Tony Parsons

The final episode in the trilogy that began with the million-copy bestseller MAN AND BOYTen years on from MAN AND BOY, it is crunch time for Harry…Life is good for Harry Silver. He has a beautiful wife, three wonderful children and a great job as producer of the cult radio show, A Clip Round the Ear. But Harry is about to turn forty and his ex-wife is back in town. Soon it could be time to kiss the good life goodbye…When Harry's fifteen-year-old son Pat moves out to live with his mother, the...

From the number one bestselling author comes a swashbuckling tale of mutiny and murder in paradise . . .Even Paradise can turn into a nightmare . . .The Mutiny on the Bounty is the most famous uprising in naval history. Led by Fletcher Christian, a desperate crew cast sadistic Captain Bligh adrift. They swap cruelty and the lash for easy living in the island heaven of Tahiti. However, paradise turns out to have a darker side . . .Mr Christian dies in terrible agony. The Bounty burns. Cursed by...

The 20th anniversary edition of the multi-million copy bestseller!‘Wistful, touching and funny’ Mail on Sunday ‘Hilarious and tear-jerking in turns’ Express ‘A sharp, witty and wise book straight from the heart’ Daily Mail Harry Silver has it all. A successful job in TV, a gorgeous wife, a lovely child. But in one moment of madness, he chucks it all away. A modern classic, Man and Boy is a hilarious and touching novel about how Harry comes to terms with his life, brings up his son alone and,...

Seven short stories from bestselling author Tony Parsons, based on his week as Writer in Residence at Heathrow airport.Here is Heathrow as it has never been seen before – a secret city populated by the 75 million travellers who pass through every year, a place where journeys and dreams end – and begin.From the brilliant twenty-something kids who control the skies up in Air Traffic Control to the softly-spoken man who cares for the dogs, lions and smuggled rattlesnakes at Heathrow’s Animal...

SPECIAL PRICE FOR A LIMITED TIMEThe bestselling author of MAN AND BOY turns his acute eye and pen to the biggest personal issues that face us – as well as the annoying grit in the eye of everyday life.'If a young lover breaks your heart, or if you fall off your Harley, if you make a fool of yourself, well, that is what men do, and what we have always done. That is not a mid-life crisis. It's just the latest in a long line of cock-ups.'Tony Parsons shows us why, as well as being a bestselling...

The world-wide, mega selling author of Man and Boy is back with a sizzling, Shanghai tale of sex, romance and second wivesHot shot young lawyer Bill Holden and his wife Becca move with their four year old daughter to the booming, gold-rush city of Shanghai, a place of enormous wealth and crushing poverty, where fortunes are made and foreign marriages come apart in spectacular fashion.Bill's law firm houses the Holden family in Paradise Mansions – a luxury apartment block where newly rich Chinese...

The perfect read for Father’s Day, Tony Parsons’ bestselling series, MAN AND BOY, MAN AND WIFE and MEN FROM THE BOYS.In MAN AND BOY, Harry Silver has it all. A successful job in TV, a gorgeous wife, a lovely child. And in one moment of madness, he chucks it all away. This book tells the story of Harry learning what words like love and family really mean.In MAN AND WIFE, Harry Silver is learning to juggle his many commitments – to his wife and his ex-wife, to his son, his step-daughter and his...

A book about growing up and being young, about sex and love and rock and roll, about the dreams of youth colliding head-on with the grown-up world.Sometimes you can grow up in just one night…It is 16th August 1977 – the day that Elvis dies – and Terry is back from Berlin, basking in the light of his friendship with legendary rock star Dag Wood. But when Dag arrives in London he sets his sights on a mysterious young photographer called Misty, the girl that Terry loves.Will the love of Terry's...

This is the story of how we grow old – how we give up the dreams of youth for something better – and how many chances we have to get it right.George Bailey has been given the gift we all dream of – the chance to live his life again.After suffering a heart attack at the age of 42, George is given the heart of a 19-year-old – and suddenly everything changes…He is a friend to his teenage son and daughter – and not a stern Home Secretary, monitoring their every move.He makes love to his wife all...

It should be the most natural thing in the world. But in Tony Parsons’ latest bestseller, three couples discover that Mother Nature can be one hell of a bitch.Paulo loves Jessica. He thinks that together they are complete – a family of two.But Jessica can't be happy until she has a baby, and the baby stubbornly refuses to come. Can a man and a woman ever really be a family of two?Megan doesn't love her boyriend anymore. After a one-night stand with an Australian beach bum, she finds that even a...

Just how badly do you want to find paradise?When Tom Finn is almost jailed for confronting two burglars in his own home, this taxi driver takes his young family to live on the tropical island of Phuket, Thailand.Phuket is all the Finn family dreamed of – a tropical paradise where the children swim with elephants, the gibbons sing love songs in the jungle, the Andaman Sea is like turquoise glass and this young family is free to grow.But both man-made disaster and the unleashed forces of nature...

