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Paul Burke

    This author possesses a multifaceted career, with his literary work drawing inspiration from extensive experience in advertising. Alongside his creative endeavors in marketing, he cultivated a parallel passion as a radio DJ, bridging different artistic worlds. This unique blend of perspectives informs his writing, which is often recognized for its originality and insight. While focused on his literary output, his deep connection to media and the arts remains a defining characteristic.

    Umsonst ist nur das Leben
    Die guten Jahre sind vorbei. Roman
    An Australian Indigenous Diaspora
    Father Frank
    The Man Who Fell In Love With His Wife
    The Life of Reilly
    • The Life of Reilly

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      Sean Reilly seems to have his life sorted: lovely family, beautiful house and lucrative career as a voice-over artist. But he craves the sort of romance and affection that he no longer receives from his wife. When she sets up home in Kent without him he wonders why, once married, women want men to change and hate it when they don't? Whereas men never want women to change and hate it when they do. Lucy Ross, 'caught single' after a career development sends her long-term boyfriend into paroxysms of jealousy, is also looking for romance. She doesn't want Sean to change - she just wants him. Full stop. So could the life of Reilly be sorted after all?

      The Life of Reilly
    • Newly-wed Frank Dempsey, a former Catholic priest, can now luxuriate in the sublime joys of his wife's arms.Yet Frank isn't really off-duty from charitable deeds - when he isn't driving his black cab for a local taxi firm, he is in hot demand to speak at christenings and funerals. Or to inspire people to flock to the dancefloor as a DJ.Frank soon discovers that the tempting sins of the flesh have consequences; when Frank becomes a real father, he realises he is going to need a miracle to feed the five thousand...

      The Man Who Fell In Love With His Wife
    • Father Frank

      • 336 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      Father Frank is the story of a Roman Catholic, taxi-driving priest who harbours an almightly secret: he doesn't believe in God. His life is hugely successful, if a little unconventional until Sarah hops into his cab and his life.

      Father Frank
    • Some indigenous people, while remaining attached to their traditional homelands, leave them to make a new life for themselves in white towns and cities, thus constituting an "indigenous diaspora". This innovative book is the first ethnographic account of one such indigenous diaspora, the Warlpiri, whose traditional hunter-gatherer life has been transformed through their dispossession and involvement with ranchers, missionaries, and successive government projects of recognition. By following several Warlpiri matriarchs into their new locations, far from their home settlements, this book explores how they sustained their independent lives, and examines their changing relationship with the traditional culture they represent.

      An Australian Indigenous Diaspora
    • Sean hat ein scheinbar perfektes Leben, sehnt sich aber nach romantischer Liebe, die seine Frau ihm nicht geben kann. Lucy sucht ebenfalls nach mehr Romantik. Ihre Begegnung mit Sean bringt ihr Glück, doch was passiert, wenn man die große Liebe erst spät trifft?

      Die guten Jahre sind vorbei. Roman
    • Notting Hill, 1978: Dave und Andy besuchen die streng katholische Schule St. Bede's. Während Dave versucht, seinem trostlosen irischen Familienleben zu entkommen, möchte Andy dem Erbe der nicht minder freudlosen polnischen Familentradition entgehen. Beide träumen von Aufstiegen, wie sie sie auf der Kinoleinwand immer wieder bewundern, und zufällig bekommen beide einen Job im Kino um die Ecke. Im Sommer 1978 brechen sie zu Entdeckungen auf, die aufregender sind als alles, was sie je im Kino gesehen haben: erste Liebe, erstes Auto, eigenes Geld, eigener Stil, eigene Identität. Aber sie wollen noch mehr vom großen Kuchen und riskieren dafür viel ...

      Umsonst ist nur das Leben
    • Frank Dempsey genießt die Freuden in den Armen seiner Angetrauten wie jeder frischverheiratete Ehemann. Obwohl ... eigentlich ist er schon eine Ausnahme, denn vor nicht allzu langer Zeit stand er als katholischer Priester einer Londoner Gemeinde vor. Nun hat er das Priestergewand an den Nagel gehängt. Die Frage ist nur, wovon er als „Zivilist“ leben soll? Er ist immer noch ein gern gesehener Redner bei Hochzeiten, Taufen und Trauerfeiern, doch die Kirche bezahlt ihn dafür nicht mehr. Die Frage wird drängender, als sich die Folgen der sinnlichen Freuden zeigen: Nachwuchs kündigt sich an ...

      Der Mann, der sich in seine Frau verliebte