Прекрасно оформленное подарочное издание в тканевом переплете и суперобложке, с трехсторонним золотым обрезом и шелковым ляссе. Criminals beware! Sherlock Holmes is back! Ten years after his supposed death at the Reichenbach Falls, the famous detective returns to Baker Street in London and is ready to commence work once more, unravelling a series of baffling cases. Arthur Conan Doyle provides a rich and fascinating set of mysteries to challenge his sleuth in the new stories. As before, Watson is the superb narrator, and the magic remains unchanged and undimmed. This fascinating volume also includes the collection His Last Bow. In...
ISBN: 978-1-904919-71-1
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
In his first collection of stories, the Bridge Philosopher proved to be brutally honest, self deprecating, funny, and good at explaining bridge. In this sequel, thirty years in the making, good old B.P is as crotchety as ever, and just as funny.
`…once again Mr Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complex life of London so plentifully presents.`.Evil masterminds beware! Sherlock Holmes is back! Ten years after his supposed death in the swirling torrent of the Reichenbach Falls locked in the arms of his arch enemy Professor Moriarty, Arthur Conan Doyle agreed to pen further adventures featuring his brilliant detective. In the first story, `The Empty House`, Holmes returns to Baker Street and his good friend Watson, explaining how he escaped from his watery grave. In creating this collection of tales, Doyle had lost none of cunning or panache, providing Holmes with a sparkling set of mysteries to solve and a...
ISBN: 9781840228069
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: декабрь 2021
An atmospheric, vibrant and moving tale of pain and passion at the heart of war-torn Spain, from Victoria Hislop, the million-copy bestselling author of THE ISLAND. Beneath the majestic towers of the Alhambra, Granada's cobbled streets resonate with music and secrets. Sonia Cameron knows nothing of the city's shocking past; she is here to dance. But in a quiet caf?, a chance conversation and an intriguing collection of old photographs draw her into the extraordinary tale of Spain's devastating civil war. Seventy years earlier, the caf? is home to the close-knit Ram?rez family. In 1936, an army coup led by Franco shatters the country's fragile peace, and in the heart of Granada the family witnesses the worst atrocities...
ISBN: 978-0-7553-4894-7
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: август 2011
Evil masterminds beware! Sherlock Holmes is back! Ten years after his supposed death in the swirling torrent of the Reichenbach Falls locked in the arms of his arch enemy Professor Moriarty, Arthur Conan Doyle agreed to pen further adventures featuring his brilliant detective. In the first story, `The Empty House`, Holmes returns to Baker Street and his good friend Watson, explaining how he escaped from his watery grave.
In 1891, the great detective, Sherlock Holmes, disappeared in Switzerland while working on a dangerous case. Everyone thought that he was dead. But three years later, he returned to England. Holmes and his friend, Dr Watson, had many more adventures together. Three of his most interesting cases are in this book.
ISBN: 978-1-4479-2577-4
Издательство:
Pearson Education Limited
Дата выхода: июль 2012
1920. The Great War has been over for two years, and it has left a very different world from the Edwardian certainties of 1914. Following the death of his wife and baby and his experiences on the Western Front, Laurence Bartram has become something of a recluse. Yet death and the aftermath of the conflict continue to cast a pall over peacetime England, and when a young woman he once knew persuades him to look into events that apparently led her brother, John Emmett, to kill himself, Laurence is forced to revisit the darkest parts of the war. As Laurence unravels the connections between Captain Emmett`s suicide, a group of war poets, a bitter regimental feud and a hidden love affair, more disquieting deaths are exposed. Even at the moment...
ISBN: 978-1-84408-609-2
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The hotly-anticipated sequel to The Devil Wears Prada - the million copy bestseller that took the world by storm.Everything`s in place for the season`s hottest launch:Tall latte (with two raw sugars)? Check.Gucci trench (draped over desk)? Check.Outrageous, unreasonable demands? Check.Andy has just turned thirty and is an incredibly successful magazine editor, working closely with her best friend Emily, another Runway survivor. She`s about to get married - life`s on track and she`s been careful to stay clear of Miranda Priestly, her dreadful first boss. But Andy`s luck is running out. Miranda Priestly isn`t the kind of woman who hides in the background.She`s back… and more devilish than ever.
