Edward is throwing a dinner party with Binny , his mistress. Aware that she has long been denied those small intimacies that his wife takes for granted - choosing a birthd...
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 ...
Recognised as a small masterpiece when first published in 1977, and shortlisted for the Booker Prize. A poignant novel about a boy in Derry jolted into early adulthood by ...
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...
<p>Полковник Британской Армии и его жена Люси предпочли остаться в небольшом городке в Индии с его эксцентричными жителями и архаичными ритуалами после того, как страна по...
“Shines with elusive insights about persons we recognize at once as acquaintances and friends, caught briefly in events that are part of their upper-class life, part of th...
As in the best of Jules Verne or Albert Sanchez Pinol, The Balloonist is a gripping and surreal yarn, chilling and comic by turn, that brilliantly reinvents the Arctic adv...
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Впервые на русском - "самый тонкий и проникновенный", по выражению критиков, роман современного американского классика Ричарда Йейтса, автора прославленной "Дороги перемен...
One of the most acclaimed novels of the late 20th century is back.
When members of the National Book Critics Circle were polled to see which book they would most like t...
""Гедонистические семидесятые"" — под суровым взором престарелого провинциала, в образе жизни которого воплощаются патриархальные идеалы ""одноэтажной Америки"", и его сес...
Все началось с того, что в провинциальном американском городке стали пропадать люди — поодиночке и целыми семьями. Их не могли найти ни родственники, ни даже полиция. А ко...
Молодой писатель Ричард Кольер, случайно увидев старинную фотографию Элизы Маккенны, некогда знаменитой актрисы, внезапно влюбляется в нее. В отчаянном стремлении соединит...
The Children Of Dynmouth - a classic prize-winning novel by William Trevor
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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...
Sabino - the outcast member of a rich mine-owning family - is renowned for his arrogance and brutality. For reasons of personal revenge, he agrees to lead an expedition to...
Андре Бринк — один из нескольких южноафриканских писателей, пользующихся мировой известностью. Роман «Мгновенье на ветру» — среди его лучших. Сюжет его несложен: белая жен...