Sergio Claudio Perroni Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

In una notte d’inverno del 1809 un uomo ferito nell’animo e nel corpo torna a casa sua, nel Somerset. È il capitano John Lacroix, sopravvissuto alla disastrosa campagna britannica contro le forze di Napoleone in Spagna. Accudito dalla governante Nell, Lacroix recupera la salute ma non la pace: un ricordo lo tormenta, troppo duro da affrontare. Quando arriva l’ordine di tornare al reggimento, John decide di fuggire verso le isole Ebridi con un bagaglio essenziale e il suo violino: spera che il viaggio verso un desiderato nulla riesca a tacitare i suoi sensi di colpa per quanto è successo durante la ritirata in un villaggio spagnolo. Approdato in una comunità di liberi pensatori, si innamora di Emily, afflitta da una malattia agli occhi: e per lei è pronto a mettere a repentaglio la propria vita. Intanto il tenente Medina e il caporale Calley, incaricati di far sommaria giustizia e chiudere i conti di guerra, sono sulle sue tracce. Una prosa luminosa e potente, tra romanzo storico e thriller, per la storia travagliata di un uomo in cerca di redenzione. “Trascinante.” Financial Times “Questa è finzione – narrazione – al suo meglio.” The Spectator “Eccellente. Un romanzo di atmosfere mutevoli: una commedia pastorale, un’appassionata storia romantica, un thriller nero e minaccioso.” The Observer

Clod Iremonger is surrounded by peculiar objects that speak to him, including a brass door handle and a unique bath plug, reflecting his family's unusual connection to discarded items. The Iremonger family prefers these objects to remain silent, but their secrets begin to unravel with the arrival of Lucy Pennant. As the objects stir and chaos ensues, Clod is faced with profound questions about identity and belonging, challenging his understanding of family and his place within it.

Sixteen-year-old Katya Spivak is out for a walk on the gracious streets of Bayhead Harbor with her two summer babysitting charges when she's approached by silver-haired, elegant Marcus Kidder. At first his interest in her seems harmless, even pleasant; like his name, a sort of gentle joke. His beautiful home, the children's books he's written, his classical music, the marvelous art in his study, his lavish presents to her -- Mr. Kidder's life couldn't be more different from Katya's drab working-class existence back home in South Jersey, or more enticing. But by degrees, almost imperceptibly, something changes, and posing for Mr. Kidder's new painting isn't the lighthearted endeavor it once was. What does he really want from her? And how far will he go to get it? In the tradition of Oates's classic story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" "A Fair Maiden "is an unsettling, ambiguous tale of desire and control.

Een wereldvreemde ambtenaar ontdekt in de warmbloedige relatie met zijn vriendin de mogelijkheden om in Thailand seksualiteit en commercie te verenigen.

A visionary, a craftsman, a comedian and as serious as it is possible to be without accidentally writing a religious text. He can do anything with a piece of prose, and it is a humbling experience to see him go to work on what has passed up till now as "modern fiction". He's so modern he's in a different time-space continuum from the rest of us. Goddamn him' Zadie Smith The mysterious disappearance of her great- grandmother and twenty-five other elderly inmates from a Shaker Heights nursing home has left Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman emotionally stranded on the edge of the Great Ohio Desert. But that is simply one problem of many for the hapless switchboard operator, seriously compounded by her ongoing affair with boss Rick Vigorous; the TV stardom of her talking cockatiel, Vlad the Impaler; and other minor catastrophes that threaten to elevate Lenore's search for love and self-detemination to new heights of spasmodic weirdness.

Wat zou je doen als je nog maar een paar maanden te leven had? Voor Tessa van zestien is die vraag werkelijkheid. Ze heeft leukemie en nog maar kort te leven. Die tijd wil ze goed besteden. En dus maakt ze een lijst van tien dingen die ze absoluut nog wil doen. Seks. Autorijden. Beroemd worden. En verliefd. Hartverscheurend en grappig: Voor ik doodga is een buitengewone roman, een lofzang op het leven in de vorm van een verhaal over sterven.

This delightful allegory by self-made millionaire Mark Fisher imparts the principles of wealth as Fisher learned them. A dissatisfied young man meets an old millionaire who reveals to him the secrets of acquiring not just material abundance, but also true wealth.

C'est une route aux mille parfums, aux mille périls aussi : celle qui, partant de Londres pour atteindre les Indes, se perd irrémédiablement dans l'Empire de la Chine. Un périple que l'on nomme la route du thé. Pour la première fois, en 1838, un homme va s'y aventurer, décidé à percer le secret des thés verts, bleus et blancs, inconnus en Angleterre. Au fil de son voyage, il va rencontrer Pearle, un riche négociant irlandais, Wang, le gardien de la vallée sacrée, Lu Chen, l'invisible empereur du thé, et Loan, une Chinoise aux yeux verts qui porte, tatouée sur son épaule, une fleur de pavot. Au terme de sa quête, l'opium. Un amour que l'on ne choisit pas.

Los Angeles. In no other city do sex, celebrity, money, and crime exert such an irresistible magnetic field. And no writer has mapped that field with greater savagery and savvy than James Ellroy. With this fever-hot collection of reportage and short fiction, he returns to his native habitat and portrays it as a smog-shrouded netherworld where"every third person is a peeper, prowler, pederast, or pimp." From the scandal sheets of the 1950s to this morning's police blotter, Ellroy reopens true crimes and restores human dimensions to their victims. Sublimely, he resurrects the rag Hush-Hush magazine. And in a baroquely plotted novella of slaughter and corruption he enlists the forgotten luminaries of a lost Hollywood. Shocking, mesmerizing, and written in prose as wounding as an ice pick, Crime Wave is Ellroy at his best.

Baladicky laděný příběh odehrávající se v poslední čtvrtině 19. století vypráví o posedlosti provensálského mladíka, který svůj život zasvětil včelám. Hlavní hrdina příběhu žije se svým dědečkem v provensálské vesnici a sní o tom, jak se v životě uplatní a jednoho dne se rozhodne stát včelařem. Miluje včely a obdivuje jejich život, proto se mu daří a tvrdou prací se pomalu blíží svému cíli. Požár však po čase včelstva zničí a on na chvíli podlehne zoufalství. Sen o krásné ženě s medovou pletí ho ale nakonec vyžene do Afriky, kde po vysilující pouti nalézá legendární Včelí skálu a u ní i tajemnou ženu ze sna. Po dobrodružném návratu domů chce společně s přítelem vybudovat ohromující včelí město Apipolis a po počátečním úspěchu se i tento jeho plán zhroutí.

En boheme-beværtning i det ellers så regelrette Zürich danner rammen om en cocktail af erotiske forviklinger og pardannelser