Following on from the huge success of the "44 Scotland Street" series, Alexander McCall Smith has `moved house` to a crumbling four-storey mansion in Pimlico - Corduroy Mansions. It is inhabited by a glorious assortment of characters: among them, Oedipus Snark, the first every nasty Lib Dem MP, who is so detestable his own mother, Berthea, is writing an unauthorised biography about him; and one small vegetarian dog, Freddie de la Hay, who has the ability to fasten his own seatbelt. (Although Corduroy Mansions is a fictional name, the address is now registered by the Post Office).
To mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has opened its archives to an independent historian. This book reveals the precise role of the Service in twentieth-century British history, since its foundation by Captain Kell of the British Army in October 1909 to root out `the spies of the Kaiser`.
ISBN: 978-0-14-102330-4
Издательство:
Книжный мир
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Amy Redwing has devoted her life to rescuing dogs. But the unique bond she shares with Nickie, a golden retriever she saves in the most dangerous encounter of her life, is deeper than any she has ever known. In one night, their loyalty will be put to the test, and each will prove to the other how far they will go-when the stakes turn deadly serious. Формат: 10,5 см x 17,5 см.
A stunning and epic finale to the series, pitting Fandorin against both Ninjas and terrorists on the Trans-Siberian Express! The first of the interlinked plotlines is set in Russia during the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. Fandorin is charged with protecting the Trans-Siberian Railway from Japanese sabotage in a pacy adventure filled with double agents and ticking bombs. Then we travel back to the Japan of the late 1870s. This is the story of Fandorin's arrival and life in Yokohama, his first meeting with Masa and the martial arts education that came in so handy later. He investigates the death of a Russian ship-captain, fights for a woman, exposes double-agents in the Japanese police, fights against, and then with the ninjas, and...
ISBN: 978-0-7538-2819-9
Издательство:
Орион
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
It is bitter mid-winter on the Swedish island of Oland, and Katrine and Joakim Westin have moved with their children to the boarded-up manor house at Eel Point. But their remote idyll is soon shattered when Katrine is found drowned off the rocks nearby. And the old house begins to exert a strange hold over him.
ISBN: 978-0-552-77461-1
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
When Andrea first sets foot in the plush Manhattan offices of Runway she knows nothing. She`s never heard of the world`s most fashionable magazine, or its feared and fawned-over editor, Miranda Priestly. Soon she knows way too much. She knows it`s a sacking offence to wear less than a three-inch heel to work - but there`s always a fresh pair of Manolos in the accessories cupboard. She knows that eight stone is fat. That you can charge anything - cars, manicures, clothes - to the Runway account, but you must never leave your desk, or let Miranda`s coffee get cold. That at 3 am, when your boyfriend`s dumping you because you`re always working and your best friend`s just been arrested, if Miranda phones with her latest unreasonable demand,...
ISBN: 978-0-00-724191-0
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: январь 2006
