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Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction
Kate Flynn has always been a clever girl, brought up to believe in herself as something special. Now Kate is forty-three and...
"Always trust a stranger," said David’s mother when he returned from Rome. "It’s the people you know who let you down."
Half a life later, David is Father Anderton, a Cat...
In a London squat, a band of bourgeois revolutionaries unite in their loathing for the waste and cruelty they see in the world around them. But soon they become involved i...
Spending the holiday with friends, as she has for many years, Camilla finds that their private absorptions - Frances with her painting and Liz with her baby - seem to excl...
Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright...
<p>Холодная война должна была перейти в горячую, все это знали и готовились заранее, машины не дают осечек, и обе стороны создали мощные боевые компьютеры, которые, объеди...
Aickman lures us into eerie psychic realms where the commonplace becomes horrific, where fantasy and reality interweave, where the innocent are unwitting prey. And we too ...
The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman’s courageous flight to freedom with her eight children.
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<p>Футуристическая фантастическая притча о технократическом обществе, в котором социальное разделение между пролетариатом и управителями грозит перерасти в самоубийственно...
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
Maureen Callahan
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(118)A gripping tour de force of investigative journalism that takes us deep into the investigation behind one of the most frightening and enigmatic serial killers in modern Am...
Clifton Vakansie court dans les rues de Saint-Laurent, sa ville natale, sur les rives du Maroni, en Guyane. Il court dans un paysage de tôles et de parpaings, en direction...
You’ve never read a book like The Reason I Jump. Written by Naoki Higashida, a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, it is a on...
<p>В роще найден труп мужчины. Для восстановления картины убийства читателю предлагаются свидетельские показания дровосека, странствующего монаха, стражника, старухи, приз...
Hammered out on a prison typewriter, Cherry marks the arrival of a raw, bleakly hilarious, and surprisingly poignant voice straight from the dark heart of America.
Clevela...
Henry Joseph Darger, Jr. (ca. April 12, 1892 – April 13, 1973) was a reclusive American writer and artist who worked as a custodian in Chicago, Illinois. He has become fa...
Since his death in 1973, Henry Darger, janitor, orphan, writer and artist, has found increasing posthumous fame as an artist of influence, particularly for a generation of...
One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these women, and more than a hundred other girls in t...