The Frozen Dead - Prijzen

Ida May

The sentimental antislavery novel Ida May appeared so like its predecessor in the genre, Uncle Tom's Cabin, that for the month of November 1854 reviewers looked for Harriet Beecher Stowe's hand in the...

All the lights

A man bets all he has on a horserace to pay for an expensive operation for his dog. A young refugee wants to box her way straight off the boat to the top of the sport. Old friends talk all night after...

Sherlock Holmes

'I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart'. Scandal, treachery and crime are rife in Old London Town. A king blackmailed by his mistress,...

Poor Caroline

Caroline Denton-Smyth is an eccentric, dressed in trailing feathers and jangling beads, peering out from behind her lorgnette. Sitting alone in her West Kensington bedsitter, she dreams of the Christi...

Revenge of the Spellmans

PC Pierre

'Ambiguities indeed! One long brain-muddling, soul-bewildering ambiguity (to borrow Mr. Melville's style), like Melchisedeck, without beginning or end-a labyrinth without a clue - an Irish bog without...

The Quantity Theory of Insanity

What is there is only a limited amount of sanity in the world and the real reason people go mad is because somebody has to? What if a mysterious tribe in the Amazon rainforest turn out to be the most...

A Year in Suburbia

The year starts badly for Mark Hutton, who finds that his wife has left him on New Year's Eve. His mood isn't improved when an old friend arrives from Australia and insists on organizing a reunion din...

Singer from Memphis

A historical murder mystery adventure that stretches from Classical Athens to Egypt in the footsteps of the first historian, Herodotus Nicolaos, the only private investigator in Athens, discovers that...

Brave

by Svetlana Chmakova Still on high alert about the looming threat of sunspots, Jensen of the art club reaches out to the school newspaper to spread his message. But when Jenny and Akilah discover...

Selected Poems

This selection makes available the full range of Robert Herrick's poetry: joyful eroticism, warm observations of rural life and shrewd epigrams, shadowed by an elegiac awareness of mortality and the f...

Paradies

Eine Woche im Paradies: Hier zählen nur Sie - und am Ende werden Sie nicht mehr der gleiche Mensch sein!Petra freut sich auf eine Auszeit ganz für sich, ohne Haushalt, Kinder, Mann und Job. Ihren Sehn...