Bryony Gordon

Лидия Перес владеет небольшим книжным магазином в мексиканском городе Акапулько, где живет с мужем Себастьяном, журналистом, и восьмилетним сыном Лукой. После публикации в газете подготовленного Себастьяном материала, разоблачающего местный наркокартель, бандиты устраивают кровавую бойню, в которой убивают всех родных и близких Лидии – шестнадцать человек. В живых чудом остаются только она и Лука. Понимая, что на них объявлена охота, мать и сын бегут из Акапулько. Спасая свои жизни, они направляются на север, к границе с Соединенными Штатами. И вскоре понимают, что пережитый ими кошмар – это только начало: дорога к новой жизни потребует от них поистине нечеловеческих усилий. Книга содержит ненормативную лексику.

Explore the messy and complex nature of love affairs, grief, domestic strife, and personal secrets in this thought-provoking book. Part memoir, part history, the author weaves together her own experiences with those of literary heroines like Anna Karenina to muse on the meaning of love in modern times. Follow the author on an extended train journey as she reckons with the messiness of everyday life and asks important questions about intimacy and connection in the twenty-first century. This contemporary take on Brief Encounter is both frank and funny, sure to engage readers looking for an honest exploration of the human heart.

'A treatise on empathy and grace in extraordinary circumstances' Jojo Moyes...

Discover practical and sensible advice for coping with mental health issues in No Such Thing As Normal. From depression and anxiety to personality disorders, this book covers a range of topics including sleep, addiction, therapy, mindfulness and more. Author Bryony Gordon provides tools and information to help navigate the often overwhelming mental health care system. With a lively and honest approach, readers will feel less alone and empowered to feel stronger and better.

The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years. Ranging from the now infamous village of New Dachang in the United Federation of China, where the epidemiological trail began with the twelve-year-old Patient Zero, to the unnamed northern forests where untold numbers sought a terrible and temporary refuge in the cold, to the United States of Southern Africa, where the Redeker Plan provided hope for humanity at an unspeakable price, to the west-of-the-Rockies redoubt where the North American tide finally started to turn, this invaluable chronicle reflects the full scope and duration of the Zombie War. Most of all, the book captures with haunting immediacy the human dimension of this epochal event. Facing the often raw and vivid nature of these personal accounts requires a degree of courage on the part of the reader, but the effort is invaluable because, as Mr. Brooks says in his introduction, "By excluding the human factor, aren't we risking the kind of personal detachment from history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it? And in the end, isn't the human factor the only true difference between us and the enemy we now refer to as 'the living dead'?" Note: Some of the numerical and factual material contained in this edition was previously published under the auspices of the United Nations Postwar Commission.