John Grant, schrijvend als Jonathan Gash, is een Engelse misdaadschrijver die gevierd wordt om zijn boeiende verhalen, met name de Lovejoy-serie. Voortbouwend op zijn achtergrond als arts en zijn ervaringen in pathologie en militaire geneeskunde, doordrenkt Grant zijn werk met een unieke authenticiteit en diepgang. Zijn verhalen, vaak gesitueerd in het sfeervolle landschap van Essex, worden gekenmerkt door ingewikkelde plots en levendig getekende personages. Hij onderscheidt zich als een unieke stem in het misdaadgenre, en biedt lezers zowel intellectuele stimulans als meeslepende verhalen.
With business slow in the antiques trade, Lovejoy makes ends meet by driving for Gazza's Tryste Service. But her gets no peace from bejewelled rich types demanding advice on antiques. Fleeing to France he's let loose in the biggest spending spree ever. A kaleiedoscope of antiques pass before his eyes, as he wowrries about drug crazed minders, his militaristic boss and a female smuggler who he's accidentally slept with. Where will it end? In a repository in Zurich, where Lovejoy learns the price to be paid for playing with the big boys.
Once a place sacred to the Iroquois, Niagara Falls has been exploited by profiteers, protected by preservationists, harnessed for mechanical power, and reincarnated into the honeymoon capital of the world. Niagara Falls: An Intimate Portrait, the companion to the PBS television program, celebrates the history of the falls and examines human progress - and human folly - on a grand scale. Fifteen million people are lured to Niagara each year by the sheer power and majesty of the water. You'll meet some of them: Maid of the Mist captains, wedding chapel ministers, honeymooners of all nationalities, light-show engineers, and thrill seeking daredevils. You'll also learn about the early explorers; the warriors who fought bloody battles for control of the falls; the first bridge builders and hydroelectric engineers; and the movie stars and tightrope walkers who attracted an awestruck public.Through color photographs and archival images, interviews with people who work at the falls, and a detailed chronology of events, this book weaves together the contemporary and the historical to create an unforgettable, intimate portrait of Niagara Falls - a place entirely beyond the ordinary.
It could only happen to Lovejoy. One minute a beautiful young girl is asking him how to steal a cheap necklace; the next he's jetting of to the Channel Isles, organizing The Gamble of the Century - and avenging a murder.
Lovejoy returns to East Anglia towork as an antique consultant for a movie about a museum robbery. But soon, Lovejoy becomes the center of a vicious web of theft, murder and disappearances and must use all his wits tocome out live.
This dark psychological fantasy is more than a moral tale. It is also a product of its time, drawing on contemporary theories of class, evolution and criminality and the secret lives behind Victorian propriety, to create a unique form of urban Gothic.
Persona non grata in England and Hong Kong, antiques expert Lovejoy escapes to America, where he must rely on the help of a destitute hooker and a streetwise eight year old to stay one step ahead of the law. Reprint.
A retelling of the classic story of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Designed for children from around the age of nine, it is part of the Usborne Classics range, which covers a variety of authors and periods, and seeks to introduce the younger reader to the great works and authors of literature.
A juste titre une des œuvres les plus célèbres de Kipling, L'homme qui voulait être roi est aussi un des plus purs archétypes du récit d'aventures. L'attrait de l'inconnu, représenté par les villages perdus de l'Afghanistan, le rêve démesuré d'y fonder un royaume, la fascination d'un monde de sauvagerie, la folie, enfin, d'un rêve colonial poussé jusqu'à la caricature, aquièrent ici une force mythique. De même que celle-ci, les autres nouvelles de ce recueil furent écrites par le jeune Kipling au cours de son séjour à Lahore, entre 1882 et 1889. Evocation ironique de la communauté anglaise en Inde (Le Germicide, Fausse Aurore), fascination pour la morbidité orientale symbolisée par l'opium (La porte des cent douleurs), attrait du surnaturel et du fantastique (Le Pousse-pousse fantôme) : le talent de conteur de Kipling se révèle dans ces premiers écrits d'un auteur que le prix Nobel de littérature devait couronner à quarante-deux ans.
Zrcadlový text vám přináší příběh jak v českém tak anglickém jazyce – na levé straně knihy je původní text, na pravé jeho překlad do češtiny. Ideální čtení nejen na dovolenou, u kterého se pobavíte, ale navíc se procvičíte v angličtině! Klasický příběh je převyprávěn pro dnešní čtenáře, s využitím běžné angličtiny. Text je navíc doplněn užitečnými poznámkami pod čarou, které čtenáře upozorní na důležitá anglická slovní spojení. Doporučujeme všem mírně pokročilým k procvičení pochopení anglického textu.
Trying to find the truth behind a businessman's suspicious death, Dr. Clare Burtonall enlists the help of a gigolo, a witness to the crime, and uncovers a conspiracy in a mystery by the author of the popular Lovejoy series. 30,000 first printing."
Der Antiquitätenkenner, Frauenverführer und Schlawiner Lovejoy wird von einem Millionärs-Sammler engagiert, um jeden Kunstschatz in Venedig zu "retten", bevor die sagenumwobene Stadt im Meer versinkt. Seine gewinnende Art, flexiblen Ethik und einfallsreiche Tricks werden auf eine harte Probe gestellt von den mörderischen Männern und gefährlichen Frauen, die seinen Weg kreuzen.
A Sommerlundu infuria la guerra e armate del Signore delle Tenebre Zagarny si avvicinano alla capitale Holmgard. Nell'ora più buia, l'unica cosa che può salvare Sommerlund dalla rovina è la forza del Sommerswerd, la Spada del Sole.
Il Lupo Solitario, ultimo cavaliere dell'ordine Kai, viene inviato dal re Ulnar per recuperare questa arma magica da Durenor. Riuscirà a portare a termine la sua missione e salvare la sua patria, mentre è perseguitato a ogni passo dagli spioni delle Tenebre?
Der Antiquitätenliebhaber, Frauenverführer und Schalk Lovejoy wird von einem Millionärs-Sammler beauftragt, jeden Kunstschatz in Venedig zu "retten", bevor die sagenumwobene Stadt im Meer versinkt. Seine charmanten Methoden, flexiblen Moralvorstellungen und einfallsreiche Tricks werden auf eine harte Probe gestellt von den mörderischen Männern und gefährlichen Frauen, die seinen Weg kreuzen.
Osamělý Vlk přichází do Barrakeeshe, aby svému národu vyjednal mír. Ocitá se však ve městě souženém neklidem a pletichami. Osobní poslání do Barrakeeshe přivádí i Qinefer, která se chce zbavit zlého cizího vědomí, jež jí tráví mysl. Ona i Osamělý Vlk se nacházejí ve velkém nebezpečí...
In the world of antiques the Holy Grail is a holy terror - for almost every month someone claims to possess the original. So when an inebriated ex-clergyman confided to Lovejoy that he did indeed possess the cup, the resourceful antiques dealer knew just what to make of such a statement.The trouble was that someone else thought this version of the Grail was worth stealing - and now the owner was dead amid considerable carnage.
