Graham Greene - Böcker

» Slutet på historien och Den stillsamme amerikanen är mörka, förtvivlade romaner. Det märkliga är hur roligt det är att bege sig in i det där mörkret.« | JENS CHRISTIAN BRANDT, DN Maurice Bendrix och Sarah Miles har haft en hemlig relation i fyra...

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»Graham Greenes stora mästerverk.« | John Updike, The New York Review of Books Mexiko, 1930-tal. Efter revolutionen råder starka antiklerikala stämningar och i delstater som Tabasco är religionen i princip förbjuden. Kyrkorna är stängda eller nedb...

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En av tidernas mest klassiska spionromaner » Slutet på historien och Den stillsamme amerikanen är mörka, förtvivlade romaner. Det märkliga är hur roligt det är att bege sig in i det där mörkret.« | JENS CHRISTIAN BRANDT, DN »En av världens största...

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Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman, was short of money. His daughter had reached an expensive age - so he accepted Hawthorne's offer of $300-plus a month and became Agent 59200/5, MI6's man in Havana. To keep the job, he pretends to recruit sub-ag...

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Life in pre-revolutionary Cuba is not easy and James Wormold, a failing vacuum cleaner salesman, is struggling to fund the increasingly lavish lifestyle of his manipulative sixteen year-old daughter, Milly. So when an enigmatic Englishman offers h...

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOOD. Scobie, a police officer serving in a wartime West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he b...

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A classic espionage thriller from master storyteller Graham Greene 'One of the most important British writers of the twentieth century - he brought something undeniably new to fiction' Daily Telegraph Carleton Myatt meets Coral Musker, a naive Eng...

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It is 1941 and bombs have turned London into the front line of a world war. In the shadows of the Blitz, Hitler's agents are running a blackmail operation to obtain documents that could bring the nation to instant defeat. Arthur Rowe, a man once c...

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MONICA ALI The love affair between Maurice Bendrix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. After a chance meeting rekindles his love a...

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Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent,...

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It is impossible to imagine London without the Tube: the beating heart of the city, the Underground shuttles over a billion passengers each year below its busy streets and across its leafy suburbs. The distinctive roundel, colour-coded maps and Jo...

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUX Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt 'Papa Doc' and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocent American and Jones the confide...

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Rollo Martins, a failing novelist, is invited to Vienna by his best friend, Harry Lime. The city he arrives in is unrecognizable - torn apart by the Second World War and shared between the occupying Allies. What's more, Harry is dead, and the circ...

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MONICA ALIThe love affair between Maurice Bendrix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. After a chance meeting rekindles his love an...

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»Graham Greene är den främste skildraren av 1900-talsmänniskans medvetande och farhågor.« | WILLIAM GOLDING »En av världens största författare, oavsett språk.« | WASHINGTON POST »En fullständigt absurd historia. Väldigt rolig.« | C-G KARLSSON, GO'...

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Greene takes us on a wild, unconventional and enlightening voyage with an ordinary, retired bank manager and his eccentric, daring aunt. Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty ...

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Set in a world that has lost the comfort of national identity and individualism, this is a powerful and unusual love story told by one of the 20th century's greatest writers. Anthony Farrant is back home after lying and cheating his way through on...

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»Graham Greene är den främste skildraren av 1900-talsmänniskans medvetande och farhågor.« | William Golding »En av världens största författare, oavsett språk.« | Washington Post Den brittiska underrättelsetjänsten MI6:s man i Havanna är en före de...

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»Graham Greenes stora mästerverk.« John Updike, The New York Review of Books Mexiko, 1930-tal. Efter revolutionen råder starka antiklerikala stämningar och i delstater som Tabasco är religionen i princip förbjuden. Kyrkorna är stängda eller nedbrä...

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A young boy, Victor, is collected from school by a stranger in a bowler hat - the stranger says he has won Victor in a game of backgammon with Victor's father. The stranger, known as the Captain, takes Victor to live with the sweet but withdrawn L...

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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY IAN RANKIN 'In a class by himself...the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety' William Golding In a small continental country civil war is raging. Once a lecturer in medieval French, no...

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'Manages to say more about love, hate, happiness, grief, immortality, greed and the disgustingly rich than most contemporary English novels three times the length' The Times Doctor Fischer despises the human race. A millionaire with a taste for sa...

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A classic espionage thriller from master storyteller Graham Greene. 'One of the most important British writers of the twentieth century - he brought something undeniably new to fiction' Daily Telegraph Carleton Myatt meets Coral Musker, a na ve En...

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Gripping, terrifying, an unputdownable read. Discover Graham Greene's most iconic novel. A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retrib...

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One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, in a new edition commemorating its 75th anniversary Seventy-five years ago, Graham Greene published The Power and the Glory, a moralist thriller that traces a line of influence back to Dostoyevs...

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»En av världens största författare, oavsett språk.« | Washington Post »Graham Greene är den främste skildraren av 1900-talsmänniskans medvetande och farhågor.« | William Golding Den 32-årige amerikanen Alden Pyle hittas mördad under en bro i Saigo...

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Graham Greene's classic Cuban spy story, now with a new package and a new introduction First published in 1959, "Our Man in Havana" is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire that still resonates toda...

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'Graham Greene's beautiful and disturbing novel is filled with tenderness, humour, excitement and doubt' The Times A leak is traced to a small sub-section of the secret service, sparking off the inevitable security checks, tensions and suspicions....

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Bertram was not a believer in luck or superstitions. An unambitious assistant accountant, his plans for his second marriage are typically quiet: St Luke's, Maida Hill, then two weeks in Bournemouth. But then he comes to the attention of Dreuther, ...

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This lavish photographic history of the most beautiful and historic railway stations in London tells a story of power, progress and innovation, from the beginning of steam age to the teeming commuter hubs of today. London has more mainline railway...

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