Orpheus Builds A Girl
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Orpheus Builds A Girl
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Author : Heather Parry
language : en
Publisher: Gallic Books
Release Date : 2022-10-06
Orpheus Builds A Girl written by Heather Parry and has been published by Gallic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-06 with Fiction categories.
Longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize 'A compelling, creepy tale' The Independent ‘A chilling exploration of power, love and grief' Julia Armfield, author of Our Wives Under the Sea 'I am in awe of this wonderful book' Edward Carey, author of Little Wilhelm von Tore is dying. As he looks back on his life he reflects on his upbringing in Dresden, his beloved grandmother and his medical career during the second world war. But mostly he remembers his darling Luci, the great love of his life, his dark-haired beauty promised to him in a dream years before they met. Though only together for a few months in her first life, their love is written in the stars. Using scientific research compiled over decades, Wilhelm ensures that, for him and his beloved, death is only the beginning. But through the cracks in Wilhem’s story there is another voice, that of Gabriela, and she will not let this version of events go unchallenged. She tells the story of her sister Luciana, fearless and full of life, and the madman who robbed her from her grave. Based on a chilling true story, Orpheus Builds a Girl is the debut novel from award-winning author Heather Parry.
Carrion Crow
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Author : Heather Parry
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2025-02-27
Carrion Crow written by Heather Parry and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-02-27 with Fiction categories.
Marguerite has been locked in the attic of her family home, a disintegrating Chelsea house overlooking the stench of the Thames. For company she has: a sewing machine, a copy of Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management and trays of congealing food carried up to her with little regularity. Marguerite has been confined by her mother, Cécile, who is concerned about her engagement to an older, near-penniless solicitor, Mr Lewis, and wishes to educate her daughter on ‘proper’ married conduct – lest she drag the family’s good name into disrepute. But why is Marguerite pursuing the aged Mr Lewis in the first place? Why are her mother’s visits seemingly becoming less frequent? And just how much time has passed since the lock closed on the attic’s hatch? Carrion Crow is a transportive and gloriously gothic commentary on the constraints of polite society – and the even greater danger of conformity – that unfurls one family’s festering secrets.
The Elegance Of The Hedgehog
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Author : Muriel Barbery
language : en
Publisher: Gallic Books
Release Date : 2013-09-02
The Elegance Of The Hedgehog written by Muriel Barbery and has been published by Gallic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-02 with Fiction categories.
The international publishing sensation, with sales of over 10 million copies worldwide, and shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. ‘Resistance is futile … you might as well buy it before someone recommends it for your book group. Its charm will make you say yes’ The Guardian ‘Clever, informative and moving … this is an admirable novel which deserves as wide a readership here as it had in France.’ The Observer Rene is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building. She maintains a carefully constructed persona as someone uncultivated but reliable, in keeping with what she feels a concierge should be. But beneath this facade lies the real Rene: passionate about culture and the arts, and more knowledgeable in many ways than her employers with their outwardly successful but emotionally void lives. Down in her lodge, apart from weekly visits by her one friend Manuela, Rene lives with only her cat for company. Meanwhile, several floors up, twelve-year-old Paloma Josse is determined to avoid the pampered and vacuous future laid out for her, and decides to end her life on her thirteenth birthday. But unknown to them both, the sudden death of one of their privileged neighbours will dramatically alter their lives forever.
This Is My Body Given For You
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Author : Heather Parry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-05
This Is My Body Given For You written by Heather Parry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05 with categories.
In This Is My Body, Given For You, Heather Parry places in our hands fifteen stories in which the body is something that can be changed, altered, and escaped from.
Persephone The Daring
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Author : Joan Holub
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2013-08-06
Persephone The Daring written by Joan Holub and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-06 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Well-researched and true to the classical Greek myths, each volume in the Goddess Girls series addresses contemporary issues like friendship and relationships from a classically accurate—and entertaining—perspective.
The Forever Girl
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Author : Alexander McCall Smith
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-02-06
The Forever Girl written by Alexander McCall Smith and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-06 with Fiction categories.
Clover has loved James for as long as she can remember, since before she knew what what love was. But fate seems determined to keep them apart. As children, Clover and James played beside a turquoise sea under cloudless skies, their Caribbean island home a place of pleasure and privilege, of lush lawns and tennis parties. In such a paradise nothing should obstruct the kind of happiness Clover dreams of, except that, as she discovers, true love is often harder than paradise allows for. And when Clover's mother falls out of love with her husband, a web of complications is woven that may take Clover a lifetime to unravel. If she ever can . . . Tender and true, The Forever Girl traces love's unpredictable path to maturity with style, wit and feeling.
Things We Say In The Dark
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Author : Kirsty Logan
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2019-10-03
Things We Say In The Dark written by Kirsty Logan and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-03 with Fiction categories.
