The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author. An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love, Jung Chang describes the extraordinary lives and experiences of her family members: her grandmother, a warlord’s concubine; her mother’s struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parents’ experience as members of the Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural Revolution. Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked as a peasant, a “barefoot doctor;” a steelworker, and an electrician. As the story of each generation unfolds, Chang captures in gripping, moving—and ultimately uplifting—detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history.

Mai 2007. Das weltweit führende Schatzsucherunternehmen ITHACA macht Schlagzeilen mit einem Sensationsfund: Das US-Unternehmen hat im Atlantik Gold- und Silbermünzen im Wert von geschätzten 500 Millionen Dollar aus einem Schiffswrack geborgen. ITHACA beansprucht den Fund für sich und hält genauere Informationen wie beispielsweise den Fundort geheim. Doch Hinweise deuten darauf, dass es sich um ein spanisches Wrack handelt, und eine kleine Gruppe von Beamten des spanischen Kulturministeriums zieht aus, das spanische Kulturerbe zu verteidigen. Ein jahrelanger Rechtsstreit zwischen ITHACA und der spanischen Regierung beginnt – wem gehört der Millionenschatz? In Anlehnung an das reale „Black Swan Project“ zeichnen Guillermo Corral und Paco Roca ein Abenteuer um moderne Glücksritter und internationale Intrigen.

Pat Pitsenbarger (Udo Kier), Coiffeur im Ruhestand, fristet sein Dasein in der Enge eines Pflegeheims in der Kleinstadt Sandusky, Ohio. Als er erfährt, dass die verstorbene Rita Parker Sloan (DENVER CLAN-Legende Linda Evans) im Testament verfügt hat, ihn für ihre letzte Frisur zu engagieren, knurrt er: „Begrabt sie schlecht frisiert“. Doch die Verlockung von Freiheit und der Möglichkeit, eine alte Rechnung zu begleichen, ist zu stark, um dem Angebot zu widerstehen. So begibt sich Pat auf einen epischen Trip zur Wiederentdeckung seiner selbst - und sieht dabei umwerfend aus. Als schwuler Friseur liefert Udo Kier die Performance seines Lebens. Der deutsche Kultstar tauscht sein Bösewicht-Image gegen Seidenschals, lindgrüne Hosenanzüge und freche Sprüche ein und bildet mit seiner Präsenz den Anker des mehrfach ausgezeichneten Films. SWAN SONG ist bittersüß, witzig und bis in die Nebenrollen erstklassig besetzt: Pats Friseur-Rivalin Dee Dee Dale wird von Jennifer Coolidge gespielt, die für ihre Darstellung in der Serie THE WHITE LOTUS einen Golden Globe erhielt. Presse: - „… eine formidable One-Man-Show von Udo Kier, dem zweifellos kultigsten deutschen Schauspieler der Gegenwart.“ - (Mannschaft Magazin) - „… zeichnet sich… durch eine liebevolle Ironie und einen feinen Humor aus. Kier kommt im Alter zu einer neuen Hauptrolle, die ihn nochmal gebührend zur Geltung bringt.“ - (KINOZEIT) - „Udo Kier von seiner glamourösen Seite“ - (Tagesanzeiger) - „… setzt den überragenden Kultdarsteller Udo Kier als alternden Paradiesvogel herrlich in Szene.“ - (Zürich Film Festival) - „Udo Kier, selbst eine bunte und unsterbliche Ikone des Kinos, darf hier endlich mal in einer Hauptrolle brillieren.“ - (Film Fest Köln)

Lara has always had an overactive imagination. Now she wonders if she is losing her mind. Normal twenty-something girls just don't get visited by ghosts! But inexplicably, the spirit of Lara's great aunt Sadie - in the form of a bold, demanding Charleston-dancing girl - has appeared to make one last request: Lara must track down a missing necklace Sadie simply can't rest without. Lara's got enough problems of her own. Her start-up company is floundering, her best friend and business partner has run off to Goa, and she's just been dumped by the love of her life. But as Lara spends time with Sadie, life becomes more glamorous and their treasure hunt turns into something intriguing and romantic. Could Sadie's ghost be the answer to Lara's problems and can two girls from different times end up learning something special from each other? Everybody loves Sophie Kinsella: "I almost cried with laughter" Daily Mail "Hilarious . . . you'll laugh and gasp on every page" Jenny Colgan "Properly mood-altering . . . funny, fast and farcical. I loved it" Jojo Moyes "A superb tale. Five stars!" Heat

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO WILD SWANS, THE MULTI-MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATION A Book of the Year in The Times; Daily Telegraph; Financial Times and Waterstones 'A must-read ... magnificent' DAILY TELEGRAPH ***** 'Beautiful and moving' ELIF SHAFAK, OBSERVER Jung Chang's Wild Swans was a book that defined a generation, an epic personal history of Jung, her mother and grandmother - 'three daughters of China'. The book opens in 1909 with her grandmother's birth - and foot-binding - when China was under the last emperor, moving through Mao Zedong's rule, especially the Cultural Revolution during which Jung's parents were subjected to horrendous ordeals because of their courage. It finishes in 1978 when Deng Xiaoping officially ended the Mao era and started the 'reforms'. Jung, at that propitious juncture, became one of the first Chinese to leave Communist China for the West. Nearly half a century on, China has risen from a decrepit and isolated state to a global power, the challenger to the United States' dominant position in the world. Through those decades, Jung's life has been intimately entwined with her native land. Her experiences dealing with the regime in those years were rich and revealing - especially so because all her books were (and are) banned. Fly, Wild Swans is the follow-up to Wild Swans and brings the story of Jung's family - along with that of China - up to date. The book is in many ways Jung's love letter to her mother. It is inevitably also about her grandmother and father, both of whom died tragically in the Cultural Revolution but are often recalled in this book. In fact, the past is never far away in Jung's subsequent life. It has shaped her, and moulded the present China, and what's more, it promises to herald the future. China is now at another watershed moment with the era of Chairman Xi Jinping greatly affecting the lives of Jung and her mother. Fly, Wild Swans is Jung's heartfelt response to that experience, and a book filled with drama, love, curiosity and incredible history - both personal and global. Ultimately uplifting, told in Jung's clear, honest and compelling voice, it is memoir writing at its best. 'Profoundly revealing as a portrait both of a family and of the deeper traumas that lie at the heart of modern China' RORY STEWART 'Another wonder book from Jung Chang...I am quite blown away by it' LADY ANTONIA FRASER

