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«Мучные младенцы» - история из жизни английских старшеклассников. Детям из социально неблагополучных семей, которым, кажется, невозможно хоть что-то поручить, дают в школе...
'A modern work of genius' Spectator
Winner of the Costa/Whitbread Book of the Year Award 1993
Forced into slavery as a child, Jonathan Carrick escapes to a new life but ...
Tad and Cissie are on the run with Khush the elephant. Clammy-fingered, steely-eyed Hannibal Jackson will do anything to capture the animal. Maybe even kill ...Staying ahe...
"Бедные-несчастные" - прихотливо построенный любовный роман с элементами фантастики, готики и социальной сатиры. В нем сталкиваются различные версии весьма увлекательных с...
Set in the Gorbals, Glasgow in the late '60s. Christmas is approaching and Thomas Clay is beset by problems: his pregnant wife Rhoda is in the maternity hospital premature...
When Harvey Angell zaps into Ballantyre Road he brightens up Henry's life like a super-charged thunderbolt. With Harvey around, the atmosphere's electric! But despite the ...
Eliza Peabody is one of those dangerously blameless women who believe they have God in their pocket. She is a modern-day Florence Nightingale, always up at the Hospice or ...
AK depicts the horrible story of child warriors in Africa. Paul was a homeless orphan boy when guerilla soldiers found him wandering in the bush. The soldiers taught him t...
-- A sweeping, comprehensive epic, Hopeful Monsters tells the story of the love affair between Max, an English student of physics and biology, and Eleanor, a German Jewess...
Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Children's Novel Award. Part of the 1995 Scottish Book Fortnight promotion.
Soon after moving to the secluded Norfolk village of Munding, Alex Darken has a disturbing encounter with the ageing poet Edward Nesbit and his young lover Laura. They are...
<p>Jo’s secret haven is the beautiful garden of the big house nearby – until it is sold to a property developer who plans to cover it with houses and flats. In her efforts...
Banned in India before publication, this immense novel by Booker Prize-winner Rushdie ( Midnight's Children ) pits Good against Evil in a whimsical and fantastic tale. Two...
Gabriel has no idea what the future will hold when he runs away from his apprenticeship with the bad-tempered stonemason. But God Himself, in the shape of playmaster Garv...
У детского писателя Стивена Льюиса прямо из супермаркета неожиданно и необъяснимо исчезает трехлетняя дочь. Эта потеря переворачивает всю жизнь Стивена, наглядно демонстри...
Впервые на русском - второй роман знаменитого выпускника литературного семинара Малькольма Брэдбери, урожденного японца, лауреат Букеровской премии за свой третий роман "О...
It started out as a game. A game that Billy and his friend Mick play to take their minds off the fact that the mill might be closing and everyone could lose their jobs. Th...
Питер Акройд — один из самых титулованных английских писателей, член Королевского общества литературы, командор Ордена Британской Империи. Мировую известность приобрели ег...
Winner of the 1985 Whitbread Prize for Fiction: "Kruger's Alp" moves from pulpit to black township, from Johannesburg's fortress prison to the underworld of Soho as we fol...