The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn`t the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother`s house, in the winter of 1968. "The Gathering" is a novel about love and disappointment, about thwarted lust and limitless desire, and how our fate is written in the body, not in the stars.
ISBN: 978-0-09-953507-2
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The best of the golden age crime writers, praised by all the top modern writers in the field including P. D. James and Ruth Rendell, Dorothy L. Sayers created the immortal Lord Peter Wimsey. The twelfth book featuring Lord Peter (the third novel to feature Harriet Vane) is set in an Oxford women`s college. With an introduction by Elizabeth George.
This omnibus edition of the first three Gaunt`s Ghosts novels follows the story of the Tanith First-and-Only regiment (nicknamed the Ghosts) and their charismatic commissar, Ibram Gaunt. As they travel from warzone to warzone in the Chaos-infested Sabbat Worlds system, the Ghosts must not only carry out the most dangerous of missions but also survive the deady politics of the Imperial Guard.
ISBN: 1-84416-369-5
Издательство:
Ред Фиш
Дата выхода: январь 2011
The universal symbols of relationships -- a man and a woman united as a couple and the eternal yin and yang - are substituted here by archetypes that define male homosexual union. A brilliant blend of modern figures and classic imagery, the "Gay Tarot "provides an excellent means of understanding and introspection for those who are not afraid of diversity.
ISBN: 9780738705972
Издательство:
Publisher Llewellyn Publications
Дата выхода: декабрь 2004
`I can identify the exact moment when things began to change. It was a cold winter afternoon. I had just turned three.` Emerging shyly from her hiding place, Mineko encounters Madam Oima, the formidable proprietress of a prolific geisha house in Gion. Madam Oima is mesmerized by the child`s black hair and black eyes: she has found her successor. And so Mineko is gently, but firmly, prised away from her parents to embark on an extraordinary career, of which she will become the best. But even if you are exquisitely beautiful and the darling of the okiya, the life of a geisha is one of gruelling professional demands. And Mineko must first contend with her bitterly jealous sister who is determined to sabotage her Captivating and poignant,...
ISBN: 978-0-7434-3059-3
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
From the author of JPod and Generation X, the bestselling generational classic, comes a dazzling new work that reimagines the very act of reading and storytelling in a crazed digital world.
ISBN: 978-0-09-953794-6
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Captain Ann Campbell is a West Point graduate, the daughter of legendary General Fighting Joe Campbell. She is the pride of Fort Hadley until, one morning, her body is found, naked and bound, on the firing range. Paul Brenner is a member of the army`s elite undercover investigative unit and the man in charge of this politically explosive case. Teamed with rape specialist Cynthia Sunhill, with whom he once had a tempestuous, doomed affair, Brenner is about to learn just how many people were sexually, emotionally, and dangerously involved with the army`s golden girl . And how the neatly pressed uniforms and honor codes of the military hide a corruption as rank as Ann Campbell`s shocking secret life.
ISBN: 978-0-446-36480-5
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: май 2012
Andy, Dag and Claire have been handed a society priced beyond their means. Twentysomethings, brought up with divorce, Watergate and Three Mile Island, and scarred by the 80s fallout of yuppies, recession, crack and Ronald Reagan, they represent the new generation - Generation X. Fiercely suspicious of being lumped together as an advertiser`s target market, they have quit dreary careers and cut themselves adrift in the California desert. Unsure of their futures, they immerse themselves in a regime of heavy drinking and working at no-future McJobs in the service industry. Underemployed, overeducated, intensely private and unpredictable, they have nowhere to direct their anger, no one to assuage their fears, and no culture to replace their...
ISBN: 0-349-10839-0
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: май 2011
All over the tri-state area, something strange is happening. Teenagers who die aren`t staying dead. They are coming back to life, but they come back different - they stutter and their reactions to everything are slower. Termed `living impaired` or `differently biotic`, there are lots of conspiracy theories to explain this new phenomenon. But as their numbers keep on growing, so does the discomfort of the living people in the community. When Phoebe falls for Tommy Williams, her best friend and star of the football team, Adam, has conflicting emotions. And when Tommy decides to try out for the football team, it sets off a chain of events that escalates into deadly violence.
ISBN: 978-1-84738-327-3
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
Three and a half years ago former Grant County medical examiner Sara Linton moved to Atlanta hoping to leave her tragic past behind her. Now working as a doctor in Atlanta`s Grady Hospital she is starting to piece her life together. But when a severely wounded young woman is brought in to the emergency room, she finds herself drawn back into a world of violence and terror. The woman has been hit by a car but, naked and brutalised, it`s clear that she has been the prey of a twisted mind. When Special Agent Will Trent of the Criminal Investigation Team returns to the scene of the accident, he stumbles on a torture chamber buried deep beneath the earth. And this hidden house of horror reveals a ghastly truth - Sara`s patient is just the...
