The book of the year 2018

The Cut Out Girl : A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found: The Costa Book of the Year 2018 - Es Bart Van

<p>*** WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 *** 'A masterpiece of history and memoir' Evening Standard 'Superb. This is a necessary book - painful, harrowing, tragic, but also uplifting' The Times Little Lien wasn't taken from her Jewish parents - she was given away in the hope that she might be saved. Hidden and raised by a foster family in Amsterdam dur...

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Women of the Dunes

A spellbinding and beautiful novel from the acclaimed author of The House Between Tides, winner of the Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2018.

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AUTOCULT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018

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Year Of The Flood

The waterless flood - a man-made plague - has ended the world. But two young women have survived: Ren, a young dancer trapped where she worked, in an

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The Year of the Flood (0349004072)

Kniha - 528 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná The sun brightens in the east, reddening the blue-grey haze that marks the distant ocean. The vultures roosting on the hydro poles fan out their wings to dry them. the air smells faintly of burning. The waterless flood - a manmade plague - has ended the world.But two young women have survived: Ren, a young dancer ...

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Rewilding of Molly McFlynn

It’s spring 2020 and fifteen-year-old Molly McFlynn is uprooted from town life by her mam to live with her bohemian grandparents in rural Northum

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Because of Brett: A View of Grief Without Pigeon Holes

I am just a mum who couldn˘€™t even save her child from dying, who am I to write a book about grief and grieving?‚ My son Brett was just thirteen-year

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Diddly Squat : A Year on the Farm - Clarkson Jeremy

Anotace: Welcome to Clarkson`s farm. It`s an idyllic spot, offering picturesque views across the Cotswolds, bustling hedgerows, woodlands and natural springs. Jeremy always liked the idea being a farmer. But, while he was barrelling around the world having more fun with cars than was entirely reasonable, it seemed obvious that the actual, you know, farming was much bette...

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Reading Book of Days

Taking you through the year day by day, The Reading Book of Days contains a quirky, eccentric, amusing or important event or fact from different perio

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Celtic Year

A book of prayers, meditations, and liturgies based on the eight points of the Celtic year - the four season changes, and the four midpoints of each s

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Say You´ll Be My Jaan: The must read fake engagement romcom of the year - the perfect feel good pick me up! - Kumar Naina

Anotace: "Think of it like Tinder. Except your parents are the algorithm" Meghna has tried everything to find her jaan: blind dates, the dreaded apps, even attempting conversations with strangers. Everything except arranged marriage. Then Seth, her best friend and the-one-who-got-away, asks her to be his "best man" and suddenly her parent's tas...

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Sent: Keswick Year Book 2018

The 2018 Year Book from Keswick contains a selection of talks from this year's convention The contributors include Christopher AshRichard DannattLouis

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Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Highlights Volume 8

This â€highlights’ edition of the bestselling portfolio book presents the very best images from the latest Wildlife Photographer of the Year co

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Funnies, The

Twelve-year-old Marius is on the run from the Government. He's the only one in the whole nation that values his sense of humour. Everyone else was de-

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White Phoenix, The

London, 1666. After the sudden death of her father, thirteen-year-old Lizzie Hopper and her mother must take over The White Pheonix- the family booksh

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The Island of Missing Trees - Shafak Elif

Anotace: It is 1974 on the island of Cyprus. Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek and Christian, and Defne, who is Turkish and Muslim, can meet, in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic, chilli peppers and wild ...

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Territory of Light - Tsushima Yuko

Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterrane...

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Year Of Liberty

* The classic account of the great Irish rebellion of 1798

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Slow Puncture: Living Well With Dementia

This is an account of a year in the life of Peter Berry, an ordinary man living in a sleepy Suffolk village. Happily married and running a successful

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The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II - Alexievich Svetlana

Anotace: A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia-from the winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Washington Post o The Guardian o NPR o The Economist o Milwaukee Journal Sentinel o Kirkus ReviewsFor more than three decades, Svetlana Alexievich has...

