A Quick Reads story from award winning author Kia Abdullah 'Abdullah's legal thrillers make John Grisham seem like a maiden aunt' Sunday Times Crime Club'Intelligent, clever, poignant, sharp, and thought-provoking, right through to the perfect final line.
Dieses eBook: "Das Kind der Prärie (Wildwestroman)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
Suzie Mohamad Galal, born in the Egyptian city of Suez during the War of Attrition in the late 1960s, is a woman of inner conflicts, at once a fighter and a lover, who traverses the boundaries of ethnicity and religion.
Für den Kölner Privatdetektiv Frank Baumann läuft es gerade ziemlich bescheiden: seine große Liebe Katja hat ihm den Laufpass gegeben, heftiger Kater nach durchzechten Nächten ist sein ständiger Begleiter und jetzt findet er auch noch Hubert Roosen, den ältesten Freund seines Patenonkels Theo, erhängt am Fahnenmast einer Schrebergartensiedlung.
Nylon's Most Anticipated Books of 2024The Paris Reviews Favorite Books of 2023Set against a backdrop of 1950s New York, this experimental novel follows an ensemble cast of all-singing, all-dancing butch dykes and Yiddish anarchists through eternal Friday nights, around the table, and at the bar.
Told in three distinct voices, Short War brings together a rapturous teenage love story set in Chile, the hunt for the author of an eye-opening literary detective story, and a complex reckoning with American political intervention in South America.
Der Bankräuber Siegbert Reinecke erzählt einem Mithäftling kurz vor seinem Tod, dass die Beute aus einem nicht aufgeklärten Raubüberfall, den er begangen hat, auf dem Grundstück eines Mittelrheinwinzers vergraben liegt.
When city councillor Terrance Mack is threatened with dangerous consequences if he doesn't align his vote with his peers, he learns something deeply sinister is happening within the Billings Council office.
Seit mehreren Jahren sind wir vom Gefängnis fasziniert, denn das Fernsehen bringt uns mit Serien wie "Hinter Gittern – der Frauenknast", "Block B", "Orange is the new Black" oder "Wentworth" den Knastalltag näher.
In John Buchan's gripping espionage novel, 'The 39 Steps,' the reader is taken on a thrilling journey with protagonist Richard Hannay as he becomes entangled in a web of espionage and deceit.
A spy thriller that will change your view of the Cold War forever, by a former special forces officer and 'the thinking person's John le Carre'The thinking person's John le Carr ' Tribune 'Edward Wilson seems poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carr ' Irish Independent'More George Smiley than James Bond, Catesby will delight those readers looking for less blood and more intelligence in their spy thrillers' Publishers WeeklyLondon, 1956.
The Theocrat takes as its subject one of Arab and Islamic history's most perplexing figures, al-Hakim bi-Amr Illah ("e;the ruler by order of God"e;), the Fatimid caliph who ruled Egypt during the tenth century and whose career was a direct reflection of both the tensions within the Islamic dominions as a whole and of the conflicts within his own mind.
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTIONONE OF THE 50 MOST IMPORTANT ARABIC NOVELS OF THE 21ST CENTURY (THE NATIONAL)PalestinianArmenian Ivana eloped with a British doctor in the 1940s, in the midst of the Nakba, and emigrated to England.
WINNER OF THE NAQUIB MAHFOUZ MEDAL FOR LITERATURESHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTIONONE OF THE 50 MOST IMPORTANT ARABIC NOVELS OF THE 21ST CENTURY (THE NATIONAL)In the once beautiful city of Aleppo, one family descends into ruin in this novel from one of the rising stars of Arab fiction (New York Times)Irrepressible Sawsan flirts with militias, the ruling party, and finally religion, seeking but never finding salvation.
