Joanne Harris (25 kníh)
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Joanne Harris A Cat, a Hat and a Piece of String ENStories are like Russian dolls; open them up, and in each one you’ll find another story. Come to the house where it is Christmas all year round; meet the ghost who lives on a Twitter timeline; be spooked by a newborn baby created with sugar, spice and lashings of cake. Conjured from a wickedly imaginative pen, here is a new collection of short stories that showcases Joanne Harris’s exceptional talent as a teller of…
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Joanne Harris Blue eyed boy ENBlueeyedboy is the brilliant new novel from Joanne Harris: a dark and intricately plotted tale of a poisonously dysfunctional family, a blind child prodigy, and a serial murderer who is not who he seems. Told through posts on a webjournal called badguysrock, this is a thriller that makes creative use of all the multiple personalities, disguise and mind games that are offered by playing out a life on the internet.
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Joanne Harris Chocolat DEIst Vianne Rocher eine Magierin? Sie verzaubert die Menschen mit ihren selbstgemachten Pralines und Schokoladenkreationen. In dem französischen Städtchen, in dem sie sich niederläßt, gewinnt sie rasch Zugang zu allen Herzen. Mit einer Ausnahme: Pater Reynaud erklärt ihr, besorgt um das Seelenheil seiner Gemeinde, den Krieg. Ein bezaubernder Roman um die Verführungskraft von Schokolade, verfilmt mit Juliette…
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Joanne Harris Chocolat DEIst Vianne Rocher eine Magierin? Sie verzaubert die Menschen mit ihren selbstgemachten Pralines und Schokoladenkreationen. In dem französischen Städtchen, in dem sie sich niederläßt, gewinnt sie rasch Zugang zu allen Herzen. Mit einer Ausnahme: Pater Reynaud erklärt ihr, besorgt um das Seelenheil seiner Gemeinde, den Krieg. Ein bezaubernder Roman um die Verführungskraft von Schokolade, verfilmt mit Juliette…
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Joanne Harris Coastliners ENOn the tiny Breton island of Le Devin, life has remained almost unchanged for over a hundred years. For generations, two rival communities, the wealthy La Houssinière and the impoverished village of Les Salants, have fought for control of the island’s only beach. When Mado, a spirited local girl, returns to Les Salants after a ten-year absence, she finds her home threatened, both by the tides and the machinations…
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Joanne Harris Five Quarters of the Orange ENBeyond the main street of Les Laveuses runs the Loire, smooth and brown as a sunning snake – but hiding a deadly undertow beneath its moving surface. This is where Framboise, a secretive widow named after a raspberry liqueur, plies her culinary trade at the crêperie – and lets her memory play strange games. Into this world comes the threat of revelation as Framboise’s nephew – a profiteering Parisian – attempts to…
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Joanne Harris, Fran Warde French Market ENFollowing the success of The French Kitchen, Joanne Harris and Fran Warde have collaborated once more to write a French cookbook with a difference. This time they have taken their inspiration from the rural markets of Gascony. Tomatoes as nature intended them to be - large, misshapen and bursting with taste - sun-ripened melons, locally produced foie gras, air-dried goat's cheeses rolled in herbs, organic honey,…
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Joanne Harris Gentlemen and Players ENA new year has just begun, and for the staff and boys of the school, a wind of unwelcome change is blowing. Suits, paperwork and Information Technology rule the world and Roy Straitley, Latin master, eccentric, and veteran of St Oswald's, is reluctantly contemplating retirement. But beneath the little rivalries, a darker undercurrent stirs.
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Joanne Harris Holy Fools ENSet in seventeenth-century France against a backdrop of witch trials, regicide and religious frenzy, this is the story of Juliette, one-time actress and rope-dancer. Forced by circumstance to seek refuge with Fleur, her young daughter, in the remote abbey of Saint Marie-de-la-Mer, Juliette reinvents herself as Soeur Auguste under the tutelage of the kindly Abbess. But times are changing: the murder of Henri IV…
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Joanne Harris Jigs and Reels ENThe quirky tales in Joanne Harris' first collection of short stories, Jigs and Reels, can best be summed up in two words: malevolent and mischievous. As with many of her full-length novels, Harris manages to cleverly combine ordinary—even humdrum—situations and characters with the extraordinary and the unexpected. Tales with a twist indeed. Harris lets her formidable imagination run riot in Jigs and Reels. This is a…
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Joanne Harris Peaches for Monsieur Le Curé ENIt isn't often you receive a letter from the dead. When Vianne Rocher receives a letter from beyond the grave, she has no choice but to follow the wind that blows her back to Lansquenet, the village in south-west France where, eight years ago, she opened up a chocolate shop. But Vianne is completely unprepared for what she finds there. Women veiled in black, the scent of spices and peppermint tea, and there, on the…
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Joanne Harris Peaches for Monsieur le Cure ENEven before it was adapted into the Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp, Joanne Harris’s Chocolat entranced readers with its mix of hedonism, whimsy, and, of course, chocolate. Now, at last, Chocolat’s heroine returns to the beautiful French village of Lansquenet in another, equally beguiling tale. When Vianne Rocher receives a letter from beyond the grave, she has no choice but to return…
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Joanne Harris The Evil Seed ENIt's never easy to face the fact that a man you once loved passionately has found the girl of his dreams, as Alice discovers when Joe introduces her to his new girlfriend Ginny. Then Alice finds an old diary hidden away in Ginny's room and reads about Daniel Holmes and his friend Robert and the mysterious woman who bewitched them both - Rosemary Virginia Ashley, buried in Grantchester churchyard half a century ago …
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Joanne Harris, Fran Warde The French Kitchen: A Cookbook ENAnouchka, Madame Douazan, Great-Aunt Simone… These are not characters from one of Joanne Harris's novels, they are the inspiration for a mouth-watering celebration of French cuisine. For, like Framboise, the heroine of Five Quarters of the Orange, Joanne Harris has family recipes that have been passed down through the generations, and she shares them with us now. From Grandmother's Festival Loaf to traditional…
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Joanne Harris, Fran Warde The Little Book of Chocolat ENJoanne Harris's Chocolat trilogy has tantalized readers with its sensuous descriptions of chocolate since it was first published. Now, to celebrate the much-loved story of Vianne Rocher's deliciously decadent chocolaterie, Joanne Harris and Fran Warde have created the ultimate book of chocolate lore and recipes from around the world, bringing a touch of magic to your kitchen.
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Joanne Harris The Lollipop Shoes ENSeeking refuge and anonymity in the cobbled streets of Montmartre, Yanne and her daughters, Rosette and Annie, live peacefully, if not happily, above their little chocolate shop. Nothing unusual marks them out; no red sachets hang by the door. The wind has stopped - at least for a while. Then into their lives blows Zozie de l´Alba, the lady with the lollipop shoes, and everything begins to change... But this new…
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Joanne Harris The Lollipop Shoes ENWho died? I said. Or is it a secret? My mother, Vianne Rocher. Seeking refuge and anonymity in the cobbled streets of Montmartre, Yanne and her two daughters live peacefully, if not happily, above their little chocolate shop. Nothing unusual marks them out; no red sachets hang by the door. The wind has stopped - at least for a while. Then into their lives blows Zozie de l'Alba, the lady with the lollipop shoes…
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