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onbekendEngels9781785291272
16-7-2015
It could be to do with golfers being dragged down into the bunkers at the Fetch Brothers’ Golf Spa Hotel, never to be seen again. It might be related to the strange twin grandchildren of the equally strange Mrs Fetch – owner of the hotel and fascinated with octopuses. Meer
GebondenEngels9781916812284
9-1-2025
From a Costa Book of the Year winner, Booker nominee and double Granta-selected Best Young British novelist comes a searing portrayal of the gradual uncovering of one woman's past psychological wounds, set in motion by the arrival of an unexpected letter. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781784870423
6-8-2015
Almost forty and with nothing to show for it, Hannah Luckraft is starting to realise that her lifestyle is not sustainable. From Scotland to Dublin, from London to Montreal, to Budapest and onwards, Hannah travels in search of the ultimate altered state – her paradise. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781849908276
21-1-2016
It could be to do with golfers being dragged down into the bunkers at the Fetch Brothers’ Golf Spa Hotel, never to be seen again. It might be related to the strange twin grandchildren of the equally strange Mrs Fetch – owner of the hotel and fascinated with octopuses. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099587422
5-3-2015
The dazzling new collection from the Costa Prize-winning author of Day and The Blue Book. She doesn’t ever lie to him unless it’s for the best. A husband and wife wait for a train as their relationship unspools silently around them. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099587439
18-5-2017
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEJon is 59 and divorced: a senior civil servant in Westminster who hates many of his colleagues and loathes his work, he is a good man in a bad world. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099457114
18-5-1995
While showing us the unlikeliness of intimacy and the impossibility of communication, Kennedy also reveals the subversive liberation of impotence, the humour of discomfort as human beings chafe together, the crazed claustrophobia of the family adn the wildly funny results of an eccentricity unleashed. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099457213
28-3-1996
Until reality breaks in and Jennifer uncovers the harsh vocabulary of addiction and the addictive extremes of sex. -An alchemical romance, a Swiftian satire for our times, an impossible spiritual journey and a devastating plummet into insanity and perversion, So I Am Glad is oblique, incisive, hilarious and horrific. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099575238
6-3-2014
Useful for readers and aspiring writers, this book contains what they need to know about the complexities of researching, writing and publishing fiction. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099494065
5-8-2010
Offers a collection of short stories that show us exactly what becomes of the broken-hearted. This title reveals the sadness, violence, hurt and terror, and also the redemption and the love. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099433484
3-4-2003
The twelve stories in Indelible Acts are variations on a theme of longing - the unassuagable human need for contact, for completion, for that most fugitive gift of all: reciprocal love. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099450061
2-9-2004
The heroes and heroines of Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains, A. Kennedy's first collection of stories, are small people - the kind who inhabit the silence in libraries, who never appear on screen and who never make the headlines. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780224060998
6-7-2000
Bullfighting - the ultimate spectator sport. Acclaimed novelist A. Beyond the theatre, the costume and the well-worn plot she focuses on the fact that a man faces his death while a crowd looks on. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099555469
2-8-2012
You are crossing the Atlantic on a liner with your boyfriend who may or may not be planning to propose. You are fleeing the past - your ex-lover Arthur, the man who helped you dupe the vulnerable into believing loved ones were trying to make contact from beyond the grave. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099730712
1-1-1998
The stories collected in Original Bliss are concerned, appropriately, with the complexities of sex and the lack of it. She can't find it at home, with the violent, deadly Mr Brindle, but will she find it in Stuttgart when she meets the enigmatic Edward E. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099730613
4-5-2000
Nathan Staples is consumed by loathing and love in roughly equal measures. When Nathan contrives to have Mary invited to the island where he lives in retreat, he sets in motion the possiblity of telling her he is her father, and becoming whole and complete and alive again. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099494058
7-2-2008
Alfred Day wanted his war. he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and - most extraordinary of all - he found Joyce, a woman to love. Maybe it took him, too. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780749397586
14-2-1994
Kennedy's absorbing, moving and gently political first novel dissects the intricate difficulties of human relationships, from Margaret's passionate attachment to her father and her more problematic involvement with Colin, her lover, to the wider social relations between pupil and teacher, employer and employee, individual and state. Meer
paperbackNederlands300 blz.9789089539519
1e druk
4-4-2017
Bijna geen land ter wereld maakte in de jaren zestig zulke ingrijpende veranderingen door als Nederland. Hoe kwam dit? Wat maakte het land zo bijzonder? Meer