From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Birdsong, new fiction about love and war - five transporting stories and five unforgettable lives, linked across centuries. In Second World War Poland, a young prisoner closes his eyes and pictures going to bat on a sunlit English cricket ground. Across the yard of a Victorian poorhouse, a man is too ashamed to acknowledge the son he gave away. In a 19th-century French village, an old servant understands - suddenly and with awe - the meaning of the Bible story her master is reading to her. On a summer evening in the Catskills in 1971, a skinny girl steps out of a Chevy with a guitar and with a song that will send shivers through her listeners` skulls. A few years from now, in Italy, a...
Henry Chinaski is a low life loser with a hand-to-mouth existence. His menial Post Office day job supports a life of beer, one-night stands and racetracks. Lurid, uncompromising and hilarious, "Post Office" is a landmark in American literature. "Post Office" was Charles Bukowski`s debut novel, and has sold over a million copies in more than a dozen languages since its first publication in 1971. Bukowski`s Beat Generation writing reflects his tough upbringing, his succession of menial jobs and his experience of low life urban America. He died in 1994 and is widely acknowledged as one of the most distinctive writers of the last fifty years. Формат: 13 см x 19,5 cм.
ISBN: 978-0-7535-1816-8
Издательство:
Virgin Publishing
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
NYPD detective Jacob Kanon is on a tour of Europe`s most gorgeous cities. But the sights aren`t what draw him he sees each museum, each cathedral, and each cafe through the eyes of his daughters killer. Kanon`s daughter, Kimmy, and her fiance were murdered while on vacation in Rome. Since then, young couples in Madrid, Salzburg, Athens and Paris have been found dead. Little connects the murders, other than a postcard to the local newspaper that precedes each new victim. Now Kanon teams up with the Swedish reporter, Dessie Larsson, who has just received a postcard in Stockholm and they think they know where the next victims will be. With relentless logic and unstoppable action, Postcard Killers may be James Patterson`s most vivid and...
ISBN: 978-0-09-955375-5
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Life is looking up for Saffy. She has a great job, a gorgeous flat in the most desirable part of Dublin and - after six years - it looks like her boyfriend, Greg, is going to propose. Greg (just voted the 9th most eligible man in Ireland) is on a high, too - he`s about to swap his part as a heart-throb in an Irish soap for a break in Hollywood. His best mate Conor wakes up every morning with Jess, the most beautiful woman on the planet but, even after seven years and two kids, she won`t marry him. He spends his days teaching teenagers and his nights writing the book he hopes will change everything, including Jess`s mind. But their happy endings are playing hard to get. It seems everyone`s keeping secrets - one night stands, heartbreak,...
ISBN: 978-1-4091-2069-8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
This is the story of a lie that became the most powerful kind of truth. A timeless novel as urgently compelling as War Day or Alas, Babylon, David Brin`s The Postman is the dramatically moving saga of a man who rekindled the spirit of America through the power of a dream, from a modern master of science fiction. He was a survivor - a wanderer who traded tales for food and shelter in the dark and savage aftermath of a devastating war. Fate touches him one chill winter`s day when he borrows the jacket of a long-dead postal worker to protect himself from the cold. The old, worn uniform still has power as a symbol of hope, and with it he begins to weave his greatest tale, of a nation on the road to recovery.
ISBN: 978-0-553-27874-3
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
In 1940, Iris James is the postmistress in coastal Franklin, Massachusetts. Iris knows more about the townspeople than she will ever say- for example, that Emma Trask has come to marry the town`s doctor, and that Harry Vale watches the ocean for U-boats. Iris believes her job is to deliver secrets. Yet one day she does the unthinkable: slips a letter into her pocket, reads it, and doesn`t deliver it. Meanwhile, Frankie Bard broadcasts from overseas with Edward R. Murrow. Her dispatches beg listeners to pay heed as the Nazis bomb London nightly. Most of the townspeople of Franklin think the war can`t touch them. But Iris and Emma and Frankie know
A serial killer is on the loose. Three women have died, brutalized and strangled in their own bedrooms. There is no pattern: the killer appears to strike at random - but always early on Saturday mornings. So when Dr Kay Scarpetta is awakened at 2.33 am, she knows the news is bad: a fourth victim.
ISBN: 0-7515-3043-3
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
It is 1940, and bombs fall nightly on London. In the thick of the chaos is young American radio reporter Frankie Bard. She huddles close to terrified strangers in underground shelters, and later broadcasts stories about survivors in rubble-strewn streets. But for her listeners, the war is far from home. Listening to Frankie are Iris James, a Cape Cod postmistress, and Emma Fitch, a doctor`s wife. Iris hears the winds stirring and knows that soon the letters she delivers will bear messages of hope or tragedy. Emma is desperate for news of London, where her husband is working - she counts the days until his return. But one night in London the fates of all three women entwine when Frankie finds a letter - a letter she vows to
ISBN: 978-0-241-95079-1
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
An amoral young drifter. A beautiful, sullen woman. An inconvenient husband. And a problem that has only one, grisly solution - a solution which creates problems which can never be First published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its explosive mix of eroticism and violence, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a true classic and established James M. Cain as a major novelist.
ISBN: 978-0-7528-6436-5
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
Книга для учителя включает:- Практические приемы для занятий в классе и дома- Пошаговый урок и руководство по активности, включая разминку, дифференцированный темп для быстрых и медленных финишеров- Методология Power Up и как извлечь из этого максимальную пользу- Квалификационный справочник Cambridge English: Pre A1 Starters, A1 Movers, A2 Flyers, A2 Key и B1 Preliminary для школ- Грамматический справочник
ISBN: 9781108713634
Издательство:
Cambridge
Дата выхода: март 2023
From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Paranoia" and "Killer Instinct" comes a pulse-pounding, high-stakes thriller set in the cutthroat corporate world.
From the author of The Teachings of don Juan. The legendary Yaqui Indian sorcerer don Juan returns, and through his mesmerizing stories readers learn the vital secrets of belief and self-realization that are transcendental and valid for us all - that wisdom, strength and power lie within ourselves.
A power-hungry Richard III, a remorseful Macbeth, a revengeful Prince Hamlet, a powerful Julius Caesar, and a ruthless and ambitious King Henry V: various aspects of power and ambition feature in these five stories based on plays by William Shakespeare.
ISBN: 978885301-210-4
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: июль 2012
"The figure of my wife came came straight towards the wide eyes were open and looked at me with love unspeakable". Edith Nesbit, best known as the author of "The Railway Children" and other children`s classics, was also the mistress of the ghost story and tales of terror. She was able to create genuinely chilling narratives in which the returning dead feature strongly. Sadly, these stories have been neglected for many years, but now, at last, they are back in print. In this wonderful collection of eerie, flesh-creeping yarns, we encounter love that transcends the grave, reanimated corpses, vampiric vines, vengeful ghosts and other dark delights to make you feel fearful. These vintage spooky stories, tinged with horror, are told in a...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-531-0
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the `whisky priest`, is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape are being shut off, his chances getting fewer. But compassion and humanity force him along the road to his destiny, reluctant to abandon those who need him, and those he cares for.
ISBN: 978-0-09-928609-7
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
