Random House

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2010

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2011

In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he`d completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and on his writing. Equal parts travelogue, training log, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers his four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon and settings ranging from Tokyo`s Jingu Gaien gardens, where he once shared the course with an Olympian, to the Charles River in Boston. Funny and sobering, playful and philosophical. "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running" is a must-read for fans of this masterful yet private writer as well as for the...

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: февраль 2011

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2009

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2009

A collection of the finest and funniest words from the finest funniest writer the past century ever knew. Published for the millennium and to mark the 25th anniversary of his death, this is the first major selection of the whole of Wodehouse`s work to have been published for a generation, and it includes a generous selection of previously unpublished work. We all know Jeeves and Wooster, but what is the best Jeeves story? What is your favourite story to feature Lord Emsworth and his unique pig, the Empress Blandings? And how many readers of Wodehouse know the best of Ukridge, the Oldest Member, the Hollwood stories? This bumper anthology of stories, novel-extracts, working drafts, articles, letters and poems gives a fresh angle on the...

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2016

Michael Caine is the best-loved film actor Britain has ever produced. Here, for the first time, he reveals the truth about his childhood, his family and his hard-fought journey from London to Hollywood, bringing to life the lean years and the triumphs with astonishing candour. And with typical charm and humour he talks about the movies, about his relationships - on and off the screen - with other actors and directors, and about the memorable screen presence which is his hallmark.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2016

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2016

The story of Max`s adventures when he sails away to the land where the wild things are has become an acknowledged classic of children`s books. This book is the winner of the Caldecott Medal for the Most Distinguished Picture Book of the Year, 1964.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011

The mysterious Stig, "Top Gear`s" resident tame racing driver, is back. And this time he`s in miniature, so you`ll have to work extra hard to find him. He`s been cleverly concealed in a series of brilliantly drawn scenes. You might spot him getting down with the kids at a rock festival; or overseeing his workforce in his secret underground lair. He could be one of the spectators lining the route of Bonneville Salt Flats Speed Week; or soaking up the sun on the Costa del Stig. Filled with visual jokes and references to the TV series, and with extra credits for spotting his colleagues at "Top Gear" and a few other hidden gems, "Where`s Stig?: The Glovebox Edition" will give "Top Gear" fans hours of fun.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2012

"The White Guard" is the first major work of Mikhail Bulgakov, author of "The Master and Margarita", and is the only one of his novels to be even part-published during his lifetime. Drawing closely on Bulgakov`s experiences of the horrors of civil war, the book opens in 1918, in the German-occupied city of Kiev. Petlyura`s Socialists are camped outside awaiting their moment while the Bolsheviks watch, contemplating their buried armaments. This is a time of revolution and turmoil, a time of waiting and uncertainly. Here we meet the Turbin family, and watch as each member of this extraordinarily resilient and proud group of people makes his or her choice and is forced, one way or another, to come to terms with the new regime.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

Marvin Kreitman lives for sex, or at least he lives for women. Charlie Merriweather, on the other hand, loves just the one woman, also called Charlie. Once a week, the two friends meet for a Chinese lunch, contriving never quite to have the conversation they would like to have - about fidelity and womanising, and which makes happier.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011

When middle-aged Martha and her husband George are joined by the younger Nick and Honey for late-night drinks after a party, the stage is set for a night of drunken recriminations and revelations. Battle-lines are drawn as Martha and George drag their guests into their own private hell of a marriage.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2007

Britain`s number one bestselling author turns her brilliant pen to the explosive world of education. Two schools, both in leafy Larkminster, but worlds apart, are turned upside down when the ambitious and fatally attractive headmaster of fashionable Bagley Hall, Hengist Brett-Taylor, hatches a plan to share the highly superior facilities of his school with the students at Larkminster Comprehensive. His reasons for doing so are purely financial but he is also encouraged by the opportunities the scheme gives him for frequent meetings with Janna Curtis, the young, pretty and enthusiastic new principal of the comprehensive school. The determined Janna has been drafted in to save what is a fast-sinking school from closure, and she will do...

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: март 2013

`Between grief and nothing I will take grief`. In New Orleans in 1937, a man and woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion, fleeing her husband and the temptations of respectability. In Mississippi ten years earlier, a convict sets forth across a flooded river, risking his one chance at freedom to rescue a pregnant woman. From these separate stories Faulkner composes a symphony of deliverance and damnation, survival and self-sacrifice, a novel in which elemental danger is juxtaposed with fatal injuries of the spirit.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2012

Althea is the mother of three strong-minded children - one of whom is a Buddhist - and owner of a finicky dog named Bozo - Saddled with too large a house - albeit in a beautiful Cotswold village - worrisome mortgage payments, a bossy younger sister and irksome ex-husband, Althea still manages to muddle through life comfortably enough. Until she loses her job. Seeking solace in her borrowed greenhouse, Althea decides to develop her passion for gardening. And when she wins the opportunity to design a garden at the Chelsea Flower show with the unexpected help of gorgeous architect Patrick Donahugh it looks as though Althea may have unearthed a new man as well as a new career.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2013

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2009

Henry Wilt has for ten years been trying to teach English literature to his students at the Fenland College of Arts and Technology. He has become bored, frustrated and possibly murdereous, so Chief Inspector Flint suspects the worst when Henry`s wife Eva goes missing. From the author of GRANTCHESTER GRIND.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004

Henry Wilt, Tom Sharpe`s beleaguered hero, returns again for another hilarious dose of quickfire farce. Stuck in a job he doesn`t want - but can`t afford to lose - as nominal Head of the Communications Department at Fenland University, Wilt is still subject to the whims of The Powers That Be, both in and outside of work. The demands of his snobbish wife Eva, and the stupendous school fees of his despicable quadruplet daughters, cause him the biggest apart from the hangovers, that is. When Eva signs him up for a summer job, teaching the gun-toting idiot son of a lusty local aristocrat, Wilt is not amused. But, as circumstances unravel and the summer goes on, Wilt sees that the situation could be put to his financial advantage, as well as...

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011