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Joanne M. Harris The Gospel of Loki ENThe novel is a brilliant first-person narrative of the rise and fall of the Norse gods - retold from the point of view of the world's ultimate trickster, Loki. It tells the story of Loki's recruitment from the underworld of Chaos, his many exploits on behalf of his one-eyed master, Odin, through to his eventual betrayal of the gods and the fall of Asgard itself. Using her life-long passion for the Norse myths,…
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Joanne M. Harris The Gospel of Loki ENThe first adult epic fantasy novel from multi-million copy bestselling author Joanne M. Harris. With his notorious reputation for trickery and deception, and an ability to cause as many problems as he solves, Loki is a Norse god like no other. Demon-born, he is viewed with deepest suspicion by his fellow gods who will never accept him as one of their own and for this he vows to take his revenge. But while Loki is…
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Steve Lukather The Gospel According to LukeThe outrageous and often hilarious autobiography of legendary session musician and lead guitarist and singer of Toto. No one explodes one of the longest-held misconceptions of music history better than Steve Lukather and his band Toto...
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Pippa Wright The Gospel According to Drew Barrymore ENA funny, frank and moving novel about female friendship and the painful art of growing up in the 1990s. Full of humour, nostalgia and all-too-true observations. From the Kindle bestselling author of Unsuitable Men and The Foster Husband. Friendship is like a shark: it has to keep moving forwards to survive. Esther and Laura have been best friends since they were seven, when Esther was chubby and Laura was already…
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Bernhard Schlink The Gordian Knot ENYoung lawyer Georg Polger gives up a comfortable existence in Germany to work as a freelance translator in the South of France. But business in the picturesque village is far from booming, and Georg struggles to make ends meet. One day he is approached by a certain Mr Bulnakov, who wants Georg to take over a local translation agency. The previous owner has just died in mysterious circumstances. Everything seems to…
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Rowena House The Goose RoadA debut novel about one girl's remarkable journey across France during WWI. France 1916. Angélique Lacroix is haymaking when the postman delivers the news: her father is dead, killed on a distant battlefield....
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Eric Powell The Goon: Library ENLonely Street comes under all manner of threats both tragic and hilarious in this hardcover edition of The Goon. After surviving the return of Labrazio, Goon wants nothing more than to settle onto a barstool with some whiskey, but a succession of cake-mad hobo gods, snake-hurling hillbillies, and bodacious burlesque dancers have other ideas. And somewhere on Lonely Street, a resurgent zombie priest plots his next…
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Jenny Colgan The Good, the Bad and the Dumped ENWhat if you've let Mr Right slip through your fingers? Should you track him down again? The perfect, feel-good novel for any woman who's been tempted to look up her exes on Facebook. Posy is delighted when Matt proposes - on top of a mountain, in a gale, in full-on romantic mode. But then disaster strikes and he backs out of the engagement. Crushed and humiliated, Posy starts thinking. Why has her love life always…
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Xinran The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices ENFor eight ground-breaking years, Xinran Xue hosted a daily radio phone in programme for Radio Nanjing during which she discussed women's lives, and invited women to call in and talk about themselves. Broadcast between 10 and 12 at night, Words on the Night Breeze soon became famous all over China for its powerful, honest discussions of what it means to be a woman in today's China. It started in 1990, a time when…
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John Maxwell Coetzee, Arabella Kurtz The Good StoryThe Good Story is an exchange between a writer with a longstanding interest in moral psychology and a psychotherapist with a training in literary studies. J. M. Coetzee and Arabella Kurtz consider psychotherapy...
