Ergebnis für "MR James" in Belletristik

'Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of them' – Roddy Doyle 'His [Dominic Hofman] performance is terrific: variously wry, poignant and thoughtful as he imbues Jim with the humanity and agency denied to him by Twain' – The Guardian, Audiobook of the Week James is a profound...

»Du bist jemand, der dem Unschaffbaren ins Gesicht sieht und ihm sagt: ›Setz dich und halt den Mund‹? Die Welt braucht das. Die Welt braucht dich.« Tausend Unbekannte erhalten diese Einladung. Hundert von ihnen schaffen es in die Endauswahl zu einem beispiellosen Wettbewerb. Ihr Einsatz...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST ONE...

Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he's lived in Hackney since the sixties. A flamboyant, wise-cracking local character, Barrington is a husband, father and grandfather - but he is also secretly lovers with his great childhood friend...

Two female agents of Operation Cream Cake - double agents and honey traps against the KGB - are murdered. Bond must find the others and conduct them to safety before they meet a similar fate. In a race against time, Bond travels to Ireland and the KGB is soon on the scene. But all is not as it seems and soon Bond finds he needs all his wits to negotiate a labyrinth of double-crossing that is to lead him to a bewildering showdown in a remote corner of the Kowloon province of Hong Kong.

The instant Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller "You are someone who will look the impossible in the face and tell it to sit down and shut up. The world needs that. The world needs you.” A thousand strangers receive the invitation. One hundred make the cut. An unprecedented competition...

Bloomsbury presents Sidney Chambers and The Problem of Evil by James Runcie, read by Joe Jameson. There is no denying the winning charm of these artfully fashioned mysteries' – Barry Forshaw, Independent 'Gentle, often funny and undeniably charming' – Readers Digest 'We should welcome him to...

A young woman begs Sherlock Holmes to help find her missing fiancé, but the great detective makes an uncharacteristic mistake. Then Sherlock’s daughter, Lucy James, takes on a missing-person case of her own, but she must also keep a vicious criminal away from Becky, Lucy’s 10-year-old sister-in-law. Little Becky soon becomes dangerously involved in both cases. No one foresees the devastating news that Sherlock Holmes has been murdered.  

Bloomsbury presents The Great Passion by James Runcie, read by Pip Torrens. A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A masterpiece' SCOTSMAN 'A wise, refreshing novel, and a touching human story ... Runcie has an expert imagination' HILARY MANTEL Love and Death. Grief and Joy. Music that lasts forever...

Bloomsbury presents Sidney Chambers and The Persistence of Love by James Runcie, read by Joe Jameson. The sixth installment in the Grantchester Mysteries series, now a major PBS television series as well. The sixth book in the James Runcie’s much-loved Granchester Mystery series, which has...

Bloomsbury presents Sidney Chambers and The Dangers of Temptation by James Runcie, read by Joe Jameson. The fifth installment in The Grantchester Mystery Series, and the inspiration for the primetime PBS/Masterpiece television series, Grantchester. It’s the summer of love in late 1960s. The...

Bloomsbury presents Sidney Chambers and The Problem of Evil by James Runcie, read by Joe Jameson. The third book in The Grantchester Mystery Series, and the inspiration for the primetime PBS/Masterpiece television series, Grantchester. It is the 1960s and Canon Sidney Chambers is enjoying his...

The shadows lengthen, the candles gutter, and the dead have not finished with the living. Within this second volume of Halloween Haunts are six classic stories that have unsettled readers for generations. The Body-Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson — a chance meeting in a country inn, and a night's work that two men have never been able to put behind them. Since I Died by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps — a woman's ghost beside one she loved, longing to be heard by someone who cannot hear.

Almost always when we think of Ghost Stories, we first think of those written by the Victorians. If you want a really good ghost story to bring that edge of chill, that foreboding of dread, that feeling that in an empty house we are not quite alone and that sometimes the sharp, sheer shock of what just happened is upon us then look no further than ‘The Victorian Ghost Story’ for your reading and listening pleasure.

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first...

A Life Defined by Loyalty. A Love That Never Ends.“Humans think they are the ones doing the rescuing. But from the moment I saw him, I knew I was the one who had to keep his heart whole.” Born in the quiet of Missouri, and surviving the jagged uncertainty of a rescue shelter, a tiny, tan Chorkie named Mr. Hanky Panky always knew he had a grand destiny. With his bat-like ears and a face that looked like the love child of Chewbacca and Yoda, he didn’t look like a typical hero, but his motor was built for a legendary kind of love.

Horror maestro Christopher Lee reads this quartet of supernatural tales, adapted from the stories of M. R. James Over a century ago, M. R. James was the provost of King's College, Cambridge. He would gather together a select group of students in his rooms every Christmas Eve, and give a...

Mr. Chipping, the classics master at Brookfield School since 1870, takes listeners on a beguiling journey through the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Sometimes Chips, as he is affectionately known, is an old man who dreams by the fire; then he's a difficult young taskmaster schooling his students, or a middle-aged man encountering the lovely Katherine, whose "new woman" opinions work far-reaching changes in him.

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Olivier Award winner Rory Kinnear, star of Penny Dreadful. Kinnear is also known for his portrayal of Bill Tanner in Spectre and for his role in The Imitation Game. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Robert...

Out-of-work Latin teacher and borderline alcoholic Austin DeSantis is determined to spend his final days in the arms of a prostitute—that is if the aliens don’t exterminate humanity first. But when the aliens land at the Vatican, begin speaking Latin, and reveal themselves to be Catholic, the world turns upside down. Pressed into service as a translator and thrust into the center of humanity's first contact with a cryptic alien race, Austin must uncover their true intentions before religious turmoil rips the planet apart.