Helen Simpson Ordre des livres

Set against the backdrop of a gripping murder trial, the narrative follows Martella Baring, a young actress wrongfully convicted of killing Edna Druce. Sir John Saumarez, an astute actor and manager, believes in her innocence and dedicates himself to proving it. With the assistance of his stage manager and wife, he navigates the complexities of the case to save Martella from execution. This British crime tale, penned in 1928, not only inspired a sequel film but also influenced Alfred Hitchcock's early works.

This new anthology of Helen de Guerry Simpson's supernatural fiction selects the best of her unsettling writing, adding some little-known stories to her 1925 collection The Baseless Fabric.

A unique anthology for crime aficionados - seven of the world's most notorious genuine murder mysteries retold by the most accomplished classic crime writers of their generation.

Helen Simpson is a writer with such a gift for sweet tenderness that one could almost overlook the glittering sharpness of the insights... Not many writers manage to be as funny as Helen Simpson without sacrificing the honesty that her writing unmistakably has Philip Hensher Mail on Sunday

Poignant, funny and perceptive, Helen Simpson's fifth collection of runs the gamut of emotions and deals with birth, death and everything in between.

Zwei Frauen, die sich kaum kennen, aber sympathisch finden, treffen sich auf einen Kaffee. Doch da ist auch noch der kleine Ben, der ein Gespräch unmöglich macht. Und so klafft das, was die beiden gern sagen würden, und das, was sie tatsächlich sagen können, immer weiter auseinander. Eine 17-Jährige, die eigentlich für ihr Abitur lernen müsste, spaziert an einem Frühlingstag durch einen Vorort und schwört sich, nie wie ihre Mutter zu werden. Diese wiederum, eine erfolgreiche Anwältin, macht sich bei der Abendveranstaltung einer Bank Gedanken darüber, welcher der anwesenden Herren einen Seitensprung wert sein könnte. In jeder ihrer Erzählungen, die durch wiederkehrende Figuren miteinander verbunden sind, lässt Helen Simpson die Hauptfigur unvermittelt innehalten, die eigene Situation mit kritischem Blick betrachten und bringt auf diese Weise Unausgesprochenes ans Licht.

Discover Angela Carter's classic feminist retelling of favourite fairy tales interwoven by a master of seductive, luminous storytelling. From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves - Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories. 'Magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality' Ian McEwan 'A quirky, original, and baroque stylist' Margaret Atwood Featuring an introduction from award-winning short story writer Helen Simpson

A sensational new short story collection about women’s lives, from Britain’s master of the “A masterful contemporary exponent of the genre, Simpson now deserves to be compared with Flannery O’Connor and Alice Munro.”– The Observer

This collection, Helen Simpson's third and best yet, is a loosely linked set of stories about women - at work, at home and on holiday - that is poignant, perceptive, often sad and frequently funny. schovat popis

This second collection of short stories by the author of the prize-winning Four Bare Legs in a Bed, recently nominated as one of Granta magazine's Best Young British Novelists, continues to explore ideas of independence, solitude, marriage, sex and babies.