Winzerer recommendations: english books

Yann Martel: Beatrice and Vergil

This is the story of an extraordinary journey undertaken by a man named Henry. It begins with a mysterious parcel. It ends in a place that will make you think again about one of the most significant events of the twentieth century. It also involves a howler monkey, a donkey, an enigmatic taxidermist and a dog named Erasmus. Once you have finished reading it, it is impossible to forget.

ISBN 978-1-84767-932-1 | 9,95 €


Jack Kerouac: On the Road

Fifty years after its original publication, Kerouacs road epic - typed on one continuous scroll in only three weeks - is published for the first time as the author intended, complete with real names, places, and scandalous details. In this influential odyssey of jazz and drugs, of filling stations and marriage licences, of sex, and poolsharks, and hiballs, Kerouac tells the real story of his travels with car thief and Beat icon Neal Cassady, and the famous friends they met, drank with, and ignored. 

ISBN 978-0-141-118921-5 | 10,40 €


Anrea Levy: The Long Song

"You don't know me yet but i am the narrator of this work. My son Thomas, who is printing this book, tells me it`s customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within these pages. As your storyteller, i am to convey that this tale is set in Jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery - and the early years of freedon that followed!"

A moving tale set in Jamaica - Andreas Levvys entertaining novels reflect the experience sof black Britons, which look at Britain and its changing population and at the intimacies that bind British historywith that of the Caribbean.

ISBN 978-0-7553-5942-4 | 10,90 €


Otfried Preußler: The little Ghost

The little ghost lived in an old oak chest in a cobwebbed corner of an attic in an old castle. He was one of those harmless little ghosts who haunt places by night, and never hurt anyone unless they are provoked. He enjoyed haunting, but did so wish he could see the town by day instead of by night. Then one day it happend. But a town by daylight is no place for a little white ghost...

ISBN 978-3-522-17440-4 | 7,90 €


Grimm's Most Beautiful Fairy Tales

In the year 1857 the Grimm brothers published their classic collection of folk songs and folktales, which should become one of the world's most popular fairy tale collection ever since. For this new editon the storyteller Arnica Esterl has chosen the most beautiful and most loved fairy tales from the original collection. Even nowadays Grimm's fairy tales have lost nothing of their wit and charm and are still able to fascinate young and grown-up readers alike.

The Russian artist Anastassija Archipowa has lavishly illustrated the book in her unique way: detailed watercoulours sensitively convey the fairy tales' individual mood!

ISBN 978-3-480-21638-3 | 19,80 €


Babette Cole: A Dose of Dr. Dog

Feeling poorly? You need a dose of Dr. Dog! Dr. Dog is taking a well-deserved break when his pesky family, the Gumboyles, turned up, and proceed to cathch all sorts of nasty holiday ailments.

Luckily Dr. Dog and his new side-kick are on call with some ingenious natural remedies. But even this dynamic duo can't protect the Gumboyles fron a hungry and highly dangerous plant...

ISBN 978-0-099-48768-5 | 9,90 €


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