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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A breathtaking, funny, moving debut collection of short stories about aging, relationships and sex'A bold, hilarious and intelligent debut' Irish Times'The author writes with such intimacy and precision that she frequently makes you feel like a trespasser in the bedroom' Daily Mail_____________________A woman goes about certain rituals of sex with her second husband, sharing the bed with the ghosts of her sexual past.A beautiful young art student embarks on an affair with a much older, married, famous artist.A middle-aged woman struggles with the decline of her mother, once glamorous and still commanding; their fraught relationship causes unexpected feelings both shaming and brutal.A man finds that his father has died while in the midst of extra-marital sex and wonders what he should do with the body.And a boy sits in his Calculus class, fantasizing about a schoolmate's breasts and worrying about his father lying in hospital, as outside his classroom window the Twin Towers begin to fall. In this stunning, taboo-breaking debut, Arlene Heyman, a practicing psychiatrist, gives us what really goes on in people's minds, relationships, and beds. Raw, tender, funny, truthful and often shocking, Scary Old Sex is a fierce exploration of the chaos and beauty of life. 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Shrewd and atmospheric Mediterranean noir in the newest and darkest of territories' William Boyd, GuardianSome wounds never healWhen a routine court case takes a sinister turn, defence lawyer Spike Sanguinetti starts asking dangerous questions that nobody seems to want answered. Soon, it's not just the truth that's at stake: it is everything and everyone that Spike holds precious. As the Gibraltarian sun beats relentlessly down, crimes of the past and present collide, relationships are tested and long-buried secrets exposed. Who can Spike trust And where do his own loyalties lie 368 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The powerful, moving story of a California teenager from an immigrant family who, finding himself in an increasingly hostile world, is turned from a carefree surfer's life towards a culture of fear and fanaticism Fourteen-year-old Alireza Courdee contains multitudes. He is a straight-A student and an affable stoner; the high-achieving son of Iranian immigrants, and a Californian surf kid; Alireza, and just plain Rez. But when a terror incident shocks the nation - and then another, and another - Rez finds that the world has only one idea about the type of person he is; that his name and the colour of his skin make him an object of suspicion. But there are new friends to shine a light into Rez's isolated, angry existence - Arash, a fellow Muslim student, and the beautiful Fatima. Little by little, Rez is drawn into a new circle, a circle as troubling as it is consoling - and which has a grim and glorious mission in mind for him. Insightful, nuanced and timely, A Good Country is an unforgettable coming-of-age story which deftly captures a young man's alienation and search for identity in a flawed and violent world. 256 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - WINNNER OF THE CROOK'S CORNER BOOK PRIZE 2016'This is a great love story' Edmund White, author of A Boy's Own StoryWendell Wilson, a taxidermist, and Frank Clifton, a veteran, meet after the Second World War. But, in this declining textile town in a southern US state, their love holds real danger. Severing nearly all ties with the rest of the world, they carve out a home for themselves on the outskirts of town. For decades, their routine of self-reliant domesticity - Wendell's cooking, Frank's care for a yard no one sees, and the vicarious drama of courtroom TV - seems to protect them.But when Wendell finds Frank lying motionless outside at the age of eighty-three, their carefully crafted life together begins to unravel. As Frank's memory and physical strength deteriorate, Wendell struggles in vain to hold on to the man he once knew. Faced with giving care beyond his capacity, he must come to terms with the consequences of half a century in seclusion: the different lives they might have lived - and the impending, inexorable loss of the one they had. 272 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An inventive, ambitious interpretation of Don Quixote for our times, Mr Iyer Goes To War is a playful, profound adventure heralding a bold new voice in Indian fictionDispatched to a home in the sacred city of Varanasi, Lalgudi Iyer spends his days immersed in scripture. When an accident leaves him with concussion, he receives a vision of his past incarnation - he was the mythological warrior Bhima, sent from the heavens to destroy evil.Convinced of his need to continue Bhima's mission and revive the noble principles of the Mahabharata, Iyer embarks on an epic adventure down the sacred Ganges with the help of his trust companion Bencho, the undertaker. His attempts at restoring order to the world - and winning the heart of the half-beautiful but oblivious widow Damayanti - are hampered only by his complete detachment from the reality of contemporary India.Mr Iyer Goes to War introduces a bold, witty new voice of Indian fiction in this playful and profound tale of love, adventure and friendship. 