LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jonathan dunne

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  • From the Imp’s Archives
    Rafael Dieste / Jonathan Dunne
    Rafael Dieste (Rianxo, 1899-Santiago de Compostela, 1981) stands alongside such names as Castelao, Álvaro Cunqueiro and Ánxel Fole as a classic of twentieth-century Galician literature. He wrote in both the Galician and Spanish languages and is best known for his short stories, of which he published two collections: one in Galician - From the Imp’s Archives (Dos arquivos do tra...
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    22,38 €

  • You Survived?
    Fina Casalderrey / Jonathan Dunne
    Francisco Sánchez Loiro, 'Moni' to his friends, is having problems at school. The teachers find him aggressive, and he keeps being called into the director’s office. He is studying Hostelry and Tourism and has had to repeat the second year of vocational training. It’s not that he’s not talented, he just can’t be bothered to apply himself. He also likes to swear a lot. The only ...
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    19,03 €

  • The Sun of Summer
    Carlos Casares / Jonathan Dunne
    The Sun of Summer is the Ourense writer Carlos Casares’s final work and was published only a month after his death on 9 March 2002. It is a lyrical, retrospective novel narrated in the voice of a young woman named Helena. She recalls her childhood playing games with Carlos in the grounds of the family home in Beiro, a village north of Ourense where the author used to spend his ...
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    22,12 €

  • The Proper Painting
    Fabio Rivas / Jonathan Dunne
    A painter, Xabier Nóvoa, who can only paint if he has a live model in front of him. A maid, Carmiña, who is queen of the washing place. A pickpocket, Inés, who knows how to catch eels. A stepfather, Pig, who merges with the pigs he pins to the ground. A father, Henrique, who works on a North Sea oil rig. Two boys, Forxán and Tilve, who steal from the cab of a fruit lorry. A bli...
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    20,12 €

  • Wounded by the Wind
    Antón Riveiro Coello / Jonathan Dunne
    The year is 1978. The author is a boy of fifteen who has just returned from boarding school to his home town of Xinzo de Limia in the province of Ourense, Galicia. This town on the River Limia - identified by Roman soldiers with the mythical River Lethe, the River of Forgetfulness - is famous for two things: its prolonged carnival celebrations, during which affable demons known...
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    20,14 €

  • Bulgarian Frescoes
    Gabriel Dunne / Tsvetanka Elenkova / Jonathan Dunne
    Very little is known of Bulgaria outside its borders, due in large part to the lack of adequate support for translators, those spiders that criss-cross the line. This is particularly true when it comes to Orthodoxy, despite the importance of Bulgaria in the history of Orthodox Christianity (an important synod was held in Sofia in 343 to resolve the Arian controversy; the presen...
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    40,05 €

  • The Boneyard
    Jonathan Dunne
    Step into The Boneyard, where every bite-sized story is a grave-of-sorts and every grave tells a tale. This chilling collection of ten horror short stories delves into the shadowy recesses of the human psyche and the eerie unknown. Each tale unearths the morbid and the macabre, from doomed gravediggers to blood cults, malevolent spirits to the unrelenting terror of the human he...
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    9,95 €

  • Fireman
    Jonathan Dunne
    This is your baptism of fire, Max Lee...Fireman Max Lee makes a chilling discovery in the dark recesses of the sewers below the streets of Old Castle during routine maintenance. He tries to forget the unsettling encounter, but Max finds it hard to shake off the haunting image of the individual he would come to know as Ash Man.Not long after setting eyes on the strange vagrant l...
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    14,86 €

  • Sibila
    Rosa Aneiros / Jonathan Dunne
    It is a cold, rainy December night, and Sibila is on a mission. She has left everything that might give away her location at home and rented a car in the name of a deceased person. Her destination is an island that lies several kilometres offshore. She has arranged for a guide to take her across at low tide. Because this is not a normal island, no one is allowed to spend the ni...
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    23,11 €

  • Drive
    Jonathan Dunne
    Step into the House of Mirrors...When Gracie Doyle and her friends visit Old Castle’s wrecking yard on Christmas Eve to say goodbye to their deceased friend Kelly Monroe, they unleash a malevolent force lurking within the eerie attraction known as ’The Kill Car’.Instead of finding closure, they open a mysterious portal to the supernatural world, plunging Gracie into a dark batt...
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    12,89 €

