Das humorvolle Meisterwerk einer KultautorinGrandios erzählt Shirley Jackson in diesem Klassiker von 1957 aus dem Leben ihrer liebenswert-durchgeknallten Familie.
This compelling novel takes the reader into the tumultuous period of the Renaissance and the origins of Leonardo da Vinci, the bastard child of a notary.
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE FAIRMILE SERIES, PHILIPPA GREGORY, COMES THIS RIVETING NOVEL ABOUT THE TUMULTUOUSLIFE OF MARGARET POLEMargarets story is shocking, deeply movingthe depiction of Henry VIIIs transformation from indulged golden boy to sinister tyrant is perfect pitchedSunday ExpressThey trust her to watch the House of Tudor rise Only she knows it will fall.
Als Bettina Flitner für eine Lesung aus ihrem Buch »Meine Schwester« nach Celle zurückkehrt – dorthin, wo vor 40 Jahren ihre Mutter beerdigt wurde –, springen sie mit unerwarteter Heftigkeit Fragen an, die sie lange von sich fern gehalten hatte: Fragen nach dem großen Unglück im Leben ihrer Mutter und nach einer Familienkatastrophe in einer fernen Zeit und in einem fernen Land.
An enchanting, audacious retelling of the Cleopatra story from a Mexican novelist who is "e;a luminous writer"e; and "e;a masterful spinner of the fantastic"e; (The Miami Herald).
A beautiful gift for Christmas, this superb selection of writing, by celebrated Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, opens with his enchanting story A Child's Christmas in Wales.
Restored to the British throne in 1660 after years of exile, Charles II began a reign famous for dramatic events (the Plague, the Great Fire, the Dutch Wars), the flowering of science and the arts, and for notorious sexual liaisons.
Bestselling author Robert Ryan brings one of the greatest epic journeys of all time to life in this captivating story of Captain Scott's last Antarctic expedition.
Beethoven Confidential started life as a play that was developed into a screenplay for a film starring Jodie Foster and Glenda Jackson, with Anthony Hopkins as the deaf musical genius Ludwig von Beethoven.
Homage to Catalonia is both a memoir ofOrwells experience at the front in the Spanish Civil War and a tribute to those who died in what he called a fight for common decency.
Waghalsig, klug komponiert, radikal – romantisch: ein moderner BildungsromanDer Literaturkritiker und Autor Hubert Winkels hat sich für sein grenzensprengendes Lebensbuch auf eine Vielzahl von Reisen begeben und die Exkursionen wie einen großen Zopf zu einem schillernden Ganzen verflochten.
'One of the most impressive accounts of madness to be found in literature' ANITA BROOKNER'Lyrical, touching and deeply entertaining' JOHN MORTIMER, OBSERVER'Any one of her books could be published today and it would be ground-breaking' ELEANOR CATTON'I was now an established citizen with little hope of returning across the frontier; I was in the crazy world, separated now by more than locked doors and barred windows from the people who called themselves sane.
'A deeply rewarding and beautiful novel' HILARY MANTEL, GUARDIAN ' Towards Another Summer is a joy to read' MAGGIE O'FARRELL'Frame has been compared with Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf' TELEGRAPHLife in England seems transitory for Grace Cleave as the pull of her native New Zealand grows stronger.
Libertad Demitrópulos construye una biografía novelada de Eva Perón donde logra un sutil entramado entre los documentos de su vida política y la ficción.
From the author of The World and All That It Holds, Aleksandar Hemon's stunning debut The Question of Bruno is a collection of beautifully told yet polically-charged short fiction.
Continuing the international bestselling saga of Alexander the Great, Valerio Massimo Manfredi's The Sands of Ammon brilliantly describes his quest to conquer Asia, the limitless domain ruled by the Great King of the Persians.
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Mother's Milk is the fourth of Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, adapted for TV for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick.
On February 16,1944, Anne Frank recorded in her diary that Peter, whom she at first disliked but eventually came to love, had confided to her that if he got out alive, he would reinvent himself entirely.
Alexander: Child of a Dream is Valerio Massimo Manfredi's magnificent story of one of history's greatest characters and his quest to conquer the civilized world.
On Wings of Eagles is the thrilling novel based on the incredible real-life rescue of two Americans by a Green Beret colonel and a group of corporate executives from revolutionary Iran, from number one bestseller Ken Follett.
