A corporate lawyer from the House of Single & Single is shot dead in cold blood on a Turkish hillside for crimes that he does not understand. A children`s entertainer in Devon is hauled to his local bank late at night to explain a monumental influx of cash. A Russian freighter is arrested in the Black Sea. A celebrated London financier has disappeared into thin air. A British customs officer is on a trail of corruption and murder. SINGLE & SINGLE is a thrilling journey of the contemporary human heart - intimate, magical, riotous and subtly architected, showing us John le Carre at the height of his dramatic and creative powers.
ISBN: 978-0-340-93771-6
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
When the stories of a vampire who is writing the biographies of his kin are mistaken for romances, the vampires publisher forces him to go to a romance conventionwhere he finds a romance of his own.
Saturday night is a nightmare when youre single. Saturday night is for couples and everyone knows it. Victoria Total Bloody Relationships Disaster Shepworth is single and knows all about Saturday nights alone. A broken relationship with the guy she thought was the one has led to a string of disastrous dates. Now shes fed-up with being on her own and is once again in search of the man of her dreams. But life begins to look decidedly more interesting when she becomes involved in an internet romance with glamorous Frenchman, Pierre Dubois. Little does she know he could be closer than she
ISBN: 978-0-552-77278-5
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
An all-new collection of spring-themed mysteries from the master of the genre.With spring comes April showers and blossoming fields - but wickedness is never far from the surface. With the turning of the year, Hercule Poirot, Jane Marple, Tommy and Tuppence and many more of Agatha Christie`s unforgettable creations tangle with a season of sinister schemes and perilous crimes.INCLUDES THE STORIES:The Market Basing MysteryThe Case of the Missing LadyThe Herb of DeathHow Does Your Garden Grow?Swan SongMiss Marple Tells a StoryHave You Got Everything You Want?The Jewel Robbery at the Grand MetropolitanIngots of GoldThe Soul of the CroupierThe Girl in the TrainGreenshaw`s Folly
Within the walls of a cloistered convent, a scene of unspeakable carnage is discovered. On the snow lie two nuns, one dead, one critically injured - victims of a seemingly motiveless, brutally savage attack. As medical examiner Maura Isles` autopsy of the murder victim yields a shocking surprise, the case takes a sudden and disturbing twist. The body of another woman has been found. And someone has gone to a lot of trouble to remove her face, hands and feet. As long buried secrets are revealed so Dr Isles and homicide detective Jane Rizzoli find themselves part of an investigation that leads to an awful, dawning realization of the killer`s
ISBN: 978-0-553-81502-3
Издательство:
Bantam
Дата выхода: август 2011
After building an empire that has made her a legend in business, Olivia spends months each year planning a lavish holiday for everyone in her family to enjoy. This summer she has arranged a dream trip on a luxurious yacht in the Mediterranean, which she hopes will be the most memorable of all. More than anything, she hopes to express her love and her regret at all the important times she missed during her children`s early years. Her younger daughter, Cassie, a hip London music producer, refuses the invitation altogether as she does every year. Liz, her older daughter, is preoccupied with a chance to recapture her dream of being a writer and is terrified of failure, again. And her sons John and Phillip work for her, for better or worse,...
It was a brutal, vicious crime - sixteen years old. A helpless old woman battered to death with an axe. Harry Painter hung for it, and Chief Inspector Wexford is certain they executed the right man. But Reverend Archery has because his son wants to marry the murderer`s beautiful, brilliant daughter. He begins unravelling the past, only to discover that murder breeds murder - and often conceals even deeper
ISBN: 978-0-345-34253-9
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
This is the tumultuous novel of men and women pitted against a world of wealth, power, and story of the powerful Van Zale clan, and the man, Cornelius Van Zale, whose dynastic struggle to control a great fortune becomes the center of his life. When the world of the Van Zales, of servants and country houses, of European summers and Bar Harbor clambakes, polite marriages and discreet affairs, suddenly begins to fall apart, we see this glamorous sphere for what it really is--rife with ruthless, power-hungry men, fortune hunters, secret sex, violence.
When a young reporter looks for a story full of danger and adventure, he ends up in a land unknown for millions of years. He and his companions must fight for their lives with terrifying prehistoric creatures to find their way home. Will they make it? Join their amazing expedition in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle`s exciting tale. Retold by Virginia Evans and Jenny Dooley.
