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Sally Beauman

    25. Juli 1944 – 11. Juli 2016

    Esta autora forjó una distinguida carrera en periodismo y crítica literaria, ganando el Premio Catherine Pakenham y convirtiéndose en la editora más joven de la revista Queen. Sus escritos aparecieron en publicaciones líderes del Reino Unido y EE. UU., incluyendo The New Yorker, donde un artículo sobre Daphne du Maurier inspiró la idea de su propia novela desde la perspectiva de Manderley. Anteriormente, escribió novelas románticas bajo el seudónimo de Vanessa James antes de transicionar a obras más extensas bajo su propio nombre, explorando temas complejos y puntos de vista narrativos.

    Sally Beauman
    The landscape of love
    The Breaking Point. Short Stories
    Diamanten der Nacht.
    Danger Zones
    Rebecca
    Angel Destructor
    • Danger Zones

      • 576 páginas
      • 21 horas de lectura

      "A DELICIOUS STEW OF CRIME, PASSION, HIGH FASHION, AND TRAGIC LOVE." —Affaire de Coeur A reclusive couturiere of originality and passion, Maria Cazarès is a legend shrouded in mystery. Around her swirl rumor and counterrumor, whispers of shocking secrets and taboos broken. . . . "COMPULSIVELY READABLE AND UTTERLY ENGROSSING." —The Times (London) When the glitterati assemble in Paris for the new collections, a fatal passion established three decades before in sultry New Orleans fulfills its tragic destiny. Two journalists, Rowland McGuire and Gini Hunter, pick up the heady scent of an unfolding scandal. . . . "SUSPENSEFUL AND COMPLETELY ENTERTAINING." —Booklist As the world waits breathlessly for the new Cazarès collection, the search for a missing innocent will reach its pulsingly suspenseful climax. And at last, blood red truths will be revealed. . . . A Featured Alternate of the Literary Guild® and the Doubleday Book Club®

      Danger Zones
      3,3
    • Sally Beauman is the author of the bestselling REBECCA'S TALE. First published in 1987, DESTINY is an international bestseller and has been widely translated. schovat popis

      Diamanten der Nacht.
      4,0
    • The Breaking Point. Short Stories

      • 304 páginas
      • 11 horas de lectura

      In this collection of suspenseful tales in which fantasies, murderous dreams and half-forgotten worlds are exposed, Daphne du Maurier explores the boundaries of reality and imagination.

      The Breaking Point. Short Stories
      3,7
    • The landscape of love

      • 448 páginas
      • 16 horas de lectura

      If I didn't spy, I'd be in the dark eternally. I live in a maze of unknowing -- Maisie's maze -- and I hate it. I need to be informed . . .' The summer of 1967, at a decaying house in the heart of Suffolk: an artist is painting a portrait of thirteen-year-old Maisie and her elder sisters, beautiful Julia and bookish Finn. Maisie embarks on a portrait of her own: she begins an account of her family and of her village friend Daniel Nunn, a young man she idolises, whom she watches over the chasm of a class divide. But is Maisie's description of a summer idyll all it seems? This is the summer when the three sisters' lives will irrevocably, and terribly, change. The winter of 1991, in London: the now-famous portrait of the three sisters features in a major retrospective. Daniel Nunn, haunted by the vanished England of his childhood, obsessed by the three sisters and newly determined to understand what happened that last summer, pursues the ghosts of his past.

      The landscape of love
      3,7
    • Rebecca's Tale

      • 627 páginas
      • 22 horas de lectura

      On the twentieth anniversary of the death of Rebecca, the hauntingly beautiful first wife of Maxim de Winter, family friend Colonel Julyan receives an anonymous parcel. It contains a black notebook with two handwritten words on the title page -- Rebecca's Tale -- and two pictures: a photograph of Rebecca as a young child and a postcard of Manderley. Rebecca once asked Julyan to ensure she was buried in the churchyard facing the sea: if she ended up in the de Winter crypt, she warned, she'd come back to haunt him. Now, it seems, she has finally kept her promise. Julyan's conscience has never been clear over the official version of Rebecca's death. Was Rebecca the manipulative, promiscuous femme fatale her husband claimed. Or the gothic heroine of tragic proportions that others had suggested. The official story, the 'truth', has only had Maxim's version of events to consider. But all that is about to change . . .

      Rebecca's Tale
      3,5
    • Sextet

      • 445 páginas
      • 16 horas de lectura

      Romantic thriller with the characters from Lovers and liars and Danger zones, featuring journalist Gini Hunter.

      Sextet
      3,2
    • The first time Rebecca set eyes on Cal Ryder, she took a dislike to him. And her dislike flared into anger at their next meeting. But on a tiny Greek island you cannot avoid people, and gradually she realised her anger had hidden a passion of a different kind... She could almost taste the danger! Now, here's trouble, Rebecca thought the day mystery author Cal Ryder invaded Paxos and took a villa on the most inaccessible part of the Greek island. Then passion flared between them in a blaze of excitement that threatened to consume them both. But Rebecca noticed something secretive and watchful in his eyes, anger even, that made her feel shed blundered into his life at the worst possible moment. Whatever Cal was involved in was unfolding at a breakneck pace, and Rebecca's reactions were confused--partly emotional, partly sensual....

      Give Me this Night
    • The Royal Shakespeare Company

      A History of Ten Decades

      • 388 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      Traces the development of the Royal Shakespeare Company from its opening in 1879 to the present and examines its productions of the classic plays of Shakespeare

      The Royal Shakespeare Company