Mária Borbás Book order (chronological)

„Christie-t ​​karácsonyra! Így hirdette az angol kiadója évtizedeken keresztül Agatha Christie új könyvét. Bizonyára nem csak üzleti fogásról volt szó: maga a krimi királynője akart boldog ünnepeket kívánni az olvasóinak egy új könyvvel minden évben. Mert Christie számára a karácsony különösen fontos volt, ami abból is tudható, hogy több regényében és elbeszélésében is az ünnep szolgáltatja a hátteret az eseményekhez. Az egyikben Hercule Poirot vidéken tölti a karácsonyt, és az ünnep reggelén holttestet talál a hóban, amely aztán eltűnik… A második történet főhőse szintén Poirot, aki majdnem negyven évvel később megint kénytelen egy vidéki kúriában karácsonyozni, és a herceg ellopott rubinját kell megkeresnie. Majd megint csak Poirot következik, és egy gyűlölködő család emlékezetes leírása. A szeretet ünnepén a családfőt holtan találják, és a jelenlevők közül senki sem sajnálja. Végül azért Miss Marple is kap egy emlékezetes karácsonyi szerepet. Egy vidéki szállodában gyilkosság történik az ünnepek alatt, és csak a szelíd, kék szemű vénkisasszony lát át a gonosztevő mesterkedésén. Az írónő karácsonyi krimijeit most először gyűjtöttük össze magyarul is egy kötetben.” (a Kiadó)

From Grandfather Aristade to twelve-year-old Josephine, three generations of Leonides all live together in a large gabled house. When old Aristade is murdered, they assume it is by an outsider. Only the second death tells them there's a killer in the family.

'Anyone who murdered Colnonel Protheroe, ' declared the parson, brandishing a carving knife above a joint of roast beef, 'would be doing the world a favour!' It was a careless remark for a man of the cloth. And one which was to come back and haunt the clergyman just a few hours later - when the Colonel is found shot dead in the clergyman's study. But as Miss Marple soon discovers, the whole village seems to have had a motive to kill Colonel Protheroe. -- back cover

Lyra finds herself in a shimmering, haunted underworld-Cittagazze, where soul-eating Specters stalk the streets and wingbeats of distant angels sound against the sky. But she is not without allies: 12-year-old Will Parry, fleeing for his life after taking another's, has also stumbled into this strange new realm. On a perilous journey from world to world, Lyra and Will discover an object of devastating power. And with every step, they move closer to an even greater threat-and the shattering truth of their own destiny.

Set in South Africa under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is both a riveting chronicle of human disintegration and a beautifully understated social critique. Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful farmer. Little by little the ennui of years on the farm work their slow poison, and Mary's despair progresses until the fateful arrival of an enigmatic and virile black servant, Moses. Locked in anguish, Mary and Moses - master and slave - are trapped in a web of mounting attraction and repulsion. Their psychic tension explodes in an electrifying scene that ends this disturbing tale of racial strife in colonial South Africa. The Grass Is Singing blends Lessing's imaginative vision with her own vividly remembered early childhood to recreate the quiet horror of a woman's struggle against a ruthless fate. Author Biography: Doris Lessing was born to British parents in Persia in 1919 and moved with her family to Southern Rhodesia when she was five years old. She went to England in 1949 and has lived there ever since. She is the author of more than thirty books - novels, short stories, reportage, poems, and plays - and is considered among the most important writers of the postwar era. Her most recent works include two volumes of autobiography, Under My Skin and Walking in the Shade, and a novel, Mara and Dann .

Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his counting house when he died - his pockets were later found to contain traces of cereals. An incident in the parlour confirmed Jane Marple's suspicion that here she was looking at a case of crime by rhyme.

According to science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur in New York City on 13th February 2001. It is the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience. Should it expand or make a great big bang? It decides to wind the clock back a decade to 1991, making everyone in the world endure ten years of deja-vu and a total loss of free will – not to mention the torture of reliving every nanosecond of one of the tawdiest and most hollow decades.With his trademark wicked wit, Vonnegut addresses memory, suicide, the Great Depression, the loss of American eloquence, and the obsolescent thrill of reading books.

If you loved My Family and Other Animals and can't get enough of the Durrells after the Corfu series, this is the book for you. It constitutes a series of anecdotal snippets and short stories including 'The Picnic', a laugh-out-loud account of an ill-fated Durrell family excursion, which should have been a relaxing, jolly affair. But with the Durrells things are seldom straightforward and on this occasion all that could go wrong did go wrong - except Gerald Durrell's sense of humour in recounting the tale. Other hilarious and surreal Roald Dahlesque stories ensue, including the critically acclaimed Gothic horror story 'The Entrance'.

The epic story of a priest torn between God and human passion and a beautiful girl desiring only what she cannot have, spanning five decades of ambition, fear, longing and revenge, and set against the vast horizons of Australia's Outback.