![]() This collection is currently available in the following countries: Brazil, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, United Kingdom and United States of America. This early version of Miss Marple is a gleeful gossip and not an especially nice woman. ![]() The audiobook is read by an exciting cast of 12 actors, including Adrian Scarborough, Adjoa Andoh, Ramon Tikaram and Miriam Margoyles. Character The character of Jane Marple in the first Miss Marple book, The Murder at the Vicarage, is quite different from how she appears in later books. ![]() It has been 45 years since Agatha Christie’s last Marple novel, Sleeping Murder, was published posthumously in 1976, and this collection of ingenious new stories by twelve Christie devotees will be a timely reminder why Jane Marple remains the most famous fictional female detective of all time. Miss Marple was first introduced to readers in a story Agatha Christie wrote for The Royal Magazine in 1927 and made her first appearance in a full-length novel in 1930’s The Murder at the Vicarage. ![]() McManus, Dreda Say Mitchell, Kate Mosse and Ruth Ware. Each author reimagines Agatha Christie’s Marple through their own unique perspective while staying true to the hallmarks of a traditional mystery.įeaturing stories from Naomi Alderman, Leigh Bardugo, Alyssa Cole, Lucy Foley, Elly Griffiths, Natalie Haynes, Jean Kwok, Val McDermid, Karen M. ![]() This collection of twelve original short stories, all featuring Jane Marple, will introduce the character to a whole new generation. ![]()
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Raphael Simon, under the pen name of Pseudonymous Bosch, is the author and narrator of The Secret Series. ![]() ![]() ![]() In As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales From The Making Of The Princess Bride, actor Cary Elwes, who portrays Westley in the film, takes us behind the scenes to deliver a tale that is every bit as fun and heartwarming as The Princess Bride itself. The film celebrated its 25th Anniversary in 2012 and it’s as popular as ever, which makes it a perfect time for a behind-the-scenes memoir. Although it met with critical acclaim upon its release in 1987, a confused marketing campaign ensured that it didn’t find its audience until later on home video. The Princess Bride is one of those rare films that is almost universally beloved by its audience and has ingrained itself in popular culture to the point where even shows like Supernatural manage to get an Inigo Montoya reference in on occasion. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Fifteenth edition is fully integrated with MyMarketingLab and is updated where appropriate to provide the most comprehensive, current, and engaging marketing management text as possible. ![]() Marketing Management is the gold standard marketing text because its content and organization consistently reflect the latest changes in today's marketing theory and practice. The world of marketing is changing everyday-and in order for students to have a competitive edge, they need a textbook that reflects the best of today's marketing theory and practices. 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A precursor of the present day Barlaeus Gymnasium. Multatuli’s elder brother, Jan Douwes Dekker (1816-1864), was the grandfather of Ernest Douwes Dekker, a politician of Dutch-Javanese descent.Īs an adolescent, Multatuli attended school in Amsterdam, at the Latin school located at the Singel. Engel inherited the surnames of both his parents, Pieter Douwes and Engeltje Dekker, and Multatuli’s family retained both names. Multatuli’s father, Engel Douwes Dekker, worked as a sea captain from the Zaan district of North Holland. Their mother, Sietske Eeltjes Klein (sometimes written "Klijn"), was born in Ameland. Family and education Įduard Douwes Dekker was born in Amsterdam, the fourth of five children of a Mennonite family: the other children were Catharina (1809-1849), Pieter Engel (1812-1861), Jan (1816-1864), and Willem (1823-1840). He is considered one of the Netherlands' greatest authors. Eduard Douwes Dekker (2 March 1820 – 19 February 1887), better known by his pen name Multatuli (from Latin multa tulī, "I have suffered much"), was a Dutch writer best known for his satirical novel Max Havelaar (1860), which denounced the abuses of colonialism in the Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Later, Velvet confesses to her mother that she has "fallen in love" with The Pie and asks her about Mi's father. When he and his wife discuss the matter later, however, the wise, persuasive Mrs. Velvet then tries in vain to convince her father Herbert, a butcher who prides himself on his thrift and self-control, to hire Mi as a delivery boy. Brown is deliberately secretive about her relationship with Mi's father, she does invite Mi to spend the night in the stable. Brown asks Mi, whom she has never before met, about an address book with her name written in it, and he reveals that it belonged to his now-deceased father. ![]() When Ede then questions Mi about his business in Sewels in Sussex, Velvet, who is impressed by Mi's knowledge of horses, insists that he has been invited to dine with her family. As the horse-crazy girl is talking to Mi, she sees a beautiful, rambunctious gelding being chased by its owner, farmer Ede, and is awestruck. While walking home, Velvet meets young drifter Mi Taylor and strikes up a conversation with him. In the English coastal village of Sewels in Sussex, twelve-year-old Velvet Brown and her older sisters, Edwina and Malvolia, happily finish their last day of school before summer vacation. ![]() ![]() However, she has reason to believe that he himself may have been murdered and sets out to discover Whodunnit. ![]() ![]() Like Conway's other books, it is a pastiche of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novels, featuring quirky detective Atticus Pünd as he solves a murder in a sleepy English countryside village where nothing is as it seems.