'Gripping . . . You won't put it down' Sunday Telegraph A shocking collection of dark stories, ranging from chilling contemporary fairytales to disturbing supernatural fiction. Alone in a remote house in Iceland a woman is unnerved by her isolation; another can only find respite from the clinging ghost that follows her by submerging herself in an overgrown pool. Couples wrestle with a lack of connection to their children; a schoolgirl becomes obsessed with the female anatomical models in a museum; and a cheery account of child's day out is undercut by chilling footnotes. These dark tales explore women's fears with electrifying honesty and invention and speak to one another about female bodies, domestic claustrophobia, desire and violence. 'A brilliant collection of stories . . . All will burrow their way into your brain and not let go' Stylist 'Shimmers with menace . . . Fans of Angela Carter and Shirley Jackson take note' i Newspaper KIRSTY LOGAN WAS SELECTED AS ONE OF BRITAIN'S TEN MOST OUTSTANDING LGBTQ WRITERS by Val McDermid for the International Literature Showcase in 2019
I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
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Author : Keiran Goddard
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2024-02-08
I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning written by Keiran Goddard and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-08 with Fiction categories.
Five friends. Five lives. Countless hopes. Patrick, Shiv, Rian, Oli and Conor grew up together. They played together, skipped school together, and dreamt of everything they'd do with their lives. Now they are thirty, and only Rian has made it out of the estate and moved away to another city, but his money doesn't stop him clinging to a vision of the past that is quickly slipping away. Oli is fading by the day, drinking and snorting his way through the endless boredom, while Conor has a baby on the way and a business plan he hopes will change everything. Patrick and Shiv are as in love as ever, but even they are rocked when an old secret opens up new wounds... Bold, ambitious and stylistically striking, I See Buildings Fall like Lightning asks what happens when all the things we expect from our lives end up ... not happening. It lays bare the ways that place and circumstance shape us, explores the redeeming and transforming beauty of friendship and examines the true limits of hope and forgiveness.
Voyages In The Underworld Of Orpheus Black
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Author : Marcus Sedgwick
language : en
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Release Date : 2019-09-03
Voyages In The Underworld Of Orpheus Black written by Marcus Sedgwick and has been published by Candlewick Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-03 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
Harry Black is lost between the world of war and the land of myth in this illustrated novel that transports the tale of Orpheus to World War II–era London. Brothers Marcus and Julian Sedgwick team up to pen this haunting tale of another pair of brothers, caught between life and death in World War II. Harry Black, a conscientious objector, artist, and firefighter battling the blazes of German bombing in London in 1944, wakes in the hospital to news that his soldier brother, Ellis, has been killed. In the delirium of his wounded state, Harry’s mind begins to blur the distinctions between the reality of war-torn London, the fiction of his unpublished sci-fi novel, and the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Driven by visions of Ellis still alive and a sense of poetic inevitability, Harry sets off on a search for his brother that will lead him deep into the city’s Underworld. With otherworldly paintings by Alexis Deacon depicting Harry’s surreal descent further into the depths of hell, this eerily beautiful blend of prose, verse, and illustration delves into love, loyalty, and the unbreakable bonds of brotherhood as it builds to a fierce indictment of mechanized warfare.
The Orpheus Clock
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Author : Simon Goodman
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2016-08-16
The Orpheus Clock written by Simon Goodman and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-16 with Art categories.
The passionate, true story of one man's quest to reclaim what the Nazis stole from his family--their beloved art collection--and to restore their legacy. Simon Goodman's grandparents came from German Jewish banking dynasties and perished in concentration camps. And that's almost all he knew--his father rarely spoke of their family history or heritage. But when he passed away, and Simon received his father's papers, a story began to emerge. The Gutmanns, as they were known then, rose from a small Bohemian hamlet to become one of Germany's most powerful banking families. They also amassed a world-class art collection that included works by Degas, Renoir, Botticelli, and many others, including a Renaissance clock engraved with scenes from the legend of Orpheus. The Nazi regime snatched everything the Gutmanns had labored to build: their art, their wealth, their social standing, and their very lives. Simon grew up in London with little knowledge of his father's efforts to recover their family's possessions. It was only after his father's death that Simon began to piece together the clues about the stolen legacy and the Nazi looting machine. He learned much of the collection had gone to Hitler and Goring; other works had been smuggled through Switzerland, sold and resold, with many pieces now in famous museums. More still had been recovered by Allied forces only to be stolen again by bureaucrats-- European governments quietly absorbed thousands of works of art into their own collections. Through painstaking detective work across two continents, Simon proved that many pieces belonged to his family, and successfully secured their return-- the first Nazi looting case to be settled in the United States. Goodman's dramatic story reveals a rich family history almost obliterated by the Nazis. It is not only the account of a twenty-year long detective hunt for family treasure, but an unforgettable tale of redemption and restoration.