Resultados para "Touchstone" en Literatura y ficción

London, 1926. Harris Stuyvesant, agent of the US Bureau of Investigation, is on a mission. A series of bomb attacks on American soil, thought to be enacted by an up-and-coming British politician, have left him with a vendetta more personal than professional. But when his search for answers leads...

This spare, mesmerizing novel is Edith Wharton's money-can't-buy-happiness tale. Young Stephen Glennard, a lawyer, is poor, but he has an unanticipated gambling chip: a collection of love letters from a scorned, but now famous, lover, the distinguished novelist Margaret Aubyn. To raise money for his forthcoming wedding to another woman, Stephen stoops to selling the letters.

It was nearly midday when, bleary-eyed, Paula struggled up the last few metres of the slope. Lawrence's leaving party had drifted into the early hours, even though it was the middle of the working week, and in the morning, when he kissed her goodbye and got into the taxi, she had felt the first surge of panic.

When demons attack Jack’s hometown and kill nearly everyone that he has ever cared for, he is pushed through an interdimensional door and finds himself in the realm between Heaven and Hell. Jack presses forward through the otherworlds, determined to find Sarah, the only woman that has ever held his heart, and pour out revenge on the evil that attacked his home. He finds out that he has been prophesied to sit on Heaven’s Throne, and must find a legendary weapon to prevent the destruction of the world.

‘Nicely observed, with deft writing that makes it look easy. I think we all know someone like Germaine’ GRAEME SIMSION, bestselling author of The Rosie Project Office life can be a minefield . . . Germaine Johnson likes Sudoku, biscuits and maths. She is great with numbers and not so great...