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Faith Bronson ha avuto tutto dalla vita: un matrimonio felice, due figli adorabili, un'infanzia privilegiata all'ombra del padre. O forse quasi tutto: negli ultimi tempi lei e David non si intendono più così bene e dal passato di Faith riemerge il fantasma di una sorellina rapita e scomparsa. Quando coglie il marito in flagrante col suo amante gay, il mondo roseo in cui si era convinta di vivere le crolla addosso. Non ha un lavoro e i figli hanno un disperato bisogno del suo amore. Può solo trasferirsi nella casa avita di Prospect Street dove, pur nel degrado totale in cui versa, si respira il fascino delle numerose generazioni femminili che l'hanno abitata. Eppure quel posto, dove tanti anni prima la piccola Hope è stata rapita, custodisce ancora molti segreti. Risolvere i misteri del passato può essere doloroso, ma Faith sa che non c'è altro modo perché lei e la sua famiglia possano ricominciare una vita degna d'essere vissuta. E' un libro molto coinvolgente. Un'avvolgente storia di famiglia che crolla fino ad arrivare alla rovina per poi riuscire a rinascere.

Hlavní postavou je šestnáctiletá Helen Hamiltonová, která od dětství vyrůstá na americkém ostrůvku Nantucket. Bolestně si uvědomuje, že se od ostatních vrstevníků liší – nejen svojí výškou (má zhruba metr osmdesát a vypadá to, že možná ještě poroste), ale i schopnostmi. Už odmalička se kolem ní dějí záhadné věci, umí například superrychle běhat a má nadlidskou sílu, kterou se snaží před okolím skrývat. Má obrovský strach, že tyhle její „abnormality“ značí, že je nějaká zrůda, a tak se snaží co nejvíc splynout s davem, nevyčnívat. Což je minimálně při její výšce opravdu těžké :-) Pak ale na ostrov zavítá početná rodina Délosových, kteří se sem přesunuli ze Španělska, a všechno je jinak. Obvykle mírná a klidná Helen začne být napjatá jako struna a přecitlivěle reaguje na jakoukoli zmínku o novousedlících, přestože je vůbec nezná a ani je nikdy neviděla. Její okolí, táta Jerry, nejlepší kamarádka Claire a kamarád Matt, ji nepoznávají a nechápou, co se děje. Jenže rodina Délosových Helen nepřinese jenom neklid a emoce, které do té doby nepoznala, ale taky jí pomůže zjistit, co je vlastně zač. Že není žádné monstrum, ale stejně jako neobyčejně atraktivní, výjimečně chytří a sportovně nadaní Délosovi pochází z linie řeckých polobohů. A postupně se dozvídá, jak to mezi polobohy chodí, jakými všemi schopnostmi je obdařena a tak dále.

The Son of God is back on Earth and starring on American Pop Star. God takes a look at the Earth around the time of the Renaissance and everything looks pretty good - so he takes a holiday. In Heaven-time this is just a week's fishing trip, but on Earth several hundred years go by. When God returns, he finds all hell has broken loose: world wars, holocausts, famine, capitalism and Christians. Everywhere. There's only one thing for it. They're sending the kid back. JC, reborn, is a struggling musician in New York City, trying to teach the one true commandment: Be Nice! His best chance to win hearts and minds is to enter American Pop Star. But the number one show in America is the unholy creation of a record executive who's more than a match for the Son of God... Steven Stelfox."

Le avventure di un manipolo di trentenni dalle vite sospese su una cognizione del dolore inedita, costellate da escursioni in situazioni di una surreale comicità, attraverso i rituali poco convinti dei loro assilli quotidiani e per le traiettorie di fumosi incontri, mentre guardano la notte metropolitana o si lanciano in cerca di avventure, di qualche scampolo di sesso o di un giro di bicchieri. Un romanzo che presta la sua voce agli esponenti di un mondo che non appartiene, che resiste in modo istintivo e sconnesso, facendo quel che può per non scavalcare un margine irreversibile, che preferisce astenersi invece che opporsi e che cerca una strada sufficientemente sgombra da percorrere in pace.

Kennedy Marr is a novelist from the old school. Irish, acerbic, and a borderline alcoholic and sex-addict, his mantra is drink hard, write hard and try to screw every woman you meet. He's writing film scripts in LA, fucking, drinking and insulting his way through Californian society, but also suffering from writers block and unpaid taxes. Then a solution presents itself - Marr is to be the unlikely recipient of the W. F. Bingham Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Modern Literature, an award worth half a million pounds. But it does not come without a price: he must spend a year teaching at the English university where his ex-wife and estranged daughter now reside. As Kennedy acclimatises to the sleepy campus, inspiring revulsion and worship in equal measure, he's forced to reconsider his precarious lifestyle. Incredible as it may seem, there might actually be a father and a teacher lurking inside this 'preening, narcissistic, priapic, sociopath'. Or is there... Straight White Male is a no-holds-barred look into the mid-life crisis and the contemporary male sexual psyche. It is a brilliant new satire from one of Britain's sharpest writers.

Clive Dunlop was a masseur of exceptional talents. His 'services' were much in demand amongst the great and the good and after his untimely death at the age of 34 they - the film stars and politicians, the writers and publishers, the TV pundits and celebrity chefs - are gathered for his memorial service. The conduct of the service is a great worry for the priest taking the service but it proves to be a test for the congregation. This is Alan Bennett at his absolute best with an exceptional satire. It is a perfect work of fiction but it will give readers the extra frisson of pleasure of identifying many of the characters, including even the masseur. This is a small masterpiece.