When Maria turns twenty, she falls in love. She is in the wrong town, and he is the wrong sort of man. Going through his things, she finds a photo of herself when she was ...
In 1922, Edith Thompson and her young lover Frederick were tried for the murder of Edith's husband. The sensational trial unravelled an illicit love affair, a backstreet a...
Два незадачливых ветерана Второй мировой войны становятся, несмотря на все различия между ними, лучшими друзьями на всю жизнь. Арчи Джонс, чистокровный британец, берет себ...
n a London pub in the 1950s, editor William Maginn is intrigued by a reference to the reputedly shameful demise of a remote mountain village in Kerry, Ireland, where he wa...
When a band of smugglers sails for Tasmania, believed to be the Garden of Eden, they find the British "civilization" of the aboriginal tribes in full force. Each character...
От урожденного японца, выпускника литературного семинара Малькольма Брэдбери, лауреата Букеровской премии за "Остаток дня" - изысканный роман, в котором парадоксально соче...
The last of a manufacturing dynasty in a dying industrial town, Bill lives alone in the family mansion and works for the "Truth," the moribund local paper. He yearns to wr...
A scalding, thrilling book - Observer . Set in the Maltese community of Tiger Bay, and peopled with sharp-edged, luminously drawn characters, The Hiding Place is the story...
В действительности Маргарет Этвуд написала не один роман, а несколько, только вложила их друг в друга – как в матрешку. И чем сильнее раскручивается сюжет, тем больше дико...
Книга "Голубой ангел" (2000 г.) - "университетский роман", история отношений разочарованного немолодого профессора частного университета, в прошлом писателя, и его талантл...
Мерилин Монро — девушка-легенда, Блондинка-Принцесса, неотразимая кино-дива, подлинно культовая фигура ХХ века. Ее жизнь была похожа на сказку – порой невыносимо страшную,...
Однажды "средний благополучный американец" вдруг осознал, что ПОЛНОСТЬЮ УТРАТИЛ ПАМЯТЬ... Однажды обычный "тинейджер компьютерного поколения" внезапно стал свидетелем траг...
From "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune), here is a superb new novel that delicately unearths the myriad manifestations of extraordinary love between ordina...
В центре последнего романа выдающейся американской писательницы Сьюзен Зонтаг "В Америке" - судьба актрисы Хелены Моджеевской, покорившей континенты и ставшей одной из пер...
Capturing a crucial moment in the history of exploration—the mid-nineteenth century romance with the Arctic—Andrea Barrett's compelling novel tells the story of a fateful ...
When Clifford Stilton dies, his son Gene crams his carefully kept diaries into a hall cupboard. But Clifford's words have too much life in them to be ignored, and start to...
Gert Hardcastle is thirty-something and unlucky in love. She is also estranged from her mother. As Crocodile Soup opens, she thinks she has found "the One" -- the enigmati...
"Supremely humane.... Kay leaves us with a broad landscape of sweet tolerance and familial love". The New York Times Book Review
In her starkly beautiful and wholly une...
Told in the voice of a girl as she moves from childhood into adolescence, Buxton Spice is the story the town of Tamarind Grove: its eccentric families, its sweeping joys, ...
In "Marchlands", Karla Kuban's stunning first novel, she introduces a troubled, intrepid, ultimately triumphant young heroine whose path to womanhood is both original and ...