Showing results for "Das Event" in Literary Fiction

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES The Baudelaires need a safe place to stay—somewhere far away from terrible villains and local police. A quiet refuge where misfortune never visits. Might Heimlich Hospital be just the place? In Lemony Snicket's eighth ghastly installment in A Series of Unfortunate...

This audiobook is narrated by Indira Varma and Tom Burke. As recommended by the BBC Radio 2 Book Club 'A mystery, a love story and a ghost story, all at once. I didn’t want it to end' - S J Watson They say we'll never know what happened to those men. They say the sea keeps its secrets...

In 1987, Miri returns to her hometown to attend a commemoration of the worst year of her life. Beautiful, gripping and deeply moving, In the Unlikely Event is an unforgettable novel from Judy Blume. Thirty-five years ago, when Miri Ammerman was fifteen and in love for the first time, three...

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES Everybody loves a carnival! Who can fail to delight in the colourful people, the unworldly spectacle, the fabulous freaks? A carnival is a place for good family fun—as long as one has a family, that is. For the Baudelaire orphans, their time at the carnival turns...

When Anya is arrested at a Moscow anti-corruption rally under false pretenses, she is given a 10-day sentence at a detention center. Her cellmates are five other ordinary women arrested on petty charges. Ten listless days stretch before Anya and, as she appeals her sentence and recalls her progress from apolitical youth to informed citizen, she is troubled by strange, dreamlike visions, and wonders if her cellmates might somehow not be as ordinary as they seem.

Brought to you by Penguin. ‘This is a searing and incredibly important book, storytelling at its best’ Donal Ryan ‘A cat has seven souls in Arabic. In English cats have nine lives. You probably have both nine lives and seven souls, because otherwise I don’t know how you’ve made it this...

They think he’s just the driver. They’re wrong. In Houston, Orlandus Shorter moved quietly through the lives of the city’s elite, its strivers, its liars, its lonely, its grieving, its beautiful, and its broken. CEOs. Athletes. Couples on the edge. Men performing power. Women carrying secrets. People who believed a closed car door made them invisible. It never did. The Silent Driver is a hybrid work of interconnected literary fiction written from the lived perspective of Orlandus Shorter, who becomes both witness and vessel for the private lives passing through the backseat of his car.

The Incredible Events in Women's Cell Number 3 is the debut novel by Kira Yarmysh that follows a young woman, Anya, who is arrested at a Moscow anti-corruption rally, and, under false charges, sentenced to a ten-day stretch at a special detention center.

After nearly thirty years in the same job, Inspector Kurt Wallander is tired, restless, and itching to make a change. He is taken with a certain old farmhouse, perfectly situated in a quiet countryside with a charming, overgrown garden. There he finds the skeletal hand of a corpse in a shallow...

Marriage is a special event in anyone's life. There are a lot of changes in the way marriage is conducted in olden times and the current times. With the current changing times, a ready-made lifestyle came into this setup, and event managers are managing everything. Event Manager is a story...

Based on actual events, Unexpected is the inspirational story of one woman's journey from grief to wonder during an extraordinary week in August. It's a story about a remarkable friendship and a heart-wrenching loss, family secrets, finding friends in random places, and the ripple effect of the choices we make....