Showing results by author "Graeme Simsion" in Genre Fiction

Psychiatry registrar Doctor Hannah Wright, a country girl with a chaotic history, thought she had seen it all in the emergency room. But that was nothing compared to the psychiatric ward at Menzies Hospital. Hannah must learn on the job in a strained medical system, as she and her fellow trainees deal with the common and the bizarre, the hilarious and the tragic, the treatable and the confronting.

Until 12 years ago, geneticist Don Tillman had never had a second date. Then he developed The Wife Project and met Rosie, 'the world's most incompatible woman'. Now, having survived 4,380 days of marriage, Don's life-contentment graph, recently at its highest point, is curving downwards. Rosie has just returned to work and is struggling with an obnoxious co-worker. Don, meanwhile, is in hot water after his latest lecture goes viral. But their real worry is their son, Hudson, who is having trouble at school: his teachers say he isn't fitting in with the other kids.

A romantic comedy from Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Project, and his wife, Anne Buist. Two misfits walk 2000 km along the pilgrims' way in Spain to find themselves and, perhaps, each other. Zoe, a sometime artist, is from California. Martin, an engineer, is from Yorkshire. Both have ended up in picturesque Cluny, in central France. Both are struggling to come to terms with their recent past - for Zoe, the death of her husband; for Martin, a messy divorce.

Can you define your life by a single song? Adam Sharp - former pianist in a hip Melbourne bar, now a respectable IT consultant in Norwich - can. And it's 'You're Going to Lose That Girl'.... On the cusp of 50 and a happy introvert, Adam is content. He's the music expert at his local pub quiz, and he and his partner, Claire, rumble along. Life may not be rock n' roll, but neither is it easy listening. Yet something has always felt off-key.

Emily was an aspiring literary writer, forced to make a living from editing annual reports, when she met Scott, a screenwriter in similar circumstances. With Scott’s punchy plot and Emily’s luminous prose, they crafted an international hit - and fell in love doing it. Three years later, Scott’s own novel has flopped, Emily’s struggling with her literary manuscript, and their relationship is falling apart. Can they overcome their creative differences to produce another masterpiece?

Don Tillmans "Projekt Ehefrau" ist erfolgreich abgeschlossen. Er lebt mit Rosie in New York. Und Rosie ist schwanger. Don will natürlich der brillanteste werdende Vater aller Zeiten sein, stürzt sich in die Forschung und entwickelt einen wissenschaftlich exakten Ernährungs-Zeitplan für Rosie. Doch seine ungewöhnlichen Recherchemethoden führen erstmal dazu, dass er verhaftet wird. Was Rosie auf keinen Fall erfahren darf.

Hudson, der Sohn von Don und Rosie, ist elf und hat Probleme in der Schule. Er ist schlau, gilt aber als schwieriger Besserwisser, den keiner mag. Doch zum Glück weiß Don Rat: In dieser Frage ist er Experte, denn er hat schon sein ganzes Leben lang erfahren, was es heißt, Außenseiter zu sein. Und jetzt wird er Hudson seine Lösungen beibringen. In seinem Eifer zu helfen sorgt Don für einiges Chaos. Und Hudson hat durchaus eigene Ideen, was ihm guttun könnte. Ein bewegender Familienroman, der unter anderem die Frage stellt: Wie offen bin ich für Menschen, die anders sind?

Hudson, der Sohn von Don und Rosie, ist elf und hat Probleme in der Schule. Er ist schlau, gilt aber als schwieriger Besserwisser, den keiner mag. Doch zum Glück weiß Don Rat: In dieser Frage ist er Experte, denn er hat schon sein ganzes Leben lang erfahren, was es heißt, Außenseiter zu sein. Und jetzt wird er Hudson seine Lösungen beibringen. In seinem Eifer zu helfen sorgt Don für einiges Chaos. Und Hudson hat durchaus eigene Ideen, was ihm guttun könnte. Ein bewegender Familienroman, der unter anderem die Frage stellt: Wie offen bin ich für Menschen, die anders sind?