A typically brilliant ironic & moving travelogue by one of the twentieth century's greatest writers In August 1936 a Hungarian writer in his mid-thirties arrives by train in Venice on a journey overshadowed by the coming war & charged with intense personal nostalgia Aware that he might never again visit this land whose sites & scenes had once exercised a strange & terrifying power over his imagination he immerses himself in a stream of discoveries reappraisals & inevitable self-revelations From Venice he traces the route taken by the Germanic invaders of old down to Ravenna to stand fulfilling a lifelong dream before the sacred mosaics of San Vitale This journey into his private past brings Antal Szerb firmly & at times painfully up against an explosive present producing some memorable observations on the social wonders & existential horrors of Mussolini's new Roman Imperium Antal Szerb was born in Budapest in 1901 Best known in the West as a novelist & short story writer he was also a prolific scholar whose interests ranged widely across the whole field of European literature Debarred from a university post by reason of his Jewish ancestry he taught in a commercial secondary school until increasing persecution led to his brutal death in a labour camp in 1945 Yet the tone of his writing is almost always deceptively light the fierce intelligence softened by a gentle tolerance wry humour & understated irony Pushkin Press's publications of Szerb's work include his novels Journey by Moonlight Oliver VII & The Pendragon Legend as well as the short story collection Love in a Bottle & the history The Queen's Necklace ...

Love is in the air
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play When Stanley Luke Wilson meets Diana Denise Richards at work he knows she is the woman he has been waiting for But hapless in love Stanley needs some help to secure a date & seeks advice from his friend Mike Ben Affleck before asking Diana out Stanley cannot believe his luck when the beautiful clever Diana agrees to go out for an evening with him So with that obstacle over he thinks it should be plain sailing with his plans in place for the perfect date However fate has other ideas & before the evening even kicks off Stanley & Diana bump into a homeless con-man named Phil Jay Lacopo who plays on Stanley&s kind nature & upsets his potentially perfect evening in every way possible ...

HARRY HOLE IS BACK! The blistering Sunday Times number one bestseller!36 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDETHERE'S A NEW KILLER ON THE STREETSA woman is found murdered after an internet date The marks left on her body show the police that they are dealing with a particularly vicious killer & HE'S OUT FOR BLOODUnder pressure from the media to solve the crime the force know there's only one man for the job But Harry Hole is reluctant to return to the place that almost took everything from him Until he starts to suspect a connection between this killing & his one failed case The king of all crime writers' Sunday Express Fast-moving Stunning' Sunday Times ...

HARRY HOLE IS BACK! The blistering new SUNDAY TIMES number one bestseller!THERE'S A NEW KILLER ON THE STREETS A woman is found murdered after an internet date The marks left on her body show the police that they are dealing with a particularly vicious killer HE'S IN YOUR HOUSE HE'S IN YOUR ROOMUnder pressure from the media to find the murderer the force know there's only one man for the job But Harry Hole is reluctant to return to the place that almost took everything from him Until he starts to suspect a connection between this killing & his one failed case HE'S OUT FOR BLOODWhen another victim is found Harry realises he will need to put everything on the line if he's to finally catch the one who got away ' An expertly plotted compelling & gripping white-knuckle ride Nesbo deserves to be crowned the king of all crime thriller writers' Sunday Express on THE SON' Nesbo deploys all the key ingredients of a cracking good thriller with expertise & verve The ticking clock the tension expertly ratcheted ever upwards the changing scenery the constantly shifting goalposts & the effortless triumphant outpacing of the reader's ability to guess what's going to happen will keep you gripped to the last page' Guardian on THE LEOPARD' The undisputed king of Scandinavian crime fiction' The Times' Scandinavian crime thrillers don't come much darker or more tense than the best-selling Harry Hole series & this tenth outing for the Norwegian detective is the best yet' Sunday Mirror on POLICE ...

While visiting her grandmother's house an old photograph leads Tanya to an unsolved mystery Fifty years ago a girl vanished in the woods nearby
- a girl Tanya's grandmother will not speak of Fabian the caretaker's son is tormented by the girl's disappearance His grandfather was the last person to see her alive & has lived under suspicion ever since Together Tanya & Fabian decide to find the truth But Tanya has her own secret the ability to see fairies & after disturbing an intruder in the night it emerges that someone else shares her ability The manor's sinister history is about to repeat itself
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A digital adaptation of John Buchan’s espionage thriller
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Harper Collins is proud to present its range of best-loved essential classics I snapped the switch but there was nobody there Then I saw something in the far corner which made me drop my cigar & fall into a cold sweat' When Richard Hannay is warned of an assassination plot that has the potential to take Britain into a war & then a few days later discovers the murdered body of the American that warned him in his flat he becomes a prime suspect He flees to the moors of Scotland & a spirited chase begins as he is pursued by the police & the German spies involved with stealing British plans Buchan's tale unfolds into one of the seminal & most influential 'chase' books mimicked by many yet unrivalled in the tension & mystery created by his writing Buchan reveres Hannay as an ordinary man who puts his country's good before his own & the classic themes of the novel influenced many films & subsequent 'man-on-the-run' novels ...

A special edition of The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan reissued with a bright retro design to celebrate Pan's 70th anniversary When a strange man turns up on his doorstep with stories of spies & assassinations Richard Hannay is drawn into the murky world of international espionage Four days later the stranger is dead & Hannay is caught up in a dramatic race to prevent a world war Hunted across Britain by enemies unknown he must outwit his pursuers & try to reach the site of the mysterious Thirty-Nine Steps' Set in 1914 this classic British thriller has been adapted many times for stage television & film ...

With an introduction by Stuart Kelly Recently returned from South Africa adventurer Richard Hannay is bored with life but after a chance encounter with an American who informs him of an assassination plot & is then promptly murdered in Hannay's London flat he becomes the obvious suspect & is forced to go on the run He heads north to his native Scotland fleeing the police & his enemies Hannay must keep his wits about him if he is to warn the government before all is too late ...