'Lisa Scottoline is one of the very best writers at work today' Michael Connelly'Heart-pounding' Lisa GardnerTwenty years ago four teenagers spent a blissful summer as the closest of friends.
Mockingbird Wish Me Luck captures glimpses of Charles Bukowski's view on life through his poignant poetry: the pain, the hate, the love, and the beauty.
A train screeches to a halt in the middle of the English countryside and, observed by her fascinated fellow travellers, a woman climbs down and rushes to the aid of a sheep, stranded on its back and unable to rise.
»Vorsicht, zerbrechlich«Manchmal würde ich mir den Aufkleber gern auf die Stirn kleben,weil unter meinem Alltags-Ichso viele Zerbrechlichkeiten liegen.
This book, first published in 1994, is a compendium of new translations of certain works regarded as fundamental texts in the Serene Reflection Buddhist Tradition (Soto Zen).
Three months after returning to England, Christopher Burton, receives a phone-call at the reception desk of the Rembrandt Hotel, Knightsbridge that informs him of his son's suicide.
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**Winner of the WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATION and the HELEN AND KURT WOLFF TRANSLATION PRIZE****Winner of the Society of Authors' FIRST TRANSLATION AWARD****Longlisted for the INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE**"e;A fine example of everyone's favourite genre: the genre-defying book, inspired by history, filtered through imagination and finished with a jeweller's eye for detail"e; JOHN SELF, Guardian"e;As we deal with the consequences, emotional and material, of a pandemic, it is hard to imagine a better guide to the resources of hope than Schalansky's deeply engaging inventory"e; MICHAEL CRONIN, Irish Times"e;Weaving fiction, autobiography and history, this sumptuous collection of texts offers meditations on the diverse phenomena of decomposition and destruction"e; Financial Times "e;Books of the Year"e;"e;Pure gold storytelling"e; SJONJudith Schalansky's strange and wonderful new book, recalling writers as different as W.
Set in Victorian-era Scotland and filled to the brim with fae, this is historical romantasy adventure will sweep you awayThis edition has been revised and expanded, with new spicy adult scenes****Hunt the fae.
'Viktor Frankl gives us the gift of looking at everything in life as an opportunity' Edith Eger, bestselling author of The Choice'Offers a path to finding hope even in these dark times' The New York Times A rediscovered masterpiece by the 16 million copy bestselling author of Man s Search For MeaningJust months after his liberation from Auschwitz renowned psychiatrist Viktor E.
With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, looking back on a life of displacement and discovery'My life always stops for a new book by him' JHUMPA LAHIRI'A generous, moving book' GUARDIANBorn in Sri Lanka during the Second World War, Ondaatje was sent as a child to school in London, and later moved to Canada.
Eine Familie zerrieben zwischen den Fronten, zerrissen durch die Grenze, verbunden durch die LiebeSommer 1987, in einer Hinterhauswohnung in Prenzlauer Berg: Die achtjährige Ella wohnt mit ihren beiden kleinen Brüdern, den Eltern und Großeltern nah an der Grenze, doch davon bekommt sie wenig mit.
';Impossible to resist, impossible to predict, impossible to put down this is an author at the top of her game'Erin Kelly, author ofWatch Her FallHe thinks he's safe up there.
Die Geschichte zweier Leben und einer Vergangenheit, zweier Schwestern und eines Geheimnisses, zweier Wahrheiten und eines VerbrechensIn ihrer Wohnung in Testaccio, einem angesagten Viertel im wunderschönen Zentrum Roms, sind Sergio und Giovanna gerade dabei, die letzten Vorbereitungen für das sonntägliche Mittagessen mit ihren engsten Freuden vorzubereiten, als es klingelt.
Corby, the industrial new town built around a vast steel works, draws many to the fires of its furnaces - in the hope of steady work, a better house, a fresh start.
An insightful and haunting new collection from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic Irreverent and sly, observant and keenly imagined, Come Closer and Listen is the latest work from one of our most beloved poets.
These 189 posthumously published new poems take us deeper into the raw, wild vein of Bukowski's that extends from the early 1980s up to the time of his death in 1994.
