Serena Frome, in her final year at Cambridge, is being groomed for MI5. Serena is sent on a secret mission - Operation Sweet Tooth - which brings her into the world of Tom Haley, a promising young writer. First she loves his stories, then she begins to love the man. Can she maintain the fiction of her undercover life? And who is inventing whom?
Serena Frome, in her final year at Cambridge, is being groomed for MI5. Serena is sent on a secret mission - Operation Sweet Tooth - which brings her ...
In these seven interlinked stories the grown-up Peter reveals the secret journeys, metamorphoses and adventures of his childhood. Taking childhood as his subject matter, this is McEwan's first work of fiction which appeals to children as well as adults.
In these seven interlinked stories the grown-up Peter reveals the secret journeys, metamorphoses and adventures of his childhood. Taking childhood as ...
"His stories are so resonant and frightening because they are totally original. They are about the recognisable world of private fantasy and nightmare -- a world, despite our protestations to the contrary, we are all involved in." --Observer Call them transcripts of dreams or deadly accurate maps of the tremor zones of the psyche, the seven stories in this collection engage and implicate us in the most fearful ways imaginable. A two-timing pornographer becomes an unwilling object in the fantasies of one of his victims. A jaded millionaire buys himself the perfect mistress...
"His stories are so resonant and frightening because they are totally original. They are about the recognisable world of private fantasy and nightm...
"Haunting and compelling." --The Times As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though there waits someone who cares deeply about how they appear. Then they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell and become drawn into a fantasy of violence and obsession.
"Haunting and compelling." --The Times As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom them...
Stephen Lewis, a successful author of children's books, takes his three-year-old daughter on a routine Saturday morning trip to the supermarket. While waiting in line, his attention is distracted and his daughter is kidnapped. From there, Lewis spirals into bereavement that has effects on his relationship with his wife, his psyche and time itself.
Stephen Lewis, a successful author of children's books, takes his three-year-old daughter on a routine Saturday morning trip to the supermarket. While...
In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for themselves.
In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways ...
"I did not kill my father, but sometimes I felt I had helped him on his way. And but for the fact that it coincided with a landmark in my own physical growth, his death seemed insignificant compared with what followed. I am only including the little story of his death to explain how my sisters and I came to have such a large quantity of cement at our disposal."
In the relentless summer heat, four children retreat into an isolated world left to them by their parents and attempt to create their own version of a family. Ian McEwan's first novel, The Cement...
"I did not kill my father, but sometimes I felt I had helped him on his way. And but for the fact that it coincided with a landmark in my own ph...
Tato kniha představuje transpersonální teologii, antropologii a kosmologii založené na cyklickém prístupu ke skutecnosti a experimentální metafyzice. Autor navazuje na Jochena Kirchhofa, Henryho Corbina, Henryka Skolimowskiho, Jamese Hillmana, Šrí Aurobinda, Egona Bondyho a Ladislava Klímu. Ve své práci usiluje o novou formulaci a aplikaci obecného referencního rámce vší skutecnosti, který by umožnoval smysluplnou inte rakci a transformaci celku lidské zkušenosti.
Tato kniha představuje transpersonální teologii, antropologii a kosmologii založené na cyklickém prístupu ke skutecnosti a experimentální met...
The fortieth anniversary edition of McEwan's first published work, beautifully re-jacketed for a new generation of fans. Now with an Afterword from the author. Forty years on from when they were first published, these stories show McEwan's dazzling early talent. Taut, brooding and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can result from adolescent curiosity, and sheer evil might be the solution to unbearable loneliness.
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The fortieth anniversary edition of McEwan's first published work, beautifully re-jacketed for a new generation of fans. Now with an Aft...
