Following the death of a friend, poet and pets` mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering into the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park. Within its golden gates, death, American-style, is wrapped up and sold like a package holiday. There, Dennis enters the fragile and bizarre world of Aimée, the naïve Californian corpse beautician, and Mr Joyboy, the master of the embalmer`s art ... A dark and savage satire on the Anglo-American cultural divide, The Loved One depicts a world where love, reputation and death cost a very great deal.
ISBN: 978-0-14-118424-1
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The warm and witty new novel from acclaimed author Veronica Henry will be her best yet. Expect affairs of the heart, lies, scandal and humour - all wrapped up in one perfectly presented Veronica Henry-sized package! This will be a lovely women`s fiction read that Ronnie`s fans will not want to miss.
ISBN: 978-1-4091-3546-3
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: январь 2013
Mary Lamb is confined by the restrictions of domesticity: her father is losing his mind, her mother watchful and hostile. The great solace of her life is her brother Charles, an aspiring writer. It is no surprise when Mary falls for the bookseller's son, antiquarian William Ireland, from whom Charles has purchased a book. But this is no ordinary book - it once belonged to William Shakespeare himself. And William Ireland with his green eyes and red hair is no ordinary young man. In The Lambs of London , Peter Ackroyd brilliantly creates an urban world of scholars and entrepreneurs, a world in which a clever son will stop at nothing to impress his showman father, and no one knows quite what to believe. Ingenious and vividly alive, The...
ISBN: 978-0-09-947209-4
Издательство:
Vintage Classics
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Junior cop Sally Jansson is called out to the house of Willis Lynsey, a reclusive scientist, for an animal-cruelty complaint: the man was seen forcing a horse in through the door of his home. Inside there is no horse. But Sally finds a kind of home-made utility belt. She straps this on - and `steps` sideways into an America covered with virgin forest. Willis came here with equipment and animals, meaning to explore and colonise. And when Sally gets back, she finds Willis has put the secret of the belt on the internet. The great migration has The Long Earth: our Earth is but one of a chain of parallel worlds, lying side by side in a higher space of possibilities, each differing from its neighbours by a little (or...
By 1910, Leo Tolstoy, the world`s most famous author, had become an almost religious figure, surrounded on his lavish estate by family and followers alike. Set in the tumultuous last year of the count`s life, The Last Station centres on the battle for his soul waged by his wife and his leading between his professed doctrine of poverty and chastity on the one hand and the reality of his enormous wealth, his thirteen children, and a life of hedonism on the other, Tolstoy makes a dramatic flight from his home. Too ill to continue beyond the tiny station of Astapovo, he believes he is dying alone, while outside over one hundred newspapermen are awaiting hourly reports on his in six different voices, including Tolstoy`s own from his diaries...
ISBN: 978-1-84195-967-2
Издательство:
Ред Фиш
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
The first book in the epic and bestselling series that has gripped millions.A hero will be forged from this broken land.In a land torn apart by conflict, an orphan boy has come of age. Raised by the Vikings, deadly enemies of his own Saxon people, Uhtred is a fierce and skilled warrior who kneels to no-one.Alfred – Saxon, king, man of god – fights to hold the throne of the only land still resisting the pagan northerners.Uhtred and Alfred’s fates are tangled, soaked in blood and blackened by the flames of war. Together they will change history.
ISBN: 9780007218011
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022
