Obecná beletrie, Strana 9

Enticed by advertisements for a newly restored palatial hotel and filled with visions of a life of leisure, good weather and mango juice in their gin, a group of very different...

"Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." More than fifty years on, Iris Chase is remembering Laura's mysterious death. And so begins an...

In the idyllic small town of Pagford, a councillor dies and leaves a 'casual vacancy' - an empty seat on the Parish Council. In the election for his successor that follows, it...

In the Idyllic small town of Pagford, a councillor dies and leaves a 'casual vacancy - an empty seat on the Parish Council. In the election for his successor that follows, it is...

On the tiny Breton island of Le Devin, life has remained almost unchanged for over a hundred years. For generations, two rival communities, the wealthy La HoussiniŠre and the...

When Bernard Walsh moved his family to Liverpool, he did not expect his past to pursue him. But then Theresa Nolan, bent on revenge, arrived in the city. While she wrought...

Lies: we all tell them. To protect those we love, to disguise failure, to hide disappointment. To mask betrayal, or deceit. But what happens when they start to catch up with us?...

On a crystalline Montana morning, two backcountry skiers find the body of a young women embedded in the ice of a remote mountain creek. All through the night police work with...

In the genteel environs of Corduroy Mansions, Pimlico, strange doings are afoot, mostly in the name of love. Lonely William French and his faithful canine Freddie are recruited...

It has been said of Ernest Hemingway that half the writers of the twentieth century have tried to imitate him and the other half have tried not to. A towering figure in the...

Mary Miller is an outcast, believed by some to have occult powers, and is the mother of a bastard son, Sandy. Mary finds herself caught up in a faltering affair with a local...

Two years ago - or was it more? - novelist Stephen Cox vanished to the east. There had been postcards, then silence: now Liz has received a strange parcel of jottings, bills,...