Rose Lloyd was the last to suspect that Nathan, her husband of over twenty years, was having an affair, and that he was planning to leave her. But the greatest shock was yet to come; for his mistress was Rose's colleague and friend, Minty. So Rose was left alone in their once-happy family home, where she and Nathan had brought up their children. Then she started thinking - about the man she'd married, and how well she really knew him. About the carefree yet studious girl she had been before she met him. Twenty years ago Rose had to make the choice between two very different lives. Could she recapture what she nearly chose back then, and bring new meaning to her life now? Текст романа на английском...
ISBN: 978-0-14-029008-0
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller is recruited to change stripes and prosecute the high-profile retrial of a brutal child murder. After 24 years in prison, convicted killer Jason Jessup has been exonerated by new DNA evidence. Haller is convinced Jessup is guilty, and he takes the case on the condition that he gets to choose his investigator, LAPD Detective Harry Bosch. Together, Bosch and Haller set off on a case fraught with political and personal danger. Opposing them is Jessup, now out on bail, a defense attorney who excels at manipulating the media, and a runaway eyewitness reluctant to testify after so many years. With the odds and the evidence against them, Bosch and Haller must nail a sadistic killer once and for all. If...
ISBN: 978-0-446-55675-0
Издательство:
Hachette Livre
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller is recruited to change stripes and prosecute the high-profile retrial of a brutal child murder. After 24 years in prison, convicted killer Jason Jessup has been exonerated by new DNA evidence. Haller is convinced Jessup is guilty, and he takes the case on the condition that he gets to choose his investigator, LAPD Detective Harry Bosch. Together, Bosch and Haller set off on a case fraught with political and personal danger. Opposing them is Jessup, now out on bail, a defense attorney who excels at manipulating the media, and a runaway eyewitness reluctant to testify after so many years.
ISBN: 978-0-446-55674-3
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talented, with two young children and a starter home in the suburbs. Perhaps they married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank`s job is dull. And April never saw herself as a housewife. Yet they have always lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner. But now that certainty is about to crumble. With heartbreaking compassion and remorseless clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April mortgage their spiritual birthright, betraying not only each other, but their best selves.
1910. A cabin north of the Arctic Circle. Fifteen-year-old Sig Andersson is alone. Alone, except for the corpse of his father, who died earlier that day after falling through a weak spot on the ice-covered lake. His sister, Anna, and step-mother, Nadya, have gone to the local town for help. Then comes a knock at the door. It`s a man, the flash of a revolver`s butt at his hip, and a mean glare in his eyes. Sig has never seen him before but Wolff claims to have unfinished business with his father. As Sig gradually learns the awful truth about Wolff`s connection to his father, Sig finds his thoughts drawn to a certain box hidden on a shelf in the storeroom, in which lies his father`s prized possession - a revolver. When Anna returns alone,...
ISBN: 978-1-4440-0005-4
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
This book is filled with Revolting Rhymes. (Be warned- these are no ordinary `Once upon a time` tales.) There`s poor Cindy whose heart was torn to shreds because her prince chops off heads! Snow-White`s dwarfs, although awfully nice, are guilty of one shocking vice . . . And what becomes of Goldilocks, that nasty thieving little louse, when she goes sneaking around the Three Bears` house . . . ?
A collection of comic and often gory versions of popular fairy tales. Meet Cinderella, a young woman who wants to marry a nice ordinary man; and Goldilocks, that house-breaker who gobbles up your porridge and then breaks up the Chippendale.
ISBN: 0-14-056824-7
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Jack London (1876-1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. This book contains many wonderful London`s works such as "The Somnambulists", "The Dignity of Dollars", "Goliath", and "The Golden Poppy".
ISBN: 978-5-521-07514-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Hailed as a masterpiece from the moment of its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and talented couple whose empty suburban life is held together by the dream that greatness is only just round the corner. With heartbreaking compassion and clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April mortgage their hopes and ideals, betraying in the end not only each other, but their own best selves. Формат: 13 см x 20 см.
ISBN: 978-0-09-951878-5
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
