Richard Rayner es un autor británico cuyas obras a menudo presentan una mezcla única de ficción y crónica de viajes, explorando experiencias vitales y observaciones culturales. Su escritura se destaca por su aguda percepción y narrativa fluida, que atrae a los lectores a los entornos que examina. La habilidad de Rayner para entrelazar reflexiones personales con temas más amplios lo ha establecido como una voz distintiva en la literatura contemporánea. Su perspectiva, moldeada por la vida entre el Reino Unido y los Estados Unidos, ofrece una mirada fresca sobre la vida moderna.
"The Elephant" is Bradford, a man in the death business and also his son, a fantasist and liar who is named after a cricket field. It is about versions of the truth, the mystery of names, sexual hysteria and a fear of not-feeling. By the author of "Los Angeles Without a Map".
Best Book of the Year The Los Angeles Times • The Washington Post Los Angeles was the fastest growing city in the world, mad with oil fever, get-rich-quick schemes, and celebrity scandals. It was also rife with organized crime, with a mayor in the pocket of the syndicates and a DA taking bribes to throw trials. In A Bright and Guilty Place, Richard Rayner narrates the entwined lives of two men, Dave Clark and Leslie White, who were caught up in the crimes, murders, and swindles of the day. Over a few transformative years, as the boom times shaded into the Depression, the adventures of Clark and White would inspire pulp fiction and replace L.A.’s reckless optimism with a new cynicism. Together, theirs is the tale of how the city of sunshine went noir.
The city is Los Angeles, the birthplace and terminus of the American dream, a city that has come to symbolize both heaven and hell. Billy McGrath is an enigma, half American, half English, who once dreamed of pursuing a career as an academic philosopher, but for the last fifteen years he's been a homicide detective, one of LA's best. He knows the rules, playing them perhaps better than anyone while understanding the reality of a justice system that doesn't always work, that punishes the underprivileged and lets the rich go free. He's a deeply unhappy, possibly suicidal man, divorced from a wife he still adores and separated from a ten-year-old daughter for whom he'd readily die. McGrath is called to a crime scene - a woman dead on a kitchen floor in one of the city's less than inviting neighborhoods, a seemingly routine assignment until he discovers that the murdered woman's son is LA's biggest crack dealer, an idol of the ghetto who offers him a one-million-dollar bounty for the name of the killer. Making the wrongt choice for what might be the right reasons, McGrath initiates both his own fall from grade, and, as he strives to redeem himself, a series of wild and furious actions that hurtle him through many identities of corrupt Los Angeles. In Ian Mcgrath, Rayner has dreated a sympathetic everyman, who becomes both victim and victor. Set against a bleak cityscape, Murder Book is a dark, violent and sexy thriller that is impssible to put down.
The Fabulous True Story of the World's Greatest Confidence Artist
Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, the story follows Oscar Hartzell, who executed a bold scam by convincing thousands of Midwesterners to invest in a legal fund aimed at claiming the legendary fortune of Sir Francis Drake. Promising donors shares in an imagined treasure worth $100 billion, Hartzell instead pocketed their money, living lavishly as a faux English aristocrat while maintaining his image as a hero among his supporters. The narrative explores themes of deception, greed, and the impact of economic hardship on people's trust.
MathsLinks is an engaging series that delivers the KS3 specification in a manageable, practical format. It offers many flexible ways to achieve learning and skills objectives, including unique electronic support through OxBox technology.
In a tiny village in Finland, Esko Vaananen is at the brink of despair -- he loves a woman he can never have. Suddenly, in the magical light of the aurora borealis, he has a vision of an impossibly tall building rising gracefully from the frozen lake and disappearing into the clouds above him. This pilvenpiirtaja -- "cloud sketcher" or skyscraper -- sparks a lifelong quest for beauty in Esko. He will pursue and protect these two passions -- his vision and his love -- no matter how great the cost, for the rest of his life. It is a journey that leads him into the Bolshevik revolution and the Jazz Age nightclubs of New York City and to strike a Faustian bargain with a ruthless gangster -- all in the pursuit of artistic perfection and impossible, unattainable love.
The story of Michael Sullivan (aka the Angel of Death), a hit man for an Irish American gang in Depression-era Chicago. His work crosses into his private life, leading to the death of his beloved wife and son, leading Sullivan and his surviving son to set out on a journey of revenge.
"[W]hat led a poor boy from Liverpool to become a magus powerful enough to take on the Devil and emerge triumphant? A new window onto Constantine's unique and harrowing life is now open with rare cuts, collecting six never-before-reprinted issues of thisgroundbreaking Vertigo series and showcasing some of the pivotal episodes in the working-class wizard's bloody history." -- p. [4] of cover.
MathsLinks is an engaging new series that delivers the new KS3 specification in a manageable, practical format. It offers many flexible ways to achieve learning and skills objectives, including unique electronic support through new OxBox technology.
MathsLinks is an engaging new series that delivers the new KS3 specification in a manageable, practical format. It offers many flexible ways to achieve learning and skills objectives, including unique electronic support through new OxBox technology. Answers are in the Teacher's Guide.