224 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - WINNER OF THE VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE CHRISTINA STEAD PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE STELLA PRIZE 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE VOSS LITERARY PRIZE 2016LONGLISTED FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD 2016LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2017It has been six months since Tess Müller stopped speaking. Her silence is baffling to her parents, her teachers and her younger sister, Meg. But the more urgent mystery for both girls is where their mother, Evangeline, goes each day, pushing an empty pram. When their father Stefan discovers a car wreck and human remains on their farm, old secrets emerge to threaten the fragile family. A storm is coming and the Müllers are in its path. 320 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - ________________________'A terrifying thriller . Visceral' - Entertainment Weekly'An emergency from its very first sentence . A literary thriller that summons the survivalist terror of The Road' - Patrick Somerville, author of This Bright River ________________________WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF THE WATER RAN DRY On a searing summer evening, Eddie Chapman has been stuck in a traffic jam for hours. There are accidents along the highway, but ambulances and police are conspicuously absent. When he decides to abandon his carand run home, he sees that the trees have been burned and the water in the stream bed is gone. Something is very wrong.When he arrives home, there is a power cut and no running water. The pipes everywhere, it seems, are dry. Eddie and his wife, Laura, find themselves thrust together with their neighbours while a sense of unease thickens in the stifling night air.Thirst takes place in the immediate aftermath of a mysterious disaster - the Chapmans and their community suffer the effects of the heat, their thirst and the terrifying realisation that no one is coming to help. As violence rips through the community, Eddie and Laura are forced to recall secrets from their past and question their present humanity. In crisp and convincing prose, Benjamin Warner compels readers to do the same.________________________'A timely, necessary, character-driven meditation on morality, society, and responsibility. Thirst presses us, accuses and implicates us in the failures of its characters' - Chicago Review of Books 304 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The bestselling Richard and Judy Book Club Pick 'Jangly with secrets' Sunday Times'Funny, inventive, surprisingly moving' Guardian'Royal Tenenbaums-style saga of dysfunctional family' The TimesWhen Arthur Hayman, author of The Hayseed Chronicles, dies, a bizarre chain of events makes his series of children's novels world-famous. But buried deep inside the books lie secrets that begin to shake Arthur's family - his son, Luke, reluctantly immortalized as the young hero; his daughter, Rachel, for whom the books are a hole through which her life has fallen; and his enigmatic wife, Martha, who knows that secrets are best kept well-hidden. And at the heart of The Hayseed Chronicles is the mysterious Mr Toppit, who will let none of the Haymans out of his grasp.A darkly comic story of a family shaped by their father's literary legacy, exploring fame, fandom and long-buried secrets 384 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - _______________'One of the most emotive accounts of life in Nazi Austria that I've ever read' - Guardian'A moving portrait of a girl forced to come of age in a world at war' - Sunday Times'Vividly depicted and shrewdly observed . The world evoked here strikes me as fundamentally true' - Sydney Morning Herald_______________An unforgettable, nightmarish coming-of-age story set in rural Austria towards the end of the Second World War.It is 1944, and war has taken the men in Nazi-controlled Austria to the front line. For thirteen-year-old Ursula Hildesheim, life in the village of Felddorf remains almost as it was: bullied by her schoolmates, idly thieving from the village shop, enlisted in endless chores by her mama and sister and running wild with her adored older brother Anton. But when Russian prisoners escape