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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -1 September 1939. As the mass evacuation takes place across Britain, thousands of children leave London for the safety of the countryside. But when a little girl vanishes, it's clear that danger can lurk in the quietest village. Josephine Tey arrives to help DCI Penrose investigate, but when a cloud of mistrust falls across the small community she has come to love, events take a sinister turn. An atmospheric snapshot of England in the early days of war.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 341 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -An intimate and original memoir of love, grief and male friendship by one of Scotland's brightest young talents.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 223 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Irina is in a rut. She obsessively takes explicit photographs of average-looking men she scouts from the streets of Newcastle while her dead-end bar job slips away; she's more interested in drugs, alcohol, and extreme cinema. When she's offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery which promises to revive her career in the art world, it should feel like an escape. But the news triggers a self-destructive tailspin, drawing in her obsessive best friend and a shy young man from her local supermarket who has attracted her attention. A pitch-black comedy both shocking and hilarious.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 318 pp. Englisch.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - It's beautiful here, and eerie, a lost kingdom, a ghost village . Swimming over the rooftops at midnight, Polly dives down and is suddenly able to breathe, to hear church bells and bird song .

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Are premonitions possible Do they come true In 1966, a dynamic psychiatrist investigated these questions. With a network of correspondents, from bank clerks to ballet teachers, they predicted crashes, assassinations and incidents with uncanny accuracy. An enthralling true story of madness and wonder, science and the supernatural. A journey into the oddest corners of 60s Britain and the outer edges of science and reason.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 149 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - It takes a village to bury a child . . .'Genius . . . A standout series.' The Times Crime Book of the Month1 September 1939. As the mass evacuation takes place across Britain, thousands of children leave London for the safety of the countryside. But when a little girl vanishes, it's clear that danger can lurk in the quietest village.In the chaos of war, crime novelist Josephine Tey arrives to help her friend DCI Penrose to investigate the girl's disappearance. When a cloud of mistrust falls across the small community she has come to love, events take a sinister turn.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An intimate and original memoir of love, grief and male friendship by one of Scotland's brightest young talents.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A provocative and rousing essay collection from one of Europe's greatest writers. The people of Central Europe cannot be separated from European history;

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Irina is in a rut. She obsessively takes explicit photographs of average-looking men she scouts from the streets of Newcastle while her dead-end bar job slips away; she's more interested in drugs, alcohol, and extreme cinema. When she's offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery which promises to revive her career in the art world, it should feel like an escape. But the news triggers a self-destructive tailspin, drawing in her obsessive best friend and a shy young man from her local supermarket who has attracted her attention. A pitch-black comedy both shocking and hilarious.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A profound, luminous masterpiece by one of Ireland''s greatest playwrights.This edition was published in 2023 with a beautifully redesigned text and cover, to coincide with the National Theatre'' revival. It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five adult Mundy sisters; their older brother, a missionary priest returned from Uganda; and the youngest sister's seven-year-old son, Michael. Over the course of two days in the family's life, Brian Friel evokes not only the interior world of a group of human beings trapped in their domestic situation, but the wider landscape - public and private, Christian and pagan - of which they are nonetheless a part.'There is no doubting we are in the thrall of as masterly a dramatist as the theatre possesses.' The Times.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - I love fire. Fire is the colour of genius.In this audacious new work, Edna O'Brien gives voice to the women who were central to the life of James Joyce.'James Joyce had been my ultimate hero for sixty years, but to paint the canvas of his life was daunting. Therefore I decided to depict him as seen by the key figures in his life - Mother, Wife, Mistress of a fleeting moment, his patron Harriet Weaver and his beloved Daughter Lucia, of whom he said her mind was but a transparent leaf away from his.'Written to celebrate the centenary of Ulysses, Joyce's Women premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in September 2022. This revised edition includes changes made by the author during rehearsals and previews of the play''s first production.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 CHRISTOPHER EWART-BIGGS MEMORIAL PRIZE'An outstanding evening, a landmark play, a thoroughly deserved five stars .

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Joseph K has a comfortable job in financial services and barely notices the growing chaos all around on the walk to work: the homelessness, the food banks, the anger, the protests, the relentless rise of the cost of living.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Fascinating.' Hilary Mantel'Terrific.' New Scientist'Gripping.' Financial Times'Stunning . . . Brimming with mystery and suffesed with haunting atmosphere.' Patrick Radden Keefe What if you had a vision that something terrible was going to happen A train crash, a department store fire, an assassination.What if you could share your vision, and prevent a disaster In 1966, John Barker, a British psychiatrist working in an outdated British mental hospital, established the Premonitions Bureau to investigate this very idea. He would find a network of curious correspondents, and among them two highly gifted 'percipients'. Together, they predicted calamities and international incidents with uncanny accuracy. And then, they gave Barker their most disturbing warning: that he was about to die.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Prepare to meet what lurks beneath . 'Macabre, fantastic and haunting . In her vision of intimacy and interdependence, you're simply not safe until everybody else is dead . ' Guardian'Idiosyncratic, haunting, masterly .

