The Three Dahlias
The Three Dahlias

Author: Katy Watson

Publisher: Constable

Published: 2022-07-21

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 1408716429

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

'An absolute treat of a read with all the ingredients of a vintage murder mystery: a country house, mysterious dead bodies and three actresses all keen to catch the killer. Perfect weekend reading!' Janice Hallett, author of The Appeal 'Celebrates and gently satirises Golden Age crime novels in a hugely entertaining country house mystery' The Times ---------- Three rival actresses team up to solve a murder at the stately home of the author who made them famous - only to discover the solution lies in the stories themselves. A contemporary mystery with a Golden Age feel, perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and Jessica Fellowes. In attendance: the VIP fans, staying at Aldermere; the fan club president turned convention organiser; the team behind the newest movie adaptation of Davenport's books; the Davenport family themselves - and the three actresses famous for portraying Lettice's 1930s detective, Dahlia Lively. National treasure Rosalind King, from the original movies. TV Dahlia for thirteen seasons, Caro Hooper. And ex-child star Posy Starling, fresh out of the fame wilderness (and rehab) to take on the Dahlia mantle for the new movie. Each actress has her own interpretation of the character - but this English summer weekend they will have to put aside their differences, as the crimes at Aldermere turns anything but cosy. When fictional death turns into real bodies, can the three Dahlias find the answers to the murders among the fans, the film crew, the family - or even in Lettice's books themselves? ---------- PRAISE FOR THE THREE DAHLIAS 'Dame Agatha would approve' Daily Mail 'The perfect holiday read' Woman and Home 'A wonderful celebration of Golden Age crime. . . a read you can sink into, just like the perfect country house weekend. You will definitely love Dahlia in all her guises by the end' S.J. Bennett, author of The Windsor Knot 'A sprightly offering. . . a pleasant summer read' The Critic 'A fun, 1930s style murder-mystery, which makes for perfect holiday reading' Woman's Weekly 'A cosy whodunnit told with modern flair' Yours

The Fox Was Ever the Hunter
The Fox Was Ever the Hunter

Author: Herta Müller

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2016-05-10

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 0805093028

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

From the winner of the Nobel Prize hailed as the laureate of life under totalitarianism, a haunting early novel of surveillance and paranoia Romania—the last months of the Ceausescu regime. Adina is a young schoolteacher. Paul is a musician. Clara works in a wire factory. Pavel is Clara’s lover. But one of them works for the secret police and is reporting on the rest of the group. One day Adina returns home to discover that her fox fur rug has had its tail cut off. On another occasion it’s the hindleg. Then a foreleg. The mutilated fur is a sign that she is being tracked by the secret police—the fox was ever the hunter. Images of photographic precision combine into a kaleidoscope of terror as Adina and her friends struggle to keep mind and body intact in a world pervaded by complicity and permeated with fear, where it’s hard to tell victim from perpetrator. And once again, Herta Müller uses language that displays the “concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose”—as the Swedish Academy noted upon awarding her the Nobel Prize—to create a hauntingly cinematic portrayal of the corruption of the soul under totalitarianism.

Distance from Loved Ones
Distance from Loved Ones

Author: James Tate

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 1990-11-19

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9780819511911

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Clear and insightful poetry on our relationship to the given world.

Granta 134
Granta 134

Author: Sigrid Rausing

Publisher: Granta

Published: 2016-02-18

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1905881940

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Who collects the bodies of the soldiers who die in the endless conflict in Afghanistan? What do children make of war, or the mental illness of their siblings? Did you ever consider the meaning of divorce in Chile, or informants in Ceausescu's Romania? Our fiction in this issue, by Azam Ahmed, George Makana Clark, Herta Mller, Eric Puchner, David Rakoff and Alejandro Zambra, chronicles conflict of many different kinds. Rachel Cusk reflects on being sent to Coventry; Peter Pomerantsev examines the nature of propaganda in the Donbas; Peregrine Hodson describes the experience of post-traumatic stress disorder; A.M. Homesremembers her friend David Rakoff; and Philip Ceallaigh tells the story of the destruction of old Bucharest. Poetry by Don Mee Choi, Eliza Griswold, Jaan Kaplinski and Solmaz Sharif. Photography from the Syrian frontline by Lorenzo Meloni, with an introduction by Claire Messud; and found objects in Gaza by Eduardo Soteras Jalil.

The Curse of the Fates
The Curse of the Fates

Author: Sydney Olson

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2014-05-05

Total Pages: 29

ISBN-13: 1499005679

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

How could this be? Whats going on? Lottie couldnt believe what she was seeing. She saw her beautiful tresses lying on her pillow. She felt her velvety smooth scalp beneath her fingers. Why would the Fates do such a thing? What kind of curse is this? What did she do wrong to deserve this curse?