  • Dead Ends
    Jonathan Dunne
    Dead Ends is an eclectic potpourri of nine horrific tales, including two tales to be adapted for full-length upcoming novels, Drive and FiremanDead-end Tale 1: DriveA battered black Audi Quattro in Old Castle’s scrapyard has become a morbid attraction for the town’s youth since 17-year-old Kelly Monroe’s life was taken in that tomb-on-wheels. Kelly’s three best friends make the...
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    10,73 €

  • Magnification Forty
    Tsvetanka Elenkova / Jonathan Dunne
    'These miraculous poems of everyday matter magnified by forty reveal our world in all its pristine glory - reminiscent of Pablo Neruda’s household odes, but stranger. Her sketches of waterfalls are extraordinary, as if we are witnessing the birth of water and every inch hallucinatory. Her magnifying eye probes the roots of matter and spirit, where they intertwine and dance with...
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    18,03 €

  • The Minotaur’s Daughter
    Marilar Aleixandre / Jonathan Dunne
    Miranda’s parents, Asterius and Melina, run a tavern in Syracuse, a historic city on the Italian island of Sicily. They are immigrants from Crete, which they had to leave in a hurry, never to return. One of their customers is a blind man called Polyeuphemius, who is almost a member of the family, but they are wary of another customer, Olysseus, who traffics in ancient artefacts...
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    20,12 €

  • Night of the Caiman
    Diego Ameixeiras / Jonathan Dunne
    In Night of the Caiman, a writer, Ricardo Barros, seeks to complete his magnum opus and in the process to recreate something of the life of David Goodis. He will even move to Goodis’ native Philadelphia to follow in his footsteps and discover something of the darker corners that this city contains. His teacher in the art of writing is Vicente Mallón, pseudonym Vincent Malone, w...
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    20,10 €

  • Hotel Miramar
    Jonathan Dunne
    Welcome to Hotel Miramar, where the guests aren’t guests.Journalist Dan Armstrong works for a struggling local newspaper. To save the tabloid from closure, Dan carries out one last assignment - the mysterious evacuation of the islanders from Crab Island, now an off-limits nature reserve.But Dan and his family soon learn the impromptu evacuation of Crab Island isn’t the only mys...
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    18,01 €

  • Rosie
    Jonathan Dunne
    A deep well of the darkest wishes.Rosie and Victor Ryan, real estate investors, land a massive sale to the mystery buyer of Wishing Well House. But the same night the Ryan family celebrate the sale, a bizarre accident robs Rosie of her mobility, freezing their idyllic life in tragedy.Victor volunteers to be quadriplegic Rosie’s full-time caregiver. But the accident has turned h...
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    19,01 €

  • Crazy Daisy
    Jonathan Dunne
    It is always night in the cave. Take my cold hand.Weeks before young Fern Keegan sees what she sees in the river tunnel during the Old Castle floods, a deranged patient, Gabriel Bogdan, makes an outrageous claim nobody at The Hillside psychiatric hospital believes until it’s too late.Thirteen years later, a school tour in the local cave unravels into blind terror when the teach...
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    16,00 €

  • Night of the Crow
    Abel Tomé / Jonathan Dunne
    The island of Gothard is a law unto itself. Separated from the mainland by a long bridge, it has its own chancellor and popular jury. The island is run by two powerful families, the Faols (who own the silver mine) and the Cárthaigs (who own the bank). Decisions are taken by popular vote in the main square, Wolf Tongue. But when the schoolteacher and his family turn up dead in t...
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    21,13 €

  • Resistance
    Rosa Aneiros / Jonathan Dunne
    Rosa Aneiros’ novel Resistance is an epic of contemporary Galician literature that follows the fortunes of two very different people during the Estado Novo, the authoritarian regime in Portugal under António Salazar and Marcello Caetano that lasted from 1933 to 1974. Dinis Cardoso is a glass-factory worker from a small fishing village on Portugal’s west coast, São Pedro de Moel...
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    24,08 €

  • Invisible Bodies
    Emma Pedreira / Jonathan Dunne
    Culture is everything that is left as a residue once we have forgotten all the books we’ve read. In the Romantic era, Prometheus, the Titan god of fire who stole fire from the gods, gave it to humanity and was sentenced to having his liver gobbled up by an eagle every day, represented the lone genius whose efforts to improve human existence could also result in tragedy. For thi...
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    19,15 €

