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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World
Shortlisted For The Booker Prize 2019

'Expect vibrant, vivid and eye-opening descriptions of Middle Eastern life propelled by a tender storyline, all in Shafak's haunting, beautiful and considered prose' Vanity Fair

'Incredibly sensuous and poetic and evocative' Pandora Sykes, The High Low

'Richly uplifting... truly beautiful writing' Nicola Sturgeon

'In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore...'

For Leila, each minute after her death recalls a sensuous memory: spiced goat stew, sacrificed by her father to celebrate the birth of a yearned-for son; bubbling vats of lemon and sugar to wax women's legs while men are at prayer; the cardamom coffee she shares with a handsome student in the brothel where she works. Each fading memory brings back the friends she made in her bittersweet life - friends who are now desperately trying to find her . . .

'Simply magnificent, a truly captivating work of immense power and beauty, on the essence of life and its end' Philippe Sands

'A vivid carnival of life and death, cruelty and kindness, love, politics and deep humanity. Brilliant!' Helena Kennedy

'Elif Shafak brings into the written realm what so many others want to leave outside. Spend more than ten minutes and 38 seconds in this world of the estranged. Shafak makes a new home for us in words' Colum McCann

'Elif Shafak's extraordinary 10 Minutes, 38 Seconds in this Strange World is a work of brutal beauty and consummate tenderness' Simon Schama

'A rich, sensual novel... This is a novel that gives voice to the invisible, the untouchable, the abused and the damaged, weaving their painful songs into a thing of beauty.' Financial Times

'One of the best writers in the world today' Hanif Kureishi

'Haunting, moving, beautifully written - and based by an extraordinary cast of characters who capture the diversity of modern Turkey. A masterpiece' Peter Frankopan

'Extraordinary' Guardian

'Life-affirming' Stylist
Год: 2020
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 784613
ISBN: 9780241979464
Автор: Shafak Elif

101 Things You Wish You'd Invented
Fancy having your leg chopped off without anaesthetic, a party with no music, or cleaning your teeth with a stick? Probably not. Perhaps it's time you marveled at the brilliance of invention.

How ever did we end up with:

Morse code? Toilet paper?

X-rays?

Make something, invent something or just marvel at the sheer luck, twist of evil or pure genius which lies behind the most innocent-looking objects. Weekends will never be the same ...

WARNING: This book may

induce a spontaneous brainwave.

Do not read near naked flame
Год: 2014
Производитель: Bloomsbury
Артикул: 465256
ISBN: 9780747591986
Автор: Turner Tracey, Horne Richard

10:04
In the past year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unexpected literary success, been diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart condition, and been asked by his best friend to help her conceive a child. Now, in a New York of increasingly frequent superstorms and political unrest, he must reckon with his biological mortality, the possibility of a literary afterlife, and the prospect of (unconventional) fatherhood in a city that might soon be under water.



In prose that Jonathan Franzen has called 'hilarious cracklingly intelligent and original in every sentence', Lerner's new novel charts an exhilarating course through the contemporary landscape of sex, friendship, memory, art and politics, and captures what it is like to be alive right now.
Год: 2015
Производитель: Granta Publication
Артикул: 954181
ISBN: 9781847088932
Автор: Lerner Ben

11.22.63
Jake Epping is an English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching in an adult education programme. One day, he receives an essay from one of his students - a harrowing first person story about the night, fifty years earlier, when Harry Dunning's father came home and killed Harry's mother, his sister, and his brother with a sledgehammer.

Later, Jake's friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges an extraordinary secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane - and insanely possible - mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination.

Inspired by his desire to put things right for Harry Dunning, Jake leaves a world of iPods and mobile phones for a new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars, root beers and Lindy Hopping. It is a haunting world of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake's life - a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.

