In Praise of Older Women is as singular as a lemon tree or a giraffe or a ripe pear. In a voice free of vanity and subterfuge, the writer tells a story of the worst of times, and the ever-shifting truths about girls and youths, men and women and their sexual connections — and mis-connections — in a way that is always luminous and enlightening.
Een groepje Duitse parachutisten wordt in de Tweede Wereldoorlog naar Engeland gezonden om Churchill te kidnappen.
Reissue of the classic tale of adventure and death on a mysterious Arctic island, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.
Geheimzinnige moorden doen de spanning binnen een filmploeg op het Bereneiland hoog oplopen.
On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes. Out of the forty-five original passengers and crew, only sixteen made it off the mountain alive. For ten excruciating weeks they suffered deprivations beyond imagining, confronting nature head-on at its most furious and inhospitable. And to survive, they were forced to do what would have once been unthinkable... This is their story—one of the most astonishing true adventures of the twentieth century.
A dozen years had passed since Mark Fraser and his family had fled to Ganymede, hoping to find the peace and freedom which had eluded them on Earth. Now violence and terror had pursued them to their new-found home: Captain Swayne and his battleship Vega had made landfall on Ganymede and were using its resources to build missiles with which to hold Planet Earth to ransom. For the second time, Mark Fraser was a marked man, running for his life. His only chance of escape was to a third planet: Jupiter. But as Fraser knew only too well, Jupiter itself was the scene of conflict and carnage. And so far no human being had ever breathed its atmosphere and lived to tell the tale!
Reissue of the classic tale of suspense set in Provence, where an English tourist investigates a series of mysterious deaths, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.
Dvaačtyřicetiletý Alec Barr je na vrcholu své slávy. Úspěšný novinář a spisovatel dosáhl všeho, po čem kdy toužil. Má bohatou, půvabnou ženu Amelii a žije si nad poměry. Jeho reportáže a knihy jsou žádané, ale s blahobytem rostou i nároky. Z Aleca se postupně stává rutinovaný píšící stroj, který se nesmí zastavit. Jednoho dne se vzbouří a odejde z domova. Prožije bouřlivou milostnou avantýru, která rušivě zasahuje do jeho práce i soukromí. Ztrácí soustředění a nemůže psát. Během dalších let se s tímto rozporem neustále potýká. Touží po volnosti a svobodě bohéma, hledá ji v nočních barech a milostných "výbojích", odjíždí do Afriky, kde nachází jistou svobodu i v účasti ve válce. Přesto cítí, že pro svou práci potřebuje klid, jistotu a zázemí. Najde je?
Levensbeschrijving van de nationaal-socialistische dictator (1889-1945).
The Oasis , McCarthy's second novel, won a contest organized by Cyril Connelly, the British critic and editor of the prestigious literary magazine Horizon , and was first published as the February 1949 edition of that magazine. Connelly called the book "brilliant and true and funny and beautifully written and intelligently thought and felt." The Oasis is a wickedly satiric roman a clef about a group of urban American intellectuals who try unsuccessfully to establish a rural utopian colony just as the Cold War is setting in and fear of the atomic bomb is reaching panic proportions. At its appearance a few months later in the U.S., the novel caused a scandal, alienating a number of McCarthy's friends. One of her former lovers, the critic Philip Rahv, was so upset at the character based on him that he tried to stop its publication. At the same time, a then relatively new acquaintance who later became McCarthy's closest friend, Hannah Arendt, wrote her: "I just read The Oasis and must tell you that it was pure delight. You have written a veritable little masterpiece."
Giles Denison's life is turned upside down when he awakes to find himself in a luxurious hotel in Oslo and, peering into the bathroom mirror, discovers the face of another man! He has been kidnapped from his flat in London and transformed into famous Finnish scientist, Dr Harold Feltham Meyrick. Compelled to adjust to his new persona (including meeting his daughter) and to play out the role assigned to him by his captors, he embarks on a dangerous escapade from Norway to Finland and across the border into Soviet Russia.
Rich Man, Poor Man is the story of two brothers whose contrasting natures reflect the turmoil of post-war America. Rudy is the rich man - a romantic who would let no one stand between him and success. Tom is the poor man - the black sheep of the family on the run from his violent past.
Mai 1948. Les Anglais quittent la Palestine. La ville sainte est à feu et à sang. Le conflit israélo-arabe commence et ne s'éteindra plus. Un formidable récit historique débordant d'aventures, de drames, d'amour, d'héroïsme et de secrets révélés. Un livre clé.
