The White Devil: An intelligent, bristling ghost story with a stunning sense of place, Gillian Flynn

The White Devil

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He hasn't been home for 15 years. Out of the past, as memories surface, something is coming that will A masterwork from the famed Hungarian novelist Marai, Portraits of a Marriage is in fact a portrait of a triangle--three passionate, single-minded lovers fighting over the marriage at the center, each of them bearing the From a writer whose work reminds one of how broad and deep and shining a story can be Alice Munro comes a selection that gathers the best from his four earlier collections as well as seven previously uncollected stories.

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In a silent valley in southern France stands an isolated stone farmhouse, the Mas Lunel. Its owner is Aramon Lunel, an alcoholic haunted by his violent past. His sister, Audrun, alone in her bungalow within sight of the Mas Lunel, In the golden summer of Paul Asher, still shattered by the trauma of the Western Front, comes to Farundell, an idyllic country house set deep in the Oxfordshire countryside. There, he falls under the spell of the rich and Hitler orders the German forces to surround the city at the start of the most dangerous, desperate winter in its history.

For two pairs of lovers - Anna and Andrei, Anna's novelist father and banned Francis Sprigge and Lilian Powys move to the Blue Mountains, following their dreams of creativity and love. But as Francis pursues his gift for designing exquisite wallpaper, Lilian finds that the ordinary life she craves remains A collection of fictional biographies of right-wing writers, Roberto Bolano's Nazi Literature in the Americas presents an alternative world of 20th century literature.

Love Virtually is a funny, fast-paced and utterly absorbing novel, with plenty of twists and turns, about a love affair conducted entirely by email. An evocative and moving debut novel - based on the true story of the worst UK civilian disaster of World War Two, when people were crushed to death at Bethnal Green tube station during the Blitz.

What's the thing you hate most about the one you love? This is the funniest, most acutely-observed novel about marriage and motherhood, children and work that's been seen in years. Lucy Winters' parents have always been there for her. Loving, gentle and kind they have given her everything she could have wished for. Now, estranged from her husband, she has moved to the country to take over their thriving Looking back, Martha could've said no when Mr Booker first tried to kiss her.

But Martha is sixteen, she lives in a small dull town - a cemetery with lights - her father is mad, her home is stifling, and she's waiting for the rest Gilly lives in a drought-ridden small town in s Australia. She's left school but hasn't found a job, it's always hot and life seems a little pointless.

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Gilly can't help but fall in love with him and one Trapped in a car wreck, upside down, bleeding, broken and in pain, Tristan and Grace are staring at death. As they await their fate, with only a glimmer of hope they might be seen and rescued, we discover the stories of their Sisters Tally and Grace have always dreamed of moving to the city. Yet neither of them ever expected to be living there broke, homeless and alone as happens when they become separated after an accident. The city, dominated by The life and death of an entire community is told by a dead boy.

His story reveals the moral vacuum at the heart of Communist-capitalist China. During a blood-contamination scandal in Henan province, villagers sell their blood, A young wife and mother watches a clock that seems forever stuck at three-in-the-afternoon. Her husband didn't come home last night. She lives for Tuesdays and Thursdays, when she can escape to a less humdrum life. When Constance married Joseph Barton she believed she had found her ultimate husband and protector.

But after three miscarriages and the troubled birth of their daughter, Angelica, Constance begins to fear his intentions. The year is and Holland Winchester, the local thug and a war veteran, has gone missing from his small, backwater South Carolina town. The local sheriff, Will Alexander, has a gut feeling Holland's been murdered but the The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Swamplandia! To save her family, Ava must journey on her own to a Crowds of tourists mix with the locals, enjoying the glorious surroundings and the play of light on water.

But each of the four Gary, driven by thirty years of diverted plans, and Irene are trying to rebuild their life together. Across the water on the mainland, Irene and Gary's grown daughter, Rhoda is starting her own life. She fantasizes about the Jan Karski, a young Polish officer, joined the Polish underground after escaping from a Soviet detention camp, before he was captured and brutally tortured by the Gestapo.

Escaping from the Germans, Karski was charged with the In this comic sequel, Stephen ingeniously bypasses his landmark When Sister Evangeline of the St Rose Convent stumbles across a mysterious correspondence with Abigail Rockefeller in the archive, it reveals that angels once walked among us This discovery plunges Evangeline Crime is a collection of true crime stories told by one of Germany's most prominent defense lawyers. Some of the cases are strange, some bewildering and others heartbreaking, but all are told with genuine concern for those who Told as a series of dictionary entries, The Lover's Dictionary is an intimate portrait of a relationship in all its guises; a compelling, deeply romantic story of two people loving each other: A ship carries Mary, Queen of Scots, home from the French court to wrest back control of her throne.

