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Jean Rosenthal

    SS-GB
    My Ear at His Heart
    Anything Considered
    Hotel Pastis: A Novel of Provence
    Een gevaarlijk fortuin
    The Magic of Light
    • The Magic of Light

      The Craft and Career of Jean Rosenthal, Pioneer in Lighting for the Modern Stage

      • 270bladzijden
      • 10 uur lezen

      Focusing on the innovative realm of lighting design in modern theater, the book features insights from Jean Rosenthal, a pioneering designer. It includes detailed light plots, cue sheets, and designs specifically from notable Broadway productions like Hello, Dolly and Plaza Suite, showcasing her expertise and contribution to the art of stage lighting.

      The Magic of Light
    • Een gevaarlijk fortuin

      • 463bladzijden
      • 17 uur lezen

      Ondanks tegenslagen en duidelijke tegenwerking slaagt een jonge telg uit een Londense bankiersfamilie er ruim een eeuw geleden in door te dringen tot de top van het bedrijf.

      Een gevaarlijk fortuin
      4,1
    • Tired and fed up, tycoon Simon Shaw seeks refuge in Provence, where he encounters a pretty Frenchwoman who lures him into purchasing a little hotel that proves far more troublesome than quaint. Reprint. 150,000 first printing.

      Hotel Pastis: A Novel of Provence
      3,8
    • Anything Considered

      • 256bladzijden
      • 9 uur lezen

      It's no secret that Peter Mayle (author of A Year in Provence ) loves Provence, so it's no surprise that Mayle's new novel is set that area: it takes place in Saint Martin and in Monaco. Bennett is an Englishman scraping together his last few francs, desperate to stay in France. He places an ad promising "anything considered," a wealthy truffle entrepreneur hires him for slightly illicit work, and the plot is off--a combination of a thriller, romance, and page turner. And through it all emanates the whiff of lavender, the curve of country hills, the bubble of champagne, and the sounds and tastes of Provence.

      Anything Considered
      3,7
    • My Ear at His Heart

      Reading My Father

      • 198bladzijden
      • 7 uur lezen

      A remarkable insight into the birth of a writer, and the moving discovery of family secrets. When Hanif Kureishi discovers an abandoned manuscript of his father's his understanding of the family history is transformed. So begins a journey which takes Kureishi through his father's privileged childhood by the sea in Bombay, to the trauma of partition and to his adult life hidden away in the suburbs of Bromley - his days spent as a minor functionary in the Pakistan embassy in London, his nights writing prose, hopeful of one day receiving literary recognition. This is a book about his father's failed career as a writer and the beginnings of Kureishi's successful career as one - as his father looks on with pride and perhaps envy.

      My Ear at His Heart
      3,6
    • SS-GB

      • 400bladzijden
      • 14 uur lezen

      In February 1941 British Command surrendered to the Nazis. Churchill has been executed, the King is in the Tower and the SS are in Whitehallâe¦ For nine months Britain has been occupied - a blitzed, depressed and dingy country. However, itâe(tm)s âe~business as usualâe(tm) at Scotland Yard run by the SS when Detective Inspector Archer is assigned to a routine murder case. Life must go on. But when SS Standartenfuhrer Huth arrives from Berlin with orders from the great Himmler himself to supervise the investigation, the resourceful Archer finds himself caught up in a high level, all action, espionage battle. This is a spy story quite different from any other. Only Deighton, with his flair for historical research and his narrative genius, could have written it.

      SS-GB
      3,5
    • The Naive and Sentimental Lover

      • 430bladzijden
      • 16 uur lezen

      Le Carré's hero is Aldo Cassidy, "the nav̐e and sentimental lover," a tycoon caught frantically between two astonishing loves. Trapped with him are Shamus, a wild artist who carouses by day or night, and Helen, the artist's nakedly alluring wife. Who will wind up with whom is only one of the mysteries in a world founded upon spontaneity and feeling

      The Naive and Sentimental Lover
      3,1