Filtrer
Rayons
Langues
Prix
Duncan Campbell
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Calcutta 1971. A city in black-out as India declares war on Pakistan. Even so, the backpackers who end up in the flea-pit Lux Hotel are determined to have a good time. That is, until two mysterious deaths amongst them change their lives forever. Thrown together in the city are - Anand, the jazz-loving insomniac hotelier; Gordon, one of the hotel's dope-smoking guests; the philandering journalist Hugh, covering his first war; Britt, a Californian photographer with a jealous boyfriend; and the enigmatic Freddie Braintree, who interprets life through the lyrics of Bob Dylan and the Incredible String Band. Is it possible that one of them is behind the deaths? And why will it take more than three decades and three continents to find out?
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The brilliant new novel about contemporary London gangland crime by the hugely well reviewed author of THE PARADISE TRAIL. Britain's best known gangster, Charlie Hook, wants to tell his life story and chooses crime reporter Laurie Lane as his reluctant ghost. But the next day Hook is dead, his blood and hair on the walls of his north London mansion. Who has killed the last of the London Godfathers, the man who used to be a driver for the Kray twins? Laurie is having his own problems - he's suspected of fiddling his expenses and his country singer wife has left him for an older man - but he needs to find the killer to keep his job. Could it be a Russian businessman with a love of Scottish poetry and something dodgy in his Hampstead garden?
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In the desolate wilderness of the Canadian frontier, a fateful night in March unfolds. As a raging blizzard engulfs the land, a group of voyageurs embark on a perilous journey across the frozen expanse. Led by the enigmatic and enigmatic Jacques, they face treacherous ice floes, howling winds, and the relentless cold.
As darkness descends, secrets and tensions simmer beneath the surface. A young woman, Marie, haunted by a tragic past, seeks solace in the arms of Jacques. But their forbidden love threatens to unravel the fragile bonds that hold the group together. With each passing hour, the storm intensifies, testing the limits of human endurance and revealing the true nature of their hearts. -
In The Village Of Viger (Unabridged)
Duncan Campbell Scott
- Slingshot Books LLC
- 10 Août 2022
- 9798822576070
These ten superb short stories of Duncan Campbell Scott, published in 1896, portray humorous, farcical, and tragic aspects of life in the fictional Quebec village of Viger. Scott's tales of the lives and vicissitudes of Viger's inhabitants include an established milliner who is upset by the appearance of a younger, more popular rival; an innkeeper whose obsession with the Franco-Prussian War drives him mad; and a strange peddler with a carefully guarded secret that is accidentally revealed. Duncan Campbell Scott was born in Ottawa, Ontario, in 1862. He entered the civil service in 1879 and remained until his retirement in 1932. Scott was an honored, skilled and popular poet, short-story writer, and essayist. He died in Ottawa in 1947.