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A Ballet of Lepers. A Novel and Stories
An unprecedented glimpse into the formation of the legendary talent of Leonard Cohen.

Before the celebrated late-career world tours, before the Grammy awards, before the chart-topping albums, before 'Hallelujah' and 'So Long, Marianne' and 'Famous Blue Raincoat', the young Leonard Cohen wrote poetry and fiction and yearned for literary stardom. In A Ballet of Lepers, readers will discover that the magic that animated Cohen's unforgettable body of work was present from the very beginning.

Written between 1956 in Montreal, just as Cohen was publishing his first poetry collection, and 1961, when he'd settled on Greece's Hydra island, the pieces in this collection offer startling insight into Cohen's imagination and creative process, and explore themes that would permeate his later work, from shame and unworthiness to sexual desire to longing, whether for love, family, freedom or transcendence.

The titular novel, A Ballet of Lepers - one he later remarked was 'probably a better novel' than his celebrated book The Favourite Game - is a haunting examination of these elements, while the fifteen stories, as well as the playscript, probe the inner demons of his characters, many of whom could function as stand-ins for the author himself.

Meditative, surprising, playful and provocative, A Ballet of Lepers is vivid in its detail, unsparing in its gaze, and reveals the great artist and visceral genius like never before.
Год: 2022
Производитель: Canongate
Артикул: 953652
ISBN: 9781838852931
Автор: Cohen Leonard

A Beautiful Young Wife
He had never married and had never been with one woman for long; he had always remained a collector of first times.



Edward Landauer, a brilliant scientist in his forties, meets a beautiful young woman. She is the love of his life and, when the two marry, he is the happiest man in the world. But Ruth s beauty and youth cannot stop him growing older. After the birth of their long-awaited son, the happiness, delicate like filigree turns into something new, and Edward no longer recognises his great romance nor the woman who induced it.
Год: 2017
Производитель: Scribe Publications
Артикул: 954297
ISBN: 9781911344476
Автор: Wieringa Tommy

A Bend in the River
Set in an unnamed African country, V. S. Naipaul's A Bend in the River is narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast. He believes The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it. So he has taken the initiative; left the coast; acquired his own shop in a small, growing city in the continent's remote interior and is selling sundries - little more than this and that, really - to the natives.

This spot, this 'bend in the river', is a microcosm of post-colonial Africa at the time of Independence: a scene of chaos, violent change, warring tribes, ignorance, isolation and poverty. And from this rich landscape emerges one of the author's most potent works - a truly moving story of historical upheaval and social breakdown.
Год: 2011
Производитель: Picador
Артикул: 955409
ISBN: 9780330522991
Автор: Naipaul V S

A Bend in the River
A Bend in the River is V. S. Naipaul's vivid exploration of post-colonial Africa at the time of Independence. With an introduction by Yiyun Li, author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.



Salim has spent most of his life on the east coast of Africa, living and working with his family. When he sets out to build a new life for himself, moving to an unnamed country in the heart of the continent he believes he is doing so to fulfil his duty as a man. He buys a small shop in a sleepy town, at a bend in the river, where he sells sundries to the locals.



First published in 1979, A Bend in the River is V.S. Naipaul's vivid exploration of post-colonial Africa at the time of Independence. Serving as a microcosm of this changing world, his bend in the river is a scene of chaos, violent change, warring tribes, ignorance, isolation and poverty. And from this rich landscape emerges one of the author's most potent works - a truly moving story of historical upheaval and social breakdown.

Серия: Picador Classic
Год: 2020
Производитель: Picador
Артикул: 902696
ISBN: 9781529014099
Автор: Naipaul V S

A Bend in the road
Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. As deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, he not only grieves for her and worries about their young son Jonah but longs to bring the unknown driver to justice. Then Miles meets Sarah Andrews, Jonah's second-grade teacher. A young woman recovering from a difficult divorce, Sarah moved to New Bern hoping to start over. Tentatively, Miles and Sarah reach out to each other...soon they are falling in love. But what neither realizes is that they are also bound together by a shocking secret, one that will force them to reexamine everything they believe in-including their love.
Год: 2013
Производитель: Warner Books
Артикул: 403530
ISBN: 978-0-446-61186-2, 9781455574063
Автор: Sparks Nicholas

A Black Fox Running
This is the story of Wulfgar, the dark-furred fox of Dartmoor, and of his nemesis, Scoble the trapper, in the seasons leading up to the pitiless winter of 1947. As breathtaking in its descriptions of the natural world as it is perceptive in its portrayal of damaged humanity, it is both a portrait of place and a gripping story of survival.



Uniquely straddling the worlds of animals and men, Brian Carter's A Black Fox Running is a masterpiece: lyrical, unforgiving and unforgettable.
Год: 2019
Производитель: Bloomsbury
Артикул: 922161
ISBN: 9781408896129
Автор: Carter Brian

A Blink of the Screen. Collected Short Fiction
A collection of shorter fiction from Terry Pratchett, spanning the whole of his writing career from schooldays to Discworld and the present day.

In the four decades since his first book appeared in print, Terry Pratchett has become one of the world's best-selling and best-loved authors. Here for the first time are his short stories and other short form fiction collected into one volume. A Blink of the Screen charts the course of Pratchett's long writing career: from his schooldays through to his first writing job on the Bucks Free Press, ; to the origins of his debut novel, The Carpet People; and on again to the dizzy mastery of the phenomenally successful Discworld series.

Here are characters both familiar and yet to be discovered; abandoned worlds and others still expanding; adventure, chickens, death, disco and, actually, some quite disturbing ideas about Christmas, all of it shot through with his inimitable brand of humour.

With an introduction by Booker Prize-winning author A.S. Byatt, illustrations by the late Josh Kirby and drawings by the author himself, this is a book to treasure.
Год: 2018
Производитель: Random House
Артикул: 784992
ISBN: 9780552163330
Автор: Pratchett Terry

A Book of Common Prayer
An engrossing examination of political and personal life in Central America, from the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking. Writing with the economical swiftness and concentrated perception that has made her one of America's most distinguished writers, Joan Didion creates a gleaming novel of innocence and evil.

Set in the ruined Central American nation of Boca Grande, A Book of Common Prayer is the story of two American women and their conflicting experiences of wealth, politics and personal history. We follow the intriguing life of Grace Strasser-Mendana - an American expatriate and member of one of Boca Grande's most influential families - alongside the story of Charlotte Douglas, whose daughter Medin has run off with a group of Marxist radicals. What follows is an exploration of the women's ability to make sense of the behaviour that surrounds them, as their worlds are made hazy by the atmosphere of evil and innocence that envelops their strained and entangled lives.



Writing with her inimitable mix of candid emotional frankness and razor-sharp political astuteness, Joan Didion's third novel is at once utterly particular whilst emblematic of an age of unscrupulous authority and seemingly inevitable bloodshed.
Год: 2011
Производитель: 4th Estate
Артикул: 897091
ISBN: 9780007415007
Автор: Didion Joan

A Boy Made of Blocks
A Boy Made of Blocks is a funny, heartwarming story of family and love inspired by the author's own experiences with his son, the perfect latest obsession for fans of The Rosie Project, David Nicholls and Jojo Moyes.

A father who rediscovers love

Alex loves his wife Jody, but has forgotten how to show it. He loves his son Sam, but doesn't understand him. He needs a reason to grab his future with both hands.

A son who shows him how to live

Meet eight-year-old Sam: beautiful, surprising - and different. To him the world is a frightening mystery. But as his imagination comes to life, his family will be changed . . . for good.
Год: 2016
Производитель: Sphere
Артикул: 813861
ISBN: 9780751563290
Автор: Stuart Keith

A Breath of Snow and Ashes
This sixth novel in Diana Gabaldon s bestselling Outlander saga is a masterpiece of historical fiction from one of the most popular authors of our time. A Breath of Snow and Ashes continues the extraordinary story of 18th-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his 20th-century wife, Claire. The year is 1772, and on the eve of the American Revolution, the long fuse of rebellion has already been lit. Men lie dead in the streets of Boston, and in the backwoods of North Carolina, isolated cabins burn in the forest. With chaos brewing, the governor calls upon Jamie Fraser to unite the backcountry and safeguard the colony for King and Crown. But from his wife Jamie knows that three years hence the shot heard round the world will be fired, and the result will be independence with those loyal to the King either dead or in exile. And there is also the matter of a tiny clipping from The Wilmington Gazette, dated 1776, which reports Jamie s death, along with his kin. For once, he hopes, his time-traveling family may be wrong about the future. From the Hardcover edition."

