Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: September 1939. The Second World War Has Begun. Even as the fighting rages in Poland, Stalin's long time obsession with the missing treasure of Tsar Nicholas II is rekindled. An informant claims to have information about the whereabouts of the man entrusted by the Tsar with hiding his gold. As the news of the informant reaches Stalin, however, the man is knifed to death. Stalin summons Pekkala to…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Kate Moore is an expat mum, newly transplanted from Washington D.C. In the cobblestoned streets of Luxembourg, her days are filled with play dates and coffee mornings, her weekends spent in Paris or skiing in the Alps. Kate is also guarding a secret — one so momentous it could destroy her neat little expat life — and she suspects that another American couple are not who they claim to be; plus her…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: A Brutalised Victim In The Wilds — A solitary tent is found to contain the body of a half-buried woman. She's been stoned to death. There are lash marks across her back. One of her hands has been cut off. A Lone Voice — Two years earlier internet reporter Henning Juul lost his son, Jonas, in a domestic fire. As he returns to work, physically and emotionally scarred, Henning struggles to escape…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: There can be no question that the contents of this book will prove extremely controversial. Many people will be deeply shocked by the nature of Watson's statement. Many will no doubt prefer to reject it rather than surrender the beliefs of a lifetime. Others will at least regret that two of the great mysteries of crime are finally solved... An extraordinary document comes to light which for fifty…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: When Rachel Polonsky went to live in Moscow, she found an apartment block in Romanov Street, once a residence of the Soviet elite. One of those ghostly neighbours was Stalin's henchman Vyacheslav Molotov. In his former apartment, Rachel Polonsky discovered his library and an old magic lantern. Molotov — ruthless apparatchik, participant in the collectivizations and the Great Purge — was also an…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: he boy in the bed was just fifteen years old. He had been handsome, perhaps even recently; but now his face was swollen and disfigured by disease, and by the treatments his doctors had prescribed in the attempt to ward off its ravages. Their failure could no longer be mistaken. When Edward VI — Henry VIII's longed — for son — died in 1553, extraordinarily, there was no one left to claim the title…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: The Soviet Union was founded on a fairytale. It was built on 20th-century magic called 'the planned economy', which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the penny-pinching lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the heady years of the late 1950s, the magic seemed to be working. Red Plenty is about that moment in history, and how it came, and how…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: It's Easter, 1872. Fires burn in St Petersburg, a prelude to the revolutionary turmoil that will shake Russia a generation later. As the springtime thaw begins, a body rises to the surface of the Winter Canal. Following an anonymous tip-off, magistrate Porfiry Petrovich is drawn into an investigation of the radical intellectuals who seek to fan the flames of revolution. In the meantime, junior…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 799 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 354) Аннотация: It is 1939. In the Soviet Union, Stalin has placed his hopes on a 30-ton steel monster, known as the RED COFFIN. But the design is not yet complete. And when the weapon's secretive and eccentric architect is found murdered, Stalin sends for Pekkala, his most trusted investigator. He is convinced that a sinister group called the White Guild intends to bring about a German invasion before the RED…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: For the first time, Faber publish a selection from the poetry of Philip Larkin. Drawing on Larkin's four collections and on his uncollected poems, it is chosen by Martin Amis. 'Many poets make us smile; how many poets make us laugh — or, in that curious phrase, 'laugh out loud' (as if there's another way of doing it)? Who else uses an essentially conversational idiom to achieve such a variety of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 738 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 342) Аннотация: How many legs does an octopus have? How much water should you drink every day? What is the chance of tossing a coin and it landing on heads? What is house dust mostly made from? What colour are oranges? Who in the world is most likely to kill you? What was the first dishwasher built to do? A wonderful collection of the most outrageous, fascinating and mind-bending facts. And whatever your answers…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 569 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 309) Аннотация: In the sprawling flatlands of Florida, 28-year-old Miles is photographing the last lingering traces of families who have abandoned their houses due to debt or foreclosure. Miles is haunted by guilt for having inadvertently caused the death of his step-brother, a situation that caused him to flee his father and step-mother in New York 7 years ago. What keeps him in Florida is his relationship with…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: As she sits in her Bloomsbury home, with her two birds for company, elderly Harriet Baxter sets out to relate the story of her acquaintance, nearly four decades previously, with Ned Gillespie, a talented artist who never achieved the fame she maintains he deserved. Back in 1888, the young, art-loving, Harriet arrives in Glasgow at the time of the International Exhibition. After a chance encounter…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Set in contemporary India, this work includes five tales which paint a picture of Bombay — its ghosts, its passions, its feuds, its mysteries — while exploring questions of the human spirit.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, although made as Communist propaganda to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the mutiny in 1905, is an undoubted film classic. One of its sources was Constantine Feldman's memoir which Faber Finds are reissuing one hundred years after Constance Garnett's translation was first published. Of course this isn't objective history but it is a vivid first-hand…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Ivan Gontcharoff is best known for his second novel, Oblomov. One might say, only known, but, while his output was small, he did write two other novels, some short stories and some travel pieces. A Common Story was his first novel, published in 1847. It opens with its hero, Alexandr Fedoritch asleep. Its plot concerns his departure from the countryside to St Petersburg to pursue a bureaucratic…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 292) Аннотация: The first of Turgenev's social novels, Rudin was first translated by Constance Garnett into English in 1894. The main protagonist Dmitri Rudin is a representative of men of that time, being knowledgeable and enthusiastic about new ideas and the search for truth. As S. Stepniak states in his introduction to the text in 1894 Rudin's 'enthusiasm is contagious because it is sincere, and his eloquence…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 595 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 314) Аннотация: The New York Trilogy is an astonishing and original book: three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction and achieve a new genre that is all the more gripping for its starkness. In each story the search for clues leads to remarkable coincidences in the universe as the simple act of trailing a man ultimately becomes a startling investigation of what it…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Oscar Hopkins is an Oxford seminarian with a passion for gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass. The year is 1864. When they meet on the boat to Australia their lives will be forever changed... Daring, rich, intense and bizarre, Peter Carey's Booker prize-winning novel is a brilliant achievement — a moving love story and a historical tour de force that is…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: In his highly acclaimed debut, A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. Retreating into the past, she finds herself reliving one particular hot summer in Nagasaki, when she and her friends struggled to rebuild their lives after the war. But then as she recalls her strange…