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Ada Goth lives at Ghastly-Gorm Hall with her father, the famous cycling poet Lord Goth. There are a host of servants, plenty of eccentric house guests and at least half a ...
What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right?
During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she c...
In Sally Gardner’s stunning novel, set in a ruthless regime, an unlikely teenager risks all to expose the truth about a heralded moon landing.
What if the football hadn...
The sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and "New York Times" bestseller, "Wolf Hall" delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Bo...
Saba has spent her whole life in Silverlake, a dried-up wasteland ravaged by constant sandstorms. The Wrecker civilization has long been destroyed, leaving only landfills ...
Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very breath of those who live nearby. Into their midst comes Jean-Baptiste Baratte, ...
For Robert Jacklin - packed off without warning to boarding school in Zimbabwe - everything is terrifyingly new. Branded an outsider from the moment he opens his mouth and...
Lexie Sinclair is plotting an extraordinary life for herself.
Hedged in by her parents' genteel country life, she plans her escape to London. There, she takes up with I...
Сбежав от беспощадной армии, Тодд принес смертельно раненую Виолу прямо в лапы заклятому врагу, мэру Прентиссу.
В разлуке с Виолой Тодд вынужден и сам осваивать сомнител...
It is enniscorthy in the south-east of Ireland in the early 1950s. Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. Thus when a job is offered...
From the award-winning author of Goodnight Mister Tom comes Just Henry: A gripping mystery-thriller and an insightful snapshot of time, set in post-war Britain. It's 1949 ...
Роман Себастьяна Барри "Скрижали судьбы" - это два дневника, врача психиатрической лечебницы и его престарелой пациентки, уже несколько десятков лет обитающей в доме скорб...
Winner for the 2007 Costa Childrens Book Awards. Continues the story of Gussie, a precocious young girl diagnosed with a rare heart condition. Despite this, she is determ...
Alfie Day, RAF airman and former World War II POW, never expected to survive the war. Now, five years later and more alone than ever, Alfie finds himself drawn to unearth ...
When Samuel Godwin, a young and naive art tutor, accepts a job with the Farrow family at their majestic home, little does he expect to come across a place containing such ...
Руфь Гилмартин, молоденькая аспирантка Оксфордского университета, внезапно узнает, что ее мать, которую окружающие считают благообразной безобидной старушкой, совсем не та...
THE NEW POLICEMAN: a wonderfully intriguing story going right to the heart of Irish magic, folklore and music, from the twice honoured recipient of the Irish Children`s Bo...
Случайные - или почти случайные встречи, запрограммированные судьбой и ведущие нас к банальным житейским драмам или к великим личностным переменам - вот острейшая загадка,...
What was it really like when the heavens opened and the world drowned? Everyone knows the story of the Flood: The man called on by God to build an ark. The animals that ca...
Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, as well as many other awards, Andrea Levy's SMALL ISLAND is a delicately wrought and profoundly moving novel of empire, prejudice, ...