Ilinda Markov
Список книг автора Ilinda MarkovThe Coffee Lovers
The Coffee Lovers, Memoirs of a Communist Princess possesses the seductive charm of Joanne Harris’s book Chocolat and is an answer to Ian McEwan’s Atonement. It’s a book about sultry love and broken hearts against the backdrop of famous coffee venues around the world, a book about the history of coffee culture and celebrities like Einstein, Napoleon and Casanova, all fervent coffee lovers. <br />Beautiful and ambitious, Arnya Stefan is a writer whose life could have been ideal if not for the panic attacks bringing back memories of her traumatic childhood. As a little girl in communist Bulgaria she betrays her family and their dangerous secrets. <br />Now Arnya travels the world in search of the perfect red berry drink. In Switzerland she meets another “coffee animal”, Bruno Stein. In his arms she will again learn to walk in the present, savouring life like a superb, delicious cup of coffee.<br /><br />Can Bruno’s love make her forget or it’s just another illusion?
The Meerkats’ Book on Money
A marriage made in heaven between The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari and Who Moved My Cheese? – this book is about a flat broke girl called Elizabeth and her virtual guru Master meerkat Liam who teaches her how to forage for money. <br /><br />Everyone needs a teacher, a visionary and a healer in life and Master meerkat Liam is all a broke girl with a broken heart could wish for. Elizabeth leaves her native West End and her only true friend Malita and sets out on a journey during which she learns about the Midas touch. <br /><br />Is money all there is or it's the attitude to money that defines comfort and happiness? These and more questions are answered during Elizabeth's encounters with people into money as she travels around the world. Some of them give her a secret message and a token symbolizing the significance of money in their lives. <br /><br />What is Elizabeth's own secret message? <br /><br />In West End Malita waits for her return singing a magic Ethiopian song, «Coffee pot, bring wealth…»