Douglas Kennedy

Manhattan, Thanksgiving eve, 1945. The war was over, and Eric Smythe’s party was in full swing. All his clever Greenwich Village friends were there. So too was his sister Sara -- an independent, canny young woman, starting to make her way in the big city. And then in walked a gatecrasher, Jack Malone -- a U.S. Army journalist just back from a defeated Germany, and a man whose world-view did not tally with that of Eric and his friends. Set amidst the dynamic optimism of postwar New York and the subsequent nightmare of the McCarthy witch-hunts, The Pursuit of Happiness is a great tragic love story; a tale of divided loyalties, decisive moral choices, and the random workings of destiny.

Pursuit of Happiness

Ben Bradford is a partner in a powerful Manhattan law firm with a beautiful wife in the affluent Connecticut suburbs. But beneath the exterior, Ben is unfulfilled in his career and only finds solace in his darkroom with his dreams of being a photographer. With the ironic discovery that his wife is having an affair with a neighbor who is a photographer, Ben goes over the edge in his attempt to put things right, and changes his life forever. It's an unbelievable change--unless you see the big picture.

The Big Picture

Ned Allen is young, smart, and upwardly mobile. Several years into his career as an ad salesman for a successful computer magazine, Ned's finally left his small-town roots behind, and is certain that the sophisticated Manhattan world he covets is his forever. His wife Lizzie is also a rising star of a prestigious PR firm. It seems that Ned's made it. But then what appeared to be a career break shows its true colours. Ned's forced to make some tough calls, among them a question of ethics and the small matter of whether to lie to his wife - and when the tough calls just keep getting tougher he finds himself on the brink of losing everything ...

The Job

"America in the Sixties was an era of radical upheaval -- of civil rights protests and anti-war marches; of sexual liberation and hallucinogenic drugs. More tellingly, it was a time when you weren't supposed to trust anyone over the age of thirty; when, if you were young, you rebelled against your parents and their conservative values." "But not Hannah Buchan." "Hannah is a great disappointment to her famous radical father and painter mother. Instead of mounting the barricades and embracing this age of profound social change, she wants nothing more than to marry her doctor boyfriend and raise a family in a small town." "Hannah gets her wish. But once installed as the doctor's wife in a nowhere corner of Maine, boredom sets in... until an unforeseen moment of personal rebellion changes everything. Especially as Hannah is forced into breaking the law." "For decades, this one transgression in an otherwise faultless life remains buried. But then, in the charged atmosphere of America after 9/11, her secret comes out and her life goes into freefall." --Back cover.

State of the Union

This is serious popular fiction -- a true page-turner -- about an American woman in London whose entire life is turned upside down, and London becomes a very foreign place. This is the story of Sally Goodchild, a thirty-seven-year-old American, who, after nearly two decades as a highly independent journalist, suddenly finds herself pregnant and in London, married to an English foreign correspondent, Tony Thompson, whom she met while they were both on assignment in Cairo. From the outset, Sally’s relationship with both Tony and London is an uneasy one -- especially as she finds her husband and his city to be far more foreign than she imagined. But her adjustment problems are soon overshadowed by a troubled pregnancy. When she goes into premature labour, there are doubts whether her child will survive unscathed. And then, out of nowhere, Sally is hit by an appalling post-natal depression -- a descent into a temporary, but very personal hell, which even sees her articulating a homicidal thought against her baby. However, when she does manage to extricate herself from this desperate dark wood, she finds herself in a fresh new nightmare -- as she discovers that everything can be taken down and used against you…especially by a spouse who now considers you an unfit mother and wants to bar you from ever seeing your child again.