ISBN: 978-0-09-953865-3
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
This fascinating book by one of Britain`s most acclaimed Shakespeare scholars explores the extraordinary staying-power of the world`s most famous dramatist. Bate opens by taking up questions of authorship and then goes on to trace Shakespeare`s canonization and near-deification, examining not only the uniqueness of his status among English-speaking readers but also his effect on literary cultures across the globe. Ambitious, wide-ranging, and historically rich, this book shapes a provocative inquiry into the nature of genius as it ponders the legacy of a talent unequalled in English letters. A bold and meticulous work of scholarship, The Genius of Shakespeare is also lively and accessibly written and will appeal to any reader who has...
ISBN: 978-0-19-537299-1
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Who was Shakespeare? Why has his writing endured? What makes it so endlessly adaptable to different times and cultures? And how has Shakespeare come to be such a powerful symbol of genius? The Genius of Shakespeare is a fascinating biography of the life – and afterlife – of the greatest English poet. Jonathan Bate, one of the world’s leading Shakespearean scholars, deftly shows how the legend of Shakespeare’s genius was created and sustained, and how it has become a truly global phenomenon.
ISBN: 978-0-330-45843-6
Издательство:
Picador USA
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Michael Chabon`s Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, sprang from an early passion for the derring-do and larger-than-life heroes of classic comic books. Now, once more mining the rich past, Chabon summons the rollicking spirit of legendary adventures-from The Arabian Nights to Alexandre Dumas to Fritz Leiber`s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories-in a wonderful new novel brimming with breathless action, raucous humor, cliff-hanging suspense, and a cast of colorful characters worthy of Scheherazade`s most tantalizing tales. "They`re an odd pair, to be sure: pale, rail-thin, black-clad Zelikman, a moody, itinerant physician fond of jaunty headgear, and ex-soldier Amram, a gray-haired giant of a man...
ISBN: 978-0-345-50174-5
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Jackie Brighton has a problem. First she slept with a hot guy she met in a bar after too many martinis, then she woke up in a dumpster, where a mugger had left her for dead. Except her one-night stand turned out to be an angel named Noah, and her mugger turned out to be a vampire named Zane - and the combination of angel-sex and vampire-bite has turned her into a succubus. The upside of being a succubus? She`s suddenly a bombshell with hoards of men panting after her, which is a very good thing - because the downside is The Itch: she needs sex constantly. Sure, it might sound like fun. But Jackie`s picky about who she sleeps with, yet if she doesn`t have sex regularly and frequently, she`ll literally die! When Jackie`s pulled into Noah`s...
At St Oswald`s, an old and long-established boys` grammar school in the north of England, a new year has just begun. For the staff and boys of the school, a wind of unwelcome change is blowing. Suits, paperwork and Information Technology rule the world; and Roy Straitley, Latin master, eccentric, and veteran of St Oswald`s, is finally - reluctantly - contemplating retirement. But beneath the little rivalries, petty disputes and everyday crises of the school, a darker undercurrent stirs. And a bitter grudge, hidden and carefully nurtured for thirteen years, is about to erupt.
ISBN: 978-0-552-77337-9
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
An exhilarating new collection of stories by the author of Richard & Judy-bestseller `Notes from an Exhibition`, combining wit and poignancy to illuminate experiences both common and uncommon. Love (and loathing) within families is dissected - a father makes an unexpected discovery about his son which is too hard for him to cope with. A son wreaks revenge through the power of cookery. Three generations of the same family gain freedom through the years in a once-despised caravan. A bored wife finds happiness when an old lag teaches her the art of angling. A dog-training lesson with a puppy who hasn`t grasped the meaning of `obedience` leads to the discovery of a murder. Here too are music and silence - the sweetness and sadness of...
ISBN: 978-0-00-731346-4
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011
An atmospheric mystery set in St Petersburg in the winter of 1867 sees detective Porfiry Petrovich taking his first murder case since Dostoevsky`s "Crime and Punishment". When two frozen bodies are found in a park, he begins to suspect that the truth may be more complex than others wish him to believe, as his investigations lead him to a shocking discovery which reveals the city`s darkest secrets. "A Gentle Axe" is utterly absorbing and tense from its dramatic opening through to its shocking climax.
ISBN: 978-0-571-23206-2
Издательство:
Faber
Дата выхода: июль 2011