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The Whisperwicks: The Labyrinth of Lost and Found - Lees Jordan

Anotace: The spell-binding world-building of Philip Pullman with the page-turning kid appeal of Skandar and the Unicorn Thief. Discover a world of magic and secrets, friendship and unimaginable quests in this spectacular new fantasy series from the most exciting new voice in children`s books.A boy who doesn`t believe in magic. An impossible world that will change his min...

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Barra Boy

1982. Thirteen-year-old Ewan Fraser is sent to the remote island of Barra, off Scotland's west coast, to stay with his aunt and uncle.

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Year of Voting Dangerously

From the preeminent political columnist of our time, Maureen Dowd's most incendiary takes and takedowns on the bizarre and fascinating election of 2016.

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Season in Fitzrovia

It is 1922 and the aftermath of a horrific war hangs over a talented group of artists as they begin their freshmen year at the Slade School of Fine Ar

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Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control - Russell Stuart

Anotace: FROM THE BBC REITH LECTURER 2021`The most important book I have read in quite some time` Daniel Kahneman; `A must-read` Max Tegmark; `The book we`ve all been waiting for` Sam HarrisHumans dream of super-intelligent machines. But what happens if we actually succeed?Creating superior intelligence would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, accordin...

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A Question of Guilt - Horst Jorn Lier

Anotace: Wisting is back with his most gripping case yet.In 1999, seventeen-year-old Tone Vaterland was killed on her way home from work. Desperate for a conviction the police deemed the investigation an open-and-shut case and sent her spurned boyfriend, Danny Momrak, down for murder.But twenty years later Detective William Wisting receives a puzzling letter. It suggests...

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Year of the Gun

The follow-up to the acclaimed The Red Ribbon and the third book in 'a great new series' (Mick Herron, author of Spook Street)

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Turning of the Year

The Irish have a close connection with the land and nature. This book brings us through the Irish seasons and the customs that welcomed each one in tu

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Sharks Are Scary Aren't They?

Sharks Are Scary Aren't They? depicts the emotional journey of Charlie Parker, a fearful twelve-year-old boy, and Jane Jones, a retired dentist and sc

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Bournville: From the bestselling author of Middle England - Coe Jonathan

Anotace: `A wickedly funny, clever, but also tender and lyrical novel about Britain and Britishness and what we have become` RACHEL JOYCEIn Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate factory. For eleven-year-old Mary and her family in 1945, it`s the centre of the world. The reason their streets smell faintly of chocolate, the place where most of t...

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Lou Reed: The King of New York - Hermes Will

Anotace: `A monumental work filled with first-person accounts of the master`s life and a dizzying array of never-before heard details` Michael Imperioli, author of The Perfume Burned His Eyes The most complete and penetrating biography of the rock master, whose stature grows every year.Since his death ten years ago, Lou Reed`s living presence has only grown. The great ro...

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Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Chalice of the Gods - Rick Riordan

Anotace: The original heroes from The Lightning Thief are reunited for their biggest challenge yet: getting Percy to college when the gods are standing in his way.After saving the world multiple times, Percy Jackson is hoping to have a normal senior year.

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Too Late: The most addictive thriller of the year, from the global bestseller - Colleen Hoover

<p>A breath-taking psychological suspense about obsession and dangerous love. The definitive edition of Too Late from the TikTok phenomenon and #1 bestselling author of Verity. Sloan will go through hell and back for those she loves. And she does so, every single day. Caught up with the alluring Asa Jackson, a notorious drug trafficker, Sloan has finally found a li...

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Little White Lies: From the bestselling author of The Inheritance Games - Barnes Jennifer Lynn

Anotace: Welcome to the page-turning, twisty, gasp-inducing world of the Debutantes - an addictive YA mystery duology from the author of #1 bestselling, TikTok sensation INHERITANCE GAMES series. `A plot twist every twenty pages . . . Barnes is at her page-turning best.` E. Lockhart, author of We Were Liars A six-figure offer. A family mystery to solve. A town of buried...

