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Emotions run high when Queen Elizabeth II attempts to heal the schism between Christians and Muslims by attending a London mosque for Friday prayers. David Bliss, newly returned to duty while he tries to find a publisher for his novel, has the task of protecting the royal couple, but is caught off guard when an attack comes from an unexpected quarter. Meanwhile, Bliss’s aging friend Daphne Lovelace needs help. Her elderly neighbours have died and apparently left their house to the family from...
| Автор | James Hawkins |
Two wrongs may not make a right, but what about three? JP Rodriguez’s debut novel is an examination of what it means to live a modern life and the price of inaction in a world where chances at redemption and happiness are all too few. Watched over by the majestic mountains of the Canadian west, the narrator came early to understand that every action creates a reaction, and what goes up comes downusually hard. So he’s spent his life in an emotional straitjacket, living comfortably on the surface...
| Автор | JP Rodriguez |
Short-listed for the 2002 Governor General's Award for Translation (French to English) Confident, hardworking, and practical, architect Anne Martin is living the good life in Montreal. Yet one day, high up in her apartment overlooking the city and the river, at the heart of her perfectly controlled universe, Anne witnesses a scene that causes a crack to appear in her life, a crack that slowly widens and eventually threatens her very existence. At this time of lost certainty, Anne's...
| Автор | Louise Dupré |
Elas kord lesk, kellel oli kaks tütart, üks tema enda tütar Helen ja teine tema uue mehe tütar Marouckla. Naine armastas oma tütart, aga vaest kasutütart ei sallinud. Abiks ei tulnud ka see, et võõraslaps oli palju ilusam kui tema oma.
| Автор | Slaavi Muinasjutt |
Mõni inimene sünnib, õnnesärk seljas: kõik, mida ta teeb või teha püüab, kukub hästi välja – kõik, mis talle osaks langeb, toob kasu – kõik tema haned on luiged – kõik tema kaardid on trumpässad – pilluta teda kuidas tahes, alati maandub ta nagu kass jalule ja läheb veel suurema kiiruga edasi. Maailm ei pruugi teda alati nõnda kõrgelt hinnata nagu ta ise, aga mis temal maailmast?
| Автор | Братья Гримм |
Elasid kord mees ja naine. Ühel päeval ütles mees naisele: „Vanamemm, mine kraabi jahukoti ja -püti põhja. Äkki saad nii palju jahu, et teha üks kakuke.“ Naine läks ja kraapis jahupütti ning keeras teistpidi ka jahukoti ning saigi paar peotäit jahu. Ta segas jahu hapukoorega ja vormis taignast kakukese – väikese ümmarguse kukli. Siis küpsetas ta selle ahjus ära ja jättis aknalauale jahtuma. Vene muinasjutt
| Автор | Vene muinasjutt |
Thomas Wainewright – Regency fop, literary hanger-on, collector of art and artifacts, forger and deported felon – is considered one of the most notorious of English murderers. He is believed to have been one of the first recorded serial killers. James King takes on this spectral character in his first novel, Faking, and examines a number of serious questions. Was Wainewright a faker? It’s historical «fact» that he forged sketches, paintings, letters and banknotes – but, more importantly, did he...
| Автор | James King |
Father Pat Cheyne, an unkempt, middle-aged priest on a lone canoe ride reflects on how these solitary meditations in his beloved canoe have marked his life. His thoughts reach back to his boyhood rejection of the boisterous ways of his father, just home from the war, to the memorable evening when he first prayed, eyes open, floating in a silent magic space with stars drenching the sky above and mirror lake below him. Even now, the canoe remains his own vehicle for understanding solitude. The...
| Автор | Patrick Gossage |
"Beneath the deadly dull history of Ontario lies a myriad of fascinating, but little-known stories. Did you know: Sir John A. Macdonald was born in an Ontario town, not in Scotland? Karl Marx was once a visitor to Toronto? The famous poet W.B. Yeats graced the town of Captainstone, Ontario, with a visit in 1933? There was an active volcano in Ontario in 1886? "The book is accompanied by an important caveat: All of these stories are fictitious. "'The book is rather hard to...
| Автор | Royce MacGillivray |
hel kuningal oli imekaunis aed ja aias seisis puu, mis kandis kuldseid õunu. Õunad loeti alati üle, ent just siis, kui nad hakkasid juba valmis saama, selgus, et igal ööl oli üks õun kadunud.
| Автор | Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm |
What does it take to squeeze into a second skin you think you want? And when you find you can't breathe, who's going to help you peel it off? In a celebrity-obsessed culture, when media images of women (and women themselves) appear to be driven by unreasonable expectations and demands, how does a 29-year-old woman fill that perfect little black dress? These questions are posed and answered in Roxane Ward's debut novel, Fits Like a Rubber Dress , a hybrid of satire, social...
| Автор | Roxane Ward |
Short-listed for the 1988 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, Ottawa-Carleton Book Award and Trillium Book Award Paris, the City of Light, was once the scene of a brilliant magnesium flare, host to the belle epoque from 1900 to 1914. Tempting poets, painters, writers, and composers from across Europe, the city relied on one man to move among them all-Guillaume Apollinaire. His contemporaries called him brilliant, mad, whimsical. He was the bastard son of an Italian cavalry...
| Автор | Mark Frutkin |
In Repeat This and You’re Dead, celebrated dramatist Lawrence Russell ventures for the first time into fiction. With gritty and unforgiving realism, these «short short stories» cast a harsh eye on the Ireland of the last half of this century, a country brutally divided while fiercely loyal to an ambiguous past and an even more turbulent future. With Russell’s characteristic black humour and gleeful sarcasm, the characters act out their fated lives on the public stage, stories narrated as...
| Автор | Lawrence Russell |
