Auke Leistra Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

A revelatory collection of letters from the nation's favourite storyteller.

Louis de Bernières je autorom slávneho románu Mandolína kapitána Corelliho. V roku 1993 ho Granta Magazine označil za jedného z dvadsiatich najlepších britských autorov. Sestry McCoshové vyrastajú počas krátkych šťastných rokov eduardovskej éry v priam idylickom vidieckom prostredí južne od Londýna. Pozemok ich rodičov z jednej strany susedí s Pendennisovcami, prisťahovalcami z amerického Baltimoru, ktorých traja synovia podávajú pri raňajkách otcovi ruku a oslovujú ho pane, a s Pittovcami, z ich chlapcov Daniela a Archieho vyrastajú odvážni dobrodruhovia. V detstve tvoria títo mladí ľudia nerozlučnú partiu. Časy bezstarostného kamarátstva však ukončí prvá svetová vojna, ktorá nemilosrdne zasiahne do života každého z nich.

Lea, Avishag and Yael are school friends in a small town in northern Israel. During dull lessons they play the game Exquisite Corpse and daydream about the boys they fancy. When they hit eighteen they are conscripted into the army.

Born to the sound of one of the very earliest experimental wireless stations, Serge finds himself steeped in a weird world of transmissions, whose very air seems filled with cryptic and poetic signals of all kinds. When personal loss strikes him in his adolescence, this world takes on a darker and more morbid aspect.

David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveller. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn't it? In his new book David Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface. His world is alive with obscure desires and hidden motives - a world where forgiveness is automatic and an argument can be the highest form of love. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim finds one of the wittiest and most original writers at work today at the peak of his form.

Keuze uit de verhalen van de Amerikaanse schrijver (1962- ).

Tamara Chalabi's memoir chronicles her return to Iraq after years in exile, exploring her family's tumultuous history. Through her powerful narrative, she reveals the rich tapestry of Middle Eastern life and the impact of war on Iraq's identity, offering a unique perspective on a country and its people.

The novel that inspired the major motion picture Nocturnal Animals, directed by Tom Ford and starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams, is a dazzling, eerie, riveting thriller of fear and regret, blood and revenge.

In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, Hans--a banker originally from the Netherlands--finds himself marooned among the strange occupants of the Chelsea Hotel after his English wife and son return to London. Alone and untethered, feeling lost in the country he had come to regard as home, Hans stumbles upon the vibrant New York subculture of cricket, where he revisits his lost childhood and, thanks to a friendship with a charismatic and charming Trinidadian named Chuck Ramkissoon, begins to reconnect with his life and his adopted country.--From publisher description.

Een liberale joodse vrouw uit New York keert terug naar de orthodox-joodse gemeenschap van Noord-Londen waar haar net overleden vader rabbi was.

Kapitoly: Moja nesentimentálna výchova: láska na Manhattane? To sotva..., Radostný sex? To sotva..., Milujeme mnohonásobného záletníka, Manželstvo na Manhattane: ženy, ktoré sa nikdy nevydajú, a zlí starí mládenci, Zoznámte sa s mužmi, ktorí zásadne spávajú s modelkami !, Najnovšie newyorsképokušenie: milovať pána Božského, Medzinárodné bláznivé ženy, Manželský trojuholník na Manhattane!, Sedem mužov vystrelí nevyhnutnú otázku, Kočky z mesta verzus frajerky z Greenwiche, Kočky utekajú z krajiny manželiek, aby sa vrhli do víru nočných orgií, Príbehy krásavíc, Miluje svoje dievčatko, ale mamičke ju nepredstaví, Bezmocná na Manhattane, V žiari New Yorku, Ako sa vydať na Manhattane: môj recept, Manhattanské mamy celkom ohlpúpli, Keď kocúr nie je doma myši majú raj, Žena , ktorá vyje s vlkmi: veční starí mládenci? Z toho nič nebude..., Drevo a biela norka: vianočná koleda Carrie, Ozdoba večierkov, rozpráva príbeh o sexe a strastiach: bol bohatý, milujúci a ...škaredý, Aspen.

