Sarah Perry: 23 books

Boek van het Jaar bij de British Book Awards 2017 De nummer 1 bestseller van Engeland Londen 1893: de nog jonge weduwe Cora Seaborne begint een nieuw leven. Met haar onhandelbare (want autistische) puberzoon Francis en diens even stoere als charmante gouvernante neemt ze haar intrek in het stadje...

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice | A Barnes & Noble Discover Pick | A BookPage Best Book of the Year | A Poets & Writers Notable Nonfiction Debut of the Year “Stunning . . . A graceful and powerful memorial.”—Entertainment Weekly “Raw and perfect.”—Laura...

A Kirkus Review Best Book of 2017 and a Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction. Winner of the British Book Awards Fiction Book of the Year and overall Book of the Year, selected as the Waterstones Book of the Year, and a Costa Book Award Finalist **"A novel of almost insolent ambition--lush...

“Masterful…scary and smart, working as a horror story but also a philosophical inquiry into the nature of will and love. Perry did as much in her richly praised novel The Essex Serpent, but this is a deeper, more complex novel and more rewarding.” —Washington Post For centuries, the...

Londra, fine Ottocento. Le campane di St-Martin- in-the-Fields suonano a morto per le esequie di Michael Seaborne e i rintocchi si diffondono in tutta Trafalgar Square. Cora Seaborne, la giovane vedova del defunto, invece di mostrarsi contrita tira un sospiro di sollievo: la morte di Michael, un uomo...

È inverno a Praga, e la notte sta calando sulla città dalle mille guglie. Helen Franklin cammina con lo sguardo fisso sul selciato consumato dal tempo, mentre la neve le cade sulle spalle. Quarantadue anni, al polso l’orologio d’acciaio di sua madre, nella borsa una mela verde e la traduzione...

GANADORA DEL BRITISH BOOK AWARD 2016 Señalada como libro del año por la cadena de librerías Waterstones y número uno en la lista de libros más vendidos del Sunday Times, La serpiente de Essex también fue finalista del Costa Award 2016 y seleccionada para los premios Wellcome Book y el Baileys...

Van de auteur van Het monster van Essex (Sunday Times nummer 1 bestseller, Boek van het Jaar in Engeland, shortlist Costa Novel Award, longlist Europese Literatuurprijs) Twintig jaar geleden deed Helen Franklin iets wat ze zichzelf niet kan vergeven. Het beschermde leventje dat ze sindsdien heeft...

You know that thing when you're in Walmart at noon before you discover you haven't brushed your teeth? Sarah Parshall Perry gets that. She also gets weird things showing up in her bed, her daughter asking for war paint, and her son crawling into a giant blue sock on Christmas morning. Mainly, she...

Goodbye, Board Room and Legal Briefs--Hello, Dimples, Diapers, and Destruction Women know that raising children will be different from climbing the corporate ladder. But nothing can truly prepare them for the mind-muddling world of motherhood. It doesn't take long for a new mom to question...

Solve a mermaid's problem… Step off the edge of a roof… Dig up a grave at midnight… Take advice from a fortune cookie… Visit the last library… Meet a bridge troll… And more… In one instant, like a bolt of lightning, a single impossible event changes a person's life. And like the...

Enjoy this meticulously edited collection, dedicated to the holiday of gratefulness and forgiveness: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Louisa May Alcott) Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner (Lucy Maud Montgomery) The Genesis of the Doughnut Club (Lucy Maud Montgomery) Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen (O....

"Brooklyn Noir came first in 2004, and now, 15 years later, Houston Noir--14 stories of intrigue, betrayal and death set from Tanglewood to Third Ward penned by current or former Houston authors--goes on sale." --Houston Chronicle "Akashic Books's long-running Noir Series tasks writers with...

Can you imagine living in a place that is effected by weather, ocean currents, and decisions of land use board members. Bayocean was at risk of loosing it all and it was lost at a time when it was most vulnerable. Tillamook County lost a valuable asset, lost a beautiful quaint little community nestled...