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In 1920, Ireland stands on the brink of civil war. Lucie returns to her familial home to settle the estate, where she uncovers an abundance of handwritten letters—a lifetime’s worth of cherished memories and guarded secrets between her mother and aunts—as well as her grandfather’s diary. As she reads through her findings, Lucie begins to wonder just how well she knew her relatives and the circumstances of their lives.

A punto de cumplir 50 años, Nerea Sánchez descubre que ha vivido más para los demás que para sí misma. Siempre cumpliendo expectativas, siempre en el lugar que se suponía correcto. Hasta que un giro inesperado en su vida la obliga a preguntarse: ¿Y si todavía hay tiempo para cambiar? Un curso de escritura se convierte en el detonante de su transformación. Entre páginas llenas de recuerdos y verdades que nunca se atrevió a decir, Nerea comienza a reconstruirse. Su matrimonio se desmorona, su hija encuentra su propio camino y un amor del pasado reaparece, no para rescatarla, sino ...

The rice is ripe in Provence… and so is a wicked murder plot. During a rice-themed culinary competition, head judge and top food critic Seraphin Rampal is found face down in the Rhône River. The gendarmes believe it was a drunken accident. But pastry chef Julie Cavallo disagrees. With the help of her misfit crew, she discovers that much more than rankings were at stake. Ruined careers, shortchanged colleagues, and scorned girlfriends all point to one thing: many in the region’s finest kitchens wanted Seraphin Rampal to pay. As their unsavory secrets come to light, danger closes in, ...

In seinem ersten Roman »Buddenbrooks« erzählt Thomas Mann nur wenig verschlüsselt die Geschichte seiner Familie und ihrer Stellung in der Vaterstadt Lübeck, soweit er sie nachvollziehen, in Einzelheiten überblicken konnte, ja sogar noch miterlebt hat. Verwandte, Honoratioren und markante Persönlichkeiten seiner Jugend werden integriert. Es ist die Geschichte des langsamen Niedergangs einer reichen Kaufmannsfamilie über vier Generationen hinweg. Gert Westphal liest diesen epochalen Roman in ganzer Länge.

Vortigern commits a terrible crime to become High King of Britannia – a crime which is he led to commit by his ambitious wife, Severa. This is a Macbethian tale set in 5th century Britannia – featuring a proud tyrant, a death-dealing druidess, a seduced monk, two pitiless Picts, two Angle invaders, a voluptuous Valkyrie, two battling dragons, a Rightful King, and a parade of the most beautiful women in history – all written in a special kind of poetic prose. Followers of the author should note that several chapters in this book are recycled from an earlier narrative poem, English Morn...

William Blake's first biographer, Alexander Gilchrist, wanted to believe that Blake was a "new kind of man; and hence his was a new kind of art, and a new kind of poetry." However, what sets William Blake apart as a great poet and artist was not that he was so "new," but that he was so "old." He was a part of a mytho-poetic and Vatic tradition as old as poetry itself. Blake was heir to a mytho-poetic tradition that can be traced back to the very foundations of human thought and speech. The extraordinary in William Blake was not the "man," but his Vision and how he expressed it. But most (if...

John Worthing, a carefree young gentleman, is the inventor of a fictitious brother, “Ernest,” whose wicked ways afford John an excuse to leave his country home from time to time and journey to London, where he stays with his close friend and confidant, Algernon Moncrieff. Algernon has a cousin, Gwendolen Fairfax, with whom John is deeply in love.

The best of cult author Bruno Schulz's captivatingly strange and beautiful short stories. The stories in this collection are rich, tangled, and suffused with mystery and wonder. In the narrowing, winding city streets, strange figures roam. Great flocks of birds soar over rooftops, obscuring the sun. Cockroaches appear through cracks and scuttle across floorboards. Individuals careen from university buildings to dimly lit parlour rooms, through strange shops and endless storms.

In the tranquil embrace of Bowden National Park, nestled in the heart of Somerset, visitors seek solace among the trees. But beneath its serene surface lies a chilling secret: a lurking army of flesh-eating squirrels, nurtured by the head ranger’s sinister intentions. When the ranger becomes their next meal, the once-peaceful park transforms into a hunting ground of terror. As the normally adorable creatures turn feral, unsuspecting visitors and park rangers find themselves trapped in a blood-drenched fight for survival. *may contain nuts This novel contains extreme violence, SA, ...

"'Now the Holy Thing is among us once again. So fast, brother, and pray. Tell the others to fast and pray, that perchance the vision may come to you too—and to them—and so the world may be healed.'" This book is a novelisation of The Holy Grail, Book 8 of Tennyson's Idylls of the King. In this account of the Grail legend, Percivale, having retired to a monastery, recounts to a fellow monk his experience of the Grail quest. This prose version is intended to make the poem more accessible to the general reader and students of the poem, as well as being a good read in itself.

