Showing results by publisher "Saga Egmont" in Genre Fiction

What if the villain of your childhood turned out to be someone really rather extraordinary? A disgraced politician, Sir James Hastings is living out his retirement in a secluded Surrey village. He is unmoved by his centenarian mother's death - a woman he emotionally buried upon her abandonment. Raised by his father, a charismatic war-hero turned racing driver, the young James, torn between self-blame and longing, eventually dismissed her.

Tucked away in a near-derelict library in the center of London, The House of Marvellous Books is a publishing house on the brink of financial disaster. With assistant Ursula asleep at her desk, head publisher Gerard going health and safety mad, and chief editor Drusilla focused on finding a supposedly priceless but famously missing manuscript, there is hardly anyone left to steer the ship. Young Mortimer Blackley, assistant editor, charts the descent of the House in his logbook as it lurches from one failure to the next.

The third gripping instalment in a dystopian thriller series, where modern-day recruits compete in a fight to the death in the streets of Edinburgh. Live by the rules. Die by the rules. Or break them and take your chances in the chaos that follows... The Pantheon Games are the biggest underground event in the world, with millions watching online as modern-day recruits battle to the death with weapons of the ancient world. Tyler Maitland left his life behind to search for his sister, who disappeared after joining the Pantheon's Edinburgh chapter.

At the time of her death in 1815, twenty-nine-year-old Ellen Hutchins had catalogued over a thousand species of seaweed and plants from her native Bantry Bay. Ireland’s first female botanist, Ellen was a major contributor to nineteenth-century scientific discovery. And yet, like so many brilliant women lost in history, it is her personal story that will resonate today. In her remarkable debut novel, Marianne Lee fuses fact with fiction to imagine Ellen’s rich but tormented inner life, repressed by the gender and class confines of her time.

Sparks and tempers fly when Ben comes to stay in Daisy’s holiday cottage. Daisy likes routine. She goes to work, makes dinner for her son, then loses herself for an hour or two in her sewing. She’s not looking for change, until Ben crashes - literally - into her life. Ben is training for a triathlon, working himself to the limit in an attempt to forget a recent trauma. Daisy wants to help, but even as they draw closer with every week that passes, he pushes her away whenever things threaten to get serious.

For love to grow, Flora will have to first dig up the past. At a hen party on the remote Scottish island of Alana, Flora is dared to ask a handsome stranger to be her plus-one for the wedding. When the gorgeous Mac accepts her invite, she assumes he's joking and thinks nothing more of it... Until he turns up at the church on the wedding day. But Mac has an agenda. He wants to hire her skills as a garden historian to restore the gardens at Róisín House, his home back on Alana.

Fünf Jahreszeiten einer Liebe. Eine überwältigende Geschichte. Eine unglaubliche Geschichte. Und doch eine wahre Geschichte. Alles beginnt mit einer großen Liebe. "Sowohl als auch" heißt das Café in Prenzlauer Berg, in dem Syd Theo kennenlernt. Theo ist Filmemacher, alleinstehend, charismatisch. Syd weiß sofort, dass es die Art von Liebe ist, die sie vermutlich nur einmal erleben wird. Die beiden bekommen ein Kind, ziehen zusammen, erleben großes Glück und überstehen kleine Krisen. Doch dann erhält Theo eine niederschmetternde Diagnose: ALS.

En Sonolibro hemos adaptado la obra original de Dickens, abreviando sus 650 páginas hasta hacerla plenamente asequible en un Audiolibro en tres capítulos con un total de cinco horas de grabación totalmente dramatizada. David Copperfield, se dice que es la obra más autobiográfica de Dickens y los personajes que interactúan en la misma están completamente vivos: El Sr. Murdstone, el padrastro sin escrúpulos; El Sr. Micawber, optimista empedernido; Pegotty, con su amor maternal hacia David; La Sta Betsie, que consigue superar su matrimonio frustrado....

"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (published in 1876) is a very well-known and popular story concerning American youth. Mark Twain's lively tale of the scrapes and adventures of boyhood is set in St. Petersburg, Missouri, where Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn have the kinds of adventures many boys can imagine: racing bugs during class, impressing girls, especially Becky Thatcher, with fights and stunts in the schoolyard, getting lost in a cave, and playing pirates on the Mississippi River.

Even perfect mothers have secrets... Meet Leah, the perfect wife and mum with a closet full of skeletons - and if the secret gets out, her carefully crafted world could crumble. Then there's Annie, the gangster's moll with a sharp mind. She's not afraid to get her hands dirty, but no one knows the devastating secret haunting her. And lastly, Terry, the king of Glasgow gangland. He's ruthless when it comes to growing his empire, but his weakness is women.

