The Chorus Girl Verotchka My Life At a Country House A Father On the Road Rothschild's Fiddle Ivan Matveyitch Zinotchka Bad Weather A Gentleman Friend A Trivial Incident
In South America a wealthy ninety-six year old man reads a book late into the night. Within an hour, he is dead, the secrets of his past starkly revealed. Six months later, in Provence, Shaw - the shadowy operative from The Whole Truth - witnesses the murder of a mysterious man, his body left lifeless at the bottom of a pool. Shaw barely escapes the incident himself; and with a new partner in tow, begins to realise that there has to be another organization at work that rivals his own in secrecy
It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - an incident which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander - until he becomes a suspect. With "Case Histories", Kate Atkinson showed how brilliantly she could explore the crime genre and make it her own.
Added by: susan6th | Karma: 3133.44 | Fiction literature | 4 October 2010
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Fairytale
When he was a young boy, Adam Reid stumbled into an enchanted forest where a beautiful fairy showed him the image of a woman who was destined to be his beloved. Years later, the adult Adam had dismissed this childhood incident as a delusion until he opens his door to discover Brigit Malone, the woman of his destiny.
Added by: englishcology | Karma: 4552.52 | Fiction literature | 2 May 2009
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The title character is Pollyanna Whittier, a young orphan who goes to live in Beldingsville, Vermont, with her wealthy but stern Aunt Polly. Pollyanna's philosophy of life centers on what she calls "The Glad Game", an optimistic attitude she learned from her father. The game consists of finding something to be glad about in every situation. It originated in an incident one Christmas when Pollyanna, who was hoping for a doll in the missionary barrel, found only a pair of crutches inside. Making the game up on the spot, Pollyanna's father taught her to look at the good side of things—in this case, to be glad about the crutches because "we don't need 'em!".
