witness - the horrors of her family's past and present - Betty discovers an escape: she begins to write.

Winner of NSW Premier's Literary Award People's Choice for Fiction 2009. Shortlisted for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2009 and Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2008 and Guardian First Book Award 2008 and NSW Premier's Literary Award Christina Stead Prize for Fiction 2009 and Miles Franklin Literary Award 2009.

Gabriel Allon, secret agent, assassin and master art restorer, returns in a spellbinding new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Europe is exploding. And one man must find out why. For Gabriel Allon and his wife Chiara, it was supposed to be the start of a romantic weekend in London. But nothing is ever that simple when you're an off-duty spy and assassin. Bombings in Paris and Copenhagen have put him on edge and when Gabriel notices a man exhibiting several traits common to suicide bombers, he follows him into the Covent Garden throng. He's determined to prevent the carnage he fears is about to take place, but before Gabriel can draw his sidearm, he is knocked to the pavement by two plain-clothes police officers. A moment later he looks up to find a scene from his nightmares. From the streets of New York and London,to the unforgiving landscape of the Saudi desert,Gabriel Allon is in a race to the death against a calculating mass-murderer that he dare not lose...

A sweeping, tenderhearted love story unfolds as two families endure World War II on opposite sides of the Atlantic, centered around a shy young woman who connects them both. In 1940, as German bombs rain down on London, working-class parents Millie and Reginald Thompson make the heart-wrenching decision to send their eleven-year-old daughter, Beatrix, to America for safety. Arriving in Boston, Bea feels scared and displaced but is welcomed by the Gregory family, who seamlessly integrate her into their lives. She learns their ways, adjusts to their affluent lifestyle, and forms close bonds with the two Gregory brothers, William and Gerald. As she grows more comfortable, life with the Gregorys becomes more natural than her quiet existence back in England. With summers spent on the Maine coast and new friends eager to hear her stories, Bea begins to shed her former self. However, her world shifts again when the war ends, and she must return to London. Torn between her past and her new life, Bea embarks on the journey back across the Atlantic, carrying the memories of her American family. As she navigates her dual existence, the narrative beautifully explores themes of grace, heartache, forgiveness, and love, capturing Bea's struggle to reconcile her two worlds and pursue her own path.

'Like Lorna Sage's Bad Blood ... A masterpiece.' Rachel Cusk Giving Up the Ghost is the shocking and beautiful memoir, from the author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light 'Giving up the Ghost' is award-winning novelist Hilary Mantel's uniquely unusual five-part autobiography. Opening in 1995 with 'A Second Home', Mantel describes the death of her stepfather which leaves her deeply troubled by the unresolved events of her childhood. In 'Now Geoffrey Don't Torment Her' Mantel takes the reader into the muffled consciousness of her early childhood, culminating in the birth of a younger brother and the strange candlelight ceremony of her mother's 'churching'. In 'Smile', an account of teenage perplexity, Mantel describes a household where the keeping of secrets has become a way of life. Finally, at the memoir's conclusion, Mantel explains how through a series of medical misunderstandings and neglect she came to be childless and how the ghosts of the unborn like chances missed or pages unturned, have come to haunt her life as a writer.

“Ingenious… Builds to one of the most memorable final scenes I’ve read in a novel this century.” —The New York Times WINNER OF THE 2018 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION FINALIST FOR THE 2019 INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE The suspenseful and heartbreaking story of an immigrant family driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequences, from the author of the forthcoming novel Best of Friends Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother’s death, she’s accepted an invitation from a mentor in America that allows her to resume a dream long deferred. But she can’t stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in London, or their brother, Parvaiz, who’s disappeared in pursuit of his own dream, to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew. When he resurfaces half a globe away, Isma’s worst fears are confirmed. Then Eamonn enters the sisters’ lives. Son of a powerful political figure, he has his own birthright to live up to—or defy. Is he to be a chance at love? The means of Parvaiz’s salvation? Suddenly, two families’ fates are inextricably, devastatingly entwined, in this searing novel that asks: What sacrifices will we make in the name of love?