  • Billy’s Experiment
    Jonathan Dunne
    From the author of The Squatter creeps a new horror, Billy’s Experiment, #1 New Release in British Horror Fiction @ Amazon...On the night of a blood moon eclipse, park ranger Bill Steward saves a newborn baby on the misty moors of Old Castle’s national park.Seven autumns later, Bill and his wife, Dorothy, discover a ghastly experiment in a treehouse and a mysterious medical pre...
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    20,04 €

  • The Squatter
    Jonathan Dunne
    The house is free...but it comes with a price. Single mom, Molly Greene, is forced to close her Michelin-star restaurant due to the Covid 19 pandemic. To escape the ghosts of her past and the high cost of city living, Molly moves the Greene family to the isolated town of Old Castle where they move into a  200-year-old stately farmhouse...which isn’t quite vacant. The Greene fam...
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    18,99 €

  • Without Mercy
    Pedro Feijoo / Jonathan Dunne
    Despite their different backgrounds, Teo and Gordo have been friends since they were at school. Teo’s father is head of neurosurgery at the local hospital and wants his son to follow in his footsteps. Gordo’s father is a drunk, a wastrel. Gordo leaves school early and takes an apprenticeship at the local repair shop, while Teo is sent by his ambitious father to further his stud...
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    22,03 €

  • Finding Jesus
    Jonathan Dunne
    Atheist Dr. Jonathan Dunraven meets Jesus in a most nightmarish way. But Jonathan goes on to discover that the holy man is actually a wisecracking, miracle-making joker with a chilling dark side! Then there’s that peculiar one-legged crow constantly perched on his shoulder…or is it really a crow?Even though Jesus lovingly warns Dr. Dunraven about the impending apocalypse, the g...
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    12,83 €

  • Lighthouse Jive
    Jonathan Dunne
    He has come to the island to get away from the world, but now the world is coming to the island...Theodore Lambert is disillusioned with the world. But who cares? Theodore’s wife, Amber, is convinced that the end of the world is coming in the form of a giant asteroid.Needing a detox holiday, Theodore and his family find themselves living in a mystical island lighthouse on the w...
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    13,87 €

  • Crookedness
    Tsvetanka Elenkova / Jonathan Dunne
    The world according to Tsvetanka Elenkova is both lucid and hieratic. In it, a lover’s eye is ‘a disc on a chain /with the god of the sun /the window casts on the wall’; but love itself is an ‘Altar’ on which the lovers are ‘lying crosswise’. The poet’s own narrative eye keeps shifting viewpoint – and perspective – not for the sake of it but to create depth and meaning: ‘The ot...
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    14,91 €

  • I Love You Leo A. Arrivals Terminal...?
    Rosa Aneiros / Jonathan Dunne
    In this third and final instalment of Leo’s travelling adventures, Leo has been travelling for four months, but an amorous snub received while she is in Paris makes her want to call it a day and go straight home without completing the planned six months of her trip. Her aunt’s insistence and a surprise visit help Leo reconsider her hasty decision and, just as she was expecting ...
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    23,09 €

  • Tartarus
    Antonio Manuel Fraga / Jonathan Dunne
    When Guiomar Brelivete, a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl who lives in Audierna, is told by her parents that she must start attending klavia lessons in the old quarter of Plugufan and miss training sessions for maila, her favourite sport, she is understandably annoyed. But her teacher, Mastrina Xaoven, turns out to have a sense of humour and agrees, in return for Guiomar learning ...
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    20,99 €

  • Nothing Really Matters in Life More Than Love
    Agustín Fernández Paz / Jonathan Dunne
    The ten stories in this magnificent collection “all talk of the importance of love, that feeling that can transform us more deeply than any other, and also of its absence, the void it leaves in people when the twists and turns of life make it impossible.” So the author, Agustín Fernández Paz, writes in his afterword. A banker who, bored of the company of other directors, freque...
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    23,61 €

  • The DNA of the English Language
    Jonathan Dunne
    This revolutionary book sets out to persuade the reader that the English language is not the result of years of haphazard evolution, a chaotic atom-like conglomeration of words, but a carefully planned whole in which each word has its place and is connected by a consistent set of rules. It is not by chance that ‘earth’ is ‘heart’ or ‘soil’ is ‘soul’, for instance, or that ‘salt...
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    18,02 €


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