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Vor 20 Jahren erschien "Lemprière's Wörterbuch" und machte Lawrence Norfolk über Nacht zum Star der internationalen Literaturszene. Nun legt er nach langem Schweigen einen neuen, grandiosen Roman vor. In ihm erzählt er die Geschichte eines Waisen, der im 17. Jahrhundert zum bedeutendsten Koch seiner Epoche wird - ein Fest für die Sinne und den Intellekt.

Vor 20 Jahren erschien "Lemprière’s Wörterbuch" und machte Lawrence Norfolk über Nacht zum Star der internationalen Literaturszene...

The Traitor Host of Horus Lupercal tightens its iron grip on the Palace of Terra, and one by one the walls and bastions begin to crumple and collapse. Rogal Dorn, Praetorian of Terra, redoubles his efforts to keep the relentless enemy at bay, but his forces are vastly outnumbered and hopelessly outgunned. Dorn simply cannot defend everything. Any chance of survival now requires sacrifice, but what battles dare he lose so that others can be won? Is there one tactical stroke, one crucial combat, that could turn the tide forever and win the war outright?

This eagerly awaited fifth book in John Maddox Roberts's Edgar-nominated historical mystery series once again takes the reader back to the Rome of Julius Caesar and the Roman Senator Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger. Decius has won himself a reputation as both an investigator and, most unfortunately, a bit of a playboy. Having been banished by his family for sometimes embarrassing activities to a rather leisurely lifestyle on Rhodes, he is puzzled to be suddenly and unexpectedly summoned home to assist in an investigation.

Uli scheint ausgetrickst - doch leider nicht für lange. Schließlich hat er ja bei Dr. Brocker und Fletcher gelernt! Eine wilde Verfolgungsjagd durch das äußere Sonnensystem beginnt ... Vor der atemberaubenden Kulisse der Saturnringe kommt es schließlich zur erneuten Begegnung mit dem Abtrünnigen. Wer wird diesmal die Oberhand behalten: der skrupellose Uli oder Dr. Brockers Team?

Sontag's most important critical writings from 1972 to 1980 are collected in Under the Sign of Saturn. One of America's leading essayists, Sontag's writings are commentaries on the relation between moral and aesthetic ideas, discussing the works of Antonin Artaud, Leni Riefenstahl, Elias Canetti, Walter Benjamin, and others. The collection includes a variety of her well-known essays. Sontag's writings are famously full of intellectual range and depth, and are at turns exhilarating, ominous, disturbing, and beautiful.