John Boyne: 51 books
by John Boyne
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
“Powerful and unsettling. . . . As memorable an introduction to the subject as The Diary of Anne Frank.” —USA Today
Berlin, 1942: When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must...
This House is Haunted
A Novel by the Author of The Heart's Invisible Furies
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Written in Dickensian prose, This House Is Haunted is a striking homage to the classic nineteenth-century ghost story. Set in Norfolk in 1867, Eliza Caine responds to an ad for a governess position at Gaudlin Hall. When she arrives at the hall, shaken by an unsettling disturbance that occurred during...
by John Boyne
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Eight-year-old Noah's problems seem easier to deal with if he doesn't think about them. So he runs away, taking an untrodden path through the forest.
Before long, he comes across a shop. But this is no ordinary shop: it's a toyshop, full of the most amazing toys, and brimming with the most...
by John Boyne
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Barnaby Brocket is an ordinary 8-year-old boy in most ways, but he was born different in one important way: he floats. Unlike everyone else, Barnaby does not obey the law of gravity. His parents, who have a horror of being noticed, want desperately for Barnaby to be normal, but he can't help who he...
by John Boyne
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
A humorous short story from the collection, BEYOND THE STARS, written by an internationally bestselling author Abigail Crumb is forever making mistakes at the veterinary surgery where she works after school, and now she’s on her final warning. So when she loses – and then finds again – one of...
The House of Special Purpose
A Novel by the Author of The Heart's Invisible Furies
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
From the author of The Absolutist, a propulsive novel of the Russian Revolution and the fate of the Romanovs.
Part love story, part historical epic, part tragedy, The House of Special Purpose illuminates an empire at the end of its reign. Eighty-year-old Georgy Jachmenev is haunted by his past—a...
by Collectif, Michael Morpurgo, Marcus Sedgwick
Language: French
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: October 14, 2015
David Almond (Je m’appelle Mina), Tracy Chevalier (La jeune fille à la perle), Timothée de Fombelle (Le livre de Perle), Michael Morpurgo (Cheval de Guerre)…
Les plus grandes signatures de la littérature racontent la Première Guerre mondiale à partir d’objets emblématiques.
Un superbe...
by John Boyne
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 18, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 18, 2012
Estimado lector, estimada lectora:
Aunque el uso habitual de un texto como éste es describir las características de la obra, por una vez nos tomaremos la libertad de hacer una excepción a la norma establecida. No sólo porque el libro que tienes en tus manos es muy difícil de definir, sino...
by John Boyne
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2016
De padre alemán y madre francesa, Pierrot ha tenido una infancia no muy distinta de la de cualquier niño de su época. Sin embargo, nos hallamos en París, corre el año 1935 y la guerra que se avecina trastocará el destino de millones de personas. Tras la muerte prematura de sus padres, Pierrot...
by John Boyne
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Alfie es un niño de 9 años que limpia zapatos en King's Cross. Cuando descubre que su padre no está luchando en la Gran Guerra sino en un hospital para soldados, su objetivo será sacarlo de allí y devolverlo a casa.
El 28 de julio de 1941 Alfie Summerfield cumplía cinco años.
Ese...
by John Boyne
Language: Dutch
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Language: Dutch
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Op de dag dat de Eerste Wereldoorlog begint, belooft de vader van Alfie Summerfield aan zijn zoon dat hij niet zal gaan meevechten – maar de volgende dag moet hij die belofte al breken. Hij gaat op een zeer speciale, geheime missie, en de hele oorlog lang heeft Alfie geen idee waar zijn vader zou...
by John Boyne
Language: Dutch
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: Dutch
Release Date: February 28, 2013
De tachtigjarige Georgy Jachmenev woont in Engeland met zijn geliefde vrouw Zoya. Hun huwelijk is liefdevol, maar getekend door tragedie: het verlies van geliefden en de ervaringen van een leven in ballingschap. Als Zoya ernstig ziek wordt, maakt het paar zich op om nog eenmaal naar het Rusland van...
by John Boyne
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Encourage students to spend some time in the lives of two innocent young boys, who befriend each other during Germany's dark period of WWII. A charming, yet heart-wrenching story, students will learn to analyze the boys' friendship, their innocence, and the dangers they unknowingly face. Appealing...
by John Boyne
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 9, 2011
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 9, 2011
September 1919. De eenentwintigjarige oorlogsveteraan Tristan Sadler stapt in Norwich uit de trein om een pakketje brieven te overhandigen aan Marian Bancroft. Tristan vocht tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog aan de zijde van Marians broer Will, die de oorlog niet overleefde. Terwijl ze samen door de...