London, the week before Christmas, 2007. Seven wintry days to track the lives of seven characters: a hedge fund manager trying to bring off the biggest trade of his career; a professional footballer recently arrived from Poland; a young lawyer with little work and too much time to speculate; a student who has been led astray by Islamist theory; a hack book-reviewer; a schoolboy hooked on skunk and reality TV; and a Tube driver whose Circle Line train joins these and countless other lives together in a daily loop. With daring skill, the novel pieces together the complex patterns and crossings of modern urban life, and the group is forced, one by one, to confront the true nature of the world they inhabit. Sweeping, satirical, Dickensian in...
ISBN: 978-0-09-955169-0
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
In the summer of 2009, Alain de Botton will be invited by the owners of Heathrow airport to become their first ever Writer in Residence. He will be installed in the middle of Terminal 5 on a raised platform with a laptop connected to screens, enabling passengers to see what he is writing and to come and share their stories. He will meet travellers from around the world, and will be given unprecedented access to wander the airport and speak with everyone from window cleaners and baggage handlers to air traffic controllers and cabin crew. Working with the renowned documentary photographer Richard Baker, de Botton will produce an extraordinary meditation upon the nature of place, time, and our daily lives. He will explore the magical and...
Dr Katherine Roberts is a lecturer at Oxford University and an expert on all things Austen. But she has a guilty secret; a love of racy Regency novels by Lorna Warwick. She`s even struck up a long-distance friendship with the novelist and the two of them have been sharing their closest confidences. When Katherine gets her yearly invite to a Jane Austen Conference at the magnificent Purley Hall in Hampshire, she sincerely hopes that Lorna will be in attendance as well. She can hardly wait to meet her new friend, but it seems that Lorna may not have been completely honest with her! Meanwhile, hopeless romantic Robyn Love is at her happiest when her head is stuck in one of Jane Austen`s novels - if only her boyfriend Jace Collins could be...
ISBN: 978-1-84756-225-8
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: август 2011
This is a powerful, moving story that details the effects of the infamous Mau Mau war, the African nationalist revolt against colonial oppression in Kenya, on the lives of ordinary men and women, and on one family in particular. Two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stand on a rubbish heap and look into their futures. Njoroge is excited; his family has decided that he will attend school, while Kamau will train to be a carpenter. Together they will serve their country - the teacher and the craftsman. But this is Kenya and the times are against them. In the forests, the Mau Mau is waging war against the white government, and the two brothers and their family need to decide where their loyalties lie. For the practical Kamau the choice is simple,...
ISBN: 978-1-4050-7331-8
Издательство:
Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Josh thinks Fizz is dentally challenged and fluent in gibberish. Fizz thinks Josh is the Prince of Handsomeness. They`re destined to work together at Marigolds Old People`s Home – can Cupid`s arrow strike among the Zimmer frames? Throw in Josh`s wacky mother with her goats on the sofa and Fizz`s goddess-like big sis and one thing is certain. Things will get a LOT weirder before they start making sense – and can the oldies really make their great using tablespoons? Being fourteen has never been so
ISBN: 978-0-14-132202-5
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011
Муратова Зара Газизовна; Мурза Александра Борисовна; Перцев Евгений Михайлович
Учебное пособие представляет собой уникальное, не имеющее аналогов в нашей стране издание, предназначенное для обучения английскому языку студентов и аспирантов философских факультетов и отделений. Уникальность данной работы состоит в том, что педагогический процесс строится на основе изучения, анализа и обсуждения оригинальных англоязычных философских текстов. В пособии содержатся тексты...
ISBN: 9785829105211
Издательство:
Академический проект
Дата выхода: август 2017
A travel agent who longs to travel. An intrepid explorer who just wants to find a place to call home. And a Big Idea that changes everything! When Harri Langton finds herself locked in the Ladies` loo at Stone Langley Village Hall, she has plenty of time to muse on the events leading up to officially The Worst Night of Her Life! Harri is a travel agent with a shameful secret. Despite possessing extensive knowledge of places around the globe, she`s never set foot outside the UK. Few of Harri`s friends understand her longing to see the world - least of all her boyfriend Rob who still hasn`t proposed after seven years of waiting. But when Alex Brannan arrives in town, Harri finds a kindred spirit. A globe-trotting traveller for the past ten...