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Jaroslav Hašek The Good Soldier Švejk ENThe best thingyou can do ... is ti pretend to be an idiot. Good-natured and garrulous, Švejk becomes the Austrian army´s most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of the First World War - although his bumbling attempts to get to the front serve only to prevent him from reaching it. Playing cards, getting drunks and becoming a general nuisance, the resourceful Švejk uses all his natural cunning…
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Jaroslav Hašek The Good Soldier Švejk EN'Listen, vejk, are you really God's prize oaf?' 'Humbly report, sir,' vejk answered solemnly. 'I am!' Drunkard, malingerer, oaf and possible genius - the story of Czech soldier Svejk and his misadventures in the First World War is one of the most hilarious and subversive satires on war ever written. A new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pocket-sized format,…
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Ford Madox Ford The Good Soldier ENThe Dowells, a wealthy American couple, have been close friends with the Ashburnhams for years. Edward Ashburnham, a first-rate soldier, seems to be the perfect English gentleman, and Leonora his perfect wife, but beneath the surface their marriage seethes with unhappiness and deception. Our only window on the strange tangle of events surrounding Edward is provided by John Dowell, the husband he deceives. Gradually…
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Ford Madox Ford The Good Soldier EN‘Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing.’ Just before the First World War, two young couples meet in Germany. The seemingly perfect yet brittle relationship of the Ashburnhams soon gives way to unhappiness and betrayal, and respectability to adultery and deception. The Dowells are no less affected by infidelity, and everyone caught up…
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Andy McNab, Kevin Dutton The Good Psychopath's Guide to Success ENWhat is a good psychopath? And how can thinking like one help you to be the best that you can be? Professor Kevin Dutton has spent a lifetime studying psychopaths. He first met SAS hero Andy McNab during a research project. What he found surprised him. McNab is a diagnosed psychopath but he is a Good Psychopath. Unlike a Bad Psychopath, he is able to dial up or down qualities such as ruthlessness, fearlessness,…
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Hannah Kent The Good People ENShortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize 2017 County Kerry, Ireland, 1825. NORA, bereft after the sudden death of her beloved husband, finds herself alone and caring for her young grandson Micheal. Micheal cannot speak and cannot walk and Nora is desperate to know what is wrong with him. What happened to the healthy, happy grandson she met when her daughter was still alive? MARY arrives in the valley to help Nora just…
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Sinead Moriarty The Good Mother ENKate has been through the fire with her three children ... Having been left devastated and homeless after her husband's affair and the break-up of their family, somehow she has pulled through. Though times are still tough, she's beginning to see the start of a new life. But when twelve-year-old Jesssica is diagnosed with cancer, Kate's resilience is put to the ultimate test. She has an eighteen-year-old son…
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Hervé Tullet The Good Morning Game ENNot for children under 3 yrs. To play with this book, all you need is your finger. Take a pen, draw two eyes and a mouth, and there you are - your very own finger worm! Follow finger worm through the day from waking up and having breakfast, to getting dressed and going to school.
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Philip Pullman The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ ENThis is a story. In this ingenious and spell-binding retelling of the life of Jesus, Philip Pullman revisits the most influential story ever told. Charged with mystery, compassion and enormous power, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ throws fresh light on who Jesus was and asks the reader questions that will continue to resonate long after the final page is turned. For, above all, this book is about how…
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Matthew Quick The Good Luck of Right Now ENFrom Matthew Quick, the bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook. Bartholomew Neil is thirty-nine and lost. After the death of his beloved mum he has no idea how to be on his own, and he knows it's about time he found his flock. But how does a man whose whole life has been grounded learn how to fly? And what can Richard Gere, a beautiful librarian, a struggling priest and a foul-mouthed and troubled young…
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Nicholas Searle The Good LiarWhen Roy meets a wealthy widow online, he can hardly believe his luck. Just like Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley, Roy is a man who lives to deceive—and everything about Betty suggests she’s an easy mark. He’s confident that his scheme ...
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Nicholas Searle The Good LiarThis is a life told back to front. This is a man who has lied all his life. Roy is a conman living in a small English town, about to pull off his final con. He is going to meet and woo...
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Alexander McCall Smith The Good Husband of Zebra Drive ENAs winter turns to spring across the red earth, acacia trees and slow green rivers of Botswana, all is not quite as it should be on Zebra Drive, home to Mma Ramotswe and her beloved husband Mr J. L. B. Matekoni. At the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency there are the usual number of cases to be pursued, from persistent theft at Teenie Magama's printing works to the rather more serious case of three suspicious deaths at…
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Simon Akeroyd The Good Gardener ENCreate your ideal garden with this indispensable guide from the National Trust. The Good Gardener explains traditional skills tried and tested by generations of National Trust gardeners, including expert advice from the head gardeners at world-famous Hidcote, Sissinghurst and Stourhead, and reinterprets them for the modern garden – large and small. Packed with illustrated handy tips, step-by-step guides and…
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