Jeremy Page Bücher

Nach dem Unfalltod seiner vierjährigen Tochter Freya und der Trennung von seiner Frau Judy sieht sich Guy mit einem Leben konfrontiert, das allen Sinn verloren zu haben scheint. Um den Bemühungen Anteil nehmender Freunde auszuweichen, zieht er sich von jeglicher Gesellschaft zurück auf sein Boot in die Abgeschiedenheit der rauen See vor der Küste Norfolks. Guy hat nicht vor, sein Schicksal anzunehmen. Jeden Abend trifft er Freya und Judy wieder – in seinem Tagebuch, in dem er das Leben seiner Familie beschreibt, wie es hätte sein können. In dieser erträumten Welt reist er mit der nun zehnjährigen Freya durch den Süden der USA, um Judy bei ihrer beginnenden Karriere als Sängerin zu unterstützen. Doch die Realität holt Guy ein: Zwei Frauen, Mutter und Tochter, ankern mit ihrem Boot in seiner Nähe und üben eine seltsame Anziehungskraft auf ihn aus. Diese Begegnung stellt Guy vor eine schwere Entscheidung. Denn während er sich, inspiriert von Marta und Rhona, vorsichtig dem wirklichen Leben annähert, entgleitet ihm Stück für Stück die gelebte Welt seines Tagebuchs . . .

Having received a cryptic message ten years after her father's sudden disappearance, a young woman asks Sherlock Holmes to solve the mystery

Novelist and traveller Jeremy Page takes a walk through the Lincolnshire fens and along the Norfolk coast, in search of something within himself, and the landscape, which remains not quite visible.

The first historical novel from a critically acclaimed writer, in which the characters are fuelled by obsession, passion and ghosts, The Collector of Lost Things is an extraordinarily compulsive read.

'For me, Watson, life is not so interesting,' says Holmes.'I loved to read the newspaper, hoping to find some news of an interesting crime for me to investigate or a dangerous criminal for me to catch. Where are all those clever criminals these days?'Then, suddenly, a wild, excited young man runs up the stairs to Holmes' room. He has a story to tell about a strange crime that took place in Norwood. But who is the criminal? And is he dangerous? Life, for Holmes, suddenly starts to get interesting.

'These were the nights when the German bombers growled through the sky, their bellies full with steel and cordite. When the moon was low their dark shapes and still darker shadows came over the coast. Several hours later they'd return again, wearily, lighter in weight, fewer in number, dropping the occasional bomb on the forgotten land of creeks and channels beneath them. On one of those nights it all began for me - war, after all, starts many things, and even though I wasn't born for another twenty-five years, my story began there.'It is May 1945 and as church bells ring out Victory in Europe over the Norfolk saltmarshes, Goose's daughter Lil is born. But as Lil enters Goose's world, her father leaves it, in a makeshift boat bound - or so the story goes - for Germany, his home.Forty years later it is Lil's son, Pip, who begins to make sense of his family's fragmented history. Who was his grandfather, who fell from the sky into Goose's life and then disappeared as suddenly as he came? What was the truth of his mother, Lil, who lived and lost her way between the creeks and the samphire? And what does it all mean for Pip, whose heritage of flood, fireworks, fish and clouds, has left him ill-prepared for life beyond the marshes?

As a lead-in to preparation for the Cambridge First Certificate examination, Think Ahead to First Certificate offers intermediate students following general communicative courses a bridge to the accuracy required for FCE, particularly in the areas of structure, vocabulary and writing skills. The course combines high-interest texts with a clear focus on skills and vocabulary building. A reference section encourages students to use the language they have acquired to create their own reference source for prepositions, irregular verbs, phrasal verbs, functions and grammar. Think Ahead to First Certificate has been designed to be used independently of, or as a lead-in to, its companion title, Think First Certificate. The workbook provides additional practice and consolidation of the language and skills introduced in the coursebook. It also aims to develop students' independent study skills by encouraging them to build up their own study reference source as they progress through the material. The workbook material is flexible and can be used for additional classroom practice or for homework.

As a lead-in to preparation for the Cambridge First Certificate examination, Think Ahead to First Certificate offers intermediate students following general communicative courses a bridge to the accuracy required for FCE, particularly in the areas of structure, vocabulary and writing skills.