Tom Winter is een Britse schrijver wiens werken worden gekenmerkt door humor, een eigenzinnige gevoeligheid en diepe emotionele resonantie. Zijn proza valt op door zijn droge humor en vermogen om de lezer te raken, waarbij thema's als eenzaamheid, verlangen en tweede kansen op geluk worden onderzocht. Winter vangt meesterlijk de complexiteit van menselijke verbindingen en de dilemma's die inherent zijn aan het willen behagen van anderen. Zijn talent om glimlachen, pauzes en ontroerende tranen op te roepen, maakt hem tot een onderscheidend ontroerende auteur.
This time around, Theodore’s off on an adventure of his own! It will be a tough one; he’ll doubt he can do it. But there’s a magical treasure to find for the bookstore. One hidden somewhere in Neverland. Without it, and other magical objects hiding in other stories, the future of The Enchanted Bookstore, and the magical creatures housed within its walls, is a grim one. An unthinkable one. A future Theodore must prevent!
An epic poem is a performance. The telling of Beowulf carries something of the days of its pre-literary composition, as it evolved as something memorised, half spoken and half sung, over many generations. The single manuscript we have from about 1000 AD is the end result of a great chain of poetic adaptation. Of all new versions, Seamus Heaney's (1999) has made the most striking impact, in part for his willingness to experiment, to be a new scop or oral poet, to depart at times from the exact text and join the tradition when there was no such thing. The licence such an approach adopts can make for a riveting poem in itself, a work of wonder. But there is a different route to the flame of the original. J.D. Winter's rendering of the Beowulf song accepts the text as historical fact, and by a gradual revelation of its deeper music, discovers an illumination from within. The clarity and concentration of meaning in the brilliantly alliterated half-lines can never be properly reconstructed, but a suggestion of that force and beauty, together with an underlying sense of the inexorable, may always be rediscovered. In the knock and flow of the lines, too, one can sense the poetry of a sea-faring nation.
Stunning debut by Tom Winter. Meet Albert and Carol, two lost souls, brought together through a series of unforgettable letters.
"In 1955, small-town girls flock to Minneapolis for work, love, and adventure. But Teresa Hickman, from Dollar, North Dakota, is a special case. Beguiling. Promiscuous. And, on a chilly April morning, dead along an abandoned trolley track in a Southside neighborhood. Teresa Hickman was three months pregnant when she was strangled. Was the unborn child's father also her killer? Could the killer have been - among the many men drawn to her like flies to honey - Dr. H. David Rose, a middle-aged dentist who admits he was with her the night she died? There's no forensic evidence or credible witnesses tying him to the murder. Yet the police, including a pair of obsessive investigators with lethal secrets of their own, agree that a Jewish dentist will get them a conviction. Dr. Rose's spectacular trial and its shocking aftermath will mesmerize the Upper Midwest like few crime sagas before or since."--Publisher description
31 Days of Wonder is the poignant and touching story of Alice and Ben, who meet by chance one day in a London park and their lives are changed for ever . . .
Arms Wide Open is a poignant and bitingly funny tale of a family suspended in a cyclone of turmoil.
Minneapolis, 1953--A wild crime spree stuns the Upper Midwest, leaving a trail of blood and betrayal that terrifies a region and shatters the family at its core. Thirty-eight years later, the tattered remnants of the notorious LaVoie crime family--sisters, brothers, and children too young to remember or understand--gather for an edgy reunion in a Minneapolis suburb. Among the guests is Joe LaVoie, sole survivor of the fraternal gang behind the ’50s bloodshed, a convicted cop-killer crippled by a police bullet during the final shootout. Now, an old man facing his own death, Joe is both desperate and terrified to learn the cause of his family’s demise. Was it the abject poverty they were raised in, their abusive, alcoholic father, some kind of inexorable curse . . . or the unthinkable treachery of one of their own? Only by confronting the family's tortured ghosts--and reckoning with the part he played in its violent past--will he ever learn the truth
A touching and uplifting story of one eighty-six-year-old man on a life- changing journey.