from the local concentration camp, her mama starts an affair with a married man, her friend goes missing and her brother's allegiance to the Hitler Youth emerges in shocking ways, Ursula finds herself alone, disturbed by dark memories, and surrounded by threat. In this new world of conflict, Ursula discovers a bravery she has never known before and is forced to recognise that danger comes not only from the enemy at the door but from the enemy within. My Own Dear Brother is a remarkable coming-of-age story and an unflinching study of both cruelty and courage. Rich in folklore, it introduces a daring young heroine and a powerful new literary voice._______________'Intensely imagined' - Independent'A powerful and absorbing novel . Brilliantly done' - Esther Freud, author of Mr Mac and Me'A touching chronicle of some of the lesser-known casualties of war and of the resilience of human spirit' - Washington Independent Review of Books'Muller creates a flawed and vulnerable young heroine we believe in' - The Australian 464 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Temples of Delight makes you laugh and it moves you' Sunday Times'A joyous and winking style reliant on coincidence and irony, sparkling sung . As messy, glorious and strange as life itself' Lauren GroffJem is a joyful mystery to Alice: a whirl of glamour, subversion and literary references. And when she disappears from Alice's life, as suddenly as she entered it, Alice is left bereft.But then she meets Giovanni, presumptuous and hectoring, passionate and beautiful, who leads her back to her childhood friend and the mystery and chaos still surrounding her. Alice finds herself being seduced all over again.'So readable, so full of incidental pleasures and curiosities . In her readability, her richness, her plain, clear style, Trapido is quite like what Iris Murdoch is supposed to be' Philip Hensher, Guardian'Very funny . fizzes along at a cracking pace' Sunday Telegraph'As lush and original as it is playful and ironic . Quirky, wise and warm, full of charm and entirely original' San Francisco Chronicle 368 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year for 2017'War, comrades,' declared Trotsky, 'is a great locomotive of history.' He was thought to be acknowledging the opportunity the First World War had offered the Bolsheviks to seize power in Russia in 1917. Twentieth-century warfare, based on new technologies and mass armies, certainly saw the locomotive power of war geared up to an unprecedented level. Peter Clarke explores the crucial ways in which war can be seen as a prime mover of history in the twentieth century through the eyes of five major figures. In Britain two wartime prime ministers - first David Lloyd George, later Winston Churchill - found their careers made and unmade by the unprecedented challenges they faced. In the United States, two presidents elected in peacetime - Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt - likewise found that war drastically changed their agenda. And it was through the experience of war that the economic ideas of John Maynard Keynes were shaped and came to exert wide influence. When the United States entered the First World War in 1917, President Wilson famously declared: 'The world must be made safe for democracy.' This liberal prospectus was to be tested in the subsequent peace treaty, one that was to be bitterly remembered by Germans for its 'war guilt clause'. But both in the making of the war and the making of the peace the issue of guilt did not suddenly materialise out of thin air. As Clarke's narrative shows, it was an integral component of the Anglo-American liberal tradition. The Locomotive of War is a forensic and punctilious examination of both the interplay between key figures in the context of the unprecedented all-out wars of 1914-18 and 1939-45 and the broader dynamics of history in this extraordinary period. Deeply revealing and insightful, it is history of the highest calibre. 432 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A knotty, postmodern tale. The quicksilver narrative slips between dream, memory and reality . A beguiling enigma' Financial Times'A poetic masterpiece of world literature . An oriental Kafka, enriched with the literary achievements of Islamic mysticism' Frankfurter Allgemeine ZeitungIn an Anatolian village forgotten both by God and the government, the muhtar has been elected leader for the sixteenth successive year. When he staggers to bed that night, drunk on raki and his own well-deserved success, the village is prosperous. But when he is woken by his wife the next evening he discovers that Nuri, the barber, has disappeared without a trace in the dead of night, and the community begins to fracture.In a nameless town far, far away, Nuri walks into a barbershop as if from a dream, not knowing how he has arrived. Try as he might, he cannot grasp the strands of his memory. The facts of his past life shift and evade him, and as other customers come and go, they too struggle to recall how they got there.Blurring the lines of reality to terrific effect, Shadowless is both a compelling mystery and an enduring evocation of displacement from one of the finest, most exciting voices in Turkish literature today. 