There are histories beneath history.
After a ten-year hiatus, British academic Andrew Hale is abruptly called back into the Great Game by a terse, cryptic telephone me...
Перед вами - знаменитая эпопея «Песнь льда и огня».
Эпическая, чеканная сага о мире Семи Королевств.
О мире суровых земель вечного холода и радостных земель вечного лета...
Leningrad, September 1941. German tanks surround the city, imprisoning those who live there. The besieged people of Leningrad face shells, starvation, and the Russian wint...
The raucous novel that won the prestigious Whitbread Novel Award, Twelve Bar Blues is a virtuoso epic tale of fate and family, jazz and juju that spans three continents an...
When a mummy in the Museum of Albion is unpacked it is found to contain a bundle of curious objects and documents which tell of the wanderings of an unknown woman, Leto.
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Amazon.comIn her fifth novel, award-winning writer Jane Urquhart interweaves the sweeping power of big historical events with small but very moving personal stories. Klara...
Vishnu, the odd-job man in a Bombay apartment block, lies dying on the staircase landing. Around him the lives of the apartment dwellers unfold - the warring housewives on...
Последний роман лауреата Нобелевской премии 2001 года английского писателя В. С. Найпола (р. 1932) критики сравнивают с "Кандидом" Вольтера. Из провинциальной Индии судьба...
This ingenious and inventive novel—nominated for the Book Prize Long List for 2001 from the award-winning author of Jem (and Sam)—at once comprises an autobiography of Ald...
At 2.20am on 13th November 1952 the body of nineteen-year-old Patricia Curran was carried into the family doctor's surgery. She had been stabbed thirty-seven times... The ...
Свой последний роман букеровский лауреат 1994 года Джеймс Келман (р. 1946) писал семь лет. Примерно столько же читателям понадобится, чтобы понять, о чем он. "Настоящий те...
An enchanting blend of humour and crisp observation in a story of Jewish exiles in Britain. Set in wartime and post-war England Wolfy and the Strudelbakers is a comic take...
У вас есть дети, бездельник муж с прострелами в спине, всегда готовый к кухонной склоке и куча семейных проблем, которым вы отчаялись найти решение. Но вот появляется ГудН...
"Refugee", I said, pointing at my chest. "Asylum". When Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport late one afternoon, he has a badly faked passport and exhibits no knowledge o...
There is conflict in the whanau. The young man, Te Rua, holds a secret for life, the one to die with. But he realizes that if he is to acknowledge and claim his daughter, ...
When Julie Summers's car breaks down on a street in Cape Town, a young Arab mechanic comes to her aid. Their attraction to each other is immediate. Julia, the daughter of ...
In pre-war Germany, two boys grow up together inseparable. However, as adulthood approaches and Nazism continues its inexorable march, Dahl and Quantz can no longer reconc...
Магическая субстанция позволяет героям "Чая из трилистника" проникнуть внутрь знаменитой картины Яна ван Эйка "Двойной портрет Арнольфини", и они обретают способность с пр...
This novel takes up where The Soldier's Return left off, following the lives of the Richardson family from 1947 to the mid-1950s. The terrible upheavals of the Second Worl...
Clarice Pike and Vic Warren are from completely different backgrounds. An impossible affair has already driven them thousands of miles apart. 1939 finds Clarice in Malaya,...