David Nicholls

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way... Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his wife's departure, he has begun taking himself on long, solitary walks across the English countryside. Becoming ever more reclusive, he'll do anything to avoid his empty house. Marnie, on the other hand, is stuck. Hiding alone in her London flat, she avoids old friends and any reminders of her rotten, selfish ex-husband. Curled up with a good book, she's battling...

"From the best-selling author of One Day comes a bittersweet and brilliantly funny coming-of-age tale about the heart-stopping thrill of first love-and how just one summer can forever change a life"-- Provided by publisher.

The year is 1985. Brian Jackson, a working-class kid on full scholarship, has started his ?rst term at university. The usual freshman anxiety over ?tting in is compounded by the gap between his own humble origins and the privileged backgrounds of his better-off classmates.

Brian also has a dark secret--a long-held, burning ambition (stoked by his late father) to appear on the wildly popular TV quiz show University Challenge--and now,...

A lo largo de veinte años, el mismo día (15 de julio) de cada año se revelan instantáneas de una relación improbable. Dex Mayhew y Em Morley enfrentan riñas y peleas, esperanzas y oportunidades perdidas, risas y lágrimas. Y a medida que se revela el verdadero significado de este día crucial, deben enfrentarse a la naturaleza del amor y de la vida misma. Una importante película de 2011 de Focus Features/Random House Films. Over twenty years,...

"Dulce despedida es una novela que te hará reir, que te enamorará y, al mismo tiempo, romperá tu corazón una y otra vez. Esta tragicomedia sobre el poder de la amistad y sobre el impacto que tiene el primer amor en la vida de las personas, hará que nunca vuelvas a ver la vida con los mismos ojos."--Back cover

Es 1988 y Dexter Mayhew y Emma Morley se acaban de conocer. Pero tras sólo un día juntos, no pueden dejar de pensar el uno del otro. A lo largo de veinte años, instantes de esta relación se revelan el mismo día de cada año--el 15 de julio. Dex y Em afrontan pequeñas discusiones y grandes peleas, esperanzas y oportunidades perdidas, la risa y las lágrimas. Y mientras el verdadero significado de este crucial día se revela, tendrán que enfrentarse...

Based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy about Bathsheba Everdene who is an independent woman who attracts three different suitors: a sheep farmer; a dashing soldier; and a prosperous, older bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba's passions explores the nature of relationships, love and resilience.

After Pip, an orphaned blacksmith's apprentice inherits a fortune from an anonymous benefactor, his future seems promising. But a bitter heiress is intent on preventing Pip from finding true love.

Chronicling the hilarious highs and devastating lows of his tumultuous life, this blackly humorous drama follows Patrick from his childhood trauma at the hands of an abusive father and neglectful mother, to the peak of his heroin addiction, and his attempts to stay sober and support his family.

Macbeth is the chef in a 3-star restaurant; Beatrice and Benedict are rival co-anchors; Titania and Bottom carouse in a tawdry theme resort; and Petruchio sets out to tame the conservative Kate in a politically incorrect marriage of convenience.