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En hjerteskærende og uforglemmeligroman om moderskab, kærlighed og kampen for retten til at bestemme over sin egen krop. 2017. Antikvitetshandleren Angela finder et brev med en rystende afsløring i en bunkegamle breve, og hun beslutter sig for at finde brevets modtager. Hendes søgen leder...

‘Everyone’s life begins on a level where races, armies, and churches stop. And yet everyone’s life is always shaped by races, churches, and armies’ In these eight extraordinary stories of love, conflict, desperation and fear, James Baldwin shows people trapped by the roles they must play...

When Arthur Montana, world-renowned 'Emperor of Soul', is found dead in a London pub, his grief stricken brother looks back over thirty years in the lives of their group of friends: from their childhood spent preaching and singing in Harlem churches, to their struggles with war and poverty, and...

Three journalists witness the unbelievable. Their biggest problem is not surviving it—it is convincing anyone else that it happened. Traveling from Cape Town to England aboard a small tramp steamer, three newspapermen expect an uneventful voyage home. Instead, a violent underwater disturbance...

Another rediscovered masterpiece from the author of Embers: an erotically charged novel–written within the framework of historical reality–about Casanova’s fateful encounter with the woman who finally defeats him. In 1756 Giacomo Casanova escaped from the dreaded cells of Venice’s most...

Главные герои романа—архитектор Говард Рорк и журналистка Доминик Франкон—отстаивают свободу творческой личности в борьбе с обществом, где ценят «равные возможности» для всех. Вместе и поодиночке, друг с другом и друг против друга, но всегда—наперекор устоям толпы. Они—индивидуалисты, их миссия—творить и преобразовывать мир. Через перипетии судеб героев и увлекательный сюжет автор проводит главную идею книги—ЭГО является источником прогресса человечества.

Главные герои романа—архитектор Говард Рорк и журналистка Доминик Франкон—отстаивают свободу творческой личности в борьбе с обществом, где ценят «равные возможности» для всех. Вместе и поодиночке, друг с другом и друг против друга, но всегда—наперекор устоям толпы. Они—индивидуалисты, их миссия—творить и преобразовывать мир. Через перипетии судеб героев и увлекательный сюжет автор проводит главную идею книги—ЭГО является источником прогресса человечества.

Losing out on a promotion to her ex lover, Hilary Mansell, a talented doctor, moves to a rural hospital. She is bored and unchallenged, but the routine and long hours dull her disappointment. When Julian Fleming is admitted with a serious head injury, Hilary's skill and quick thinking save his...

On holiday in the North Devon countryside, Neil Langton looks back on the wreckage of his past. He has come to believe that all happiness is behind him; the wounds from his former marriage - in which his wife cheated on him and his young daughter died - are still raw. While rock-climbing, he...

Elsie, sheltered and naive, is seventeen and unhappy. Stifled by life with her bickering parents in a bleak Cornish village, she falls in love with the first presentable young man she meets - Peter, an ambitious London doctor. On his advice she runs away from home and goes to live with her...

Vivian, a student nurse, chose her profession as a challenge, both to her spirit and to her permanently exhausted body; Mic immerses himself in his work at the hospital to ward off the emotional wounds of an unhappy childhood. Through Jan, Viv's beloved older brother, they meet, and their...

THE ANCIENT GREEK STAGE BROUGHT THRILLINGLY TO LIFE BY THE QUEEN OF HISTORICAL FICTION, PERFECT FOR FANS OF THE WOMEN OF TROY AND THE ODYSSEY 'The Alexander Trilogy contains some of Renault's finest writing. Lyrical, wise, compelling: the novels are a wonderful imaginative feat' SARAH WATERS The...

AN ODYSSEY OF ART AND POWER, BY THE CLASSIC QUEEN OF ANCIENT GREEK RETELLINGS, FOR FANS OF THE WOMEN OF TROY, SONG OF ACHILLES AND THE ODYSSEY 'Mary Renault is an exceptional storyteller' CHARLOTTE MENDELSON 'A song of praise, a work of love, a serene, deliberate book, full of wisdom, rich in...

THE ANCIENT GREEK STAGE BROUGHT THRILLINGLY TO LIFE BY THE QUEEN OF HISTORICAL FICTION, PERFECT FOR FANS OF THE WOMEN OF TROY AND THE ODYSSEY 'Mary Renault has made the classical era alive' GORE VIDAL 'Her books have stood the test of time' INDEPENDENT The artist flows into the mask the poet...

'The Charioteer remains compelling both as a snapshot of a particular - and particularly fascinating - cultural moment, and as a deeply romantic story of love fulfilled against the odds. It has all those qualities that make Mary Renault so memorable as a novelist: craft, subtlety, intelligence...

Kit Anderson is married to Janet, a beautiful but narcissistic woman who seems more shallow to him as time goes by. Their relationship has become strained and cold. Immersing himself in his work as a doctor, Anderson takes consolation in his career. Then, one night he is called out to a dying...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Paul Bäumer is nineteen when his schoolmaster talks his whole class into enlisting. Within weeks the boys learn what their teachers never told them: that a generation can be destroyed by the war even when it escapes the shells. At the front Paul and...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Embark on an extraordinary satirical journey beneath the Earth's crust with Niels Klim’s Underground Travel. When young Norwegian graduate Niels Klim falls through a mysterious mountain cavern, he expects to find a dark abyss—instead, he discovers...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 1970 LOST BOOKER PRIZE, INTRODUCED BY TOM HOLLAND THE ANCIENT GREEK STAGE BROUGHT THRILLINGLY TO LIFE BY THE QUEEN OF HISTORICAL FICTION, PERFECT FOR FANS OF THE WOMEN OF TROY AND THE ODYSSEY 'The Alexander Trilogy contains some of Renault's finest writing. Lyrical, wise...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Baron Trump is a small, restless, wildly self-confident boy of noble Russian birth who lives at Castle Trump and cannot be kept indoors. Armed with an ancient manuscript from the family library and accompanied by his devoted dog Bulger, he sets off for...