Like many working class children growing up in the war, the young Jim Riordan would fantasize his way out of his devastated surroundings with dreams of Wembley and FA Cup glory for his local team, Portsmouth FC. Spartak Moscow, the team he would end up playing for, wasn`t even on his radar. Taught Russian and trained as a spy in the same institution that nurtured the likes of Alan Bennett and Michael Frayn, he was posted to Berlin as part of his National Service to listen in on Soviet military communiques. But, unbeknownst to his seniors, he began mixing with Russian servicemen, mostly through informal kick-abouts, and the passion of these idealistic young men would cultivate his interest in Russian culture, and especially communism,...
ISBN: 978-0-00-725115-5
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
Born in the fires of battle, Conan of Cimmeria lost his father and village when they were slaughtered by the cruel warlord Khalra Zym. Wandering the world alone, Conan was forged into a peerless warrior by hardship and bloodshed.
Conan the Barbarian is one of the greatest fictional heroes ever created - a swordsman who cuts a swath across the lands of the Hyborian Age, annihilating powerful sorcerers, deadly creatures, and whole armies of ruthless foes. Today his name is synonymous with the epic battles of ancient times, but Conan originated in the early decades of the twentieth century with one of the founding fathers of fantasy, the visionary Robert E. Howard. The unforgettable stories collected here form a thrilling adventure, following Conan from his mercenary youth to his bloody conquests on the frontier and even the high seas. Bold and enduring, the legend of Conan the Barbarian continues to grow in popularity and influence.
"Concrete Evidence": A skeleton is found in the concrete cellar floor of an old Edinburgh house. Whose skeleton is it? Was there a murder? Why? And who was the murderer? Is there any connection with the building company which laid the concrete floor thirty years before? Rebus has his suspicions, but before he can positively identify the dead man and his murderer, he needs concrete evidence. "The Gentlemen`s Club": Seventeen-year-old Suzanne McKenzie was good at school, had rich parents and no boyfriend problems. So why should she kill herself? She was found naked in the bath with her wrists cut, even though -or perhaps because - she knew that her father would be the first to come into the bathroom that morning. The truths which Rebus...
Descending into darkness, about to be overwhelmed by evil, those people still free are powerless to stop the coming dawn of a savage new world, while Richard faces the guilt of knowing that he must let it happen. Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he has lost. Join Richard and Kahlan in the concluding novel of one of the most remarkable and memorable journeys ever written. It started with one rule, and will end with the rule of all rules, the rule unwritten, the rule unspoken since the dawn of history. When next the sun rises, the world will be forever changed.
ISBN: 978-0-7653-5430-3
Издательство:
Macmillan USA
Дата выхода: август 2011
Meet Becky Bloomwood, an irresistible heroine with a big heart, big dreams and a teeny tiny little Becky Bloomwood has a great flat, a fabulous wardrobe full of this season`s must-haves and a job telling other people how to manage their money. The only problem is, she can`t afford to live the high life any longer. The letters from the bank are getting harder to ignore, she tries Cutting Back, she tries Making More Money, she tries really hard, but nothing is working. Her only consolation is to treat herself to something - just a little "Confessions of a Shopaholic"... the perfect pick me up when life is hanging in the (bank) balance! Формат: 10,5 см х 18 см.
ISBN: 978-0-552-77519-9
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
In "Confessions of a Bad Mother", Stephanie described how she brought up her children ‘wrong’. Now she unlocks her singular inability (but one which secretly we all share) to grow up: forty-five last birthday but she doesn`t feel any older, but of course she does – as in deafer, stiffer, and less able to read the dosage instructions on a bottle of Calpol. But the supposedly normal challenges of human existence feel frequently as though they are beyond her. Life is constantly confusing, frustrating and, at times, overwhelming. At forty-five – but only on paper - she`s still a child in a suit, bluffing her way with one eye looking over her shoulder, expecting any minute to be found out and taken back to the nursery. Of course, that...
ISBN: 978-0-330-44639-6
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: июль 2011
What is the matter with my life? Why is it so deeply unfab? Lt`s a day and a half now since I snogged the Sex I think I have snog withdrawal. My lips keep puckering I tried snogging the back of my hand, but it`s no I wonder if the Sex God is having second thoughts about me because of my I have a HUGE nose that means I have to live for ever in the Ugly Home.
ISBN: 978-0-00-721868-4
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
Now in paperback--the "New York Times" bestselling all-too-true debut novel that chronicles one woman`s hilarious efforts to overcome her expensive--if stylish--addiction to shopping.
ISBN: 0-440-24141-3
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
Confess, Fletch The flight from Rome had been pleasant enough, even if the business he was on wasn’t exactly. His Italian fiance’s father had been kidnapped and presumably murdered, and Fletch is on the trail of a stolen art collection that is her only patrimony. But when he arrives in his apartment to find a dead body, things start to get complicated. Confess, Fletch Inspector Flynn found him a little glib for someone who seemed to be the only likely suspect in a pretty clear case of homicide. He wasn’t exactly uncooperative, but it wasn’t like he was entirely forthcoming either. And Flynn wasn’t entirely convinced that the nineteenth-century Western artist Edgar Arthur Tharp really occupied most of Fletch’s thoughts....
