One of the world`s most celebrated authors, Margaret Atwood has penned a collection of smart and entertaining fictional essays, in the genre of her popular books Good Bones and Murder in the Dark, punctuated with wonderful illustrations by the author. Chilling and witty, prescient and personal, delectable and tart, these highly imaginative, vintage Atwoodian mini-fictions speak on a broad range of subjects, reflecting the times we live in with deadly accuracy and knife-edge precision. In pieces ranging in length from a mere paragraph to several pages, Atwood gives a sly pep talk to the ambitious young; writes about the disconcerting experience of looking at old photos of ourselves; gives us Horatio`s real views on Hamlet; and examines...
Rejetee par celui qu’elle aime passionnement, Bella ne s’en releve pas. Fascinee par un vampire, comment pourra-t-elle retrouver gout a la pale existence humaine ? Bella n’a de gout pour rien, sinon le danger : alors, elle entend la voix d’Edward, et eprouve l’illusion de sa presence. Comme s’il ne l’avait pas abandonnee. Bella echappera-t-elle a cette obsession amoureuse qui la hante ?
ISBN: 978-2-01-322340-9
Издательство:
Livre de Poche
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Abbey of Ruac, rural France: A medieval script is discovered hidden behind an antique bookcase. Badly damaged, it is sent to Paris for restoration, and there literary historian Hugo Pineau begins to read the startling fourteenth-century text. Within its pages lies a fanciful tale of a painted cave and the secrets it contains and a rudimentary map showing its position close to the abbey. Intrigued, Hugo enlists the help of archaeologist Luc Simard and the two men go exploring.
ISBN: 978-0-09-954569-9
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Written in 1944 but first published in 1985, The Tenth Man is set in a prison in occupied France during World War II and concerns Lewis Chavel, a captured rich lawyer who is probably going to be shot in a German act of reprisal. In a prison in Occupied France one in every ten men is to be shot. The prisoners draw lots among themselves - and for lawyer Louis Chavel it seems that his whole life has been leading up to an agonizing failure of nerve. Hysterical with panic, fear, and a sense of injustice, he offers to barter everything he owns for someone to take his place.
ISBN: 978-0-09-928414-7
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
Istres-Marseille. Pour Jeanne, la vie est ponctuée par cet aller-retour ferroviaire quotidien entre son travail de gratte-papier au commissariat et la maison de sa mère. Elle attend néanmoins qu`un événement vienne secouer le fil de son existence: un regard, enfin, du capitaine Esposito? La résolution, peut-être, de cette ffaire de serial killer qui défraie la chronique phocéenne? "Vous êtes si belle, Jeanne Si touchante et si belle." Ce soir-là, une lettre, glissée entre deux banquettes, semble combler toutes ses espérances. Un peu trop, même. Car derrière le mystérieux soupirant se cache le meurtrier tant recherché par la police. Commence alors une...
ISBN: 978-2-266-18075-7
Издательство:
Pocket
Дата выхода: июль 2011
For Chancelade, the world is teeming with beauty, wonder and possibilities. From a small boy playing on the beach, through his adolescence and his first love, to the death of his father and on to the end of his own life, he relishes the most minute details of his physical surroundings - whether a grain of sand, an insect or a blade of grass - as he journeys on a sensory adventure from cradle to grave. Filled with cosmic ruminations, lyrical description and virtuoso games of language and the imagination, Terra Amata brilliantly explores humankind`s place in the universe, the relationship between us and the Earth we inhabit and, ultimately, how to live.
ISBN: 978-0-14-119141-6
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011
Qui remplacera Pierre le Grand? A la mort du Tsar en 1725, toute la Russie s`interroge. Trois impératrices et une régente se succéderont et tiendront l`empire pendant trente-sept ans. Catherine Ire, Anna Ivanovna, Elisabeth Ire, Anna Leopoldovna: chacune imposera son caractère, ses amours et ses cruauté
Maxwell Sim seems to have hit rock bottom: separated from his wife and daughter, estranged from his father, and with no one to confide in even though he has 74 friends on Facebook. He`s not even sure whether he`s got a job until suddenly a strange business proposition comes his way which involves a long journey to the Shetland Isles - and a voyage into his family`s past which throws up some surprising revelations. Jonathan Coe`s new book is a story for our times: Maxwell finds himself at sea in the modern world, surrounded by social networks but unable to relate properly to anyone. Yet as he delves into his family history he manages to find the resources to survive.
