Author:Catherine Nicolson
Sibell had always known that men ate and drank different things, visited different places, spoke a whole separate language, but until this moment that difference had never really touched her.
She had known it without feeling it, just as she had known that males were taller and stronger than females, but had never felt it, close to, as she did now, confronted by the width of Mr de Morgan's shoulders, the curve of the powerful muscles in his thighs as he knelt before her, the sheer size and weight of him.

He seemed like a member of a different species from her own, an animal featured in no known bestiary. If he chose to overpower her, she thought a little wildly, I know no German verb that could prevent it.
Hardcover, Verlag: Victor Gollancz, 350 Seiten

Preis: EUR 9.50

Author: Victoria Clayton

Miranda seems to have everything - looks, brains, three children and a 15th-century moated manor house in Kent, but when she finds her husband dead, shot in the chest, her friends believe that Fortune has turned against one of her darlings. Yet, this is just the beginning of a better life for her.
Taschenbuch, 488 Seiten
Verlag: Orion

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Preis: EUR 7.99

By Sylvia Townsend Warner
'On every page there is something to be seen or smelled.' - JOHN UPDIKE
'Reading these almost lost stories is like finding a buried treasure.' - ALISON LURIE
The discovery of twenty previously uncollected stories by one of the greatest short-story writers of the twentieth century. Collected for the first time in book form, the twenty stories in The Music at Long Verney span a half-century of Sylvia Townsend Warner's writing career and showcase her prodigious imagination at its best and most bizarre. Set throughout rural England, every story in The Music at Long Verney displays the light wit and keen social observation that characterises her writing. These are stories of romantic love and the mysteries of marriage; of artists who speak the truth even as they distort reality; of gardens and houses and their owners.
The centrepiece of the collection is a series of five linked stories about an eccentric establishment, the Abbey Antiques gallery, and its singular proprietor, the urbane Mr Edom. Some of the stories are hilarious, others hauntingly lyrical, but all are incomparably witty and original - in short, they are vintage Warner.
Hardcover, Verlag, Harvill, 193 Seiten

Preis: EUR 14.70

Author: John Grisham
The narrator is a farm boy named Luke Chandler, age seven, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a little house that's never been painted. The Chandlers farm eighty acres that they rent, not own, and when the cotton is ready they hire a truckload of Mexicans and a family from the Ozarks to help harvest it. A Painted House is a moving story of one boy's journey from innocence to experience.
Hardcover,388 pages

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Author: Frank Ronan
Sometimes loving, sometimes being loved and sometimes incapable of either, the handsome men in these stories are caught at moments of uncertainty. There is a flaw in each one's surface, a vain of vulnerability whose exposure marks a turning point in their lives.
With humour, compassion, and a refreshingly unsentimental eye, Ronan focuses on those defining moments in this, his first collection of short stories.

In this chronicle of passions for sex and food, for women and men, for gardens and passion itself, there are characters who find happiness, and characters who find happiness is beyond them.
Innocence is sloughed by all but the most stubborn of self-deceivers, and love is always more hoped for than attained.



Taschenbuch 216 Seiten ISBN=0340660740
Es handelt sich um Neuware, aber das Buch ist ein Mängelexemplar, das ein paar Beschädigungen am Cover aufweist. Das Buch ist aber nicht als Mängelexemplar gekennzeichnet.

Preis: EUR 4.50

Author: Joseph Conrad
The San Tome Silver Mine, with its immeasurable riches, provides an irresistible lure to the men of ambition who rule the South American republic of Costaguana.
Drawn into their corrupt circle is the owner of the mine Charles Gould, an idealistic Englishman whose principles are slowly eroded away by his obsessive desire to hold on to the mine at any cost.
When revolution breaks out, Gould calls upon the loyal and fearless Nostromo to hide away the latest consignment of silver. But will Nostromo, resentful that his worth is unrecognized by his superiors, be able to resist the promise of future prosperity that the treasure offers?

Conrad's unsparing account of the nature of corruption and its power to destroy or defeat Good is considered by many to be his masterpiece.
Taschenbuch 462 Seiten
Verlag: Penguin Books

Preis: EUR 4.50

Author: David Park
A collection of short stories set in Northern Ireland. Despite being set against a background of contradiction and confusion these stories are full of vigour and hope.
Verlag: Phoenix Paperback

Preis: EUR 6.99

Autor: Anne Melville
In the spring of 1939 four girls come out during the London Season. From the excitement of parties and the campaigns to find husbands the girls then find themselves facing a different campaign as war breaks out.

