Ergebnis für "Frank" in Stadtleben

Er ist reich, er ist bekannt - und er hat eine geheime Leidenschaft, die ihn alles kosten kann... Scott Kerrington hat mächtigen Ärger am Hals. Der Deal, mit dem er seinen Konzern retten will, steht vorm Platzen und der Aufsichtsrat droht mit Konsequenzen. Um Druck abzulassen nimmt Scott sich gern eine Frau mit ins Schlafzimmer oder eine Gitarre zur Hand – nach fünf Whiskys ausnahmsweise auf der Bühne einer Bar.

""Warm and wise, Frankie is a woman worth getting to know.""—Bonnie Garmus, New York Times-bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry From the internationally bestselling author and host of The Graham Norton Show, a dazzling and decades-sweeping story about love, bravery, and what it means to...

Bloomsbury presents Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors, read by Kit Griffiths. The smash-hit national bestseller and Goodreads Choice Award finalist from the New York Times bestselling author of Blue Sisters. An addictive, humorous, and poignant debut novel about the shock waves caused...

We leave shadows, not footprints. Newlywed Danny McKenna's honeymoon ends abruptly when he learns his father has died, uncannily, on the same day as his hero, Frank Sinatra. Returning home to his knotty Irish American family, Danny is confronted with a painful truth--while he knows everything about the famous singer, his own father is a mystery. Tasked with giving a eulogy for a man he hardly knows, Danny sets out to uncover his dad’s past--an immigrant's tale of mid-twentieth-century America and the harsh realities of WWII lived in stark contrast to Frank Sinatra's famously extravagant life.

Who is Vernon Subutex? An urban legend. A fall from grace. The mirror who reflects us all. Vernon Subutex was once the proprietor of Revolver, an infamous music shop in Bastille. His legend spread throughout Paris. But by the 2000s his shop is struggling. With his savings gone, his unemployment benefit cut and the friend who had been covering his rent suddenly dead, Vernon Subutex finds himself down and out on the Paris streets. He has one final card up his sleeve. 

Film noir: the name comes from the French for “black” or “dark film.” It points to the central feature of the genre: mood. There is a darkness about film noir, a somberness accompanied by a thrill of dread and ever-present danger. This aura envelops wealthy heiresses, English aristocrats, tough-guy drifters, jazz musicians, drug dealers, and respected schoolteachers—all of whom have secrets to hide and much to lose if those secrets are unveiled.

Frank Cottrell Boyce’s series of plays about the punk generation 30 years on What if punk heroes The Adverts had played a gig in Camberley in 1977, to an audience of 27 people? And what if, three decades later, someone tried to bring that audience back together for a reunion? That’s the...

Petras liv ser inte riktigt ut så som hon tänkt sig. Hennes högsta dröm är att bli fotograf, men nu tycks hon vara fast i sitt jobb på ett fotocenter. Privatlivet är inte heller på topp - hon är inte nöjd med varken vännerna eller pojkvännen. För att vända på tillvaron bestämmer hon sig för att skaffa en lägenhet i Stockholms innerstad. Men när hon väl hittar ett ställe så måste hon enligt avtalet ligga med sin hyresvärd. När hon sedan får reda på att hon är gravid så hopar sig problemen. Hennes bästa vän går upp i rök och hon har ingen aning om vem pappan är.

“Dottie Frank’s books are sexy and hilarious. She has staked out the lowcountry of South Carolina as her personal literary property.” —Pat Conroy, author of The Prince of Tides Bulls Island is a supremely satisfying tale of honor, chance, and star-crossed love, infused with Southern wit...

From the highly acclaimed author of Bad Day in Blackrock – inspiration for the 2012 award-winning film What Richard Did, directed by Lenny Abrahamson... ? Shortlisted for the 2021 An Post Irish Book Awards Eason Novel of the Year... A darkly funny, gripping and profoundly moving novel about a...