Ergebnis für "The Artist" in Literatur & Belletristik

WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 WINNER OF THE WATERSTONES DEBUT PRIZE 2025 LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2026 A RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME A TELEGRAPH AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A furiously romantic, sun-drenched mystery . . . The...

Sie malt sich ins Licht, auch wenn das bedeutet, ihre Welt in Flammen zu setzen. Provence, um 1920. „Venez. Kommen Sie". Mehr steht nicht in dem Brief. Und doch sieht sich Joseph Adelaide am Ziel seiner Träume: Er, ein noch völlig unbekannter Journalist, darf Édouard Tartuffe interviewen, der sich seit Jahren der Öffentlichkeit entzieht. In dem abgelegenen Landhaus in der französischen Provinz erwartet Joseph jedoch eine Überraschung. Nur wenn er dem weltberühmten Maler Modell sitzt, darf er über ihn schreiben.

When an art thief steals a mysterious painting to lure out its elusive creator, he never expects to fall in love with the woman behind the canvas —an artist hiding from the world and herself. Nash Beaumont lives two lives —respected art expert by day, meticulous thief by night. When he risks everything to steal Blue, the latest work from the anonymous artist known only as PERL, his plan is simple: spark chaos in the art world and flush out the ghost behind the masterpiece.

This quintessential coming-of-age novel describes the early life of Stephen Dedalus. It is set in Ireland during the 19th century, which was a time of emerging Irish nationalism and conservative Catholicism. Highly autobiographical in nature, the work is also notable for its being the first one in which Joyce uses innovative “stream of consciousness” writing style. A Portrait... follows Stephen Dedalus from his babyhood into early adulthood.

The Heartlands await—and they don't suffer newcomers gladly. Arriving with a mission from The System itself, Nate and Kiri must complete their tasks, deny Arikanvil the artifacts he seeks, and do it all without revealing the secret that could make them the most dangerous—or the most hunted—beings in the Heartlands. Outnumbered by factions with centuries of influence behind them, Nate and Kiri must forge new alliances and go toe-to-toe with rival Lesser Divines. But keeping their developing Divine Vessels hidden while fighting at full force? That's easier said than done.

"Firmenfeiern sind wie das letzte Abendmahl. Immer zu wenig Weiber, das Essen ist schlecht und am Ende gibt’s Ärger." Eine weise Vorahnung - und trotzdem macht sich Stromberg mit seinen Mitarbeitern aus der Schadensregulierung auf den Weg in ein Landhotel, in das die CAPITOL Versicherung die gesamte Belegschaft zur 50-Jahre-Jubiläumsfeier geladen hat.

Set in Colonial New England, Slewfoot is a tale of magic and mystery, of triumph and terror as only dark fantasist Brom can tell it. Connecticut, 1666: An ancient spirit awakens in a dark wood. The wildfolk call him Father, slayer, protector. The colonists call him Slewfoot, demon, devil. To...

Paris, September. Felix Dane, a restless English sculptor and self-declared vagabond, has barely settled back into his eyrie above the Luxembourg Gardens when his formidable step-sister Marion arrives with an outrageous request: hide a young girl, known only as Fifine, from a father said to mean...

She doesn’t believe in soulmates. Then she starts seeing everyone else’s. USA TODAY bestselling author Natalie Messier returns with a witty, speculative romance where fate may leave its mark, but love is still a choice. In a world full of soulmates, Paloma Alvarez is a nonbeliever. The...

From the bestselling author of Ohio and The Deluge comes a wild, inventive, kaleidoscopic short story collection that reckons with the full sweep of the human project—the myths, delusions, triumphs, and atrocities that define us. In “Chimera,” an ambitious contemporary artist creates a...

Es gibt Menschen, die gründen WhatsApp-Gruppen, andere gründen Vereine und manche sogar Start-Ups. Und dann gibt es Carolin Kebekus: unter einem eigenen Staat macht sie’s einfach nicht! Ladies and Gentlemen: Willkommen in “PussyNation“. Ihrem ganz persönlichen Rückzugsort, in dem sich Deutschlands Chef-Komikerin den Absurditäten unserer Zeit widmet und erneut die Hallen zum Beben bringt. In “PussyNation“ wird vor allem viel gelacht – z. B. wenn es ums Intim-Waxing oder Dating geht.

Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in...

For more than 15 years, Robert McKee's students have been taking Hollywood's top honors. His “Story Seminar” is the world's ultimate seminar for screenwriters, filmmakers, and novelists. Now, Robert McKee's Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting reveals the...

The dazzling final instalment in Melissa Caruso's Echo Archives series, a whip-smart adventure fantasy series packed with murder, mystery and mind-bending magic. Kembral Thorne is back on the job and everything is going well - she hasn't been in mortal peril for months and things are getting...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A young woman pretends to be someone she isn’t in this “spellbinding” (Vogue), “smoldering” (The Washington Post) novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls. “Under Cline’s command, every sentence as sharp as a scalpel, a woman toeing the...

Sie sind wie Feuer und Eis: Den witzigen, aber erfolglosen "Poolnudelvertreter" Hillmar Kess und den ehrgeizigen Wirtschaftsanwalt Tilmann Dilling verbindet eigentlich gar nichts, außer der Wunsch, rechtzeitig zu Weihnachten von ihren Dienstreisen zu Hause zu sein. Auf Tilmann wartet seine Familie mit dem Mittagessen, auf Hilmar seine Freundin, die Krankenschwester Ilka. Doch das Schicksal hat anderes mit ihnen vor. Ihre zufällige Zusammenkunft am Wiener Flughafen ist der Beginn eines Abenteuers, das sich schon bald zu einer winterlichen Odyssee quer durch Osteuropa entwickelt, die jede bisher bekannte Form von Weihnachtswahnsinn übertrifft.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 'Ece Temelkuran is a brilliant thinker' Omar El Akkad ‘Her most ambitious and dazzling book yet’ Brian Eno ‘Perhaps the most urgent and necessary book of our times’ Michael Morpurgo Dear stranger. Are you home? Do you feel at home? For...

Brought to you by Penguin. 'Let me stay there, let me paint. Let me go to bed when the sun comes up. I don't want life to sharpen me.' Why make art? Faced with a capitalist system that has turned art into artwork and creative expression into cut-throat competition, why do so many artists try...

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the...

They called them Crown Vic and Baby Blue… From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Atmosphere, Daisy Jones & The Six, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo comes a daring story of two friends chasing their biggest score yet—and risking everything that binds them together. As any good...