IT SANK IN THE NOW, ex-pat down with all hands seen one Wednesday in a sinking southern city. It hit the April showers serving death en route to Yorkshire, killing peace and war and Mary timed it well, she was the biggest, longest woman to float the virgin shore. Oceanus tells a story that’s been told a thousand times before, one that’s known all around the world – the tale of a passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean with massive loss of life. Oceanus tells the story of the RMS Titanic. *** Praise for Eyes Like Lighthouses When the Boats Come Home: “Recommended for ...

An oddly beautiful, warm room with a giant window looks out upon the sea. A man and a woman must face a fateful decision in the room. There is untold beauty in this place. The couple have a complex history. The man is a veteran, a pilot who has seen action. His wife, a beautiful woman he met during the war. Will they settle the rift that lies between them or go their separate ways?

" Dis-leur Jeannot, dis-leur de raconter tout cela de ma part, avec leurs mots à eux, ceux de leur époque. Les miens ne sont faits que des accents de mon pays, du sang que j'ai dans la bouche et sur les mains. ". Mars 1943. À Toulouse, Raymond, 20 ans, et son frère Claude, 17 ans, rejoignent la Résistance ; ils y rencontrent des garçons et des filles de leur âge. Planques, traques, combats, arrestations au petit matin, leur périple les conduira jusqu'au train fantôme. Quand l'un d'entre eux tombe, un autre sort de l'ombre...

Eric Fitz creyó tener la respuesta cuando decidió dejar atrás a su primer amor para perseguir sus sueños universitarios. Lo último que buscaba era enamorarse de nuevo... hasta que conoció a Marcus Grey. Hijo de una familia poderosa, frío, perfecto, inalcanzable y absolutamente imposible de ignorar. Marcus no era parte del plan. Entre presiones familiares, escándalos mediáticos, juegos de poder y heridas del pasado, Eric y Marcus intentan sostener una historia de amor que desafía todo lo que los rodea. Juntos aprenderán que amar no siempre es sencillo, pero que, cuando el amor es ...

Ring of White Roses: Two Short Stories Featuring King Richard III. PORT IN A STORM. A stranded modern-day traveller in the little town of Bridport encounters what she thinks is a film crew in action. She's wrong. The strands of time have unwoven and King Richard is in town, enjoying a relaxing banquet after dealing with the Duke of Buckingham's rebellion. MERCY JESU-- A story based on the legend that during the Scottish wars of the early 1480's, Richard Duke of Gloucester took a Scottish mistress and gave her a ring with the inscription Mercy Jesu. (The ring does in fact exist but its ...

This fictional account of the rise of a Hitler-like figure is something that might not be too far off the mark. Be careful what you wish for. There was a consensus of thought that after the catastrophic loss of life resulting from the depravity of the Nazi era that no such ideology could darken our world again. We were supposed to have learned a lesson from history but after witnessing the defragmentation of Yugoslavia and the subsequent Balkan wars and death camps, the lesson was all too soon forgotten. The only question was - where, when and how could it happen again? Not in Britain, surely?

In this poetic and imagistic novel, "Love Lost, Love Regained" follows the journey of a man in search of love. Filled with angst and longing, and punctuated with philosophical and spiritual undertones, the story takes the reader on a journey through the world of enchantment and wonder. Join "Oliver" as he navigates the path of love, enduring challenges and overcome obstacles to find his own form of true love. An uplifting and inspiring story rooted in classical myth and mythology.

This introductory study is part of the Literature Insights series, aimed at students and the general reader. Thomas Hardy is unique in English literature as a major novelist who is also a major poet. His collected poetry is among the most distinctive bodies of verse in the language, and includes such pinnacles of the lyric tradition as ‘The Darkling Thrush’, the haunted love-elegies written in memory of his first wife Emma, and such instantly recognizable titles as ‘Drummer Hodge’, ‘A Trampwoman’s Tragedy’, and ‘Convergence of the Twain’. It is also among the most ...

RUNNING MAY BE THE ONLY THING THAT KEEPS THEM ALIVE Celebrating their wedding anniversary out on a quiet lake, Robert and Helen Harris's night quickly turns from intimate to deadly when they are attacked by an intruder, leaving their young daughter, Jess, an orphan. Fifteen years later, Jess is an adult. Graduated from university and settled into a new city and job, she has found herself in an abusive relationship with her boss, Sean, who is a cruel and easily angered man. Seeing an opportunity to flee and make a fresh start, Jess runs. Living life simultaneously to Jess, Arina is ...

This comprehensive presentation of Roland Barthes’s work tracks his intellectual evolution, with particular emphasis on those areas where his influence is felt most strongly today. Key stages in Barthes’s intellectual itinerary are discussed in seven core chapters: Mythologies; Semiology; New criticism; Structuralism; Reader writer and text; Pleasure, the body and the self; and Photography. In each chapter concepts are contextualised so that the reader may understand the issues debated during the period under scrutiny, and the strength and originality of Barthes’s contribution to ...