Alexander MacLeod Bücher

Die literarische Entdeckung aus Kanada. - »MacLeods Gabe, ganze Leben in wenigen Seiten zu verpacken, macht Alice Munro Konkurrenz.« Quill & Quire Ein Paar trennt sich nach vielen Jahren. Nur Gunther ist noch da, das Kaninchen, das sie trotz aller Differenzen verbindet. Eine junge Familie erfährt aus den Nachrichten, dass der nette Mann, der vor zwei Jahren im Motelzimmer neben ihnen wohnte, ein Serienmörder ist. Ein Frequent Flyer stiehlt am Flughafen Gepäckstücke, um für kurze Zeit in das Leben Fremder zu schlüpfen. Aufrüttelnd, mitreißend und bestechend kraftvoll erzählt O.-Henry-Preisträger Alexander MacLeod in diesen acht Geschichten von Gewissheiten, die in Wanken geraten. Von Spannungen, die unter der Oberfläche eines jeden Lebens aufbrechen. Von Momenten, in denen sich unabwendbar Wahrheiten offenbaren. »Eine brillante Erzählsammlung: Jede Geschichte hat das Gewicht eines Romans.« The Economist

This collection features essays on Nova Scotia-born poet, playwright and literary critic George Elliott Clarke. Instrumental in promoting the writing of Canadian writers of African descent, Clarke's work has won awards including the Governor General’s Award for poetry, a National Magazine Gold Medal Award for Poetry, the prestigious Trudeau Fellowship Prize, the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Achievement Award, and The Premiul Poesis (Romania). Contributors to this collection include: Alexander MacLeod, Susan Knutson, H. Nigel Thomas, Maureen Moynagh, Diana Brydon, Wayde Compton, Lydia Wilkinson, Katherine Larson, Maristela Campos, Giulio Marra, Amanda Montague, Jennifer Andrews and Katherine McLeod.

Light Lifting is a suite of darkly urban, unflinching elegies. The seven stories each encompass a keenly observed, immersive world, rooted firmly in the real life of work and family. They are elemental stories of work and its bonds, of tragedy and tragedy barely averted, but also of beauty and love and moments of pure transcendence.

The story of Pamela Jackson, nee Mitford, is a fascinating one. As the only Mitford sister who did not become what we would now call a celebrity, never writing a book, espousing a cause and enjoying the simple pleasures of life in the Cotswold countryside, she shunned the bright city lights and the public eye that her sisters so desperately craved. Despite this, she had many wild adventures of her own and was very much involved in the activities of her extraordinary family, picking up the many pieces when things went disastrously wrong - which they often did - but was always content to be her.

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In a secluded valley filled with beech woodland and rough grazing, a timeless farmhouse welcomes all who arrive at its door. Good humour and misadventure run hand in hand with the people and animals, wild and tame, who call this little corner of the Cotswolds their home. A warm and life-affirming tale of country living.

A heartwarming memoir full of unforgettable moments in Lancashire and the Lake District: A little girl meets her father for the first time when he comes home from war in 1945. Later, school is a chaos of eccentric teachers and awful meals, and the first steps into adulthood are taken in the wake of a pioneering grandmother. Warm and loveable