With extraordinary imaginative power, King explores the culture of the era and weaves it into a devastating exercise in escalating suspense. 11.22.63 is a love story, a tribute to a simpler time and place and a heartstopping What If? tour de force the like of which no-one has ever read.
Год: 2011
Производитель: Hodder & Stoughton
Артикул: 328602
ISBN: 9781444727296
Автор: King Stephen

11.22.63
Now a major TV series from JJ Abrams and Stephen King, starring James Franco (Hulu US, Fox UK and Europe, Stan Australia, SKY New Zealand).

WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of history? WHAT IF the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination? 11.22.63, the date that Kennedy was shot - unless . . .

King takes his protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, 2011, on a fascinating journey back to 1958 - from a world of mobile phones and iPods to a new world of Elvis and JFK, of Plymouth Fury cars and Lindy Hopping, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake's life - a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.

With extraordinary imaginative power, King weaves the social, political and popular culture of his baby-boom American generation into a devastating exercise in escalating suspense.
Год: 2018
Производитель: Hodder & Stoughton
Артикул: 692535
ISBN: 978-1-4447-2733-3
Автор: King Stephen

113 Minutes
I know who killed my son.

Molly Rourke's son has been murdered and she knows who's responsible. Now she's taking the law into her own hands.

Never underestimate a mother's love.

Серия: BookShots
Год: 2016
Производитель: Random House
Артикул: 578541
ISBN: 978-1-78653-041-7
Автор: Patterson James, DiLallo Max

13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
Lizzie doesn't like the way she looks. Though she dates guys online, she's afraid to send pictures: no-one wants a fat girl.



So Lizzie starts to lose weight. With punishing drive she counts almonds consumed and pounds dropped, navigating double-edged validation from her mother, her friends, her husband and her own reflection in the mirror. But no matter how much she loses, will she ever see herself as anything other than a fat girl?



In this darkly funny, deeply resonant novel, Mona Awad delivers a tender and moving depiction of a young woman whose life is hijacked by her struggle to conform.
Год: 2023
Производитель: Head of Zeus
Артикул: 963811
ISBN: 9781804548240
Автор: Awad Mona

1812 Napoleon's Fatal March Moscow
'No review can do justice to the human sensitivity of this book, or to the horror it describes

1812 is one of the greatest stones ever told 'Christopher Woodward, Spectator Napoleon's invasion of Russia and the terrible retreat from Moscow were a military epic and a human tragedy on a colossal scale - history's first example of total war. 1812 is a masterful account of this turning point in European history, both a poignant tale of the individual foot soldier

and a sweeping history of a turbulent time. Adam Zamoyski lias drawn on a vast pool of first-hand accounts in French, Russian, German, Polish and Italian, many never before translated into English, to paint a harrowing and vivid picture of the experiences of soldiers and civilians on both sides of the conflict. The result is that rare and elusive thing: a truly original historical

masterpiece, a landmark book that will be read for decades to come.
Год: 2005
Производитель: Harpercollins
Артикул: 322918
ISBN: 9780007123742
Автор: Zamoyski Adam

1983: The World at the Brink
A carefully researched and hugely readable account of the build-up to war, the momentum inexorably growing as he assembles each part of the jigsaw. Indeed, his narrative is so persuasive that by the time you are about two- thirds through, it takes some effort to remind yourself that the Third World War never happened' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times

1983 was a supremely dangerous year - even more dangerous than 1962, the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the US, President Reagan massively increased defence spending, described the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire' and announced his 'Star Wars' programme, calling for a shield in space to defend the US from incoming missiles.

Yuri Andropov, the paranoid Soviet leader, saw all this as signs of American aggression and convinced himself that the US really meant to attack the Soviet Union. He put the KGB on alert to look for signs of an imminent nuclear attack. When a Soviet fighter jet shot down Korean Air Lines flight KAL 007 after straying off course over a sensitive Soviet military area, President Reagan described it as a 'terrorist act' and 'a crime against humanity'. The temperature was rising fast.

