A man doesn`t publicly shoot himself in the head in broad daylight with no warning. But Art Mathews did. Pip Pankhurst found his shin bone sticing out of his leg, and his rides over for the season. Grant Oldfield needed help. The kind a psychiatrist gives. It was as though there was a hoodoo on the whole jockey tribe. Then Robb Finn started riding losers. Too many to be a coincidence. Thirteen out of fifteen too many. Finn needs to know just what the hell is going on. However no one is talking. But Finn soon realises he is alone in a world where the only pointers are violence, dope, and the malignant force of twisted
ISBN: 978-0-330-45040-9
Издательство:
Picador USA
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Does free information mean free people? At the start of the twenty-first century we were promised that the internet would liberate the world. We could come together as never before, and from Iran`s `twitter revolution` to Facebook `activism`, technological innovation would spread democracy to oppressed peoples everywhere. We couldn`t have been more wrong. In "The Net Delusion" Evgeny Morozov destroys this myth, arguing that `internet freedom` is an illusion, and that technology has failed to help protect people`s rights. Not only that - in many cases the internet is actually helping authoritarian regimes. From China to Russia to Iran, oppressive governments are using cyberspace to stifle dissent: planting clandestine propaganda,...
Tom`s life is not what it once was. His marriage to the beautiful Nora is on the rocks and he now sees his two young children only on her say so. His best friend - and best man - Neil has moved away to California to teach neurology. He has one successful book - on human psychology - but he now wiles away the time teaching bored grad students. But that all changes when Neil comes back into his life. For it seems that his best friend was no teacher - he was working for the US government, cracking the minds of suspected terrorists. But now it is Neil himself that has cracked and gone AWOL - what`s more he has left behind evidence that he has been employing his unique skills on civilians - obsessed with the idea that he can control the human...
ISBN: 978-0-7528-8279-6
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
It starts with a trip to a local amusement park. David Harwood is hoping a carefree day will help dispel his wife Jan`s recent depression that has led to frightening thoughts of suicide. Instead, a day of fun with their son Ethan turns into
ISBN: 978-0-7528-8336-6
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
Discover Neil Gaiman`s Neverwhere, the extraordinary modern classic from the bestselling author of American Gods, illustrated for the first time by 2015-2017 UK Children`s Laureate Chris Riddell. This beautiful edition features the fully illustrated short story, `How the Marquis Got His Coat Back`, and will delight fans of Coraline, The Book of Dust and Goth Girl.`Gaiman is, simply put, a treasure-house of story, and we are lucky to have him` Stephen KingUnder the streets of London lies a world most people could never dream of.When Richard Mayhew helps a mysterious girl he finds bleeding on the pavement, his boring life changes in an instant. Her name is Door, she`s on the run from two assassins in black suits and she comes from London...
Richard Mayhew is a plain man with a good heart - and an ordinary life that is changed forever on a day he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. From that moment forward he is propelled into a world he never dreamed existed - a dark subculture flourishing in abandoned subway stations and sewer tunnels below the city - a world far stranger and more dangerous than the only one he has ever
ISBN: 978-0-380-78901-6
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
Under the streets of London there is a world of which most people could never dream. When Richard Mayhew accidentally stumbles on this hidden city of monsters, saints, murderers and angels, he is catapulted from a safe and predictable world into one that is eerily familiar yet utterly bizarre.
ISBN: 978-0-7472-6668-6
Издательство:
Hodder
Дата выхода: август 2011
Sometimes hopes and dreams don`t go according to plan - sometimes, real life gets in the way. On a mild May evening, a group of friends on the verge of graduating speculate on what the future holds. Will Leah be a chef? Robin an accountant? And Olivia the one who holds it all together? The one thing they know is that they`ll always be friends - no matter what - but they make a pact to meet up in five years, just in case fate intervenes. Years later it`s clear that life has not gone according to plan. Why is Robin in New York determined never to go back to Dublin? Why is Olivia grieving? And why does Leah feel so left out as she heads towards the big three-o? When Robin is forced to return, they all find themselves face to face with the...
ISBN: 978-0-09-948693-0
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Brenda has had a long and eventful life, and she has come to Whitby to run a B&B and enjoy some peace and quiet. She and her best friend Effie like nothing better than going out for tea and keeping their eyes open for mysterious goings on in town. And what with satanic beauty salons, roving psychic investigators and the frankly terrifying owner of the Christmas Hotel there`s plenty to watch. But the oddest thing in Whitby may well be Brenda herself. With her terrible scars, her strange lack of a surname and the fact that she takes two different shoe sizes, Brenda should know that people as, well, unique as she is just aren`t destined for a quiet life.
ISBN: 978-0-7553-3288-5
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Small and insignificant Bastian Balthazar Bux is nobody`s idea of a hero, least of all his own. Through the pages of an old book he discovers a mysterious world of enchantment - but a world that is falling into decay. The great task of making things well again falls on Bastian and so begins a dazzling, magical adventure.
An epic saga of life, death, tears and laughter, from a storyteller thousands have come to love and trust. Moving from the slums of Victorian London to the plains of the Wild West, the darkest edges of New York and the gold rush of San Francisco, NEVER LOOK BACK is the story of beautiful and intelligent Matilda, who rises out of poverty to forge a new life for herself in the land of the free. Escaping the deprivation she was born into, Matilda travels to America with Giles, a Church of England minister, his wife Lily, and their young daughter Tabitha. There she finds passion and heartbreak, but it`s not until she meets Captain James Russell that she finds true love. A love that must withstand separation, war, and the constraints of their...
ISBN: 978-0-14-028227-6
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
From The Booker Prize-Winning Ruthor of The Remains of the Day comes a devastating new novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss. As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special-and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together. Suspenseful, moving, beautifully atmospheric. Never Let Me Go administers its...
ISBN: 978-0-307-27647-6
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
New Arabian Nights, first published in 1882, is a collection of short stories, containing Stevenson`s first published fiction, highly acclaimed by literary critics as pioneering works in the English short story tradition.
ISBN: 978-5-521-00153-8
Издательство:
Пальмира
Дата выхода: январь 2017
