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  • by Nicholas Shakespeare
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    Alex und Merridy wissen, was es bedeutet, schwere Schicksalsschläge zu erleiden. Er verlor seine Eltern bei einem Unfall, sie trauert um ihren verschwundenen Bruder. Die beiden treffen und verlieben sich, heiraten sogar, doch ihr inniger Kinderwunsch bleibt unerfüllt. Da tritt eines Tages wie aus dem Nichts ein junger Mensch in das Leben des Paares: der schiffbrüchige Teenager Kish. Ist er die Erfüllung von Alex‘ und Merridys Wunsch nach einem heilen Familienleben oder stellt sich alles als Illusion heraus?Nicholas Shakespeare (geboren 1957 in Worcester, England) teilt sich nicht nur den Namen mit dem wohl berühmtesten Dramatiker aller Zeiten: Auch er arbeitet als Schriftsteller. Als Sohn eines Diplomaten lebte Nicholas Shakespeare viele Jahre in Asien und Südamerika und war nach seinem Literaturstudium unter anderem für die BBC als Journalist tätig. Als Autor spezialisiert sich Nicholas Shakespeare vor allem auf Biografien und historische Romane. Sein Buch „Der Obrist und die Tänzerin" wurde 2002 von John Malkovich verfilmt.

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    by Nicholas Shakespeare
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    John le Carré trifft Dürrenmatts Physiker.Marvar, ein iranischer Atomphysiker, hat den Algorithmus für die perfekte Kernfusion gefunden. Ein Wissen, das in den richtigen Händen ein Segen, in den falschen ein Fluch ist. Dann verschwindet Marvar plötzlich, nicht ohne seinem Freund Dyer, einem Journalisten, die Formel zu vermachen. Bald darauf gerät Dyer ins Visier unterschiedlicher Gestalten.Nicolas Shakespeare hat als Sohn eines Diplomaten fast zwanzig Jahre in Asien und Latein- amerika verbracht. Er studierte Literatur und arbeitete als Journalist, bevor er zu schreiben begann. Heute lebt er im englischen Wiltshire und in Swansea/Tasmanien.

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    - How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister
    by Nicholas Shakespeare
    £11.99

    London, early May 1940: Britain is on the brink of war and Neville Chamberlain's government is about to fall. It is hard for us to imagine the Second World War without Winston Churchill taking over at the helm, but in SIX MINUTES IN MAY Nicholas Shakespeare shows how easily events could have gone in a different direction.

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    by Nicholas Shakespeare
    £7.99

    Nicholas Shakespeare's collected stories take us around the globe and into the intimate lives of his characters and the dilemmas and temptations they face.

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    by Nicholas Shakespeare
    £12.99

    In the Amazon city of Belen, in the heart of the Peruvian jungle, three old men sit on a bench. One day a woman hurries past their bench whom all have reason to remember - Elena Silves, the girl with eyes as blue as the sky who once saw a vision and has been incarcerated by the Church authorities in a convent high in the Andes ever since.

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    - The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France
    by Nicholas Shakespeare
    £14.99

    For Priscilla, pre-war Paris was an exciting carousel of suitors, soirees and heartbreak, and eventually a lavish wedding to a French aristocrat. But the arrival of the Nazi tanks signalled the end of life as a Vicomtesse, and the beginning of a precarious existence under German Occupation.

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    by Nicholas Shakespeare
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    Pressured to sign the register, little does he realise what effect that signature will have upon his life. The extraordinary story that follows tells of one man's failed love, the temptations of unanticipated wealth, the secrets of damaged families and the price of being true to oneself.

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    by Nicholas Shakespeare
    £13.49

    Following the death of his parents in a car crash, eleven-year-old Alex Dove is torn from his life on a remote farm in Tasmania and sent to school in England. When he returns to Australia twelve years later, the timeless beauty of the land and his encounter with a young woman whose own life has been marked by tragedy, persuade him to stay.

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    by Nicholas Shakespeare
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    A biography of Bruce Chatwin, based on private notebooks, diaries, letters and hundreds of interviews. It illuminates the many sides of Chatwin, from Sotheby's director, archaeologist, "Sunday Times" journalist and traveller to devoted husband and active gay, socialite and loner.

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    by Nicholas Shakespeare
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    This novel explores one of the most astonishing stories in the whole history of twentieth century terrorism. The Dancer Upstairs is a story reminiscent of Graham Greene and John le Carre - tense, intricate and heartbreaking.

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    by Nicholas Shakespeare
    £12.99

    Thomas Wavery is the new Consul General at Abyla on the tip of North Africa. A career diplomat, Wavery was once a high flyer, but an affair with a younger woman has dashed his dreams of ambassadorship. He arrives in Abyla with his wife suing for divorce, his passport stolen by a Gibraltarian ape and precious little enthusiasm for the task ahead.

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    by Nicholas Shakespeare
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    A young Englishman visits Cold War Leipzig with a group of students and falls for an East German girl who is only just beginning to wake up to the way her society is governed.

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