Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2014. Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother & a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone & 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, & down the years clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld. As he grows up, Theo learns to glide between the drawing rooms of the rich & the dusty antiques store where he works. He is alienated & in love
- & his talisman, the painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle. The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America & a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettably vivid characters & thrilling suspense, it is a beautiful, addictive triumph
- a sweeping story of loss & obsession, of survival & self-invention, of the deepest mysteries of love, identity & fate.

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A story about finding friendship when you`re lonely
- & hope when all you feel is fear. Twelve-year-old Matthew is trapped in his
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One snowy night in New York City, a successful but solitary goldsmith reflects on his life, & his unreliable memories intertwine & collide. Returning to the village where he grew up, he hopes with some trepidation that he will encounter Celia, 'the Black Widow', a beautiful & mysterious friend of his mother with whom he had a short & passionate affair when he was a teenager, before she rejected him. But instead he meets a young woman who opens doors onto a strange world, & takes him back in time. The Goldsmith's Secret is a remarkable story with a magical twist, of a love trapped between two parallel times, set Spain in the fifties, seventies, & in the last year of the twentieth century. In beautifully economical language, & with a structure as intricate & refined as a bevelled jewel, The Goldsmith's Secret is filled with intense nostalgia, memories & desires. Elia Barcelo has come to be known across Europe as a truly original voice, & her books as poetic works of great subtlety. ...

If you were bewitched by The Night Circus... If you were mesmerised by A Discovery of Witches... If you were enthralled by Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell... You will be enchanted by THE GOLEM & THE DJINNI Chava is a golem, a creature made from clay, brought to life by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic. When her master, the husband who commissioned her, dies at sea on the voyage from Pol&, she is unmoored & adrift as the ship arrives in New York in 1899. Ahmad is a djinni, a being of fire, born in the ancient Syrian desert. Trapped in an old copper flask by a Bedouin wizard centuries ago, he is released accidentally by a tinsmith in a Lower Manhattan shop. Though he is no longer imprisoned, Ahmad is not entirely free
- an unbreakable band of iron binds him to the physical world. The Golem & The Djinni is their magical, unforgettable story; unlikely friends whose tenuous attachment challenges their opposing natures
- until the night a terrifying incident drives them back into their separate worlds. But a powerful threat will soon bring Chava & Ahmad together again, challenging their existence & forcing them to make a fateful choice.

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If you were bewitched by The Night Circus... If you were mesmerised by A Discovery of Witches... If you were enthralled by Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell... You will be enchanted by THE GOLEM & THE DJINNI Chava is a golem, a creature made from clay, brought to life by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic. When her master, the husband who commissioned her, dies at sea on the voyage from Pol&, she is unmoored & adrift as the ship arrives in New York in 1899. Ahmad is a djinni, a being of fire, born in the ancient Syrian desert. Trapped in an old copper flask by a Bedouin wizard centuries ago, he is released accidentally by a tinsmith in a Lower Manhattan shop. Though he is no longer imprisoned, Ahmad is not entirely free
- an unbreakable band of iron binds him to the physical world. The Golem & The Djinni is their magical, unforgettable story; unlikely friends whose tenuous attachment challenges their opposing natures
- until the night a terrifying incident drives them back into their separate worlds. But a powerful threat will soon bring Chava & Ahmad together again, challenging their existence & forcing them to make a fateful choice.

