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Terry Pratchett: Mort

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: For Mort however, it is about to become one of the tools of his trade. From henceforth, Death is no longer going to be the end, merely the means to an end. He has received an offer he can’t refuse. As Death’s apprentice he’ll have free board, use of the company horse and being dead isn’t compulsory. It’s the dream job until he discovers that it can be a killer on his love life…

Christopher Fowler: Full Dark House

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: When a bomb devastates the office of London's most unusual police unit and claims the life of its oldest detective, Arthur Bryant, his surviving partner John May searches for clues to the bomber's identity. His search takes him back to the day the detectives first met as young men in 1940. In Blitz-ravaged London, a beautiful dancer rehearsing for a sexy, sinister production of 'Orpheus In The…

Marius Brill: Making Love: A Conspiracy Of The Heart

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: He was out of her league. She was out of her depth. When Miranda, the Miss Lonely Hearts of Shepherd’s Bush, suddenly finds herself romanced by a tall, dark and deadly spy, she finds her life turned upside down. Could it have anything to do with the book she innocently took from the library, a book with a conspiracy theory about ‘love’ so devastating that every other copy has been destroyed by…

Terry Pratchett: Monstrous Regiment

Скачать книгу (размер 2 181 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 429) Аннотация: All they have on their side is the most artful sergeant in the army and a vampire with a lust for coffee. Well ... They have the Secret. And as they take the war to the heart of the enemy, they have to use all the resources of... the Monstrous Regiment.

Lee Child: Persuader

Скачать книгу (размер 2 758 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 542) Аннотация: Never forgive, never forget. That's Jack Reacher's standard operating procedure. And Francis Xavier Quinn was the worst guy he had ever met. He had done truly unforgivable things. So Reacher was glad to know he was dead. Until the day he saw him, alive and well, riding in a limousine outside Boston's Symphony Hall. Never apologize. Never explain. When Reacher witnesses a brutal attempt to kidnap…

Anne McCaffrey: Dragon's Kin

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Young Kindan has no expectations other than joining his father in the mines of camp Natalon, a coal mining settlement struggling to turn a profit far from the great holds where the presence of dragons and their riders means safety and civilization.

Madeleine Wickham: A Desirable Resistence

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Liz and Jonathan Chambers were in trouble. Mortgage trouble. They'd stretched themselves to busting with their new exciting project — well, Liz thought it exciting — buying and managing the Silchester Tutorial College, and now couldn't sell their old house. Here they were, stuck with two mortgages, mounting debts and a miserable adolescent daughter who hadn't wanted to move anyway. Then Marcus…

Tom Bradby: The White Russian

Скачать книгу (размер 2 798 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 550) Аннотация: St Petersburg 1917. The capital of the glittering Empire of the Tsars and a city on the brink of revolution where the jackals of the Secret Police intrigue for their own survival as their aristocratic masters indulge in one last, desperate round of hedonism. For Sandro Ruzsky, Chief Investigator of the city police, even this decaying world provides the opportunity for a new beginning. Banished to…

Harris Joanne: Coastliners

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: When Grosjean`s estranged daughter Mado returns to Le Devin, a tiny island caught like a crab in the seas of northern France, she brings with her an air of energy and change that ruffles the crusty local fisherman. More menacing is the Brismand, whose ruthless interests threaten the survival of Les Salants, the community to which Mado belongs.

Terry Pratchett: Night Watch

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had it all. But now he's back in his own rough, tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck... Living in the past is hard. Dying in the past is incredibly easy. But he must survive, because he has a job to do. He must track down a murderer, teach his younger self how to be a good copper and change the…

Ben Elton: Popcorn

Скачать книгу (размер 1 977 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 389) Аннотация: Bruce Delamitri makes cool films about killers. Films in which people die to rock and roll sound-tracks. Meanwhile, psychotic, unbalanced Wayne and Scout are actual killers. On Oscar night, as Bruce becomes King of Hollywood, Wayne and Scout go on a murderous rampage and fact is about to confront fiction.

Lee Child: Without Fail

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Jack Reacher walks alone. No job, no ID, no last known address. But he never turns down a plea for help. Now a woman tracks him down, because she needs a hand with her new job. Her task? Protecting the Vice President of the United States from someone threatening to kill him. And so Reacher, with nothing but his toothbrush and the clothes he stands up in, enters a very exclusive club at the very…

John O'Farrell: This is Your Life

Скачать книгу (размер 1 824 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 359) Аннотация: Just as bogus doctors are occasionally discovered in hospitals, Jimmy Conway has become a bogus celebrity; winning an award for something he never did, being photographed in Hello! in someone else's house, and ultimately making a fool of the entire mad, shallow celebrity merry-go-round.

Bill Bryson: Bill Bryson African Diary

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: «Bill Bryson goes to Kenya at the invitation of CARE International, the charity dedicated to working with local communities to eradicate poverty around the world. Kenya, generally regarded as the cradle of mankind, is a land of contrasts, with famous game reserves, stunning landscapes, and a vibrant cultural tradition. It also provides plenty to worry a traveller like Bill Bryson, fixated as he…

Ben Elton: Dead Famous

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: «From a celebrity performer, bestselling author of «Popcorn» and «Inconceivable», a stunning satire on the modern obsession with fame. One house. Ten contestants. Thirty cameras. Forty microphones. Yet again the public gorges its voyeuristic appetite as another group of unknown and unremarkable people submit themselves to the brutal exposure of the televised real-life soap opera, House Arrest.…

John O'Farrell: Global Village Idiot

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: «This week the first pet passports came into effect. Around the country dogs have been hopping into photo booths and trying to look as relaxed as possible, which is not easy when you know you're not allowed on the chair». Gathered here are the best of John O'Farrell's newspaper columns for «The Guardian» and «The Independent», which saw him win the coveted Best Columnist of the Year Award at the…

Terry Pratchett: Thief Of Time

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed. And on the Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it's wasted (like the underwater — how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities, where there's never enough time. But the construction of the world's first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well, time for Lu…

Lee Child: Echo Burning

Скачать книгу (размер 2 906 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 571) Аннотация: Jack Reacher is adrift in the heat of a Texan summer, hoping to hitch a ride. Carmen is the beautiful, young, rich woman who picks him up. Carmen and her little girl are in trouble. At Carmen's ranch in Echo County, the group encounter hostility, Can Reacher rescue this lady in distress.

Bryson Bill: Down Under

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: After tales from the USA and Britain, Bill Bryson turns his roving eye to Australia, the only island that is also a continent and the only continent that is also a country. It is the driest, flattest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents. It has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way that anywhere else. Yet when Bill Bryson travelled to…

Pratchett Terry: Nanny Ogg's Cookbook

Скачать книгу (размер 886 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 175) Аннотация: Nanny Ogg, one of Discworld's most famous witches, here passes on some of her huge collection of tasty and interesting recipes, since everyone else is doing it. In addition to such dishes as Nobby's Mum's Distressed Pudding, Mrs Ogg imparts her thoughts on such matters as life, death and courtship. A Discworld spin-off.