Then at the height of the tension, NATO began a war game called Able Archer 83. In this exercise, NATO requested permission to use the codes to launch nuclear weapons. The nervous Soviets convinced themselves this was no exercise but the real thing.

This is an extraordinary and largely unknown Cold War story of spies and double agents, of missiles being readied, of intelligence failures, misunderstandings and the panic of world leaders. With access to hundreds of extraordinary new documents just released in the US, Taylor Downing is able to tell for the first time the gripping but true story of how near the world came to the brink of nuclear war in 1983.

1983: The World at the Brink is a real-life thriller.
Год: 2019
Производитель: Abacus
Артикул: 724688
ISBN: 9780349143040
Автор: Downing Taylor

1Q84 (3 vols) (HB)
The year is 1984. Aomame sits in a taxi on the expressway in Tokyo. Her work is not the kind which can be discussed in public but she is in a hurry to carry out an assignment and, with the traffic at a stand-still, the driver proposes a solution. She agrees, but as a result of her actions starts to feel increasingly detached from the real world. She has been on a top-secret mission, and her next job will lead her to encounter the apparently superhuman founder of a religious cult. Meanwhile, Tengo is leading a nondescript life but wishes to become a writer. He inadvertently becomes involved in a strange affair surrounding a literary prize to which a mysterious seventeen-year-old girl has submitted her remarkable first novel. It seems to be based on her own experiences and moves readers in unusual ways. Can her story really be true? Both Aomame and Tengo notice that the world has grown strange; both realise that they are indispensable to each other. While their stories influence one another, at times by accident and at times intentionally, the two come closer and closer to intertwining.
Год: 2007
Производитель: Random House
Артикул: 329000
ISBN: 9781846555497
Автор: Murakami Haruki

1Q84. Book 3
Book Two of 1Q84 ended with Aomame standing on the Metropolitan Expressway with a gun between her lips.



She knows she is being hunted, and that she has put herself in terrible danger in order to save the man she loves.



But things are moving forward, and Aomame does not yet know that she and Tengo are more closely bound than ever.



Tengo is searching for Aomame, and he must find her before this world's rules loosen up too much.



He must find her before someone else does.

Серия: 1Q84
Год: 2012
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 885671
ISBN: 9780099549055
Автор: Murakami Haruki

1Q84. Books 1 and 2
Read this imaginative masterpiece from the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood



The year is 1984. Aomame sits in a taxi on the expressway in Tokyo.



Her work is not the kind which can be discussed in public but she is in a hurry to carry out an assignment and, with the traffic at a stand-still, the driver proposes a solution. She agrees, but as a result of her actions starts to feel increasingly detached from the real world. She has been on a top-secret mission, and her next job will lead her to encounter the apparently superhuman founder of a religious cult.



Meanwhile, Tengo wishes to become a writer. He inadvertently becomes involved in a strange affair surrounding a literary prize to which a mysterious seventeen-year-old girl has submitted her remarkable first novel. It seems to be based on her own experiences and moves readers in unusual ways. Can her story really be true?



Both Aomame and Tengo notice that the world has grown strange; both realise that they are indispensable to each other. While their stories influence one another, at times by accident and at times intentionally, the two come closer and closer to intertwining.

Серия: 1Q84
Год: 2009
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 885672
ISBN: 9780099549062
Автор: Murakami Haruki

1Q84. The Complete Trilogy
A mesmerising, epic, utterly involving masterpiece from Haruki Murakami

The year is 1Q84.



This is the real world, there is no doubt about that.



But in this world, there are two moons in the sky.



In this world, the fates of two people, Tengo and Aomame, are closely intertwined. They are each, in their own way, doing something very dangerous. And in this world, there seems no way to save them both.



Something extraordinary is starting.