320 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Jonathan Trefoil's boss is unhinged, his relationship baffling and his apartment just the wrong side of legal. His girlfriend wants to marry someone just like him - only richer and more organised with a different sense of humour. At least his two flatmates understand him - but they only speak dog.Poor Jonathan. The world wasn't this confusing back in the good old days before everyone expected him to act like a person. But one thing's for sure: if he can make it in New York City, he can make it anywhere. Will he get out of advertising, meet the girl of his dreams and figure out the meaning of life 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, Versand Büchersendung - Verity Bell has very big eyes, alphabetical leanings and a look that says she'd like to get inside your brain somehow. Or so her best friend Sally tells her, confessing that back at their school, most children thought she was a witch. Sally, a fellow only-child to whom Verity has been glued since girlhood, has become a worry in her twenties because she has actually allowed a married man to set her up in a flat to be his mistress.Verity sees no correlation whatsoever between this retrograde and fairly shocking love-nest and her own transforming passion for a married man called John, who surely yearns to leave his wife and three children to be with her. Doesn't he Verity lives in a world of her own and we glimpse her grudges (from 'ants' to the 'zeitgeist'), her personal development (from 'ambition' to 'wobbling') and her idiosyncratic network of obsessions (pick a letter, any letter) in a narrative arranged alphabetically by topics in the most curious and satisfying way.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, , Sofortversand - It is the 1980s and deep in mid-Wales the inhabitants of the Nant Valley believe they are successfully holding out against the modern world. However, outsiders have discovered the Valley and believe it to be an idyll. The rich and mysterious Stefan, for example, buys a derelict manor house and sets about being a squire - but finds that his money is failing to impress anyone, and he can t even get served in the pub as Gwillim the landlord hates all customers. Jane and Rob, poor and arty urbanites, want to live The Good Life, but find that their enthusiasm for alfresco nudity has tragic repercussions for the farming community. Dafydd, the all-seeing postman, doubts the Valley is ready for outsiders, and as the locals struggle with sexual scandal, hostile artisans, an unsuccessful laundromat exhibition and a corpse, the omens are not good .

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut SG - Schnitt leicht angeschmutzt, ungelesenes Mängelexemplar, Versand Büchersendung.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut Mängelexemplar mit leichten Lagerspuren, Sofortversand - Since walking out on her life at sixteen, Lamb has lived alone in the gaps between other people's lives. Secretly inhabiting the cellar of an elderly man for whom she cleans, she keeps herself to herself, her life a precarious balancing act until she meets Doggo, a young criminal on the run.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut Mängelexemplar mit leichten Lagerspuren, Sofortversand - Presents an insight into the mysteries and magic of everyday life.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut Ungeles. Mängelexpl., Lagerschaden (Knicke/Schmutz) mögl., gestempelt, Büchersendung - The heartbreaking story of a bag lady and her daughter.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, , Sofortversand - I'm Scarface. I m just about ten times as hard-boiled as Johnny Lovo ever thought of being. I ve bumped off six or eight myself and another one - especially a rat like you - wouldn t mean a thing in my young life. Get me In the mean streets of Chicago, a young man is unwilling to follow his parents into a life of squalor and poverty and hungers to become a big shot. Tony Guarino has grown up in the hard world of the bar and the poolroom, where every gangster is a hero and every cop an enemy. Only the tough make it. At the age of just eighteen, Tony commits his first serious crime. He shoots dead the gang boss and ruthless slayer Al Spingola. In an era when gunplay is still rare, Tony s actions unnerve the other gang leaders, and Tony is catapulted into notoriety and fame. This is just the beginning of his path to becoming the most powerful and feared man in the Chicago underworld. 