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Вьетнамская война подходит к концу. Падение Сайгона лишь вопрос времени. Это понимают все. Американцы медленно выводят свои войска из страны. Теперь уже бывший президент о...
Stevie comes from a long line of people who have cut and run. Just like he has.
Only he’s not so sure he was right to go. He’s been to London, taught himself to get by...
'Know that there were three tables there. The first was the Round Table, with King Arthur as companion and lord. The second, the Table of Errant Companions, were those who...
A stunning novel about faith, innocence and sin, the tale of an unusual rite of passage with terrible consequences by the prize-winning young author of The Land of Decorat...
"Dearest Miu,
The sun is piercing, old bastard sky. I am feeling empty and bare. Nothing is in my soul, apart from the image of you.
I am writing to you from the place...
Longlisted for The Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
Xing Li is what some Chinese people call a banana - yellow on the outside and white on the inside. Although born an...
“That was the day that Mama made the rules: If they come, run. Be quiet and run. But not together. Never together. If one is found, at least the other survives….”
Durin...
The Shore. A collection of small islands sticking out from the coast of Virginia into the Atlantic Ocean that has been home to generations of fierce and resilient women. S...
kaleidoscopic masterpiece of empire and rebellion by Kamila Shamsie, the Orange Prize shortlisted and Granta Best of Young British Novelist
In the summer of 1914 a youn...
Heather O’Neill charmed readers in the hundreds of thousands with her sleeper hit, Lullabies for Little Criminals, which documented with a rare and elusive magic the life ...
From acclaimed Orange Prize and "Guardian First Book Award" finalist Samantha Harvey, a stunning novel of female friendship, betrayal, and revenge
"You were going to wo...
Longlisted for the 2015 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, Aren't We Sisters? is a gripping novel about buried secrets and unlikely friendship.
Norah Thornby can no longer...
Флора-717 — работник низшего уровня в пчелином улье. В тоталитарном обществе каждый должен быть готов пожертвовать всем ради Королевы. А нужно еще пережить религиозные чи...
У восьмидесятилетней Мод Стенли серьезные проблемы с памятью. Она моментально забывает все, что произошло с нею буквально пять минут назад. Порою даже не может вспомнить с...
When Noel Bostock – aged ten, no family - is evacuated from London to escape the Blitz, he ends up living in St Albans with Vera Sedge - thirty-six and drowning in debts a...
Роман современной канадско-британской писательницы Рейчел Каск (род. 1968), собравший множество премий, состоит из десяти встреч и разговоров. Нестерпимо жарким летом в Аф...
Сара Уотерс — современный классик, «автор настолько блестящий, что читатели готовы верить каждому ее слову» (Daily Mail). О данном романе газета Financial Times писала: «С...
Эйлин Данлоп всегда считала себя несчастной и обиженной жизнью. Ее мать умерла после тяжелой болезни; отец, отставной полицейский в небольшом городке, стал алкоголиком, а ...
This stunning, exquisitely written collection introduces a cast of remarkable characters whose lives intersect in ways both life-affirming and heartbreaking. A 1930s Sovie...
