Tony Parsons
Список книг автора Tony ParsonsLihunik
Uusaasta esimesel päeval leitakse jõukas perekond oma eksklusiivses, kinnises kogukonnas asuvas majas Londoni põhjaosas tapetuna, nende noorim laps on aga röövitud.Mõrvarelvaks on poltpüstol, millega kariloomi enne veristamist uimastatakse. See juhib uurija-konstaabel Max Wolfe’i Scotland Yardi Musta muuseumi tolmusesse nurka, mis on pühendatud tapjale, keda 30 aastat tagasi tunti kui Lihunikku. Kuid Lihunik on oma aja ära istunud, on vana ja suremas. Kas ta võib jälle tegutseda?Kas õnneliku perekonna mõrvar oli arutu lõbumõrvar või on tegu groteskse austusavaldusega mõrvajäljendaja poolt? Või kokkulepitud rünnak, et surevat meest süüdi lavastada?Max teab vaid seda, et tal tuleb kadunud laps leida ja peatada mõrvar enne, kui see jõuab mõne teise süütu perekonna hävitada. Või leiab tee Maxi enda ukse juurde … Tony Parsons, auhinnatud ajakirjanik ja kirjanik, kelle raamatuid on tõlgitud enam kui neljakümnesse keelde. „Mõrvakott“ (The Murder Bag), esimene romaan Max Wolfe’i seerias, ilmus eesti keeles 2015.
Man and Wife
Harry Silver returns to face life in the “blended family.” A wonderful novel about modern times, which can be read as a sequel to the million selling Man and Boy, or completely on its own.Man and Wife is a novel about love and marriage – about why we fall in love and why we marry; about why we stay and why we go.Harry Silver is a man coming to terms with a divorce and a new marriage. He has to juggle with time and relationships, with his wife and his ex-wife, his son and his stepdaughter, his own work and his wife's fast-growing career.Meanwhile his mother, who stood so steadfastly by his father until he died, is not getting any younger or stronger herself.In fact, everything in Harry's life seems complicated. And when he meets a woman in a million, it gets even more so…Man and Wife stands on its own as a brilliant novel about families in the new century, written with all the humour, passion and superb storytelling that have made Tony Parsons a favourite author in over thirty countries.
Man and Boy
A fabulously engaging and exciting novel about a man who has to learn about life and love the hard way.Harry Silver has it all. A successful job in TV, a gorgeous wife, a lovely child. And in one moment of madness, he chucks it all away.Man and Boy is the story of how he comes to terms with his life and achieves a degree of self-respect, bringing up his son alone and, gradually, learning what words like love and family really mean.Very well written, pacy, funny, and heart-breakingly moving.
Departures: Seven Stories from Heathrow
Seven short stories from bestselling author Tony Parsons, based on his week as Writer in Residence at Heathrow airport.Here is Heathrow as it has never been seen before – a secret city populated by the 75 million travellers who pass through every year, a place where journeys and dreams end – and begin.From the brilliant twenty-something kids who control the skies up in Air Traffic Control to the softly-spoken man who cares for the dogs, lions and smuggled rattlesnakes at Heathrow’s Animal Reception Centre, from the immigration officers who have heard it all before to the firemen who hone their skills by setting the green plane on fire, from the armed police who watch for terrorist attacks to the pilots who have touched the face of god – Heathrow teems with life.In Departures, his first collection of short stories, Tony Parsons takes us deep inside the secret city.
Catching the Sun
Just how badly do you want to find paradise?When Tom Finn is almost jailed for confronting two burglars in his own home, this taxi driver takes his young family to live on the tropical island of Phuket, Thailand.Phuket is all the Finn family dreamed of – a tropical paradise where the children swim with elephants, the gibbons sing love songs in the jungle, the Andaman Sea is like turquoise glass and this young family is free to grow.But both man-made disaster and the unleashed forces of nature shatter this tropical idyll for Tom Finn's family.CATCHING THE SUN is a gripping, moving story of a family who go in search of Paradise – and end up discovering themselves.
