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Saint Peter`s Snow
It could have been a common street accident that put Dr. Georg Amberg in the hospital, but for the five weeks his doctors say he has been in a coma, recovering from a brain hemorrhage after being run down by a car, he has memories of a more disturbing nature. What of the violent events
The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig
A casual introduction, a challenge to a simple game of chess, a lovers` reunion, a meaningless infidelity: from such small seeds Zweig brings forth five startlingly tense tales-meditations on the fragility of love, the limits of obsession, the combustibility of secrets and betrayal. To read anything by Zweig is to risk addiction; in this collection
On Love
In On Love, we see Charles Bukowski reckoning with the complications of love and desire. Alternating between the tough and the tender, the romantic and the gritty, Bukowski exposes the myriad faces of love in the poems collected here – its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and its misery, and, ultimately, its
Crush
I understand why you did it. It`ll be our secret. Seventeen-year-old Louise Lacroix is desperate to escape her dreary life. So on her way home from work every evening she takes a detour past the enchanting house of Jess and Thelma Rooland – a wealthy and glamorous American couple – where the sun always seems
Spark`s Satire: Aiding and Abetting: The Abbess of Crewe: Robinson
From a fraudulent psychiatrist grappling with two equally fraudulent clients in Aiding and Abetting, to the dirty dealings of The Abbess of Crewe`s band of corrupt nuns, to the three plane crash survivors of Robinson eking out an existence on an Atlantic island after its resident mystic disappears, these three satires probe the recesses of
PopCo
Alice Butler has been receiving some odd messages – all anonymous, all written in code. Are they from someone at PopCo, the profit-hungry corporation she works for? Or from Alice`s long lost father? Or has someone else been on her trail? The solution, she is sure, will involve the code-breaking skills she learned from her
The Dark Flood Rises
Fran may be old but she`s not going without a fight. So she dyes her hair, enjoys every glass of red wine, drives restlessly around the country and lives in an insalubrious tower block that her loved ones disapprove of. And as each of them – her pampered ex Claude, old friend Jo, flamboyant son
The Missing of the Somme
The Missing of the Somme has become a classic meditation upon war and remembrance. It weaves a network of myth and memory, photos and films, poetry and sculptures, graveyards and ceremonies that illuminate our understanding of, and relationship to, the Great War.
Numberblocks Annual 2021
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The Rabbit Back Literature Society
A highly contagious book virus, a literary society and a Snow Queen-like disappearing author `She came to realise that under one reality there`s always another. And another one under that.` Only very special people are chosen by children`s author Laura White to join `The Society`, an elite group of writers in the small town of
A Boy Called Christmas
You are about to read the true story of Father Christmas. It is a story that proves that nothing is impossible. A Boy Called Christmas is a tale of adventure, snow, kidnapping, elves, more snow, and a boy called Nikolas, who isn`t afraid to believe in magic. From the winner of The Smarties Book Prize
Red Cavalry
War`s mess and muddle, the brutality and the inanity of fighting-few have better captured this than Isaac Babel, who was a journalist with the Soviet First Cavalry Army. His unflinching portrayal of the murderous havoc of battle is offset by an unexpected and wry humour: having seen the fighting up close, Babel is able to
The Girl Who Saved Christmas
WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BELIEVE IN MAGIC?It is Christmas Eve and all is not well. Amelia Wishart is trapped in Mr Creeper`s workhouse and Christmas is in jeopardy. Magic is fading. If Christmas is to happen, Father Christmas knows he must find her.With the help of some elves, eight reindeer, the Queen and a
Before the Feast
It`s the night before the feast in the village of Furstenfelde (population: an odd number). The village is asleep. Except for the ferryman – he`s dead. And Mrs Kranz, the night-blind painter, who wants to depict her village for the first time at night. A bell-ringer and his apprentice want to ring the bells –
If I Could Tell You Just One Thing…: Encounters with Remarkable People and Their Most Valuable Advice
Adventures in advice with some of the world`s most remarkable people. President Bill Clinton, Clare Balding, Stephen Fry, Dame Judi Dench, James Corden, Margaret Atwood, Sir David Attenborough, Annie Lennox, Andy Murray, Joanna Lumley, Anthony Bourdain, Marina Abramovic, Sir Richard Branson, Sandi Toksvig, Jude Law, Nicola Sturgeon, Harry Belafonte, Olivia Colman, Simon Cowell, Martha Lane-Fox,
Fantastic Night: Tales of Longing and Liberation
`I alone know that I am only just beginning to live.` He is distinguished, rich, a member of fashionable society-utterlybored. But, over the course of one fantastic night, a young Baron becomes a thief, unashamed, and awakes to life for the first time. This collection is full of tales of infinite passions, of intense encounters
The Invisible Collection: Tales of Obsession and Desire
`This is the story of about the strangest thing that I`ve ever encountered, old art dealer that I am.` It is perhaps the finest art collection of its kind, acquired through a lifetime of sacrifice – but when a dealer comes to see it, he finds something quite unexpected, and is drawn into a peculiar
A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor
In 1966 John Berger spent three months in the Forest of Dean shadowing an English country GP, John Sassall. Sassall is a fortunate man – his work occupies and fulfils him, he lives amongst the patients he treats, the line between his life and his work is happily blurred. In A Fortunate Man, Berger`s text
Herbie`s Big Adventure
A little hedgehog bravely goes on his first foraging adventure despite being nervous about leaving home.
