Ergebnis für "Matt Lucas" in Literatur & Belletristik

Über den Dächern von Charlestown erstreckt sich für Matt eine Welt voller Mysterien und Rätsel. Er, ein Gestaltwandler der ganz besonderen Art, hüpft so gut wie jede Nacht als schwarze Katze durch die kleine Stadt und genießt die unendliche Freiheit, die seine tierische Form mit sich bringt - vor allem, weil sie im völligen Kontrast zu seinem monotonen, menschlichen Dasein steht. Sein Leben nimmt allerdings eine unerwartete Wendung, als er auf einen faszinierenden Neuankömmling stößt: einen mächtigen Tigerwandler.

Obwohl sich der 32-jährige River McKenzie tief im Herzen nichts sehnlicher als eine ernsthafte Beziehung wünscht, holt er sich seine Befriedigung seit Jahren fast ausschließlich in One-Night-Stands. Da er alleine lebt, kann er tun und lassen, was er will, bis er seinen gleichaltrigen besten Freund Matthew Buck bei sich aufnimmt, dessen langjährige On-off-Freundin Amy ihn mal wieder vor die Tür gesetzt hat. Die beiden Männer verbindet seit Kindergartentagen eine tiefe Freundschaft, die sogar Rivers frühes Coming-out als Teenager schadlos überstanden hatte.

Benjamin Harper's ex may have turned out to be a dud in the Daddy department, but that's okay. Now that he is single, he has time to work on the old motorcycle his father left him when he died. The only problem is Benjamin doesn't know a piston from a push rod. It doesn't take him long to realize he needs some help.

Mr Stink, from Children's author David Walliams. "Mr Stink stank. He also stunk. And if it was correct English to say he stinked, then he stinked as well…” It all starts when Chloe makes friends with Mr Stink, the local tramp. Yes, he smells a bit. But when it looks like he might be driven...

In this Audible Exclusive performance by Matt Lucas of Great Expectations, Charles Dickens demonstrates that conscience, loyalty and empathy are virtues far more valuable than intellect, wealth and social standing. First published in Dickens’ own periodical, All the Year Round, the novel was divided into nine monthly instalments, from December 1860 to August 1861. Unsurprisingly, it was an instant success and managed to sell over 100,000 copies per week. Though written at a challenging time in Dickens’ life, when the impending breakdown of his marriage loomed over him, Great Expectations proves to be one of his most optimistic, comical and romantic novels.

Lucas Brokaw is an incredibly wealthy man. But though he has amassed one of the greatest fortunes in the world, he is without an heir. Looking death in the face, he decides to leave his money to whoever can prove to be his reincarnated self. He has set up a foundation to oversee his assets until someone steps forward as the reincarnation of Lucas Brokaw - and can prove it. Hundreds of candidates emerge, each claiming to be the millionaire returned to collect his fortune. But all of them fail to provide significant knowledge of the life of Brokaw to back up their petition.

It’s rumoured that Dickens wanted to return to his classic novel Oliver Twist, to bring him back into a later book as an older character, but he never managed this before he died. However, if Oliver had returned, what would he have been like? Would the scars of his childhood affect the man he would become? And what of ‘Dodger’, sent to a land halfway around the world, his friend, mentor and master dead because of Oliver? Dodge & Twist is that story. The tale of two boys, 12 years later, returning into each other’s lives - for both good and bad.