CALCUTTA 1971. A city in black-out as India declares war on Parkistan.Even so, the backpackers who end up in the flea-pit Lux Hotel are determined to have a good time. That is, until two mysterious deaths amongst them change their lives for ever. Thrown together in the city are – Anand, the jazz-loving insomniac hotelier; […]
Following the instant #1 New York Times bestseller Stone Cold, Oliver Stone and the Camel Club return in David Baldaccis most astonishing thriller yet. DIVINE JUSTICE Known by his alias, “Oliver Stone,” John Carr is the most wanted man in America. With two pulls of the trigger, the men who destroyed Stones life and kept […]
A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet – then spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the violence by hand printing the best prayer flags in India. A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best friend ritually starve herself to death. […]
In der wilden Bergwelt des Hindukusch wird einem Kommandanten eine Tochter geboren. Um sein Gesicht nicht zu verlieren, beschlie??t er, das Kind als Junge zu erziehen ?? und so wird aus Samira mit der Zeit Samir. Die L?¬ge verschafft dem M??dchen Freiheiten, die sonst nur einem Mann zustehen. Doch als junge Frau ist Samira schlie??lich […]
Lose your heart to the novel that defined a generation then…and now. He is Oliver Barrett IV, a rich jock from a stuffy WASP family on his way to a Harvard degree and a career in law. She is Jenny Cavilleri, a wisecracking, working-class beauty studying music at Radcliffe. Opposites in nearly every way, Oliver […]
It??s been twenty years since Western State Hospital was closed down and the last of its inmates reintegrated into society. Francis Petrel was barely out of his teens when his family committed him to the asylum, after his erratic behavior culminated in a terrifying outburst. Now middle-aged, he leads an aimless, solitary life housed in […]
Autumn 1943. Global espionage elite converge on Buenos Aires. Intense, high-level covert negotiations will soon bear dangerous fruit with the aid of expatriate German industrialist Erich Rhinemann. American agent David Spaulding will be there. His top-secret mission can bring the war to an explosive end. But what happens here in this city of assassins, double […]
Wedding Night, published in 2013, revolves around two sisters. Lottie, the younger one, is romantic and impulsive, whereas her older sister, Fliss, is much more practical. The book starts off with Lottie and her longterm boyfriend, Richard, in a fancy restaurant in London. She is certain that he is about to propose to her. However, […]
The protagonists of Gone Girl are a young couple, Nick and Amy. Nick used to work as a journalist, till he lost his job. Due to the lack of income, the couple shifted their residence from New York to Nick??s hometown of Carthage. He decides to open a bar with the money from Amy??s trust […]