ISBN: 978-0-14-103392-1
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Maxwell Sim seems to have hit rock bottom. Estranged from his father, newly divorced, unable to communicate with his only daughter, he realizes that while he may have seventy-four friends on Facebook, there is nobody in the world with whom he
ISBN: 978-0-241-95078-4
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2012
`But I, being poor, have only my dreams; / I have spread my dreams under your feet...` By turns joyful and despairing, some of the twentieth century`s greatest verse on fleeting youth, fervent hopes and futile sacrifice.
ISBN: 9780241251515
Издательство:
Ladybird
Дата выхода: июль 2023
John Updike has written a brilliant novel that ranks among the most provocative of his distinguished career. Terrorist is the story of Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy, an alienated American-born teenager who spurns the materialistic, hedonistic life he witnesses in the slumping New Jersey factory town he calls home. Turning to the words of the Holy Qur’an as expounded to him by the pedantic imam of a local mosque, Ahmad devotes himself fervently to God. Neither the world-weary guidance counselor at his high school nor Ahmad’s mischievously seductive classmate Joryleen succeeds in deflecting him from his course, as the threads of an insidious plot gather around him. Формат: 10,5 см x 17,5 см.
ISBN: 978-0-345-49875-5
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
`Nothing is so improbable as what is true` Of all the writers of ghost and horror stories, Ambrose Bierce is perhaps the most colourful. He was a dark, cynical and pessimistic soul who had a grim vision of fate and the unfairness of life, which he channelled into his fiction. And in his death, or rather his disappearance, he created a mystery as strange and unresolved as any that he penned himself. But more of that later. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce was born in a log cabin on 21st June 1842, in Horse Creek, Meigs County, Ohio, USA. He was the tenth of thirteen children, ten of whom survived infancy. His father, an unsuccessful farmer with an unseemly love of literature, had given all the Bierce children names beginning with `A`. There was...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-534-1
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
From the publishers of CHILD 44 comes the debut literary thriller of the Hunt, an ex-convict, has spent the past twenty years on a small ranch, supplementing his income with the odd drug smuggling job. Drake, a deputy sheriff, has almost escaped the shadow of his father, who was also a sheriff. Drake is on Hunt`s trail when a big drug deal in the mountains goes awry and so begins a terrifying race against time. The traffickers soon unleash a merciless hired killer to reclaim what`s theirs.
ISBN: 978-1-84983-508-4
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
Hogswatchnight is fast approaching, and the Hogfather (that jolly fat man who delivers presents to the kiddies) is missing. But it`s vital that all the presents are delivered, otherwise the sun won`t rise tomorrow. However, there is another supernatural entity who can be everywhere at once and, most importantly, knows where everybody lives. And Death reckons that with a false beard and a few cushions, it might just work. And while Death is busy working out the mysteries of climbing down chimneys and drinking sherry, it`s up to Susan to track down the real Hogfather. It`s a dark time of the year. There are monsters afoot. And some of them look just like us. HO HO HO. You`d better watch Pratchett`s bestseller, adapted and directed by Vadim...
As heard on Radio 4 - the classic dark and hilarious take on mankind`s final judgment, from bestselling authors Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.`Armageddon only happens once, you know. They don`t let you go around again until you get it right` People have been predicting the end of the world almost from its very beginning, so it`s only natural to be skeptical when a new date is set for Judgement Day. But what if, for once, the predictions are right, and the apocalypse really is due to arrive next Saturday, just after tea? You could spend the time left drowning your sorrows, giving away all your possessions in preparation for the rapture, or laughing it off as (hopefully) just another hoax.Or you could just try to do something about it.
ISBN: 9780552159845
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2011