V ďalšom románe Dicka Francisa sa opäť vracia na scénu jeden z jeho najobľúbenejších literárnych výtvorov Sid Halley. Aj keď sa úspešný profesionálny džokej musel po nehode rozlúčiť s pretekaním, v dostihovom svete má jeho meno naďalej svoj cveng. Ako rovnako úspešný majiteľ detektívnej kancelárie pracuje tentoraz na vyriešení troch vzájomne prepletených prípadov. Prvým je manipulácia s umiestnením favoritov na dostihoch, druhým vražda džokeja a samovražda trénera, ktorí pochádzali z jednej stajne. Sid dúfa, že kľúčom k obom bude tretí prípad spojený s internetovým stávkovaním. Zdá sa však, že v ktoromsi bode vstúpil na mínové pole a okrem polície a redaktora bulvárneho plátku mu na päty šliape aj ktosi iný. Ktosi, kto ohrozuje život nielen jeho, ale aj jeho najbližších..

De vriendschap van vier vrouwen in een Amerikaans provinciestadje.

Owen Mackenzie's life is marked by sin and seduction, starting with a betrayal soon after marrying his college sweetheart. His quest for happiness leads him through a series of affairs and small towns from Pennsylvania to Massachusetts, pushing him toward chaos.

Het hoofd van een onderzoeksteam krijgt opdracht een cel van Al Quaida, die een aanval op Europa voorbereidt, te ontmantelen.

'I pore over Beatles albums with the same obsessive and forensic scrutiny that I'd applied to Rodgers and Hammerstein, only now I have a guitar. I have an instrument that can reproduce the practical magic of the chord structures and the network of riffs that their songs are built on. And what songs, one after the other, album after album. I learn to play them all, confident that if I persevere, what I can't play immediately will yield its secret eventually. I will reapply the needle of the record player again and again to the bars of music that seem beyond my analysis, like a safecracker picking a lock, until the prize is mine. No school subject ever occupies as much of my time or energy. I'm not claiming that any kind of prescience about the future was at work here, but there was something in the driven and compulsive nature of this obsession that was unusual, something in the unconscious saying, "This is how you escape." "This is how you escape.'''

Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gunwielding terrorists takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different, a moment of great beauty, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and people from different continents become compatriots, intimate friends, and lovers.

Kroniek van de paringsriten van een groep welgestelde New Yorkers.

For Edvard Munch (1863-1944), painting was an act of self-liberation. His explorations of fear, despair, and death continue to exert a strong visual and psychological impact on modern viewers. Among all of Munch's paintings, The Scream (1893), which depicts a figure tormented by horror, is the most famous and certainly one of the most expressive. The artist reflected his innermost feelings in his work: In reality, my art is a free confession, an attempt to clarify my own relationship with life. Although Edvard Munch cannot be clearly assigned to a single movement, he is considered a pioneer of Expressionism.

Mladý Austrálčan Daniel Roke stojí pred veľkou dilemou. Má naďalej zveľaďovať svoj žrebčinec v nádhernom prostredí austrálskych hôr, alebo sa zapojiť do pátrania po nebezpečných podvodníkoch v oblasti dostihového dopingu? Túžba po dobrodružstve umocnená presvedčivými argumentmi grófa Octobra napokon zvíťazí, a tak sa Daniel preoblečený za ošetrovateľa koní púšťa do nebezpečnej hry v ďalekom Anglicku.

Fargo meets Undone and the result is a gripping first novel of psychological suspense and mystery set on a snow-bound island in northern Minnesota.

