Harry Silver is learning to juggle his many commitments - to his wife and his ex-wife, to his son, his stepdaughter and his mother, to his own work and his wife`s career. And then someone walks into his life who is going to make it even more complicated ... A follow-up to the international bestseller "Man and Boy", "Man and Wife" stands on its own as a brilliant novel about relationships in the new century - about why we fall in love and why we marry, about why we stay and why we go.

ISBN: 978-0-00-651482-4
Издательство: HarperCollins
Дата выхода: август 2011

"A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth." After the death of her father, Ann Whitefield becomes the joint ward of two men: the respectable Roebuck Ramsden and John Tanner, author of The Revolutionist`s Handbook. Believing marriage would prevent him from achieving his higher intellectual and political ambitions, Tanner is horrified to discover that Ann intends to marry him, and flees to Spain with the determined young woman in hot pursuit. The chase even leads them to the underworld, where the characters alter egos discuss questions of human nature and philosophy in a lively debate in a scene often performed separately as Don Juan in Hell. In Man and Superman, Shaw combined seriousness with comedy...

ISBN: 978-0-14-138992-9
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012

ISBN: 9780330544412
Дата выхода: январь 2019

From the internationally acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries comes an extraordinary stand-alone novel - both a mystery and a sweeping drama - that traces the legacy of the nineteenth-century slave trade between China and America. January 2006. In the small Swedish hamlet of Hesjovallen, a horrific scene is discovered: nineteen people have been tortured and massacred an the only clue is a red silk ribbon found at the scene. Judge Birgitta Roslin has a particular reason to be shocked by the crime: her mother`s adoptive parents, the Andrens, are among the victims. Investigating further, she learns that an Andren family living in Nevada has also been murdered. Travelling to Hesjovallen, she finds a diary, kept by a gangmaster on...

ISBN: 978-0-09-955535-3
Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Roald Dahl is the master of the unexpected. Things are not always what they seem and nobody should be trusted. In this collection of his short stories we learn some strange lessons about the dangerous world we live in. But you will have to wait until the final pages of each story to discover the last, terrible twist!

ISBN: 978-1-4058-8266-8
Издательство: Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011

His name was Feliks. He came to London to commit a murder that would change history. A master manipulator, he had many weapons at his command, but against him were ranged the whole of the English police, a brilliant and powerful lord, and the young Winston Churchill

ISBN: 0-451-16351-6
Издательство: Penguin USA
Дата выхода: январь 2002

Roald Dahl is the master of the unexpected. Things are not always what they seem and nobody should be trusted. In this collection of his short stories we learn some strange lessons about the dangerous world we live in. But you will have to wait until the final pages of each story to discover the last, terrible twist!

ISBN: 978-1-4082-7429-3
Издательство: Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student`s capabilities. `The first killing went well. Perfectly, in fact. Though I always knew it would. I had planned it well. Arrangements, organisation - these are things I`m good at. Now I`ve discovered I`m good at killing too.` The police are in a race against time to catch the murderer before he kills again. And again ...Paperback-only version. Also available with Audio CDs including complete text recordings from the book.

ISBN: 978-1-107-69269-5
Дата выхода: апрель 2012

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student`s capabilities. `The first killing went well. Perfectly, in fact. Though I always knew it would. I had planned it well. Arrangements, organisation - these are things I`m good at. Now I`ve discovered I`m good at killing too.` The police are in a race against time to catch the murderer before he kills again. And again ...Contains a paperback and three Audio CDs with complete text recordings from the book.

ISBN: 978-1-107-62477-1
Издательство: Cambridge
Дата выхода: апрель 2012

This book offers the chilling tale of a painting so terrifying, its secrets will haunt those who see it. It is a ghost story by the author of The Woman in Black, to be read by the fire on a cold winter`s night. A mysterious depiction of masked revellers at the Venice carnival hangs in the college rooms of Oliver`s old professor in Cambridge. On this cold winter`s night, its eerie secret is revealed by the ageing don. The dark art of the Venetian scene, instead of imitating life, has the power to entrap it. To stare into the painting is to play dangerously with the unseen demons it hides, and become the victim of its macabre

ISBN: 978-1-84668-134-9
Дата выхода: август 2011