Alternative Facts, Post-Truth, Fake News - kaum etwas erregt und spaltet den öffentlichen Diskurs aktuell derart wie die Auseinandersetzungen über die Bedeutung von Fakten. Die globalen Krisen der jüngsten Zeit wie der Klimawandel, die Covid-19-Pandemie und der russische Angriffskrieg werden von einem diffusen Gefühl der Verunsicherung begleitet, das auf den prekären Status von Wahrheit, Wirklichkeit und Faktizität verweist.
Der dritte Band der drei Bände umfassenden Reihe präsentiert zwanzig der fast sechzig Essays, die auf Charles Platts Gesprächen mit bedeutenden SF-Persönlichkeiten basieren.
<b>A captivating biography of two famous women whose sons, Winston Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt, would change the course of the 20th century by award-winning historian Charlotte Gray.</b><br>
<b>WHATEVER YOU'VE LOST, SHE WILL FIND. <br><br> #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Janet Evanovich returns with the launch of a blockbuster new series that blends wild adventure, hugely appealing characters, and pitch-perfect humour, proving once again why she's 'the most popular mystery writer alive' (<i>New York Times</i>).</b><br>
September 1939, troubled young Imogen Lockhart travels to Cornwall by train to deliver two small boys to their prep school, which has been evacuated to Penmartin House for the duration of the war. When she's asked to stay on at the school as temporary cover for the usual matron she readily agrees. After all, it enables her to put off more serious decisions of what to do with her life. But her time at the school turns out to be more complicated than she'd imagined.<br> <br> In 1966, sensitive and musical Belle Patterson is restless. She's finishing her first year at a Midlands university but not enjoying it and is troubled by secrets in her family life. When, after a chance meeting, she falls in love with talented and attractive folk musician Gray Tucker, he easily persuades her to abandon her studies and accompany him to Cornwall, a place that piques her interest because of a particular photograph she's recently found of herself as a baby.<br> <br> On a small commune at Penmartin House near the beautiful Helford estuary she finds life off-grid idyllic at first, the other people creative and interesting, but underlying tensions soon reveal themselves. <br> <br><b>When the conflicts in the commune come to a head, Belle is forced to face some difficult truths. She also comes to see how Imogen's story entwines with her own and unravels the mysteries of her own family.</b><br>