She wanted an adventure. What she found was so much more... When Adira Summers ditches her barrister job for a camper van, she's aiming for adventure, not a breakdown in the sleepy hamlet of Lilacwell. But fate has other plans, as she collides with Jasper - the dashing stranger tied to The Laurels, a fading family estate. In a village blooming with secrets and charm, Adira's heart wrestles with wanderlust and the unexpected allure of staying put. Meanwhile, Jasper's crossroads between life in Dubai and the pull of home - and a budding romance - promise to rewrite their destinies.

Homme ou femme, jeune ou vieux, salarié ou retraité... ils sont cinq à franchir le pas de la petite bibliothèque tenue par Sayuri Komachi en plein coeur de Tokyo. Leur point commun: ils sont au croisement de leur vie. A chacun Sayuri Komachi, énigmatique bibliothécaire attentive aux autres, proposera un ouvrage totalement inattendu, bien loin de celui qu'ils croyaient être venus chercher.

1940. Dunkirk is over? Will Britain fight on or talk peace? Fugitive and Hitler admirer, Billy Houston, craves a Nazi-run Britain. Needing money and intent on burglary, it ends in murder. But he’s in luck, his victim has in his possession the entire anti-invasion plans for Southern Britain, this while Armistice talks are slated to take place on the Isle of Wight. A desperate Billy makes contact with Rudi Graebner, a German naval officer and spy embedded in the Spanish Embassy. The two have nothing in common - they instinctively take a dislike to each other and trust is at a premium.

Gemma is about to risk it all for the man she loves. Will she survive entering into a life of crime? Gemma has always been there for Nathan. He's the love of her life and she made a commitment to him, one she'd never consider breaking... until smooth-talking gangster Alfie Watson comes into their lives and changes everything. Alfie doesn't care about true love – he wants Gemma, and the gangster always gets what he wants. When Nathan ends up owing him money, Alfie gets payback by recruiting Gemma to carry out a jewelry heist. To everyone's surprise, she's a natural.

Una nuova carrellata di irresistibili avventure di don Camillo e Peppone, la coppia di amici/nemici più famosi della narrativa italiana, immortalati al cinema da Fernandel e Gino Cervi. Da una parte c'è don Camillo, un prete di un paesino emiliano. Alto e ben piazzato, appassionato di caccia, don Camillo tende a risolvere pragmaticamente e fisicamente questioni ingarbugliate. Dall’altra c’è Peppone, il sindaco comunista del paese, amico d’infanzia di don Camillo e compagno di scorribande giovanili ma ideologicamente l'opposto di don Camillo.

A family secret. A new romance. And a summer she will never forget. When Caroline left Lake Summers thirty years ago, she thought she’d never return to the place where she lost her parents. But when she finds out that the town’s lily garden lovingly built by her mother is going to be destroyed, she knows fate is calling. Dropping everything at her office in Chicago, she knows she is the only person who can save the garden. Caroline and her daughter Lee are welcomed home by the warm smile of her mother’s best friend Maxine, and piles of pancakes at her cozy little restaurant in town.

A powerful, posthumous novel from bestselling author Mario Reading. Relegated to an isolated provincial town in France after years spent fighting on the Eastern Front, German commander Maximilian von Aschau finds unexpected distraction in the form of beautiful and reserved Lucie Léré. He’s seen every horror of the human experience. She’s never left her village. Opposites in every way, Max and Lucie manage to find common ground. But love is the most dangerous element of war. It makes you vulnerable... and careless.

Surpass all odds, break the chains, defeat a God... Heracles’ trials are far from over. Carrying the weight of the heavens, accompanied only by his most loyal friend, Iolaus, he will do anything to atone for his crimes. But all is not as it seems. Gods and men alike plot against him... First Heracles must obtain the girdle of the Amazonian Queen, Hippolyta, steal cattle from the monstrous Geryon, and take apples from the Garden of Hesperides.

"Queen Lucia" (1920) is the first volume of E. F. Benson’s "Mapp and Lucia" 6-novel series. It is a comedy of manners, set in provincial Riseholme (Lincolnshire). Emmeline Lucas rules local society with the help of her friend Georgie Pillson, a position she fiercely protects from her rival Daisy Quantock. But this very situation is at risk, as a scandal breaks out and a famous Prima Donna arrives in the sleepy old hamlet.

Deutschland in naher Zukunft. In der Politik gibt es eine Quote für Frauen mit Kopftüchern. Jesus-Statuen in Kirchen werden gegen geschlechtsneutrale Figuren mit Blumenkränzen ausgetauscht. An der Erdogan-Schule in Berlin haben alle Schüler*innen Migrationshintergrund. Zugleich verüben Rechtsradikale, die einen Staat im Staate schaffen wollen, mörderische Anschläge. Wegen der ungelösten Wohnungsnot werden Containersiedlungen errichtet, in denen die Unterschicht untergebracht ist. Und auf der internationalen Bühne greifen China und Russland nach der Weltherrschaft.