Showing results for "Song" in Contemporary Fiction

From the steps of the Sydney Opera House came international acclaim... but at a price. All young Lizzy wants to do is sing, ride the boundaries of her family's Queensland property and dream of one day performing on stage. But when a freak storm hits the area, wreaking havoc and bringing tragedy, she swears never to sing another note. Lizzy, however, has a voice as uplifting as the pure beauty of the song of the bellbirds, and others are not quite so willing to let her remarkable talent go to waste.

Brought to you by Penguin. The new tale of love and life, rich with humour and pathos, from our best loved storyteller. From the prison cell where Chloe Smith, 43, is awaiting trial for the merciful murder of the only man who ever loved her with honesty, she recalls the men in her life who lied...

A fiercely intelligent and moving second novel from the author of the acclaimed The Wilderness. Leonard Deppling returns to the capital from Scotland, where he has spent the past year nursing his dying father. Missing from the funeral was his younger brother William, a former lecturer and activist who lives with his wife and two young sons. Leonard is alone and rootless, he moves in with William hoping to unite their family and renew their friendship.

Coming-of-age is at its toughest in Dana Kletter's Night Song, where a mother and daughter become entwined with the same drug-addled trumpet player.

Golsuorsi o Forsaytah. Raspad nekogda procvetavshey sem'i izobrazhaetsya na fone obshchestvennyh besporyadkov. Pisatel' filosofski osmyslyaet i sootnosit peremeny na nacional'nom i chastnom urovnyah. Kak i prochie romany o Forsaytah, "Lebedinaya pesnya" zahvatyvaet chitatelya uvlekatel'nost'yu syuzheta i poehtichnost'yu.

Strangers did not, as a rule, find their way to Chez Dom - a small, rundown Tunisian cafe on Paris' distant fringes. Run by the widow Houria and her young niece, Sabiha, the cafe offers a home away from home for the North African immigrant workers working at the great abattoirs of Vaugiraud, who, like them, had grown used to the smell of blood in the air. But when one day a lost Australian tourist, John Patterner, seeks shelter in the cafe from a sudden Parisian rainstorm, the quiet simplicities of their lives are changed forever

Christiane Rösinger, Musikerin und kritische Anhängerin des Eurovision Song Contest, fährt im Mai 2012 von Berlin nach Baku...