īut as Susan nears the end of the book, she finds that the final chapter is missing and Conway himself has died under mysterious circumstances. The plot concerns a London-based editor named Susan Ryeland who is given the manuscript of best-selling mystery writer Alan Conway's latest novel, Magpie Murders. A work of Meta Fiction, it is actually two Fair-Play Whodunnits in one. Magpie Murders is a 2016 mystery novel by Anthony Horowitz. ![]() ![]() ![]() “I could never have predicted this when I was 20 and standing in that castle.” The author is referring to Cape Coast Castle, the fortress from which much of Ghana’s transatlantic slave trade was orchestrated during the colonial era. It’s a bright winter’s morning at Penguin HQ in London and the author sips a cup of tea while reflecting upon the past six months of promotion and praise for Homegoing. “The reception has been totally remarkable and beyond my wildest dreams,” Gyasi says with an earnest smile. Now, as Homegoing is published in Europe, Gyasi has just been named among Forbes’ 30 Unlist of brightest young innovators – and deservedly so. The Wall Street Journal meanwhile, described the book’s structure as ‘dazzling… a kind of time-elapsed photo of black lives in America and in the motherland’. Vogue wrote ‘No novel has better illustrated the way in which racism has become institutionalised in this country’. Having reportedly received a $1 million advance for her debut novel, Homegoing, it received rapturous reviews upon its summer release in the US and became a New York Times best seller. ![]() ![]() There's no doubt that 2016 was a vintage year for Yaa Gyasi. ![]() ![]() Thrawn learns that tibanna is static locked due to its highly explosive and valuable nature. Vanto and the technicians Layneo and Jakeeb complain about dust and having to retrieve static–locked cargo. ![]() Vanto hopes that Captain Rossi does not figure that the droids are work since she would have taken them for herself.Ī month later, Thrawn and Vanto are assigned to lead a crew to retrieve tibanna gas from the derelict freighter Dromedar. ![]() Thrawn tells Vanto that he has managed to restore the buzz droids to working condition. Later, Ensign Eli Vanto tells Thrawn that Rossi wants to wipe every trace of the previous Captain Rik Virgilio from the ship and that she used her political connections to get Virgilio transferred. Regarding them as junk, she orders Thrawn to dump them before his next watch. While serving aboard the Gozanti-class cruiser Blood Crow, Captain Filia Rossi objects to Lieutenant Thrawn's collection of Clone Wars relics: a droideka, two buzz droids, half a STAP platform, and part of a hyperdrive docking ring. ![]() ![]() Tensions run high in the ranks of the Empire as Thrawn continues to defeat new enemies. THE RISE OF THE GRAND ADMIRAL CONTINUES! Mitth'raw'nuruodo, better known as Lieutenant Thrawn of the Galactic Empire, has graduated the Imperial Academy with the highest marks possible, as well as been assigned his own personal assistant, Ensign Eli Vanto, but that doesn't mean that everyone in the Imperial army wants him to succeed. ![]() ![]() Everything was to be carefully premeditated and counterpointed to create a state of perfect equilibrium. There were to be no depictions of objects, just simple rectangles in primary colours and black and white. The essential components of De Stijl’s art aesthetic were relatively simple. Berlage, a Dutch architect who had a profound influence on the group. There is no record of where the name ‘De Stijl’ originated, but the late art historian Paul Overy suggests it was inspired by the book Over stijl in bouw- en meubelkunst (‘Concerning Style in the Art of Architecture and Furniture’) written by H.P. Theosophy aimed to unite religions and promote brotherhood, and this appealed to a group who wanted to integrate art, life and culture into an international, modern movement. However, they were arguably the first to promote the Theosophical concepts of the Russian aristocrat-turned-guru, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - known as Madame Blavatsky. The founders of De Stijl were certainly not the first artists to yearn for the sublime. Their work would not be representational, illustrative or narrative, but reflect a state of ideal harmony. ![]() ![]() ![]() Central to their declaration was a desire to connect with ‘the universal’. In 1918 a manifesto was published by a coalition of Dutch artists, architects, designers and poets who called themselves De Stijl (‘The Style’). ![]() |