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The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World - Gaskill Malcolm

Anotace: *SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE**A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR*`A bona fide historical classic` Sunday Times`Simply one of the best history books I have ever read` BBC HistoryIn the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails and property vanishes. People suffer f...

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Birdsong in a Time of Silence - Lovatt Steven

Anotace: A lyrical celebration of birdsong, and the rekindling of a deep passion for nature.`At this time of year, blackbirds never simply fly: instead, like reluctantly retired officers, they`re always "on manoeuvres", and it`s easy to see from their constant agitation that for them every flower bed is a bunker, every shed a redoubt and every hedge-bottom a potential pl...

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A Cruel Twist of Fate - Askwith H. F.

Anotace: And Then There Were None meets The Inheritance Games, with a heavy dash of The Woman in Black, in this gloriously gothic YA mystery-thriller.When eighteen-year-old Helena is sent to be a governess at Archfall Manor - a beautiful but crumbling manor house, perched at the edge of a causeway in the North Sea - she feels confident she will know how to deal with the ...

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Hyde: WINNER OF THE 2021 McILVANNEY PRIZE FOR BEST CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR

From international award-winning author Craig Russell comes another dark thriller, for readers of Neil Gaiman, Caleb Carr and Stephen King.

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The Summer Switch-Off: The hilarious summer must-read from the author of The Kissing Booth - Reeklesová Beth

Anotace: Luna, Rory and Jodie are supposed to be having the time of their lives. Instead they're all completely bloody miserable. Luna thought her first year at uni was perfect - until her relationship broke up, and she realised she's her old school friends might be ghosting her. She's never felt so lonely. Rory's passion is art (and promoting it on...

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A Head Full of Music: The soundtrack to my life - Richard Cliff

Anotace: Foreword by Bob StanleyOn a sunny Saturday morning in May 1956, a fifteen-year-old, then called Harry Webb, was mooching down Waltham Cross High Street. He heard some music blaring out of a parked car. It stopped him in his tracks.The song was `Heartbreak Hotel` by Elvis Presley. It sounded like nothing he had ever heard before. In that instant, the schoolboy wh...

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A Head Full of Music: The soundtrack to my life - Richard Cliff

Anotace: Foreword by Bob StanleyOn a sunny Saturday morning in May 1956, a fifteen-year-old, then called Harry Webb, was mooching down Waltham Cross High Street. He heard some music blaring out of a parked car. It stopped him in his tracks.The song was `Heartbreak Hotel` by Elvis Presley. It sounded like nothing he had ever heard before. In that instant, the schoolboy wh...

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Good Material: THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, FROM THE AUTHOR OF EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT LOVE - Alderton Dolly

Anotace: `Made me laugh while punching me in the gut. Loved this book` AISLING BEA`This is the greatest. You`ll cry and laugh. I read it though the night. And I never, ever avoid sleep` CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN`I award it 13/10 on my QWJ scale (stands for Queasy With Jealousy that I didn`t write it)` MARIAN KEYES---Every relationship has one beginning.This one has two endings.A...

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The Thief of Farrowfell

Anotace: Welcome to a fantasy world where edible magic is the hottest commodity, traded between those who can pay or - in the case of Jude Ripon, the youngest thief in Farrowfell - those who can steal it! An epic debut series from a FAB Prize winner.Twelve-year-old Jude Ripon has never been taken seriously by her family of magic-stealing masterminds. To them, she`s just ...

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RAF Colouring Book

Stunning illustrations to colour in, charting the 100-year history of the RAF

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Everything is Beautiful: 'the most uplifting book of the year' Good Housekeeping

Perfect for fans of Eleanor Oliphant and The Keeper of Lost Things, this exquisitely told, uplifting novel shows us that however hopeless things might

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Everything is Beautiful: 'the most uplifting book of the year' Good Housekeeping

Perfect for fans of Eleanor Oliphant and The Keeper of Lost Things, this exquisitely told, uplifting novel shows us that however hopeless things might

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Year 1000

* Vivid recreation of how English people lived a thousand years ago. * What life was like at the turn of the first Millennium.

