Peter Torberg Livres

Inspector Hal Challis has been summoned to his boyhood home, Mawson’s Bluff in the Australian Outback, where his father is dying. There his past comes back to haunt him... and endanger his life. Meanwhile, a serial pedophile is on the loose on the Mornington Peninsula, and Sergeant Ellen Destry, who is left to head up the area’s Crime Investigation Unit, must find a little girl who was abducted from the fairgrounds at the annual Waterloo Show before it is too late. From the Hardcover edition.

'Out of the secret world I once knew, I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for reality. Then back to the imagining, and to the desk where I'm sitting now.' The Pigeon Tunnel, John le Carré's memoir and his first work of nonfiction, is a thrilling journey into the worlds of his 'secret sharers' - the men and women who inspired some of his most enthralling novels - and a testament to the author's extraordinary engagement with the last half century. The listener is swept along not just by the chilling winds of the Cold War or by the author's frightening journeys into places of terrible violence but, most importantly, by the author's inimitable voice. In this astonishing work, we see our world, both public and private, through the eyes of one of this country's greatest writers.

Contains stories of Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. This title tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the sleepy brown bear, who instructs Mowgli in the Laws of the Jungle.

Grace ist genial. Ihr Job: Meisterdiebin. Ihre Beute: Luxusgüter. Ihre Opfer: Die Reichen und Schönen von Australiens Küstenstädten. Identitäten streift sie ab wie Perücken, falsche Papiere zückt sie ebenso schnell wie erfundene Vergangenheiten. Was sie nie hatte, ist ein normales Leben. Doch ein Job in einem kleinen Antiquitätenladen in den Adelaide Hills verspricht erstmals einen Ort, den sie Zuhause nennen kann. Grace freundet sich mit der schüchternen Eigentümerin Erin Mandel an. Es läuft gut für die beiden – doch Grace weiß, dass sich so manch alter Feind gern an ihr rächen würde. Was sie nicht weiß: Auch Erin wird von einem Augenpaar verfolgt, das auf Vergeltung sinnt.