A Special Relationship

A wonderfully sardonic and nightmarish tale of a Hollywood success story gone wrong, from the bestselling author ofState of the Union. Like all would-be Hollywood screenwriters, David Armitage wants to be rich and famous. But for the past eleven years, he’s tasted nothing but failure. Then, out of nowhere, luck comes his way when one of his scripts is bought for television. Suddenly, he’s the new toast of Hollywood as the creator of a hit series. A new player in Tinsel Town, David reinvents himself at great speed — notably and especially by walking out on his wife and daughter for a young producer who worships only at the altar of ambition. But David’s upward mobility takes a decidedly strange turn when a billionaire film buff named Philip Fleck barges into his life, proposing a very curious collaboration. David takes the bait, and finds he has inadvertently entered a Faustian Pact, one that results in an express ride to the lower depths of the Hollywood jungle. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Temptation

That dumbshit map. I'd been seduced by it. Seduced by its possibilities. That map had brought me here ... That map had been a serious mistake' The map in question is of Australia, stumbled across in a second-hand bookshop by American journalist Nick Hawthorne, en route to another dead-end hack job in Akron, Ohio. Seduced by all that wilderness, all that NOTHING, Nick decides to put his midlife crisis on hold and light out to the ultimate nowheresville - where a chance encounter throws him into a sun-baked orgy of surf, sex and swill, and a nightmare from which there is no escape. 'Douglas Kennedy might never be allowed into Australia again. This is a crazy, compulsive ultimately serious thriller and a bravura fictional debut from one of our best travel writers' Philip Kerr

The Dead Heart

Enduring a private midlife after the end of a long marriage, Thomas is unsettled by the arrival of a package from Berlin and remembers a love affair with a police state refugee who was haunted by the city's division and the Cold War.

A Novel

The Moment

Becoming jaded by her hospital lab work and feeling estranged from her distant husband, Laura attends a conference in Boston and unexpectedly connects with a surprisingly complex man who is struggling to choose between his desires and obligations. By the best-selling author of The Moment.

Five Days

La Symphonie du hasard - Livre 1

Une relation dangereuse

María Blázquez

Isabelle por la tarde

"All families are secret societies. Realms of intrigue and internal warfare, governed by their own rules . . ."It?s 1980s New York. Heady, excessive times. Alice Burns - a young book editor - is deep into a manuscript about the morass of family life. The observations resonates, perhaps because she has just watched her own family implode.As she reads she wonders- When did the sadness start? And could it be that unhappiness is a choice?Thus begins a great American epic which follows Alice as she navigates high school bullying, first love and sexism at an elite college, a spell in 1970's Ireland, and a tragedy that sends her stateside as the US embraces a cowboy actor named Reagan. But it is also the tale of her endlessly complex parents and brothers; how their destinies are written by the lies they tell themselves and others. The Great Wide Openis an immensely ambitious and compulsive saga; a novel which will speak volumes to anyone who has marvelled at that pain that can only be caused by family itself.

The Great Wide Open

A direct to digital short story from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happiness and The Moment which also features the opening chapter from Douglas Kennedy's new novel, Five Days. Sometimes things are not always what they seem and the heart can often blind us to the truth. Gitte is a forty-something successful French lawyer in Paris. Beautiful, intelligent, captivating and athletic. Who wouldn't fall in love with her? But...often we only see that which we want to see.

The Mistake

The Call

" J'ai demandé à Maman si c'était vrai que les autres avaient des problèmes à cause de moi. Elle m'a répondu : – Ne laisse personne te dire ça, Aurore. Tu es comme ton prénom : un vrai soleil. Aurore. C'est moi ! " Autiste, Aurore ne parle pas. Mais elle écrit sur sa tablette à la vitesse de la lumière. Et elle a un secret. Elle lit dans les yeux des autres : Maman, Pap', sa grande soeur Émilie, mais aussi Lucie, la meilleure amie d'Émilie, harcelée à l'école. Le jour où Lucie disparaît à Monster Land, le parc d'attractions, Aurore s'improvise détective...

Les Fabuleuses aventures d'Aurore- tome 01

Aurore et le mystère de la chambre secrète

Christian de Metter

Ce qui a manqué à Nick, journaliste américain en virée dans le bush australien ? Quelques règles élémentaires de survie : Ne jamais conduire en pleine nuit sur une route déserte : un kangourou se ferait une joie de défoncer votre pare-chocs. Ne jamais céder aux charmes d'une autostoppeuse du cru. Toujours réfléchir avant de répondre à une question que l'on vous pose en pleine nuit. Dans la vie, il y a des moments cruciaux où il saut prendre la bonne décision, au risque de voir sa vie basculer dans le pire des cauchemars.

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