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Stay with indigenous tribes in the Amazon. Dog-sled with the Inuit in the Arctic. Walk the Songlines of central Australia with Aboriginal guides. Learn African drumming in Ghana or how to dance salsa in Cuba Bored with the same old package tours & identikit resorts. Then this book is your key to a whole new world of inspirational holidays. Throughout Asia, Africa, the Americas & the Pacific, tribal people & rural villagers are setting up their own tours
- & they want you to visit. These holidays are a better alternative. Better for you, with real insights into local life & culture in some of the most beautiful places on earth; better for the people you visit, leaving them with more money & supporting local development projects; &, better for the environment, offering sustainable alternative incomes for communities living in threatened ecosystems. Compiled by Mark Mann for Tourism Concern, Europe`s leading ethical tourism organization, this updated version of ” The Community Tourism Guide” is still the only guide to this type of holiday. It not only explains the principles of `community-based tourism`, but also lists hundreds of guesthouses & tours, with full contact details to help you arrange your next holiday.
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This is the new novel from the US editor of The Help & The Postmistress. Alex George's A Good American is a positive & uplifting novel about the American Dream. Germany, 1904: When Frederick & Jette must flee her disapproving mother, where better to go than America, the land of the new? Originally set to board a boat to New York, at the last minute they take one destined for New Orleans, & later find themselves, more by chance than by design, in the small town of Beatrice, Missouri. Not speaking a word of English, they embark on their new life together. From bare-knuckle prizefighting & Prohibition to sweet barbershop harmonies & the Kennedy assassination, the family is caught up in the sweep of history as they find their place in their adopted country. Poignant, funny & heartbreaking, A Good American is a universal story about our search for home. There's plenty of storytelling charm on display here, with echoes of John Irving's humane zaniness. (The New York Times). Epic, lyrical, compelling. (USA Today). A sweeping, lush intergenerational novel about a family of German-Americans learning to live in 20th-century America. (Oprah.com). ...

In The Good Angel of Death, when Kolya moves into a new flat in Kiev, he finds a book hidden within a volume of War & Peace. Intrigued by the annotations that appear on every page, Kolya sets out to discover more about the scribbler. His investigations take him to a graveyard, & more specifically to the coffin of a Ukrainian nationalist who died in mysterious circumstances & was buried with a sealed letter & a manuscript. An exhumation under cover of darkness reveals that an item of great national importance is buried near a fort in Kazakhstan. As nightwatchman at a baby-milk factory, Kolya exposes himself to the attentions of a criminal gang, & so he decides to leave Kiev for a while. Armed with only three cases of baby milk, which have unexpected hallucinogenic properties, he sets off on what turns out to be a very bizarre journey: crossing the Caspian Sea & traversing the deserts of Kazakhstan. He meets a host of unlikely characters on the way, including Bedouins, ex-KGB officers & a spirit-like companion in the form of a chameleon. The Good Angel of Death is a classic, first-rate Kurkov yarn which is sure to delight old & new fans alike. ...

When Kolya moves into a new flat in Kiev, he finds a book hidden within a volume of ” War & Peace”. Intrigued by the annotations that appear on every page, Kolya sets out to discover more about the scribbler. His investigations take him to a graveyard, & more specifically to the coffin of a Ukrainian nationalist who died in mysterious circumstances & was buried with a sealed letter & a manuscript. An exhumation under cover of darkness reveals that an item of great national importance is buried near a fort in Kazakhstan. As nightwatchman at a baby-milk factory, Kolya exposes himself to the attentions of a criminal gang, & so he decides to leave Kiev for a while. Armed with only three cases of baby milk, which have unexpected hallucinogenic properties, he sets off on what turns out to be a very bizarre journey: crossing the Caspian Sea & traversing the deserts of Kazakhstan. He meets a host of unlikely characters on the way, including Bedouins, ex-KGB officers & a spirit-like companion in the form of a chameleon...” The Good Angel of Death” is a classic, first-rate Kurkov yarn which is sure to delight old & new fans alike. ...

` With this one word, Lili had finally understood many things: that no matter what she promised or sacrificed or gave, she would always be `broken` to her daughter.` When Jasmin Darznik finds a photo among her father`s possessions shortly after his death, she recognises the child in the veil & bride`s clothes as her mother, Lili, but the groom is unfamiliar. Who had her mother married all those years before? A few months later Lili sends Jasmin ten cassette tapes which reveal the secret history of their family: the true story of the abusive man she married, & the daughter she was forced to leave behind. This is an unforgettable story of secrets, betrayal & exile, & of an unshakeable mother-daughter bond. ...