Fascination - format ePub

***William Boyd's new novel, The Romantic, is available to pre-order now***'One of the comic masterpieces' Daily Telegraph ______________________________________Henderson Dores is an Englishman in New...

Fascination is master storyteller William Boyd's third volume of short storiesDescribed as "the finest storyteller of his generation", and following his acclaimed collections On the Yankee Station and...

***William Boyd's new novel, The Romantic, is available to pre-order now***'As ambitious as it is remarkable. Balances on seesaws of innocence and violence, sanity and lunacy, hilarity and horror' The...

A philandering art dealer tries to give up casual love affairs - seeking only passionate kisses as a substitute. A man recounts his personal history through the things he has stolen from others throughout...

“William Boyd seems singularly blessed with both an innate love of storytelling and the talent to render those stories in swift, confident prose.” —The New York Times From William Boyd, award-winning...

In his most exhilarating novel yet, William Boyd transports you to the vibrant streets of sixties London, as an accidental spy is drawn into the shadows of espionage and obsession . . .‘William Boyd once...

Los Angeles, 1936. »Bitte setzen Sie sich mit mir in Verbindung. Es gibt so viel zu erzählen«, steht in dem Brief, den die ehrgeizige junge Architektin Kay eines Tages auf ihrer Türschwelle findet. Geschrieben...

'Marvellously paced and ingeniously plotted. A real page-turner' Observer_________________________One winter morning, Lorimer Black - young, good-looking, but with a somewhat troubled expression - goes...

***William Boyd's new novel, The Romantic, is available to pre-order now***'An elating read' Sunday TimesA producer. A novelist. An actress.It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin...

Ein Mann. Eine Zufallsbekanntschaft. Ein Aktenordner. Ein Toter. Von einer Sekunde auf die andere muss Adam Kindred, angesehener Klimatologe, in London untertauchen. Er ist der Hauptverdächtige in einem...

Es ist das Jahr 1914, in Deutsch- und Britisch-Ostafrika gehen Deutsche und Engländer in dieselben Bars. Dann bricht der Erste Weltkrieg aus, hält Einzug in den Alltag, und aus Freunden werden Feinde....

Bethany Mellmoth hat sich ein großes Ziel gesetzt. Sie will Schriftstellerin werden. Oder vielleicht doch Fotografin? Oder Schauspielerin? So schnell sie einen Plan fasst, so schnell ist er wieder passé....

Der schüchterne britische Kunsthistoriker Henderson Dores reist nach New York. Alles, was er will, ist dazugehören, Teil der amerikanischen Gesellschaft werden, denn amerikanisch sein, so denkt er, heißt,...

Logan Gonzago Mountstuart, 1906 in Uruguay geboren, ist Schriftsteller, Kunsthändler, Spion. Und vieles mehr. Eine Lebemann. Ein Mann mit vielen Talenten und ebenso vielen Schwächen: Mit Anfang zwanzig...

Mit sechzehn Jahren erfährt Cashel Greville, dass er nicht ist, wer er glaubte zu sein. 1799 im irischen Cork geboren, hätte er seine Eltern früh bei einem Schiffsunglück verloren, hat seine Tante Elspeth...

En cette fin d'été 1913, le jeune comédien anglais Lysander Rief est à Vienne pour tenter de résoudre, grâce à cette nouvelle science des âmes qu'est la psychanalyse, un problème d'ordre intime. Dans...

Au lendemain de la Première Guerre mondiale, la très jeune Amory Clay se voit offrir par son oncle Greville un appareil photo et quelques conseils rudimentaires pour s'en servir. Elle ignore alors que...

Dans la station balnéaire de Brighton, indifférents au tumulte du monde en cet été 1968, trois personnagessont réunis pour les besoins d’un film dans l’esprit des « Swingin’ Sixties ». Tous ont une double...

1894. Accordeur surdoué à l'oreille absolue, le jeune Brodie Moncur, employé d'un vénérable fabricant de pianos à Édimbourg, accepte avec joie un poste important dans la filiale parisienne, fuyant ainsi...

Fuyant l’Irlande, où il est né en 1799, Cashel Greville Ross s’enrôle dans l’armée. Ainsi débute un parcours tumultueux, semé d’épisodes glorieux et de revers de fortune, dans les pas de l’Histoire. Blessé...

1969. Espion chevronné, membre surdoué des services secrets de Sa Majesté, James Bond célèbre ses quarante-cinq ans avec une mission peu ordinaire : mettre un terme à la guerre civile qui déchire le Zanzarim,...

Un don juan patenté s'impose la chasteté mais compense en collectionnant les baisers volés ; un kleptomane retrace son parcours de vie à travers les objets qu'il a dérobés ; un couple séparé se retrouve...

Gabriel Dax' Nächte sind kurz. Seit seiner Kindheit leidet er unter Albträumen: Erinnerungen an jene verhängnisvolle Nacht, in der seine Mutter und sein Elternhaus einem verheerenden Brand zum Opfer fielen....

Soldier. Farmer. Felon. Writer. Father. Lover.One man, many lives.Born in 1799, Cashel Greville Ross experiences myriad lives: joyous and devastating, years of luck and unexpected loss. Moving from County...

This new collection of stories is William Boyd's second, appearing some fourteen years after his first, On the Yankee Station. Once again the stories range widely across the time and space of the twentieth...

*The Sunday Times Bestseller* It is 1969 and James Bond is about to go solo, recklessly motivated by revenge. A seasoned veteran of the service, 007 is sent to single-handedly stop a civil war in the...

DISCOVER THE BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED NOVEL ABOUT ONE HEART'S LOVES AND LOSSES FROM ICONIC STORYTELLER WILLIAM BOYDEvery life is both ordinary and extraordinary but Logan Mountstuart's contains more than...

