Tiny is pregnant. Her husband is delighted. �You think this baby is going to be like you, but it's not like you at all�, she warns him. �This baby is an owl-baby.� When Chouette is born small and broken-winged, Tiny works around the clock to meet her daughter's needs. Left on her own to care for a child who seems ... Weiterlesen

Henry James: The Turn of the Screw

UK 2011, 134 pp., pb, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

�The Turn of the Screw� tells the story of a young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans. Unsettled by a sense of intense evil in the house, she soon becomes obsessed with the idea that something malevolent is stalking the children in her care. A great masterpiece of haunting atmosphere and unbearable tension.

Gregory Maguire: A Lion Among Men

UK 2009, 426 pp., brochure, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Headline - Wicked 3

In the 3rd volume of the �Wicked� years, we return to Oz, seen through the eyes of the Cowardly Lion. While civil war looms in Oz, an oracle named Yackle prepares for death. Before her final hour, the Cowardly Lion arrives searching for information about Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West. Yackle, who hovered on the sidelines of Elphaba's ... Weiterlesen

Carson McCullers: Reflections in a Golden Eye

UK 2008 (Reprint), 128 pp., brochure, € 14.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

Five people's dreams, obsessions and failures interweave in this atmospheric novel of life in a peace-time army camp. In the US Deep South is a fort that contains a group of men and women trapped in a stifling and repetitive existence. At the center is secret aesthete, figurative eunuch, and kleptomaniac Captain Weldon Penderton, a repressed homosexual whose desires are ... Weiterlesen

Jeffrey P. Dennis: Queering Teen Culture

USA 2006, 221 pp., brochure, € 16.59
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

Is the overwhelming boy-meets-girl content of popular teen movies, music, books, and TV just a cover for an undercurrent of same-sex desire? From the 1950s to the present, popular culture has involved teenage boys falling for, longing over, dreaming about, singing to, and fighting over teenage girls. But �Queering Teen Culture� analyzes more than 200 movies and TV shows to ... Weiterlesen

Gregory Maguire: Son of a Witch

USA 2006, 337 pp., brochure, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

10 years after the publication of �Wicked�, the author returns to the land of Oz. There he introduces us to Liir, an adolescent boy last seen hiding in the shadows of a castle after what Dorothy did in the �Witch�. Bruised, comatose, and left for dead in a gully, Liir is shattered in spirit as well as in form. But ... Weiterlesen

Gregory Maguire: Son of a Witch

USA 2006, 337 pp., brochure, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

Andrew Sean Greer: The Confessions of Max Tivoli

UK/USA 2004, 271 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Faber and Faber

Set in San Francisco a hundred years ago, it is the story of a man who suffers from a rare medical condition and, in a sense, lives life backwards. Max Tivoli is writing the story of his life. He is nearly seventy years old, but he looks as if he is only seven - for Max is ageing backwards. The ... Weiterlesen

Gregory Maguire: Wicked - The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

USA 2004, 409 pp., brochure, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious Witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? Maguire creates a fantasy world so vivid that we will never look at the Oz the same ... Weiterlesen

Truman Capote: Breakfast at Tiffany's

UK 2000 (Reprint), 157 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin UK

It's New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffany's. And nice girls don't, except, of course, Holly Golightly. Pursued by Mafia gangsters and playboy millionaires, Holly is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair and turned-up nose, a heart-breaker, a perplexer, a traveller, a tease. She is irrepressibly �top banana in the shock ... Weiterlesen

L. P. Hartley: The Go-Between

UK 2000, 292 pp., pb, € 15.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin UK

Summering with a fellow schoolboy on a great English estate, Leo, the hero of L. P. Hartley's finest novel, encounters a world of unimagined luxury. But when his friend's beautiful older sister enlists him as the unwitting messenger in her illicit love affair, the aftershocks will be felt for years. The inspiration for the brilliant Joseph Losey / Harold Pinter ... Weiterlesen