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When Apollo Kagwa was just a child, his father disappeared, leaving him with recurring nightmares and a box labelled 'Improbabilia'. Now a successful book dealer, Kagwa has a family of his own after meeting and falling in love with Emma, a librarian. The two marry and have a baby: so far so happy-ever-after. However, as the pair settle into their new lives as parents, exhaustion and anxiety start to take their toll. Emma's behaviour becomes increasingly erratic, until one day she...
| Автор | Victor LaValle |
It is 1953, a heat wave is sweeping across America and the Grossmans – Ben, Addie and their two children – are moving their lives from the political heart of Washington DC to suburban Long Island. With their future uncertain, life in Long Island starts to cause problems for Ben and Addie. Both begin to wonder if they were meant for more, whether their lives might look different than they planned, and whether their marriage – their family – is worth fighting for. A Long Island Story is a portrait...
| Автор | Rick Gekoski |
FROM THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Terence Cave, owner of Cave Antiques, has already experienced the tragedies of his mother's suicide and his wife's murder when his teenage son, Reuben, is killed in a grotesque accident. His remaining child, Bryony, has always been the family's golden girl and Terence comes to realise that his one duty in life is to protect her from the world's malign forces, whatever that may take. But as he starts to follow his...
| Автор | Мэтт Хейг |
'Just *wonderful*. A breath of fresh air in a book. Sal is a story with incredible heart, told so beautifully and with such clarity and grace I can hardly believe it's a debut! I loved it' JOANNA CANNON, author of THE TROUBLE WITH GOATS AND SHEEP AN OBSERVER 'NEW FACE OF FICTION 2018' This is a story of something like survival. Sal planned it for almost a year before they ran. She nicked an Ordnance Survey map from the school library. She bought a compass, a...
| Автор | Mick Kitson |
Jag är en dålig flicka det började. Idén började tråkigt liv jag hade känt från platsen. Jag vill krossa glaset som hängde väders i huset, på gatan och vad alla kan reflekteras olycka är djupt inbäddad i mitt...
| Автор | Pavel Vu Hoai |
Vintage Sterling tells the story of Sterling, a young Mexican American man growing up in the vineyards of Northern California. Talented and ambitious, yet frequently immature and irresponsible, Sterling embarks on a journey of self-discovery and healing as a near-fatal accident forces him to confront his past. Transformed by this journey, Sterling is empowered to look toward the future with a renewed sense of hope and purpose.
| Автор | Charles A. Witschorik |
In This Footstool Earth, the final volume of The Japan Quartet, loose ends knit, recurring characters unspool or coil anew, and, as memories of atrocity thin, fiction's tissue mutates, melding cross-cultural encounters strangely.
| Автор | John Zeugner |
Basically, the book relates to how easily affluent people can be taken advantage of and the steps they take to survive.
| Автор | Glenn MacFarland |
After Elena Ferrante, another powerful Italian voice emerges to tell us a tale of immigration with two strong women characters at its center, set against the background of American history, from the late 60's to 2011.<br><br>This novel provides an interesting commentary on the highlights in history that influenced the development of American society and brought about the current outcome. It includes love, struggle, and social turmoil. <br><br>Amy's Story...
| Автор | Anna Lawton |
Edited and introductions by Roderick Watson. The Quarry Wood, although published well before Sunset Song, inhabits a similar world; the progress of its heroine could almost be the alternative story of a Chris Guthrie who did go to university. Compassionate and humorous, the grace and style of Shepherd’s prose is heightened by a superb ear for the vigorous language of the north-east. The Weatherhouse, Shepherd’s masterpiece, is an even more substantial achievement which belongs to the great...
| Автор | Nan Shepherd |
This collection of the best of Iain Crichton Smith's short fiction brings together not one but many voices, both public and private. Ranging from inner promptings towards self-discovery, through the unconscious comedy of everyday speech, to the rantings of near madness, these stories display the peaks of Smith's wry, surrealistic humour, and his confessional mode in re-telling the past. The longer stories, illustrative of Smith's novels, are represented by 'Murdo' and...
| Автор | Iain Crichton Smith |
My name is John Richard Campbell. I’ve been called Rick all my life. Instead of Ruckus, I named this book Rickus. That was the name of my band, whenever I had one. For you, who choose to read this book, I hope you find it interesting. It contains some events that happened in my life. I would swear in a court of law they are true.
| Автор | Rick Campbell |
I was inspired to write this book because of the injustice the VA has done on veterans. To the VA, we are just a number, and the people who work for the VA ignore our situation. We deserve to be treated as individuals and not as a number.
