The international phenomenon that has sold more than two million copies, If Cats Disappeared from the World is a heartwarming, funny, and profound meditation on the meaning of life.The young postman's days are numbered. Estranged fr
What is a beautiful watch? How do you make a good choice? "The Magic of Watches" explains how and why these little objects are so precious, fascinating and exciting. The Magic of Watches loves paradoxes: why a one-million-dollar watch might be less precise
Sean McIndoe of Down Goes Brown, one of hockey's favourite and funniest writers, takes aim at the game's most memorable moments--especially if they're memorable for the wrong reasons--in this warts-and-all history of the NHL.
Alors que les biographies concernant l'acteur Alain Delon couvrent à chaque fois chacune l'ensemble de sa vie, privée et professionnelle, aucune encore ne s'est attachée à ce travail de profondeur concentrée sur la jeunesse du personnage.La période dont il est question ici couvre de sa plus tendre enfance jusqu'à son premier jour de tournage, soit 21 ans et 8 mois. Le travail de recherche fut ardu car les références bibliographiques quasi inexistantes, mais tellement truffé d'imprévus, de surprises et du constat étonnant de la quasi supercherie ambiante enveloppant ce début de vie, que je trouvais moi-même les lendemains de son aboutissement bien ternes...M'appuyant sur des documents officiels, civils ou militaires jusque-là intransmissibles au regard de l'âge de l'homme, et par conséquent n'ayant jamais pu servir de source d'informations tangibles, j'ai tenu, en toute bienveillance mais néanmoins en toute honnêteté, à bousculer le romantisme delonien en revenant sur les épisodes de sa vie dont la nouveauté et les mises au clair pourront paraitre pour les connaisseurs surprenantes voire déstabilisantes.Beaucoup d'informations ou de documents inédits et/ou recadrés émaillent donc cet ouvrage.Le personnage, ayant baigné très jeune dans le monde du cinéma malgré ce qu'il a toujours nié, a eu plus tôt qu'il ne le dit le cinéma dans le viseur.
The Confusions of Young Torless is a taut, powerful depiction of teenage masculinity in this short novel set in an Austrian military academy. An unpopular boy is gradually bullied and humiliated by a coterie of better-off classmates until the almost unbearable conclusion. This was the work which made Musil's name and is his most popular work before his unfinished masterpiece, The Man Without Qualities. Autorid: Robert Musil, Ernst Kaiser, Eithne Wilkins, Jeremy Adler
The stories here collected under the title Five Women combine two different volumes. All together, these stories, each of which (as the reader will guess) has a woman at the apparent centre of its gaze, has the feel of a series study, or of a natural history, though one performed in a strange and not entirely rational laboratory, or field. The intensity in these stories derives in part from looking at humans under the very ordinary extremities of love and desire. Neither love, nor femininity, is the subject matter so much as it is the medium. Translated by Eithne Wilkins & Ernst Kaiser Autorid: Robert Musil, Eithne Wilkins, Ernst Kaiser, Rivka Galchen
'A BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN STORY OF SISTERS AND THEIR FAMILIES WHOSE LIVES ARE PROFOUNDLY CHANGED BY WAR. GREY IS NOT AFRAID TO SEARCH IN THE SHADOWS FOR THE TRUTH. A TERRIFIC AND THOUGHT PROVOKING READ' ELIZABETH BUCHAN Identical twin sisters Freya and Shona take very different paths, leading to long-buried family secrets that reverberate through the generations in this thrilling novel of psychological suspense by the author of Tell Me How It Ends. There are some choices you can't come back from. It is 1944 in war-battered London. Freya and Shona are identical twins, close despite their different characters. Freya is a newly qualified doctor treating the injured in an East End hospital, while Shona has been recruited by the SOE. The sisters are so physically alike that they can fool people into thinking that one is the other. It's a game they've played since childhood. But when Shona persuades her twin to swap roles to meet her Polish lover, he is angered at being tricked. Then Shona proposes a far more dangerous swapping of roles. At first Freya refuses but finally she agrees, with consequences that threaten not only the happiness but the lives of both sisters. Forty-five years later in November 1989 Freya, now aged 69, is watching television with her daughter Kirsty. Freya is gripped as she witnesses crowds of Berliners attempting to knock down their hated Wall. This sight stirs long buried memories of her own and her sister's war, especially the tragedy of the Warsaw Uprising - memories that she has never shared with anyone. Even if she wanted to reveal them now, she can't. She's suffering from a brain tumour and is unable to speak although her reason is unimpaired. And this is what she's thinking: if they succeed in knocking down the Wall, what secrets will come tumbling through? If her own were revealed, it would be devastating for all those close to her, especially her daughter. Autorid: V. B. Grey
The heartwarming final chapter in the Bluebird Girls series. As war finally draws to a close and the lights come back on across Europe, what will victory and peacetime bring for the south coast's favourite singing trio? In their rise to fame over the course of the war, Bea Herron, Ivy Sparrow and Rainey Bird have faced down bombs and looked tragedy in the eye. They have also found love, created their own families and had careers that they never thought possible. With peace finally on the horizon, what will the new world hold for them? Autorid: Rosie Archer
