Showing results by publisher "Saga Egmont" in Contemporary Fiction

An action-filled reimagining of the famous Greek myth, Jason and the Golden Fleece, brilliantly told by classicist Mark Knowles. He has come to take what is yours... Iolkos, Thessaly. 1230 BC. King Pelias has grown paranoid, tormented by his murderous past and a prophecy of the man who will one day destroy him. When a stranger arrives to compete in the Games of Poseidon, Pelias is horrified, for this young man should never have grown to manhood. He is Jason, Pelias' nephew, who survived his uncle's assassins as a child. Now Jason wants his revenge – and the kingdom.

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This is... Denise. Married to Ray, her first and only love, Denise has never, for one moment, regretted putting the husband she idolised on a pedestal above everyone and everything else. But, after forty years of marriage, he is gone, leaving Denise to discover that their perfect marriage was fatally flawed. Now she faces a future alone. But first, she must face the betrayals of the past. This is... Claire. The estranged daughter of Denise, the woman who put her husband before her children, Claire took the opposite path and devoted her life to raising her family, sacrificing.

When a giant sperm whale washes up on the local beach and tells Joe Gunner that death will follow him wherever he goes. Joe knows that the place he needs to go is home. Having stormed out two years ago, it won't be easy. Nor will returning to the river alongside the house where words ripple beneath the muddy black water washing up all sorts of memories and disturbing prophecies. Joe turns to his sister, Birdee, the only person who has ever listened and to Tim Fysh, a local fisherman and longtime lover - but reviving their bond leads to trouble.

I walk slowly to the kitchen counter, staring out the window as Ceci rocks back and forth on the swing. My beautiful darling girl has been through so much already. How can I tell her that her life is about to change forever? When the woman from the hospital tells me that my husband Drew is in a coma my world comes crashing down. In an instant, I see our whole married life flashing before my eyes: the way our children ran into his arms when he came home from work, the way his face lit up when he read to them.

"Eight Cousins, or The Aunt Hill" was published in 1875 by American novelist Louisa May Alcott. It is the story of Rose Campbell, a lonely and sickly girl who has been recently orphaned and must now reside with her maiden aunts, the matriarchs of her wealthy Boston family. When Rose's guardian, Uncle Alec, returns from abroad, he takes over her care.

Sönerna, de flesta av dem utomäktenskapliga, till Mallen av High Banks Hall bär alla ett ont arv, en karakteristisk vit hårlock vid ena tinningen. Det sägs att de som bär den är förbannade och kommer att dö unga. När arvtagaren Thomas Mallen och de två flickor han tagit under sina vingar tvingas flytta från High Banks Hall efter att han ruinerats möter han den modiga Anna, en fattig guvernant. Men även bröderna Radlet tar sig in i deras liv. Och en av bröderna bär den omisskännliga vita hårlocken.

Ferocious and irreverent, this multiple prize-winning novel burns down the pretensions of a pompous literary establishment and takes no prisoners. Ellinor is thirty-six. She wears soft black sweatpants and a Michelin Man jacket. She fights. Smart and unsentimental, she tries her hand at online dating, only to be stranded in a snowstorm with a literary critic. Cut to Max Lamas, an author who dreams of a polyglot lover, a woman who will understand him in every tongue. His search takes him to Italy, where he befriends a Marchesa whose old Roman family is on the brink of ruin.

Albert Glück ist ein seltsamer Kauz. Er ist knapp über fünfzig, ein wenig trocken, penibel, und er arbeitet im Amt für Verwaltungsangelegenheiten. Formulare, Stempel, Dienstvorschriften sind seine Welt, in der er sich gut eingerichtet hat. Ganz wörtlich, denn Albert arbeitet nicht nur in dem Amt, er wohnt auch dort. Von allen unbemerkt hat er im Keller einen kleinen Raum bezogen und verbringt zufrieden seine Tage im immer gleichen Rhythmus. Doch eines Tages wird Alberts sorgsam eingehaltene Ordnung durcheinandergebracht.

The first collected volume of short stories of the New Zealand modernist. Inspired by her own travels, Mansfield begins to refine her craft with a series of tales which depict German life at the brink of the First World War.

As soon as we sat on the ride I knew something was wrong. I couldn’t relax. I couldn’t hear the theme park music, the giggles of my two other children. I’d left my baby in someone else’s care. And I knew I’d made a mistake... With her two beautiful children and newborn baby Ella, Lily’s life is full of love and laughter. She gave up her job to be a stay-at-home mother, and though she sometimes envies the freedom of best friend Hannah, Lily wouldn’t trade it for anything.

"Prelude" is a 1918 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published by the Hogarth Press in July 1918, and later reprinted in "Bliss and Other Stories".

Narcís Presas, a prop dels seixanta anys, s’ha retirat a un casalot enmig del bosc amb la intenció de matar Amanieu de Palol, el protagonista de la sèrie de novel•la històrica que l’ha convertit en un escriptor d’èxit. Abans que ho enllesteixi es presenta a la casa una amant de vint anys enrere amb una oferta sorprenent: serà la seva esclava. Per sempre. Però la incapacitat de l’escriptor per comprendre els sentiments de la seva filla, enamorada d’un il•lusionista, i per afrontar la vida, la naturalesa i tot allò que l’envolta, el fa dubtar ...

Första världskriget har brutit ut, och Sean Courtney är en gammal man. Han imponerad av en ung soldat, Mark, och erbjuder honom ett jobb. Mark blir en lojal vän till Sean, men han upptäcker något som kan komma att skaka om hans familj. Under tiden är Sydafrika på väg mot ett inbördeskrig, och Mark finner sig berövad på sitt arv efter ett våldsamt dåd. Den tredje boken i den första sekvensen i berättelsen om familjen Courtney.

"Address Book" is the new work of fiction by the Costa-shortlisted author of "Skin Lane". Neil Bartlett’s cycle of stories takes us to seven very different times and situations: from a new millennium civil partnership celebration to erotic obsession in a Victorian tenement, from a council-flat bedroom at the height of the AIDS crisis to a doctor’s living-room in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic, they lead us through decades of change to discover hope in the strangest of places.

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.

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.

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.

If you keep dangerous secrets you’ll pay the ultimate price... In the South of France, playground of the rich and famous, world renowned chef Dexter Franklin is organising a night to remember. As he opens the doors to his exclusive restaurant for the first time, he’s handpicked a list of guests, as hot and dazzling as the St Tropez sun itself: Mew Stanton: Fashionable, beautiful and a notorious TV chef, Dexter’s ex-girlfriend has all the ingredients for success. As her books fly off the shelves, a secret from her past is about to surface with explosive consequences.

Es hätte nicht viel gefehlt, und Paul Poggemann wäre endgültig unter die Räder gekommen. Er hat alles verloren. Seine Frau, seinen Beruf, den Glauben an sein Talent. Im Keller eines Mietshauses verkriecht er sich und zieht Resümee. Er weiß, dass er nur weiterleben kann, wenn es ihm gelingt, seine schrecklichen Erinnerungen zu verarbeiten. Und so macht er das, was er kann: Er haut die Gedanken an die irrsinnigen Tage seiner Reporter-Tätigkeit in die Schreibmaschine. Erinnerungen an ein Leben voller Hetze, voller Brutalität und voller Alkohol.