Bøger af Kate Macdonald

Inspired by the most famous Canadian children's book, The Anne of Green Gables Cookbook includes recipes, quotes and anecdotes from the entire classic eight-book series.

Broken hearts unite two unforgettable women: one in prison, the other imprisoned by grief. Destiny Tubb is young, luckless, disadvantaged; Dr. Sara Beth Corcoran is elderly, wealthy and cultured. When a wild mustang gallops into their lives, obsession and jealousy escalate into a desperate race to save a truck of slaughter-bounds horses. A story as dramatic as its western landscape, "Chance" reveals an unexpected friendship that transforms prejudice into love; fear into unimagined strength, and crippling grief into a passion for an extraordinary mission that saves lost girls and unwanted horses.Wild Horse round-ups, kill-buyers, government fraud and conspiracy frame a friendship as unpredictable, surprisingly rewarding, and profound as the bond between a wild horse and a human.Researched for over a decade in the field, this novel finally tells the true story of the threat to America's wild horse herds.

Tricky begins with an ending, a young woman leaving her home and her exceptionally sheltered life in order to find the father she has never met and whose existence has been hidden from her. Her move from the Mormon heartland to San Francisco leads her not only to unravel the mysteries of her past, but also to the discovery of new passions and pain in the wilds of the city. Conversion is a bittersweet love song to seemingly average urbanites struggling to reconcile their fading dreams with workaday reality. The story chronicles the adventures of Seth and Julia, two thirty-something friends, as they try to make it home after a night out. The cast of freaks they encounter on their way makes for a series of vignettes at once hilarious, chilling and extremely touching. The shooting script is published here for the first time, complete with the author's notes from the filming process.

A collection of edited essays on the novelist John Buchan (1875-1940), author of, among many other works, "The Thirty-Nine Steps" (1915), "Witch Wood" (1927) and "Sick Heart River" (1940). It considers Buchan's writing and reputation from the perspective of the twenty-first century and examines Buchan's major fiction and non-fictional writing.

The Politics of Global Supply Chains analyses the changing politics of power and distribution within contemporary global supply chains.

Novelists Against Social Change studies the writing of John Buchan, Dornford Yates and Angela Thirkell to show how these conservative authors put their fears and anxieties into their best-selling fiction. Resisting the threats of change in social class, politics, the freedom of women, and professionalization produced their strongest works. 

The letters of Frank & Lucy Sunderland record how Lucy kept their Letchworth family going while Frank was in prison as a WW1 conscientious objector.

Novelists Against Social Change studies the writing of John Buchan, Dornford Yates and Angela Thirkell to show how these conservative authors put their fears and anxieties into their best-selling fiction. Resisting the threats of change in social class, politics, the freedom of women, and professionalization produced their strongest works.

The Edwardian period was a time of great social and political change. The six texts in this edition are all notable for their imaginative portrayals of the future. This is the only critical edition of these works. Essays and introductory matter explore the themes in the novels, as well as the literary-historical context they appeared in.

Scottish politician, statesman and thriller writer John Buchan was a prolific and popular author who wrote the best-selling thriller ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"" in 1915. This book presents Buchan's mystery fiction that includes entries on the characters, novels, short fiction, films, themes, and symbols.