From its bravura opening onwards, "The Crow Road" is justly regarded as an outstanding contemporary novel. It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmy to Bachs Mass in B. Minor, and I reflected that it always seemed to be death that drew me back to Gallanach. Prentice McHoan has returned to the bosom of his complex but enduring Scottish family. Full of questions about the McHoan past, present and future, he is also deeply preoccupied: mainly with death, sex, drink, God and illegal substances.
ISBN: 978-0-349-10323-5
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
A compulsively readable thriller that skillfully weaves together past and present to uncover the sinister secrets buried in the ancient stone quarries under Bath. Kit Parry is reluctant to take the job shoring up the ancient quarries beneath her hometown of Bath - a place as riddled with memories she`d rather forget as it is with Roman ruins. The miners certainly don`t want her there, and her burgeoning romance with lanky foreman Gary looks likely to complicate matters even further. But when dark developments threaten the spa town`s placid facade, Kit must face up to the past she`s tried so desperately to bury. Someone wants her out of Bath - that much is clear - but who was it that brought her childhood to an abrupt end in the summer of...
ISBN: 978-0-00-724713-4
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
London, 1196. At the command of Richard the Lionheart, Sir John de Wolfe has left his beloved West Country for the Palace of Westminster, where he has been appointed Coroner of the Verge. But with the king overseas, embroiled in a costly war against King Philip of France, Sir John is dismayed to discover that the English court is a hotbed of greed, corruption and petty in-fighting. The murder of one of the palace clerks, stabbed in broad daylight and thrown into the River Thames, leads John to suspect that there`s a conspiracy underway to overthrow King Richard. And with the visit of the dowager Queen Eleanor fast approaching, the new Coroner must risk his life to prove his suspicions are right, root out the traitors within and prevent a...
ISBN: 978-1-84739-328-9
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
This lively account of Soviet foreign intelligence activity in Great Britain during the Cold War is based on documents newly released from the KGB archives, their crown jewels, as the KGB unofficially called its most valuable assets. Written by Nigel West, called by the Sunday Times the unofficial historian of the secret services and Oleg Tsarev, a former KGB lieutenant colonel, The Crown Jewels provides much new information on the activities of all the well-known British pro-Soviet spies, including Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, and Anthony Blunt, as well as many lesser-known spymasters and recruiters, reproducing many of their reports for the first time. The book adds unsuspected dimensions to the famous Cambridge ring...
ISBN: 978-0-300-07806-0
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
From one of our finest historians comes an outstanding exploration of the British monarchy from the retreat of the Romans up until the modern day. This compendium volume of two earlier books is fully revised and updated. The monarchy is one of Britain`s most revered institutions - but also one of its most tumultuous. In Crown and Country, David Starkey charts its rollercoaster history from earliest times to the present; from the courtly love of the Middle Ages, through the turbulent reign of the Tudors, to the chaos of the Civil War. Starkey brings this tempestuous story up to date in this complete history, guiding us through the Abdication Crisis to the dissolution of the marriage of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. He draws upon...
ISBN: 978-0-00-730772-2
Издательство:
Collins
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
The monarchy is one of Britain`s most venerable and revered institutions - but also one of its most tumultuous. In this substantially revised, updated and expanded volume, David Starkey charts its roller-coaster history from earliest times to the present. From the courtly love of the Middle Ages, through the turbulent reign of the Tudors, to the chaos of the Civil War that first unseated and then beheaded a king. Starkey brings this tempestuous story up to the present, guiding us confidently through the Abdication Crisis to the dissolution of the marriage between Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. A new introductory chapter looks at the wedding of Kate Middleton and Prince William, as well as many notorious royal marriages of earlier...
ISBN: 978-0-00-743200-4
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The civil war that is tearing England asunder in the year 1643 has not yet touched Dorcas Slythe, a secretly rebellious young Puritan woman living in the countryside south of London, who longs to escape the safe, pious tyranny of her father. The chance appears with the arrival of Toby Lazender, dashing scion of a powerful royalist family. It is he who renames her "Campion", awakening her to a bold, hitherto unknown and to a mysterious and perilous destiny. With the discovery of an intricately wrought gold seal—one of four that, when joined, will reveal a great secret and uncover an enormous fortune—Campion`s quest begins. Love, riches, and redemption await her at the end of her perilous adventure. Or death.
Set in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692, a community stands accused of witchcraft, and in the mood of fear and recriminations that develops, men denounce their neighbours and truth is perverted by superstition.
ISBN: 978-0-14-118255-1
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
Killing me won`t kill the beast are the last words of rapist-murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell, written four days before his execution. But they can`t explain how Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds Waddell`s fingerprints on another crime scene - after she`d performed his autopsy. If this is some sort of game, Scarpetta seems to be the target. And if the next victim is someone she knows, the punishment will be cruel and
ISBN: 978-1-4165-0540-2
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
April 1193. England`s King Richard Lionheart languishes in a German prison, and treason scents the air. Richard`s younger brother, John, seizes Windsor Castle, and Dowager Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine summons her trusted personal "queen`s man", Justin de Quincy, to do the impossible - mediate a truce with her rebel son. Amid such fateful events, the murder of a Welsh peddler`s daughter seems small. But the cruel demise of the beautiful Melangell so troubles Justin that not even a threatened French invasion can keep him from investigating her death. Yet can he bring Melangell`s craven killer to justice?
ISBN: 978-0-345-44144-7
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
This is the second medieval mystery from Sharon Penman, following Justin de Quincy, knight in the service of Queen Eleanor. His duty is clear: to restrain his brother Prince John in his relentless quest for the throne, and his dangerous pacts with the French king. What does the murder of an innocent pedlar`s daughter in a churchyard in Cripplegate have to do with him? But little by little, Justin is ensnared in the case until he comes to feel the force of the dead girl, and thirsts to find her killer. But can he defend the Queen and solve the murder?
ISBN: 978-0-14-027076-1
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
- Lively account of the Crusaders, with exciting descriptions of the main people, places and battles, including the peasant’s crusade and the siege of Jerusalem. - Includes maps and timelines. - Vividly illustrated by Emmanuel Cerisier. - Young Reading Series Three are for confident readers who still need to gain the stamina needed for standard length books. - Part of the Usborne Reading Programme developed with reading experts at the University of Roehampton and a history consultant.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-7904-1
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The first crusade was set in motion by Pope Urban II in 1095 and culminated in the capture of Jerusalem from the Muslims four years later. In 1291 the fall of Acre marked the loss of the last Christian enclave in the Holy Land. This Pocket Essential traces the chronology of the Crusades between these two dates and highlights the most important figures on all sides of the conflict. It covers the creation of the kingdom of Jerusalem and the other crusader states and their struggle to survive. It looks at the successes and failures of the Third Crusade and at the legendary figures of Richard the Lionheart and Saladin, explores the truth and the myths behind the orders of military monks like the Hospitallers and examines such strange...
They were the castrati-male sopranos whose glorious voices brought them adulation throughout Europe even as they were despised as monsters. For Tonio Treschi, the child of Venetian nobility, kidnapped and castrated in a murderous family conspiracy, only one thing would soothe his soul-revenge!
ISBN: 0-345-39693-6
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
