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Revenge is a dish best served old...'Not all heroes wear capes, some wear M&S; cardigans! A triumph!' MIKE GAYLE 'A sublime mix of comedy, drama and adventure' JILL MANSELL'Just pure joy from start to finish.' ALEXANDRA POTTERMeet the Williamson sisters, Britain's most treasured World War II veterans. Now in their nineties, Josephine and Penny are in demand, popping up at commemorative events all over the country. Despite their age, they're in great form-sprightly and sparky, and always in search of their next excitement. This time it's a trip to Paris to receive the Legion d'honneur, accompanied by their devoted great-nephew, Archie.Keen historian Archie believes his great aunts had minor roles in the Women's Royal Navy and the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, but that's only half the story. There's a reason sweet Auntie Penny can dispatch a would-be mugger with a brolly. This trip to Paris is not what it seems either. Scandal and crime have quietly trailed the sisters since the war. Now armed with new information about an old adversary, these much decorated (but admittedly ancient) veterans intend to settle scores, avenge lost friends, and pull off one last heist before the curtain comes down on their illustrious careers. A charming, uplifting and cosy mystery about two national treasures hiding official secrets and double lives - perfect for fans of THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB. 'Funny, thrilling and brilliantly researched.' SJ Bennett'It's P.G. Wodehouse meets Dear Mrs Bird and it's utterly wonderful.' Annie Lyons 'Utterly charming and engrossing' Jenny Colgan 'A glorious, rip-roaring adventure, so funny and charming, yet laced with unexpected moments of real tenderness and reflection' Lucy Dillon'The literary equivalent to a perfect Martini, The Excitements is sharp, delicious, instantly mood-lifting and utterly intoxicating.' Kate Eberlen

A brilliant and witty drama unfolds around two elderly female World War II veterans with a secret past who embark on one last adventure to right historic wrongs. The Williamson sisters, now in their late nineties, are beloved figures, frequently appearing at events across the country. Despite their age, Josephine and Penny remain sprightly and eager for excitement. Their latest venture takes them to Paris to receive the Légion d’Honneur for their role in liberating France, accompanied by their devoted gay nephew, Archie. While the press portrays them as Royal Navy and nursing corps heroes, the truth is far more thrilling: Josephine was an intelligence operative whose maps aided the D-Day invasion, and Penny was a spy, risking her life in France. However, their trip to Paris is shrouded in intrigue, as scandal and crime have long followed the sisters. Armed with new information about an old adversary, these decorated veterans aim to settle scores, avenge lost friends, and execute one last daring heist before their illustrious careers conclude. This fast-paced and witty tale celebrates two remarkably clever women who helped save the world, all while maintaining their killer instincts and zest for life.

Kip Norvald wächst in den späten 80ern in Venice, Florida, bei seiner Oma auf. Kira Hetfield lebt im Trailer ihres Vaters, Leslie Vogler, der androgyne Schwarze in Glamklamotten, bei den jüdischen Adoptiveltern. Nichts in ihrem Leben ist gut und einfach. Was sie zusammenbringt, ist eine neue, unerhörte Musik: Death Metal. Deren reinigende Härte lässt vieles vergessen, Kips psychische Probleme, die Übergriffe von Kiras Vater, Leslies blutiges Gesicht nach einem homophoben Angriff. Die drei wollen nur weg aus diesem toten Winkel Floridas, wo es außer Rentnern, Bullen und Drogenköchen, Sümpfen und Palmen wenig gibt. Und so steigen sie eines Tages ins Auto und verschwinden in Richtung L. A. – Hauptstadt des Metal, des Glamrock, der legendären Clubs, in ein Dasein voller Freiheit und Risiko. Es dauert lange, bis Kip erkennt, dass seine Liebe zu Kira unerfüllt bleiben mag, aber dass sie ohne ihn von der Dunkelheit verschlungen wird. Unter Wölfen ist komplexe Liebesgeschichte, Künstlerroman, Thriller und eine an poetischen Wundern reiche Zeitreise mit gewaltigem Soundtrack.

