Why did the solitary girl leave her rented house on the French Riviera only for short walks at night? Why was she so frightened? Why did animals shrink away from her? The girl herself didn’t know, and was certainly not aware of the terrible appointment which had been made for her long ago and was now drawing close. Molly Fountain, the tough-minded Englishwoman living next door, was determined to find the answer. She sent for a wartime secret service colleague to come and help. What they discovered was horrifying beyond anything they could have imagined. Dennis Wheatley returned in this book to his black magic theme which he had made so much his own with his famous best seller "The Devil Rides Out". In the cumulative shock of its...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-544-0
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: август 2011
The historical fiction debut from former soldier, BBC defence correspondent and MP, Patrick Mercer, is a thrilling military action set during the Crimean War. 1854. War is imminent as the Western powers quarrel with Russia over fragments of the crumbling Ottoman empire. Wanting to prove himself to a father who will not let him forget about his own self-proclaimed military glories, Officer Tony Morgan is keen to set sail. Meanwhile, the Morgan`s chambermaid, Mary, whom Tony loves but cannot marry, has wedded another officer in his company and will be accompanying the regiment to the front as a nurse. Arriving at Sebastapol in the Crimea, the company`s first engagement with the Russians fill the company with a short-lived confidence....
ISBN: 978-0-00-730280-2
Издательство:
Collins
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Эрнест Миллер Хемингуэй (1899-1961) - один из самых ярких американских писателей XX века. Роман "Иметь и не иметь" (1937) повествует о жизни американского рыбака Гарри Морагана, которого обстоятельства вынуждают совершать отчаянные поступки и идти на преступления. За повествованием о жизни отдельного человека встает широкая панорама американского общества середины 30-х годов прошлого века. Неадаптированный...
ISBN: 5-89815-811-1
Издательство:
Каро
Дата выхода: октябрь 2007
Harry Morgan was hard, the classic Hemingway hero. He had to be hard - rum-running, gun-running and man-running from Cuba to the Florida Keys in the Depression. He ran risks, too, from stray coastguard bullets and sudden double-crosses, but it was the only way he could survive. "This active, passionate life on the verge of the tropics is perfect material for the Hemingway style, and the reader carries away from the book a sense of freshness and exhilaration; trade winds, southern cities and warm seas all admirably described by the instrument of precision with which he writes." New Statesman
ISBN: 0-09-990900-6
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Dante Valentine has been through Hell. Literally. Her body shattered and her mind not far behind, she`s dumped back into her own world to survive - or not - as a pawn in one of Lucifer`s endless games. Unfortunately, he`s just messed with the wrong Necromance. And this time she`s mad enough to do something about it. This time, the Devil will pay.
April 2nd 1879. St Petersburg. A shot rings out in Palace Square. The Tsar is unhurt, but badly shaken. Cossack guards tackle the would-be assassin to the ground. And in the melee no one notices a pretty dark haired young woman in a heavy coat walk purposefully away from the scene. Russia is alive with revolutionaries and this is just one of many assassination attempts on the unpopular Tsar Alexander II. For Dr Frederick Hadfield, part of the Anglo-Russian establishment with a medical practice dependent on the patronage of the nobility, politics is a distraction. But when he meets the passionate idealist Anna Petrovna, he finds himself drawn in to living a dangerous double Set in a world of stark contrasts, from glittering ballrooms to...
ISBN: 978-0-7195-2411-0
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
A lawyer`s advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this enchanting classic - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the thirties. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man`s struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so Формат: 11 см x 17,5 см.
ISBN: 978-0-09-941978-5
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
This tense, gripping novel set in 19C St Petersburg amid desperate revolutionaries bent on the overthrow of the Tsar `confirms Andrew William`s place in the front ranks of English thriller writers` (Daily Mail). Shortlisted for the CWA Ellis Peters and the Walter Scott Awards, To Kill a Tsar will appeal to readers of John le Carre, Robert Harris and Alan Furst. St Petersburg, 1879. A shot rings out in Palace Square. Cossack guards tackle the would-be assassin to the ground. In the melee no one notices a striking dark haired young woman in a heavy coat slip away from the scene. Russia is alive with revolutionaries. While Tsar Alexander II remains a virtual prisoner in his own palaces, his ruthless secret police will stop at nothing to...
ISBN: 978-0-7195-2401-1
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit `em, but remember it`s a sin to kill a mockingbird. This is a lawyer`s advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this story - a black man charged with raping a white girl in the Deep South of the 1930s.
ISBN: 978-0-09-946673-4
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
`Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit `em, but remember it`s a sin to kill a mockingbird`. A lawyer`s advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee`s classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the thirties. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man`s struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much. "To Kill a Mockingbird" is a coming-of-age story, an anti-racist novel, a historical drama of the Great Depression and a sublime...
ISBN: 978-0-09-954948-2
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
You can always trust a man - to do the dirty on you. When Lucy finds out her football coach hubby`s been playing away from home, she`s devastated. But when she discovers just who he`s been scoring with, she wants to kick a few balls of her own. So now that Lucy`s learnt that her perfect marriage was like most of her orgasms (faked), the big question is are all men bastards, or will she find the one exception to the rule?
