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Returning to Belfast after a long absense, to attend her father's funeral. Catherine McKenna - a young composer - remembers exactly why she left: the claustrophobic intima...
Англия, конец XIX столетия. Общество считает пятого Герцога Портлендского сумасшедшим: мало кто может постичь смысл его безумных замыслов - например, строительства грандио...
Winner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year and a Booker Prize finalist.
Under an endless and unforgiving sky, four travellers enter the Judean desert in search of redemp...
Дебютный роман Арундати Рой, который заслуженно сравнивают с произведениями Фолкнера и Диккенса, — это современная классика, которую читают и любят по всему миру. Глубокая...
Here is Just's masterpiece - an epic chronicle of three generations of Washington power brokers and the womenfolk who loved them (except when they didn't). The Washington ...
Изабель Уокер, молодая красивая американка, приезжает в Париж, чтобы навестить свою сводную сестру Роксанну, поэтессу, вышедшую замуж за французского аристократа и вхожую ...
While Eisenstein documented the forces of totalitarianism and Stalinism upon the faces of the Russian peoples, DeLillo offers a stunning, at times overwhelming, document o...
The Manikin is not a mannequin, but the curious estate of Henry Craxton, Sr. in a rural western New York State. Dubbed the "Henry Ford of Natural History," by 1917 Craxton...
This novel portrays the lives of two women in New Zealand. Deidre Byrne’s fulfilling career as a nurse is cut short when she marries, while Sarah Dutton falls in love with...
In a Glasgow post office, Nan Megratta collects illegible, damaged and defaced letters and delivers them to their destinations. The Returned Letters Section offers her ano...
Banned within hours of publication in her native Mauritius for enraging fundamentalists, Lindsey Collen's pathbreaking The Rape of Sita went on to win the prestigious Comm...
A novel set in a fishing village on the Scottish coast, where everyone knows everybody else's business and gossip abounds. The centre of this world is a cafe and the large...
Inis has run away from her husband and children. Her new neighbour Trixie is eighty-four years old and a hymn-singing Salvation Army veteran. Trixie's life is one of appar...
"In Latin, suffering and passion come from the same root," observes Alice Forrester, the wry heroine of this poignant and sardonically witty debut. And who would know bett...
Here is the perfect novel for everyone who ever felt manipulated and lied to in a relationship, for everyone who ever thought they were sane and it was the doctors and psy...
The ferociously talented author of Original Bliss and On Bullfighting offers this haunting tale of two forlorn people who find in each other a hope and love as genuine and...
A passionate and perceptive story full of the pain and the humour of growing up, from Andrea Levy, author of the Orange Prize winning SMALL ISLAND and the Man Booker short...
The year is 1788, the place New South Wales. Marine Lieutenant William Dawes has arrived in the Antipodes to build an observatory, reform the convicts and understand the ...
Independent, irresistible Helen MacFarquhar is the owner of a bookstore in an idyllic seaside town in New England. A happily divorced mother who enjoys a playful relations...
In the late 19th century, an English missionary arrives on a remote island in the Indian Ocean, intent on wiping our fornication among the natives. Instead he incurs a cur...
