John Banville` s stunning powers of mimicry are brilliantly on display in this engrossing novel, the darkly compelling confession of an improbable murderer. Freddie Montgomery is a highly cultured man, a husband and father living the life of a dissolute exile on a Mediterranean island. When a debt comes due and his wife and child are held as collateral, he returns to Ireland to secure funds. That pursuit leads to murder. And here is his attempt to present evidence, not of his innocence, but of his life, of the events that lead to the murder he committed because he could. Like a hero out of Nabokov or Camus, Montgomery is a chillingly articulate, self-aware, and amoral being, whose humanity is painfully on display.
ISBN: 978-0-330-37187-2
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: август 2011
Bestseller Meltzer (The Book of Fate) deserves credit for an audacious conceit—wedding the biblical fratricide of Abel by his brother Cain with the unsolved 1932 homicide of the father of Jerry Siegel, the creator of iconic comic book hero Superman—but the results are less than convincing. A highly tenuous link between the two murders revolves around the mysterious weapon Cain (the world`s greatest villain) used to kill his brother. One of numerous theories is that the weapon was a divine book containing the secrets of immortality. After coming to the aid of a shooting victim, Calvin Harper, a homeless volunteer working in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., soon finds himself hopelessly caught up in a life-and-death quest for the ancient...
ISBN: 978-0-446-61614-0
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
What if a demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman wrote a book to his estranged son to give him some fatherly advice? What if that book was buried in Hampstead and hundreds of years later, when rising sea levels have put London underwater, spawned a religion? What if one man decided to question life according to Dave? And, what if Dave had indeed made a mistake? Shuttling between the recent past and a far-off future where England is terribly altered, "The Book of Dave" is a strange and troubling mirror held up to our times: disturbing, satirizing and vilifying who and what we think we are.
ISBN: 978-0-14-101454-8
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Irresistible tales of love, friendship, passion and betrayal from some of the top names in fiction. A woman planning not just what she wants to wear to a school reunion, but who she wants to be ...A couple hoping to start a new life in Spain - and completely misunderstanding what they each want ...A girl who`s brother falls in love with a beautiful male impersonator ...A woman haunted by ghosts from her past ...A newly divorced mother taking her teenage daughter to Crete for a holiday, longing to be young again, until she remembers how awful it is to be 17 ...From Maeve Binchy to Jane Fallon, Adriana Trigiani to Alexander McCall Smith, this is the must-have collection of the year.
ISBN: 978-1-4091-1737-7
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
They say a story loses something with each telling. If that is the case, this story has lost nothing, for it`s the first time it`s been told. This story is one for which some people will have to suspend their disbelief. If I wasn`t me and this wasn`t happening to me, I would be one of those people.
ISBN: 978-0-00-718281-7
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Дата выхода: август 2011
"The Book of Human Skin" is a large volume with many pages of villainy writ upon it. There are people who are a disease, you know. 13 May, 1784, Venice: Minguillo Fasan, heir to the decaying, gothic Palazzo Espagnol, is born. Yet Minguillo is no ordinary child: he is strange, devious and all those who come near him are fearful. Twelve years later Minguillo is faced with an unexpected threat to his inheritance: a newborn sister, Marcella. His untempered jealousy will condemn his sister to a series of fates as a cripple, a madwoman and a nun. But in his insatiable quest to destroy her, he may have underestimated his sister`s ferocious determination, and her unlikely allies who will go to extraordinary lengths to save
ISBN: 978-1-4088-0964-8
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: август 2011
"Book of Longing" is Leonard Cohen`s first book of new poetry since "Book of Mercy" was published two decades ago. It collects Cohen`s poetry written between the 1980s and the present, and also includes his wonderfully witty and sensuous illustrations, including numerous playful self-portraits. The illustrations interact with, and complement, the poetry in unexpected and fascinating ways. "Book of Longing" demonstrates the range and depth of Cohen`s work, revealing an extraordinary gift of language and visual art that speak with rare clarity, passion and timelessness.
ISBN: 978-0-14-102756-2
Издательство:
Книжный мир
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
While no collection of limericks can claim to be ‘complete`, The Wordsworth Book of Limericks contains an astonishing collection of over 1,800 verses - all of them comical, and a great number so far from cleanliness as to verge on the obscene. This is not a book for the prurient, but it will give enormous pleasure to all who relish the unique art-form of the limerick. Whether this book is kept by the bed or by the loo, perhaps buyers should ask themselves the question that Mervyn Griffith-Jones QC put to the Lady Chatterly jury in 1960: `Is this a book you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?`
ISBN: 978-1-85326-490-0
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
This book presents several examples of emerging residential architecture, linked by the manner in which they propose innovative and experimental solutions. Refinement in the finishing, restraint in the layout and painstaking integration of construction elements into the surroundings are just some of the criteria that have to be taken into account in their design. Although each of the houses featured in this selection follows its own stylistical path, they all surprise with their technical resources and the range of sensations they induce. In all of these houses, the architects have paid special attention to the dynamics found when different family members live together, and they have thus geared their efforts toward seeking a balance...
ISBN: 978-3-8365-1155-1
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: январь 2000
Lofts are apartments resulting from the conversion of former industrial or commercial buildings. They have their origins in the New York of the 1950s. At that time, artists and bohemians in search of cheap places to live and work began to move into abandoned late-nineteenth-century buildings that had once been warehouses, workshops or factories, thus creating a new American version of the Parisian artist`s atelier. Nowadays, the tendency to convert warehouses and factories into homes has extended everywhere. Once low-cost living spaces for artists, often occupied illegally by students, they have grown into elegant, luxurious residences reserved for a wealthy elite. This book describes 55 lofts from all over the world, occupying buildings...
ISBN: 978-3-8365-1151-3
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: январь 2000
This enchanting collection of art and poetry features Cicely Mary Barker`s most exquisite Flower Fairy paintings and poems from the following books: Flower Fairies of the Spring, Flower Fairies of the Summer, Flower Fairies of the Autumn and Flower Fairies of the Winter. This book also includes five rarely seen Flower Fairies which have been omitted from Flower Fairies of the Summer for many years; The Sorrel Fairy, The Convolvulus Fairy, The White Campion Fairy, The Thistle Fairy and The Wild Thyme Fairy. This magical book is housed in a beautiful slipcase and celebrates Cicely Mary Barker`s incredible talent and the enduring appeal of the beautiful fairies she created. It would make the perfect present for any fairy fan or collector,...
ISBN: 978-0-7232-6845-1
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2012
Recently voted the greatest fantasy of all time, after The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, Gene Wolfe`s The Book of the New Sun is an extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, on an Earth transformed in mysterious and wondrous ways, in a time when our present culture is no longer even a memory. Severian, the central character, is a torturer, exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his victims, and journeying to the distant city of Thrax, armed with his ancient executioner`s sword, Terminus Est. This edition contains the first two volumes of this four volume novel, The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator.
ISBN: 978-1-85798-977-9
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
The second of a two-book set that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkiens epic tale of war, "The Silmarillion". This second part of "The Book of Lost Tales" includes the tale of Beren and Luthien, Turin and the Dragon, and the only full narratives of the Necklace of the Dwarves and the Fall of Gondolin, itself the finest and most exciting depiction of a battle that Tolkien ever wrote. Each tale is followed by a commentary in the form of a short essay, together with texts of associated poems, and contains extensive information on names and vocabulary in the earliest Elvish languages. This series of fascinating books has now been repackaged to complement the distinctive and classic style ofe black cover...
ISBN: 978-0-261-10214-9
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Bridging the gap between novelty board books and picture flats, this adorable new series encourages little readers to engage with a central character and then follow a simple plot. With questions to answer (What can you see at the farm? What noises do the farm animals make?) and interactive elements throughout, the child is drawn in from the outset. A rich reading experience, designed to stimulate speech and build book-confidence.
ISBN: 9781788003599
Издательство:
Nosy Crow
Дата выхода: январь 2020
Cain killed Abel: the original murder. But the Bible is silent about one key detail: the weapon Cain used to kill his brother. It`s a mystery that`s never been solved. Until now. In Florida, Cal Harper comes face-to-face with his family`s greatest secret: his long-lost father, who`s been shot with a gun that traces back to an unsolved murder in 1932. What could that murder have to do with the biblical one? Father and son are suddenly thrown into a bloodthirsty quest for an ancient weapon, and the answer to a secret that people are dying to find. But closing in on them is a man tattooed with the mark of Cain - the world`s first killer. In his pocket he carries the means of causing a horrifying death. And in his heart an insatiable desire...
Providing snippets of history, entertaining anecdotes and information on London`s most famous attractions, including the Millennium Dome, and the London Eye, this book with Internet links aims to add interest to visits to the capital.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-4151-2
Издательство:
Usborne Publishing
Дата выхода: июль 2011
- Over 40 of the best-known and loved nursery rhymes - Also available with CD or tape sung by young children with piano accompaniment - Bright and cheerful illustrations on every page - Includes ideas for action games to accompany the nursery rhymes
ISBN: 978-0-7460-6430-6
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: июль 2011
- Over 40 of the best-known and loved nursery rhymes - Also available with CD or tape sung by young children with piano accompaniment - Bright and cheerful illustrations on every page - Includes ideas for action games to accompany the nursery rhymes
ISBN: 978-0-7460-5740-7
Издательство:
Usborne Publishing
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A shocking truth lies within the pages of an ancient library, locked inside a high-security complex deep beneath the Nevada desert. And the US government will stop at nothing to keep it classified. But now a shadowy group of ex-employees want the world to know - however terrifying the disclosure might prove to be. And when a single volume missing from the original collection mysteriously surfaces at a London auction house, they persuade former FBI agent Will Piper to help them obtain it and unlock the ultimate secret of the library, once and for all. Travelling to England, Will discovers the text contains a sonnet that holds a series of clues - clues that reveal the book has had a profound effect on the history of mankind. But all the...
ISBN: 978-0-09-954777-8
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
FBI agent Pendergast and his demonic brother, Diogenes, continue the savage tango begun in "Dance of Death". Diogenes returns the stolen gem collection of the New York Museum of Natural History, but this hoard of priceless jewels has
ISBN: 978-0-446-61850-2
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
College professor David Zimmer succumbs to an extended, near-suicidal depression when his wife and sons die in a plane crash. While mindlessly channel-surfing one drunken evening, he stumbles across a clip from a silent comedy starring Hector Mann, a mysterious figure who disappeared in 1929. Intrigued - then ultimately obsessed - by Mann, Zimmer devotes himself to a rigorous examination of Mann`s 12 films and eventually publishes a critical study on them. When the book comes out, a stranger contacts Zimmer, informing him that Mann is very much alive and inviting him to the filmmaker`s private hideaway in New Mexico. What follows is a complex, constantly surprising story - a narrative of Zimmer`s cross-country journey and a series of...
ISBN: 978-0-312-99096-1
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
