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Harry Thompson

    Harry Thompson etablierte sich als vielseitiges literarisches Talent, bekannt für seine aufschlussreichen Beiträge zu Komödie, Biografie und Romanen. Sein umfangreicher Hintergrund in der Radio- und Fernsehproduktion ermöglichte es ihm, zahlreiche prominente komödiantische Karrieren zu fördern und zu starten, wodurch er den zeitgenössischen britischen Humor maßgeblich prägte. Thompsons einziger Roman, ein historisches Werk, erntete kritischen Beifall und stand auf der Longlist für den Booker Prize, was seine Fähigkeit zeigte, fesselnde, in der Vergangenheit verwurzelte Erzählungen zu schaffen. Neben der Fiktion befasste er sich mit biografischen Studien und verfasste einen fesselnden Bericht über eine einzigartige sportliche Expedition, was eine breite literarische Bandbreite und ein scharfes Beobachtungsauge demonstrierte.

    Penguins Stopped Play
    Tintin: Herge and His Creation
    I'm Not Upside Down, I'm Downside Up
    This Thing of Darkness
    • Welcome to my downside up life! My name is Ariana and I want to explain what it's like to have pathological demand avoidance from my perspective. I'll try and show you why I am the way I am from inside my own head and why I often feel like I have to control the things around me by avoiding demands as much as I can.

      I'm Not Upside Down, I'm Downside Up2022
      4,3
    • A fascinating and witty account of the life of Tintin, his creator, and the phenomenon that they became.

      Tintin: Herge and His Creation2011
      4,1
    • Penguins Stopped Play

      • 256 Seiten
      • 9 Lesestunden

      It seemed a simple enough idea at the outset: to assemble a team of eleven men to play cricket on each of the seven continents of the globe. Except - hold on a minute - that's not a simple idea at all. And when you throw in incompetent airline officials, amorous Argentine Colonels' wives, cunning Bajan drug dealers, gay Australian waiters, overzealous American anti-terrorist police, idiot Welshmen dressed as Santa Claus, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and whole armies of pitch-invading Antarctic penguins, you quickly arrive at a whole lot more than you bargained for. Harry Thompson's hilarious book tells the story of one of those great idiotic enterprises that only an Englishman could have dreamed up, and only a bunch of Englishmen could possibly have wished to carry out.

      Penguins Stopped Play2006
      4,1
    • This Thing of Darkness

      A Story of Adventure, Tragedy and a Voyage That Changed the World

      • 626 Seiten
      • 22 Lesestunden

      1828 - Brilliant young naval officer Robert FitzRoy is given the captaincy of HMS Beagle, surveying the wilds of Tierra del Fuego, aged just twenty-three. He takes a passenger: a young trainee cleric and amateur geologist named Charles Darwin. This is the story of a deep friendship between two men, and the twin obsessions that tore it apart, leading one to triumph and the other to disaster...

      This Thing of Darkness2005
      4,5