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‘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 |
Diese Auswahl internationaler weihnachtlicher Geschichten und Gedichte bietet eine einzigartige Mischung aus stimmungsvollen Texten und großartigen Sprechern (Ulrike Hübschmann und Frank Arnold). Autoren (u.a.): Charles Dickens, Alphonse Daudet, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Peter Rosegger, Oscar Wilde.
| Автор | Diverse Autoren |
Wenn im Herbst langsam die Teiche zufrieren, beginnen sich die Buben besonders auf das Eislaufen zu freuen. Mit Steinen prüfen sie die Dicke des Eises … Christian Rode liest diese winterliche Kindheitserinnerung «Endlich Eislaufen» von Wladimir Korolenko.
| Автор | Wladimir Korolenko |
From the author of ‘Freedom’, a richly realistic and darkly hilarious masterpiece about a family breakdown in an age of easy fixes.After fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity, and their children have long since fled for the catastrophes of their own lives. As Alfred’s condition worsens and the Lamberts are forced to face their secrets and failures, Enid sets her heart on one last family Christmas.Bringing...
| Автор | Jonathan Franzen |
Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY is a heart-wrenching story of escape, love and comic-book heroes set in Prague, New York and the Arctic.One night in 1939, Josef Kavalier shuffles into his cousin Sam Clay’s cramped New York bedroom, his nerve-racking escape from Prague finally achieved. Little does he realise that this is the beginning of an extraordinary friendship and even more fruitful business partnership. Together, they create a...
| Автор | Michael Chabon |
Soon to be a major motion picture, this heart-warming and inspirational tale follows Enzo, a loyal family dog, tells the story of his human family, how they nearly fell apart, and what he did to bring them back together.Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: he thinks and feels in nearly human ways. He has educated himself by watching extensive television, and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car driver. Through Denny, Enzo realizes...
| Автор | Garth Stein |
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR‘The most successful novelist on Planet Earth’ – Washington PostThe MacKade brothers – the embodiment of tall, dark, and dangerous – are back by popular demand.Bad boy Rafe has returned home after ten years, appealing as ever. And not even lovely Regan Jones, reserved antiques dealer, is immune to Rafe MacKade.Praise for Nora Roberts‘A storyteller of immeasurable diversity and talent’ – Publisher’s Weekly‘You can’t bottle wish fulfilment, but Nora Roberts...
| Автор | Nora Roberts |
Wenn der Kakao bereits eine sonderbare Farbe hat und dann auch die Stubenfliege, die davon gekostet hat, tot umfällt, könnte das wohl am billigen Kakao liegen? Frau Döllmer bestellt besonders gerne die billigen Dinge aus dem Katalog, diese halten allerdings nicht immer, was sie versprechen … Stefan Kaminski liest einen lustigen Text von Hermann Löns.
| Автор | Löns Hermann |