nel Regno Unito

Libri più venduti nel Regno Unito – settimana dal 29 aprile al 5 maggio

categoria Narrativa

fonte The Bookseller

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(new) A delicate truth
by John Le Carré
ed. Viking £18,99
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A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain’s most precious colony, Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, and a private defence contractor who is also his close friend. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister’s Private Secretary, Toby Bell, is not cleared for it. Suspecting a disastrous conspiracy, Toby attempts to forestall it, but is promptly posted overseas.
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(new) Wedding night
by Sophie Kinsella
ed. Bantam Press £18,99
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Lottie is tired of long-term boyfriends who don’t want to commit to marriage. When her old boyfriend Ben reappears and reminds her of their pact to get married if they were both still single at thirty, she jumps at the chance. There will be no dates and no engagement-just a straight wedding march to the altar! But not everyone is thrilled with Lottie and Ben’s rushed marriage, and family and friends are determined to intervene.
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(new) Six years
by Harlan Coben
ed. Orion £18,99
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Jake Fisher, a political science professor at Lanford College in Massachusetts, promises the love of his life, Natalie Avery, to leave her and the man she’s about to wed, Todd Sanderson, alone. For six years Jake keeps his promise, until he sees Todd’s obituary, flies to the deceased’s Palmetto Bluff, S.C., funeral, and finds that the widow is not Natalie. This is merely the first of many shocks.
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(new) Alex Cross, Run
by James Patterson
ed. Century £18,99
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Top plastic surgeon Elijah Creem is renowned for his skills in the operating room, and for his wild, no-expense-spared “industry parties,” bringing in underage exotic dancers and models for nights of drugs, champagne, and uninhibited sex. That is, until Detective Alex Cross busts one of Creem’s lavish soirees and ruins his fun. Now Creem is willing to do anything to avoid going to jail.
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(3) Life after life
by Kate Atkinson
ed. Doubleday £18,99
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During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if there were second chances? And third chances? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again.
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(new) The hit
by David Baldacci
ed. Macmillan £14,99
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When government hit man Will Robie is given his next target he knows he’s about to embark on his toughest mission yet. He is tasked with killing one of their own, following evidence to suggest that fellow assassin Jessica Reel has been turned. She’s leaving a trail of death in her wake including her handler. The trap is set. To send a killer to catch a killer. But what happens when you can’t trust those who have access to the nation’s most secret intelligence?
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(2) Best kept secret
by Jeffrey Archer
ed. Macmillan £20,00
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1945. The vote in the House of Lords as to who should inherit the Barrington family fortune has ended in a tie. The Lord Chancellor’s deciding vote will cast a long shadow on the lives of Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington. Harry returns to America to promote his latest novel, while his beloved Emma goes in search of the little girl who was found abandoned in her father’s office on the night he was killed. When the General Election is called, Giles Barrington has to defend his seat in the House of Commons and is horrified to discover who the Conservatives select to stand against him. But it is Sebastian Clifton, Harry and Emma’s son, who ultimately influences his uncle’s fate. In 1957, Sebastian wins a scholarship to Cambridge, and a new generation of the Clifton family march onto the page.
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(new) The shining girls
by Lauren Beukes
ed. Harper Collins £12,99
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“Chicago 1931. Harper Curtis, a violent drifter, stumbles on a house with a secret as shocking as his own twisted nature. He uses it to stalk his carefully chosen ‘shining girls’ through the decades – and cut the spark out of them. Chicago, 1992. Kirby Mazrachi’s life was shattered after a brutal attempt to murder her. Still struggling to find her attacker, her only ally is Dan, an ex-homicide reporter who covered her case and now might be falling in love with her. As Kirby investigates, she finds the other girls – the ones who didn’t make it. The girl who wouldn’t die, hunting a killer who shouldn’t exist… A serial-killer thriller from award-winning author, Lauren Beukes”
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(1) The Storyteller
by Jodi Picoult
ed. Hodder & Stoughton £18,99
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Sage Singer is a baker. She works through the night, preparing the day’s breads and pastries, trying to escape a reality of loneliness, bad memories, and the shadow of her mother’s death. When Josef Weber, an elderly man in Sage’s grief support group, begins stopping by the bakery, they strike up an unlikely friendship. Everything changes on the day that Josef confesses a long-buried and shameful secret—one that nobody else in town would ever suspect—and asks Sage for an extraordinary favor. If she says yes, she faces not only moral repercussions, but potentially legal ones as well.
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(5) Five days
by Douglas Kennedy 
ed. Hutchinson £9,99
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Laura spends her days looking at other people’s potential calamities. She works in the radiography unit of a small hospital on the Maine coast, scanning and x-raying many a scared patient. Having a job where finding nothing is always the best result. Her husband Dan has become a stranger. With a son in college and a daughter set to leave home within the year, she wonders if the forthcoming empty nest will only deepen the disconnected state of her marriage. So when the opportunity arises for her to spend the weekend at a radiography conference in Boston, she jumps at the prospect. Upon check-in, she meets a man as grey and uninspired as the dreary hotel where she is staying.