Sebastian: 1681 books

A typical fifteen-year old girl faces the challenges of life. Will she quit, or can she overcome the hardships and live in this world? There is no harm in keeping hope. A young girl living in an Indian village sees the world of cruelty. How can she dwell in this world? She tries to survive...

War-time love story set in Abyssinia, Eritrea and the Yemen 1935-1945. Amedeo Guillet is still alive and living in County Meath, Ireland. Khadija is lost. This is the story of Amedeo Guillet – an Italian calvary officer who was sent out to Abyssinia as part of Mussolini’s army to establish and...

Seminar paper from the year 1995 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1, University of Tubingen (Department of American Studies, Faculty of English Philology), course: Hauptseminar 'American West ', 24 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: University...

See, love between a man and a woman, it's - private. It happens where you never do see it. In rooms. Italy 1 - Ireland 0... The score that marked Ireland's demoralizing exit from Italia '90 took its toll. No more so than for Janet and Joe Brady of Parnell Street who lost far more than...

From his grave in the precincts of Canterbury Cathedral, Dallas Sweetman is called to give account. He tells a story of love and death, jealousy and miraculous happenings, of the divided loyalties of Protestants and Catholics in the Elizabethan Age. Before us, his judges, Dallas seeks to justify the...

Celebrated children's writer Hans Christian Andersen arrives, unannounced, for a stay at Gad's Hill Place in the Kent marshes - home to Charles Dickens and his large, charismatic family. To the lonely and eccentric guest, the members of Dickens' household seem to live a life of unreachable...

Now we've lived together in contentment, more or less, for nigh on twenty year. Like turtle doves. - In prison, I mean, for fuck's sake, the chances of that. PJ and Christy: sworn enemies destined to share one small room for twenty years. As the two men recall the joys and torments of life...

The only escape Martin Taper has from his miserable life as a pet store clerk is his diorama, a fantastical playset populated by miniature heroes, villains and monsters. Frustrated with his bullying manager and an unrequited crush on a beautiful co-worker, Martin acts out his fantasies nightly in...

“Cunningly crafted. . . . France’s unquiet histories are brought to life by a master storyteller.” **—**Financial Times (UK) A story of resistance, complicity, and an unlikely, transformative friendship, set in Paris, from internationally bestselling novelist Sebastian Faulks. American...

The publication of Robinson Crusoe in London in 1719 marked the arrival of a revolutionary art form: the novel. British writers were prominent in shaping the new type of storytelling - one which reflected the experiences of ordinary people, with characters in whom readers could find not only an escape,...

From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Birdsong, new fiction about love and war—five transporting stories and five unforgettable lives, linked across centuries. In Second World War Poland, a young prisoner closes his eyes and pictures going to bat on a sunlit English cricket...

Focusing on a richly significant time in our recent past, Sebastian Faulks, the bestselling author of Birdsong and Charlotte Gray, has written his first novel set in America. The year is 1960—a fascinating moment of transition in our country, when the comfortable Eisenhower years were drawing to...

Fliehende Karpfen, brennende Gänse, zähe Verwandte, entblößte Weihnachtsmänner, verweigerte Geschenke, einstürzende Christbäume, plötzliche Trennungen, gemeuchelte Kirchgänger, Teufel, Engel und Blitzeis ... Die schönsten Weihnachtskatastrophen, erzählt von: Sibylle Berg * Hans Zippert...

Twitter mir das Lied vom Tod... Wenn die ›Netiquette‹ versagt, das YouTube-Video bloßstellt, ein Hacker seine Tastatur glühen lässt oder ein falscher Freund alles über einen erfährt, dann ist man im Internetzeitalter angekommen. Namhafte KrimiautorInnen sind online gegangen und haben die...