Sunday Times bestselling author Nora Roberts returns with a brand new standalone - a story about the power of love to light a way through the darkness

Edal Jones komt op haar fietstochten een dakloze tiener tegen, die dode vogels van de stoep opraapt en vergezeld wordt door een enorme zwarte hond. Op een dag volgt Edal haar naar een ratjetoe van een huis aan de rand van Don Valley. Eigenaar Guy Howell biedt opvang voor zieke en gewonde dieren (en mensen): een halfdode havik, een weesnest wasbeertjes, een soldaat met hartfalen tijdens zijn eerste tour of duty, Stephen, het weggelopen tienermeisje en haar hond. Maar ook dierenarts Kate vindt haar weg naar Guys wereld van toegewijde dierenliefhebbers. Aarzelend en voorzichtig sluit Edal zich aan bij het groepje, al houdt ze haar werkelijke functie als ambtenaar van natuurbeheer verborgen. Ze beseft donders goed dat de geïmproviseerde opvang niet voldoet aan de honderden wettelijke bepalingen, maar het is een heilzame plek voor alle bewoners, dier en mens. De spanning loopt op als ‘Coyote Cop’ stelselmatig coyotes mutileert en afmaakt.

An exceptional memoir about race, family and belonging for a moment when identity and division dominate our global politics

Imbolo Mbue, autorka o głębokiej empatii, wielkiej przenikliwości i ciętym dowcipie stworzyła frapującą opowieść o małżeństwie, podziałach klasowych i rasowych oraz o pułapce mitu amerykańskiego snu. Jende Jonga, mieszkający w Harlemie kameruński imigrant, przybył do Stanów Zjednoczonych, żeby zapewnić lepsze warunki życiowe sobie, swojej żonie Neni i sześcioletniemu synowi. Jesienią 2007 roku Jende otrzymuje posadę szofera Clarka Edwardsa, członka ścisłego kierownictwa Lehman Brothers. Clark wymaga punktualności, dyskrecji i lojalności, a Jendemu niezmiernie zależy, by jak najlepiej się zaprezentować. Żona Clarka, Cindy, proponuje nawet Neni dorywczą pracę w letnim domu rodziny w Hamptons. Postawieni przed taką szansą Jende i Neni mogą wreszcie myśleć o zapuszczeniu korzeni w Ameryce i zacząć wyobrażać sobie lepszą przyszłość. Świat wielkiej władzy jest jednak pełen tajemnic, a Jende i Neni rychło zaczynają dostrzegać pierwsze rysy na maskach pracodawców. I wtedy światem finansowym wstrząsa wiadomość o upadku Lehman Brothers. Państwo Jonga, desperacko pragnący utrzymać posadę Jendego, starają się chronić chlebodawców przed pewnymi faktami, mimo że zagraża to ich własnemu małżeństwu. W życiu całej czwórki dokonuje się dramatyczny zwrot, a Jende i Neni stają przed niemożliwym wyborem…

From one of our most perceptive and provocative voices comes a deeply researched account of the last days of Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, John Updike, Dylan Thomas, Maurice Sendak and James Salter - an arresting and wholly original meditation on mortality.

Opgegroeid in een exclusieve kring van Britse expats in Florence in de jaren twintig, verrast Alice iedereen als ze trouwt met Claudio, de zoon van een kleine landeigenaar, en verhuist naar San Martino, een vervallen villa in Toscane. In hun nieuwe paradijs bouwen ze aan hun toekomst, ze knappen San Martino op en krijgen een zoon. Ze zijn gelukkig. Naarmate de tijd verstrijkt begint Alice zich eenzaam te voelen en start ze een affaire met een jeugdliefde. Haar zoon wordt ernstig ziek en sterft terwijl zij bij haar minnaar is. Claudio vertrekt zonder afscheid te nemen, ontroostbaar door de dood van zijn zoon en het verraad van zijn vrouw. Dan komt Kristín aan op San Martino; zij is op zoek naar een waardevol doek dat haar leermeester bij Alice verstopt heeft, een doek waar ook de Duitsers naar op zoek zijn. Op het moment dat de Duitsers aanvallen en de vrouwen geconfronteerd worden met de vernietiging van alles wat hun dierbaar is, moeten ze de gevolgen van de fouten uit hun verleden onder ogen zien.