ISBN: 978-1-84-679911-2
Издательство:
Express Publishing
Дата выхода: январь 2008
This is a translation of three medieval tales. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl are two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400. Sir Gawain is a romance, a fairy-tale for adults, full of life and colour; but it is also much more than this, being at the same time a powerful moral tale which examines religious and social values. Pearl is apparently an elegy on the death of a child, a poem pervaded with a sense of great personal loss: but, like Gawain it is also a debate on much less tangible matters. Sir Orfeo is a slighter romance, belonging to an earlier and different tradition. The three translations represent the complete rhyme and alliterative schemes of the original.
ISBN: 978-0-261-10259-0
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: март 2012
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "Sir Nigel" is a historical novel set during the early days of the Hundred Years` War. As a background story to his book "The White Company", it describes the early life of Sir Nigel Loring in the service of King Edward III at the start of the war.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07172-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
Артур Конан Дойл - всемирно известный английский писатель, подаривший миру не только великолепный цикл рассказов и повестей о Шерлоке Холмсе, но и множество замечательных романов, отличающихся богатством языка, удивительными персонажами и яркими сюжетами. "Сэр Найджел Лоринг" - это исторический роман Дойла, рассказывающий о юности главного героя, проведённой на службе короля Англии. Автор необычайно...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05708-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. Sir Nigel is a historical novel set during the early days of the Hundred Years` War. As a background story to his book "The White Company", it describes the early life of Sir Nigel Loring in the service of King Edward III at the start of the war. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08141-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
When Winston Niles Rumfoord flies his spacecraft into a chrono-synclastic infundibulum he is converted into pure energy, and only materializes when his waveforms intercept Earth or some other planet. As a result, he only gets home to Newport, Rhode island, once every 59 days, and then only for an hour. But at least, as a consolation, he now knows everything that has ever happened or that will ever happen. Формат: 12,5 см х 19,5 см.
ISBN: 978-1-85798-884-0
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
The third in Doris Lessing s visionary novel cycle Canopus in Argos: Archives . It is a mix of fable, futuristic fantasy and pseudo-documentary accounts of 20th-century history.
The Pants first came to us at the perfect moment. That is, when we were splitting up for the first time. It was two summers ago when they first worked their magic, and last summer when they shook up our lives once again. You see, we don`t wear the Pants year-round. We let them rest so they are extra powerful when summer comes. (There was the time this spring when Carmen wore them to her mom`s wedding, but that was a special case.) Now we`re facing our last summer together. In September we go to college. And it`s not like one of those TV shows where all of us magically turn up at the same college. We`re going to four different colleges in four different cities (but all within four hours of one another - that was our one rule). We`re...
Sister Carrie (1900) tells the story of a young country girl who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream, first as a kept woman, and later becoming a famous actress. Sister Carrie has been called the "greatest of all American urban novels."
ISBN: 978-5-521-00329-7
Издательство:
Пальмира
Дата выхода: февраль 2017
Some friends just fit together. With unraveled embroidery and fraying hems, the Traveling Pants are back for one last, glorious summer. Join Ann Brashares`s beloved sisterhood once again in a dazzling, fearless novel about a summer that will forever change the lives of Lena, Carmen, Bee, and Tibby, here and now, past and future, together and apart.
ISBN: 978-0-440-23983-3
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Книга входит в серию иллюстрированных учебных пособий "Читаем вместе". Русская народная сказка о хитрой лисичке и чересчур доверчивом волке пересказана на английском языке с использованием простой грамматики и наиболее употребительных английских слов. Прочитав сказку, ребенок познакомится с простым будущим временем (Future Simple), с глаголами в повелительном наклонении и глаголами движения. Книга также...
ISBN: 978-5-8112-4935-0
Издательство:
Айрис-пресс
Дата выхода: март 2013
The Russian creator of the czarist master detective Erast Fandorin here introduces another irresistible sleuth in the form of an orthodox nun in a remote province of late 19th-century Russia. Bishop Mitrofanii has a family crisis on his hands: one of his great aunt`s rare white bulldogs has been poisoned on her estate, probably as an attack on the old woman. With a fistful of erratic family members and hangers-on as possible suspects, the bishop knows the only person able to unravel the apparently clueless crime is Sister Pelagia - freckled, bespectacled, lively, curious, clumsy, and extraordinarily persistent.
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7513-0
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
