Maggie O. Farrell Knihy

Keď sa Kubo s mamou a sestrou Vierkou presťahuje z mesta na vidiek, v novom domove sa mu vôbec nepáči. Nič nie je také, ako bol zvyknutý, chýbajú mu svetlá a zvuky mesta, dokonca aj hluk od susedov, nehovoriac o kamarátoch, ktorých tam nechal... a čo je najhoršie, v dome sa začnú diať čudesné veci.V dedine koluje povesť o maličkom chlpatom stvorení zvanom nuka, ktoré žije v hlbinách vrchu za Kubovým domom a v noci občas vychádza von a vystrája huncútstva. Kubo na nuky neverí. Kto kedy počul o takom stvorení? V hlbinách vrchu však naozaj žije maličký tvor, ktorý cíti Kubovu osamelosť ako nepríjemné šteklenie vo fúzikoch a túži mu pomôcť. Chce smutného chlapca nájsť a rozveseliť. Podarí sa mu to? Nájde Kubo znova svoju iskru?

Sylvie sa raz v noci náhle zobudí a zazrie niečo neuveriteľné. Obrovské krídla z najjemnejšieho snehobieleho peria, aké si vieme predstaviť. V jej spálni stojí anjel, ktorého si kedysi vytvorila v snehu. Prezradí jej, že ju prišiel ochrániť pred chorobou. Keď sa Sylvie zotaví, znovu sa s ním túži stretnúť. Podmanivá rozprávka o zázraku počas jedného zasneženého dňa plná krásnych ilustrácií, dojemných rozhovorov a rozprávkového jazyka.

Majstrovské stvárnenie Shakespearovej rodiny ovenčené mnohými literárnymi cenami v preklade Otakara Kořínka! Autorka opísala úzky časový úsek zo Shakespearovho života, o ktorom vieme iba veľmi málo. Hoci vieme, že dvojča Hamnet zomrelo v jedenástich rokoch, nepoznáme príčinu jeho smrti. No nie je to príbeh o ňom. Hamnet je príbeh lásky a smrti. V jednej z časových rovín sledujeme prvé dni známosti Hamnetových rodičov. Agnes je nezvyčajne múdre dievča. Je trochu zvláštna – chová jastraba, rozumie vlastnostiam bylín a vie predpovedať budúcnosť. Záhadný lektor latinčiny Will je ňou očarený. Obaja pochádzajú z komplikovaných rodinných pomerov. Cítime silu ich vzájomnej príťažlivosti. Autorka nevynechala ani zmyselné detaily, ktoré príbehu neuberajú na kvalite. Výborne napísaný a skoncipovaný román k nám prehovára drsnou prózou a snová zmyselnosť zároveň dodáva príbehu zvláštnu atmosféru.

Šestnásťročná Lukrécia žije zatvorená v paláci uprostred Florencie. Raz v zime, v čase, keď bola renesancia na svojom vrchole, ju jej manžel Alfonso vezme do vily na vidieku. Pri večeri sa dozvedá, že Alfonso ju na tento výlet vzal za jediným účelom – zabiť ju. Ako Lukrécia naloží s touto informáciou? Má šancu prežiť, keď jej osud drží v rukách samotný vládca provincie? Manželský portrét je nezabudnuteľný príbeh o mladej žene, ktorá pre blízkosť k moci čelí smrteľnému nebezpečenstvu.

Winner of the 2010 Costa Novel Award and a Sunday Times bestseller 2010, THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE by Maggie O'Farrell is a gorgeously written story of love and motherhood from the author of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE. When the sophisticated Innes Kent turns up on her doorstep, Lexie Sinclair realises she cannot wait any longer for her life to begin, and leaves for London. There, at the heart of the 1950s Soho art scene, she carves out a new life. In the present day, Elina and Ted are reeling from the difficult birth of their first child. Elina struggles to reconcile the demands of motherhood with her sense of herself as an artist, and Ted is disturbed by memories of his own childhood that don't tally with his parents' version of events. As Ted begins to search for answers, an extraordinary portrait of two women is revealed, separated by fifty years, but connected in ways that neither could ever have expected.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD. SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READER AWARDS. SHORTLISTED FOR THE SALTIRE SOCIETY FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR. SHORTLISTED FOR THE BGE IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR. A top-ten bestseller, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE by Maggie O'Farrell crosses time zones and continents to reveal an extraordinary portrait of a marriage. 'A complex, riveting novel of love and hope that grips at the heart' The Sunday Times A reclusive ex-film star living in the wilds of Ireland, Claudette Wells is a woman whose first instinct, when a stranger approaches her home, is to reach for her shotgun. Why is she so fiercely protective of her family, and what made her walk out of her cinematic career when she had the whole world at her feet? Her husband Daniel, reeling from a discovery about a woman he last saw twenty years ago, is about to make an exit of his own. It is a journey that will send him off-course, far away from the life he and Claudette have made together. Will their love for one another be enough to bring Daniel back home?

AFTER YOU'D GONE is the groundbreaking debut novel from the Costa-Award winning Maggie O'Farrell, author of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE and I AM, I AM, I AM. It is a stunning, best-selling novel of wrenching love and grief. A distraught young woman boards a train at King's Cross to return to her family in Scotland. Six hours later, she catches sight of something so terrible in a mirror at Waverley Station that she gets on the next train back to London. AFTER YOU'D GONE follows Alice's mental journey through her own past, after a traffic accident has left her in a coma. A love story that is also a story of absence, and of how our choices can reverberate through the generations, it slowly draws us closer to a dark secret at a family's heart.

"An extraordinary memoir--told entirely in near-death experiences--from one of Britain's best-selling novelists"--

From the bestselling, critically acclaimed author of HAMNET and I AM, I AM, I AM, comes an intense, breathtakingly accomplished story of a woman's life stolen, and reclaimed. 'Unputdownable' Ali Smith Edinburgh in the 1930s. The Lennox family is having trouble with its youngest daughter. Esme is outspoken, unconventional, and repeatedly embarrasses them in polite society. Something will have to be done. Years later, a young woman named Iris Lockhart receives a letter informing her that she has a great-aunt in a psychiatric unit who is about to be released. Iris has never heard of Esme Lennox and the one person who should know more, her grandmother Kitty, seems unable to answer Iris's questions. What could Esme have done to warrant a lifetime in an institution? And how is it possible for a person to be so completely erased from a family's history?

From Maggie O'Farrell, bestselling author of AFTER YOU'D GONE and THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE, comes a gripping novel about the way childhood fears can haunt adult lives. On a cold February afternoon, Stella catches sight of a man she hasn't seen for many years, but she instantly recognises him. Or thinks she does. At the same moment on the other side of the globe, in the middle of a crowd of Chinese New Year revellers, Jake realises that things are becoming dangerous. They know nothing of one another's existence, but both Stella and Jake flee their lives: Jake in search of a place so remote it doesn't appear on any map, and Stella for a destination in Scotland, the significance of which only her sister, Nina, will understand. Gripping, insightful and deft, this is Maggie O'Farrell's finest achievement to date.