Selected as a Guardian best book of 2016 A funny and mind-bending novel about the clash of empires and ideas in the sixteenth century, told over the course of one dazzling tennis match A brutal tennis match in Rome. Two formidable opponents: the wild Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio and the loutish Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo. Galileo, Saint Matthew and Mary Magdalene heckle from the sidelines. In England, Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII execute Anne Boleyn, and her executioner transforms her legendary locks into the most sought-after tennis balls of the time. Across the ocean in Mexico, the last Aztec emperors play their own games, as Hern�n Cort�s and his Mayan translator and lover scheme and conquer, fight and fuck, not knowing that their domestic comedy will change the course of history. Over the course of one dazzling tennis match - through assassinations and e
Denne tennisketsjer har en størrelse på 67,5x27 cm. Ketsjeren har en sort og blå ramme med hvide detaljer og et blåt greb.
The Clique Summer Collection is a series of five novellas about the summer plans of the main characters in the Clique.MASSIE gets BE-yoo-tiful: After Massie Block gets kicked off her high horse and out of her ultra exclusive Westchester riding camp, her parents force her to do the unthinkable-find a summer job. Not one for dog-walking or brat-sitting, Massie comes up with the ah-bvious solution: She’ll be a sales rep for the cosmetics brand Be Pretty. Massie fully hearts her new role as fairy gawdmother of makeup-until she discovers transforming LBRs into glam-girls takes more than a swish of her royal purple mascara wand. Game, Set, Match . . . DYLAN? Dylan and her TV-host mom are off to Hawaii’s Aloha Tennis Open. While Merri-Lee interviews tennis’s wild child Svetlana “Tennis the Menace” Slootskyia, Dylan lets the tropical sun melt away the memory of getting dumped by two guys at the
Politikens Tennisbog giver vejledning i tennisspillets grundlæggende slag og tilbyder et fuldformet træningsprogram, med fokus på tennispsykologi og taktik. Bogen er skrevet af diplomtræner Jon Diederichsen. Type: Hardcover Politikens Tennisbog gennemgår tennisspillets udstyr, teknik enkelt og trin-for-trin. Den kan bruges af både begyndere og mere øvede spillere, der vil udvikle deres personlige spillestil. Bogen indeholder vejledning i tennisspillets grundlæggende slag samt træningsprogram og psykologi.
Det vrimler med lurendrejere, liderlige lemmedaskere, lækre latinaer og latterlige lusepustere i denne pikareske roman, der er ualmindelig underholdende læsning. Efteråret 1599. En tennisbane i Rom. (Eller i hvert fald et område, hvorpå der bedrives noget, som med lidt god vilje minder om den form for tennis, vi kender i dag.) To duellanter – en spansk digter og en italiensk maler, begge ramt af voldsomme tømmermænd. En bold, der er fremstillet af intet mindre end håret fra Henrik VIII's halshuggede kone, Anne Boleyn. Og et slaw tennis, der handler om meget mere end blot at finde en vinder og en taber. Dette er rammen for Álvaro Enrigues fabelagtige og pikareske roman 'Sæt og match', der rummer visse historiske fakta og en masse røverhistorier, hvis sandhedsværdi man ikke skal gå op i. Det er ualmindeligt underholdende læsning. Den spanske digter Francisco de Quevedo og den italienske re
The 'book of the dead' is the morgue log in which all cases are entered. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to have a new meaning. Fresh from her battle with a psychopath in Florida, Scarpetta moves to South Carolina and opens a private forensic pathology practice. A string of brutal killings shatters her dreams of a quiet life. Titel: Book of the dead Genre: Krimi Sammendrag: Fresh from her battle with a psychopath in Florida, Scarpetta decides it's time for a change of pace. Moving to the historic city of Charleston, South Carolina, she opens a unique forensic pathology practice offering expert crime scene investigation and autopsies. It seems like an ideal situation – until the murders begin. A woman is ritually murdered in her expensive beach home. The body of an abused young boy is found dumped in a desolate marsh. A young tennis star is found nude and mutilated near Piazza Nav
Et tennisarmbånd designet med ensartede, klare sten monteret i fattninger hele vejen rundt. Stenene ser ud til at være krystaller eller zirkonia, og er anbragt i en lige linje for et klassisk og elegant look. Armbåndet er sølvfarvet.
A Novel Nick and her cousin Helena grew up in a world of sun bleached boat docks, tennis whites, and midnight gin parties at Tiger House, the family home on Martha's Vineyard. In the wake of the Second World War, the two women are on the cusp of starting their "real lives": Helena is off to Hollywood and a new marriage to the charismatic Avery Lewis, while Nick is heading for a reunion with her own husband, Hughes Derringer, about to return from the war. The world seems rife with possibility. The gilt soon begins to crack. Avery is not the man he seems to be, and Hughes has grown distant, his inner light curtained over. On the brink of the 1960s, Nick and Helena-with their children Daisy and Ed-try to recapture that earlier sense of possibility. But then Daisy and Ed discover something truly awful, and the dark thread of the family's history slowly starts to unravel. The secrets and lies
