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NOBEL PRIZE WINNER From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remains of the Day comes “a Gothic tour de force" (The New York Times) with an extraordinary twist—a moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic. One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st...

In one of the most acclaimed novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go dramatizes her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world.

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER The moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic from the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and Klara and the Sun—“a Gothic tour de force" (The New York Times) with an extraordinary twist. “Speculative, experimental, and humanly moving...

Friends since they met in school, Ashton and Brighton soon become much more. Ash and his aunt are Brighton’s haven away from his mess of a family, and when Ash enlists in the army, Brighton learns to endure his long absences and eagerly awaits his return from missions. Until one day, Ash doesn’t come back, and Brighton thinks his greatest fear has come true. Months pass, and Brighton grieves for Ash, not knowing that a terrible misunderstanding sent Ash running.

Architect Maxwell Devers is laser-focused on winning the contract to build a new cultural arts center - his biggest project yet. But as a single dad of a beautiful baby girl, he has to find some help if he's going to stay on track. Yvonne Markham is thrilled to get her first nanny assignment. She knows the high-paying job will speed her progress toward owning a child-care center of her own. Maxwell's daughter is a delight, and she quickly comes to love the bouncing baby girl. Falling for her handsome new boss, however, was not part of the plan....

Brief Introduction This guide is designed for GCSE English Literature students studying Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. It focuses on the skills, knowledge, and analysis examiners reward, with close attention to character, themes, language, and structure. Each chapter of the novel is explored clearly and systematically to support effective revision and exam preparation. The guide aims to help students develop confident, focused responses and a secure understanding of the text.

Coach Dan John breaks down the most complicated concepts of strength training and high-performance athletics in his personal, no-nonsense, thought-provoking, and motivating style. Workout routines, Olympic lifting guidance, Highland games, track and field, and Strongman events are all covered, in addition to weight training philosophy for the general public.

England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him: the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in old Shanghai, when he was a small boy. Moving between London and Shanghai of the interwar years, When We Were Orphans is a remarkable story of memory, intrigue and the need to return.

Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he traverses a landscape by turns eerie and comical - and always strangely malleable, as a dream might be - he comes steadily to realise he is facing the most crucial performance of his life....

This book is aimed at GCSE students of English Literature who are studying Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. The focus is on what examiners are looking for, especially since the changes to the curriculum in 2015, and here you will find each chapter covered in detail. I hope this will help you and be a valuable tool in your studies and revision.

On being kicked by life harder than he could ever imagine, Sachin had three options. He could look life in the eye and fight back. He could succumb and do something that would haunt him forever. Or he could flee to a place where there were no traces of the blow he had received. So Goa it was. In search of solace, perhaps, by working in a small shack at an unknown beach. Dealing with the local police, resurrecting a dying shack, and managing rowdy parties, risking having his bones and jawline broken, does Sachin get what he was seeking?

介護人キャシーは「提供者」と呼ばれる人々の世話をしている。生まれ育った施設へールシャムの親友たちも提供者だった。彼女は、施設での奇妙な日々に思いをめぐらす。

Delivered in Stockholm on 7 December 2017, My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs is the lecture of the Nobel Laureate in Literature, Kazuo Ishiguro. A generous and hugely insightful biographical sketch, it explores his relationship with Japan, reflections on his own novels and an insight into some of his inspirations, from the worlds of writing, music and film. Ending with a rallying call for the ongoing importance of literature in the world, it is a characteristically thoughtful and moving piece.

BLACKWELL’S BOOK OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of Barack Obama’s Favourite Books of 2025 The Atlantic’s Top 10 The Standard’s Best 2025 Titles to Buy for Book Lovers Named a Best...

From the author of the number one international bestseller The History of Bees, a captivating new novel about the threat of a worldwide water shortage as seen through the eyes of a father and daughter. In 2019, seventy-year-old Signe sets out on a hazardous voyage to cross an entire ocean in...

England, 1979. Vincent, Lawrence and William are the last remaining residents of a secluded New Forest home, part of the government's Sycamore Scheme. Every day, the triplets do their chores, play their games and take their medicine, under the watchful eyes of three mothers: Mother Morning...

The mesmerising secondnovel from the acclaimed author of The Bellwether Revivals: a rich and immersive story of love, obsession, creativity and disintegration. On a forested island off the coast of Istanbul stands Portmantle, a refuge for beleaguered artists. There, a curious assembly of...

Robert Powell reads Louis De Bernières’ bestselling novel set in the early days of the second world war, and as heard on BBC Radio 4... Dr Iannis practices medicine on the island of Cephalonia, accompanied by his daughter, Pelagia, to whom he imparts much of his healing art. Even when...

From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Swing Time, White Teeth and On Beauty Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith, read by Ben Barnes. 'A pleasure from the first page to the last' Evening Standard 'A glorious concoction by our...

Brought to you by Penguin It is summer, 1956, when fifteen-year-old Bridget first meets Isabella. In their conservative Connecticut town, Isabella is a breath of fresh air. She is worldly, alluring and brazen: an enigma. When they receive an offer to study at the Academy in Italy, Bridget is...