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FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA 'When people play the game: Name three or four persons whom you would choose to have with you on a desert island - they never choose the Delaneys. They don't even choose us one by one as individuals. We have earned, not always fairly we consider, the...

THE CLASSIC THRILLER FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA 'He turned and stared at me and I at him, and I realised, with a strange sense of shock and fear and nausea all combined, that his face and voice were known to me too well. I was looking at myself.' By chance, two men - one English, the...

Here is a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Daphne du Maurier's classic tale of horror. The idea for this famous story came to du Maurier one day when she was walking across to a farm from her house. She saw a farmer busily ploughing a field while above him the seagulls were diving and...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA 'Perhaps we shall not see each other again. I will write to you, though, and tell you, as best I can, the story of your family. A glass-blower, remember, breathes life into a vessel, giving it shape and form and sometimes beauty; but he can with that same...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA 'I tell you your mine will be in ruins and your home destroyed and your children forgotten . . . but this hill will be standing still to confound you.' So curses Morty Donovan when 'Cooper John' Brodrick builds his mine at Hungry Hill. The Brodricks of...

Este libro contiene cinco grandes relatos: “Los pájaros”, “Bésame otra vez, forastero”, “El manzano”, “El joven fotógrafo” y “El viejo”. En todos ellos se nos presentan historias con obstáculos misteriosos y fatalistas, mujeres frustradas, tramas perversas y elementos cercanos a lo paranormal, en las que la realidad se construye con elementos fantasmagóricos. 

Overnaturlige og usædvanlige begivenheder forbinder disse fem noveller fra dronningen af gotisk litteratur Daphne du Maurier. En blæsende vinternat flyver store, sorte fugle pludselig ind ad et åbent vindue i en lille engelsk by i det ellers så idylliske Cornwall og går med baskende vinger, skarpe kløer og hæse skrig til angreb på husets beboere. Og dét er kun begyndelsen i Daphne du Mauriers nervepirrende thriller-novelle "Fuglene", som blev filmatiseret af Alfred Hitchcock i 1963.

Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989), engelsk forfatter. Skrev adskillige romaner og noveller, hvoraf mange er filmatiserede af kendte instruktører. Både teksterne og filmene er siden blevet kultklassikere. Her udgives en af du Mauriers mest enestående romaner. I den vises til fulde hendes eminente fortælleevne og unikke evne til at spinde læseren ind i historiens univers. Vi er i Frankrig i midten af det dramatiske syttenhundredetal. I et familiedynasti bestående af glasmagere.

BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA Both a spellbinding love story and a superb evocation of Cornwall's mythic past, Castle Dor is a book with unique and fascinating origins. It began life as the unfinished last novel of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, the celebrated 'Q', and was passed by his...