A compulsive, edge-of-your-seat read from a bestselling author, combining glamour, thrills and dangerous passion Lisa Costello is leading a charmed life - until she wakes up the morning after her glamorous Thailand wedding to find her new husband Josh dead in their bed, the murder weapon in her hand. She remembers learning at the wedding that Josh had been unfaithful, but she certainly doesn`t remember killing him. As Lisa flees the scene for Europe, ex-FBI trainee Sam Murray is on her trail. Catching up with her, he`s quickly convinced she`s been set up, and they start to work out which of movie producer Josh`s many enemies could be behind the hit. It`s a race against time to unearth the truth and keep Lisa out of jail - or gunned down...
ISBN: 978-0-7553-3615-9
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
You`ve just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you`re destined for - what do you do? In Murakami`s world, you tell them a story. The five weird and wonderful tales collected here each unlock the many-tongued language of Desire, whether it takes the form of hunger, lust, sudden infatuation or the secret longings of the heart.
ISBN: 9781784872632
Издательство:
Vintage Classics
Дата выхода: январь 2021
Design in the 21st Century has liberated itself from industrial conditions and the associated physical demands. With new technology, expanded choice of materials and the practice of luxurious craftsmanship, designers are embracing design with scintillating attitude, challenging aesthetic boundaries and speculating new expressions in visual codes. "Desire" documents current developments in furniture and object design today, showcasing recent work by the most exciting and influential designers from around the globe categorised into four distinct trends and groups: Modernists, Taletellers, Inventors and Entertainers. Featured designers include: Designers, Ron Arad, Autoban, Maarten Baas, BarberOsgerby, Joost van Bleiswijk, BLESS, Jörg...
ISBN: 978-3-89955-218-8
Издательство:
Die Gestalten Verlag
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Liz and Jonathan Chambers were in trouble. Mortgage trouble. They`d stretched themselves to busting with their new exciting project - well, Liz thought it exciting - buying and managing the Silchester Tutorial College, and now couldn`t sell their old house. Here they were, stuck with two mortgages, mounting debts and a miserable adolescent daughter who hadn`t wanted to move anyway. Then Marcus Witherstone came into their lives - and at first it seemed he would solve all their problems. Marcus, senior partner in Silchester`s leading estate agency, was large, assured, and wore an expensive overcoat. He knew the perfect tenants from London who would rent their old house - glamorous PR girl Ginny and almost-famous Piers. Everything was going...
ISBN: 978-0-552-77224-2
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
From the author of the internationally bestselling Sophie Kinsella novels, Madeleine Wickham`s newest novel features a house whose asking price includes a stunning renovation of dreams and Liz and Jonathan Chambers were stuck with two mortgages, mounting debts and a miserable adolescent daughter. Then Marcus Witherstone came into their lives - and it seemed he would solve all their problems. He knew the perfect tenants from London who would rent their old house: a glamorous PR girl, Ginny, and her almost-famous husband, Piers. But soon Liz is lost in blissful dreams of Marcus, Jonathan is left to run their tutorial college, and neither of them has time to notice that their teenage daughter is developing a passion for the tenants, Piers...
Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965--thirty years after its original publication--Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime--his own murder.
ISBN: 978-0-679-72343-1
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
This title contains geography with the gritty bits left in. Where in the world can you: Spot sand dunes that bury whole villages? Discover some deadly desert wildlife? Follow in the footsteps of daring desert explorers?
ISBN: 978-0-439-94455-7
Издательство:
Scholastic Inc
Дата выхода: август 2010
The young Thomas Hardy, working as an architect, but fired with literary ambition, tried for years to get into print. He finally succeeded with Desperate Remedies, a `sensation novel` in the mode of Wilkie Collins. Here was a racy specimen of the genre, replete with sudden death, dark mysteries, intriguing clues, fire and storm, flight and pursuit. Anyone who enjoys The Woman in White is likely to enjoy Desperate Remedies. But that is only half the story. Hardy contrived also, in this unlikely context, to give a first airing to various of the ideas and technical experiments which were to characterise his later fiction. The result is an exhilaratingly uneven work: at any point in the narrative some brilliant passage of description or...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-634-8
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
