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English Novel and Mystery
This is the story of Corey Fah, a writer on the cusp of a windfall, courtesy of the Social Evils prize committee, for whom the actual gong - and with it the prize money - remains tantalizingly out of reach.Neon beige, with UFO-like qualities, the elusive trophy leads Corey, with partner Drew and surprise eight-legged companion Bambi ....
Autor_innen: Waidner, Isabel
Grief and Healing on Two Wheels
Taking on the bicycle as a means of making sense of life and death, contributors write about their experiences on a bike enjoying the little things about everyday life, while also dealing with loss, trauma and fear. Contributions range from the lyrical to the profane, the deeply personal to the keenly analytical. Includes essays, art and ....
Autor_innen: Blue, Elly
When Lily was eleven years old, her mother, Swee Hua, walked away from the family, never to be seen or heard from again. Now a new mother herself, Lily becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to Swee Hua. She recalls the spring of 1987, growing up in a small British Columbia mining town where there were only a handful of Asian ....
Autor_innen: Yun Liew, Jamie Chai
What is Africa's own 'heart of darkness'? It is what confronts Ayane when, after three years abroad, she returns to the Central African village of her birth. Now an 'outsider' with foreign ways distrusted by her fellow villagers, she must face alone the customs and superstitions that bind this clan of men and women.
Autor_innen: Miano, Leonora ; Editions Plon
'This is crime writing of the very highest order ! Kate Brannigan has turned into the most interesting sleuthess around' The Times Dead Beat introduces Kate Brannigan, a female private detective who does for Manchester what V.I. Warshawski has done for Chicago. As a favour, Kate agrees to track down a missing songwriter, Moira Pollock, a ....
Autor_innen: McDermid, Val
Isolation and community, Restrictions and freedom. The near future is a militarised state, a fractured continent, and a world in which fascism is resurging following pandemics and climate devastation. Against this grim backdrop, the characters of Dignity form a deeply diverse resistance movement that brings connection, strength and hope ....
Autor_innen: Lieffe, Otter
Granta Best Young British Novelist Naomi Alderman's Disobedience is an insightful and witty novel on the search for love, tolerance and faith.By the age of 32, Ronit has left London and transformed her life. She has become a cigarette-smoking, wise-cracking, New York career woman, who is in love with a married man.But when Ronit's father ....
Autor_innen: Alderman, Naomi
To cope with rising misogynist violence, the US government offered people a golden opportunity: any man who felt like they were owed a free woman could move to a remote island and be given one. The offer was, of course, a trap. Five years later, wise-cracking special ops mercenary Mankiller Jones and their companion Dr. Morrison venture ....
Autor_innen: Killjoy, Margaret
In 1937, Gertrude Stein wrote a sequel to The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, but this darker and more complex work was long misunderstood and neglected. An account of her experiences in the wake of having authored a bestseller, Everybody’s Autobiography is as funny and engaging as The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, but it is also a ....
Autor_innen: Stein, Gertrude
An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072
By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments. In the 2050s, the insurrections reached the nerve center of global capitalism—New York City. This book, a collection of interviews with the people who made the revolution, was published to mark the ....
Autor_innen: O'Brien, M. E. Abdelhadi, Eman
Collected and New Short Fiction and Poetry
Fables and Spells is a vibrant selection of visionary works, both previously published and brand new. Included here is brown’s most beloved story, “The River,” as well as the two sequel tales of her Water Trio. The remaining sixty-seven pieces explore moments of beauty, conflict, and transformation that also weave deep, radical lessons. ....
Autor_innen: Brown, Adrienne Maree
`Things are not simple but complex. If he bit Mr. Browning he bit her too. Hatred is not hatred; hatred is also love.'Virginia Woolf's delightful biography of the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel, which asks what it means to be human - and to be dog.
Autor_innen: Woolf, Virginia