***William Boyd's new novel, The Romantic, is available to pre-order now***WINNER OF THE SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD'Achingly memorable' The Times ________________________________A quest for...

***William Boyd's new novel, The Romantic, is available to pre-order now***'Brilliant. A Citizen Kane of a novel' Daily Telegraph__________________________________Meet John James Todd:Scotsman, auteur,...

***William Boyd's new novel, The Romantic, is available to pre-order now***WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE 'A brilliant storyteller . . . a book which stretches, tantalizes and delights'...

The death of his wife leaves Florian the beekeeper heartbroken. Out of love for him, his bees create a duplicate wife to console him, but this act has unexpected consequences for humans and bees alike.

Her Man – A Captivating Tale of Love and Fate⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Dive into a sizzling contemporary romance that has readers raving and topping Amazon's charts! In Her Man, our strong yet tender heroine (think the charm...

A body was found in the bedroom of a newly appointed Police Officer. Read the explosive letters and uncover the truth behind Kiera Reyez, Jennifer de Ville and the terrifying secret hidden by the authorities.

'Sailing away, he survived at sea, then on foreign land, and then by writing - re-living his life, many times, many ways, in English fiction' Neil Rennie, from his preface to The Secret Sharer and Other...

LESS IS MORE is a collection of five short stories. Stories about life, death, and finding our place in the complicated mix.God In A Fishbowl is pure whimsyThe Problem is definitely notThe/A Christmas...

The Devil Who Went to Heaven is an essential read for everyone who enjoys dark fantasy, theological re-imaginings, and mythical retellings. Long after the last page is turned, Zwahk Muchoney's collection...

A grim fairy taleDEATH LISTENS TO NO ONE."The voice says the cat will die."Born out of wedlock, Thana has an uncanny gift just as ominous as her name. She sees dreams of omens and hears the voice of death.After...

An Evil Queen Origin NoveletteEVIL IS THE CHILD OF TRAGEDY.As a witch, Glinda finds solace in the forest with her lover and the dwarves, cherishing a life of tranquility.However, her peace is destroyed...

A Valentine's short storyNO MORE REVISIONSHigh salary, glorious job title, big city apartment, and a perfect fiancé. Life couldn't be better, right?Wrong.As a head designer of an upcoming project, Aimee...

At the Zenith cocktail bar, one man is about to answer a burning question about reincarnation and our place in the cosmos.

A grim fairy taleNOT ALL LOVE IS MEANT TO BEA butterfly falls in love with a spider.Despite their opposite position on the food chain, the two unlikely creatures draw each other in.And the forest is watching....

A contemporary short story collectionTIME FAVORS NONE.Kara's father has always wanted to take her and the family on a cruise.Carl has planned to marry Andrea since age five.A young man who loathes summer...

Agatha Christie’s seasonal Poirot and Marple short story collection. First came a sinister warning to Poirot not to eat any plum pudding… then the discovery of a corpse in a chest…...

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The No. 1 bestselling author Stephen King's timeless coming-of-age novella, The Body - set in Castle Rock and originally published in his 1982 short story collection Different Seasons, and adapted into...

This ebook contains Oscar Wilde's complete works. This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook)...

Can the perfect village save the perfect wedding? INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE EXTRACT FROM A POSTCARD FROM ITALY Cher, the landlady of the Duck & Puddle...

Sherlock Holmes is not only the most famous character in crime fiction, but arguably the most famous character in all fiction. In sixty adventures that pit his extraordinary wits and courage against foreign...

Who falls in love on vacation? Lymric:When my best friend convinced me to come visit her in Wolf Valley, I thought that maybe it would be a fresh start. I thought that it would be a chance for me to find...

Diamonds are forever. They're a girl's best friend. Until you're the one accused of stealing them.Summer in Texas means two things: blistering heat and competitive softball. For twin sisters Samantha...

(Round Up) - Ils sont les meilleurs amis du monde depuis qu'ils ont quinze ans. Il a compris que la seule fille qu'il aimera, c'est elle. Vont-ils risquer leur amitié pour avoir une chance d'aimer ?Cette...

A dark and disturbing ebook original from the master of the crime genre.A famous writer asks a boxman to open an old safe that comes with the mansion he's just bought. It's not as easy a job as he's used...

Three irresistible short stories by the global phenomenon Ali Hazelwood, now available together in paperback for the first time, with an exclusive bonus chapter.Mara, Sadie, and Hannah are friends first,...

Isaac Asimov’s Robot series – from the iconic collection I, Robot to four classic novels – contains some of the most influential works in the history of science fiction. Establishing and testing the Three...

"The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath is a haunting exploration of the human psyche. Set against the backdrop of 1950s America, the novel follows Esther Greenwood, a talented and ambitious young woman, as she...

**Pre-order DREAM COUNT, the searing, exquisite new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie now!** From the Women's Prize-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun come twelve...

Being a bodyguard isn't easy, not even when you're the seventh son in a long line of seventh sons, not even when the magic comes when you call—and especially not when the man you are protecting is a treacherous,...

Four guys in a punk rock band have one night to impress a record executive but the bass player is on a 51-50 hold and the gig is in Hollywood. Bonus Story: All My Ex Girlfriends 

The evolution and the refinement of identity are not related to places and people, but they can be influenced by them. In these stories, the experiences remain transparent. Under the influence of inner...

Experience the tale of Pancho, a four-pound anxiety grenade with a pin pulled at 30,000 feet. When his family decides flying is a good idea, Pancho causes a mid-air emergency so dire that the FAA created...