I still think about Peter, the man I loved most in the world, all the time. We were friends, soul mates and lovers. I was seven. He was fifty-one.

Emma kocha swojego męża Leona i ich małą córkę Rubię: zrobiłaby dla nich wszystko. Jednak prawie wszystko, co im powiedziała o sobie, to kłamstwo. Mogłaby się z tego wyplątać, gdyby nie praca jej męża. Leo jest autorem nekrologów, a Emma znaną biologiem morskim. Kiedy zapada na poważną chorobę, Leo radzi sobie, robiąc to, co potrafi najlepiej – badając i pisząc o życiu swojej żony. Gdy zaczyna odkrywać prawdę, odkrywa, że kobieta, którą kocha, tak naprawdę nie istnieje. Nawet jej imię nie jest prawdziwe. Kiedy najciemniejsze momenty przeszłości Emmy w końcu wychodzą na jaw, musi jakoś udowodnić Leonowi, że naprawdę jest tą kobietą, którą zawsze myślał, że jest... Ale najpierw musi opowiedzieć mu o innej miłości swojego życia.

In the bitter winter of 1946, Rachael Morgan arrives with her only remaining son Edmund in the ruins of Hamburg. Here she is reunited with her husband Lewis, a British colonel charged with rebuilding the shattered city. But as they set off for their new home, Rachael is stunned to discover that Lewis has made an extraordinary decision- they will be sharing the grand house with its previous owners, a German widower and his troubled daughter. In this charged atmosphere, enmity and grief give way to passion and betrayal.

Zou Lei is an illegal immigrant who works at a Chinese restaurant in Queens in search of a better life in the 'Land of the Brave'. Brad Skinner has recently arrived in New York following a tour in Iraq and is determined to party as hard as he can in order to start 'wanting to live again'. When their paths cross, they discover that new starts may be possible for both of them, if they can survive homelessness, lockup and Skinner's post-traumatic stress disorder, which may be more prophecy than madness.

In this dramatic new novel following the bestselling The Dark Tide, a drive-by shooting rocks the posh suburb of Greenwich, Connecticut, and an innocent bystander is left dead.Detective Ty Hauck plunges into what seems like a vicious case of retribution and follows the trail to a sinister gambling scheme at an upstate casino. Until Annie Fletcher, a young restaurateur in the midst of rebuilding her life, witnesses something she shouldn't have—and immediately runs to him with what she knows. Suddenly, Hauck is pulled into a rising storm far greater than it first appeared—a storm wide enough to encompass corruption inside Greenwich's circle of wealthy and powerful citizens. And punishing enough to consume Hauck's own family, and tear brothers apart forever . . . if it doesn't kill them first.Don't Look Twice is a gripping story of profiteering on an international scale and an emotionally resonant domestic thriller from one of the hottest new talents in suspense fiction.

In a near-future America, women are restricted to just 100 words a day, a scenario that raises urgent questions about voice and agency. The protagonist, Jean, a neurolinguist, grapples with this extreme limitation, highlighting the chilling implications for society, particularly for the next generation. The narrative resonates powerfully in the context of contemporary movements like #MeToo, emphasizing the critical importance of language. Critics have drawn comparisons to Margaret Atwood's work, noting the unsettling plausibility of the premise. The novel has been described as a futurist thriller that is both intelligent and suspenseful, with a gripping plot that captivates readers. Its provocative themes and crystalline language evoke comparisons to literary giants like Orwell and Huxley, reimagining their insights for the digital age. As a bold and unforgettable debut, it serves as a stark reminder of the dangers of silencing voices and the vital role language plays in our lives. This electrifying tale is not just a work of fiction but a cautionary reflection on the present, urging readers to consider the power of their own words.