Harry Silver returns to face life in the “blended family.” A wonderful novel about modern times, which can be read as a sequel to the million selling Man and Boy, or completely on its own.Man and Wife is a novel about love and marriage – about why we fall in love and why we marry; about why we stay and why we go.Harry Silver is a man coming to terms with a divorce and a new marriage. He has to juggle with time and relationships, with his wife and his ex-wife, his son and his stepdaughter, his...

London an einem klirrend kalten Neujahrstag. Detective Max Wolfe ist entsetzt: In einem noblen Wohnkomplex wurde die Familie Wood erschossen. Nur der jüngste Sohn scheint verschont worden zu sein, doch von ihm fehlt jede Spur. Hat der Killer ihn in seiner Gewalt? Max bleibt nicht viel Zeit. Seine Ermittlungen führen ihn weit in die Vergangenheit, zu einem Killer, der vor 30 Jahren eine Familie tötete, auf die gleiche brutale Art. Doch der ist mittlerweile alt und sterbenskrank. Trotzdem verbirgt...

London, Hampstead Heath. Während eines Spaziergangs stolpert Detective Max Wolfe über die Leiche von Vic Masters, zu Lebzeiten Handlanger der Kray-Zwillinge, eines berüchtigten Verbrecher-Duos der 1950er und 1960er Jahre. Tatwaffe und Tötungsart sprechen für die Zwillinge. Handelt es sich tatsächlich um eine Botschaft des bereits 1968 verhafteten Verbrecher-Duos oder wandelt jemand anders auf ihren Spuren? Privat muss Wolfe eine schwere Entscheidung treffen: Sein früherer Kollege, der bei einem...

Vor 20 Jahren trafen 7 Jungen in der elitären Privatschule Potter's Field aufeinander und wurden Freunde. Nun sterben sie, einer nach dem anderen, auf unvorstellbar grausame Art. Das ruft Detective Constable Max Wolfe auf den Plan: Koffeinjunkie, Hundeliebhaber, alleinerziehender Vater. Und der Albtraum jedes Mörders. Er folgt der blutigen Fährte des Killers von Londons Hinterhöfen und Straßen bis in die dunkelsten Winkel des Internets. Mit jeder neuen Leiche kommt Max dem Täter näher –...

London, ein Uhr nachts am 2. Weihnachtsfeiertag. Schnee fällt, die Stadt schläft. Aber nicht Detective Max Wolfe. Durch die großen Fenster seines Lofts beobachtet er die dunkle Straße ein paar Stockwerke unter ihm. Ein Kastenwagen hat dort gerade angehalten. Zwei Männer springen heraus, vermummt und schwarz gekleidet. Sie zerren etwas aus dem Wagen. Es ist ein Mann – halb nackt, halb tot, am Leben. Doch nicht mehr lange – Bald schon jagt Max Wolfe eine Bande von Mördern, die ihre Opfer...

Vor zwanzig Jahren trafen sieben privilegierte Jungen in der elitären Privatschule Potter's Field aufeinander und wurden Freunde. Nun sterben sie, einer nach dem anderen, auf unvorstellbar grausame Art. Das ruft Detective Constable Max Wolfe auf den Plan: Koffeinjunkie, Hundeliebhaber, alleinerziehender Vater. Und der Albtraum jedes Mörders. Max folgt der blutigen Fährte des Killers von Londons Hinterhöfen und hell erleuchteten Straßen bis in die dunkelsten Winkel des Internets. Mit jeder...

Uusaasta esimesel päeval leitakse jõukas perekond oma eksklusiivses, kinnises kogukonnas asuvas majas Londoni põhjaosas tapetuna, nende noorim laps on aga röövitud.Mõrvarelvaks on poltpüstol, millega kariloomi enne veristamist uimastatakse. See juhib uurija-konstaabel Max Wolfe’i Scotland Yardi Musta muuseumi tolmusesse nurka, mis on pühendatud tapjale, keda 30 aastat tagasi tunti kui Lihunikku. Kuid Lihunik on oma aja ära istunud, on vana ja suremas. Kas ta võib jälle tegutseda?Kas õnneliku...

Tuntud inglise krimikirjaniku Tony Parsonsi efektse pealkirjaga romaan „Mõrvakott“ algab mitme surnukeha avastamisega, mida näiliselt ei seo miski peale mõrva sooritamise viisi. Äsja terroriakti ennetanud uurija Wolfe on mõrvarühma uus liige, kes viib järk-järgult kokku tellimusmõrvade püramiidi tipus oleva tuntud poliitiku ja n-ö „musta töö“ tegijad ühiskonna alamkihist. Uurija Wolfe avab juurdluses värske vaatenurga ega nõustu minema konventsionaalset teed, mis viinuks ammu tagaotsitava...