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...
Лира и Уилл продолжают испытывать судьбу. Их путешествия по разным мирам, особенно поход в худший из них (для чего детям пришлось разлучиться со своими деймонами), сопряже...
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...
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,...
In 1764, the great Samuel Johnson, irascible genius, unparalleled wit and the toast of all society, is plagued by ill health and has become jaded with his bickering depend...
"Дориан" - это книга о нравственном преступлении и о цене за него, о соотношении искусства и действительности, искусства и морали. Классический сюжет Оскара Уайльда перене...
"Если никто не говорит о замечательных вещах" - книга, замедляющая время. Шаг за шагом, почти на цыпочках она ведет читателя по событиям одного дня - последнего дня лета. ...
Marvin Kreitman, the luggage baron of South London, lives for sex. Or at least he lives for women. At present he loves four women--his mother, his wife Hazel, and his two ...
This novel recounts an episode in the Great Game in Central Asia - the courtship, betrayal and invasion of Afghanistan in the 1830s by the emissaries of Her Majesty's Empi...
"Одинокая женщина в сорок девять лет - это, сами понимаете, уже не смешно. Начинаешь всерьез опасаться, что любовь и желание для тебя навсегда остались в прошлом. Конечно,...