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Робертсон Дэвис — крупнейший канадский писатель, мастер сюжетных хитросплетений и загадок, один из лучших рассказчиков англоязычной литературы. Он попадал в шорт-лист Буке...
Shortlisted for the 1986 Booker Prize, Gabriel’s Lament has received huge critical acclaim. Fourth Estate will re-publish in the wake of Bailey’s new novel, Kitty and Virg...
Hav is like no place on earth. Rumored to be the site of Troy, captured during the crusades and recaptured by Saladin, visited by Tolstoy, Hitler, Grace Kelly, and Princes...
In a London squat, a band of bourgeois revolutionaries unite in their loathing for the waste and cruelty they see in the world around them. But soon they become involved i...
In Australian slang, an illywhacker is a country fair con man, an unprincipled seller of fake diamonds and dubious tonics. And Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator o...
A respected literary biographer, Mark is working on the life of Gilbert Strong - a writer about whom he thinks he knows everything. Happily married, and apparently dedicat...
Время действия - первый век нашей эры. Место действия - римская провинция Иудея. В эпоху, когда народ ждет прихода мессии, появляется человек, который умеет летать: Симон ...
John Fuller's first novel opens with the arrival of church agent Vane on a remote Welsh island where he is to investigate the disappearance of pilgrims visiting its sacred...
Shortlisted for the 1982 Booker Prize, this novel explores the clans and conflicts of Soho's Chinatown, where the Chen family arrive and want to succeed as restaurateurs i...
When, in the course of her travels, Valentine went to stay with Reverend Mother's sister, Aunt Irene, in her little house in Chelsea some funny things started happening.
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An Ice-Cream War is William Boyd's sparkling debut novel on the grimly comic side of conflict, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'What do you think woul...
Silence Among the Weapons has a more or less ordinary central character -- an actor’s agent -- who gets caught up in more or less extraordinary events; the expansionist ac...
Вашему вниманию предлагается один из самых знаменитых романов современной английской литературы. Шокировавший современников откровенностью интимного содержания, моментальн...
Like the Rhine, Charlotte Morrison was full of unsuspected depths and hidden murmurings. On the surface, she was the unmarried Victorian aunt, whose sparse, unfulfilled li...
I do know how to behave - believe me, because I know. I have always known...'
Behind the gates of Temple Alice the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles family sinks int...
In the summer of 1920 two men, both war survivors meet in the quiet English countryside. One is living in the church, intent upon uncovering and restoring an historical wa...
The year is 1908, the place, a small Greek island in the declining days of the crumbling Ottoman Empire. For twenty years Basil Pascali has spied on the people of his smal...
Set in present-day Dublin, No Country for Young Men involves an Irish-American targeted for elimination by terrorists, an unsolved 1922 murder, a moving love affair, a mad...