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Der James Joyce-Mord
Kate Fansler verschlägt es aus New York City den Sommer über in die ländliche Idylle der Berkshires. Hier in Araby soll sie den Nachlass des amerikanischen Verlegers von James Joyce sichten. Doch dann wird die unsympathische Nachbarin Mary Bradford erschossen aufgefunden, und Kate lässt die Korrespondenz des berühmten irischen Autors liegen, wild entschlossen, den Mörder zu finden.
Irrland
Margrit Sprechers Reportagen zeichnen ein eindringliches Bild unserer heutigen Gesellschaft und halten für die Leserinnen und Leser überraschende An- und Einsichten der unterschiedlichsten Art bereit. Ihre Arbeit führt Margrit Sprecher um die ganze Welt: Sie reist von den Todestrakten Amerikas in das Gefängnis namens Gaza, von einem Luzerner Betagtenheim ins Muo- thatal und danach in die Weiße Arena. Ihre Reportagen erzählen von den mehr als eine halbe Million Kühen, die für Theo Müller gemolken werden, und von der verkauften Zukunft eines Trendforschers. Und wie Irland in nur zwanzig Jahren reich und wieder arm wurde.
Stumme Zeit
Als Sönnich Petersen stirbt, ist niemand im Dorf am Watt traurig, am wenigsten seine Tochter Helma. Er war ein liebevoller Vater, der Krieg hatte ihn hart gemacht. Sein Tod fällt in eine Zeit, in der der aufkommende Tourismus neue Menschen und Gebräuche mit sich bringt. Immer mehr Inselbewohner wollen am Wohlstand teilhaben, auch Helma vermietet bald an Badegäste. Doch da ist noch etwas, was sie beschäftigt: Über ihre früh verstorbene Mutter wurde immer eisern geschwiegen. Auch um die Mutter ihres Kindheitsfreundes Rudi gibt es ein Geheimnis, sie wurde während des Krieges abgeholt und kam nie zurück. Wie konnten die Frauen einfach so verschwinden? Warum fragte niemand nach ihnen? Die Suche nach Klarheit führt Helma und Rudi in die dunkelsten Kapitel der Geschichte ihrer Insel.
T Singer
The new novel in English from one of Norway’s most celebrated writers. T Singer confronts indomitable loneliness in Solstad’s classic, heartbreaking yet darkly comic style. ‘A kind of surrealistic writer... Serious literature’ Haruki Murakami ‘Mad, sad and funny... Thrilling’ Geoff Dyer Singer, a thirty-four-year-old recently trained librarian, arrives by train in the small town of Notodden to begin a new and anonymous life. He falls in love with Merete, a ceramicist, and moves in with her and her young daughter. After a few years together, the relationship starts to falter, and as the couple is on the verge of separating a car accident prompts a dramatic change in Singer’s life... ‘An utterly hypnotic writer’ James Wood ‘Solstad is expert in delineating the absurdities of existence...’ Sunday Times Winner of the Norwegian Critics Prize
The Little Book of Perfumes
In Perfumes, Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez reviewed nearly 1,500 fragrances in their witty, irreverent and innovative handbook - separating the divine from the good from the monumentally awful. Here in The Little Book of Perfumes the authors choose their 100 greatest fragrances of all time. Some are very famous, some hardly known, for women and men. There is Jicky (1889), unisex coeval of the Eiffel Tower and 'a towering masterpiece'; Chanel's No. 5 (1921), perhaps the world's most famous perfume, 'stretching deliciously like a sleepy panther'; Knize Ten which 'everyone should own because there is only one like it' and White Linen (1978), 'a canonical expression of the American ideal of sex appeal'. This is a perfect gift, a perfect browse.
An Instinctive Feeling of Innocence
Now in paperback, a haunting story of trauma, memory, and healing in post-Cold War Romania. Victoria has just recently moved from Zurich back to her hometown of Bucharest when the bank where she works is robbed. Put on leave so that she can process the trauma of the robbery, Victoria strolls around town. Each street triggers sudden visions as memories from her childhood under the Ceausescu regime begin to mix with the radically changed city and the strange world in which she now finds herself. As the walls of reality begin to crumble, Victoria and her former self cross paths with the bank robber and a rich cast of characters, weaving a vivid portrait of Romania and one woman's self-discovery. In her stunning second novel, Swiss-Romanian writer Dana Grigorcea paints a series of extraordinarily colourful pictures. With humor and wit, she describes a world full of myriad surprises where new and old cultures weave together--a world bursting with character and spirit.
Actuators
Authored by a team of acknowledged experts, this book presents a multidisciplinary view of the state of the art in the field of actuators. The goal of the book is to provide a comprehensive overview of the properties, applications, and potential applications of traditional and unconventional actuators, together with their corresponding power electronics. Special attention is paid to the objective assessment of competing actuator principles. The book is written primarily for designers and engineers in research and development, but will also be valuable as a textbook for students of automation engineering, mechatronics and adaptronics.
Lady into Fox
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Lady into Fox" by David Garnett. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Angel
INTRODUCED BY HILARY MANTEL Elizabeth Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: an author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth - Sarah Waters Writing stories that are extravagant and fanciful, fifteen-year old Angel retreats to a world of romance, escaping the drabness of provincial life. She knows she is different, that she is destined to become a feted authoress, owner of great riches and of Paradise House . . . After reading The Lady Irania, publishers Brace and Gilchrist are certain the novel will be a success, in spite of - perhaps because of - its overblown style. But they are curious as to who could have written such a book - an elderly lady, romanticising behind lace curtains? A mustachioed rogue? They were not expecting it to be the pale, serious teenage girl, sitting before them without a hint of irony in her soul. * 'Her stories remain with one, indelibly, as though they had been some turning-point in one's own experience' Elizabeth Bowen 'No writer has described the English middle classes with more gently devastating accuracy' Rebecca Abrams, Spectator
Dangerous Ages
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Dangerous Ages" by Rose Macaulay. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