Серия: Outlander
Год: 2017
Производитель: Dell book
Артикул: 582888
ISBN: 978-0-440-22580-5
Автор: Gabaldon Diana

A Brief History of the Future
Richie and his wife Clara have won a weekend in New York in a newspaper competition. While Clara is off blowing their spending money, Richie wanders aimlessly, chewing on a veggie-burger, ending up in a gift-shop where he finds himself standing in front of an instant transporter machine. It looks nothing like the open-plan teleporter on Captain Kirk's Starship Enterprise; in fact, it seems more like a glorified microwave oven. Richie places his burger inside, hits the return key on the linked-up computer - and the burger disappears. But if he can teleport a half-eaten veggie-burger, what else could you do with the machine? For criminals, the possibilities are endless. Who could catch you if you beamed drugs into nostrils a hundred miles away? And how much would illegal immigrants pay to be teleported into the rich host country of their choice? Richie buys a teleporter and takes it back to England, where the chaos begins ...
Год: 2003
Производитель: Random House
Артикул: 309877
ISBN: 9780552777575
Автор: Clarke Stephen

A Bright Ray of Darkness
Actor William Harding has been caught cheating on his rock star wife and the press have descended upon him. Amid the headlines and worldwide disdain towards him, he takes on the part in Henry IV. He must examine himself, and who he has become, under the brightest of lights and the keenest of eyes.
Год: 2022
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 891129
ISBN: 9781529156409
Автор: Hawke Ethan

A Bunch of Fives
Since the 1990 publication of her first collection, Four Bare Legs in a Bed, Helen Simpson has been hailed as one of the best short story writers at work in the world today. These wonderfully funny and penetrating stories take on the full stretch, from birth to death and everything in between, in writing of remarkable originality and clarity.
Год: 2012
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 972755
ISBN: 9780099561576
Автор: Simpson Helen

A Burnt-out Case
Querry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a 'burnt-out case', a leper mutilated by disease and amputation. Querry slowly moves towards a cure, his mind getting clearer as he works for the colony. However, in the heat of the tropics, no relationship with a married woman, will ever be taken as innocent...
Год: 2004
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 885068
ISBN: 9780099478430
Автор: Greene Graham

A Calling for Charlie Barnes
From the Booker-shortlisted author comes a poignant novel about fathers, sons and the embers of the American dream



Charlie Barnes is a mid-century man devoted to his newspaper and his landline. But Charlie is about to get dragged into our troubled age by his storyteller son, who has a different idea of him than he has of himself. Then there are his other children, his ex-wives, present wife, business clients, friends and acquaintances, all of whom have their competing opinions of Charlie.



A striver, romantic, and thoroughgoing capitalist, he's blindsided by the Great Recession and a dose of bad news. Rethinking his entire life, he starts to wonder: what makes a man real? What makes him good? And how does the story we tell about ourselves line up with the lives that we actually live?
Год: 2022
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 889252
ISBN: 9780241972953
Автор: Ferris Joshua

A Case of Exploding Mangoes
There is an old saying that when lovers fall out, a plane goes down. This is the story of one such plane.

Why did a Hercules C130, the world's sturdiest plane, carrying Pakistan's military dictator General Zia ul Haq, go down on 17 August, 1988? Was it because of:



1.Mechanical failure

2.Human error

3.The CIA's impatience

4.A blind woman's curse

5.Generals not happy with their pension plans

6.The mango season



Or could it be your narrator, Ali Shigri?



A Case of Exploding Mangoes is sharp, dark, inventive and utterly gripping.
Год: 2009
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 885315
ISBN: 9780099516743
Автор: Hanif Mohammed

A Cat Called Alfie
Edgar Road used to be your typical London street; a road full of people who barely said a word to one another. Then Alfie came along a big grey ball of fur who changed the lives of every family he met, and brought a community together.



But now a new family have moved into Edgar Road and they, more than anyone else, need Alfie s help. Can he bring light to their darkest times? Or is it already too late to stop them from falling apart?



Warm, uplifting and inspiring, this is a book to remind us how a pet can change a life. The perfect read for fans of A Street Cat Named Bob and Alfie the Doorstep Cat .

Серия: Alfie series
Год: 2019
Производитель: Avon
Артикул: 923823
ISBN: 9780008334673
Автор: Wells Rachel

A Cat, a Hat, and a Piece of String
Stories are like Russian dolls; open them up, and in each one you ll find another story.



Come to the house where it is Christmas all year round; meet the ghost who lives on a Twitter timeline; be spooked by a newborn baby created with sugar, spice and lashings of cake.



Conjured from a wickedly imaginative pen, here is a new collection of short stories that showcases Joanne Harris s exceptional talent as a teller of tales, a spinner of yarns. Sensuous, mischievous, uproarious and wry, here are tales that combine the everyday with the unexpected; wild fantasy with bittersweet reality.
Год: 2014
Производитель: Black Swan
Артикул: 889946
ISBN: 9780552778794
Автор: Harris Joanne

A Certain Justice
From P. D. James, one of the masters of British crime fiction comes the tenth novel to feature commander Adam Dalgliesh. A Certain Justice is a chilling murder mystery packed with forensic detail, set in the treacherous legal world of London.

Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in her distinguished career as a criminal lawyer. But just four weeks later, Miss Aldridge is found dead at her desk.

Commander Adam Dalgliesh, called in to investigate, finds motives for murder among the clients Venetia has defended, her professional colleagues, her family - even her lover. As Dalgliesh narrows the field of suspects, a second brutal murder draws them into greater complexities of intrigue and evil.

P. D. James, the bestselling author of Death Comes to Pemberley, Children of Men and Death In Holy Orders, once again explores the mysterious and intense emotions responsible for the unique crime of murder, with authority and sensitivity. A Certain Justice is set in the legal world of London and possesses all of the qualities which distinguish P. D. James as a novelist.
Год: 2017
Производитель: Faber and Faber
Артикул: 609261
ISBN: 978-0-571-24887-2
Автор: James P. D

A Class Act
Change is afoot in the usually sleepy village of Risingdale. Gerald Gaunt, headmaster of the primary school for over thirty years, is retiring. It is the end of an era and Gerald hopes that his replacement will work with him to secure a bright, happy future for the school. But Mr Smart has his own ideas about how things should be run, and things start to become fraught very quickly.



On top of this, the teachers have plenty of other dramas to contend with. Still dealing with a class of children who seem to understand agriculture better than arithmetic, Tom Dwyer is pining over Janette, his one-that-got-away. Meanwhile, his colleague Joyce Tranter's new marital bliss is shattered by the arrival of her husband's avaricious, scheming nephew. And elsewhere in the village, Sir Hedley's long-cherished plans for his future are jeopardised by the arrival back in his life of his bitter, desperate ex-wife.



Can the residents of Risingdale pull together and achieve happiness against the odds?

Серия: Top of the Dale
Год: 2021
Производитель: Hodder & Stoughton
Артикул: 905767
ISBN: 9781473650718
Автор: Phinn Gervase

A Clockwork Orange
Fifteen-year-old Alex doesn't just like ultra-violence - he also enjoys rape, drugs and Beethoven's ninth. He and his gang of droogs rampage through a dystopian future, hunting for terrible thrills. But when Alex finds himself at the mercy of the state and subject to the ministrations of Dr Brodsky, and the mind-altering treatment of the Ludovico Technique, he discovers that fun is no longer the order of the day. The basis for Stanley Kubrick's notorious 1971 film, A Clockwork Orange is both a virtuoso performance from an electrifying prose stylist and a serious exploration of the morality of free will.

In his introduction, Blake Morrison situates A Clockwork Orange within the context of Anthony Burgess's many other works, explores the author's unhappiness with the Stanley Kubrick film version, analyses the composition of the Nadsat argot spoken by Alex and his droogs, and examines the influences on Burgess's unique, eternally original style.

Серия: Penguin Modern Classics
Год: 2000
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 803234
ISBN: 9780141182605
Автор: Burgess Antony

A Clockwork Orange
Энтони Берджесс - английский прозаик, поэт, литературовед, лингвист и композитор - по праву считается одним из величайших интеллектуалов своего времени. "Заводной апельсин" - самое знаменитое произведение автора. Оно принесло ему мировую славу и одновременно скандальную известность отца-основателя "киберпанковской субкультуры".

Неадаптированный текст романа печатается с сокращениями, снабжен комментариями и словарем. Книга предназначена для студентов языковых вузов и всех любителей англоязычной литературы. Уровень Upper-Intermediate.

Серия: Чтение в оригинале. Английский язык
Год: 2019
Производитель: Каро
Артикул: 687025
ISBN: 978-5-9925-1371-4
Автор: Burgess Antony

A Clockwork Orange
Энтони Берджесса - английского прозаика, поэта, литературоведа, лингвиста и композитора - по праву называют одним из величайших интеллектуалов своего времени. "Заводной апельсин" - самое знаменитое произведение автора. Оно принесло ему мировую славу и одновременно скандальную известность отца-основателя "киберпанковской субкультуры".

Неадаптированный текст романа снабжен комментариями и словарем.

Подготовка текста, комментарии и словарь Н.Н.Демидова.

Книга предназначена для студентов языковых вузов и всех любителей англоязычной литературы.

Серия: Modern Prose
Год: 2015
Производитель: Каро
Артикул: 334036
ISBN: 978-5-9925-0313-5
Автор: Burgess Antony

A Clockwork Orange
Fully restored edition of Anthony Burgess' original text of A Clockwork Orange, with a glossary of the teen slang 'Nadsat', explanatory notes, pages from the original typescript, interviews, articles and reviews

Edited by Andrew Biswell With a Foreword by Martin Amis

'It is a horrorshow story ...'

Fifteen-year-old Alex likes lashings of ultraviolence. He and his gang of friends rob, kill and rape their way through a nightmarish future, until the State puts a stop to his riotous excesses. But what will his re-education mean?

A dystopian horror, a black comedy, an exploration of choice, A Clockwork Orange is also a work of exuberant invention which created a new language for its characters. This critical edition restores the text of the novel as Anthony Burgess originally wrote it, and includes a glossary of the teen slang 'Nadsat', explanatory notes, pages from the original typescript, interviews, articles and reviews, shedding light on the enduring fascination of the novel's 'sweet and juicy criminality'.

Серия: Modern and contemporary Fiction
Год: 2013
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 793832
ISBN: 9780141197531
Автор: Burgess Antony

A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange is the daring and electrifying book by Anthony Burgess that inspired one of the most notorious films ever made, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.

'What's it going to be then, eh?'

In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost?

Social prophecy? Black comedy? Study of freewill? A Clockwork Orange is all of these. It is also a dazzling experiment in language, as Burgess creates a new language - 'nadsat', the teenage slang of a not-too-distant future.