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An unforgettable novel about basketball and race, friendship and envy, and the powerful divide that separates greatness from ordinary life.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, mystery - Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors is cult critic Ian Penman's long awaited first original book.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 185 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A fascinating, damning insight into the unhealthy demands and excesses of the music industry.' Laura Barton, Guardian.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The untold story of the hidden places across Britainthat have slipped through the fingers of history.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -1950s Dublin, in a lock-up garage in the city, the body of a young woman is discovered, an apparent suicide. But pathologist Dr Quirke and Detective Inspector Strafford soon suspect foul play. The victims sister, a newspaper reporter from London, returns to Dublin to join the two men in their quest to uncover the truth. But, as they explore her links to a wealthy German family in County Wicklow, and to investigative work she may have been doing in Israel, they are confronted with an ever-deepening mystery. With relations between the two men increasingly strained, and their investigation taking them back to the final days of the Second World War, can they join the pieces of a hidden puzzle Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 341 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This is the story of a few hours in the life of a troubled teenage boy. He is wandering into the night listening to the voices in his head - escaping a home for 'very disturbed young men' and walking into the haunted space between his past and the heavy question of his future. A novel about being lost in the dark and realising you are not alone. From the bestselling author of 'Grief is the Thing with Feathers' and 'Lanny'.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 122 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Selected and arranged by the author, How To Be Invisible presents the lyrics of Kate Bush for the first timeLibri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 192 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, mystery - Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors is cult critic Ian Penman's long awaited first original book.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - \*\*FEATURING A NEW INTRODUCTION BY KATE BUSH\*\*Selected and arranged by the author, How To Be Invisible presents the lyrics of Kate Bush in a beautiful new paperback edition featuring a new cover by illustrator Jim Kay. 'The greatest singer-songwriter of the past 40 years, whose work is complex, ethereal and filled with so many secrets that one can listen to the albums for decades and still discover new delights every time [. . .] There's not a spare word anywhere in Bush's work. Everything means something.' Irish Times.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the bestselling author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny, Shy is a novel about guilt, rage, imagination and boyhood. It is about being lost in the dark, and realising you are not alone.'Max Porter is one of my favourite writers in the world.' George Saunders 'Beautiful and haunting.' Kevin Barry 'The strangest, most beguiling and affecting of all his books.' Ian Rankin'A miracle of language.' Irish Times This is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a troubled teenage boy.You mustn't do that to yourself Shy. You mustn't hurt yourself like that.He is wandering into the night listening to the voices in his head: his teachers, his parents, the people he has hurt and the people who are trying to love him.Got your special meds, nutcase He is escaping Last Chance, a home for 'very disturbed young men', and walking into the haunted space between his night terrors, his past and the heavy question of his future.'An act of humanity and grace, heightened by its distinctive form and artistry.' Telegraph.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The literary masterpiece of a major discovery in international literature - never before translated into English.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The ultimate page-turner.' IRISH INDEPENDENT'Like drinking Bollinger when your usual tipple is Babycham.' THE TIMESThe Sunday Times bestselling author of Snow and April in Spain returns with Strafford and Quirke's most troubling case yet.1950s Dublin. in a lock-up garage in the city, the body of a young woman is discovered - an apparent suicide. But pathologist Dr Quirke and Detective Inspector Strafford soon suspect foul play.The victim's sister, a newspaper reporter from London, returns to Dublin to join the two men in their quest to uncover the truth. But, as they explore her links to a wealthy German family in County Wicklow, and to investigative work she may have been doing in Israel, they are confronted with an ever-deepening mystery. With relations between the two men increasingly strained, and their investigation taking them back to the final days of the Second World War, can they join the pieces of a hidden puzzle Readers are loving The Lock-Up:\*\*\*\*\* 'A real page-turner. . . Highly recommend!'\*\*\*\*\* 'Crime writing at its finest'\*\*\*\*\* 'Quite spectacular! John Banville is a wonderful writer'\*\*\*\*\* 'I had an absolute blast reading this novel. I genuinely didn't want it to end.' \*\*APRIL IN SPAIN AVAILABLE NOW\*\*.