A SHATTERED IDOL - Tom Hughes
A Shattered Idol is the first full-length account of a scandal that enthralled Victorian Britain for more than a decade when Lord Coleridge, the Lord Chief Justice, forbade his daughter Mildred (in her early thirties)…
The sixth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.‘Maupin''s adeptness at fluid dialogue, his flair for shaping characters who thread the needle between pop archetypes and singular human beings… are all on display’ New York Times____________________A fiercely ambitious TV talk show host finds she must choose between national stardom in New York and a husband and child in San Francisco. Caught in the middle is their longtime friend, a gay man whose own future is even more uncertain. Wistful and compassionate yet subversively funny, Sure of You is Armistead Maupin’s addictively entertaining observation on family, friendship and every relationship in between.Hurdling barriers both social and sexual, Maupin leads the eccentric tenants of Barbary Lane through heartbreak and triumph, through nail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences in 1980s San Francisco. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.
A Shattered Idol is the first full-length account of a scandal that enthralled Victorian Britain for more than a decade when Lord Coleridge, the Lord Chief Justice, forbade his daughter Mildred (in her early thirties)…
Jaroslav Juhan (1921) patří k nejúspěšnějším československým automobilovým závodníkům v celé historii našeho motoristického sportu, stal se světoběžníkem a mimořádnou osobností v automobilovém oboru. Své jméno spojil mimo jiné se značkou Porsche a Lotus. Jelikož…
Jai dreams of being a dragon rider. He dreams of freedom from the Sabine Empire and a world in which he can lead his people, the Kidara, to freedom. But even though he has his…
Now a Netflix Film Starring Sofia Carson and Corey Mylchreest!My Oxford Year is a pure delight . . . Julia Whelan has crafted a story that is as fun and charming as it is powerful…
...In the beginning there was light but more than this, there was gravity. After that, all hell broke loose... This is how the story of the greatest intellectual adventure in history should be introduced -…
The Great Darkness and The Mathematical Bridge were extremely well received. Spring 1941. It is the third year of war, and when the siren sounds the people of Cambridge trudge to the city''s public bomb…
Návykový psychologický thriller plný nečekaných zvratů o ničivém vztahu mezi Emily, jejím přítelem Adamem a jeho matkou Pammie. Ukazuje, jak mocná může být síla manipulace a že všechno nemusí být tak, jak se na první…
Readers can celebrate the joy of Christmas and all things jolly with a festive and heart warming quilts in the all-new pattern book Christmas Quilting: Festive Stiches, featuring 11 stunning designs from cosy throws to…