Серия: 1Q84
Год: 2012
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 885927
ISBN: 9780099578079
Автор: Murakami Haruki

20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth
'She's no good, that girl. Much too individualistic'



This is the story of Fenfang who, determined to carve out a life more independent than her provincial roots, gets a job as a film extra in Beijing. But living a modern life is not as easy as it looks in this tumultuous, messy city. Grappling with the narrow world of cinema, an outworn Communist regime, and the city's far-from-progressive attitudes to women, charismatic Fenfang finds her true freedom in the one place she never expected.



20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth is a sparkling and wry coming-of-age story about the changing identity of women in contemporary China.



Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world.

Серия: Vintage Heroines
Год: 2021
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 970253
ISBN: 9781784877446
Автор: Guo Xiaolu

2001: A Space Odyssey
Contemporary / British English 2001: A Space Odyssey -- a great film and a famous novel. An object is found on the Moon. Who made it? Men travel into space to find out - a billion kilometers to the rings of Saturn. Something is waiting for them...

Серия: Pearson English Readers
Год: 2017
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 603788
ISBN: 9781405882361
Автор: Clarke Arthur C

20th Century Stories
This series of Readers containing original, unsimplified stories written by famous classic and modern writers, now features four new titles. All the collections come with substantial support material for each story, including a short summary, a description of major themes, pre-reading vocabulary activities, post-reading language and comprehension exercises, a literary analysis section and essay questions. "The Macmillan Literature Collections" will help ease students' transition from graded Readers to authentic reading, giving them the joy of feeling that they are finally reading and studying literature just as it was written.



Тексты произведений, представленных в книге, не адаптированы.

Серия: Macmillan Literature Collections
Год: 2016
Производитель: Macmillan Education
Артикул: 575822
ISBN: 9780230408531

22 Britannia Road
In war we sometimes lose ourselves...It is 1946 and Silvana and eight-year-old Aurek board a ship that will take them from Poland to England. Silvana has not seen her husband Janusz in six years, but, they are assured, he has made them a home in Ipswich. However, after living wild in the forests for years, carrying a terrible secret, all Silvana knows is that she and Aurek are survivors. Everything else is lost. While Janusz, a Polish soldier who has criss-crossed Europe during the war, hopes his family will help put his own dark past behind him. But the war and the years apart will always haunt each of them unless they together confront what they were compelled to do to survive.
Год: 2012
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 479789
ISBN: 9780141399676
Автор: Hodgkinson Amanda

28 Summers
Their secret love affair has lasted for decades - but will it last one more summer?



For the last twenty-eight summers, Mallory and Jake have met to rekindle the passionate love affair they began all those years ago. Each married to someone else, with busy lives and happy families, they've managed to keep their secret, and to keep their love alive.



But nothing is forever and when Mallory receives a diagnosis that puts her future in doubt, they must face the possibility that their twenty-eighth summer together also be their last.

Серия: 28 Summers
Год: 2021
Производитель: Hodder & Stoughton
Артикул: 975959
ISBN: 9781529374803
Автор: Hilderbrand Elin

365. Stories
365 is James Robertson's innovative collection of 365 stories, each 365 words long.

In 2013, James Robertson wrote a story every day. Each was exactly 365 words long. A year later, on a daily basis, the stories were published on the Five Dials website. Now the 365 stories are gathered together in one volume. Some draw on elements of ancient myth and legend, others are outtakes from Scottish history and folklore; there are squibs and satires, songs and ballads in disguise, fairytales, stories inspired by dreams or in the form of interviews, and personal memories and observations.

Underpinning all of them are vital questions: Who are we? What are we doing here? What happens next?
Год: 2014
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 969859
ISBN: 9780241146866
Автор: Robertson James

44 Scotland Street
The story revolves around the comings and goings at No. 44 Scotland Street, a fictitious building in a real street in Edinburgh.



Immediately recognisable are the Edinburgh chartered surveyor, stalwart of the Conservative Association, who dreams of membership of Scotland's most exclusive golf club. We have the pushy Stockbridge mother, and her prodigiously talented five-year-old son, who is making good progress with the saxophone and with his Italian. Then there is Domenica Macdonald who is that type of Edinburgh lady who sees herself as a citizen of a broader intellectual world.