Kip, Kira, and Leslie are outliers, even in the metal scene they love. In arch-conservative backwoods Florida in the 1980s, just listening to heavy metal can get you arrested—but the risk is worth taking, because music is what leads them to each other.Different from one another as they are, the three of them form a family of sorts, one that proves safer and more loving than the broken homes they come from. Together, they make the pilgrimage from Florida's swamp country to L.A.'s fabled Sunset Strip—but the beautiful new life they've dreamed of soon proves a mirage. Kira finds herself drawn to ever darker and more extreme strains of metal, drifting toward a place where her two friends, for all their love, can't follow. On a trip to Europe for her twenty-second birthday, in the middle of a show, she simply vanishes. Years later, the shocking truth about her disappearance reunites Kip and Leslie, whose search for her takes them from California to the snowbound woods of Norway. But bringing Kira home will require a greater sacrifice than either could imagine.In his most absorbing and ambitious novel yet, John Wray dives deep into the wild funhouse world of heavy metal and death cults in the 1980s and '90s. Gone to the Wolves lays bare the intensity, tumult, and thrill of friendship in adolescence—a time when music can often feel like life or death.

Wray, Jahrgang 1971, ist Amerikaner. Seine Mutter ist Österreicherin, er ist zweisprachig aufgewachsen, verbringt seine Sommer noch immer im Kärntner Haus seiner Großeltern in Friesach – und seinen neuen Band «Madrigal» hat er auf Deutsch geschrieben. In der titelgebenden Erzählung geht es um Bruder und Schwester. Er ist ein erfolgreicher Schriftsteller mit Profilneurose, sie – Madrigal – eine erfolglose Schriftstellerin mit psychischen Problemen. Nach ein paar Absätzen entführt Wray seine Leser aus der realistischen Anfangssituation in die irrlichternden Welten im Kopf von Madrigal: filmreife Horrorszenen, Vorstadtdepression und Reisebeschreibungen aus dem 19. Jahrhundert wechseln in schneller Folge. Sogar Donald Trump hat am Ende noch einen Cameo-Aufritt. Von der ersten Seite an ist man gefangen in und von diesen Welten, deren Achse und Horizont stets verschoben erscheinen, ins Metaphysische, ins Abwegige. Daraus entwickeln die Texte eine eigene Logik, die Logik der Paranoia, die sich bekanntermaßen stets aus sich selbst begründet und fortschreibt. Nach seinem gefeierten Auftritt während der Tage der deutschsprachigen Literatur in Klagenfurt legt John Wray nun seinen lange erwarteten Erzählband vor.

In California her name was Aden Grace Sawyer. In Pakistan she must choose a different name - Suleyman - and take on a new identity as a young man. She has travelled a long way to begin her new life, and she'll travel further to protect her secret.But once she is on the ground, Aden finds herself in more danger than she could have dreamed. Faced with violence and loss, she must make intense and unimaginable choices that will test not only her faith, but her understanding of who she is.Compelling, unnerving and timely, Godsend is a subtle masterpiece of empathy: a study of what it means for a person to give themselves to their faith, and how far they will go from home to find a place to belong.

The Lost Time Accidents is a bold and epic saga set against the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century. Haunted by a failed love affair and the darkest of family secrets, Waldemar 'Waldy' Tolliver wakes one morning to discover that he has been exiled from the flow of time. The world continues to turn, and Waldy is desperate to find his way back. In his ambitious and fiercely inventive new novel, John Wray takes us from turn-of-the-century Viennese salons buzzing with rumours about Einstein's radical new theory to the death camps of the Second World War, from the golden age of post-war pulp science fiction to a startling discovery in a modern-day Manhattan apartment packed to the ceiling with artefacts of contemporary life.

Jako bájný had Uroboros se pod New Yorkem táhne jeden nekonečný tunel podzemky. A někde v něm se pohybuje šestnáctiletý Will Heller. Nechává si říkat Spodek, je paranoidní schizofrenik, miluje vlaky a věří, že svět se neustále ohřívá a řítí se do záhuby. Příběh plný napětí, který poněkud pokřiveným pohledem jednoho neobyčejného kluka zkoumá otázky mládí, sexuality a násilí.

Een Engelse vertaler werkt aan een Frans toneelstuk terwijl hij zijn terminaal zieke moeder verzorgt, daarbij later geholpen door zijn broer en diens gezin.