Edgar Freemantle jól menő építési vállalkozó, gazdag, kiegyensúlyozott, középkorú férfi, boldog családapa. Egy szép napon szörnyű munkahelyi balesetet szenved, kis híján életét veszti. Súlyos testi fogyatékossággal felépül ugyan, ám pszichés problémáival nehezen birkózik meg. A házassága tönkremegy. ...
A captivating volume of over forty short stories full of love, hope, and fear, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lady of Hay. Barbara Erskine is a born storyteller. The tales in ''Encounters'' illustrate her extraordinary talent for capturing the spirit of a place and drawing us into the hearts ...
One house. Ten contestants. Thirty cameras. Forty microphones. Yet again the public gorges its voyeuristic appetite as another group of unknown and unremarkable people submit themselves to the brutal exposure of the televised real-life soap opera, House Arrest. Everybody knows the rules: total strangers ...
\''Twas the night (okay, more like the week) before Christmas and little Joshua Barker is in desperate need of a Christmas miracle. Josh is sure he saw Santa take a shovel to the head and now the seven year old has only one prayer: Please Santa, come back from the dead! But coming to Earth, seeking a ...
Every year for ten years, a young woman\''s body was found in Edinburgh at Christmas time: naked, throat slit, body washed clean. Ten years, ten women. The final victim, Kirsty Summers, was Detective Constable Tony McLean\''s fiancée. But the Christmas Killer made a mistake. In a cellar under a shop, ...
Imagine a world that is one of infinite parallel worlds, that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse. Presiding over this world is the Concern, an all-powerful organisation ...
The sweet scents of rural life infuse Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life, a collection of Roald Dahl''''s country stories - but there is always something unexpected lurking in the undergrowth.Whether it is taking a troublesome cow to be mated with a prime bull; dealing with a rat-infested hayrick; learning the ...
A stunning novel in the great tradition of American coming-of-age novels from Catcher in the Rye to The Secret History. Lee Fiora is a shy fourteen-year-old when she leaves small-town Indiana for a scholarship at Ault, an exclusive boarding school in Massachusetts. Her head is filled with images from ...
An eternal masterpiece of candid observation, emotional insight and transcending humour, Middlemarch is a truly monumental novel. Endlessly appealing to modern readers, Middlemarch has been adapted as BBC Radio 4 drama.Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector''s Library is a series ...
Erzählt wird die Geschichte eines Schülers und seiner Liebe und Abhängigkeit zu einem Auto, einem 58er Plymouth Fury. Er nennt es Christine, weil der Vorbesitzer das Auto ebenfalls so genannt hat. Es ist 1978. Arnie Cunningham ist 17 Jahre alt, und in der Schule ein Außenseiter. Sein einziger Freund ...
AutorMarkus Heitz VydavateľstvoOrbit VäzbaBrož Strán800 ISBN9780316102629 For the last time, the dwarves are going to war - and the outcome will decide the fate of their race. There has been no word from the brave warrior Tungdil since the vicious battle at the Black Abyss. Dragons, magicians, and the ...
A comprehensive dictionary with over a thousand colour illustrations, over 10,000 entries and 25,000 straightforward definitions with part of speech indicators, example sentences and pronunciation guides for tricky words. Also contains information on parts of speech, the conventions of written English ...
A universal narrative on the significance of distance with love, remember to hold on to what you believe in. Ideal for those ",whose love knows no bounds,", The Space Between Us is full of profound anecdotes and messages, illustrating the courage and heartache of enduring physical distance. The ...
Meet the three women who helped shape the course of modern Chinese history; a gripping story of sisterhood and betrayal from the bestselling author of Wild Swans. They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled seismic transformations these three women left an indelible mark on history. ...
Istanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide and crackle, where the idea is as potent as the historical fact. From the Qu\''ran to Shakespeare, this city with three names - Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul - resonates as an idea and a place, and overspills its boundaries - ...
