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In my life, I had always been good woman, controlling what it was that I wanted. But recently, I had started to notice my bad energy, and I began to follow it, wondering where it would take me . . . A woman has an unexpected outburst at group therapy for returning parents at a large corporation, with devastating consequences. A couple find some long-overdue time to rekindle their relationship and make an ill-advised sex tape. A pregnant film d...

A debut short story collection from award-winning novelist Naomi Wood, exploring the dark side of family and femininity. Contains the story 'Comorbidities', shortlisted for the BBC Short Story Award.

How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies? This volume explores the period when the European fairy tales conquered the world and shaped the global imagination in its own image. Examining how collectors, children's writers, poets, and artists seized the form to challenge convention and normative ideas, this book explores the fantastic imagination that beli...

In the dazzling summer of 1926, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley travel from their home in Paris to a villa in the south of France. They swim, play bridge, drink gin, have parties - and everywhere they go they are accompanied by the glamorous, irrepressible Fife. She is Ernest's lover. Hadley is the first Mrs Hemingway, but neither she nor Fife will be the last. Over the ensuing decades, Ernest's literary career will blaze a trail but thre...

Es ist die Zeit ihres Lebens: 1922 beginnen sechs junge Menschen ihr Studium am neugegründeten Bauhaus in Weimar. Es sind Jahre voller Glanz, Ekstase und dem Rausch der Freiheit. Sie glühen für die Ideale dieser jungen Kunstwelt und können es kaum erwarten, sich darin zu verlieren. Doch so intensiv die Freundschaft zwischen Paul, Walter, Jenö, Irmi und Charlotte auch scheint, sie ist durchwirkt von Geheimnissen, Intrigen und unglücklicher Lieb...

In 1922, Paul Beckermann arrives at the Bauhaus art school and is immediately seduced by both the charismatic teaching and his fellow students. Eccentric and alluring, the more time Paul spends with his new friends the closer they become, and the deeper he falls in love with the mesmerising Charlotte. But Paul is not the only one vying for her affections, and soon an insidious rivalry takes root.As political tensions escalate in Germany, the B...

Paul Brickman, an exiled artist in 1970s England, is haunted by his memories of the decade he spent at the Bauhaus art school and the life-changing consequences that have reverberated through the years, especially with regard to the love of his life, Loti, and his best friend, Walter. Weimar, 1923. Paul and his tight-knit group of fellow students are seduced by the charismatic teachings of the Bauhaus. The group quickly becomes a hotbed of unr...

Praise for Mrs. Hemingway‘So beautifully written and evocative that I could not put it down until the last page’ Jojo Moyes‘Luminous, intoxicating . . . heartbreaking’ Marie Claire ‘Fascinating, astutely observed, gorgeously written . . . a gem of a book’ Therese Anne Fowler‘A wonderful book . . . richly imagined and emotionally wise’ Daily Telegraph

La prima è Hadley, la moglie dei giorni "poveri e felici" che precedono la fama e il successo. Hadley nel minuscolo appartamento a Parigi - due sedie soltanto, uova sode per pranzo e un freddo da battere i denti, la stessa che alla Gare de Lyon, in un momento di distrazione, perde irreparabilmente la valigetta contenente i manoscritti del marito. Poi c'è Pauline, per tutti Fife, dal fisico acerbo e perfetto, ricchissima ed elegante, inevitabil...

Whisking us from jazz-age Paris to post-war Cuba via 1930s Florida, Naomi Wood's sparkling novel explores the loves and losses of Hemingway's wives . . . vividly rendered, touchingly universal' Sunday Express In the dazzling summer of 1926, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley travel from their home in Paris to a villa in the south of France. They swim, play bridge and drink gin. But wherever they go they are accompanied by the glamorous and i...

The Paris Wife was only the beginning of the story . . . A New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceA Richard & Judy UK Pick Paula McLain's New York Times-bestselling novel piqued readers' interest about Ernest Hemingway's romantic life. But Hadley was only one of four women married, in turn, to the legendary writer. Just as T.C. Boyle's bestseller The Women completed the picture begun by Nancy Horan's Loving Frank, Naomi Wood's Mrs. Hemingwa...

Hadley, Pauline, Martha und Mary - Naomi Wood lässt die vier Ehefrauen von Ernest Hemingway erzählen: Geschichten von Liebe und Leidenschaft, Eifersucht und Verrat und der Erkenntnis, dass man einen Schriftsteller wie ihn niemals für sich allein haben wird. Basierend auf Briefen und anderen authentischen Quellen erzählt die Autorin eine Geschichte zwischen Frankreich, Kuba und Key West von den 20ern bis hinein in die 60er Jahre. Ein berührende...

Im Sommer 1926 fahren Hemingway und seine Frau Hadley von Paris in ihr Haus in Südfrankreich. Sie verbringen ihre Tage mit Schwimmen, Bridge, Drinks und Hadleys bester Freundin Pauline. Dass sie zugleich Hemingways Geliebte ist, scheint Mrs. Hemingway Nr. 1 in Kauf zu nehmen - vorerst. Bald ist klar: Weder sie noch Pauline wird die letzte Ehefrau sein.Basierend auf Briefen und anderen authentischen Quellen beschwört Naomi Wood nicht nur die im...

This volume examines some of the ways that Brazil has been represented and seeks to represent itself in popular media. It looks at social inequalities, racial divisions, and legacies of political restructuring as it illuminates the challenges and opportunities that the nation faces at present and going into preparations for and recovery from the upcoming mega events, both the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics. Drawing on the expertise of...

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The Paris Wife was only the beginning of the story...Summer, 1926. Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley take refuge from the blazing heat of Paris in a villa in the south of France. They swim and play bridge, and drink gin with abandon. But wherever they go they are accompanied by the glamorous and irrepressible Fife. Fife is Hadley's best friend. She is also Ernest's lover. Hadley is the first Mrs. Hemingway, but neither she nor Fife will be ...

The Paris Wife was only the beginning of the story...Summer, 1926. Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley take refuge from the blazing heat of Paris in a villa in the south of France. They swim and play bridge, and drink gin with abandon. But wherever they go they are accompanied by the glamorous and irrepressible Fife. Fife is Hadley's best friend. She is also Ernest's lover. Hadley is the first Mrs. Hemingway, but neither she nor Fife will be ...

This volume situates the field of Brazilian studies firmly in the twenty-first century as the nation confronts growing social discontent and global intrigue in light of the 2014 World Cup soccer tournament. The contributors focus primarily on questions regarding social inequality, sustained social movements, and exportable stereotypes and myths.

The Paris Wife was only the beginning of the story...Summer, 1926. Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley take refuge from the blazing heat of Paris in a villa in the south of France. They swim and play bridge, and drink gin with abandon. But wherever they go they are accompanied by the glamorous and irrepressible Fife. Fife is Hadley's best friend. She is also Ernest's lover. Hadley is the first Mrs. Hemingway, but neither she nor Fife will be ...

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