Louise Wener Knihy

A suspenseful novel that intricately weaves a family's struggles with secrets and lies, offering a deeply moving and humorously warm reading experience from the author of GOODNIGHT STEVE MCQUEEN.

Just For One Day takes you on Louise Wener's musical odyssey from awkward 80s suburban pop geek to 90s jet-set Britpop goddess.

This is a story of an ordinary girl's transformation from awkward 80s suburban pop geek to 90s jet-set pop goddess. It's about the embarrassments of growing up and experimenting with who you are and how pop music is both the comic and life-affirming soundtrack that runs through it all. Different for Girls is for anyone who ever sang into a hairbrush and slow-danced to Spandau Ballet's True. It's about growing up with Look-In and Jackie magazine and daubing your hair with poster paint to look more like Toyah Wilcox. It's about bad perms, bad boyfriends and the nagging feeling that no man will quite measure up to Nick Heyward from Haircut One Hundred. It's also about the journey from bad band to great band, from gigs in toilets to gigs in stadiums with all the mistakes, joys, disappointments and successes in between. It's a journey which starts with a 12-year-old perfecting her dance routine to Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights in front of TOTPs and ends, almost 20 years later, with the same girl having REM's Michael Stipe sing happy birthday to her on a warm summer's evening accompanied by 70,000 strangers.

A quirky and stylish feel-good novel about high stakes, lost love, and poker from the bestselling author of GOODNIGHT STEVE MCQUEEN.

The mysterious disappearance of Claire's older brother, Daniel, raises unsettling questions as he vanishes right before Christmas. Despite being married and successful, his sudden absence leaves Claire grappling with various possibilities: could he have been killed, kidnapped, or simply walked away from his life? As she searches for answers, the story delves into themes of family dynamics, the pressures of success, and the hidden struggles that can lead someone to disappear without a trace.

Danny McQueen's day job in the local specialist video shop is only a way to pay the rent until the current incarnation of his band makes it big. Danny's been coasting along like this for years, and sees no reason to change. Until his girlfriend Alison is offered a job in Bruges and issues him with an ultimatum: he has six months to get a recording contract, get a proper job, or get a new girlfriend. Suddenly Danny needs to decide where his heart really lies.

Rainer Schmidt, geboren 1964 in Düsseldorf, ist Journalist und Schriftsteller. Er hat als Redakteur beim BBC World Service gearbeitet, für das «Zeit-Magazin», «Spiegel-Reporter» und «Vanity Fair». Bis 2012 war er Chefredakteur des «Rolling Stone». 2008 erschien «Wie lange noch», 2009 «Liebestänze». Sein letzter Roman – «Die Cannabis GmbH» (2014) – wurde viel gelobt, Nico Hofmann hat die Filmrechte für die UFA Fiction erworben. Rainer Schmidt lebt in Berlin.