'Engrossing' Financial Times'The plot is expertly spun out' Sunday TimesThere's a bar at the crossroads on the edge of town. Marcie and her husband have run it for ages. After thirty years of marriage, there aren't many secrets left...

'With his gallows humour and observational wit, Jim Powell gives us a vivid portrait of a man in meltdown.' Daily Mail When I was small, my mother showed me how to grow a carrot from a carrot. She filled a jam jar with water, cut the top...

"The Breaking of Eggs" von Jim Powell ist ein Roman, der die Geschichte von Feliks Zhukovski erzählt, einem älteren polnischen Emigranten und überzeugten Kommunisten, der seit Jahrzehnten in Paris lebt. Feliks hat sein Leben der...