Just how badly do you want to find paradise? When Tom Finn is almost jailed for confronting two burglars in his own home, this taxi driver takes his young family to live on the tropical island of Phuket, Thailand. Phuket is all the Finn family dreamed of - a tropical paradise where the children swim with elephants, the gibbons sing love songs in the jungle, the Andaman Sea is like turquoise glass and this young family is free to grow. But both man-made disaster and the unleashed forces of nature shatter this tropical idyll for Tom Finn`s family. CATCHING THE SUN is a gripping, moving story of a family who go in search of Paradise - and end up discovering themselves.
Jane Austen began writing in her early teens, filling three notebooks with her fiction. The characters of these stories have a jaunty, never-failing self-devotion. They perpetually lie, cheat, steal - and occasionally murder. In these short or unfinished pieces, Austen exhibits her sense of the preposterous in life and fiction with tough-mindedness and robust humour, and without inhibition. In addition to prose fiction and prayers, this collection contains many of Austen`s poems, written to amuse or console friends, and rarely reprinted. Texts are based on manuscripts, including the three notebooks, affording a distinct edition with a number of new readings. This edition includes: introduction; textual note; bibliography chronology;...
ISBN: 978-0-19-953842-3
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: август 2011
St. Patrick`s Day, New York City. Everyone is celebrating, but everyone is in for the shock of his life. Born into the heat and hatred of the Northern Ireland conflict, IRA man Brian Flynn has masterminded a brilliant terrorist act - the seizure of Saint Patrick`s Cathedral. Among his hostages: the woman Brian Flynn once loved, a former terrorist turned peace activist. Among his enemies: an Irish-American police lieutenant fighting against a traitor inside his own ranks and a shadowy British intelligence officer pursuing his own cynical, bloody plan. The cops face a booby-trapped, perfectly laid out killing zone inside the church. The hostages face death. Flynn faces his own demons, in an electrifying duel of nerves, honor, and
ISBN: 978-0-446-35857-6
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: март 2012
A masterful epic of love, war, treason, plague, famine, witchcraft, anti-Semitism and the Inquisition 14th-century Spain, the medieval city of Barcelona is enjoying a golden age of prosperity. Its humblest inhabitants are building, stone by stone, a magnificent church to overlook their harbour. This is the Cathedral of the Sea: a church to be built for the people by the people. In its shadow, Arnau, a young serf on the run from his feudal lord, struggles to earn his freedom. After famine, plague and thwarted love, Arnau`s fortunes begin to turn when King Pedro makes him a baron as a reward for his courage in battle. But he is also forced to marry Eleonor, a ward of the King whom he does not love. His newfound status excites jealousy from...
ISBN: 978-0-552-77556-4
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Admired for her achievements and satirized for her personal life, Catherine the Great was one of the most celebrated monarchs in history, turning eighteenth-century Russia into arguably the largest and most powerful state since the fall of the Roman Empire. She promoted radical political ideas while emphasizing moderation in government. She could be ruthless when necessary, but she charmed everyone she met, joking at private dinner parties in the Hermitage, which she had built for her own use. Determined to endear herself to the Russians, she made religious devotions in which she never believed. Intimate and revealing, Catherine the Great examines the lifelong friendships that sustained the empress throughout her personal life and places...
ISBN: 978-0-06-078628-1
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Many legends have grown up about the sexual rapacity of Catherine the Great. While it is true that she shocked the Russian court with the number and age of her lovers, there is no truth in the rumour of her death by stallion. Unhappily married to the Grand Duke Peter, a man who preferred to play with his toy soldiers in the bedroom, they failed to produce an heir, and Catherine turned her attentions to a certain Sergey Saltykov who fathered the future Tsar Paul I. Six months into the reign of Peter III, Catherine, supported by the Imperial Guard, staged a successful coup against her husband and became Empress. It was her ambition to transform a vast but semi-barbaric country with the cultural and political reforms of Enlightenment...
ISBN: 978-0-09-946234-7
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Empress, empire-builder, intellectual, art-collector, and lover - this magnificent new biography does full justice to a truly remarkable ruler. When Catherine II died in St Petersburg in 1796, the world sensed the loss of the most celebrated monarch of Europe - something no one would have predicted at the birth 67 years before of an obscure German princess, Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst, later married off to the pathetic heir to the Russian throne. There were few greater transformations of fortunes in history. Sophie/Catherine had come to rule in her own right over the largest state in existence since the fall of the Roman Empire. She was branded both a usurper and an assassin when she seized power from her wretched husband in 1762. Yet she...
ISBN: 978-1-86197-777-9
Издательство:
Profile Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
It was history`s most successful political partnership - as sensual and fiery as it was creative and visionary. Catherine the Great was a woman of n...
La solitude a deux, tel etait le reve d`Emile et de Juliette. Une maison au fond des bois pour у finir leurs jours, I`un pres de I`autre. Etrangement, cette parfaite thebaTde comportait un voisin. Un nomme Palamede Bernardin, qui d`abord est venu se presenter, puis a pris l`habitude de s`incruster chez eux chaque apres-midi, de quatre a six heures. Sans dire un mot, ou presque. Et cette presence absurde va peu a peu devenir plus derangeante pour le couple que toutes les foules du C`est une comedie tres noire, d`une lucidite tour a tour drole et devastatrice, que nous offre ici la romanciere d`Hygiene de l`assassin, revelation litteraire de 1992.
ISBN: 978-2-253-14170-9
Издательство:
Livre de Poche
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. He was a celebrity during his lifetime for works like "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Treasure Island." Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. "Catriona" starts right where the previous novel "Kidnapped" ends, continuing the story of David . Now he tries to clear the names of his friends of involvement in the murder of Colin Campbell of Glenure. The political climate after the "Appin murder" makes David`s situation almost hopeless. He tries to find a path that will save Alan, James of the Glens and out of the hangman`s noose.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07780-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Cat’s Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet’s ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat’s Cradle is one of the twentieth century’s most important works—and Vonnegut at his very best.
ISBN: 978-0-14-118934-5
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut`s cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon, and, worse still, surviving it ... Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding `fathers` of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of `ice-nine`, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker`s three eccentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness. Felix Hoenikker`s "Death Wish" comes true when his last, fatal gift to mankind brings about the end, that for all of us, is nigh ...
ISBN: 978-0-14-028560-4
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a huge liner bound for England - a `castle that was to cross the sea`. At mealtimes, he is placed at the lowly `Cat`s Table` with an eccentric group of grown-ups and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys become involved in the worlds and stories of the adults around them, tumbling from one adventure and delicious discovery to another, `bursting all over the place like freed mercury`. And at night, the boys spy on a shackled prisoner - his crime and fate a galvanizing mystery that will haunt them forever. As the narrative moves from the decks and holds of the ship and the boy`s adult...
Experiment Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut`s cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it, Solution Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of ice-nine, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker`s three eccentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness. Felix Hoenikker`s death-wish comes true when his last, fatal, gift to mankind brings about an end that, for all of us, is nigh.
ISBN: 978-0-575-08195-6
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: январь 2013
Seventeen-year-old Haley McWaid is a good girl, the pride of her suburban New Jersey family, headed off to college next year with all the hopes and dreams her doting parents can pin on her. Which is why, when her mother wakes one morning to find that Haley never came home the night before and three months quickly pass without word from the girl, the community assumes the worst. Wendy Tynes is a reporter on a mission: to bring down sexual predators via elaborate - and nationally televised-sting operations. Wendy and her team have shamed dozens of men by the time she encounters her latest target. Dan Mercer is a social worker known as a friend to troubled teens, but his story soon becomes more complicated than Wendy could have imagined.
ISBN: 978-1-4091-0377-6
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Having left behind a glitzy life in London, Rosie Richardson spends four years running a refugee camp in Africa. When aid agencies cautiously respond to a famine, she returns to London and breaks back into the celebrity circuit, in order to bring the stars out to Africa for a television appeal.
ISBN: 0-330-39621-8
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