In McCall Smith's hands such characters retain charm and novelty, simultaneously arousing both mirth and empathy. 44 Scotland Street is vintage McCall Smith, tackling issues of trust and honesty, snobbery and hypocrisy, love and loss, but all with great lightness of touch. Clever, elegant and funny, this is a novel that provides huge entertainment but which is underpinned by the moral dilemmas of everyday life and the characters' struggles to resolve them.

Серия: 44 Scotland Street
Год: 2005
Производитель: Abacus
Артикул: 975962
ISBN: 9780349118970
Автор: McCall Smith Alexander

451 градус по Фаренгейту. Книга для чтения на английском языке. Неадаптированная
Повесть знаменитого американского писателя-фантаста "451 градус по Фаренгейту" написана более полувека назад, но своей актуальности не потеряла и по сей день. Ее лейтмотив - озабоченность духовным обликом будущего. Будущее, как его видел Бредбери, довольно мрачно: тоталитарное государство, в котором пресекается любое инакомыслие. Реклама, бесконечные телешоу - вот и все, что нужно человеку для безмятежного счастья. Так решило государство, и оно защищает своих граждан в меру собственного разумения: разговаривать друг с другом - значит думать, думать заставляют книги, поэтому, дабы не нарушать покоя обывателей, их надлежит сжигать. 451 градус по Фаренгейту - это температура горения бумаги. Предлагаем вниманию читателей неадаптированный текст повести, снабженный комментариями и словарем.

Серия: Чтение в оригинале. Английский язык
Год: 2016
Производитель: Каро
Артикул: 308089
ISBN: 978-5-9925-0475-0
Автор: Брэдбери Рэй

451' по Фаренгейту
Можно ли представить себе мир, в котором нет книг? Когда держать книги дома, читать их - опасно, ибо преследуется по закону? Когда интерактивное телевидение успешно служит всеобщему оболваниванию, карательная психиатрия решительно разбирается с редкими инакомыслящими, а на охоту за неисправимыми диссидентами выходит электрический пес?

"451 по Фаренгейту" - одна из самых известных и самых читаемых книг в мире. И это залог того, что вымысел Брэдбери никогда не станет реальностью.

Серия: Билингва Bestseller
Год: 2017
Производитель: Эксмо-Пресс
Артикул: 612473
ISBN: 978-5-699-99139-6

50 Ways to Find a Lover
Sarah Sargeant has been single for three years and nine months. She has just spent five months plucking up the courage to ask out a balding man with a paunch who works in her local pub. The gentleman in question informed her that he would rather stay in and watch the Narnia movie on DVD. Her pride has not just been bruised, it's been disembowelled. And she vows it's the last time she will ever reach out to a member of the opposite sex. But her family and friends have other ideas. They enter her into a reality TV show against her will, persuade her to go speed dating and, even more radically, they encourage her to start a blog. Suddenly Sarah Sargeant is on a mission.
Год: 2009
Производитель: Pan Books
Артикул: 328583
ISBN: 9780330458399
Автор: Holmes Lucy-Anne

59 Memory Lane
May Rosevere has reached the grand old age of one-hundred-and-ten, thanks to several slices of toast with butter every morning, a glass (or two) of port, and the wonders of the Cornish sea air - or so she tells everyone.

But there's much more to May than her remarkable age. She has a secret. One that no one has ever discovered ...

Серия: Pengelly Series
Год: 2019
Производитель: HarperCollins
Артикул: 875487
ISBN: 9780008305413
Автор: Anderson Celia

84 Charing Cross Road
Told in a series of letters in 84 Charing Cross Road and then in diary form in the second part The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street, this true story has touched the hearts of thousands.
Год: 2007
Производитель: Sphere
Артикул: 975973
ISBN: 9780751503845
Автор: Hanff Helene