Resultados para "Ian McEwan" en Política

Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge, presiding over cases in the family court. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactitude and sensitivity. But her professional success belies private sorrow and domestic strife. There is the lingering regret of her childlessness, and now, her...

Brought to you by Penguin. Kafka meets The Thick Of It in a bitingly funny new political satire from Ian McEwan That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic creature. Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his...

Saturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man - a successful neurosurgeon, the devoted husband of Rosalind and proud father of two grown-up children. Unusually, he wakes before dawn, drawn to the window of his bedroom and filled with a growing unease. What troubles him as he...

Jim Sams hat eine Verwandlung durchgemacht. In seinem früheren Leben wurde er entweder ignoriert oder gehasst, doch jetzt ist er auf einmal der mächtigste Mann Großbritanniens - und seine Mission ist es, den Willen des Volkes in die Tat umzusetzen. Er ist wild entschlossen, sich von nichts und niemandem aufhalten zu lassen: weder von der Opposition noch von den Abweichlern in seiner eigenen Partei. Und noch nicht mal von den Regeln der parlamentarischen Demokratie. Die aberwitzige, kafkaeske Politsatire des großen britischen Erzählers.

Brought to you by Penguin. A TALE OF A TRAGEDY SEEPING THROUGH GENERATIONS, AND A FAMILY FRACTURED BY HISTORY AND DESIRE On the battlefields of the Crimea, William Gale cradles the still-warm body of his brother. William's experience of war will bring about a change in him that will reverberate...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of After the Party by Cressida Connolly, read by Kristin Atherton. 'I always wanted to be friends with both my sisters. Perhaps that was the source, really, of all the troubles of my life...' It is the summer of 1938 and Phyllis Forrester has returned to...