Showing results for "Locke" in Literary Fiction

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEY’S WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION From Attica Locke, a writer and producer of FOX’s Empire, this sophisticated thriller sees lawyer Jay Porter—hero of her bestseller Black Water Rising—return to fight one last case, only to become embroiled in a dangerous game of...

Geoff and his friends live in Phocaea, a distant asteroid colony on the Solar System's frontier. They're your basic high-spirited young adults, enjoying such pastimes as hacking matter compilers to produce dancing skeletons that prance through the low-gee communal areas, using their rocket-bikes to salvage methane ice shrapnel that flies away when the colony brings in a big (and vital) rock of the stuff, and figuring out how to avoid the ubiquitous surveillance motes.

Det startede som en vandrehistorie. En uhyggelig legende om Skyggemanden, som børnene skræmte hinanden med. Men for Sadie og hendes venner blev historien en besættelse - og skyggerne i mørket blev alt for virkelige. Mange år senere er Sadies teenagedatter Amber anklaget for mord, og hendes retssag chokerer hele landet: Hvordan kan sådan en ung pige begå så voldsom en forbrydelse? Det virker, som om hemmelighederne fra Sadies fortid har indhentet hendes datter.

This selection of stories relates the many experiences and complexities of womanhood; sometimes joyful, sometimes sad but always enriching. With stories by Edith Wharton, Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth Gaskell - it includes 'Ladies in Lavender' by William J. Locke, the inspiration for the film of the same name starring Judi Dench and Maggie Smith.