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Old Filth
'It's a cliche to compare novelists to Jane Austen, but in the case of Jane Gardam it happens to be true. Her diamond-like prose, her understanding of the human heart, her formal inventiveness and her sense of what it is to be alive - young, old, lonely, in love - never fades' Amanda Craig'I love Jane Gardam, especially Old Filth' Nina Stibbe'Her work, like Sylvia Townsend Warner's, has that appealing combination of elegance, erudition and flinty wit' Patrick Gale'One of the finest writers around. Old Filth has stayed with me for years...Can't think of anyone who achieves so much with so few words' Sathnam SangheraSir Edward Feathers has had a brilliant career, from his early days as a lawyer in Southeast Asia, where he earned the nickname Old Filth (Failed In London, Try Hong Kong) to his final working days as a respected judge at the bar. Yet through it all he has carried with him the wounds of a difficult and emotionally hollow childhood. Now an eighty-year-old widower living in comfortable seclusion in Dorset, Feathers is finally free from the demands of his work and the sentimental scaffolding that has sustained him throughout his life. He slips back into the past with ever mounting frequency and intensity, and on the tide of these vivid, lyrical musings, Feathers approaches a reckoning with his own history. Not all the old filth, it seems, can be cleaned away.Jane Gardam has written a literary masterpiece that retraces much of the twentieth century's torrid and momentous history. Feathers' childhood in Malaya during the British Empire's heyday, his schooling in pre-war England, his professional success in Southeast Asia and his return to England toward the end of the millennium, are vantage points from which the reader can observe the march forward of an eventful era and the steady progress of that man, Sir Edward Feathers, Old Filth himself, who embodies the century's fate.- Shop: buecher
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Illusions of Death (eBook, ePUB)
A popular crime fiction novelist ready for the next chapter in her life. A lonely lawman who leaves the violence of the big city for a small town. A crafty serial killer who continues to toy with law enforcement and elude capture . . . Best-selling author Karlyn Campbell is ready for a new start after her recent divorce from a temperamental artist. When she receives word that her father had a stroke, she heads for Walton Springs with mixed feelings. Broderick Campbell wrote Pulitzer Prize-winning literary novels and denounced his daughter's work as pedestrian and commercial, causing a rift that finally heals on his deathbed. Karlyn chooses to stay in the small Georgia town to write her popular Matt Collins series and decides to try her hand at true crime when Atlanta's Rainbow Killer, Roy G. Biv, captures her interest. Detective Logan Warner's marriage didn't survive after he lost his twins to a crazed killer who was never caught. He returns to his hometown's police force and runs for police chief, happy he's escaped big city crime and corruption. Emotionally dead, his interest in life is renewed when he falls in love with Karlyn and begins to build a new life with her. But the Rainbow Killer moves beyond Atlanta, leaving a trail of dead bodies painted in bright hues in several towns north of the city. Leaving no trace evidence or DNA and choosing random victims with no apparent rhyme or reason, Roy proves unstoppable. Then he arrives in Walton Springs, threatening the peaceful town with his murder spree. With a serial killer in their back yard, Logan and Karlyn unite with the FBI to find the killer-before he finds them. *This is a revised addition of Illusions of Death, which was originally released under the pen name Lauren Linwood. Popular crime fiction writer Karlyn Campbell teams with Police Chief Logan Warner to track down the escalating Rainbow Killer and end his murder spree.- Shop: buecher
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Never Leave Your Wingman
Never Leave Your Wingman - Dionne and Graham Warner's Story of Hope: ab 20.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Culture Gender and Transformation in Alan Warner's Morvern Callar and Victor Pelevin's The Hall of the Singing Caryatids
Culture Gender and Transformation in Alan Warner's Morvern Callar and Victor Pelevin's The Hall of the Singing Caryatids - A Comparative Approach: ab 34.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Echoes of History Shadowed Identities
Echoes of History Shadowed Identities - Rewriting Alterity in J. M. Coetzee's "e;Foe"e; and Marina Warner's "e;Indigo"e;: ab 92.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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