Серия: Penguin Essentials
Год: 2011
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 841809
ISBN: 9780241951446
Автор: Burgess Antony

A Coffin from Hong Kong
Предлагаем вниманию любителей детективов роман Джеймса Хэдли Чейза "Гроб из Гонконга". В книге приводится полный неадаптированный текст романа, снабженный комментариями и словарем.

Серия: Detective Story
Год: 2015
Производитель: Каро
Артикул: 469329
ISBN: 978-5-9925-1012-6
Автор: Чейз Джеймс Хедли

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction



Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself - Westerners cannot pronounce her name) arrives in London to spend a year learning English. Struggling to find her way in the city, and through the puzzles of tense, verb and adverb; she falls for an older Englishman and begins to realise that the landscape of love is an even trickier terrain...



Xiaolu Guo was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists
Год: 2007
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 885184
ISBN: 9780099501473
Автор: Guo Xiaolu

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
A charming and clever account of one woman s exploration of love, language and identity.



Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself) arrives in London to spend a year learning English. Struggling to find her way in the city, and through the puzzles of tense, verb and adverb; she falls for an older Englishman and begins to realise that the landscape of love is an even trickier terrain...



Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind

Серия: Vintage Voyages
Год: 2007
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 891877
ISBN: 9781784875312
Автор: Guo Xiaolu

A Conspiracy Of Friends
The third novel in the London-based Corduroy Mansions series from Alexander McCall Smith, comparable in warmth and humour to 44 Scotland Street.

Corduroy Mansions, Pimlico is an oasis of old-fashioned civilisation, its inhabitants considerate and peace-loving. But beneath the polite exterior seismic change is stirring.

Barbara Ragg makes an eye-popping discovery about her stolid Scottish suitor's past, while Oedipus Snark newly appointed and tirelessly self-interested Government Minister has a close encounter in Switzerland that leaves him a new man all together. Then plucky canine Freddie de la Hay goes missing and his owner, widower William French, is so shaken by an unexpected declaration of love that he seriously considers making a disappearance himself.

Goodhearted, well-intentioned but often to be found barking up the wrong tree, the residents of Corduroy Mansions remain a thoroughly entertaining example to us all.

Серия: Corduroy Mansions
Год: 2012
Производитель: Little, Brown and Company
Артикул: 793306
ISBN: 9780349123851
Автор: McCall Smith Alexander

A Cool Head
Gravy worked in the graveyard - hence the name. He was having a normal day until his friend Benjy turned up in a car Gravy didn't recognise. Benjy had a bullet hole in his chest, but lived just long enough to ask Gravy to hide him and look after his gun.

Серия: Quick Reads
Год: 2009
Производитель: Orion
Артикул: 399549
ISBN: 9780752884493
Автор: Rankin Ian

A Country Christmas
Taken from the orginal omnibus Christmas at Fairacre, Miss Read's wonderfully festive collection of Christmas stories is packed with entertaining characters and enchanting stories.



From the rural festivities in Village Christmas and Jingle Bells to the pre-war story Christmas at Caxley 1913, the intriguing The Fairacre Ghost and the poignant tale of The White Robin, Miss Read's wry wit and light touch is the perfect antidote to the long winter evenings.

Серия: Christmas Fiction
Год: 2007
Производитель: Orion
Артикул: 909215
ISBN: 9780752881744
Автор: Miss Read

A Country Escape
Fran has always wanted to be a farmer. And now it looks as if her childhood dream is about to come true.

She has just moved to her aunt's beautiful but very run-down farm in the Cotswolds. If she can turn the place around in a year, the farm will be hers.

But Fran knows nothing about farming. She might even be afraid of cows.

She'll need help, not just from her best friend Issi, but also from her wealthy and very eligible neighbour - who might just have his own reasons for being so supportive.

Is it the farm he is interested in? Or Fran herself?
Год: 2019
Производитель: Random House
Артикул: 776069
ISBN: 9780099579441
Автор: Fforde Katie

A Court of Frost and Starlight
A companion tale to Sarah J. Maas's #1 New York Times bestselling A Court of Thorns and Roses series that takes place several months after the explosive events of A Court of Wings and Ruin

Told from the perspectives of Feyre, Rhys and other key characters, this story bridges the events in A Court of Wings and Ruin and the upcoming novels in the series.

Feyre, Rhys and their companions are still busy rebuilding the Night Court and the vastly changed world beyond. But Winter Solstice is finally near, and with it a hard-earned reprieve. Yet even the festive atmosphere can't keep the shadows of the past from looming. As Feyre navigates her first Winter Solstice as High Lady, she finds that those dearest to her have more wounds than she anticipated - scars that will have a far-reaching impact on the future of their court.
Год: 2019
Производитель: Bloomsbury
Артикул: 687521
ISBN: 978-1-4088-9032-5
Автор: Maas Sarah J

A Cup of Rage
'Yes, bastard, you're the one I love'



A pair of lovers - a young female journalist and an older man who owns an isolated farm in the Brazilian outback - spend the night together. The next day they proceed to destroy each other. Amid vitriolic insults, cruelty and warring egos, their sexual adventure turns into a savage power game. This intense, erotic cult novel by one of Brazil's most infamous modernist writers explores alienation, the desire to dominate and the wish to be dominated.

Серия: Penguin Modern Classics
Год: 2015
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 887979
ISBN: 9780141396804
Автор: Nassar Raduan

A Dance With Dragons. Part 1. Dreams and Dust
In the aftermath of a colossal battle, new threats are emerging from every direction. To the north lies the great Wall of ice and stone - a structure only as strong as those guarding it. Jon Snow has been elected Lord Commander of the Night's Watch. But Jon has enemies both inside and beyond the Wall.

And in the east Daenerys Targaryen struggles to hold a city built on dreams and dust.

Серия: Song of Ice and Fire
Год: 2014
Производитель: Harper Voyager
Артикул: 792285
ISBN: 9780007548286
Автор: Martin George R. R

A Dance With Dragons. Part 2. After the Feast
The future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance. Cersei Lannister, awaits trial, abandoned by all those she trusted; while in the east her brother Tyrion has been sold as a slave. Stannis Baratheon marches south from the wall to besiege Winterfell. But beyond the Wall the wildling armies are massing for an assault...

On all sides bitter conflicts are reigniting, played out by outlaws and priests, nobles and slaves. The tides of destiny will lead to the greatest dance of all.

Серия: Song of Ice and Fire
Год: 2014
Производитель: Harper Voyager
Артикул: 792287
ISBN: 9780007548293
Автор: Martin George R. R

A Dance with Dragons
In the aftermath of a colossal battle, Daenerys Targaryen rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Daenerys has thousands of enemies, and many have set out to find her. Fleeing from Westeros with a price on his head, Tyrion Lannister, too, is making his way east-with new allies who may not be the ragtag band they seem. And in the frozen north, Jon Snow confronts creatures from beyond the Wall of ice and stone, and powerful foes from within the Night's Watch. In a time of rising restlessness, the tides of destiny and politics lead a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves, to the greatest dance of all.

Серия: GOT
Год: 2012
Производитель: Bantam books
Артикул: 794709
ISBN: 9780553841121
Автор: Martin George R. R

A Day at the Beach Hut
On a shimmering summer's day, the waves are calling, the picnic basket is packed, and change is in the air. It's just the start of an eventful day for a cast of holidaymakers: over one day, sparks will fly, the tide will bring in old faces and new temptations, a proposal is planned, and an unexpected romance simmers...

This uplifting collection of eight original short stories and over fifty delicious recipes will transport you to the golden sands of Everdene for a perfect day at the beach hut, wherever you are.
Год: 2021
Производитель: Orion
Артикул: 904839
ISBN: 9781409195818
Автор: Henry Veronica

A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman. The Collected Stories
Margaret Drabble is one of the major literary figures of her generation. In this collection of her complete short fiction from across four decades, she examines the intense private worlds and passions of everyday people.



From one man's honeymooning epiphany in 'Hassan's Tower' to the journeying fantasies of 'A Voyage to Cythera', and from the sharp joy of 'The Merry Widow' to the bloody reality of the collection's title story, these are moving, witty and provocative tales, exploring cruel and loving relationships, social change and personal obsessions, and confirming her status as a leading practitioner of the art of the short story.

Серия: Penguin Modern Classics
Год: 2012
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 887462
ISBN: 9780141196435
Автор: Drabble Margaret

A Dead Man In Deptford
'One of the most productive, imaginative and risk-taking of writers... It is a clever, sexually explicit, fast-moving, full blooded yarn'

Irish Times



A Dead Man in Deptford re-imagines the riotous life and suspicious death of Christopher Marlowe. Poet, lover and spy, Marlowe must negotiate the pressures placed upon him by theatre, Queen and country. Burgess brings this dazzling figure to life and pungently evokes Elizabethan England.
Год: 2010
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 885609
ISBN: 9780099541394
Автор: Burgess Antony

A Death in the Family
Karl Ove Knausgaard writes about his life with painful honesty. He writes about his childhood and teenage years, his infatuation with rock music, his relationship with his loving yet almost invisible mother and his distant and unpredictable father, and his bewilderment and grief on his father's death.



When Karl Ove becomes a father himself, he must balance the demands of caring for a young family with his determination to write great literature. Knausgaard has created a universal story of the struggles, great and small, that we all face in our lives. A profound and mesmerizing work, written as if the author's very life were at stake.
Год: 2019
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 885734
ISBN: 9780099555162
Автор: Knausgaard Karl Ove

A Decent Ride
A rampaging force of nature is wreaking havoc on the streets of Edinburgh, but has top shagger, drug-dealer, gonzo-porn-star and taxi-driver, 'Juice' Terry Lawson, finally met his match in Hurricane 'Bawbag'?

Can Terry discover the fate of the missing beauty, Jinty Magdalen, and keep her idiot-savant lover, the man-child Wee Jonty, out of prison?

Will he find out the real motives of unscrupulous American businessman and reality-TV star, Ronald Checker?

And, crucially, will Terry be able to negotiate life after a terrible event robs him of his sexual virility, and can a new fascination for the game of golf help him to live without A Decent Ride?

A Decent Ride sees Irvine Welsh back on home turf, leaving us in the capable hands of one of his most compelling and popular characters, 'Juice' Terry Lawson, and introducing another bound for cult status, Wee Jonty MacKay: a man with the genitals and brain of a donkey.

In his funniest, filthiest book yet, Irvine Welsh celebrates an un-reconstructed misogynist hustler - a central character who is shameless but also, oddly, decent -and finds new ways of making wild comedy out of fantastically dark material, taking on some of the last taboos. So fasten your seatbelts, because this is one ride that could certainly get a little bumpy
Год: 2016
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 972768
ISBN: 9781784700560
Автор: Welsh Irvine

A Desirable Residence
Liz and Jonathan are in trouble. They can't sell their old house, and they've already moved into their new one. Stuck with two mortgages, mounting debts and a sulky teenage daughter, their smart estate agent Marcus presents the perfect solution - super-glamorous couple Ginny and Piers will become their tenants.

But Marcus soon finds himself more involved with Liz than he'd ever intended. And neither Liz, lost in blissful lust, nor Jonathan, trying to solve their financial problems, notices that teenage Alice has developed a desperate passion for the tenants.

Everyone seems to be entangled with everyone else, and Marcus needs to escape. But as events close in on him, he begins to realize that some deceptions are just a bit too close to home...

Издание полностью на английском языке.
Год: 2012
Производитель: Black Swan
Артикул: 329043
ISBN: 9780552776707
Автор: Kinsella Sophie

A Different Drummer
June, 1957. One afternoon, in the backwater town of Sutton, a young black farmer by the name of Tucker Caliban matter-of-factly throws salt on his field, shoots his horse and livestock, sets fire to his house and departs the southern state. And thereafter, the entire African-American population leave with him.



The reaction that follows is told across a dozen chapters, each from the perspective of a different white townsperson. These are boys, girls, men and women; either liberal or conservative, bigoted or sympathetic - yet all of whom are grappling with this spontaneous, collective rejection of subordination.



In 1962, aged just 24, William Melvin Kelley's debut novel A Different Drummer earned him critical comparisons to James Baldwin and William Faulkner. Fifty-five years later, author and journalist Kathryn Schulz happened upon the novel serendipitously and was inspired to write the New Yorker article 'The Lost Giant of American Literature', included as a foreword to this edition.

Серия: Riverrun
Год: 2018
Производитель: Riverrun
Артикул: 910423
ISBN: 9781787478039
Автор: Kelley William Melvin

A Different Kind of Happy
Happiness comes in all shapes and sizes.



Jo said goodbye to peace and quiet when she got pregnant at 19, but now she has a chance to hit refresh.



A partner she loves, five amazing kids and a house by the sea. Jo must find a way to make the most of her second chance at happiness.



She's surrounded by mums who seem to have it all together, but when normal is not an option, surprises can lead to a different kind of happy.
Год: 2021
Производитель: Ebury Press
Артикул: 890843
ISBN: 9781529105193
Автор: Hambleton Rachaele

A Different Sea
An illuminating portrait of a world in ferment after the First world War, and a man seeking an authentic life.



Early this century Enrico, a young intellectual, leaves the city of Gorizia with its abundant population and culture, to spend several years living on the Patagonian pampas, alone with his ancient Greek texts, his flocks and, every now and then, a woman. He has been taught by his closest friend, Carlo, a philosopher/poet who commits suicide in his early twenties, to search for an authentic life, free of social falsehoods. But in his search for this unattainable goal, Enrico destroys every chance he has of a normal existence. This is portrait of a world in ferment, a decaying empire shaken by war and revolution, and a life-long search for meaning.

Серия: Vintage Classics
Год: 2017
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 891789
ISBN: 9781784871321
Автор: Magris Claudio

A Disaffection
The endlessly inventive and gripping story of one man's rebellion and passion



Patrick Doyle is a twenty-nine-year-old teacher in an ordinary comprehensive school. Isolated, frustrated and increasingly bitter at the system he is employed to maintain, he begins his rebellion, fuelled by drink and his passionate, unrequited love for a fellow teacher.
Год: 1999
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 884667
ISBN: 9780099283096
Автор: Kelman James

A Discovery of Witches
Diana Bishop, a young scholar and descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript deep in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she must navigate with a vampire, Matthew Clairmont.

This manuscript, Ashmole 782, holds the secrets of their past... and the key to their future.
Год: 2018
Производитель: Headline
Артикул: 695552
ISBN: 978-1-4722-5824-3
Автор: Harkness Deborah

A Discovery of Witches
A discovery of witches was the 2009 Frankfurt book fair's hottest title and headline is proud to be launching this dazzling fiction debut in the UK in 2011

An epic, richly inventive, historically sweeping, magical romance. Includes exclusive bonus material.

When historian Diana Bishop opens an alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, it's an unwelcome intrusion of magic into her carefully ordered life. Though Diana is a witch of impeccable lineage, the violent death of her parents while she was still a child convinced her that human fear is more potent than any witchcraft. Now Diana has unwittingly exposed herself to a world she's kept at bay for years; one of powerful witches, creative, destructive daemons and long-lived vampires. Sensing the significance of Diana's discovery, the creatures gather in Oxford, among them the enigmatic Matthew Clairmont, a vampire genticist. Diana is inexplicably drawn to Matthew and, in a shadowy world of half-truths and old enmities, ties herself to him without fully understanding the ancient line they are crossing. As they begin to unlock the secrets of the manuscript and their feelings for each other deepen, so the fragile balance of peace unravels...

Серия: All Souls
Год: 2014
Производитель: Headline
Артикул: 403633
ISBN: 978-0-7553-8117-3
Автор: Harkness Deborah

A Dog's Courage
Bella was once a lost dog, but now she lives happily with her people, Lucas and Olivia, only occasionally recalling the hardships in her past. Then a weekend camping trip turns into a harrowing struggle for survival when the Rocky Mountains are engulfed by the biggest wildfire in American history. The raging inferno separates Bella from her people and she is lost once more.



Alone in the wilderness, Bella unexpectedly finds herself responsible for the safety of two defenceless mountain lion cubs. Now she's torn between two equally urgent goals. More than anything, she wants to find her way home to Lucas and Olivia - but not if it means abandoning her new family to danger. And danger abounds, from predators hunting them to the flames threatening at every turn.



Can Bella ever get back to where she truly belongs?



A Dog's Courage is a moving tale of loyalty and the constant heart of one devoted dog - brought vividly to life with a keen understanding of what makes all dogs so special.
Год: 2021
Производитель: Pan Books
Артикул: 902424
ISBN: 9781529075854
Автор: Cameron W. Bruce

A Dog's Journey
Now a major film, starring Dennis Quaid.



From W. Bruce Cameron, the author of A Dog's Purpose, the phenomenal New York Times Number One bestseller about the unbreakable bond between a dog and their human.



Buddy is a good dog. He thought he had found and fulfilled his purpose, over the course of several lives, in helping his beloved boy Ethan. On the farm, Buddy watches over Ethan's granddaughter, curious baby Clarity, trying to keep her out of mischief. He begins to realize that this is a little girl very much in need of a dog of her own.



Buddy realizes that he has a new destiny. Reborn once more, he's overjoyed when he is adopted by Clarity, now a vibrant but troubled teenager. When they are suddenly separated, Buddy despairs - who will take care of his girl? With her selfish mother determined to keep them apart, and an unpredictable, obsessive boyfriend, Clarity's life threatens to spiral out of control - she needs help more than ever, but can Buddy find his way back to her in time?



A charming and heartwarming story of hope, love, and unending devotion, A Dog's Journey asks the question: Do we really take care of our pets, or do they take care of us? This is a moving story of unwavering loyalty and a love that crosses all barriers.



Readers will devour this wonderful story and cry from beginning to end. Sweet and heartfelt, Cameron likely has another bestseller on his hands

Publishers Weekly, starred review

Серия: A Dog`s Purpose
Год: 2019
Производитель: Pan Books
Артикул: 817271
ISBN: 9781529013931
Автор: Cameron W. Bruce

A Dog's Perfect Christmas
The perfect, feel-good holiday gift from W. Bruce Cameron, the number one New York Times bestselling author of the A Dog's Purpose series.



The problems fracturing the Goss family as Christmas approaches are hardly unique, though perhaps they are handling them a little differently than most people might. But then a true emergency arises, one with the potential to ruin not only Christmas but everything holding the family together.



Is the arrival of a lost puppy yet another problem in the string of calamities facing them, or could the dog be just what they all need?



A Dog's Perfect Christmas is a beautiful, poignant, delightful tale of what can happen when family members open their hearts to new possibilities. You'll find love and tears and laughter, the ideal holiday read.



With his signature wit and charm, W. Bruce Cameron again gives the reader the great gift of a dog's perspective. A Dog's Perfect Christmas brings joy and comfort, wrapped in a ball of fur and tied with a bow of love

Teresa J. Rhyne, number one New York Times bestselling author of The Dog Lived (and So Will I)



A fabulous read... Cameron writes with wit, style and holiday hilarity as only he can. Loved it!

Adriana Trigiani, New York Times bestselling author of The Shoemaker's Wife
Год: 2020
Производитель: Pan Books
Артикул: 817272
ISBN: 9781529010114
Автор: Cameron W. Bruce

A Dog's Promise
Sometimes, only a dog's love can heal a family. A Dog's Promise is the heart-warming and uplifting story about a dog who helps a family that are on the verge of breaking apart. From W. Bruce Cameron the international number one bestselling author of A Dog's Purpose, this novel is perfect of fans of Garth Stein's Art of Racing in the Rain.



Bailey knows one thing for sure: all dogs who offer unconditional love, just like him, are destined for heaven.



But before Bailey can rest in peace, there's one family in particular that needs his help. A family that is on the verge of breaking apart.



Bailey knows that helping this family means he won't remember his previous lives, and the other families that he's met and loved, but sometimes making the sacrifice to help those in need is its own reward.



Deeply emotional and beautifully told, A Dog's Promise will speak to dog lovers all over the world who know that their pets are sent to them for a reason and that their love can heal all wounds.

Серия: A Dog`s Purpose
Год: 2019
Производитель: Pan Books
Артикул: 902712
ISBN: 9781529010084
Автор: Cameron W. Bruce

A Dog's Purpose
The phenomenal New York Times Number One bestseller about the unbreakable bond between a dog and their human. Now a major film starring Dennis Quaid.

This is the remarkable story of one endearing dog's search for his purpose over the course of several lives. More than just another charming dog story, A Dog's Purpose touches on the universal quest for an answer to life's most basic question: Why are we here?

Surprised to find himself reborn as a rambunctious golden-haired puppy after a tragically short life as a stray mutt, Bailey's search for his new life's meaning leads him into the loving arms of eight-year-old Ethan. During their countless adventures, Bailey joyously discovers how to be a good dog.

But this life as a family pet is not the end of Bailey's journey. Reborn as a puppy yet again, Bailey wonders will he ever find his purpose?

Heartwarming, insightful, and often laugh-out-loud funny, W. Bruce Cameron's A Dog's Purpose is not only the emotional and hilarious story of a dog's many lives, but also a dog's-eye commentary on human relationships and the unbreakable bonds between man and man's best friend. This moving and beautifully crafted story teaches us that love never dies, and that every creature on earth is born with a purpose.

Серия: A Dog`s Purpose
Год: 2017
Производитель: Pan Books
Артикул: 846525
ISBN: 9781509852826
Автор: Cameron W. Bruce

A Dream Come True
Maggie was happily married to John, at least she thought she was, until that fateful day in Brighton. She desperately wanted children, but John refused to talk about it. So Maggie continued with her part-time job and tried not to think about that gaping hole in her life. Then she met someone who turned her whole world upside down.

Серия: Quick Reads
Год: 2007
Производитель: Orion
Артикул: 399552
ISBN: 9780752882390
Автор: Maureen Lee

A Drop of Patience
At the age of five, a blind African-American boy is handed over to a brutal state home. Here Ludlow Washington will suffer for eleven years, until his prodigious musical talent provides him an unlikely ticket back into the world.



The property of a band, playing for down-and-outs in a southern dive, Ludlow's pioneering flair will take him to New York and the very top of the jazz scene - where his personal demons will threaten to drag him back down to the bottom.



A Drop of Patience is the story a gifted and damaged man entirely set apart - by blindness, by race, by talent - who must wrestle with adversity and ambition to generate the acceptance and self-worth that have always eluded him.

Серия: Riverrun
Год: 2019
Производитель: Riverrun
Артикул: 910425
ISBN: 9781787478077
Автор: Kelley William Melvin

A Dry White Season
A man investigating the death of a friend discovers the dangers of curiosity...



Ben du Toit is an ordinary, decent, harmless man, unremarkable in every way - until his sense of justice is outraged by the death of a man he has known. His friend died at the hands of the police. In the beginning it appears a straightforward matter, an unfortunate error that can be explained and put right. But as Ben investigates further he finds that his curiosity becomes labelled rebellion - and for a rebel there is no way back.
Год: 1998
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 890300
ISBN: 9780749399894
Автор: Brink Andre

A Family Recipe
What's the secret ingredient to your happiness?



Laura Griffin is preparing for an empty nest. The thought of Number 11 Lark Hill falling silent - a home usually bustling with noise, people and the fragrant smells of something cooking on the Aga - seems impossible. Laura hopes it will mean more time for herself, and more time with her husband, Dom.



But when an exposed secret shakes their marriage, Laura suddenly feels as though her family is shrinking around her. Feeling lost, she turns to her greatest comfort: her grandmother's recipe box, a treasured collection dating back to the Second World War. Everyone has always adored Laura's jams and chutneys, piled their sandwiches high with her pickles Inspired by a bit of the old Blitz spirit, Laura has an idea that gives her a fresh sense of purpose.



Full of fierce determination, Laura starts carving her own path. But even the bravest woman needs the people who love her. And now, they need her in return



The brand-new feel-good story from bestseller Veronica Henry - a perfect mix of family, friends and delicious food.
Год: 2018
Производитель: Orion
Артикул: 905413
ISBN: 9781409166627
Автор: Henry Veronica

A Feast for Crows
Bloodthirsty, treacherous and cunning, the Lannisters are in power on the Iron Throne in the name of the boy-king Tommen. The war in the Seven Kingdoms has burned itself out, but in its bitter aftermath new conflicts spark to life.

The Martells of Dome and the Starks of Winterfell seek vengeance for their dead. Euron Crow's Eye, as black a pirate as ever raised a sail, returns from the smoking ruins of Valyria to claim the Iron Isles. From the icy north, where Others threaten the Wall, apprentice Maester Samwell Tarly brings a mysterious babe in arms to the Citadel.

Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory will go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel and the coldest hearts.
Год: 2011
Производитель: Harper Voyager
Артикул: 328168
ISBN: 9780006486121
Автор: Martin George R. R

A Feather on the Breath of God
A young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chinese-Panamanian father and a German mother, who meet in postwar Germany and settle in New York City. Growing up in a housing project in the 1950s and 1960s, the narrator escapes into dreams inspired both by her parents' stories and by her own reading and, for a time, into the otherworldly life of ballet. A yearning homesick mother, a silent and withdrawn father, the ballet-these are the elements that shape the young woman's imagination and her sexuality.
Год: 2021
Производитель: Virago
Артикул: 908735
ISBN: 9780349014258
Автор: Nunez Sigrid

A Fete to Remember
It's summertime in the French Pyrenees and the mountain commune of Fogas is en fete. But Christian Dupuy has no time for the frivolity of les vacances. For a start, he's just been struck by the arrows of l'amour and doesn't have a clue how to approach the woman who's stolen his heart.



Then there is the not-so-small matter of local politics. With moves afoot to wipe his community from the map, Christian has to enter the fray once more to save the place that he cherishes.



In the midst of a sweltering heatwave and with the residents of Fogas at each other's throats over their future, the lovesick and embattled deputy mayor must decide if all really is fair in love and war.

Серия: Fogas Chronicles
Год: 2014
Производитель: Hodder & Stoughton
Артикул: 909677
ISBN: 9781444764444
Автор: Stagg Julia

A Field Guide to Reality
In this darkly ironic novel - a quest for truth, a satire, an elegy - Joanna Kavenna displays fearless originality and wit in confronting the strangeness of reality and how we contend with the death of those we love. Beautiful, ethereal drawings by Oly Ralfe illustrate this haunting journey through time, space and human understanding.
Год: 2017
Производитель: Riverrun
Артикул: 910347
ISBN: 9781780872322
Автор: Kavenna Joanna

A Fool's Alphabet
Reissued in new series style to match Faulks's most recent novel Where My Heart Used to Beat, which was a major Sunday Times bestseller in 2016



The events of Pietro Russell's life are told in 26 chapters. From A-Z each chapter is set in a different place and reveals a fragment of his story. As his memories flicker back and forth through time in his search for a resolution to the conflicts of his life, his story gradually unfolds
Год: 1993
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 884604
ISBN: 9780099223214
Автор: Faulks Sebastian

A Fraction of the Whole
From his prison cell, Jasper Dean tells the unlikely story of his scheming father Martin, his crazy Uncle Terry and how the three of them upset - mostly unintentionally - an entire continent. Incorporating death, parenting (good and bad kinds), one labyrinth, first love, a handbook for criminals, a scheme to make everyone rich and an explosive suggestion box, Steve Toltz's A Fraction of the Whole is a hilarious, heartbreaking story of families and how to survive them.
Год: 2009
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 886874
ISBN: 9780141031828
Автор: Toltz Steve

A French Affair
Some secrets are too devastating to be told...



When Natalie Moore is killed in a freak accident in France her mother - the very poised and elegant Jessica - knows instinctively there is more to it.However, Natalie's father - the glamorous, high-flying Charlie - is so paralysed by the horror of losing his daughter, that he refuses even to discuss his wife's suspicions.



In the end, when their marriage is rocked by yet another terrible shock, Jessica decides to go back to France alone in search of some answers.When she gets to the idyllic vineyard in the heart of Burgundy she soon finds a great deal more than she was expecting in a love that is totally forbidden and a truth that will almost certainly devastate her life.



Set during one long hot summer in a sleepy world of wine, food and romance, A French Affair is a deeply sensual and passionate story of love, resistance, loyalty and betrayal.
Год: 2007
Производитель: Arrow Books
Артикул: 885125
ISBN: 9780099492337
Автор: Lewis Susan

A Fresh Start
From wronged wives to nosy neighbours, from distant dads to new-found family, from secrets to lies, fresh starts to false endings - and everything in between...

A collection of brilliant short stories from the best writers around.

This collections contains original stories from Fanny Blake, Louise Candlish, Mike Gayle, Mari Hannah, Sophie Kinsella, Jojo Moyes, Adele Parks, Ian Rankin, Mahsuda Snaith and Keith Stuart.

Серия: Quick Reads
Год: 2020
Производитель: Orion
Артикул: 769555
ISBN: 9781409191957
Автор: Кэндлиш Луиза, Snaith Mahsuda, Stuart Keith

A Friend of the Family
A stranger in the house can only mean trouble



The London family is in crisis.



Newly-divorced Tony is fantasizing about someone he shouldn't.



Prize-winning writer Sean has a hot new girlfriend, and a dose of writer's block.



Their brother Ned has just come back from Australia, leaving his girlfriend behind.



And now they have a new lodger - a mysterious stranger.



But is he the friend this family needs, or a troublemaker they could do without?
Год: 2004
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 886404
ISBN: 9780140295979
Автор: Jewell Lisa

A Fugue in Time
Grizel Dane, a bold young servicewoman in the US army, arrives at the London home of her great-uncle Sir Rollo Dane seeking refuge from the chaos of wartime. Through the old man, Grizel learns the surprising history of the Dane family and Lark Ingoldsby.



Orphaned by a train crash, Lark was taken in by the Danes as an adoptive daughter but soon found herself caught in a web of sibling rivalry, love and attrition. Selina Dane, racked with jealousy, set out to destroy Lark s dreams of love. When Grizel falls for Pax Masterson, a wounded airman, Rollo urges her to seize her chance for happiness, as he was not able to.



A passionate story of romance and tragedy, A Fugue in Time inspired the classic film Enchantment starring David Niven and Teresa Wright.
Год: 2013
Производитель: Virgin books
Артикул: 910478
ISBN: 9781844088577
Автор: Godden Rumer

A Game of Ghosts
The Number One bestseller. It is deep winter. The darkness is unending. The private detective named Jaycob Eklund has vanished, and Charlie Parker is dispatched to track him down. Parker's employer, Edgar Ross, an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has his own reasons for wanting Eklund found. E... The Number One bestseller. It is deep winter. The darkness is unending. The private detective named Jaycob Eklund has vanished, and Charlie Parker is dispatched to track him down. Parker's employer, Edgar Ross, an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has his own reasons for wanting Eklund found. Eklund is no ordinary investigator. He is obsessively tracking a series of homicides and disappearances, each linked to reports of hauntings. Now Parker will be drawn into Eklund's world, a realm in which the monstrous Mother rules a crumbling criminal empire, in which men strike bargains with angels, and in which the innocent and guilty alike are pawns in a game of ghosts...
Год: 2018
Производитель: Hodder & Stoughton
Артикул: 691739
ISBN: 978-1-4736-4189-1
Автор: Connolly John

A Game of Thrones
HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A GAME OF THRONES is the first volume in the series.

`Completely immersive' Guardian

`When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground'

Summers span decades. Winter can last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Iron Throne has begun.

From the fertile south, where heat breeds conspiracy, to the vast and savage eastern lands, all the way to the frozen north, kings and queens, knights and renegades, liars, lords and honest men . . . all will play the Game of Thrones.

Серия: Song of Ice and Fire
Год: 2019
Производитель: Harper Voyager
Артикул: 692513
ISBN: 978-0-00-754823-1
Автор: Martin George R. R

A Game of Thrones
HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R. R. Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A GAME OF THRONES is the first volume in the series.

Kings and queens, knights and renegades, liars, lords and honest men... all will play the GAME OF THRONES.

Summers span decades. Winter can last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Iron Throne has begun.

It will stretch from the south, where heat breeds plot, lusts and intrigues; to the vast and savage eastern lands; all the way to the frozen north, where a 700-foot wall of ice protects the kingdom from the dark forces that lie beyond. The Game of Thrones. You win, or you die.

Book One of A Song of Ice and Fire begins the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age.

Winter is coming...

Серия: Song of Ice and Fire
Год: 2011
Производитель: Harper Voyager
Артикул: 795134
ISBN: 9780007428540
Автор: Martin George R. R

A General Theory of Oblivion
The brilliant new novel from the winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.



On the eve of Angolan independence, Ludo bricks herself into her apartment, where she will remain for the next thirty years. She lives off vegetables and pigeons, burns her furniture and books to stay alive and keeps herself busy by writing her story on the walls of her home.



The outside world slowly seeps into Ludo s life through snippets on the radio, voices from next door, glimpses of a man fleeing his pursuers and a note attached to a bird s foot. Until one day she meets Sabalu, a young boy from the street who climbs up to her terrace.
Год: 2016
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 972772
ISBN: 9780099593126
Автор: Agualusa Jose Eduardo

A Gentleman in Moscow
***Soon to be a major TV series starring Kenneth Branagh***

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ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2017

ONE OF BILL GATES'S SUMMER READS OF 2019

NOMINATED FOR THE 2018 INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLERS WEEK AWARD

`This novel is astonishing, uplifting and wise. Don't miss it' Chris Cleave

`No historical novel this year was more witty, insightful or original than Amor Towles's A Gentleman in Moscow' Sunday Times, Books of the Year

`Charming ... shows that not all books about Russian aristocrats have to be full of doom and nihilism' The Times, Books of the Year

'[A] supremely uplifting novel ... It's elegant, witty and delightful - much like the Count himself.' Mail on Sunday, Books of the Year

On 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol.

Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count has been sentenced to house arrest indefinitely. But instead of his usual suite, he must now live in an attic room while Russia undergoes decades of tumultuous upheaval.

Can a life without luxury be the richest of all?
Год: 2019
Производитель: Random House
Артикул: 729337
ISBN: 9780099558781
Автор: Towles Amor

A Gift from Bob
Now a major motion picture starring Luke Treadaway as James and Bob the Cat, coming this November. A festive standalone special from the stars of the bestselling A Street Cat Named Bob, as they spend a cold and challenging December on the streets of London together in a new adventure.

Originally published as A Gift from Bob, this festive standalone special sees the return of James and Bob, stars of the bestselling A Street Cat Named Bob, as they spend a cold and challenging December on the streets of London together in a new adventure. Now a major motion picture starring Luke Treadaway and Bob himself, coming November 6.

From the day James rescued a street cat abandoned in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation, they began a friendship which has transformed both their lives and, through the bestselling books A Street Cat Named Bob and The World According to Bob, touched millions around the world.

In this new story of their journey together, James looks back at the last Christmas they spent scraping a living on the streets and how Bob helped him through one of his toughest times - providing strength, friendship and inspiration but also teaching him important lessons about the true meaning of Christmas along the way.
Год: 2015
Производитель: Hodder & Stoughton
Артикул: 781898
ISBN: 9781473605800
Автор: Bowen James

A Girl Returned
Without warning or explanation, a 13-year-old girl is sent away from the family she has always thought of as hers to live with her birth family: a large, chaotic household that is anything but welcoming. Thus begins a new life, one of struggle, tension, and conflict, especially between the girl and her mother. But in her relationship with her newly acquired sister Adriana, she will find the strength to start again and build a new and enduring sense of self.



Told with great immediacy and intensity A Girl Returned is a powerful novel rendered with sensitivity and verve by Ann Goldstein, translator of the works of Elena Ferrante. Set against the stark landscape of Abruzzo, it tells a compelling story about mothers and daughters, about families and responsibilities.
Год: 2020
Производитель: Europa Editions
Артикул: 954414
ISBN: 9781787702653
Автор: Di Pietrantonio Donatella

A Glove Shop in Vienna and Other Stories
Curl up with a collection of romantic short stories taking you from nineteenth-century Vienna, over the wild moors of Northumberland to the snowy streets of pre-revolutionary St Petersberg.



A collection of eighteen romantic short stories from the award-winning and much-loved Eva Ibbotson, A Glove Shop in Vienna will show you the great passions and astute observations of everyday life. Join Great-Uncle Max, torn between his grand and secret love for Susie, the enchanting glove shop assistant, and the devotion of his opera-singing wife. Meet Miss Bennett, drama mistress at the fading Markham Street Primary School, whose search for a baby Jesus for the nativity play yields unexpected and miraculous results. And agonise with Kira, a dancer in Russia's Imperial Ballet school, thrown out onto the streets of St. Petersburg, and found by Edwin, a lonely dreamer.



A chocolate-box collection of deliciously romantic, atmospheric and witty stories to lose yourself in this Christmas.
Год: 2020
Производитель: Macmillan
Артикул: 902649
ISBN: 9781529023039
Автор: Ibbotson Eva

A God in Ruins
The stunning companion to Kate Atkinson's #1 bestseller Life After Life, "one of the best novels I've read this century" (Gillian Flynn).

"He had been reconciled to death during the war and then suddenly the war was over and there was a next day and a next day. Part of him never adjusted to having a future."

Kate Atkinson's dazzling Life After Life explored the possibility of infinite chances and the power of choices, following Ursula Todd as she lived through the turbulent events of the last century over and over again.

A God in Ruins tells the dramatic story of the 20th Century through Ursula's beloved younger brother Teddy--would-be poet, heroic pilot, husband, father, and grandfather-as he navigates the perils and progress of a rapidly changing world. After all that Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge is living in a future he never expected to have.

An ingenious and moving exploration of one ordinary man's path through extraordinary times, A God In Ruins proves once again that Kate Atkinson is one of the finest novelists of our age.
Год: 2018
Производитель: Black Swan
Артикул: 527805
ISBN: 9780552776646, 978-1-78416-115-6
Автор: Atkinson Kate

A Good Neighbourhood
A Good Neighbourhood explores how class, race and star-crossed love will change two families' lives forever... Perfect for fans of Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere.



A forbidden romance is blossoming in the tight-knit community of Oak Knoll.



No one's realised it yet - they've been too busy watching the rich, white Whitman family move into their newly built house. They've been watching Brad Whitman, with his new money and apparently traditional values, fight his neighbour over the historic oak tree dividing their properties. But what they haven't noticed is that the Whitman girl is falling in love with the biracial boy next door.



It is a love that will shatter the constructs of class and race in this small town.



It is a love that might destroy everything...
Год: 2021
Производитель: Headline
Артикул: 942537
ISBN: 9781472269362
Автор: Fowler Therese Anne

A Good Woman (на английском языке)
Издание полностью на английском языке.

Annabelle Worthington, born into a life of privilege, was raised amid the glamour of New York society.But everything changes on a cold April day in 1912, when the sinking of the Titanic alters her world forever.

Finding strength within her grief, Annabelle throws herself into volunteer work, nursing the poor and igniting a passion for medicine that will shape the course of her life. But a seemingly idyllic marriage brings more grief, and pursued by a scandal she does not deserve Annabelle flees New York for war-ravaged France.

There she finds her true calling, working as an ambulance medic on the front lines. When the war ends, Annabelle begins a new life in Paris now a doctor and mother, her past almost forgotten. . . until a fateful meeting opens her heart to the world she had left behind.
Год: 2012
Производитель: Corgi book
Артикул: 329104
ISBN: 9780552158428
Автор: Steel Danielle

A Good Year
Max Skinner is a man at the heart of London's financial universe until his employers embark on a little asset-stripping of their own. Himself. Amid the grey London drizzle, there is one potential ray of sunshine: Max's Uncle Harry has left him his estate in his will - an eighteenth-century chateau and vineyard an hour's drive from Avignon. Out of a job, and encouraged by his friend Charlie about the money in modern wine, he heads for France.What Max discovers is a beautiful house, wonderful weather and a bustling village. The downside is the quality of the wine in his vineyard, but when Max suggests calling in an expert, Roussel, a former employee of his uncle's, is resistant. Help is at hand, however, when a beautiful blonde Californian arrives unexpectedly at the chateau. Peter Mayle's delightful novel will enchant the audiences who bought A Year in Provence and Toujours Provence in their millions.
Год: 2013
Производитель: Sphere
Артикул: 909042
ISBN: 9780751539660
Автор: Mayle Peter

A Grain of Wheat
A masterly story of myth, rebellion, love, friendship and betrayal from one of Africa's great writers, Ngugi wa Thiong'o's A Grain of Wheat includes an introduction by Abdulrazak Gurnah, author of By the Sea, in Penguin Modern Classics.



It is 1963 and Kenya is on the verge of Uhuru - Independence Day. The mighty british government has been toppled, and in the lull between the fighting and the new world, colonized and colonizer alike reflect on what they have gained and lost. In the village of Thabai, the men and women who live there have been transformed irrevocably by the uprising. Kihika, legendary rebel leader, was fatally betrayed to the whiteman. Gikonyo's marriage to the beautiful Mumbi was destroyed when he was imprisoned, while her life has been shattered in other ways. And Mugo, brave survivor of the camps and now a village hero, harbours a terrible secret. As events unfold, compromises are forced, friendships are betrayed and loves are tested.



Kenyan novelist and playwright Ngugi wa Thiong'o is the author of Weep Not Child (1964), The River Between (1965), and Petals of Blood (1977). Ngugi was chair of the Department of Literature at the University of Nairobi from 1972 to 1977. He left Kenya in 1982 and taught at various universities in the United States before he became professor of comparative literature and performance studies at New York University in 1992.

Серия: Penguin Modern Classics
Год: 2002
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 887245
ISBN: 9780141186993
Автор: Thiong`o Ngugi wa

A Grand Old Time
Heartwarming, hilarious and fun the perfect read for anyone who loved Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, A Man Called Ove, Ruth Jones and JoJo Moyes.



Evie Gallagher is regretting her hasty move into a care home. She may be seventy-five and recently widowed, but she s absolutely not dead yet. And so, one morning, Evie walks out of Sheldon Lodge and sets off on a Great Adventure across Europe.



But not everyone thinks Great Adventures are appropriate for women of Evie s age, least of all her son Brendan and his wife Maura, who follow a trail of puzzling text messages to bring her home.



When they finally catch up with her, there are shocks in store . . . because while Brendan may have given up on life and love, Evie certainly has not.
Год: 2018
Производитель: Avon
Артикул: 897823
ISBN: 9780008269197
Автор: Leigh Judy

A Gun for Sale
The forerunner in its tone and themes to Greene's masterpiece Brighton Rock, A Gun for Sale is a noir thriller shot through with violence, betrayal and tormented souls. With an introduction by Robert Macfarlane.



Raven is a ruthless assassin, a hired killer, whose cold-blooded murder of the Minister for War will have violent repercussions across Europe. As the nation prepares for battle, Raven goes on the run, hunted by the police and in search of the man who paid him in stolen banknotes, eventually unearthing the terrible truth behind his deadly assignment.
Год: 2020
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 884714
ISBN: 9780099286141
Автор: Greene Graham

A Hat Full of Sky (на английском языке)
Издание полностью на английском языке.

No real witch would casually step out of their body, leaving it empty. Tiffany Aching does. And there's something just waiting for a handy body to take over. Something ancient and horrible, which can't die. To deal with it, Tiffany has to go to the heart of what makes her a witch. Get past the 'I can't'. But even with the help of the Nac Mac Feegle - the rowdiest pictsies on the Disc, who like facing enormous odds - she still might not be able to win herself back .
Год: 2012
Производитель: Corgi book
Артикул: 329073
ISBN: 9780552562911
Автор: Pratchett Terry

A Heart So White
A Heart so White is the breathtaking international bestseller and IMPAC Award-winning masterpiece by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013. This Penguin Modern Classics edition features a new Introduction by Jonathan Coe.



A Heart so White begins as, In the middle of a family lunch Teresa, just married, goes to the bathroom, unbuttons her blouse and shoots herself in the heart. What made her kill herself immediately after her honeymoon? Years later, this mystery fascinates the young newlywed Juan, whose father was married to Teresa before he married Juan's mother. As Juan edges closer to the truth, he begins to question his own relationships, and whether he really wants to know what happened. Haunting and unsettling, A Heart So White is a breathtaking portrayal of two generations, two marriages, the relentless power of the past and the terrible price of knowledge.

Серия: Penguin Modern Classics
Год: 2012
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 887564
ISBN: 9780141199955
Автор: Marias Javier

A History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011



Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10? Chapters presents a surprising and subversive fictional-history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives. Noah disembarks from his ark but he and his Voyage are not forgotten: they are revisited in on other centuries and other climes - by a Victorian spinster mourning her father, by an American astronaut on an obsessive personal mission. We journey to the Titanic, to the Amazon, to the raft of the Medusa, and to an ecclesiastical court in medieval France where a bizarre case is about to begin...



This is no ordinary history, but something stranger; a challenge and a delight for the reader's imagination. Ambitious yet accessible, witty and playfully serious, this is the work of a brilliant novelist.
Год: 2009
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 885570
ISBN: 9780099540120
Автор: Barnes Julian

A History of Loneliness
Odran Yates enters Clonliffe Seminary in 1972 after his mother informs him that he has a vocation to the priesthood. He goes in full of ambition and hope, dedicated to his studies and keen to make friends.



Forty years later, Odran s devotion has been challenged by the revelations that have shattered the Irish people s faith in the church. He has seen friends stand trial, colleagues jailed, the lives of young parishioners destroyed and has become nervous of venturing out in public for fear of disapproving stares and insulting remarks.



But when a family tragedy opens wounds from his past, he is forced to confront the demons that have raged within a once respected institution and recognise his own complicity in their propagation.

It has taken John Boyne fifteen years and twelve novels to write about his home country of Ireland but he has done so now in his most powerful novel to date, a novel about blind dogma and moral courage, and about the dark places where the two can meet. At once courageous and intensely personal, A History of Loneliness confirms Boyne as one of the most searching chroniclers of his generation.
Год: 2015
Производитель: Black Swan
Артикул: 889939
ISBN: 9780552778435
Автор: Boyne John

A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011. Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10 Chapters presents a surprising and subversive fictional-history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives. Noah disembarks from his ark but he and his Voyage are not forgotten- they are revisited in on other centuries and other climes - by a Victorian spinster mourning her father, by an American astronaut on an obsessive personal mission. We journey to the Titanic, to the Amazon, to the raft of the Medusa, and to an ecclesiastical court in medieval France where a bizarre case is about to begin...This is no ordinary history, but something stranger; a challenge and a delight for the reader's imagination. Ambitious yet accessible, witty and playfully serious, this is the work of a brilliant novelist.

Серия: Vintage Classics Library
Год: 2017
Производитель: Random House
Артикул: 590772
ISBN: 978-1-78487-137-6
Автор: Barnes Julian

A Home From Home
Sunshine, cider and family secrets...



Dragonfly Farm has been a home and a haven for generations of Melchiors - arch rivals to the Culbones, the wealthy family who live on the other side of the river. Life there is dictated by the seasons and cider-making, and everyone falls under its spell.



For cousins Tabitha and Georgia, it has always been a home from home. When a tragedy befalls their beloved Great-Uncle Matthew, it seems the place where they've always belonged might now belong to them...



But the will reveals that a third of the farm has also been left to a Culbone. Gabriel has no idea why he's been included, or what his connection to the farm - or the Melchiors - can be.



As the first apples start to fall for the cider harvest, will Dragonfly Farm begin to give up its secrets?



A Home from Home is the very best of Veronica Henry's storytelling - gorgeous scenes you wish you could step into, a cast of characters who feel like friends, and an irresistibly feel-good family drama crossing three generations.
Год: 2019
Производитель: Orion
Артикул: 905321
ISBN: 9781409183525
Автор: Henry Veronica

A Horse Walks into a Bar
The setting is a comedy club in a small Israeli town. An audience that has come expecting an evening of amusement instead sees a comedian falling apart on stage; an act of disintegration, a man crumbling, as a matter of choice, before their eyes. They could get up and leave, or boo and whistle and drive him from the stage, if they were not so drawn to glimpse his personal hell. Dovaleh G, a veteran stand-up comic charming, erratic, repellent exposes a wound he has been living with for years: a fateful and gruesome choice he had to make between the two people who were dearest to him.



A Horse Walks into a Bar is a shocking and breathtaking read. Betrayals between lovers, the treachery of friends, guilt demanding redress. Flaying alive both himself and the people watching him, Dovaleh G provokes both revulsion and empathy from an audience that doesn t know whether to laugh or cry and all this in the presence of a former childhood friend who is trying to understand why he s been summoned to this performance.
Год: 2016
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 891481
ISBN: 9781784704223
Автор: Grossman David

A House for Alice
After fifty years in London, Alice wants to live out her days in the land of her birth. Her children are divided on whether she stays or goes, and in the wake of their father's death, the imagined stability of the family begins to fray.



Meanwhile youngest daughter Melissa has never let go of a love she lost, and Michael in return, now married to Nicole, is haunted by the failed perfection of the past. As Alice's final decision draws closer, all that is hidden between them rises to the surface . . .



Set against the shadows of a city and a country in turmoil, Diana Evans's ordinary people confront fundamental questions. How should we raise our children? How to do right by our parents? And how, in the midst of everything, can we satisfy ourselves?
Год: 2023
Производитель: Chatto & Windus
Артикул: 972781
ISBN: 9781784744267
Автор: Evans Diana

A House for Mr Biswas
Heart-rending and darkly comic, V. S. Naipaul s A House for Mr Biswas has been hailed as one of the twentieth century s finest novels, a classic that evokes a man s quest for autonomy against the backdrop of post-colonial Trinidad.



Mr Biswas has been told since the day of his birth that misfortune will follow him and so it has. Meaning only to avoid punishment, he causes the death of his father and the dissolution of his family. Wanting simply to flirt with a beautiful woman, he ends up marrying her. But in spite of endless setbacks, Mr Biswas is determined to achieve independence, and so he begins the gruelling struggle to buy a home of his own.



Part of the Picador Collection, a new series showcasing the best of modern literature.

Серия: Picador Collection
Год: 2022
Производитель: Picador
Артикул: 955382
ISBN: 9781529077193
Автор: Naipaul V S

A Hunger
From the prizewinning author of God's Own Country and A Natural comes a moving and intimate exploration of marriage, devotion and sacrifice, and a woman's enduring search for freedom.



A Hunger is the story of Anita: a talented sous chef at a high-end London restaurant. At home, however, her husband Patrick is suffering from dementia and declining rapidly. As she is thrown between two conflicting worlds - the exciting bustle of her kitchen and her exhausting new role as a carer - Anita must make a decision: about her husband's future, as well as her own. Should she free them both by acting on his last plea for mercy, or should she remain faithful to the person Patrick once used to be? A decision complicated by ambition and the guilt of her own past - and by her intensifying friendship with another man, Peter, and the temptation of a new life.



A Hunger is a novel about love and sacrifice; how illness and duty affect ordinary lives. With tenderness and precision, Ross Raisin explores what it means to look after somebody at the end of a life; what we owe to our loved ones, and to ourselves.
Год: 2022
Производитель: Jonathan Cape
Артикул: 893002
ISBN: 9781910702659
Автор: Raisin Ross

A Keeper
Dear Lonely Leinster Lady,

I'm not really sure how to begin...



The truth drifts out to sea, riding the waves out of sight. And then the tide turns.



Elizabeth Keane returns to Ireland after her mother's death, intent only on wrapping up that dismal part of her life. There is nothing here for her; she wonders if there ever was. The house of her childhood is stuffed full of useless things, her mother's presence already fading. And perhaps, had she not found the small stash of letters, the truth would never have come to light.



40 years earlier, a young woman stumbles from a remote stone house, the night quiet but for the tireless wind that circles her as she hurries further into the darkness away from the cliffs and the sea. She has no sense of where she is going, only that she must keep on.



This compelling new novel confirms Graham Norton's status as a fresh, literary voice, bringing his clear-eyed understanding of human nature and its darkest flaws.
Год: 2019
Производитель: Coronet
Артикул: 905931
ISBN: 9781473664999
Автор: Norton Graham

A Kestrel for a Knave
Billy Casper is a boy with nowhere to go and nothing to say; part of the limbo generation of school leavers too old for lessons and too young to know anything about the outside world. He hates and is hated. His family and friends are mean and tough and they're sure he's going to end up in big trouble. But Billy knows two things about his own world. He'll never work down the mines and he does know about animals. His only companion is his kestrel hawk, trained from the nest, and, like himself, trained but not tamed, with the will to destroy or to be destroyed. This in not just another book about growing up in the north - it's as real as a slap in the face to those who think that orange juice and comprehensive schools have taken the meanness out of life in the raw working towns.
Год: 1968
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 886275
ISBN: 9780140029529
Автор: Hines Barry

A Kestrel for a Knave
With prose that is every bit as raw, intense and bitingly honest as the world it depicts, Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knave contains a new afterword by the author in Penguin Modern Classics.



Life is tough and cheerless for Billy Casper, a troubled teenager growing up in the small Yorkshire mining town of Barnsley. Treated as a failure at school, and unhappy at home, Billy discovers a new passion in life when he finds Kes, a kestrel hawk. Billy identifies with her silent strength and she inspires in him the trust and love that nothing else can, discovering through her the passion missing from his life. Barry Hines's acclaimed novel continues to reach new generations of teenagers and adults with its powerful story of survival in a tough, joyless world.



Ken Loach's renowned film adaptation, Kes, has achieved cult status and in his new afterword Barry Hines discusses his work to adapt the novel into a screenplay, and reappraises the legacy of a book that has become a popular classic.



Barry Hines (b. 1939) was born in the mining village of Hoyland Common, near Barnsley, South Yorkshire. Leaving Ecclesfield Grammar School without any qualifications, Hines worked as an apprentice mining surveyor for the National Coal Board before entering Loughborough Training College to study Physical Education. Working as a teacher in Hoyland Common, he wrote novels in the school library after work, later turning to writing full-time.

Серия: Penguin Modern Classics
Год: 2000
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 887181
ISBN: 9780141184982
Автор: Hines Barry

A Kestrel for a Knave
The classic book that inspired Kes, the famous film, now published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.



Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knave was published in 1968, and was made into one of the key British films of the sixties. Billy Casper is beaten by his drunken brother, ignored by his mother and failing at school. He seems destined for a hard, miserable life down the pits, but for a brief time, he finds one pleasure in life: a wild kestrel that he has raised and tamed himself.

Серия: Penguin Essentials
Год: 2016
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 889318
ISBN: 9780241978962
Автор: Hines Barry

A Kind Man
A transfixing parable of greed, goodness and an extraordinary miracle from the author of The Woman in Black.



Tommy Carr was a kind man; Eve had been able to tell that after half an hour of knowing him. There had never been a day when he had not shown her some small kindness and even after the tragic death of their young daughter, their relationship remained as strong as before. Grief takes its toll however, and it s not surprising that by the following Christmas, Tommy is a shadow of his former self, with the look of death upon him.



But what happens next is entirely unexpected, not least for the kind man...
Год: 2012
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 885738
ISBN: 9780099555445
Автор: Hill Susan

A Kiss Before Dying
A powerful, hard-hitting adult story of murder and suspense by one of America's foremost novelists, which since its publication in 1954, has been made into several very successful feature films.

A young man, finding out that his girlfriend is pregnant, cold-bloodedly adjusts his plans for marrying into a hugely wealthy and influential industrialist family. Throughout his life he has used his intelligence, good manners, charm, striking good looks, and as a last resort, his ruthless and violent strength, to achieve what he wants, and he refuses to be thwarted now.

Серия: Macmillan Readers
Год: 2016
Производитель: Macmillan Education
Артикул: 577987
ISBN: 9780230030473
Автор: Levin Ira

A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms
A century before A Game Of Thrones, two unlikely heroes wandered Westeros

A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms compiles the first three official prequel novellas to George R.R. Martin's ongoing masterwork, A Song Of Ice And Fire.

Almost a century before A Game of Thrones, two unlikely heroes wandered Westeros

In an age when the Targaryen line still holds the Iron Throne, and recollections of the last dragon have not yet passed from living memory, a naive but courageous hedge knight, Ser Duncan the Tall, towers above his rivals - in stature if not experience.

Tagging along with him is his diminutive squire, a boy called Egg, whose true identity must be kept hidden: for in reality he is Aegon Targaryen, and one day he will be king. Improbable heroes though they be, great destinies lie ahead for Dunk and Egg; as do powerful foes, royal intrigue, and outrageous exploits.
Год: 2017
Производитель: Harper Voyager
Артикул: 630807
ISBN: 978-0-00-823809-4
Автор: Martin George R. R