He emigrated to Paris, Kim turns to his childhood friend, Arkady. Before being separated at the age of fourteen, the two boys grew up together in a village community, not far from Leningrad. Kim and Arkady living happy years. Both pioneers in a youth movement, they walk proudly toward the radiant horizon promise them propaganda films, the rhythm of songs that celebrate the heroes of the war and the mythical figure of the worker. But some parents are heavy silences of innuendo. Gradually emerges in them the feeling they were duped. And for the adult in the eyes for a long time opened, the nostalgia is twofold: that of scenes from the childhood memory of a light snow bath, is added the more unexpected at the time of lies and of blindness.
ISBN: 978-2-07-040114-7
Издательство:
Gallimard
Дата выхода: май 2012
Ellen`s brother says if you pull out a girl`s breast and let it it goes nunga-nunga-nunga! - My nunga-nungas are like two sticky-out beacons attracting all the sadsacks in the - My nose is gigantic. It must nave grown overnight… - My eyebrows are approachinh the `It`s a moustache! It`s a hedgehog! No, it`s Georgia`s eyebrows!!!` stage… - I`ve just inspected my legs. I look like I`ve got hairy trousers on.
ISBN: 978-0-00-721869-1
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
Travis Boyette is a murderer. In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, he abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high-school cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never be found, then watched and waited as police and prosecutors arrested Donte Drumm, a local football star with no connection to the crime. Tried, convicted and sentenced, Drumm was sentto death row: his fate had been decided. Nine years later, Donte Drumm is four days from execution. Over 400 miles away in Kansas, Travis faces a fate of his own: an inoperable brain tumour will soon deliver the end. Reflecting on his miserable life, he decides to do what's right. After years of silence he is ready to confess. But how can a guilty man convince...
ISBN: 978-0-09-954582-8
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Millions of readers have come to adore New York Times best-selling author Sophie Kinsella`s irrepressible heroine. Meet Becky Bloomwood, America`s favorite shopaholic - a young woman with a big heart, big and just one little weakness. Becky has a fabulous flat in London`s trendiest neighborhood, a troupe of glamorous socialite friends, and a closet brimming with the season`s must-haves. The only trouble is that she can`t actually afford it - not any of it. Her job writing at Successful Savings not only bores her to tears, it doesn`t pay much at all. And lately Becky`s been chased by dismal letters from the bank - letters with large red sums she can`t bear to read - and they`re getting ever harder to ignore. She tries cutting back. But...
ISBN: 978-0-440-24487-5
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2012
The truth is, not one of us is innocent. We all have sins to confess. So reveals Catherine de Medici, the last legitimate descendant of her family`s illustrious line. Expelled from her native Florence, Catherine is betrothed to Henri, son of Francois I of France. In an unfamiliar realm, Catherine strives to create a role for herself through her patronage of the famous clairvoyant Nostradamus and her own innate gift as a seer. But in her fortieth year, Catherine is widowed, left alone with six young children in a kingdom torn apart by the ambitions of a treacherous nobility. Relying on her tenacity, wit, and uncanny gift for compromise, Catherine seizes power, intent on securing the throne for her sons, unaware that if she is to save...
ISBN: 978-0-340-99586-0
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: январь 2011
`Confessions of an English Opium-Eater` (1821) relates Thomas De Quincey`s early life and experiences of opium addiction at a time when that drug was widely used for the relief of pain, and before its addictive qualities were properly understood. It is awork which encompasses amusement with nightmare as the author experiences in turn the marvels of opium-induced dreams and the equally vivid nightmares which are their counterpoint.
ISBN: 1-85326-096-7
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2001
Courtney Stone - sassy, smart and suddenly single - has always felt she might have been better suited to life in Jane Austen`s England. One evening, having drifted off to sleep after self-medicating with pizza, Absolut, and Elizabeth and Darcy, Courtney wakes up in nineteenth-century England, in the bed of a girl called Jane Mansfield.
ISBN: 978-1-4088-0099-7
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
An innocent man is days from execution. Only a guilty man can save him. Travis Boyette is a murderer. In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, he abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high-school cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never be found, then watched and waited as police and prosecutors arrested Donte Drumm.
Jack Isidore is a `crap artist`, a collector of crackpot ideas and worthless objects. His beliefs make him a man apparently unsuited for real life and so his sister, an edgy and aggressive woman, and his brother-in-law, a crass and foul-mouthed businessman, feel compelled to rescue him from it. But, observed through Jack`s murderously innocent gaze, Fay and Charley Hume are seen to be just as obsessed as Jack. Their obsessions may be a little more acceptable than Jack`s but they are uglier. And, in the end and thanks to Jack`s intervention, theirs lead to
ISBN: 978-0-575-07464-4
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: май 2012
