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In 1978, Haruki Murakami was 29 and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers¿ award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, which turned Murakami from a wri...

Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award, The Cement Garden, Enduring Love, Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize, Atonement, Saturday, On Chesil Beach, Solar, Sweet Tooth, The Children Act, and Nutshell, which wa...

From the author of "The Big Picture" and "The Job" comes this latest novel in paperback, set in post-war New York, against the backdrop of the nightmare of the McCarthy witch hunts. A tragic love story, and a tale of divided loyalties, described by Kate Atkinson, author of "Behind The Scenes At The Museum" as "a compulsive read".

Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed. On Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the place where it's wasted (like underwater - how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities where there's never enough time. But the construction of the world's first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well, time...

An introduction to the weird and unsettling world of H.P. Lovecraft, master and pioneer of horror. Between these pages you will find things that lurk, things that scurry in the walls, things that move unseen, things that have learnt to walk that ought to crawl, unfathomable blackness, unconquerable evil, inhuman impulses, abnormal bodies, ancient rites, nameless lands best left undiscovered, thoughts best left unspoken, doors best left closed,...

Jules Verne was born on February 8, 1828, in the city of Nantes, France . He is best known for his novels A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, The Mysterious Island and Around the World in Eighty Days. Verne is often referred to as the 'Father of science fiction' because he wrote about space, air and underwater travel before aeroplanes, spacecrafts and submarines were invented. He died in 1905.

BOOK 3 IN THE IRON DRUID CHRONICLESThor, the Norse god of thunder, is worse than a blowhard and a bully-he's ruined countless lives and killed scores of innocents. After centuries, Viking vampire Leif Helgarson is ready to get his vengeance, and he's asked his friend Atticus O'Sullivan, the last of the Druids, to help take down this Norse nightmare.One survival strategy has worked for Atticus for more than two thousand years: stay away from th...

Kemp delivers an original adventure of the good, the bad, and the unknown in the Star Wars galaxy, following on the events of the "New York Times" bestseller "Crosscurrent." Original.

When I look into you, I see no loyalty. . . . I sense only tangled allegiances. . . . Given a choice, I would never trust you." From across the galaxy they've come: agents of both the Republic and the Sith Empire, an investigating Jedi Padawan, an ex-trooper drummed out of the Republic's elite Blackstar Squad, and a mysterious Mandalorian. An extraordinary auction has drawn them all together-in quest of a prize only one can claim. Each is p...

Hemingway's memories of his life as an unknown writer living in Paris in the twenties are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. Looking back not only at his own much younger self, but also at the other writers who shared Paris with him - James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald - he recalls the time when, poor, happy and writing in cafes, he discovered his vocation. Written during the last years of Hemingway's lif...

Ein wenig unheimlich geht es in diesem Gasthaus zu, findet der zwölfjährige Junge (der Ich-Erzähler). Er hatte sich durch einen überraschend einbrechenden Nebel im Wattenmeer verirrt und wurde von einem Pferdekutscher gefunden. Der Kutscher nimmt den Jungen mit in den "Krug zum Grünen Walfisch". Dort sitzen bereits zwei Männer, ein jüngerer und ein älterer, in langen Ledermänteln, die ziemlich mürrisch vor sich hin starren. Sie werden von der ...

Lotte will Prinzessin sein Sieben Uhr morgens. Lotte soll endlich aufstehen. Sie muss um acht im Kindergarten sein. Wenn sie sich nicht beeilt, kommen beide zu spät, denn auch die Mama will pünktlich ins Büro. Also bitte, Lotte, zieh rasch den blauen Rock und den roten Pulli an. ABER NEIN! Lotte will nicht. Heute möchte sie unbedingt das Prinzessinnenkleid anziehen. Und so gibt es schon am frühen Morgen Streit. Aber weil Lotte und ihre Mama si...

This iPad is cute. It's lovable. It's fun to play with. And it's a bit mysterious. My New(TM) iPad is your guide to getting more from your new iPad, Apple's latest magical creation. You'll learn how to do the things you want to do right now - like surf the Internet, send email, listen to music, take notes, read ebooks, and play with your photos. Wallace Wang, best-selling author of My New Mac and my New iPhone, takes you step- by-step through ...

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The first novel in the Iron Druid Chronicles-introducing a cool, new, funny urban fantasy heroAtticus O'Sullivan, last of the Druids, lives peacefully in Arizona, running an occult bookshop and shape-shifting in his spare time to hunt with his Irish wolfhound. His neighbors and customers think that this handsome, tattooed Irish dude is about twenty-one years old-when in actuality, he's twenty-one centuries old. Not to mention: He draws his pow...

A joyride through the schadenfreude of the greatest one-time destruction of wealth since the 1930s, told with humor, anthroplogical close-ups and a subtle tone.

Diana Gabaldon's brilliant storytelling has captivated millions of readers in her bestselling and award-winning Outlander saga. In An Echo in the Bone, the seventh volume, Gabaldon continues the extraordinary story of the eighteenth-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his twentieth-century time-traveling wife, Claire Randall. Jamie Fraser, former Jacobite and reluctant rebel, is already certain of three things about the American rebellion: The A...

Kate Atkinson is one of the world¿s foremost novelists. She won the Costa Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Her three critically lauded and prizewinning novels set around World War II are Life After Life, A God in Ruins (both winners of the Costa Novel Award), and Transcription. She was appointed MBE for services to literature in 2011.Her bestselling literary crime novels featuring former detective J...

In den Archiven des Westdeutschen Rundfunks in Köln wurde jüngst eine Reihe von Klassikern ausgegraben, die zu den schönsten Produktionen der Rundfunkgeschichte gehören: Aufnahmen aus den Jahren 1956 bis 1958 nach Büchern von Karl May. Mit dem Hörspiel "Winnetou", unter der Regie von Kurt Meister, wird nun das erste dieser legendären Radio-Schätzchen veröffentlicht. Eine Entdeckungsreise in die populäre Wortkunst der mittleren Fünfziger beginn...

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