Murder in the Dark - Margaret Atwood

Murder in the Dark - Margaret Atwood

By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias GraceThese short fictions and prose poems are beautifully bizarre: bread can no longer be thought of as wholesome comforting loaves; the pretensions of the male chef are subjected to a loght roasting; a poisonous brew is concocted by cynical five year

Murder in the Dark (Turell Dan)(Paperback)

Murder in the Dark sports a winning combination of engaging crime narrative and cool, unsentimental appraisal of Scandinavian society (as seen through the eyes of its shabby, unconventional anti-hero). There are elements of the book which now seem quite as relevant as when they were written, and

The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood (Howells Coral Ann)(Paperback)

The field of Margaret Atwood studies, like her own work, is in constant evolution. This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood provides substantial reconceptualization of Atwood's writing in multiple genres that has spanned six decades, with particular focus on developments

The Handmaid's Tale (Movie Tie-In) (Atwood Margaret)(Paperback)

#1 New York Times bestseller - Includes an introduction by Margaret Atwood. An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from 'the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction' (New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss. Look for The Testaments, the

Murder in the Dark (Greenwood Kerry)(Paperback)

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, now streaming on Netflix, starring Essie Davis as the honourable Phryne FisherOne of the most exciting and dangerous of the adventures into which Phryne's fabulous and risky lifestyle has led her --Kirkus ReviewsIt's Christmas, and Phryne has an invitation to the

Bones And Murder - Margaret Atwoodová

By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias GraceIn this collection of miscellaneous writings by Margaret Atwood, Gertrude describes what really happened in Hamlet, an ugly sister and a wicked stepmother put in a good word for themselves, and a reincarnated bat explains how Bram Stoker got

Dearly: New Poems (Atwood Margaret)(Pevná vazba)

In Dearly, Margaret Atwood's first collection of poetry in over a decade, Atwood addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature and - zombies. Her new poetry is introspective and personal in tone, but wide-ranging in topic. In poem after poem, she casts her unique

Oryx And Crake (Atwood Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

A man, once named Jimmy, lives in a tree, wrapped in old bedsheets, now calls himself Snowman. The voice of Oryx, the woman he loved, teasingly haunts him. And the green-eyed Children of Crake are, for some reason, his

The Complete Angel Catbird (Atwood Margaret)(Paperback)

Penelopiad (Atwood Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

A fresh take on what follows Homer's The Odyssey by the international best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood.Penelope. Immortalised in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband's

The Body in the Boat (MacKenzie A. J.)(Paperback)

A gripping tale of murder and mystery in 18th century England. Across the still, dark English Channel come the smugglers. But tonight they carry an unusual cargo: a coffin. Several miles inland, a respected banker holds a birthday party for his wife. Within days, one of the guests is found shot

A Cast of Falcons: A Birder Murder Mystery (Burrows Steve)(Paperback)

Book 3 in Steve Burrows' fabulous Birder Murder mystery series The threat from above casts a dark shadow. A man falls to his death from a cliff face in western Scotland. From a distance, another man watches. He approaches the body, tucks a book into the dead man's pocket, and leaves. When the

Dark Truths (Cross A. J.)(Paperback)

Criminologist Will Traynor is brought in to assist the police on a baffling murder investigation when a shocking discovery reveals links to a past crime. Aware of Traynor's troubled past, Detective Inspector Bernard Watts is sceptical that Traynor will bring anything useful to the investigation

Handmaid's Tale (Atwood Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly known the United States. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Waterford - her assigned name, Offred, means `of Fred'. She has only one function: to breed. If Offred refuses to enter

Dark Flood Rises (Drabble Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

The new novel from literary great Margaret Drabble is by turns dark and joyous, hilarious and heartbreaking, and asks us what makes a good life, and a good

Strange Things - The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature (Atwood Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

Margaret Atwood's superb exploration of stories and storytelling, myths and their reinventions, fiction and fact, the weirdness of nature, and the strangeness of the Canadian

The Heresy of Dr. Dee (Rickman Phil)(Paperback)

Tudor intrigue, murder, and the dark arts the second in a stunning and acclaimed historical series starring Dr. John Dee, perfect for fans of C. J. Sansom All talk is of the End-time, and the dead are rising. At the end of the sunless summer of 1560, black rumor shrouds the death of the one woman

The Devil May Dance (Tapper Jake)(Pevná vazba)

Charlie and Margaret discover the dark side of Hollywood in this sequel to New York Times bestseller The Hellfire Club--a thrilling cocktail of corruption and ambition from CNN's Jake Tapper. Charlie and Margaret Marder, political stars in 1960s Washington DC, know all too well how the tangled web

Penelopiad (Atwood Margaret)(Paperback)

Margaret Atwood's acclaimed stage adaptation of Homer. As portrayed in Homer's Odyssey, Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy - has become a symbol of wifely duty and devotion, enduring twenty years of waiting when her husband goes to fight in the Trojan War. As she

The Heart Goes Last (Atwood Margaret)(Paperback)

From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments--in the gated community of Consilience, residents who sign a contract will get a job and a lovely house for six months of the year...if they serve as inmates in the Positron prison system for the alternate months

Testaments - The Booker prize-winning sequel to The Handmaid's Tale (Atwood Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 'The Testaments is Atwood at her best . . . To read this book is to feel the world turning' Anne Enright The Republic of Gilead is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, two girls with radically different experiences of the

Handmaid's Tale (Atwood Margaret)(Paperback)

Murder at the Beacon Bakeshop (Hannah Darci)(Mass Market Paperbound)

In the first of a new series, after Lindsey Bakeswell catches her celebrity chef fianc sizzling in the arms of another woman, Lindsey leaves big city Wall Street for small town Beacon Harbor, Michigan to pursue her own passion as a pastry baker--and gets mixed up in someone's sweet taste of

Testaments - The Booker prize-winning sequel to The Handmaid's Tale (Atwood Margaret)(Pevná vazba)

Margaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale, has become a modern classic-and now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel. More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains