From her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time at Harvard, where she studied the Victorian ancestors of the form, and later as a writer and reviewer, Margaret Atwood has always been fascinated with science fiction. Here she brings together three Ellmann lectures: `Flying Rabbits` begins with her early rabbit superhero creations, and goes on to speculate about masks, capes, weakling alter egos and Things with Wings; `Burning Bushes` travels into Victorian otherlands and beyond; and `Dire Cartographies` investigates Utopias and Dystopias, including Atwood`s own ventures into those constructions. In further essays Atwood explores and critiques the form, and elucidates the differences - as she sees them - between `science...
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: январь 2013
Passionate, affectionate and indefatigably curious, In Search of England joins a tradition of writing, from William Cobbett to JB Priestley, that makes a journey around the English countryside and character. England is the most various of countries; within its borders, life changes mile on mile. Roy Hattersley celebrates crumbling churches and serene Victorian architecture, magnificent hills and wind-whipped coast, our music, theatre and local customs, and, above all, the quirky good humour and resilience of England`s denizens. In Search of England is an unapologetic love story, a paean of praise for all the fascinating variety and flavour of England`s places and people.
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Russia, 1910. Young Valentina Ivanova charms St Petersburg`s aristocracy with her classic Russian beauty and her talent as a pianist. She scandalises society when she begins a romance with Jens Friis, a Danish engineer. He brings to her life
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A KISS GONE BAD Judge Whit Mosley is called out in the middle of the night to certify a body - but when he discovers that the dead man on the yacht is none other than the son of the powerful Senator Lucinda Hubble, Whit knows all hell is going to break loose. BLACK JACK POINT They found Whit Mosley`s missing friends at Black Jack Point - dead and buried, along with bones and relics from a legendary past. When Whit opens an inquest into the murders, he`s plunged into a shadowy world of ruthless treasure hunters and double-crossing tycoons - all chasing a long-lost fortune in emeralds and gold.
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Two very different Linked by destiny and a power struggle for the English crown. Empress Matilda, daughter of Henry I, is determined to win back her crown from Stephen, the usurper king, against all odds and despite all men. Adeliza, Henry`s widowed queen and Matilda`s stepmother, has always been on Matilda`s side but now she is married to William D`Albini, a warrior of the opposition. In a world where a man`s word is law, how can Adeliza obey her husband while supporting Matilda, the rightful queen? What does it cost to be `Lady of the English?`
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: январь 2013
Seventeen-year-old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller`s life was turned upside down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York to Wilmington, North Carolina. Since then she has remained angry and alienated from her parents, until her mother decides she should spend the summer with her father. Ronnie`s father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church. What unfolds is an unforgettable story about love - first love and the love between parents and children - that demonstrates the many ways that relationship can break our and heal them.
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again you must learn to trust again. When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet unassuming, Katie is determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships. Despite her reservations, Katie slowly begins to let down her guard, putting down roots in the close-knit community. But even as Katie starts to fall in love, she struggles with the dark secret that still haunts her...
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: январь 2019
In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, its owners? Mother, son and daughter? Struggling to keep pace. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life? Little does Dr Faraday know how closely, and how terrifyingly, their story is about to become entwined with his.
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, the clock in its stable yard permanently fixed at twenty to nine. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life? Little does Dr Faraday know how closely, and how terrifyingly, their story is about to become entwined with his. Prepare yourself. From this wonderful writer who continues to astonish us, now comes a chilling ghost story.
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: август 2011
`Truly There is almost no situation that Harford cannot dissect with his sharp economist`s economics has never been this cool` NEW STATESMAN If humans are so clever, why do we smoke and gamble, or take drugs, or fall in love? Is this really rational behaviour? And how come your idiot boss is so overpaid? In fact, the behaviour of even the unlikeliest of individuals - prostitutes, drug addicts, racists and revolutionaries - complies with economic logic, taking into account future costs and benefits, even if we don`t quite realise it. We are rational beings after all.
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: июль 2012
