Patrick Gale's early novel, FACING THE TANK is a witty, eccentric story of clergy, scandal and English eccentrics 'Made me laugh out loud' Sunday TimesAmerican Professor Evan Kirby, author of a successful book on Hell, moves to Barrowcester in the south England expecting to find the very epitome of a cathedral society of gentle clergymen and coffee mornings.
›Emoticon‹ erzählt die Geschichte von Daniel, einem niederländisch-israelischen Jugendlichen, und von Aischa, einer jungen Palästinenserin, die für die Weltöffentlichkeit ein Zeichen setzen will – und Daniel in eine tödliche Falle lockt.
De Los Angeles à Montréal, en passant par Paris, Conséquences lyriques, est un roman savamment déconstruit, pour ne pas dire cubiste, et constitué de six groupes de personnages.
L’ange tourmenté raconte les mésaventures d’un jeune curé, Isidore Bilodeau, dont la foi est mise à rude épreuve par l’Archevêque de Québec, un homme aux intentions et au désir de vengeance pas très « catholiques ».
From the award-winning author of The Gardens of Kyoto comes this witty and incisive novel about the lives and attitudes of a group of womenonce country-club housewives; today divorced, independent, and breaking the rules.
Ein tragikomischer Familien-Roadtrip auf den Spuren der verschollenen GroßmutterSalesche, ein Dorf in Polen 1990: Jarek und seine Eltern packen ihre Sachen.
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013An unsettling exploration of manipulation and power between a middle-aged man and eleven year-old girl.
This compelling volume offers the first full portrait of the life and work of writer Lillian Smith (1897-1966), the foremost southern white liberal of the mid-twentieth century.
WINNER OF THE WALES POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021Winner of the Naim Frash ri Laureateship of Albania and Macedonia Winner of the European Lyric Atlas Prize 'Fiona Sampson's voice is something new and it's a delight to hear it .
Adichies preisgekrönter Afrika-Roman - schon jetzt ein WeltklassikerEine Geschichte über Liebe und Verrat, Rassismus und Loyalität und das Leben im zerstörerischen Alltag des Krieges.
Lucknow: Buildings, Begums and The British is not about history; rather it is a book on heritage - defined as the legacy of physical artefacts and intangible attributes inherited from past generations.
With its echoes of fellow Austrian novelist Robert Musil's novella Young Torless, and of Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum, Florjan Lipus's Young Tjaz, first published in 1972, helped moved the critique of Germanic Europe's fundamental social conformity into the postwar age.
Mosul, Iraq, in the 1940s is a teeming, multiethnic city where Arabs, Kurds, Assyrians, Jews, Aramaeans, Turkmens, Yazidis, and Syriacs mingle in the ancient souks and alleyways.
A Wall Street Journal Top Ten Fiction Book of 2017 * A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the Year * A Seattle Times Favorite Book of 2017 * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Kirkus Reviews Best Historical Fiction Book of the Year * A Library Journal Top Historical Fiction Book of the Year * Winner of the Costa First Novel Award, the RSL Ondaatje Prize, and the Desmond Elliott Prize * Winner of the New York City Book Award ';Gorgeously craftedSpufford's sprawling recreation here is pitch perfect.
Als Melodys Mann sich nach zwei Fehlgeburten heimlich sterilisieren lässt, beantwortet sie diesen Vertrauensbruch mit einer Affäre und wird schwanger – von einem ihrer Schüler.
Torn between the two most passionate men that she has ever met, a young woman must decide who she wants more: her football star boyfriend of four years or the sexy architecture major she can't stop thinking about.
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo A People Magazine Pick * US Weekly ';Must' Pick * Named ';Best Book of the Summer' by Glamour * Good Housekeeping * USA TODAY * Cosmopolitan * PopSugar * Working Mother * Bustle * Goodreads A breathtaking new novel about a young woman whose fate hinges on the choice she makes after bumping into an old flame; in alternating chapters, we see two possible scenarios unfoldwith stunningly different results.
Amerika in den 1960er Jahren, die Ära von Eisenhower und McCarthy, aber auch von Ginsberg und Kerouac: Die Beat Generation versucht, sich aus der spießigen Welt ihrer Eltern zu befreien.
David spends his days as an underworked copy writer for an ad agency and his nights lost in old war movies, fantasizing about his strange teenage cousin and revisiting his father's suicide.
Polarisierender Skandalautor, Klassiker der Weltliteratur, weltberühmter Dramatiker, österreichisches Phänomen: All das und noch viel mehr war Thomas Bernhard, dessen umfassende Biografie nun vorliegt.
"Cox's hopeful, heartwarming novel touches on complicated relationships, the value of friendship, and the impact of trauma with great heart and kindness.
A GOOD HOUSEKEEPING READER FAVOURITE'Funny, poignant, smart and wonderfully, achingly real' SARAH WATERS'Rambunctiously funny' THE TIMES, Book of the Year'I can't think of another author who can make me ricochet so quickly from painful empathy to helpless laughter' ERIN KELLYWho do you choose when the cracks begin to show?
