Ergebnis für "Marina" in Literatur & Belletristik

Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcee. He was 84 and she was 36. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside. Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must put aside a lifetime of feuding to save their émigré engineer father from voluptuous gold-digger Valentina.

A beautiful summer's evening in a Kent field and around their two caravans a group of strawberry pickers celebrates a birthday. But what lies behind the buy-one-get-one-free offers at your supermarket and who picks our strawberries? The Ukrainians: Irina, just off the coach from Kiev, and Andriy, the miner's son from the other Ukraine; the Poles: Tomasz and Yola; two Chinese girls; Emanuel, the round-eyed eighteen-year-old from Malawi. And although he can't pick strawberries, there's also the Dog…

Brought to you by Penguin. George Pantis is in a pickle. After walking out on his wife Rosie on Referendum night 2016 to shack up with hairdresser 'Brexit Brenda' next door, he thinks he's got it made - especially when he wins millions on a Kosovan lottery he only vaguely remembers entering...

Georgie Sinclair’s husband has walked out and work is getting her down. So when she spots Mrs Shapiro, an eccentric old neighbour, rummaging through her skip in the middle of the night, it’s just the distraction she needs. And although they mistrust each other at first a firm friendship is formed. Then Mrs Shapiro is admitted to hospital and, to Georgie’s surprise, she is named as her next of kin.

Todo el barrio conoce su historia, pero nadie conoce la verdad. La más divertida y brillante novela de Juan Manuel Gil. Después de más de treinta años de servicio en la conserjería de un colegio, Leo Almada, el majareta, es prejubilado inesperadamente. Este hecho lo llevará a protagonizar...

Marcus and Doro were part of a left-wing commune from the late 1960s until the early 1990s: lentils, free love, spliffs, radical politics, cheesecloth blouses, sex, housework and cooking rotas, crochet, allotments. Their children have grown up rather different from them: primary schoolteacher Clara craves order and clean bathrooms, son Serge is pretending to his parents that is still doing a Maths Ph.d. at Cambridge, while in fact making loadsamoney in the City; third child Oolie Anna, who has Down's Syndrome, is desperate to escape home and live on her own.

North London in the 21st century: a place where a son will swiftly adopt an old lady and take her home from hospital to impersonate his dear departed mother rather than lose the council flat. A time of golden job opportunities, though you might have to dress up as a coffee bean or work as an intern at an undertaker or put up with champagne and posh French dinners while your boss hits on you.

Brought to you by Penguin. Two Caravans is the hilarious and engaging second novel from bestselling author Marina Lewycka. A field of strawberries in Kent... And sitting in it are two caravans - one for the men and one for the women. The residents are from all over: miner's son Andriy is from...

Wann hatte ich aufgehört zu leben? Mit den ersten grauen Haaren, Kleidergröße 44, als ich nicht mehr tanzen ging, abends zu müde für Freundinnen war...? Anne ist Anfang 50 und schwer frustriert. Drangsaliert von ihrer Mutter, ignoriert von ihrem Göttergatten und inspiriert von einer Wunschliste aus Kindertagen, macht sie sich auf die Reise. Und landet: in Wien. Gibt es einen besseren Ort, um alten Träumen endlich neues Leben einzuhauchen?

Julie Randall needs that book. Not because it's a rare first edition, but because the handwritten notes in the margins will unlock the secrets of her Victorian-era kitchen garden in north London. The book was almost hers, but now, it's in the hands of some aristocratic jerk who probably doesn't know a tomato from a cucumber. Make that a handsome, aristocratic jerk.

Marie-Claire is willing to do whatever it takes to stay at her prestigious London art school. Learn to loosen up? Leave her comfort zone? One kiss in a dark alcove with handsome footballer Mick Carr might be the answer. Suddenly, what started as a harmless fling turns into a nationwide scandal as the paparazzi hunts her and Mick’s ex-girlfriend brews trouble at every turn. Mick might hold the key to her success, but he also held the keys to her destruction. Will his love save her or destroy her?

A blast from the past leads to tantalizing trouble for one woman in this dazzling second chance romance set in the small town of Sugar, Georgia. Charlotte Holden, Sugar's favorite pediatrician, knows better than anyone that love only leads to heartbreak. Instead, she's focused on creating an...

Has she gone too far this time? It's all gone horribly wrong and the worst has happened.Alison is in deep, deep trouble and no amount of lies are helping. Forgetting the first rule of lying, she's protesting her innocence but no one will believe a word she says no matter how hard she lies. Mother's dark prophecy that she'd get what she deserves haunts her as she contemplates the best years of her life behind bars.

Vergnügliche Episoden aus dem abenteuerlichen Leben des Katers Franzl, der aus dem beschaulichen oberpfälzischen Dorf Pentling in die Ewige Stadt auswandert...

We Are All Made of Glue is the seriously entertaining, third downloadable audiobook from Marina Lewycka, the number one bestselling author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian and Two Caravans. Abridged and read by Sian Thomas. Georgie Sinclair's husband has left her; her sixteen-year-old...

Fat and friendless, carer to her mother by day and a secret binge eater by night, 28-year-old Alison hates her life. She feels powerless to help herself until one day she encounters the person she would like to be and determines to transform herself. Admiration soon turns to obsession, and as Alison loses weight she discovers she’s capable of things she never imagined. Will she get the life she desires or the life she deserves?

The hated house of her childhood has been sold, and Alison now has a smart new apartment and a new, exciting career. Everything, in fact, that she’s ever dreamed of. Mother is but a sad and miserable memory. Life is good, life is slim. But then it all starts to go horribly wrong...again, and Alison has to ask herself - is it her? She’s trying her very best to be a good person, but it’s harder than she thought it would be and, if she’s honest, which she’s mostly not; it’s a bit boring. Is she more like Mother than she’d care to admit?

Based on true historical events, Brendan Malone: The Last Fenian is a folkloric satire examining the dark, destructive side of paternal love.

Back home after her life changing moment at Frogham train station, it seems that Alison's life is looking up, and there's even a possibility of romance on the horizon. Maybe she can finally stop lying. But it's not very long before it all starts to go wrong, and when Alison makes an enemy of Blake's new girlfriend, she decides it's time to get herself a proper job and make something of herself.

Das Hörbuch zum Buch. Wie oft im Leben darf man verliebt sein? Gibt es überhaupt eine Liebesgrenze? Das Huhn namens Klio weiß es aus eigener Erfahrung und ist bereit uns darüber zu berichten.