Verlag:Orion, Hardback. 401 Seiten

Preis: EUR 11.90

Author: Catherine Feeny
A Matter of Time Catherine Feeny's new novel is witty and poignant, a thoughtful exploration of time and humanity, and a delight to read. David Marsh has problems. He's married to Fay but in love with Clementine. He can't afford the mortgage payments on his house in the cathedral city of Pitsbury.
And a squat is threatening his livelihood. It's hard to imagine how things could get worse - until the landscaping scheme promised for the wasteland adjoining the squat is shelved to make way for a superstore.
Verlag: Sceptre, Softcover, 246 pages

Preis: EUR 10.90

Vita Brevis

A Letter to St Augustine
Taschenbuch, Verlag: Phoenix, 164 Seiten
By Jostein Gaarder – Author of Bestselling Sophie’s World

‘Years have passed and much has changed since we two had our arms round each other. Thus what I write will perhaps be equally a letter to the whole Christian church, for today you are a man of great influence’

In a second-hand bookshop in Buenos Aires, Jostein Gaarder makes an exciting find: a transcript of a letter to St Augustine, author of the famous Confessions, from Florida Aemilia, the woman he renounced for chastity.

Vita Brevis is both a classic love story, beautifully told, and a fascinating insight into StAugustine’s life and that of his discarded concubine. It is up to the reader to determine its authenticity…

Preis: EUR 6.90

Author: Piers Paul Read

This wonderful novel, set in England and Russia at the time of the Great War, tells the story of Alice Fry - an independent woman in a world ruled by men - and the two men who love her.

In 1913, Alice meets Edward Cobb, eligible young son of a baronet, at an avant-garde party in Chelsea. They fall in love and get engaged, but Edward's family thinks Alice 'fast'.
When Alice's father becomes involved in a sexual scandal, Edward has to choose between Alice and his political career.
He breaks off the engagement, not knowing that Alice is expecting his child. Desperate, Alice accepts the offer of a rich Russian, Baron von Rettenberg, to go to Russia as a governess for his children, while Edward enters an unhappy marriage. Alice gives birth to a son and yearns for Edward though the Baron von Rettenburg loves her.
The Great War takes its terrible toll and the Russian Revolution explodes.
Trapped by the Red Army in the Black Sea port of Novorossiik, Alice, her son and Rettenberg are saved by a member of the British Military Mission - Edward Cobb.
Taschenbuch 344 Seiten.

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Author: Karen E. Bender

A tour de force of literary craft and emotional resonance 'Like Normal people' charts a family constellation that revolves around an off kilter centre - Lena - who although she is forty-five remains locked in childhood.
Taschenbuch Picador Verlag 269 Seiten

Preis: EUR 6.90

Authors: Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey
With forewords by Kylie Minogue and Germaine Greer.
Kathy Lette's first novel, written with her surfie chick friend Gabrielle Carey, when they were eighteen. Written twenty years ago, PUBERTY BLUES is the bestselling account of growing up in the 1970s that took Australia by storm and spawned an eponymous cult movie.
PUBERTY BLUES is about 'top chicks' and 'surfie spunks' and the kids who don't quite make the cut: it recreates with fascinating honesty a world where only the gang and the surf count.
It's a hilarious and horrifying account of the way many teenagers live... and some of them die. Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey's insightful novel is as painfully true today as it ever was.
Taschenbuch Picador Verlag

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Author: Alexandra Potter

Delilah has made a big decision. In fact she's made several. She's leaving her boyfriend Lenny and taking her Tom Jones record collection, her pet whippet, Fatso and herself to the bright lights of the big city...

And now that she's here, it seems that down-to-earth Delilah is just what the big city was waiting for. But whatever she does, Delilah is determined finally to make the right choices for her future, in love and work. So whether Charlie, the wealthy media boy, or sweet Sam in his café are right for her is something she needs to decide on her own. And then she can really start to live....
Taschenbuch. Verlag: Fourth Estate310 Seiten.

Preis: EUR 6.90