A compelling quick read from the author of the international bestseller The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. At the start of his school holidays, Danny Delaney is looking forward to a trouble-free summer. But when his mother returns home one afternoon, flanked by two policemen, he knows that something terrible has happened. Mrs. Delaney has accidentally hit a small boy with her car. The boy is in a coma at the local hospital and nobody knows if he will ever wake up. Consumed by guilt, Danny's mother closes herself off, while Danny and his father are left to pick up the pieces of their fractured...
A compelling quick read from the author of the international bestseller The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. At the start of his school holidays, Danny Del...
Explores the extremities of the human condition in all its brilliance and brutality. Drawing on a host of enthralling characters - a farmer, a cuckold and a teenager exploring his sexuality; good parents, bad parents, writers and soldiers; a student, a rent boy and a hitman, this book examines the hopeful and the damaged without judgement.
Explores the extremities of the human condition in all its brilliance and brutality. Drawing on a host of enthralling characters - a farmer, a cuckold...
When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his Aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy household at the top of the German mountains. But this is no ordinary time, for it is 1935 and the Second World War is fast approaching; and this is no ordinary house, for this is the Berghof, the home of Adolf Hitler.
When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his Aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy household at the top of t...
'By turns savvy, witty and achingly sad, this is a novelist at the top of his game.' Mail on SundayForced to flee the scandal brewing in her hometown, Catherine Goggin finds herself pregnant and alone, in search of a new life at just sixteen.
'By turns savvy, witty and achingly sad, this is a novelist at the top of his game.' Mail on SundayForced to flee the scandal brewing in her hometown,...
Autor bestsellerów Chłopiec w pasiastej piżamie i Chłopiec na szczycie góry w kolejnej wyśmienicie nakreślonej opowieści wojennej! W dniu wybuchu I wojny światowej ojciec Alfiego Summerfielda obiecał, że nie pojedzie na front – ale nazajutrz złamał tę obietnicę. Cztery lata później Alfie nie ma pojęcia, gdzie podziewa się jego ojciec, wie tylko, że wykonuje on jakąś specjalną, tajną misję. Pewnego dnia, czyszcząc buty na dworcu King’s Cross, Alfie niespodziewanie widzi nazwisko ojca w dokumentach należących do wojskowego lekarza. Oszołomiony i zdezorientowany...
Autor bestsellerów Chłopiec w pasiastej piżamie i Chłopiec na szczycie góry w kolejnej wyśmienicie nakreślonej opowieści wojennej! W d...