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Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The big bedroom was lovely: all pale, blue and white, satin and muslin, cool and airy, the windows looking out over the garden to the creek. But to fourteen-year-old Emily, beautiful though it was, it was all wrong. Her stepmother's bedroom now: everything changed since her own mother had died.And stretched out on the bed: Stephanie, very white and pained. The new baby on its way, a month early.…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Thursday Next, Head of JurisFiction and ex-SpecOps agent, returns to her native Swindon accompanied by a child of two, a pair of dodos and Hamlet, who is on a fact-finding mission in the real world. Thursday has been despatched to capture escaped Fictioneer Yorrick Kaine but even so, now seems as good a time as any to retrieve her husband Landen from his state of eradication at the hands of the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 743 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 343) Аннотация: Amelia Harris gave up on her dreams of being a Hollywood scriptwriter when she married handsome, ambitious filmmaker Dean — who has just upped and left her for a younger model. From LA to Santa Barbara to London, Amelia goes on a journey with a suitcase full of her grandmother's vintage dresses in one hand and her broken heart in the other, determined to find out the secrets of her grandmother's…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE is a fable that reshapes modern fantasy: moving, terrifying and elegiac — as pure as a dream, as delicate as a butterfly's wing, as dangerous as a knife in the dark, from storytelling genius Neil Gaiman. It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed.…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: You can't put a price on love — so they say... When a medical condition threatens to tear apart Lanie Talbot's family, she makes the ultimate sacrifice. With no time and no other option, Lanie puts herself up for sale at an underground, high-end establishment where women are auctioned off to influential, wealthy men with more money than sense. Enter Noah Crawford: millionaire business mogul and…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: New wicked humour from the author of the bestselling Bunny Suicide books This Christmas you can finally let your bunnies out of their padded hutches, because Andy Riley doesn't want them anymore. He wants your children! From the creator of the bestselling Bunny books comes more wicked humour — GREAT LIES TO TELL SMALL KIDS. They range from merely bogus to truly cruel: 'Every ant you meet must be…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: An A to Z of the most gruesome people who have ever lived! What do the following have in common? The Cross-Eyed Lambeth Poisoner, the Teenage Butcher, Juana the Mad and Ismail the Bloodthirsty? Answer: they are all horrors! People who have tortured, murdered, died in a revolting manner, or practise a particularly horrid habit. This book lists these and dozens more, each with its own Horror…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Calico Joe tells the story of Paul Tracey, a 13-year-old boy from a dysfunctional family, caught in a conflict of loyalties when his troubled baseball-playing father comes face to face with the greatest young player of his age, Joe Castle, and the terrible consequences that follow. Decades later, with his father dying, Paul decides that the tragedy of his youth must be reconciled and attempts to…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: END OF WATCH is a compelling and chilling suspense novel which sees retired detective Bill Hodges back on the trail of his nemesis Brady Hartsfield, the criminal the press called The Mercedes Killer. Foiled in his attempt to commit a second mass murder, Hartsfield is confined to a hospital brain injury unit in a seemingly unresponsive state. But all is not what it seems: Brady is able to…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: The View from the Cheap Seats draws together myriad non-fiction writing by international phenomenon and Sunday Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman. From Make Good Art, the speech that went viral, to pieces on artists and legends including Terry Pratchett and Lou Reed, the collection offers a glimpse into the head and heart of one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. 'Literature does not…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: An irresistible erotic, emotionally charged romance for fans of FIFTY SHADES OF GREY and BARED TO YOU of powerful man who's never heard 'no', a fiery woman who says 'yes' on her own terms and an unforgettable indecent proposal... He was the one man I couldn't avoid. And the one man I couldn't resist. Damien Stark could have his way with any woman. He was sexy, confident, and commanding: anything…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: The forces of King Charles are victorious; their Parliamentarian enemies in deep crisis. In the west, the crucial port city of Bristol has fallen, and Royalist eyes fall quickly upon neighbouring Gloucester. Its walls are weak, its garrison under strength, and its governor — Sir Edward Massie — suspected of harbouring sympathy for the King. Stryker and his men are with the army as it converges on…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Low Town: the worst ghetto in the worst city in the Thirteen Lands. Good only for depravity and death. And Warden, long ago a respected agent in the formidable Black House, is now the most depraved Low Town denizen of them all. As a younger man, Warden carried out more than his fair share of terrible deeds, and never as many as when he worked for the Black House. But Warden's growing older, and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Theodore Boone is the thirteen year old who knows more about the law than most adult lawyers. He certainly never expected to be the victim of crime himself. But then his bike is vandalised, he's attacked while doing his homework and, worst of all, framed for a robbery. When stolen computer equipment turns up in Theo's school locker, the police start leaning on him hard. And he is the only…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: A hilarious tale from Sunday Times Number 1 bestselling author Wendy HoldenZeb's the darling of Brit Art; the rock n' roll bad boy artist whose works go for bazillions. But can he keep his end up — in every sense — now that his powerful female patron is losing interest? Beth loves art and the traditional gallery she works in and loves her boyfriend, doctor David. But the hospital hours he keeps…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: England is close to war. Within days the axe could fall on the neck of Mary Queen of Scots, and Spain is already gathering a battle fleet to avenge her. Tensions in Elizabeth I's government are at breaking point. At the eye of the storm is John Shakespeare, chief intelligencer in the secret service of Sir Francis Walsingham. When an intercept reveals a plot to assassinate England's 'sea dragon',…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The one thing to remember about an adventure is that if it turns out the way you expect it to, it has not been an adventure at all... Shanghai, 1925. Irene, a museum curator (and, unofficially, a treasure hunter) is searching for a set of legendary copper scrolls which describe the forgotten history of Cambodia's ancient Khmer civilisation. Her mentor has sent her to China to enlist the help of…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: No witnesses. No motive. No name. The homeless man's death seems an impossible case to solve. But Deputy District Attorney Rachel Knight isn't going to let that prevent her trying to bring his killer to justice. When she uncovers a link between this death and the vicious murder of an LAPD cop, one thing becomes clear: she's looking for someone who will kill to keep their secrets safe. Someone who…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: This hilarious flap book allows you to mix and match fairy tales and create your own sensible or silly stories! Great fun! What would happen if Goldilocks had two horrid stepsisters and fell asleep for a hundred years? Would she be woken by a hungry wolf or Little Red Riding Hood's Granny? This fantastic split page book allows the reader to mix and match different combinations of fairy tales with…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: After three years in prison, Shadow has done his time. But as the time until his release ticks away, he can feel a storm brewing. Two days before he gets out, his wife Laura dies in a car crash, in adulterous circumstances. Dazed, Shadow travels home, only to encounter the bizarre Mr Wednesday claiming to be a refugee from a distant war.