Résultats pour "Lockwood" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

For more than fifty years, the country has been affected by a horrifying epidemic of ghosts. A number of Psychic Investigations Agencies have sprung up to destroy the dangerous apparitions. Lucy Carlyle, a talented young agent, arrives in London hoping for a notable career. Instead she finds herself joining the smallest most ramshackle agency in the city, run by the charismatic Anthony Lockwood.

"Desperate men have no morals . . ." Léon Lyon: beautiful, beloved, broken. As premier executioner of Reims, he's desired and feared in equal measure, a celebrity of the most dangerous kind, a symbol of justice and good citizenship in the explosive era of the French Revolution. But Léon has a...

Bloomsbury presents No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood, read by Kristen Sieh. ‘A masterpiece’ Guardian ‘I really admire and love this book’ Sally Rooney ‘An intellectual and emotional rollercoaster’ Daily Mail ‘I can’t remember the last time I laughed so much...

For readers of Margo’s Got Money Troubles and fans of Fleabag, Instruction Manual for Future Lover is an unabashedly delightful comedy of the Gen Z dating landscape and a tenderhearted coming-of-age about using romance to unstick yourself from your own life—when perhaps the person you’ve...

Deeply gripping and darkly atmospheric, The Animals at Lockwood Manor is a tale of long-buried secrets and hidden desires by Jane Healey. Winner of the HWA Debut Crown Award 2020 Some secrets are unspoken. Others are unspeakable . . . August 1939. As the Second World War looms, thirty-year-old...

A deadly virus has been unleashed. A virus so vicious that it reduces the infected to a terrifying version of themselves that could lead to the end of our race as we know it. Elaina has been identified as the point of transmission and the reason for the chaos and havoc. She created the virus and let it out. Now, more than just the infected would like to see her head served up on a platter.

For fans of Becky Chambers and TJ Klune, this is an action-packed sci-fi, spicy MM rom-com where a struggling karate teacher meets the quantum physicist version of himself from a parallel universe...and they fall for each other while trying to save their worlds. August Blackthorne is broke...

'I read the first paragraph and was immediately hooked' Jacqueline Wilson 'Enormously entertaining and lovable' Nick Hornby, New York Times 'Nonjudgmental, original and very funny; the book is warm and generous too. I loved it' India Knight, Sunday Times STYLE ** Big Little Lies creator David E...

“Lockwood has written a roving chronicle of the madness of illness and the frightening porousness of what it means to be yourself in the hilariously profound way that only she could.” – Vulture “Bonkers.” – The New York Times “Reliably brilliant.” – The Washington Post “A...

FINALIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE & A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE ONE OF THE ATLANTIC’S GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS OF THE PAST 100 YEARS “A book that reads like a prose poem, at once sublime, profane, intimate, philosophical, witty and, eventually, deeply moving.”...

Fully restored and remastered, Heritage Media presents the greatest of vintage artists in classic dramas from English and Irish Literature. Here is the legendary Ralph Richardson starring in 'Private Rooms' adapted from the original tale by J. B. Priestly and ‘My Uncle Toby’, adapted from Tristram Shandy, the original tale by Laurence Sterne. Theatre Royal is a unique series of classic radio dramas produced in the 1950s by the late Harry Alan Towers.

Fully restored and remastered, Heritage Media presents the greatest of vintage artists in classic dramas from English and Irish Literature. Here is the legendary Ralph Richardson starring in ‘A Sentimental Journey’, adapted from the original tale by Laurence Sterne and the legendary Margaret Lockwood starring in 'Becky Sharpe' adapted from ‘Vanity Fair’, the original tale by William Makepeace Thackeray. Theatre Royal is a unique series of classic radio dramas produced in the 1950's by the late Harry Alan Towers.

Lady Elodie Lockwood is content with being a wallflower, but fate has other plans. Declared the diamond of the Season, she finds herself the focus of Society's relentless gaze—a situation that feels more like a curse than a blessing. When a misstep leads to scandal, Elodie is forced to seek help from an unlikely source: Lord Belview, her childhood nemesis.

Lord Winston Lockwood is haunted by his past and bound by social expectations. He remains at Brockhall Manor to ensure his aunt and her son remain safe from her abusive husband. Adding to his frustration, Miss Bawden's constant presence threatens to drive him mad.

Lady Edwina Lockwood grapples with the loss of her father when her cousin extends an invitation to Lord Hilgrove to visit Brockhall Manor. She intends to avoid this houseguest, but he quickly becomes a constant presence, much to her annoyance. Despite her initial reluctance, Edwina discovers she can offer support to Lord Hilgrove as he copes with his own grief.

A debut novel for fans of Sarah Perry and Kate Morton: when a young woman is tasked with safeguarding a natural history collection as it is spirited out of London during World War II, she discovers her new manor home is a place of secrets and terror instead of protection. In August 1939...

As always, Percy has a plan. A dangerous plan. And with hot priest Joe Bruno as his new partner in crime, Percy's never felt more confident. For the first time, the two will work together, secret-free, to face ghosts, sequined hot shorts, and a villain far more powerful and malignant than anything they've met before.

There are many ways to bring down the man who betrayed you—and Myria Cadessa has thought of them all. Cracking the Elysius Vault should've made Myria the richest thief in all Carintheum. Instead, it shattered her crew and left her rotting in jail while her double-crossing master walked away...

"It’s you and it’s you and it’s always been you." Catholic priest and exorcist Joe Bruno has been nursing a secret crush. All he can think about is too-sexy-for-words, demon-killing art historian Percy Ashdown. One cataclysmic night, when Joe realizes Percy's about to slip from his grasp...

In 1943, the United States government seized the estate of Irene Voss—a naturalized citizen, a widow, and the daughter of German immigrants. Six weeks later, she was dead. Her only heir was told the case had been resolved. It hadn’t. More than eighty years later, federal asset recovery specialist Miles Harran uncovers a pattern buried in wartime records: estates quietly transferred to a facility known only as Site 7-J… heirs never notified… property sold decades later through shell companies.