Just Benny by Alex Banwell Setting Benny’s dad, Ola Welander, rejects him. Janet, his mum, pampers him. His sister, Emma, loves her little ‘Pestie’ but finds him exasperating at times. Other kids mock ‘Weedy Welander’, all because he suffers from frequent epileptic seizures. As a result, Benny withdraws to the only place where he feels…
This is an entertaining account of a daring adventure on the part of Victoria and Joe Twead. We hear of the numerous doubts, misgivings, obstacles and mishaps they face as they seek to realise their five-year plan: to move from their comfortable jobs and suburban home in England to a tiny, remote mountain village in…
Dies ist eine kurze Geschichte von einem Franzosen in Algerien, der, von der Hitze verwirrt, zufällig einen Araber erschiesst. Dadurch will Camus seine Sicht des Lebens vermitteln: Leben oder Tod, Arbeit, Liebe, Zuhälterei oder Mord – alles ist belanglos, absurd. Das ist ihm sehr gut gelungen!
Eine sehr gut erfoschte und lehrreiche Abhandlung, die mutig versucht, die Mächte und Ereignisse, die Bosnien über die Jahrhunderte formten, zu entwirren. Es scheint mir etwas merkwürdig, dass Malcolm, in einem vom Krieg zerrütteten Gebiet mit ständig verändernden Herrschern, Grenzen, und nationalen Zuständen, gerade multiethnisches, multireligiöses Bosnien besonders heraushebt, als besitze oder verdiene es politische…
Cuckoo in the Nest, by Fran Hill Fourteen-year-old Jacky barely survives under the ‘care’ of her dissolute alcoholic father. So Social Services move her to a first-time foster family. Their daughter, Amanda, of similar age, resents her presence and does her level best to get rid of her.
The Healing by Joy Margetts Philip de Braose dares not use his real name. He has too many enemies. In any case, as far as he is concerned, Philip de Braose is dead. That was public knowledge. An agonizing betrayal in his youth had left him with no aim in life. Unless the desire to…
