Bøger udgivet af Holland House Books

Five powerful stories exploring identity and selfhood. With haunting, Kafkaesque prose, Emanuela Barasch-Rubinstein creates a series of profound, internal narratives.

A letter from a mother to her daughter reveals a life changing secret... Thousands of miles away, a woman is trapped in a loveless marriage... Mirrors is a story of identity, truth, and uncovering who we truly are.

Greta Garbo, the immortal goddess of the silver screen, said that she wanted to be alone. What if she had been granted that wish? What if she had travelled further and further until she arrived at the North Pole? And what if she met a faithful dog along the way...

A sadistic serial killer is at large in Seville - with a taste for priests; drug-addicted Detective Velazquez is working against the clock to uncover the murderer while tackling his own problems, including the kidnapping of his bullfighter girlfriend.

The lives of a street girl, an aspiring writer, and a freed slave cross and re-cross the slums of London in this novel about the birth of passion, the burden of addiction, and the consolations of literature.

Daniel lives alone, and he does nothing but sleep and work, work and sleep. When this sleep is repeatedly interrupted by his neighbor's barking dog, he surprises himself by doing something despicable. When he finally meets the mysterious neighbor, he surprises himself again: he finds that a friend is something he's been missing more than he knew.

Jane is a telemarketer. She uses a different name each time, and soon it becomes clear that she is calling the same man again and again. Each call is a new battle between them, with him becoming angrier and more threatening. But Jane isn't calling him at random; Jane has a purpose; and Jane has a past which seems to change each time she tells it.

Cecilia is hired by the wealthy seventy-eight year old Elena Woodard to be her fulltime caregiver. Elena gives her journal with her history to Cecilia to translate into English. Inspired by the older woman's story of her life in Brazil, Cecilia tells how she fled Brazil with her mother. When Elena dies, a new future is created for Cecilia.

An overworked teacher, Stef questions her husband's fidelity, but is drawn into a community on a remote Exmoor estate run by the couples counsellor. Meanwhile, her grandmother, who is writing her memoir about the Hitler Youth girls in Berlin with a mixture of guilt and nostalgia, looks on helplessly as Stef descends ever further.

Part of The Novella Project, a collection of six novellas by new and exciting authors.