Masquerading as a male crew member, Alison Blackadder must find a way to gain the Queen's favour so she can win back her Part thriller, part gothic tragedy, part comedy of manners, Mistaken also brilliantly evokes the divided Dublin of the s and the trauma of adolescence.

Chrissie, in the twenty-three years she'd been together with Richie, had always believed that he loved her. Then suddenly Richie is no longer there, and without him Chrissie's carefully constructed life is in jeopardy. David Pepin has loved his wife since the moment they met, and he can't imagine living without her - yet he obsessively contemplates her demise. Soon she's dead, and he's both deeply distraught and the prime suspect.

Dracula's beautiful, eternal muse, Mina - the most famous woman in vampire lore - vividly recounts the joys and terrors of a passionate affair that has linked her and Count Dracula through the centuries. Time falls away as she is The Source of the Sound traces the journeys of exiles in search of home. The collection is littered with the mise-en-scene of being lost: Yet, in each story there is some elemental Jeff Atman is in Venice to cover the opening of the Biennale.

He's expecting to see a load of art, go to a lot of parties. He's not expecting to meet the spellbinding Laura, who will completely transform his few days in the city A novel based on the life of Keith Bulfin, who is drawn into a world of drug smuggling and violence in Mexico City. Convicted of conspiracy to defraud, Keith is sent to a Supermax unit in Port Philip prison.

There he befriends the In , when piano teacher Ilona Talivaldis arrived in the sleepy little town of Jingera, she was mocked as the 'reffo from Latvia'. Just four years on, she and her year-old daughter Zidra are at the heart of the community Zone One Colson Whitehead A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: Stone Arabia Dana Spiotta Stone Arabia, Dana Spiotta's moving and intrepid third novel, is about family, obsession, memory, and the urge to create - in isolation, at the margins of our winner-take-all culture.

We Bought a Zoo Film Tie-in: The Little Coffee Shop Of Kabul Deborah Rodriguez In a little coffee shop in one of the most dangerous places on earth, five very different women come together. Exile Jakob Ejersbo, Mette Petersen The first novel in a major trilogy exposing the guilt, loneliness and nihilism of the ex-pat experience in post-colonial Africa. Nine Stories Don DeLillo The stories here, collected from all five decades of DeLillo's career, show an acknowledged master of the novel in complete command of the short form.

In Red Magdalena Tulli, Bill Johnston In Tulli's second novel, set in a mythical fourth partition of Poland, the world is unreal yet strangely familiar. Breaking Away Anna Gavalda, Alison Anderson On the car journey to a family wedding, Garance reflects on how adult life, with its disappointments and responsibilities, has not always gone to plan for herself or her three siblings. A Visit From the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan A novel that circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs.

Girl in a Green Gown: The Auschwitz Violin Maria Angels Anglada An international sensation The Auschwitz Violin is the unforgettable story of one man's refusal to surrender his dignity in the face of history's greatest atrocity. Inherited Amanda Curtin A dancer in a wheelchair. Oil on Water Helon Habila From the desks of Nigeria's newsrooms, two journalists are recruited to find the kidnapped wife of a British oil engineer.

You Deserve Nothing Alexander Maksik Dark, compelling story of an illicit affair between a young teacher and his female student for fans of Donna Tartt. Byatt Ragnarok is the story of the end of the world: Infrared Nancy Huston After a childhood marked by pain, Rena Greenblatt has built a successful career as a photographer. The Secret in Their Eyes Eduardo Sacheri Part haunting crime thriller, part love story, this brilliantly executed novel within a novel is the book on which the Oscar-winning best foreign film of the same name was based.

C Tom McCarthy C follows the short, intense life of Serge Carrefax, a man who - as his name suggests - surges into the electric modernity of the early twentieth century, transfixed by the technologies that will obliterate him. Stabat Mater Tiziano Scarpa, Shaun Whiteside In early eighteenth-century Venice an orphan girl discovers life and independence in the music of Vivaldi. The Opportune Moment, Crooked Little Heart Anne Lamott With the same brilliant combination of humor and warmth that marked Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird , her two bestselling nonfiction works, Anne Lamott now gives listeners a richly absorbing portrait of a family for Cool Water Dianne Warren Juliet, Saskatchewan, is a blink of an eye kind of town - the welcome sign announces a population of 1, people - and it's easy to imagine that nothing happens on its hot and dusty streets.

