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Author : Carol Windley
Publisher : Grove Atlantic
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802148646
Author : Andrew Martin
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781782832126
Night trains have long fascinated us with the possibilities of their private sleeping compartments, gilded dining cars, champagne bars and wealthy travellers. Authors from Agatha Christie to Graham Greene have used night trains to tell tales of romance, intrigue and decadence against a rolling background of dramatic landscapes. The reality could often be as thrilling: early British travellers on the Orient Express were advised to carry a revolver (as well as a teapot). In Night Trains, Andrew Martin attempts to relive the golden age of the great European sleeper trains by using their modern-day equivalents. This is no simple matter. The night trains have fallen on hard times, and the services are disappearing one by one. But if the Orient Express experience can only be recreated by taking three separate sleepers, the intriguing characters and exotic atmospheres have survived. Whether the backdrop is 3am at a Turkish customs post, the sun rising over the Riviera, or the constant twilight of a Norwegian summer night, Martin rediscovers the pleasures of a continent connected by rail. By tracing the history of the sleeper trains, he reveals much of the recent history of Europe itself. The original sleepers helped break down national barriers and unify the continent. Martin uncovers modern instances of European unity - and otherwise - as he traverses the continent during 'interesting times', with Brexit looming. Against this tumultuous backdrop, he experiences his own smaller dramas, as he fails to find crucial connecting stations, ponders the mystery of the compartment dog, and becomes embroiled in his very own night train whodunit.
Author : Michael Schumacher
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781452951577
With the sweep of an epic novel, Michael Schumacher tells the story of Allen Ginsberg and his times, with fascinating portraits of Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and William Burroughs, among others, along with many rarely seen photographs.
Author : Michael Lutwyche
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-19
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781783010509
Since the early 1990s Aston Villa Hardcore has been arguably the most prolific football hooligan gangs in the UK. Described by the police and press as one of the worst two hooligan firms on the England international scene. There are currently 80 Villa Hardcore members subject to football banning orders and sentences totalling over 80 years have been handed out to participants in a series of high profile incidents.Gang member Michael Lutwyche reveals how Villa Hardcore - led by Category C football hooligan Steven Fowler - became one of the most highly organised and notorious football hooligan gangs in the country. Known to police forces the world over Fowler first came to the notice of the world media when he was thrown out of France during the World Cup in 1998. He is now subject to one of the longest banning orders in British football.
Author : Amita Parikh
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443465007
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER At the World of Wonders, Europe’s most magnificent travelling circus, every moment is full of magic, and nothing is as it seems—especially for the people who put on the show Lena Papadopoulos has never quite found her place within the circus, even as the daughter of the extraordinary headlining illusionist, Theo. Brilliant and curious, Lena yearns for the real-world magic of science and medicine, despite her father’s overprotectiveness and the limitations of her wheelchair. Lena’s unconventional life takes an exciting turn when she rescues Alexandre, an orphan with his own secrets and a mysterious past. Over several years, as their friendship flourishes and Alexandre trains as the illusionist’s apprentice, World War II escalates around them. When Theo and Alexandre are contracted to work and perform in a model town for Jews set up by the Nazis, Lena becomes separated from everything she knows. Forced to make her own way, she must confront her doubts and dare to believe in the impossible—herself. A must-read for fans of The Night Circus and Water for Elephants, The Circus Train will take readers on a heart-rending and spectacular two-decade journey across Europe. When all is lost, how do you find the courage to keep moving forward?
Author : Juliette Sobanet
Publisher : Saint Germain Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Dive into the pages of this international bestseller in Juliette Sobanet’s City of Light series for a thrilling ride to Paris that you'll never forget… When hard-hitting DC reporter Jillian Chambord learns that her twin sister, Isla, has been abducted from a luxury train traveling through the Alps, not even the threat of losing her coveted position at The Washington Daily can stop her from hopping on the next flight to France. Never mind the fact that Samuel Kelly—the sexy former CIA agent who Jillian has sworn off forever—has been assigned as the lead investigator in the case. When Jillian and Samuel arrive in the Alps, they soon learn that their midnight train isn’t leading them to Isla, but has taken them back in time to 1937, to a night when another young woman was abducted from the same Orient Express train. Given a chance to save both women, Jillian and Samuel are unprepared for what they discover on the train that night, for the sparks that fly between them…and for what they’ll have to do to keep each other alive. Midnight Train to Paris is a magical and suspenseful exploration of just how far we will go to save the ones we love. Juliette Sobanet's captivating novels have reached hundreds of thousands of readers worldwide, becoming international bestsellers. Time for that magical journey to Paris? All you have to do is grab your copy of Midnight Train to Paris and you'll be swept away...
