Elizabeth Day: 17 books

Elizabeth Day Het feest Het feest van Elizabeth Day is een ontluisterende roman over obsessie, verraad, privilege en hypocrisie in het hart van het Britse establishment, voor de fans van Brideshead Revisited en De verloren geschiedenis. Martin is al vijfentwintig jaar bevriend met Ben, vanaf het moment...

A taut psychological tale of obsession and betrayal set over the course of a dinner party. "Day's shrewd eye and authorial tone provide a gleeful, edgy wit.... [a] smart, irresistible romp."--New York Times Book Review Ben, who hails from old money, and Martin, who grew up...

An audacious, compassionate state-of-the-nation novel about four strangers whose lives collide with far-reaching consequences. Beatrice Kizza, a woman in flight from a homeland that condemned her for daring to love, flees to London. There, she shields her sorrow from the indifference of her adopted...

A frank and beautiful story of damage, survival and restoration from an exhilarating literary voice. As Charles Redfern lies motionless in hospital, his wife Anne and daughter Charlotte are forced to confront their relationships with him – and with each other. Anne, once beautiful and clever, has...

A stunning, delicate portrait of a family bookended by war, Home Fires explores the legacy of loss, the strictures of class and the long road to redemption. Max Weston, twenty-one, leaves for his first army posting in central Africa. What happens to him changes the lives of his family forever. At...

A stunning portrait of a family bookended by war, Home Fires explores the legacy of loss, the strictures of class, and the long road to redemption. Max Weston, twenty-one and a newly commissioned lance corporal, leaves home for his first posting in central Africa. Fiercely patriotic and a natural...

Burtonbury, un ex collegio maschile per i figli dei diplomatici, è una scuola privata con una discreta reputazione e la vana ambizione di poter essere un giorno all’altezza di Eton o di Harrow. Quando vi mette piede per la prima volta, dopo aver vinto una borsa di studio, Martin Gilmour è un ragazzo...

Lutte des classes, ambition politique, désirs refoulés et violence sourde... Une œuvre originale et parfaitement construite qui allie roman noir à la tension implacable et comédie sociale mordante, quelque part entre le Monsieur Ripley de Patricia Highsmith et Le Dîner de Herman Koch, le tout...

Trois femmes et un homme. Ils ne se connaissent pas. Ils semblent n’avoir qu’un seul point commun  : vivre tous les quatre dans la même ville. Et pourtant… Il y a Beatrice, qui a quitté son lointain pays pour une vie meilleure en Occident. Howard, lui, vit toujours dans l’ombre de...

Day LeClaire - Buz Ve AteşGabe Moretti, babasının, annesinin yaşamını mahvettiğini anladığından beri, Dante ailesi ile olan bağını reddetmekteydi. Ölen karısının kuzeni Kat Malloy'la karşılaştığında yüreğinde alev alan bu cehennem ateşinden Dante genleri sorumluydu. Nefret duygusu,...

Rethinking Disaster Recovery focuses attention on the social inequalities that existed on the Gulf Coast before Hurricane Katrina and how they have been magnified or altered since the storm. With a focus on social axes of power such as gender, sexuality, race, and class, this book tells new and personalized...

It's Gabe's first day of school in America, and he doesn't speak English. This story shows how a simple act of kindness is worth more than a thousand words. Kindness really is a universal language.

It's Gabe's first day of school in America, and he doesn't speak English. This story shows how a simple act of kindness is worth more than a thousand words. Kindness really is a universal language. This enhanced eBook features read-along narration.

How much power does a father have to influence his children's development? A lively and often heated public debate on the role and value of the father in a family has been underway in the United States for the past decade. Nevertheless, we are far from understanding the complex ways in which...