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The hilarious second novel, and Sunday Times No 1 Bestseller, from author of the smash hit Why Mummy Drinks.Monday, 25 July The first day of the holidays. I suppose it could’ve been worse. I brightly announced that perhaps it might be a lovely idea to go to a stately home and learn about some history. As soon as we got there I remembered why I don’t use the flipping National Trust membership – because National Trust properties are full of very precious and breakable items, and very precious and...
| Автор | Gill Sims |
‘Deliciously funny’ Helen Oyeyemi‘Enormously entertaining’ Lionel Shriver‘Smart, brilliant … I love it so much!’ Joanna CannonA wickedly caustic tale of a student who stumbles on a literary treasure.Anna Brisker is running out of ideas.Her PhD advisor thinks she’s a let-down, her fellow students see her as roadkill on the way to academic success and her family have just stopped asking when she’s going to get a real job.Then Anna Brisker stumbles on a rare notebook that could make her a literary...
| Автор | Juliet Lapidos |
Es ist eine kleine Erzählung über das Unrecht, doch deren Bedeutung ist umso größer. Denn Unrecht hat ein jeder mal … Konrad Beikircher liest Johann Peter Hebels großaritige Geschichte «Der Vater und der Sohn».
| Автор | Johann Peter Hebel |
Ein junger Bergmann und ein Mädchen wollen heiraten, doch acht Tage vor der Hochzeit kommt der Bergmann nicht mehr von seiner Schicht zurück. Aber nach über fünfzig Jahren kommt es zu einem unverhofften Wiedersehen … Andrea Sawatzki liest Johann Peter Hebels Erzählung «Unverhofftes Wiedersehen» in einer ungekürzten Fassung.
| Автор | Johann Peter Hebel |
"Macht hoch die Tür" von Georg Weissel gehört zu den bekanntesten Liedern der Advents- und Weihnachtszeit. Carlo von Tiedemann versteht es, dem besinnlichen Text eine noch wundervollere Stimmung einzuhauchen.
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
‘Cecelia Ahern at her quirky, magical best’ Daily MailA story for every woman. A story for every moment.Whether you want to laugh To be moved To love To feel less guilt To cry To be comforted To ROAR There is a story for you.From Sunday Times bestselling author Cecelia Ahern comes a collection of witty, original and moving stories for women everywhere.‘Funny, wise and weighty, in a very good way…read one or two of Ahern’s fables at a time [to] truly appreciate their wit, pathos and imagination.’...
| Автор | Cecelia Ahern |
‘DAZZLING’ Marian Keyes, ‘HILARIOUS’ Dolly Alderton, ‘TENDER’ Jessie Burton, ‘MAGNIFICENT’ Daisy Buchanan, ‘INCREDIBLE’ Candice Carty Williams, ‘MOVING’ Laura Jane Williams, ‘BRILLIANT’ Nikesh Shukla, ‘I LOVED IT’ Sam Baker, ‘PAINFULLY TRUE’ Kate DaviesJenny is unloved, unemployable and emotionally unfiltered. Her long-suffering friends seem sick of her and whilst her social media portrays her life as a bed of roses, it is more of a dying succulent.Adults is what you want it to be. A...
| Автор | Emma Jane Unsworth |
‘Perfect for fans of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine’Hello!‘Extremely charming’ Marian KeyesNot every journey takes you far from home…Mr Doubler is an expert in many things. He can bake the fluffiest lemon drizzle cake, distil divine gin, and grow perfect potatoes. But when it comes to company, he’s not so confident. Since he lost his wife, he’s been living on his own on top of a hill, with just one regular visitor: his housekeeper, Mrs Millwood, who visits every day.Until the day she...
| Автор | Seni Glaister |
‘Electric’The Times ‘Thrilling’New York Times ‘Extraordinary’Joanna CannonTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERAustralia, 1983Life is pretty tough right now for twelve-year-old Eli – what with his mute brother, a convicted murderer for a babysitter, a drug-dealing stepfather, an incarcerated mother and a long-lost father – surely it can’t get any worse?Think again. He’s about to fall in love, break into prison and cross paths with one of the most notorious criminals Brisbane has ever seen.A coming-of-age...
| Автор | Trent Dalton |
A thought-provoking Colombian crime novel set in and around a beauty salon in Bogota‘This delicate, merciless filleting of race and gender politics is highly recommended’ Guardian‘A revelation. A rewarding read and an unexpected insight into a foreign society not often documented in novels. Treat yourself’ Crime Time‘We thought we were bored of thrillers, but then we found House of Beauty … as gasp-inducing as a hot wax’ GlamourHouse of Beauty is a high-end salon in Bogotá’s exclusive Zona Rosa...
| Автор | Melba Escobar |
Johann Peter Hebels Erzählung von der an der Nase angewachsenen Wurst ist berühmt. Diese erzählt die Geschichte des jungen Ehepaars, das die Wünsche der Fee sehr unachtsam gebraucht … Konrad Beikircher liest «Drei Wünsche» in einer ungekürzten Lesung.