192 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, , Sofortversand - Thirteen-year-old Cath is a new girl at a Catholic convent. She is afraid of the nuns, unused to the restriction and terrified of God. She finds refuge in nature, and her friend Olive s vision of the starry limitless universe. Cath s sister Very is at art school in seventies Punk London. She lives a wild chaotic life with bedraggled artists, outrageous homosexuals, and shadowy nightclub owners. When Cath visits Very, the two sisters whirl through the city together, along Chelsea Embankment and through the alleys of late-night Soho. But London, like the convent, holds its dangers and Cath must find her own way through. 256 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut Ungeles. Mängelexpl., Lagerschaden (Knicke/Schmutz) mögl., gestempelt, Büchersendung - 'Shadow Child' presents an examination of the grief of a father over the death of his baby daughter.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, , Sofortversand - A novel from the author of 'Child of My Heart'. 192 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, , Sofortversand 320 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, , Sofortversand - 'I m sick of all this pointless glamour,'his glamorous girlfriend said.'I want a simple life.'If only Connor McNab had listened. Now Philomena is off to California, allegedly on a fashion shoot, but he doesn t know where she is staying and a sinking feeling tells him that she might never come back. Connor s friend Jeremy Green is no help: he is the famous short-story writer (which they both agree is an oxymoron) with an imminent publication date and some people holding his dog to ransom for reasons too Machiavellian to blurb. Connor s sister Brook, genius mathematician and anorexic, is too busy anguishing over Rwanda and Bosnia. His editor at Ciao Bella is only concerned about the suddenly elusive celebrity of the month. Thanks goodness for Pallas, a knock-out table dancer with a heart of gold.

Zustand: Neu. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, Versand Büchersendung - 'What was the use of living in a porn film now, at her age ' pondered Peyton Amberg, alone in a Hong Kong hotel room. At twenty, when she could have pulled a film star, she'd had no sex drive at all. Then she - and her mother - had wanted love and commitment so she married the 'Jewish dentist' who thought she was a goddess but left her cold. 352 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, , Sofortversand 192 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, , Sofortversand - Ever spent sleepless nights feeling fearful or lonely Been anxious about money, family or partners Worried about your sexuality, your body weight, or the size of your genitalia Loved someone, but they drove you mad Felt crippled by shyness, anger or unhappiness Or perhaps you just enjoy the vicarious thrill of reading about other people s problems Dear Mariella - is guaranteed to bring relief. It is an airing cupboard for the complexities of modern life. Other people s dilemmas have much to tell us about our own lives, and this collection of quandaries from journalist, broadcaster and Observer agony aunt Mariella Frostrup may not solve your problems but it will undoubtedly make you think, and certainly make you laugh. 256 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, , Sofortversand - Since the age of thirteen, Christabel Alderton has been troubled by a sort of second sight that works sometimes, but not always. Death is much on her mind because the men in her life tend to die before their time and she s come to think she s bad luck. Fascinated by Christabel, diabetologist Elias Newman is keen to know her better but she s afraid of what might happen. Taking the reader from the River Lea via a haunted woodland bog, out to the crash of the Pacific surf on Kahakuloa Head in the Hawaiian Islands, this is Russell Hoban at his engrossing, inimitable best.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, , Sofortversand - What makes good writing good In his brilliant new book, Al Alvarez argues that it is the development of the voice - voice as distinct from style - that makes a writer great. A poet as well as a critic, Al Alvarez approaches his subject both as an informed observer and an insider. Here are - among others - Sylvia Plath, John Donne, Jean Rhys, Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot, Coleridge and W. B. Yeats, dissected with clarity, depth and a profound understanding of the mechanics of writing. Like the best literary criticism, The Writer s Voice makes writing come vividly alive. Written with passion and insight, it is the ideal gift for anyone who loves to read.