A richly entertaining and exciting collection of mystery and detective stories from the golden age of crime fiction. This was a period when crimes were solved by the wit and ingenuity of the sleuth who only had his own intelligence to rely on rather than a battery of scientific devices and procedures employed by the modern crime solver. Within these pages you will meet such fascinating sleuths as Chesterton`s Mr Pond, Ernest Bramah`s remarkable blind detective, Max Carrados, who can read newspapers by allowing his sensitive fingers to run over the print, Craig Kennedy, `the American Sherlock Holmes` created by Arthur B. Reeve, and Jacques Futrelle`s Professor Van Dusen, `The Thinking Machine` amongst others. Tales by Charles Dickens,...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-065-0
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: август 2011
Equally at home in satirical novels and biting critical essays, wickedly funny short stories and intimate autobiography, Martin Amis is widely regarded as one of the most influential yet inimitable voices in contemporary fiction, a writer whose prose captures the warp-speed rush of modernity. "Vintage Amis" displays this versatility in an excerpt from the author’s award-winning memoir, "Experience"; the “Horrorday” chapter from "London Fields"; a vignette from his novel "Money"; the stories “State of England”, “Insight at Flam Lake” and “Coincidence of the Arts”; and the essays “Visiting Mrs. Nabokov”, “Phantom of the Opera”. Also included, for the first time in book form, the short story “Porno’s Last...
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3399-7
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Decade by decade, the lavishly illustrated Vintage Jewellery recounts over 100 years of history, from Lalique`s Art Nouveau enamelling at the turn of the twentieth century to Cartier`s gemstones and Christian Dior`s mid-century costume pieces to Harry Winston`s diamonds. Accompanied by archive images, fashion photography and specially commissioned photographs of period pieces, the most collectible and beautiful bracelets, necklaces, rings and brooches are showcased. An invaluable reference as well as a visual delight of times past, the book explores the key designers and jewellery houses that shaped jewellery design.
ISBN: 978-1-84732-574-7
Издательство:
Carlton Books Ltd
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
This title contains geography with the gritty bits left in. Where in the world can you: Find red-hot volcanic rocks the size of cars? Visit geysers that could boil you alive? Sniff some stinky sulphur?
ISBN: 978-0-439944-58-8
Издательство:
Scholastic Inc
Дата выхода: август 2010
In the grand manner of Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice`s new novel moves across time and the continents, from nineteenth-century Vienna to a St. Charles Greek Revival mansion in present-day New Orleans to the dazzling capitals of the modern-day world, telling a story of two charismatic figures bound to each other by a passionate commitment to music as a means of rapture, seduction, and liberation. At the novel`s center: a uniquely fascinating woman, Triana - who once dreamed of becoming a great musician - and the demonic fiddler Stefan, tormented ghost of a Russian aristocrat, who begins to prey upon her, using his magic violin first to enchant, then to dominate and draw her into a state of madness through the music she loves. But...
Учебно-практическое пособие подготовлено высокопрофессиональными преподавателями Школы охраны "Баярд", которая успешно работает уже более 11 лет. Пособие раскрывает многие тонкости в работе сотрудника личной охраны и дает необходимые знания в успешном освоении этой непростой профессии. Определение степени угрозы охраняемому лицу, разработка маршрута поездок VIP, безопасность жилища и офиса...
ISBN: 5-94896-014-5
Издательство:
ШО Баярд
Дата выхода: январь 2003
Every summer, the Ramsays visit their summer home on the beautiful Isle of Skye, surrounded by the excitement and chatter of family and friends, mirroring Virginia Woolf`s own joyful holidays of her youth. But as time passes, and in its wake the First World War, the transience of life becomes ever more apparent through the vignette of the thoughts and observations of the novel`s disparate cast. A landmark of high modernism and the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf`s novels, To the Lighthouse explores themes of loss, class structure and the question of perception, in a hauntingly beautiful memorial to the lost but not forgotten. Chosen by TIME magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present.
During his year of exploration, Patrick meets a rich cast of characters. Among them is a young local wine-maker called Virgile, who offers to initiate Patrick into the mysteries of each season`s work in the fields and in the cellar. Virgile is passionately committed to perfection, though he operates on a shoestring. At the other extreme is Manu, Patrick`s dipsomaniac neighbour, a die-hard traditionalist producing a private wine lake of unspeakable rouge. With Manu as his self-appointed guide, Patrick embarks on a tour of the region`s wine makers, a succession of lively encounters with growers as varied as the wines themselves. Interwoven are digressions into the history of the region and its wine-making, right back to the earliest...
ISBN: 978-0-7195-6517-5
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: июль 2011
On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide — it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese — the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a ’ First published in 1993, the haunting, humorous and tender story of the brief lives of the five entrancing Lisbon sisters is Pulitzer Prize-winner Jeffrey Eugenides classic debut novel.
ISBN: 978-0-7475-6059-3
Издательство:
Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: июль 2011
This book is from the bestselling author of Girl With a Pearl Earring, a reissue of her first novel, which was first published in 1996. This is the compelling story of two women, born four centuries apart, and the ancestral legacy that binds them. Ella Turner does her best to fit in to the small, close-knit community of Lisle-sur-Tarn. She even changes her name back to Tournier, and knocks the rust off her high school French. But it is all in vain. Isolated and lonely, she is drawn to investigate her Tournier ancestry, which leads to her encounter with the town`s wolfish librarian. Isabelle du Moulin, known as Le Rousse due to her fiery red hair, is tormented and shunned in the village - suspected of witchcraft and reviled for her...
ISBN: 978-0-00-724146-0
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
Getting old? Get over it! For too long those in short skirts have been telling us oldies we don`t matter: `you`re out of touch! Get out of the way, grandma! The next generation is coming through`. Well, enough is enough. Because getting old is great. For a start you no longer need to care what anyone thinks. You can let - if you`ve got any left - your hair down. No one will tell you off for grumbling. And no one minds if you forget (or pretend to forget) who you`re talking to. Being rude has never been so easy - or liberating. And that`s not all you can get away with now that you`ve seen it all (and done most of it)... Let Virginia Ironside take you through the top twenty reasons why getting old is good for you - and let the young and...
ISBN: 978-0-14-104371-5
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
Terrific, free-standing suel to the historical bestseller Earthly Joys, as John Tradescant, the Younger witnesses the English Civil War and its aftermath from his position as royal gardener. John Tradescant, the Younger has inherited his fathers unique collection of plants along with his unerring ability to nurture them. But as gardener to Charles I, he confronts an unbearable dilemma when England descends into Civil War. Fleeing from the chaos, John travels to the Royalist colony of Virginia in America. But, the virgin land is not uninhabited. Johns plant hunting brings him to live with the native people, and he learns to love and respect their way of life just as it is threatened by the colonial settlers. In the new world and the old,...
ISBN: 978-0-00-722848-5
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Sumptuous historical novel from bestselling author of the other boleyn girl and the queen`s fool Elizabeth I has acceded to the throne of England, a position she has waited and schemed for all her life. She is surrounded by advisers, all convinced that a young woman cannot form political judgements. Elizabeth feels that she can rely on just one man: her oldest friend, Robert Dudley. It is soon plain that he is more than merely a friend. In a house in the countryside waits a very different woman, Amy Robsart - Robert`s wife. She has no taste for life at court and longs for the day when her husband will return home. She has loved him since she was a girl, but now they are adults she hardly sees him. Meanwhile, the pressure grows for...
ISBN: 978-0-00-714731-1
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
