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About The Ninth Life of Louis Drax. Nine-year-old Louis Drax is a. The Ninth Life of Louis Drax Liz Jensen. 07 June 2010, EPUB eBook. £8.99 The Bloomsbury.
Author by: Liz Jensen Language: en Publisher by: Bloomsbury Publishing Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 87 Total Download: 136 File Size: 43,5 Mb Description: NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING JAMIE DORNAN AND AARON PAUL Nine-year-old Louis Drax is a problem child: bright, precocious, deceitful – and dangerously, disturbingly, disaster-prone. When he falls off a cliff into a ravine, the accident seems almost predestined. Louis miraculously survives – but the family has been shattered. Louis' father has vanished, his mother is paralysed by shock, and Louis lies in a deep coma from which he may never emerge. In a clinic in Provence, Dr Pascal Dannachet tries to coax Louis back to consciousness.
But the boy defies medical logic, startling Dannachet out of his safe preconceptions, and drawing him inexorably into the dark heart of Louis' buried world. Only Louis holds the key to the mystery surrounding his fall – and he can't communicate. Author by: Marc Shapiro Language: en Publisher by: Riverdale Avenue Books LLC Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 29 Total Download: 280 File Size: 54,6 Mb Description: Jamie Dornan came to the role of Christian Grey in the motion picture Fifty Shades of Grey as Hollywood's answer to a prayer when the original actor, Charlie Hunnam, left the picture a scant three weeks before production was set to begin. But the reality was that Dornan's being thrust into “Instant” celebrity was more than a decade in the making chronicled in entertaining depth in the Inside Grey's Anatomy: The Unauthorized Biography of Jamie Dornan by New York Times best-selling author Marc Shapiro.
Dornan' story is ripe with pathos, talent, determination and luck. After losing his mother at an early age, Dornan struggled with frustration and aimlessness as he attempted to find his way in the world. Luck entered the picture when he stumbled into the world of international modeling where, after being dubbed The Golden Torso, he reluctantly rode the glitz and glamour, making money, dating the most sought-after women but ultimately chaffing as he dreamed of becoming an actor. His determination finally kicked open the door with important works in both television and film. Finally the phone rang early one morning and Christian Grey was born. Author by: Liz Jensen Language: en Publisher by: A&C Black Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 12 Total Download: 514 File Size: 49,8 Mb Description: With only a schizophrenic mother and a militantly hostile sister for backup, Hazel Sugden, food-splattered mum and queen of low self-esteem, is palpably unfit to save the future of mankind as we know it. But when embryology, psychiatry and religion clash over the miracle designer drug Genetic Choice, the dysfunctional trio are propelled into action with explosively comic results.
Author by: Liz Jensen Language: en Publisher by: A&C Black Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 93 Total Download: 865 File Size: 51,7 Mb Description: Since the year all British women became infertile, Bobby Sullivan's London veterinary clinic has been packed with primate 'children' and, speaking as an alpha male, he's sick to death of them. Hoping to reincarnate himself, he moves north, but finds there is no escape from the Darwinian imperative - or from the sexual pull of the luscious twins Rose and Blanche. As the legacy of the girls' ancestor, Victorian freak Tobias Phelps, begins to connect with a century of history, religion, and evolutionary theory, new hope looms for the nation's future. Pointing the finger of destiny firmly at Bobby. Author by: Liz Jensen Language: en Publisher by: A&C Black Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 67 Total Download: 943 File Size: 41,6 Mb Description: In a merciless summer of biblical heat and destructive winds, Gabrielle Fox's main concern is a personal one: to rebuild her career as a psychologist after a shattering car accident.
