Obecná beletrie, Strana 12

Enticed by advertisements for a newly restored palatial hotel and filled with visions of a life of leisure, good weather and mango juice in their gin, a group of very different...

"Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." More than fifty years on, Iris Chase is remembering Laura's mysterious death. And so begins an...

Fourteen-year-old Marie Anne Lawson, fleeing from something she could not bear to see, fell and broke her ankle. She was discovered by a local man, known as "the branded man"...

In the idyllic small town of Pagford, a councillor dies and leaves a 'casual vacancy' - an empty seat on the Parish Council. In the election for his successor that follows, it...

In the Idyllic small town of Pagford, a councillor dies and leaves a 'casual vacancy - an empty seat on the Parish Council. In the election for his successor that follows, it...

The cinder path which led from the Northumberland farmhouse would always symbolise defeat for Charlie MacFell. People saw him as a born loser who always got the dirty end of the...

On the tiny Breton island of Le Devin, life has remained almost unchanged for over a hundred years. For generations, two rival communities, the wealthy La HoussiniŠre and the...

By the school house at Shancarrig stands a copper beech, its bark scarred with the names and dreams of the pupils who have grown up under its branches. Under Junior Assistant...

When Bernard Walsh moved his family to Liverpool, he did not expect his past to pursue him. But then Theresa Nolan, bent on revenge, arrived in the city. While she wrought...

Lies: we all tell them. To protect those we love, to disguise failure, to hide disappointment. To mask betrayal, or deceit. But what happens when they start to catch up with us?...

On a crystalline Montana morning, two backcountry skiers find the body of a young women embedded in the ice of a remote mountain creek. All through the night police work with...

In the genteel environs of Corduroy Mansions, Pimlico, strange doings are afoot, mostly in the name of love. Lonely William French and his faithful canine Freddie are recruited...