Eileen Battersby ist eine scharfe Beobachterin der literarischen Landschaft, die geschickt die Verbindungen zwischen verschiedenen Autoren und Genres aufdeckt. Ihr kritischer Blick enthüllt unerwartete Beziehungen zwischen scheinbar unterschiedlichen Werken und bietet neue Perspektiven auf die Literaturgeschichte. Sie besitzt die einzigartige Fähigkeit, den Reichtum der literarischen Welt durch ihre aufschlussreiche Prosa zu beleuchten. Battersbys Schreiben zeichnet sich durch seinen scharfen Intellekt und seine tiefe Wertschätzung für die Kunst der Sprache aus.
The dogs became her most loyal companions for over twenty years, witnesses to an often difficult human life and more important to her than most other humans. This book is about two animals with personalities, emotions and prejudices.
Find the dead a King, save himself, win the love of his life, live happily ever after. No wonder Marius dos Helles is bored. But now something has stopped the dead from, well, dying. It's up to Marius, Gerd, and Gerd's not- dead-enough Granny to journey across the continent and put the dead back in the afterlife where they belong.
A wonderfully strange yet poignant tale of accepting the truth about oneself. Magrit lives in an abandoned cemetery. She is as forgotten as the tiny graveyard that surrounds her. One night a passing stork drops a strange bundle into the graveyard. Master Puppet, her friend and advisor, tells her it is an awful, ugly, terrible thing and that she should get rid of it. But Magrit has other ideas.
Marius and his apprentice, Gerd are professionals - Professional corpse robbers that is. When they stumble upon the fallen King of Scorby on a blood soaked battlefield they get rather more than they bargained for, and Marius finds himself mistaken for the monarch after being rudely transported to the mysterious Kingdom of the Dead.
Helen Stockton DeFoe's world disintegrates after her mother is gunned down on the streets of Richmond. An unusual coming-of-age debut novel, narrated by a troubled teenage girl.