Author : Michal Ajvaz
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781564784919
A hymn to the invisible 'other' Prague, lurking on the peripheries of the town so familiar to tourists.
Author : Katherine Maria Pinner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0990932141
Midnight Train takes the reader on an emotional journey. It is the story of a Croatian boy who grows up in Europe during World War II and who experiences the decades of conflict that follow. The book is filled with lessons about life, war, politics, religion, family, and love. It is a story about a time that many people have never heard of or have since forgotten. Midnight Train is as relevant and timely today as ever. The book discloses what went on behind the Iron Curtain that was drawn right in the heart of central Europe and how these events relate to issues taking place across the globe today. It is filled with stories that are told with humor, wisdom, and heart-felt inspiration. This book is a genuine "must read" for anyone interested in the lessons of the past and what they have to teach us about events taking place in our world today.
Author : Peter J. Smith
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0871133679
Dark days for Hal Andrews, New York artist and scion of an eccentric New England family. His cat has just died in a plunge from his apartment window. His brother Beck, manic-depressive and hopelessly nostalgic, is about to marry Lisa Lyman, heiress to the Family Wipes fortune and certifiably the world's most abominable girl. Their sister Fishie, an Olympic swimming champion who uses her television appearances to berate Hal, has recently shaved her head bald. And their father is withholding Hal's inheritance until he becomes more responsible, or at least until he's sixty-five. Hal's artwork clutters the floors of his girlfriend's apartment and does about as much for his putative gallery. Hoping for a genius grant and settling for a decrepit dog and a derisive girlfriend, Hal's optimism begins to wane as he descends into a moody twilit world of obscure urban horror. Therefore, when a wrong number from out of town walks into his life, the situation is grim. Mary-Ann Beavers and her hostile brother arrive in New York via Greyhound, in search of celebrities and success, both rare commodities back home in Patent, Texas. She snaps her chewing gum and writes wretched poetry; her brother has bad teeth and a temper to match. While Mary-Ann stalks Liza Minnelli in the supermarket and treasures the autograph of Dustin Hoffman's agent's sister, a darkness that lasts for days falls over Hal's new but awful apartment. There is light, however, at the end of the tunnel, and Hal, in spite of himself, will bask in it. Make-Believe Ballrooms captures the true contemporary dilemma in this tale of Hal's decline and rehabilitation in much-too-postmodern New York.
Author : Bertha Leverton
Publisher : Book Guild Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:30000009104807
Presents accounts of persons who were brought to Great Britain as unaccompanied children in 1939 from the Greater Reich (Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia). Concentrating mostly on their lives in England and in North America, many of them also relate their experiences under the Nazi regime. Includes facsimiles of documents concerning these "children's transports" and their reception in Great Britain.
Author : Caroline Adderson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443426831
In this witty and colourfully peopled novel, Caroline Adderson effortlessly plunges the reader into a nineteenth-century Russian tragicomedy. Aspiring painter Masha C. is blindly devoted to Antosha, her famous writer-brother. Through the years Antosha takes up with numerous women from Masha’s circle of friends, yet none of these relationships threaten the siblings’ close ties until the winter he falls into a depression. Then Masha invites into their Moscow home a young woman who teaches with her—the beautiful, vivacious and deeply vulnerable Lika Mizanova—with the express hope she might help Antosha recover. The appearance of Lika sets off a convolution of unrequited love, jealousy and scandal that lasts for seven years. If the famously unattainable writer has lost his heart to Lika as everyone claims, why does he undertake a life-threatening voyage to Sakhalin Island? And what will happen to Masha if she is demoted from “woman of the house” to “spinster sister”? While Antosha and Lika push and pull, Masha falls in love herself—with a man and with a mongoose—only to have her dreams crushed twice. From her own heartbreak Masha comes to recognize the harm that she has done to her friends by encouraging their involvement with Antosha, but it is too late for Lika, who will both sacrifice herself for love and be immortalized as the model for Nina in Chekhov’s The Seagull. A Russian Sister offers a clever commentary on the role of women as prey for male needs and inspiration, a role they continue to play today. At the same time the novel is a plea for sisterhood, both familial and friendly. Chekhov’s The Seagull changed the theatre. A Russian Sister gives the reader a glimpse behind the curtain to the fascinating real-life people who inspired it and the tragedy that followed its premiere.