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Guardian of the Horizon

Banned from the Valley of the Kings, Amelia Peabody and her distinguished husband have returned to England with their 19-year-old son Ramses and their

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Funny Story: A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author Emily Henry - Henryová Emily

Anotace: A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author Emily Henry-----Daphne always loved the way her fiance Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together...

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Good Year

A novel of wine, women and sun with a plot that offers more twists than a corkscrew. This is a captivating new novel from the internationally bestse

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In The Name of the Family

A Times Best Historical Fiction Book of the Year * A Cosmopolitan Best Book of the Year * A History Today Book of the YearConfirms Sarah Dunant's plac

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The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared (9780349141800)

Kniha – autor Jonas Jonasson, 400 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá - autor Jonas Jonasson, 400 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá The international bestselling sensation. Sitting quietly in his room in an old people's home, Allan Karlsson is waiting for a party he doesn't want to begin. His one-hundredth birthday party to be precise. The Mayor...

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The End of Alchemy

The past twenty years saw unprecedented growth and stability followed by the worst financial crisis the industrialised world has ever witnessed. In the space of little more than a year what had been seen as the age of wisdom was viewed as the age of foolishness. Almost overnight, belief turned into incredulity.§Most accounts of the recent crisis focus on the symptoms and ...

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Blade of Secrets: Book 1 of the Bladesmith Duology - Levenseller Tricia

Anotace: Eighteen-year-old Ziva prefers metal to people. She spends her days tucked away in the forge, safe from society and the anxiety it causes her, using her gift to craft unique weapons imbued with magical power.When Ziva takes a job from a powerful warlord, the result is a sword capable of stealing its victims` secrets. A sword with the strength to topple kingdoms....

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Master of Iron: Book 2 of the Bladesmith Duology - Levenseller Tricia

Anotace: Eighteen-year-old Ziva may have defeated a deadly warlord, but the price was almost too much. Ziva is forced into a breakneck race to a nearby city with the handsome mercenary, Kellyn, and the young scholar, Petrik, to find a magical healer who can save her sister`s life.But the plan goes awry and Ziva and Kellyn are captured by an ambitious prince. Once again, ...

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The Bee Sting: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023 - Murray Paul

Anotace: WINNER OF IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE WRITERS` PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024ONE OF SARAH JESSICA PARKER`S BEST BOOKS OF 2023Book of the Year 2023 according to New York Times, New Yorker, The Sunday Times, The Economist, Observer, Guardian, Washington Post, Lit Hub, TIME mag...

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The Fraud: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller - Smithová Zadie

Anotace: Book of the Year 2023 according to New York Times, New Yorker, Guardian, Economist, Observer, The Spectator, Financial Times, Vogue, The Times, The Oldie, i Paper, The Standard, Washington Post, Independent, Daily ExpressSHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE WRITERS` PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024ONE OF SARAH JESSICA PARKER`S BEST BOOKS OF...

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The Whalebone Theatre: The instant Sunday Times bestseller - Quinnová Joanna

Anotace: `THE BOOK OF THE SUMMER` Sunday Times`A tour de force` Sarah Winman, author of Still LifeThis is the story of an old English manor house by the sea, with crumbling chimneys, draping ivy and a library full of dusty hardbacks. It`s the story of the three children who grow up there, and the adventures they create for themselves while the grown-ups entertain endless...

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The Summer I Turned Pretty - Hanová Jenny

Anotace: The Summer I Turned Pretty is now a major new TV series on Amazon Prime! From the author of Netflix's smash-hit movie To All The Boys I've Loved Before, this is the perfect funny summer romance for fans of The Kissing Booth and Holly Bourne. One girl. Two boys. And the summer that changed everything . . . Every year Isabel spends a perfect summer at...

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White Holes: Inside the Horizon - Rovelli Carlo

Anotace: CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND NEW STATESMAN`A miniature masterpiece by one of the most entertaining scientists on the planet ... I would give this book to anyone, young and old, interested in thinking, science and literature` Robert Fox, Evening Standard`Everyone`s talking about White Holes` Daily MailA mesmerizing trip to the strange n...

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