Liz Jensen Knihy

Terapeutka Gabrielle Foxová zůstala po nehodě na vozíku, ale chce se co možná nejdříve zapojit do normálního života. A v léčebně pro psychicky narušené mladé delikventy je o pracovní síly nouze vždycky. Jednou z Gabrielliných pacientek je i charismatická Bethany Krallová, která ubodala vlastní matku k smrti a myslí si, že dokáže předpovídat přírodní katastrofy. A těch je ve světě postiženém důsledky globálního oteplování víc než dost. Gabrielle se musí vyrovnat především sama se sebou a snaží se nepustit si Bethany k tělu, jenže postupně přichází na to, že dívčiny předpovědi možná nejsou jen výmyslem nemocného mozku. Ale jak o tom přesvědčit ostatní? A i kdyby jí uvěřili, lze odvrátit blížící se apokalypsu? Psychologický ekothriller psaný břitkým, nesentimentálním jazykem nabízí napínavou četbu jako stvořenou k filmovému zpracování.

`You know what they say about English girls' knickers,' ran the wartime joke, `One Yank and they're off.' When Gloria met Ron, he was an American pilot who thought nothing of getting hit by shrapnel in the cockpit. She was working in a munitions factory in Bristol during the Blitz, but still found time to grab what she wanted. Ciggies. Sex. American soldiers. But war has an effect on people. Gloria did all sorts of things she wouldn't normally do - evil things, some of them - because she might be dead tomorrow. Or someone might. Now, fifty years on, it's payback time. In her old folks' home, Gloria is forced to remember the real truth about her and Ron, and confront the secret at the heart of her dramatic home front story. In a gripping, vibrant evocation of wartime Britain, Liz Jensen explores the dark impulses of women whose war crimes are committed on the home front, in the name of sex, survival, greed, and love .

Meet Louis Drax, the Amazing Accident-Prone Boy, in this story of a family falling apart--and told in the vivid voices of its comatose son and of medical specialist Dr. Pascal Dannachet.

A spellbinding tale about what the human heart can inflict and the mind endure

A funny, thrillingly imagined rollercoaster of a novel from the author of The Ninth Life of Louis Drax,bursting with sex, time travel and true love

As chilling murders by children grip the country, anthropologist Hesketh Lock has his own mystery to solve: a bizarre scandal in the Taiwan timber industry. Hesketh has never been good at relationships: Asperger's Syndrome has seen to that. But he does have a talent for spotting behavioural patterns, and an outsider's fascination with group dynamics. Nothing obvious connects Hesketh's Southeast Asian case with the atrocities back home. Or with the increasingly odd behaviour of his beloved step-son, Freddy. But when Hesketh's Taiwan contact dies shockingly and more acts of sabotage and child violence sweep the globe, he is forced to acknowledge possibilities that defy the rational principles on which he has staked his life, his career and, most devastatingly of all, his role as a father.

A beautiful, honest and ultimately uplifting memoir about family grief and ecological breakdown

Im Kopenhagen des Jahres 1898 entdeckt die hübsche Charlotte die Zeitmaschine des verstorbenen Professors Krak. Plötzlich findet sie sich im London des 21. Jahrhunderts wieder.