But when she is assigned Bethany Krall, one of the most dangerous teenagers in the country, she begins to fear she has made a terrible mistake. Raised on a diet of evangelistic hellfire, Bethany is violent, delusional, cruelly intuitive and insistent that she can foresee natural disasters - a claim which Gabrielle interprets as a symptom of doomsday delusion. But when catastrophes begin to occur on the very dates Bethany has predicted, and a brilliant, gentle physicist enters the equation, the apocalyptic puzzle intensifies and the stakes multiply. Is the self-proclaimed Nostradamus of the psych ward the ultimate manipulator, or could she be the harbinger of imminent global cataclysm on a scale never seen before? And what can love mean in 'interesting times'? A haunting story of human passion and burning faith set against an adventure of tectonic proportions, The Rapture is an electrifying psychological thriller that explores the dark extremes of mankind's self-destruction in a world on the brink.
Author by: Liz Jensen Language: en Publisher by: A&C Black Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 12 Total Download: 867 File Size: 41,9 Mb Description: A seven-year-old girl puts a nail-gun to her grandmother's neck and fires. An isolated incident, say the experts. The experts are wrong. Across the world, children are killing their families. Is violence contagious?
As chilling murders by children grip the country, anthropologist Hesketh Lock has his own mystery to solve: a bizarre scandal in the Taiwan timber industry. Hesketh has never been good at relationships: Asperger's Syndrome has seen to that. But he does have a talent for spotting behavioural patterns, and an outsider's fascination with group dynamics. Nothing obvious connects Hesketh's Southeast Asian case with the atrocities back home. Or with the increasingly odd behaviour of his beloved step-son, Freddy. But when Hesketh's Taiwan contact dies shockingly and more acts of sabotage and child violence sweep the globe, he is forced to acknowledge possibilities that defy the rational principles on which he has staked his life, his career and, most devastatingly of all, his role as a father.
Part psychological thriller, part dystopian nightmare, The Uninvited is a powerful and viscerally unsettling portrait of apocalypse in embryo. Author by: Tiffany Murray Language: en Publisher by: Perennial Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 82 Total Download: 378 File Size: 49,8 Mb Description: Coming of age in rural England in the eighties is far from straightforward for Kate Happy, in a hilarious, highly-praised debut novel of family, secrets and dead ancestors in the attic.
Gran has been homesick for Coney Island for thirty-eight years, hating her husband but determinedly donning her best pink Chanel suit and high heels to step out into the muck-splattered farmyard. Grandpa is bonkers, an ex-naval Captain who wanders round the house shouting sea-faring commands. Mum's gone AWOL since she ran over Kate's dad in her soft-top Triumph Spitfire. And are those really Dad's ashes in a Hellmann's mayonnaise jar in the attic? Crackling with the darkest of dark humour, brimming with crazy ancestors and closely guarded secrets, HAPPY ACCIDENTS is a wonderful first novel that confirms Tiffany Murray as a rising star of British fiction.
Louis Drax is a boy like no other. He is brilliant and strange, and every year something violent seems to happen to him. On his ninth birthday, Louis goes on a picnic with his parents and falls off a cliff. The details are shrouded in mystery. Louis's mother is shell-shocked; his father has vanished. And after some confusion Louis himself, miraculously alive but deep in a coma, arrives at Dr.
Pascal Dannachet's celebrated coma clinic.Full of astonishing twists and turns, this is a masterful tale of the secrets the human mind can hide. Liz Jensen is the acclaimed author of four other novels, most recently War Crimes for the Home. She lives in London.
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'Liz Jensen has written a remarkable suspense novel: tart, mysterious and wrenching.' -Anthony Minghella, director of The English Patient and Cold Mountain 'For everybody who thought they'd never see another novel like The Lovely Bones.By turns disarmingly comical, absorbingly suspenseful, and finally shattering.' -Kirkus Reviews (starred review) 'A gripping and intelligent psychological thriller filled with crafty insights, black humor and grim twists.Fresh and original.' -Miami Herald 'Try putting down a book that begins: 'I'm not most kids. I'm Louis Drax.
Stuff happens to me that shouldn't happen, like going on a picnic where you drown.' .Wonderfully strange.an affecting psychological novel about transgression and the mysteries of the subconscious.' -People (four stars) The Ninth Life of Louis Drax packs an irresistibly twisted wallop.An exhilarating, darkly inventive read.-Elle.