Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Taut, brooding and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can result from adolescent curiosity, and sheer evil might be the solution to unbearable loneliness.
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though there waits someone who cares deeply about how they appear. Then, they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell and become drawn into a fantasy of violence and obsession.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Peter Ackroyd's marvellous biography is a living attempt to reach into the heart of Shakespeare. He creates an intimate and immediate connection with his subject, so that the book reads like the work of a contemporary — meeting Shakespeare afresh on his own ground. Written with intuition and imagination unique to Peter Ackroyd, this is a book by a writer about a writer, and a fascinating and…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: Los Angeles, 1991. Maximilian Ophuls, one of the makers of the modern world, is knifed to death in broad daylight on the doorstep of his illegitimate daughter India, slaughtered by his Kashmiri driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the Clown. The dead man is a World War II Resistance hero, a man of formidable intellectual ability and much erotic appeal, a former United States…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Wer Wladimir Kaminers Geschichten kennt, kennt auch seine Familie: seine Frau Olga, seine beiden Kinder und natürlich seine Eltern. Egal ob Erziehungsfragen, sexuelle Aufklärungsarbeit, deutscher Behördendschungel, sportliche Extravaganzen, Mysterien des Religionsunterrichts, Urlaubskatastrophen oder die Invasion der Playmobilfiguren – das Leben mit seiner Familie stellt Wladimir…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Iris Murdoch's first novel is a gem — solid and sparkling. Set in a part of London, where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donaghue, is a drifting, clever, likeable young man who makes a living out of translation work and sponging on his friends. Meeting again, after some years, an old flame, Anna, he is led into…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: When a high-powered gallery owner collides with an offbeat artist, it's the perfect recipe for disaster. With unerring insight into the hearts of men and women — and into the soul of the artist — Steel takes readers into a world of glamour and genius, priceless art and dazzling creativity.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Empress Catherine II brought Europe to Russia, and Russia to Europe, during her long and eventful reign (1762-96). She fostered the culture of the Enlightenment and greatly expanded the immense empire created by Czar Ivan the Terrible, shifting the balance of power in Europe eastward. Famous for her will to power and for her dozen lovers, Catherine was also a prolific and gifted writer. Fluent in…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Two brothers and their friend stumble upon the wreckage of a plane-the pilot is dead and his duffle bag contains four million dollars in cash. In order to hide, keep, and share the fortune, these ordinary men all agree to a simple plan.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: «An old man wearing a brown robe is found wandering disoriented in the Arizona desert. He is miles from any human habitation and has no memory of how he got to be there, or who he is. The only clue to his identity is the plan of a medieval monastery in his pocket. So begins the mystery of «Timeline», a mystery that will catapult a group of young scientists back to the Middle Ages and into the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Engineers of the Soul is the riveting story of how authors were forced to write in service of the Soviet Union's Communist ideology. Stalin first used the expression 'engineers of the soul' to refer to Soviet writers in 1932. It would become a well-known phrase and a feared concept. Together with the actual engineers, these engineers of the soul were supposed to contribute to the definitive…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: The epic Eberron trilogy The Lost Mark continues! The dark and mysterious world of Eberron continues to expand through RPG products and novels. This is the sixth novel set in the Eberron world. Matt Forbeck has written and designed games for more than 14 years, for which he has garnered several awards. His most recent title for Wizards of the Coast, Inc. was Marked for Death, the kickoff novel…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except maybe when it's squatting in the Tate or New York's Metropolitan Museum. Banksy is responsible for decorating the streets, walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cites throughout the world. Witty and subversive, his stencils show monkeys with weapons of…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: No-one can ever be like a mother to us. No-one, no-one at all, especially not stupid Frizzy Dizzy Rose. Ruby and Garnet are ten-year-old twins. Identical, they do everything together, especially since their mother died three years earlier. But can being a double act work for ever? When so much around them is changing...
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: «Fury» is a wickedly brilliant and pitch-black comedy about a middle-aged professor who finds himself in New York City in the summer of 2000. Not since, the Bombay of «Midnight's Children» have a time and place been so intensely and accurately captured in a novel. «Fury» opens on a New York living at breakneck speed in an age of unprecedented decadence. Malik Solanka, a Cambridge-educated…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: «Set in Kiev during the Russian revolution, «White Guard» tells a story about the war's effect on a middle-class family and was turned into a hugely successful play on publication. It brought the author overnight success and became 'a new Seagull' for the new generation, although it also received hostile reviews for the sympathetic portrayal of White officers. Paradoxically, «The White Guard» was…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: Who Owns the World is the first ever compilation of landowners and landownership structures in every single one of the world's 197 states and 66 territories. It covers the history of landownership as far as written history will allow and shows the division of landownership in every region of the globe. Packed with revelatory information, the book: identifies the person who owns the largest…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Bestselling author Christopher Winn takes us on a fascinating journey around Ireland, to discover the tales buried deep in the country's history. Packed full of legends, firsts, birthplaces, inventions and adventures, this book visits each of the four provinces — Ulster, Leinster, Munster and Connaught — and unearths the hidden gems that each county in these provinces holds. Discover where people…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: The Gulf War is imminent and there’s something mighty strange going on in the Agriculture Department of East Iowa University. When an Arab student turns up drunk – and dead – in the lake, redneck Deputy County Sheriff Clyde Banks gets a feeling he’s on to something big. It’s a suspicion shared by low-ranking CIA agent Betsy Vandeventer. But before two great minds yell conspiracy theory, in steps…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: If you loved Jacqueline Wilson’s Best Friends, here is another superb, thought-provoking novel for readers of 8+.Em adores her funny, glamorous dad – who cares if he’s not her real father? He’s wonderful to her, and to her little brother and sister. True to form, at Christmas, Dad gives them fantastic presents, including a real emerald ring for his little Princess Em. Unfortunately, he’s got…