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO WILD SWANS, THE MULTI-MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATION A Book of the Year in The Times; Daily Telegraph; Financial Times and Waterstones 'A must-read ... magnificent' DAILY TELEGRAPH ***** 'Beautiful and moving' ELIF SHAFAK, OBSERVER Jung Chang's Wild Swans was a book that defined a generation, an epic personal history of Jung, her mother and grandmother - 'three daughters of China'. The book opens in 1909 with her grandmother's birth - and foot-binding - when China was under the last emperor, moving through Mao Zedong's rule, especially the Cultural Revolution during which Jung's parents were subjected to horrendous ordeals because of their courage. It finishes in 1978 when Deng Xiaoping officially ended the Mao era and started the 'reforms'. Jung, at that propitious juncture, became one of the first Chinese to leave Communist China for the West. Nearly half a century on, China has risen from a decrepit and isolated state to a global power, the challenger to the United States' dominant position in the world. Through those decades, Jung's life has been intimately entwined with her native land. Her experiences dealing with the regime in those years were rich and revealing - especially so because all her books were (and are) banned. Fly, Wild Swans is the follow-up to Wild Swans and brings the story of Jung's family - along with that of China - up to date. The book is in many ways Jung's love letter to her mother. It is inevitably also about her grandmother and father, both of whom died tragically in the Cultural Revolution but are often recalled in this book. In fact, the past is never far away in Jung's subsequent life. It has shaped her, and moulded the present China, and what's more, it promises to herald the future. China is now at another watershed moment with the era of Chairman Xi Jinping greatly affecting the lives of Jung and her mother. Fly, Wild Swans is Jung's heartfelt response to that experience, and a book filled with drama, love, curiosity and incredible history - both personal and global. Ultimately uplifting, told in Jung's clear, honest and compelling voice, it is memoir writing at its best. 'Profoundly revealing as a portrait both of a family and of the deeper traumas that lie at the heart of modern China' RORY STEWART 'Another wonder book from Jung Chang...I am quite blown away by it' LADY ANTONIA FRASER

The magnificent follow-up to Wild Swans, the multimillion copy, internationally bestselling sensation that traces the history of modern China through the true stories of three generations of courageous women in one family. “AT THE AGE OF FIFTEEN MY GRANDMOTHER became the concubine of a warlord general . . .” So begins Jung Chang's epic family memoir, Wild Swans, which defines a generation. The book ends in 1978, when Deng Xiaoping opened the door of Communist China, and Jung—twenty-six years old and unstoppably curious, despite years of brainwashing— seized the propitious moment and became one of the first Chinese to leave the tightly sealed country and come to the West. Fly, Wild Swans chronicles her journey and that of her family, along with that of China, as it rose from a decrepit and isolated state to a world power challenging American dominance. During those decades, although she lives in the West, Jung's life intertwines with her native land in unexpected ways, a rare relationship made more complex because all her books are banned there. Her family story mirrors the ups and downs of China's transformation, right up to today, as it enters another watershed. Chairman Xi Jinping's attempt to return China to the anti-American Maoist past has a devastating impact on Jung's life: She is unable to go to her mother's deathbed. Fly, Wild Swans is Jung's love letter and emotional tribute to her extraordinary mother. Profoundly moving, it is filled with drama, love, curiosity and incredible history—both personal and global. Told in Jung's clear, honest and compelling voice, it is memoir writing at its best.

Perfect for fans of Ann Cleeves, Susan Hill, Nicci French and Val McDermid, this is an astute and intelligent psychological thriller centring around obsession and rage from international multi-million copy seller Joanne Harris. Fast paced with unexpected twists and turns, it will get right under the skin... '[A] gripping psychological thriller... Harris is one of our most accomplished novelists and Gentlemen & Players , with its pace, wit and acute observation, shows her at the top of her form' -- DAILY EXPRESS '[A] delicious black comedy ... the plot is so cleverly constructed, the tension so unflagging, you'd think she'd been writing thrillers all her life' -- DAILY MAIL 'It kept me on the edge of my seat and I was thinking about it long after I turned the last page' -- ***** Reader review 'An intricate, engrossing novel' -- ***** Reader review 'Wonderfully, horribly plausible' -- ***** Reader review 'I read it in three days which is as close as I get to "couldn't put it down"' -- ***** Reader review 'Well written and enthralling' -- ***** Reader review 'A must read....' -- ***** Reader review 'Absolutely loved this book!' -- ***** Reader review ******************************************************************************************* At St Oswald's , a long-established boys' grammar school in the north of England , a new year has just begun. For the staff and boys of the school, a wind of unwelcome change is blowing. Suits, paperwork and Information Technology rule the world; and Roy Straitley , the eccentric veteran Latin master, is finally - reluctantly - contemplating retirement. But beneath the little rivalries, petty disputes and everyday crises of the school, a darker undercurrent stirs. And a bitter grudge, hidden and carefully nurtured for thirteen years, is about to erupt. The trilogy continues with blueeyedboy and Different Class.

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