Showing results for "Harry" in Literary Fiction

While researching why Freud failed to win a Nobel Prize at the Nobel Archives in Sweden, a psychiatrist makes an unusual discovery. Among the piles of papers in the "Crackpot" file are letters addressed to the executor of Alfred Nobel's will, written by several notable Nobel laureates - including Rudyard Kipling and Marie Curie - each offering an explanation of why and how Stonehenge was constructed. Diligent research uncovers that Alfred Nobel added a secret codicil to his will, a prize for the Nobel laureate who solves the mystery of Stonehenge.

Set entirely on a London bus travelling from Hoxton to Highbury and taking place over just 36 minutes, the events of The 392 unfold through a cast of charismatic characters coming from very different worlds. On the 392 are all the familiar faces you might expect to see on any bus ride through inner-city London in the grip of gentrification; delinquent school kids, the high-flyers, the weird, the wonderful and the homeless. These Londoners share two things: a bus journey and a threat. A threat which is ready to blow apart everything they know.

Penguin Classics presents Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by David Threlfall, the star of the hit Channel 4 series, Shameless. 'The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything...

Penguin presents, the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of No Name Lane by Howard Linskey, read by David Leon. The hunt for a serial killer unearths an unsolved cold case from over sixty years ago. Young girls are being abducted and murdered in the North-East. Out of favour Detective...

Colin Morgan narrates the action-packed and gripping novel of Charles Darwin's voyage on the Beagle - longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. 'A masterpiece' Bernard Cornwell 'A master storyteller' Sunday Times In 1831 Charles Darwin set off in HMS Beagle under the command of Captain Robert Fitzroy...

Im Wald am Rand eines beschaulichen Städtchens trifft der kleine Abie auf den toten Harry. Und obwohl er lebendig anscheinend für niemanden von Interesse war, wollen ihn gleich drei Personen ins Jenseits befördert haben: eine respektable Lady, ein knorriger Kapitän und Abies Mutter, die immerhin mal mit Harry verheiratet war. Harry musste einiges eingesteckt haben – er wurde scheinbar erschossen und tödlich von einer Milchflasche sowie einem Damenschuh getroffen.

“Nesbø’s storytelling abilities are incomparable. Nemesis is crime novel as art form and great entertainment.” —USA Today Detective Harry Hole must use his maverick methods once again as he investigates a slew of brutal bank robberies and the suspicious suicide of a female artist in...

Harry Clifton växer upp under 1920-talet, strax efter första världskrigets slut, och får under hela sin barndom höra att hans far dog i kriget. Det är först 20 år senare som han upptäcker hur hans far egentligen avled och den oväntade upptäckten väcker en brinnande fråga hos Harry.

A new book in the nationally bestselling series that has wowed critics and readers alike. David Loogan returns! Loogan is living in Ann Arbor with Detective Elizabeth Waishkey and her daughter, Sarah. He's settled into a quiet routine as editor of the mystery magazine Gray Streets-until one day...

Onno und Max sind alte Freunde - bis sie sich beide in Ada verlieben. Doch ihre Dreiecksgeschichte ist nur Spielball eines göttlichen Plans...

In the Hugo Award nominee Forty, Counting Down, computer genius Justin Kloster travels to the past to stop himself from making a terrible mistake. But all actions have their consequences. Then, in Twenty-One, Counting Up, Kloster's college life and romantic dreams are rudely interrupted when the 40-year-old Justin arrives from the future to save him from himself.

A gripping novel about a man trying to escape his violent past and soon becomes a murder suspect when a publisher—and the husband of the woman he's having an affair with—turns up dead. The man who calls himself David Loogan is hoping to escape a violent past by living a quiet, anonymous life...

It's the late 1950s and change is in the air. For the Napier family, up at the big house, the old ways are shifting. Hilary must discover if reaching out for a chance of happiness must mean breaking away from the life expected of her, while Patsy, their young housekeeper's help, is facing motherhood without her own family around her. Down the hill from the Napiers, villagers young and old are setting out on adventures.

The planet was called Felicity. The name was a joke, except for those compelled to settle there. Inhabiting it were beings bred for thousands of years for a single purpose: to attack and kill. Jason knew this. But he also knew the planet on which he lived was moving toward certain disaster. And Felicity was the only spot in the universe where he and his companions could survive. He thought he had worked out the perfect plan. But what awaited him on Felicity went far beyond his wildest imagining.

Im Wald am Rand eines beschaulichen Städtchens trifft der kleine Abie auf den toten Harry. Und obwohl er lebendig anscheinend für niemanden von Interesse war, wollen ihn gleich drei Personen ins Jenseits befördert haben: eine respektable Lady, ein knorriger Kapitän und Abies Mutter, die immerhin mal mit Harry verheiratet war. Harry musste einiges eingesteckt haben - er wurde scheinbar erschossen und tödlich von einer Milchflasche sowie einem Damenschuh getroffen. Als äußerst hilfreich für die drei "Täter" erweist sich ein mittelloser Künstler am Ort - nicht ganz uneigennützig.

Crews’s novel about a boxer with the gift of knocking himself unconscious, with a new foreword by New York Times-bestselling author S. A. Cosby A Penguin Classic A favorite of longtime Harry Crews fans, The Knockout Artist (1988) portrays Eugene Talmadge Biggs, a young boxer from rural Georgia...

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first...

“Harry Crews is magnificently twisted and brutally funny.” - Carl Hiaasen A Penguin Classic Golden-haired, with the voice of an angel and a reputation as a healer, the Gospel Singer appeared on the cover of LIFE and brought thousands to their knees in Carnegie Hall. But for all his fame...

Der junge Valentin erhält verschlüsselte Botschaften von einer ihm unbekannten Cäcilia. Zusammen mit seiner Cousine Selina begibt er sich auf eine Suche, um das zu finden, was der Welt verloren ging. Doch können die beiden das Rätsel lösen, wenn sie noch nicht einmal wissen, wonach sie suchen sollen? Ein mitreißender Roman, der Lebensfreude und Schicksalsschlag, sowie Realität und Traumwelt kunstvoll miteinander verknüpft.

This is the next in the popular series featuring Johnny Maxwell. Johnny can see the dead, and the dead are beginning to see just how much fun it is to be alive, in another terrific tale from the master of comic fantasy Terry Pratchett...