Los Angeles, 1958: Mesto na počiatku novej éry plnej ziskov. Na prvý pohľad pokojné, ale len do tých čias, kým sa pavučina pekelného zla neomotá okolo jedného muža: Dava „Siláka“ Kleina, člena losangeleskej polície, ktorého prenasledujú nemravné túžby a temné tajomstvá. Mafia chce, aby umlčal federálneho svedka. Okresný prokurátor chce, aby zastrašil komunistického politika. Howard Hughes chce, aby našiel špinu na herečku, ktorá ním pohrdla. Jeho nadriadený, náčelník detektívov, chce, aby vyšetril brutálnu vlámačku, ktorá by mohla vrhnúť zlé svetlo na najvyššie miesta losangeleskej polície. K tomu sa pridáva istý štátny zástupca, ktorý chce Kleina zničiť. Dave Klein bude čoskoro stáť tvárou v tvár malému peklu, na ktoré sa premenilo jeho mesto. Je to svet, ktorý stvoril, svet, z ktorého sa za každú cenu usiluje vyviaznuť živý. Rozpráva svoj príbeh: „Už mi ostala iba vôľa pamätať si to.“ Jeho hlas je sekaný, príkry, často pôsobí rovnako surovo ako udalosti, ktoré opisuje. Kleinova vôľa sa nás dotkne, vydesí nás! Jeho príbeh, strhujúci a ostrý ani britva, prechádza špirálou času, keď všetko vrelo, keď boli kriminálne živly ovládané dobre

Autobiografisch relaas van de Amerikaanse begrafenisondernemer en dichter over zijn werk en dichterschap.

Een architect wordt door zijn zes zonen bijgestaan wanneer hij met gevaar voor eigen leven de ondergang van een renbaan probeert te voorkomen.

De dood van een lifter in een paardentransportwagen heeft vérstrekkende gevolgen.

Tim Cahill reports on the road trip to end all road trips: a journey that took him from Tierra del Fuego to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, in a record-breaking twenty three and a half days.

Een ex-soldaat en oorlogsfotograaf gelooft niet dat de jongeman, wiens lijk hij vindt op zijn landgoed, zelfmoord heeft gepleegd en gaat op onderzoek uit.

'Brace yourself. I'm going to be accused of murder and rape. A beautiful young girl i've never seen before...' Target of a ruthless frame-up, Tweed is forced to flee into snow-bound europe. Paula Grey insists on accompanying him on his journey into the unknown. The relentless manhunt is directed by Lance Buckmaster, newly appointed Minister for External Security. Europe's top security chiefs, once Tweed's friends, are alerted to arrest the fugitive. The unknown enemy hires Armand Horowitz, Europe's top assassin. His mission: kill Tweed. Racing down Germany's authobahns, Tweed and Paula face lethal ambushes. Why is it vital Tweed never returns alive? Is the key to these bizarre events Shockwave, sheet anchor of Western Europe's defence? Transported abroad the Lampedusa, sailing Britain, the giant computer could guarantee the safety of the world. And Tweed was in charge of its uninterupted passage. Joined by foreign correspondent Bob Newman, Tweed seeks desperately to elude his mysterious pursuers. Arriving at his Swiss sanctuary via the ice-cole Black Forest, Tweed hears of the catastrophe. The Lampedusa has been hijacked.... Colin Forbes 'has no equal' Sunday Mirror

In this mystery in the bestselling Cat Who series, there’s something rotten in the small town of Pickax—at least to the sensitive noses of newspaperman Jim Qwilleran and his Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum. An accident has claimed the life of the local paper’s eccentric publisher, but to Qwilleran and his feline friends it smells like murder. They soon sniff out a shocking secret, but Koko’s snooping into an unusual edition of Shakespeare may prove CATastrophic... because somewhere in Pickax, a lady loves not wisely but too well, a widow is scandalously merry, and a stranger has a lean and hungry look. The stage is set for Qwilleran, Koko, Yum Yum, and the second act of murder most meow...

In een verre toekomstwereld komt de werker Kain met behulp van een magische ring in opstand tegen de wrede heersers.