| Автор | Johann Peter Hebel |
Auf einem gewaltigen Dampfer reisen drei Jungen zu Beginn der 50er Jahre von Sri Lanka nach England. Für den elfjährigen Michael und seine Freunde wird die Überfahrt zu einem unvergeßlichen Erlebnis. Immer auf der Suche nach Abenteuern treiben sich die drei herum, beobachten und spioniere – und werden Zeugen dramatischer Ereignisse. Im Rückblick erkennt Michael die lebensprägende Bedeutung der lang zurückliegenden Seereise und erinnert sich …
| Автор | Michael Ondaatje |
‘Book of the month: An emotional and suspenseful page turner’ Bella ‘Susan Lewis has a gift for telling warm family stories that also take you by surprise. One Minute Later will make you savour every second’ Jane CorryYou think your life is perfect.You think your secrets are safe.You think it’ll always be this way.But your life can change in a heartbeat.With a high-flying job, a beautiful apartment and friends whose lives are as happy as her own, Vivienne Shager is living the dream. Then, on the...
| Автор | Susan Lewis |
The lives of two women—the sole survivor of an airplane crash and the troubled park ranger who leads the rescue mission to find her —intersect in a gripping debut novel of hope and resilience, second thoughts and second chancesI no longer pass judgment on any man nor woman. People are people, and I do not believe there is much more to be said on the matter. Twenty years ago I might have been of a different mind about that, but I was a different Cloris Waldrip back then. I might have gone on...
| Автор | Rye Curtis |
Under the watchful eye of The Company, three characters – Grayson, Morse and Chen – shapeshifters, amorphous, part human, part extensions of the landscape, make their way through forces that would consume them. A blue fox, a giant fish and language stretched to the limit.A messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission. A homeless woman haunted by a demon who finds the key to all things in a strange journal. A giant leviathan of a fish, centuries old, who...
| Автор | Jeff VanderMeer |
Wie könnte man den Winter besser begrüßen als mit einem Gedicht? Jelissaweta Kulmanns Gedicht «An den Winter» ist ein poetischer Willkommensgruß an den Winter, wunderbar interpretiert von Ulrike Hübschmann.
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Katja Oskamp ist Mitte vierzig, als ihr das Leben fad wird. Das Kind ist aus dem Haus, der Mann ist krank, die Schriftstellerei, der sie sich bis dahin gewidmet hat: ein Feld der Enttäuschungen. Dann macht sie etwas, was für andere dem Scheitern gleichkäme: Sie wird Fußpflegerin. Und schreibt auf, was sie dabei hört – Geschichten voller Menschlichkeit und Witz.
| Автор | Katja Oskamp |
Herr Kannitverstan muss ein ziemlich reicher Mann sein, so denkt sich ein deutscher Handwerksbursche in Amsterdam. Denn immer, wenn er jemanden nach dem Eigentümer eines Hauses oder Schiffes fragt, bekommt er «Kannitverstan» zu Antwort … Konrad Beikricher list Johann Peter Hebels lustige Geschichte über ein Missverständnis, das dem deutschen Handwerksburschen schlussendlich doch zur Erkenntnis verhilft.
| Автор | Johann Peter Hebel |
"Wie soll ich dich empfangen", von Paul Gerhardt ist eines der bekanntesten und schönsten Kirchenlieder. Mit ihrer unverwechselbaren Stimme interpretiert Doris Wolters diesen wundervollen Text.
| Автор | Gerhardt Paul |
A debut novel by a bestselling non-fiction author, this is a witty, wholly entrancing story of the pleasures, pains and obsessions of contemporary life. Lisa Blaize – teacher, and would-be fashion writer, mother and second wife – feels out of place when her high-flying husband becomes the headmaster of a school in a country town. Isolated and far from her metropolitan upbringing, she turns to the one place where she learns she can be uninhibited.But ‘Twitter may be my undoing’, Lisa discovers as...
| Автор | Paula Byrne |
Cornwall is only a page away in this gorgeous, heartwarming novel – a wonderful read for the summer holidays!‘A warm, easy read that depicts the joys of rural Cornwall’ Daily Mail‘The warmth and empathy that have made Fern Britton such a popular TV presenter are evident in her latest novel’ Woman’s Weekly‘A charming story that is full of hope…will help put a spring in your step’ The Courier ‘This is ideal holiday reading’ WomanShe arrived in the village on the spring tide and hoped to be at the...
| Автор | Fern Britton |
Featured on BBC Radio 4’s Open Book • Featured on BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking • An ELLE Magazine cultural pick • Reviewed in the Observer ‘Beautifully written’ Joanna Cannon ‘Fascinating … full of personality’ Guardian ‘Brilliant … What a debut’ Pandora Sykes‘How could I explain to her that nothing in my life felt real? That in a country like Kuwait, where everyone knew everything about each other, the most monumental thing to ever happen to me was buried and covered over? For the sake of my...
| Автор | Layla AlAmmar |
20 Jahre «Soloalbum»! "Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre hat in seiner Jugend Maienblüte einfach so das Buch hingelegt, das ich selber gern geschrieben hätte. (…) Jugend der Welt – kauf dieses Buch und lies es!" Harald Schmidt
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
In der grauen Herbstzeit sehnt man sich besonders nach der wärmenden Sonne des Sommers. Olga Tschuminas Gedicht «Im Herbst» beschreibt diese Sehnsucht … Interpretiert wir das Gedicht der bekannten russischen Autorin von Ulrike Hübschmann.
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |