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Классический, удостоенный Букеровской премии роман «самой английской писательницы» XX века, одна из вершин психологической прозы автора. Герой книги Чарлз Эрроуби, режиссе...
Роман известной писательницы посвящен остросоциальной проблеме западного мира - проблеме одиночества, отчуждения, ставших нормой взаимоотношений между людьми. Пим удалось ...
In The Road to Lichfield, Penelope Lively explores the nature of history and memory as it is embodied in the life of a forty-year-old woman, Anne Linton, who unexpectedly ...
Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood’s masterpiece. Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwood was celebrated as a great beauty and dazzling raconteur long before sh...
Peter Smart's mother is a comic monster. Only Wagner could do her justice, is one friend's opinion. She's matched by Dr F. Leonard Cottie, a retired physician, who employs...
Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, retired, they chose instead to remain in the...
The Children Of Dynmouth - a classic prize-winning novel by William Trevor
Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain.
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A dramatic story set in Spain, with an interesting subtext from Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens.
A novel of suspense and dark passion that peels away the veneer of modern...
Shortlisted for the 1976 Booker Prize, this is a novel about an ordinary woman, in the middle of her life, seized by love for a younger man. The author also wrote "The Col...
Андре Бринк — один из нескольких южноафриканских писателей, пользующихся мировой известностью. Роман «Мгновенье на ветру» — среди его лучших. Сюжет его несложен: белая жен...
Новый роман известного писателя посвящен судьбам английской молодежи. Герой книги - юноша из рабочей, шахтерской семьи. Ему удается получить образование и стать учителем, ...
In November 1918, in a railway carriage in a forest near Paris, six men meet to negotiate an end to the terrible slaughter of the First World War. Threatened by famine and...
The beautiful, spoiled and bored Olivia, married to a civil servant, outrages society in the tiny, suffocating town of Satipur by eloping with an Indian prince. Fifty year...
The basics-only, going nowhere lives of Freda and scruffy Brenda, the only two English women in a London bottle factory full of Italian immigrants, are shattered during a ...
Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. His wife, son, and mistress leave ...
Брэдли Пирсон, стареющий писатель, переживает творческий кризис. Окруженный требующими постоянного внимания и заботы родственниками, терзаемый бывшей женой, он пытается на...
If Liverpool in 1944 was grim for Rita and her aunts Nellie and Margo, Rita knew that life in America was gay and rich - she'd seen it in the movies. So when a GI came to ...
Winner of the Booker Prize.
India, 1857—the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their British overlords. This time of convulsio...
A teacher oppressed by the futility of everyday life embarks on a dark affair in this extraordinary novel that won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was shortlisted fo...