Myron hasn’t heard from Terese Collins in years. Not since their affair ended without explanation. He’s had no contact with her since, so her call catches him off guard. She’s in Paris, she says, in trouble and only Myron can help. Terese tells him a sad story she’s never before revealed: a good marriage, [...]
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Long lost av Harlan Coben
Publicerat i CD, Deckare, Engelska den augusti 25, 2009 | Lämna en kommentar »
Belong to me av Marisa de los Santos
Publicerat i CD, Engelska den maj 13, 2009 | Lämna en kommentar »
Cornelia finds herself a shunned outsider among the community’s perfect blond matrons. Particularly unwelcoming is her tightly wound neighbour Piper, who is as sharp-tongued as she is judgmental about fashion, flowers and childrearing. Cornelia does begin a fledgling friendship with another newcomer, Lake, a waitress who has moved from California to enroll her [...]
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Publicerat i CD, Engelska, Romaner den januari 23, 2009 | Lämna en kommentar »
From the moment of its publication in 1961, ”Revolutionary Road” was hailed as a masterpiece of realistic fiction and as the most evocative portrayal of the opulent desolation of the American suburbs. It’s the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and talented couple who have lived on the assumption [...]
When we were orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
Publicerat i CD, Engelska, Romaner den december 29, 2008 | Lämna en kommentar »
Born in early-twentieth-century Shanghai, Banks was orphaned at the age of nine after the separate disappearances of his parents. Now, more than twenty years later, he is a celebrated figure in London society; yet the investigative expertise that has garnered him fame has done little to illuminate the circumstances of his parents” alleged [...]
The heart is a lonely hunter by Carson McCullers
Publicerat i CD, Engelska, Romaner den december 12, 2008 | Lämna en kommentar »
Carson McCullers was all of twenty-three when she published her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. She became an overnight literary sensation, and soon such authors as Tennessee Williams were calling her ”the greatest prose writer that the South [has] produced.” Available now for the first time on audio from [...]
Brideshead revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Publicerat i CD, Engelska, Romaner den december 12, 2008 | Lämna en kommentar »
Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and exquisitely beautiful Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead, Sebastian’s magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its eccentric, aristocratic inhabitants. But he also discovers a world where duty and desire, faith and happiness are in conflict.
Lord of the flies by William Golding
Publicerat i CD, Engelska, Romaner den december 5, 2008 | Lämna en kommentar »
The classic tale of a group of English school boys who are left stranded on an unpopulated island, and who must confront not only the defects of their society but the defects of their own natures.
Special topics in calamity physics by Marisha Pessl
Publicerat i CD, Engelska, Romaner den december 5, 2008 | Lämna en kommentar »
”It had been almost a year since I’d found Hannah dead, and I thought I’d managed to erase all traces of that night within myself. I was wrong.” ”Special Topics in Calamity Physics” is a mesmerizing debut. As teenager Blue van Meer tells her story we are hurled into a dizzying world [...]
The right attitude to rain by Alexander McCall Smith
Publicerat i CD, Engelska, Romaner den december 5, 2008 | Lämna en kommentar »
The key to contentment in the Scottish climate is the right attitude to rain – just as in life the key to happiness lies in making the best of what you have. Bruised in love by her faithless Irish husband, Isabel Dalhousie is a connoisseur of intimate moral issues: she edits a [...]
To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee
Publicerat i CD, Engelska, Romaner den december 5, 2008 | Lämna en kommentar »
Lawyer Atticus Finch defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee’s classic, Puliter Prize-winning novel¿a black man charged with the rape of a white woman. Through the eyes of Atticus’s children, Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unanswering honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in [...]
