"Dreamcatcher" is not a great Stephen King book and even while it rehashes some familiar elements once all the pieces are in place the guy knows how to tell a story. The idea that the right people are in the right place at the right time can come across as either heavy-handed coincidence or another instantiation ...
An enchanting, brutal vampire myth and coming-of-age love story, adapted from the best-selling novel and award-winning film. Oskar is a bullied lonely teenage boy living with his mother on a housing estate at the edge of town, when a spate of sinister killings rock the neighbourhood. Eli is the young ...
Arrian''''s account of Alexander''''s life and campaigns, published as the Anabasis and its companion piece the Indica, is our prime source for the history of Alexander, told with great narrative skill. This edition features a new translation of both texts, introduction, notes, guide to military systems ...
Winter, 1916. In St Petersburg, snow is falling in a country on the brink of revolution. Beautiful and headstrong, Sashenka Zeitlin is just sixteen. As her mother parties with Rasputin and her dissolute friends, Sashenka slips into the frozen night to play her role in a dangerous game of conspiracy and ...
There is a reason why Stephen King is one of the bestselling writers in the world, ever. Described in the Daily Express as ''''a fabulous teller of stories'''', Stephen King writes books that draw you in and are impossible to put down. Everything is familiar. But everything has changed. Coming back to ...
The collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist and poet. By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in transition, as well as the everyday objects ...
Sally is big, blonde and pampered. She''s married to Richard. But she loves Jerry. Jerry loves Sally in return, but he''s also still in love with his wife Ruth. Who''s been sleeping with Richard. As a hot, feverish summer of snatched weekends, secret phone calls and illicit lovemaking on the beach comes ...
Karl IV., römischer Kaiser und König von Böhmen, machte sich um den Ausbau zahlreicher monumentaler Bauten verdient, wobei sein Hauptaugenmerk dem St.-Veits-Dom auf der Prager Burg galt. Diesel Dom sollte ein Meisterwerk der Gotik werden – eine aus Stein gefertigte Verkörperung des Glaubens, Symbol Seiner ...
Inspired by DH Lawrence, Chekhov and Hemingway, Bukowski's writing is passionate, extreme and has attracted a cult following, while his life was as weird and wild as the tales he wrote. This collection of short stories gives an insight into the dark, dangerous lowlife of Los Angeles that Bukowski ...