Author : Erin Morgenstern
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385534642
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Two starcrossed magicians engage in a deadly game of cunning in the spellbinding novel that captured the world's imagination. • "Part love story, part fable ... defies both genres and expectations." —The Boston Globe The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway: a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them both, this is a game in which only one can be left standing. Despite the high stakes, Celia and Marco soon tumble headfirst into love, setting off a domino effect of dangerous consequences, and leaving the lives of everyone, from the performers to the patrons, hanging in the balance.
Author : Irene Nemirovsky
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307371201
By the early 1940s, when Ukrainian-born Irène Némirovsky began working on what would become Suite Française—the first two parts of a planned five-part novel—she was already a highly successful writer living in Paris. But she was also a Jew, and in 1942 she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz: a month later she was dead at the age of thirty-nine. Two years earlier, living in a small village in central France—where she, her husband, and their two small daughters had fled in a vain attempt to elude the Nazis—she’d begun her novel, a luminous portrayal of a human drama in which she herself would become a victim. When she was arrested, she had completed two parts of the epic, the handwritten manuscripts of which were hidden in a suitcase that her daughters would take with them into hiding and eventually into freedom. Sixty-four years later, at long last, we can read Némirovsky’s literary masterpiece The first part, “A Storm in June,” opens in the chaos of the massive 1940 exodus from Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion during which several families and individuals are thrown together under circumstances beyond their control. They share nothing but the harsh demands of survival—some trying to maintain lives of privilege, others struggling simply to preserve their lives—but soon, all together, they will be forced to face the awful exigencies of physical and emotional displacement, and the annihilation of the world they know. In the second part, “Dolce,” we enter the increasingly complex life of a German-occupied provincial village. Coexisting uneasily with the soldiers billeted among them, the villagers—from aristocrats to shopkeepers to peasants—cope as best they can. Some choose resistance, others collaboration, and as their community is transformed by these acts, the lives of these these men and women reveal nothing less than the very essence of humanity. Suite Française is a singularly piercing evocation—at once subtle and severe, deeply compassionate and fiercely ironic—of life and death in occupied France, and a brilliant, profoundly moving work of art.
Author : Carol Windley
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781555849146
Families come together and come apart in the Pacific Northwest: “Exceptional . . . Every single story is worthy of reading.” —The Globe and Mail (Toronto) A Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee Set in the temperate rain forests of Vancouver Island and the vibrant cities of the Pacific Northwest, the stories in Home Schooling uncover the hidden freight of families as they dissolve and reform. Marriages fall apart; children cope with tragedy; relationships take unexpected turns; and happiness comes from unlikely alliances. These emotionally engrossing tales reveal how the people we live with, the very world that surrounds us, can sometimes shift into new and startling configurations. “Windley keeps readers’ attention with a fast pace and an eye for fresh details that make her efficient, achingly human dramas absorbing and sympathetic.” —Publishers Weekly “The families in Carol Windley’s remarkable story collection are as unsettled and moody as the wind-blasted landscape that shelters and confounds them . . . Windley can create an almost tactile atmosphere of uncertainty and dread.” —The Miami Herald “Carol Windley’s writing has a unique power, a perfect combination of delicacy, intensity, and fearless imagination.” —Alice Munro
Author : Gerda Hoffer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Jews
ISBN : UOM:39015024881842
Relates the history of the Jewish Utitz family (ancestors of the author) from their settlement near Prague in the 16th century. Mentions anti-Jewish discrimination during the 17th-18th centuries, life in the ghetto of Prague, and the necessity of those who chose an academic career to convert to Christianity. Claims that the period from the second half of the 19th century until 1933 was the only one in this region without antisemitic excesses. The author's immediate family had moved to Austria, where she was born. In 1938 they fled to Prague and from there to England. Describes persecution of the Jews by the Nazis and the deportation of members of the family from Vienna and Prague to concentration camps.
