Bücher von Brian Moore

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne is an unflinching and deeply sympathetic portrait of a woman destroyed by self and circumstance. First published in 1955, it marked Brian Moore as a major figure in English literature (he would go on to be short-listed three times for the Booker Prize) and established him as an astute chronicler of the human soul.Judith Hearne is an unmarried woman of a certain age who has come down in society. She has few skills and is full of the prejudices and pieties of her genteel Belfast upbringing. But Judith has a secret life. And she is just one heartbreak away from revealing it to the world.

Eileen Hughes, twenty years old and never before out of Northern Ireland, has arrived in London for a week's holiday with Bernard and Mona McAuley, who are not only her employers but also, she believes, her friends. In Brian Moore's masterful handling, this seemingly simple story darkens and expands, exploring the nature of obsession-both spiritual and erotic-with an elegance, anarchic playfulness, and imagination that recall Henry Green or Muriel Spark.

Gerade hat Michael Dillon einen Entschluss gefasst, der seinem Leben eine Wende geben und ihn zum glücklichsten Menschen der Welt machen soll, da verwandelt sich sein Dasein in einen Alptraum: Maskierte Männer dringen in sein Haus ein und nehmen seine Frau als Geisel. Dillon muss zwischen seinem Privatleben und einer Vielzahl von Menschenleben wählen.

Sheila Redden reist ihrem Mann, einem erfolgreichen Arzt, nach Frankreich voraus. In Paris lernt sie den jüngeren Amerikaner Tom kennen. Nach Tagen des Zögerns und der Selbstzweifel lässt sich Sheila schließlich auf diese Liebe ein und erlebt nie gekanntes Glück. Tom bedrängt sie, alles aufzugeben und mit ihm nach Amerika zu gehen. Sheila muss sich entscheiden.

In 1997, a female group burst on the scene and catapulted into one of the most successful female groups of all time. For years the picture had been painted of how Mathew Knowles helped his golden child daughter, Beyonce; Kelly Rowland, and Destiny's Child achieve phenomenal success.In his long-overdue book, Brian K. Moore, tells an unforgettable and heart-wrenching story of one woman's journey in helping a group of young girls from Houston, Texas achieve fortune and fame. He writes a compelling and detailed expose' of how Tillman secured both the Elektra and Columbia/Sony record deals, as well as created and managed the group, formerly known as Girls Tyme, up to the time of her death.

When Michael Dillon is ordered by the IRA to park his car in the carpark of a Belfast hotel, he is faced with a moral choice which leaves him absolutely nowhere to turn. He knows that he is planting a bomb that would kill and maim dozens of people. But he also knows that if he doesn't, his wife will be killed.