Тарквиний Уино, рафинированный интеллектуал и сноб, зубоскал и сибарит, побрившись наголо и вооружившись руководством по шпионажу, отправляется из Англии в Прованс, которы...
The most powerful of her novels, a near-faultless masterpiece of pathos, observation and feeling... She writes like an angel. Sunday TelegraphIt was the year after Chappaq...
This overwhelmingly hot summer everything seems to be slowing down in the tiny Devon village where Alison lives, as if the sun is pouring hot glue over it. 'This idn't not...
<p>This novel is set around a retired civil servant and ageing patriarch, whose love of music halls and metropolitan life is mixed with great insecurities and curious prej...
Claire Tomalin's multi-award-winning story of the life of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens is a remarkable work of biography and historical revisionism that returns the ne...
Alan Bennett sealed his reputation as the master of observation with this series of 12 groundbreaking monologues, originally filmed for BBC Television.
At once darkly c...
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...
Fascinated by Patagonia ever since an early childhood lust for his Grandma's scrap of hairy Giant Sloth skin, Bruce Chatwin is intrigued by odd miners, Darwin, the Welsh a...
The most beloved comic figure in English literature decides that history hasn't done him justice -- it's time for him to tell the whole unbuttoned story, his way. Irascibl...
Euphoric State University with its whitestone, sun-drenched campus and Englands damp red-brick University of Rummidge have an annual professorial exchange scheme, and as t...
Книга, которая легла в основу одноименного знаменитого голливудского фильма с Робертом Де Ниро в главной роли!
История, которая читается как хорошая фантастика, хотя в д...