Richard - Libros y biografía

Jane Grosz and her wife Helen, embarked on the delayed 2.25 from Euston. In the carriage with them was a mother and child. An elderly grandmother, some university students, and two rowdy lads. When the...

Patrick O'Brien is convinced someone is trying to poison him. But the business tycoon doesn't know who in his inner circle it might be. Could it be his husband Toby, tired of years of playing second fiddle...

Paintings from a long-forgotten artist.A leaked confidential academic report.And a fake influencer.Is it possible that these three cases could be linked to the return of the criminal mastermind M'Oriarti?Back...

In the first book to study the short film using the yin yang complementarity, Raskin proposes a new paradigm—describing major forms of yin and yang, redefined as ungendered, freed of patriarchal bias....

The poet Pablo Neruda kept a box of seashells on his desk for inspiration and was in awe of their beauty.But does that beauty serve a survival function for the mollusk that produced it? Does it help to...

The first book on Jewish humor in which individual jokes are singled out for comprehensive study, Life is Like a Glass of Tea devotes a chapter to each of eight major jokes, tracing its history and variants—and...

Cicero's classic "On Old Age" is now adapted, explained, and updated to today's world. "Getting old is not for sissies": the mortal words of Bette Davis. And somewhat the theme of Cicero's "On Old Age."...

The joyful and sad experiences of five generations of Scots living in Australia; successful whisky brewing, accusations of embezzlement, sex abuse of children, kidnapping, expected and unexpected deaths.

"Wie man Eier sammelt und andere Katastrophen" ist eine Sammlung von Anekdoten in der Form von Kurzgeschichten aus dem Zusammenleben des Autors mit seinen Tieren. Sie sind, vom Autor erlebte, wahre eigenständige...

Jacob is devastated when he discovers the body of an old friend dumped at his home. The murder drags him into a conspiracy he's tried to avoid for many months. At odds with his own people, and the priests...

The Moon is a short story that explores the nature of a child's environment and may explain why things are the way they are. But it's also more than this. The subject matter is sensitive and may help...

"It was exactly one year ago today," my father said, "that the hostages were taken."He looked at me as if he wanted me to say something. I figured he was probably wrong about it being a year to the day,...

"This is a wonderful story, beautifully told." La Revista'Spanish Practices' weaves together nearly half a century of observations by Rico, an Englishman married into an eccentric family in a left-behind...

The first big picture is of a 1912 garden party, in the prosperous years before the Great War, World War One. Damage to the foto reached the tall beautiful lady in the middle. An enlargement is shown...

Before the Great War, on both open doors of the family store, like a Chinese divination, is the name of the skeptical Austro-Hungarian philosopher, who put sense experience before language, in an ironic...

A happy childhood in the Paradise of the Banat. A coming of age, thrown out of the services company, to fight in the Hell of the Russian Front. Purgatory in a foreign land. For, war does not end when...

I'm here, Richie. I can't bear shutting the door in day-time, and locking.What have I done to deserve this? How did I get like this? What the hell is going on?…Dad's died, has he? You didn't tell me....

The good dog (who first appeared in book 1 of this series) is among a tridogy of six turns of verse by Dafty Tailchaser.The first three sections are of children, animals and acting, following the WC Fields...

Starting from an infants point of view, this story in verse sees the Valesman and his farm, the animals and birds and beauty spots and seaside holidays of former Yorkshire days.The book cover drawing,...

Society grows ever more vulnerable in its folly. Human self-harm threatens the survival of the race and our fellow creatures. No amount of dystopian science-fiction or satire can shake the pathological...

Welcome to 1985! Live Aid feeds the world, Marty McFly goes Back To The Future, and fifteen year old Richard Cosgrove makes a discovery that changes his life forever - rock music! Plunging headlong into...

Gary Numan is widely recognised as being the most important electronic pioneer in music history. Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl, hip-hop innovator Afrika Bambaataa, and Oscar winner and Nine Inch Nails auteur...

Every story has a beginning and an end. What lies between these two points is the journey. Crossing the Rubicon is the story of seven remarkable teens as they survive the unbelievable.What started out...

If you wish to know why The Devil invented the Internet the first thing you have to understand is that God and The Devil were not always daggers drawn at opposite ends of the spiritual spectrum, so to...

24 curiously questioning tales to help you stay human in a world ruled by maniacs.A vengeful Troll spins the wheel of Universal Justice after a young family's home is foreclosed and they are left homeless.A...

Der Gärtner entdeckte die Toten: den Schriftsteller Julian Harper, seine Frau und seine Sekretärin - ermordet in ihrer Villa in Kalifornien.Und Betty, Harpers Stieftochter, ist schwer verletzt...Nur Jessica,...

Raucherlunge, Raucherbein - Beides klingt schrecklich, oder? Bilder wie diese brauchen Sie nicht in Ihrem Kopf, um von der Zigarette loszukommen. Genauso wenig sollten Sie die Kippe fortan als Ihren Feind,...

V. R. Smith, millionenschwerer Besitzer von Rundfunk- und Fernsehstationen, ist einer der einflussreichsten Männer der Vereinigten Staaten - und einer der skrupellosesten. Als Boss einer rechtsradikalen...

Ihre erste gemeinsame Nacht war der Himmel auf Erden - doch dann begann die Hölle: Sie - ein attraktives Starlet - er, ein erfolgloser Drehbuchautor - beide in Hollywood, beide auf der Suche nach dem...

Ein schreckliches Willkommen für Kate, die Frau des Journalisten Harry Falcon: Nach einem längeren Aufenthalt in einem Nervensanatorium wird sie in ihrer Wohnung von einem Triebtäter überfallen und schwer...