ISBN: 978-1-84756-166-4
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Turn left at small town Sophie Dempsey is content living a quiet life filming wedding videos until an assignment brings her to Temptation, Ohio. From the moment she drive into town, she gets a bad feeling; Sophie is from the wrong side of the tracks and everything in Temptation is a little too right. And when she has a run-in with the town`s unnervingly sexy mayor, Phineas Tucker, making a little movie turns out to be more than a little dangerous. Yield to oncoming All Sophie wants to do is film the video and head home. All Phin wants to do is play pool with the police chief and keep things peaceful. They both get more than they bargained for when Sophie`s video causes an uproar and the proper citizens of Temptation set out to shut them...
"Welcome to the Monkey House" is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut's shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction" and "The Atlantic Monthly", what these superb stories share is Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision.
ISBN: 978-0-385-33350-4
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Jasper Fforde has done it again in this genre-bending blend of crime fiction, fantasy, and top-drawer literary entertainment. After two rollicking New York Times bestselling adventures through Western literature, resourceful literary detective Thursday Next definitely needs some downtime. And what better place for a respite than in the hidden depths of the Well of Lost Plots, where all unpublished books reside? But peace and quiet remain elusive for Thursday, who soon discovers that the Well is a veritable linguistic free-for-all, where grammasites run rampant, plot devices are hawked on the black market, and lousy books - like the one she has taken up residence in - are scrapped for salvage. To make matters worse, a murderer is stalking...
ISBN: 978-0-340-82593-8
Издательство:
Hodder
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Lia and Jay`s grandmother is old and in poor health. She asks her family to fetch water from the well. But the journey to the well is dangerous. There is smoke and fire. Why does grandmother want water from the well? What wil Lia and Jay find there?
ISBN: 978-1-4050-7799-6
Издательство:
Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: июль 2011
From one of the greatest living literary imaginations and the celebrated author of Fahrenheit 451 comes a collection of never-before-published effortlessly beautiful tales. Recently described in The Times as "the uncrowned poet laureate of science fiction" Ray Bradbury has won numerous awards including a Pulitzer Prize special citation in 2007 and an Emmy. In this new volume of never-before-published stories, follow a space shuttle crew as they voyage sixty million miles from home, discover what happens when a writer "with the future`s eye" believes his friend to be writing stories aboard a UFO, and listen in on a couple talking themselves backwards through time to the moment when they first held hands. This entertaining and gripping...
ISBN: 978-0-00-730364-9
Издательство:
Collins
Дата выхода: август 2011
Lia and Jay`s grandmother is old and in poor health. She misses her husband who has recently died. She begs her family to fetch water from the well at the abandoned family farm in the hills. After listening to their parents` words of caution about the recent volcanic activity in the area, Lia and Jay set off early in the morning to walk to the farm. On their journey the teenagers meet a variety of people and when they return, it is not just the well water that they bring back to the city.
ISBN: 978-0-230-03590-4
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Can the graphic identity of a restaurant transmit the aromas, colours and flavours of the dishes presented in a menu, even before the first dish arrives at the table? Is experimental cuisine a Futura font or a Times? All these questions and many more are answered in Well-seasoned which features dozens of restaurants from around the world with a graphic identity that transmits an overwhelming array of sensations to their customers. Widely documented with hundreds of photographs, Well-seasoned is an essential reference guide for those interested in the design of restaurants` graphic identities.
ISBN: 978-84-96774-67-4
Издательство:
Index Book
Дата выхода: июль 2011
"The Well-Beloved" completes the cycle of Hardy`s great novels, reiterating his favourite themes of man`s eternal quest for perfection in both love and art, and the suffering that ensues. Jocelyn Pierston, celebrated sculptor, tries to create an image of his ideal woman - his imaginary "Well-Beloved" - in stone, just as he tries to find her in the flesh. Powerful symbolism marks this romantic fantasy that Hardy has grounded firmly in reality with a characteristically authentic rendering of location, the Isle of Slingers, or Portland as we know it. Overt exploration of the relationship between erotic fascination and creativity makes this novel a nineteenth-century landmark in the persistent debate about art, aesthetics and gender.
ISBN: 978-1-84022-405-4
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