| Автор | Julio Rodarte |
This is a nonfictional journey through forty years of life, ever-changing memories of life, changing definition of love in family, as we all start from humble beginnings to a peak of possible destination. For the love of humanity sake.
| Автор | Lemon Lane |
Andi Niemand is op die punt om die groot 30 te slaan – en het, so voel dit haar, nog weinig bereik. Wat het van die plan geword om vir Sarie te skryf? Of om haar doelgewig te bereik? En waar is die held wat veronderstel is om aan haar sy te staan? Nee, sy werk nog steeds vir die poniekoerant Pers, is so single as kan kom en kan nie eers van soetgoed wegbly ter wille van haar vriendin se troue nie – die troue waarop sy strooimeisie moet wees. Wanneer Andi die groot scoop kry oor Jack Greeff,...
| Автор | Marida Fitzpatrick |
Op haar een-en-dertigste verjaarsdag besluit Roxy: van nou af wil sy ’n lipstiek-lewe hê, ’n roekelose skelrooi lipstiek-lewe. Want een-en-dertig is die eerste tree ondertoe. Van hier af is dit al die pad afdraand. Só ’n lewe behoort nie ’n probleem te wees nie; almal dink in elk geval sy is “flirty” en uitgesproke – grotendeels weens haar blog wat sy onder die skuilnaam Jessica Rabbit skryf. Haar kollega Zander dink sy is Jessica Rabbit in lewende lywe: so sensueel dat sy ’n nat lap aan die...
| Автор | Kristel Loots |
Sjef Emma probeer haar vurige humeur beteuel, maar ná die bruilof-fiasko met die hoenderpastei in die Upingtonse somerhitte, verloor sy kop en gooi haar baas rakelings met ’n mes mis. Gelukkig kry Emma die kans om oor te begin op Hermanus by die Chantilly-restaurant. Sy pak haar serpversameling en haar boheemse rompe en vat die pad. Hoewel Chantilly baie werk kort, is Emma vasberade om nie weer woedend te word nie. Die personeel word haar nuwe familie, en sy raak betrokke in allerhande gekonkel...
| Автор | Ilse de Korte |
Toe Pamina Vermaak op skouspelagtige wyse by die werk uitfreak, sit sy skielik sonder inkomste. Druipstert keer sy terug na haar ma-hulle op die klein Weskusdorp Witwaterbaai – ’n plek wat sy gesweer het haar nooit weer sou sien ná ’n fiasko elf jaar gelede nie. Maar nou moet sy tog haar onkonvensionele gesin, van wie sy vervreem geraak het, in die oë gaan kyk. Intussen lek steelfoto’s uit van rockster Wolf de Jager se verloofde, aktrise Daniella du Toit, waar sy hom verneuk. Hy gaan kruip weg...
| Автор | Annie Klopper |
A kaleidoscopic meditation on fiction-making by one of Australia's most acclaimed writers.
| Автор | Gerald Murnane |
"Bist du der geworden, der du sein wolltest?" Frank Goosen erzählt in seinem neuen Hörbuch von den Männern unserer Gegenwart. Von solchen, die ausbrechen wollen, und von jenen, die Halt suchen. Von Musik und alter Freundschaft. Von der Erinnerung an die erste große Liebe. Von Verlassenen und Suchenden, von Ängstlichen und Mutigen. Alle wären sie gern Raketenmänner und müssen sich doch mit sich selbst begnügen.
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
München hat schon einiges erlebt seit seiner Gründung 1158. Aber trotzdem gibt es heute noch Gebäude, Straßen und Plätze, die über Jahrhunderte hinweg erhalten geblieben sind. Dieses Hörbuch bringt einen Querschnitt durch diese Zeiten. Mal amüsant, aber auch Geschichten, die zum Nachdenken anregen.
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Ein Gedicht kann so viel Trost spenden und zugleich unglaublich ermutigend wirken, Michail Lermontows «Gebet» gehört gewiss dazu. Christian Rode interpretiert denn besinnlichen Text mit seiner ausdrucksstarken Stimme.
| Автор | Михаил Лермонтов |
Die lewe vat en gee mos. Dit besef Desiree de Lange alte goed toe sy ’n nuwe voorkoms kry, maar daarna haar man by ’n ander vrou betrap. Maar Vincent – chirurg van beroep en verneuker van geaardheid – kom nie sy beloftes teenoor sy minnares, Gloria, na nie. En sy beland op Desiree se drumpel. Liz, Vincent se eerste vrou, en sy dogter, Caz, is ook daar. Christine, Desiree se beste vriendin, het self iets op die hart wat sy nie lank sal kan wegsteek nie. Skielik is daar vier vroue met ernstige...
| Автор | Anita du Preez |