Häftad, Engelska, 2013
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- Häftad, Engelska, 1985
279 kr
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The scene is Auckland during the Second World War. In the warrenlike old tenement the residents call Paddy’s Puzzle, Clara Bentley awaits the arrival of Ambrose, her black lover, an American marine. She also waits for the bomb that might fall when the air raid siren sounds at night. She waits for visits from the strange inhabitants of the Puzzle—prostitutes; blackmarketeers; old Ma Hollis, who helps her keep body and soul together; and a host of others. She waits, too, for the culmination of an illness that has weakened her irremediably. - E-bokEngelska, 2015
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From Lonely Planet, the world''s leading travel guide publisher, Better Than Fiction 2, the follow-up to 2012''s Better Than Fiction, is a second serving of true travel stories told by some of the world''s best fiction writers including Dave Eggers, Jane Smiley and Karen Joy Fowler.
Varied in place, plot and voice, these are stirring and evocative pieces that all share one common characteristic-they manifest a passion for the precious gift of travel, from its unexpected but inevitably enriching lessons about other peoples and places, to the truths, sometimes uncomfortable but always enlarging, it reveals about ourselves.
By turns comic, dramatic, and moving - from Francine Prose''s confrontation of the mysteries of India to DBC Pierre''s search for Hemingway''s muse in Italy - these 30 short tales reveal the joys, perils, and surprises of travel, and that truth can often be stranger (and better) than fiction.
Whether on a plane en route to your own travel adventure, or at home settling in for a vicarious experience of world adventures, embark on this literary journey around the world and explore your passion for travel now!
Authors: Lonely Planet, Don George, Dave Eggers, Jane Smiley, Karen Joy Fowler, Stefan Merrill Block, Francine Prose, DBC Pierre, Fiona Kidman, Alexander McCall Smith, Keija Parssinen, MJ Hyland, Catherine Lacey, Rebecca Dinerstein, Lloyd Jones, Porochista Khakpour, Jack Livings, Marina Lewycka, Lydia Millet, Suzanne Joinson, Sophie Cunningham, Christina Nichol, Mandy Sayer, Steven Amsterdam, Marie-Helene Bortino, Shirley Streshinsky, Steven Hall, David Shafer, Avi Duckor-Jones, Lily King, Aliya Whitely, and Natalie Baszile
About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world''s leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet''s mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in.
Lonely Planet''s award-winning list travel literature anthologies include An Innocent Abroad (Independent Publishers Award, Silver for Essays, 2015) and A Fork in the Road (Lowell Thomas Award, Bronze for Travel Book, 2014; James Bear Award, Nominated for Travel Fiction, 2014).
''Lonely Planet. It''s on everyone''s bookshelves; it''s in every traveller''s hands. It''s on mobile phones. It''s on the Internet. It''s everywhere, and it''s telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.'' -- Fairfax Media
''Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.'' - New York Times
Lonely Planet guides have won the TripAdvisor Traveler''s Choice Award in 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015.
- Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
288 kr
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- E-bokTyska, 2025
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FIONA KIDMANS Roman erzählt die spannende Lebensgeschichte der neuseeländischen Flugpionierin Jean Batten (1909-1982). In den 1930er Jahren wurde sie als »die Garbo der Lüfte« zur Ikone der modernen Flugkunst. Bei ihrem ersten Versuch, nach Australien zu fliegen, scheitert sie grandios mit einem alten Flugzeug des Prinzen von Wales. Doch sie gibt nicht auf. 1936 gelingt ihr der erste Soloflug überhaupt von England nach Neuseeland. Zuvor war sie von England aus schon solo nach Indien, Australien und Brasilien geflogen. Mit viel Detailkenntnis, dabei höchst unterhaltsam vermittelt die Autorin, wie es war, eine technische und fliegerische Pionierleistung zu vollbringen. Sie schildert die Begeisterung für das Fliegen und Abenteuer, aber auch die Gefahren und die Angst vor dem Scheitern. Wie alle großen Persönlichkeiten hielt Jean Batten unbeirrt an einem zunächst aussichtslos erscheinenden Plan fest und schrieb sich mit ihren Leistungen in die Geschichte der Luftfahrt des 20. Jahrhunderts ein. Der internationale Terminal des Flughafens von Auckland trägt heute ihren Namen. Fiona Kidmans Roman leuchtet aber auch die Schattenseiten, die Tragik dieses schwierigen Lebens aus. »Battens Persönlichkeit treibt die Geschichte voran, und Kidman nimmt uns mit in ihre komplexe, oft gequälte, aber unbeirrbare Persönlichkeit. Sie ist leidenschaftlich und fragil. Sie ist schockierend mutig.« NEW ZEALAND HERALD - Häftad, Engelska, 2016
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This enthralling novel tells the story of the rise and fall of one of the world's greatest aviators, the glamorous, daring and mysterious Jean Batten. - Häftad, Engelska, 2019
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Winner of The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2019Winner of the Ngaio Marsh Crime Writing Awards 2019Winner of the New Zealand Booklovers Prize for Fiction 2019Winner of the NZ Heritage Book Awards 2018Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Awards 2020This multi-award winning novel explores the controversial topic of the death penalty with empathy and a probing eye for injustice.'Magnetic' New York Times The offender is not one of ours. It is unfortunate that we got this undesirable from his homeland.Auckland, October 1955. If young Paddy Black sings to himself he can almost see himself back home in Belfast. Yet, less than two years after sailing across the globe in search of a better life, here he stands in a prison cell awaiting trial for murder. He pulled a knife at the jukebox that night, but should his actions lead him to the gallows? As his desperate mother waits on, Paddy must face a judge and jury unlikely to favour an outsider, as a wave of moral panic sweeps the island nation.Fiona Kidman’s powerful novel explores the controversial topic of the death penalty with characteristic empathy and a probing eye for injustice. - Häftad, Engelska, 2024
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A powerful collection of stories exploring love and longing from the award-winning author of This Mortal Boy.Two mothers fight over who will wear a hat on their children's wedding day. A needle is lost somewhere inside a woman’s body. A writer waits with a suitcase for a man who never comes. This collection brings together Fiona Kidman’s finest and most scandalous stories, vividly depicting the joys of female desire and the pain of heartbreak, the thrill of illicit liaisons and the twists and turns of unconventional love. Sometimes joyful, often devastating and always beautiful, All the Way to Summer is a searing account of love and loss from a pioneering feminist icon.'Tales of loss and betrayal and twisted love abound in this perfect collection’ Liz Nugent, author of Strange Sally Diamond
