Ergebnis für "The Complex" in Literatur & Belletristik

Gary Thorn goes for a pint with a work acquaintance called Brendan. When Brendan leaves early, Gary meets a girl in the pub. He doesn’t catch her name, but falls for her anyway. When she suddenly disappears without saying goodbye, all Gary has to remember her by is the book she was reading: The Satsuma Complex. But when Brendan goes missing, Gary needs to track down the girl he now calls Satsuma to get some answers. And so begins Gary’s quest, through the estates and pie shops of South London, to finally bring some love and excitement into his unremarkable life.

Bob Mortimer, beloved comedian and #1 Sunday Times (London) bestselling author of the memoir And Away…, returns with a delightfully quirky mystery in the vein of Richard Osman and Nita Prose. Unremarkable legal assistant Gary Thorn goes for a pint with his coworker Brendan, unaware his life is...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and Library Journal Jezebel’s May Book Club Pick “Inventive . . . astute . . . sharp and unexpected . . . Haunting and hilarious, Goddess Complex is at once a satire, a Gothic tale, a novel...

Zombies. The living dead. They are evil incarnate, here to terrorize your life. Except that they aren't. And they don't. It turns out that everything that we thought we knew about zombies, thanks to movies and books and television and such, was wrong. I should know. I see and deal with them on a daily basis. It's my job. I work for the Federal Office of Organizing Dining for Zombies, or F.O.O.D.Z. for short. Oh, and my job sucks. My name is Cassandra Cole. Welcome to my world.

A figure from the distant past is resurrected just in time to solve the world's problems. There's only one catch - she plans to rule the world.

Dexter meets Girlfriend's Guide to Divorce in this snarky black comedy that follows Eris as she toys with people's lives. When 25-year-old Eris gets fired from her minimum-wage job, she stumbles on her friend's startup which outsources bad news to people. But will she manage to keep her friendships intact when she finds out she's very good at delivering breakups, when demand is really picking up, and when the recipients don't take to the news too kindly?