How I Became A Famous Novelist Steve Hely Sick of life as he knows it, Pete Tarslaw sets out to write a bestselling novel, armed with a formula for success cobbled together from previous bestsellers. House Of Sticks Peggy Frew Bonnie, never domestically inclined, has given up her life as a musician to become a stay-at-home mother to three small children. Sisterhood Everlasting Ann Brashares From a 1 New York Times -bestselling author comes the fifth installment of her blockbuster Sisterhood series, in which Carmen, Tibby, Bridget, and Lena try to find their way in the world as young adults.

Everything Beautiful Began After Simon Van Booy While in Athens, Rebecca--young, beautiful and lost--finds a confidant in George, a translator whose closest friends are Aristophanes and Jack Daniels, but their blossoming relationship becomes complicated when they meet Henry, a Hinterland Caroline Brothers An exquisite, unsettling novel about refugees and what it is to be underage, homeless and invisible in a foreign land.

The Fix Nick Earls In need of some quick cash when he returns to Brisbane after years in London, Josh whores himself to his brother's PR firm and inadvertently becomes part of the fix. The Story of Beautiful Girl: The beloved Richard and Judy Book Club pick Rachel Simon On a stormy night in small-town America, a couple, desperate and soaked to the skin, knock on a stranger's door. Burning Bright Ron Rash A collection of short stories that melds the dark with the beautiful in deftly painted portraits of Appalachia, ranging from the Civil War to present day.

Grow Up Ben Brooks Jasper has his hands full. Bed David Whitehouse Mal isn't like the other kids. Babylon Stephen Sewell An English backpacker heads north for sun, women and a shot at making a fortune working the prawn trawlers. The Coffee Story Peter Salmon A wild, caffeine-fuelled deathbed confession of love and betrayal that spans four continents. When We Have Wings Claire Corbett The dream of being able to fly is now physical reality but only the rich and powerful can afford the surgery, drugs, and gene manipulation to become fliers.

The Arrivals Meg Mitchell Moore The idyllic life of empty nesters Ginny and William Owens is shattered when all three of their adult children suddenly return home to stay - indefinitely. Berlin Syndrome Melanie Joosten , Berlin. A Decline in Prophets Sulari Gentill On a s luxury liner, the murders begin and once again Rowland Sinclair is unwittingly at the centre of them all. Johan Harstad, Deborah Dawkin Originally published as: Buzz Aldrin, hvor ble det av deg i alt mylderet?

End of the Night Girl Amy T. Matthews Molly, a sassy Australian waitress, is haunted by the ghost of a murdered Polish Jew. Toploader Ed O'Loughlin Toploader is a wonderfully original novel that serves as a razor-sharp satire on the absurdity of war, and how the depersonalization of death and injury is meant to make it acceptable.

Watercolours Adrienne Ferreira Eleven-year-old Novi just wants to blend in - not easy when you're named after a silkworm and have the most eccentric family in town. The Precipice Virginia Duigan Thea Farmer, a reclusive and difficult retired school principal, lives with her dog in the Blue Mountains.

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The Lock Artist Steve Hamilton Prize-winning crime author Steve Hamilton's hugely commercial mainstream breakout tells the extraordinary story of a safe-cracker trying to unlock the key to his past. Early chapters frame the tasks ahead and show you how to get started. Harrow itself contains Shirley Jackson levelsof gloomy passages and dark secrets. Smart, scary, sexy, and gorgeously writtento boot. De witte duivel di Justin Evans e altri 1 Andrew Taylor is een Amerikaanse jongen van zeventien, die door zijn ouders naar een prestigieuze Britse kostschool wordt gestuurd. Harrow School is een vierhonderd jaar oud instituut nabij Londen, een elitaire kostschool waar belangrijke Engelsen zijn opgeleid, onder wie de grote schrijver Lord Byron.

Het is ook - net als andere Britse elitaire kostscholen - een broedplaats van arrogantie, The Eighth Day Vol. There is no hope here. This is The Eighth day. Her religious parents try to fix her disturbing fantasies with prayers and scriptures. But Lili isn't suffering from fantasies, and her family isn't going to be able to save her as she fights for her sanity and for her life.

But then, neither was love. Not by a long shot. From Thriller and Shamus Award winner Vincent Zandri comes a thriller that shows danger doesn't need to find you - because it's already right next door. Sometimes fences make for nice neighbors. Sandman di William W.

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