ISBN: 978-0-552-77564-9
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Isabella and Amadeo are the toast of international society and the undisputed leaders of Rome couture. Together they rule the House of San Gregoria, a monument to Isabella`s fabulous designs and stunning beauty, and to Amadeo`s unerring flair and elegance. And beyond their enchanted world of splendour shines their boundless, undying love for one another. Then suddenly their dream is shattered. Amadeo is gone - for ever. Isabella flees to America in search of a new beginning, but she is haunted by her memories. Can she ever say goodbye to the past and dare to love again? In a novel filled with unforgettable scenes and a wonderful cast of characters. To Love Again explores one woman`s dilemma with sensitivity, compassion and warmth....
ISBN: 978-0-7515-4138-0
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: июль 2012
The gorgeously indulgent, funny and touching new novel from the bestselling author In relationships things are not always what they Hiding from a secret in her past, Ellie is looking for a fresh start. But then an old friend tracks her down, forcing her to face what she has been trying so hard to escape. Meanwhile her boss Zack seems to have it all - everything, that is, except the woman he loves. Washed-up popstar Roo is sure that she`s finally found the one - until she learns that the man of her dreams is already
ISBN: 978-0-7553-5582-2
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: июль 2012
From the aftermath of World War III to a world inherited by robots, where humans are from a handful of human survivors on a starship desperately searching for other ships carrying survivors of the destruction of the entire Earth by an unknown enemy, who may strike again at any time, to another starship hurtling through the cosmos at a speed so close to that of light - and unable to slow down - that relativistic effects make millennia fly by for each tick of the clock on from a team striving to make Venus habitable for humans to a group of men who find the ominous secret behind a new quasi-religious philosophy that is sweeping the world. The wide-ranging imagination and exciting storytelling of Poul Anderson brings many different worlds...
ISBN: 978-1-4165-9164-1
Издательство:
Азбука
Дата выхода: август 2011
From the Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007, a collection of some of her finest short stories. For more than four decades, Doris Lessing’s work has observed the passion and confusion of human relations, holding a mirror up to our selves in her unflinching dissection of the everyday. From the magnificent ‘To Room Nineteen’, a study of a dry, controlled middle-class marriage ‘grounded in intelligence’, to the shocking ‘A Woman on the Roof’, where a workman becomes obsessed with a pretty sunbather, this superb collection of stories written over four decades, from the 1950s to the 1990s bears stunning witness to Doris Lessing’s perspective on the human condition.
ISBN: 978-0-00-714300-9
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
"New York Times" bestselling author Alex Kershaw has written the first full biography of one of the most remarkable men to have outwitted Hitler - Raoul Wallenberg, the young Swedish diplomat who almost single-handedly saved the lives of countless Hungarian Jews, at unimaginable risk and great cost to himself. As a Holocaust survivor said, `Schindler saved hundreds. Wallenberg saved tens of thousands.` This is the story of how he achieved this and of his personal duel with Adolf Eichmann, the SS colonel charged with obliterating Hungarian Jewry, who sent half a million Jews to their deaths in Auschwitz. This confrontation reaches its climax in 1944 when Soviet and German troops are fighting hand-to-hand through the suburbs of Budapest...
ISBN: 978-0-09-953913-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The millions of fans of Lazarus Long--probably Heinlein`s most beloved character--will flock to this new tale, which continues adventures of the characters of The Cat Who Walked Through Walls. From the author of Stranger in a Strange Land and Time Enough for Love.
In the bitter cold of Danish Jutland, where the sea freezes over and the Nazis have yet to invade, a young girl dreams of one day going on a great journey to Siberia, while her beloved brother Jesper yearns for the warmer climes of Morocco. Their home, with a pious mother who sings hymns all day and a silent father, is as cold as their surroundings. But the unshakeable bond between brother and sister creates a vital warmth which glows in spite of the chill and the dark clouds that threaten to overtake their dreams.
ISBN: 978-0-09-952344-4
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Ferdinando Scianna has always been fascinated by the sight of figures wrapped in sleep. In over thirty years of photography he has captured images of people and animals sleeping in the most diverse places on earth: in the countryside, in cities, deserts, corners of towns, streets, moving trains, in their own homes. With this collection of photographs, interspersed with evocative quotations about sleep and dreaming, Scianna takes us and himself on a fascinating journey into a dimension of life that is natural and mysterious, necessary and disturbing, everyday and universal. Usually the camera freezes movement, isolating a single moment in the endless flux of reality, but here, on the contrary, the stillness of the image is of its essence....
ISBN: 0714837199
Издательство:
Phaidon
Дата выхода: март 2002
Вирджиния Вулф - легендарная британская писательница первой половины XX века. Её прозу отличает изысканный язык, яркие персонажи и трогательные сюжеты. Роман "На маяк" является одним из самых известных произведений Вирджинии, в котором разворачивается жизнь и драма семьи Рэмзи. Главным героем выступает мать семейства, доверяющая вдумчивому читателю свои мысли и переживания. Тончайшее и невесомое кружево...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05467-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
Following the tradition of modernist novelists, the plot of To the Lighthouse (1927) is secondary to its philosophical introspection — the novel includes little dialogue and almost no action; most of it is written as thoughts and observations. Among the book`s many themes are those of loss, subjectivity, the nature of art and the problem of perception.
ISBN: 978-5-521-00330-3
Издательство:
Пальмира
Дата выхода: февраль 2017
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflict between men and women. In 1998, the Modern Library named To the Lighthouse No. 15 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06217-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
"To the Lighthouse" is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf novels. It is based on her own early experiences, and while it touches on childhood and children perceptions and desires, it is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships, marriage and the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great War. Издание на английском языке.
ISBN: 1-85326-091-6
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999