"Kate Atkinson's dazzling Life After Life, one of the top selling adult books of 2014, explored the possibility of infinite chances, as Ursula Todd lived through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. In A God in Ruins, Atkinson turns her focus on Ursula's beloved younger brother Teddy would-be poet, RAF bomber pilot, husband and father as he navigates the perils and progress of the 20th century. For all Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge will be to face living in a future he never expected to have. A God in Ruins is a masterful companion to Life After Life, and will prove once again that Kate Atkinson is one of the finest novelists of our age."

Many of us struggle with time. Even though we think we are good time managers we often feel that there is more to be squeezed from each hour of the day. Creating a purposeful life is not another book about organizing your email. Indeed it isn't a time 'management' book at all. Instead it will help you build a better relationship with time. It is a practical guide that's full of tips on how to unearth your unique purpose in life and enjoy a more sustainable relationship with time. If you feel that sometimes the meaning and purpose of your life aren't clear to you and that time is flying by; or if you feel unfulfilled in life and are considering a change of career; or you've read all the time management books and still feel that time flies by and you want some practical tips that are easy to implement and which will have long-lasting effects, then Creating a purposeful life is for you. The book will help you examine your current relationship with time, develop your own purposeful life action plan, overcome barriers to change, use your time more intentionally, plan your career and choose some ideas to sustain you on your journey. Based on Richard Fox's intensive international research into our relationship with time, it is thought-provoking and practical at the same time, presented in small packages which can be digested individually or put together into a larger action plan.

"When Jinx Kingsley, respected fashion photographer and only daughter of millionaire Adam Kingsley, is found unconscious in the wreckage of a mysterious car accident on an abandoned airfield, the police suspect a suicide attempt. Blood samples taken at the scene reveal an alarmingly high blood-alcohol level, and authorities discover that just one day prior to the accident, neighbors found an unconscious Jinx parked in her garage with the car engine running. Matters are further complicated when it is learned that Jinx's fiance has run away with her best friend, and neither can be located for questioning." "Dazed, confused, and suffering from post-traumatic amnesia, Jinx is placed in an exclusive private clinic, where she struggles to regain her memory with the help of Dr. Alan Protheroe. As their professional relationship grows and the dialogue between them deepens, Protheroe starts to see Jinx as the woman she really is: brilliant, strong-willed, and by her own admission far too proud to kill herself. At first, Jinx can remember nothing about her alleged suicide attempt. But with Protheroe's help, memories begin to surface - memories of desperation and absolute terror."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

When elderly Ailsa Lockyer-Fox is found dead in her garden, dressed only in nightclothes and with blood stains on the ground near her body, the finger of suspicion points at her wealthy, landowning husband, Colonel James Lockyer-Fox. A coroner's inquest gives a verdict of 'natural causes' but the gossip surrounding him refuses to go away. Why? Because he's guilty? Or because resentful women in the isolated Dorset village where he lives rule the roost?

Shenstead is a place of too few people and too many secrets. Friendless and alone, his reclusive behaviour begins to alarm his London-based solicitor, Mark Ankerton, whose alarm deepens when he discovers that James has become the victim of a relentless campaign which accuses him of far worse than the death of his wife. Allegations which he refuses to challenge . . . So begins a bitter war of resentment, and an unlikely alliance between strangers, whose clearer eyes and compassionate natures reveal evil for what it really is . . .

An old woman is found dead in her bath, her wrists slashed - an apparent suicide. But bizzarely she is wearing a scold's bridle on her head - adorned with a crown of nettles. By the author of The sculptress.

In this hypnotic novel of psychological suspense, a homeless man is found starved to death in the garage of a ritzy London home. The police chalk it up to an unfortunate accident, but a journalist, Michael Deacon, is intrigued. Amanda Powell, a socialite whose wealthy husband vanished five years ago after being accused of embezzlement, is just as interested as Michael in finding out who died in her garage. They have no idea that this simple story will unveil a web of deceit that is an appalling as the people behind it.

The Memory Game is a psychological thriller of rare power. It also introduces a major new voice in British fiction. This novel is about families and their hidden worlds, about returning to the past and leaving the past behind.

A 20-year-old murder, committed during a climate of intolerance, is at the center of this superb psychological novel. When "Mad Annie" Butts, a black woman afflicted with Tourette's syndrome, dies in the street in front of her London home, police call it an accident. But M. Ranelagh, the young teacher who finds her dying neighbor and tells the story, believes otherwise. And Ranelagh's obsessive quest for justice or, as some believe, revenge leads her to pursue the case for years while living abroad, before personally investigating and confronting her former neighbors.

Human Horizons Series.

Literaire Lift Serie 3.

An incarnate evil, youthful innocence, and burgeoning adolescent sexuality meet in a gripping Southern Gothic tale set in a 1963 West Virginia summer camp as two young girls go to a swimming hole at midnight and encounter two ex-cons. BOMC. Tour.

Vertaling door Azwin Ressang.