Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: »An Expert in Murder» is the first in a brilliant and original new series which features crime writer Josephine Tey as its lead character. It is March 1934, and Josephine is travelling from Scotland to London for the final week of her celebrated play Richard of Bordeaux — but joy turns to horror when her arrival coincides with murder. Detective Inspector Archie Penrose is convinced that the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 436) Аннотация: A Russian woman named Lara arrives in Afghanistan at the house of Marcus Caldwell, an Englishman and widower living in the shadow of the Tora Bora mountains. Marcus' daughter, Zameen, may have known Lara's brother, a Soviet soldier who disappeared in the area many years previously. But like Marcus' wife, Zameen is dead; a victim of the age in which she was born. In the days that follow, further…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Meet the water bears that can live in suspension for hundreds of years, the parasite carried by your cat that makes men grumpy and women promiscuous, and the woodlouse that drinks through its bottom. Marvel at elephants that walk on tiptoe, the pigs that shine in the dark, and the woodpeckers that have ears on the end of their tongues. From the team that brought ignorance to millions, a Christmas…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Presents a compendium of popular misconceptions, misunderstandings and common mistakes based on common knowledge, culled from the fields of history, science, literature, and biography. How much do we really know about anything? As someone else once said, it isn't what you don't know that does you harm, it's what you know that's wrong. The Book of General Ignorance sets out to show you how much of…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: This is the third great QI Annual written, drawn, photographed and lavishly blu-tacked together by the many writers, performers and brains from the BBC1 TV series, including: Stephen Fry, Alan Davies, Rowan Atkinson, Jeremy Clarkson, Bill Bailey, Jo Brand, Phill Jupitus, Jimmy Carr and many more.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 554 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 306) Аннотация: The third book in Jason Goodwin's celebrated series takes Yashim from the winding alleyways of Istanbul to the decaying grandeur of Venice. Charged by the Sultan to find a stolen painting by Bellini, he enlists the help of his friend Palewski, the Polish Ambassador, and goes undercover. Venice in 1840 is a city of empty palazzos and silent canals, and Palewski starts to mingle with Venetian…
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…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Two men are massacred in an expensive Moscow bar. But the bullets miss their target: Alexei Volkovoy — Volk for short. He's a deadly, battle-hardened veteran of Russia's brutal war in Chechnya, and he serves two masters: Maxim, a psychotic mafia kingpin; and a military man known only as the General. By his side is Valya, an exotic beauty and the most dangerous weapon in Volk's arsenal. Together…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Anthony is a British journalist whose American wife, Lucy, has suddenly died. Grieving and haunted, he becomes obsessed with her youth and the years he missed before he met her. To find out more, he travels to a remote part of the Nevada desert to meet Lucy's first husband. Their encounter is the beginning of a journey that takes him across the world, to the edge of madness, and into the corners…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Peter Carey's novel of the undeclared love between clergyman Oscar Hopkins and the heiress Lucinda Leplastrier is both a moving and beautiful love story and a historical tour de force. Made for each other, the two are gamblers — one obsessive, the other compulsive — incapable of winning at the game of love.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as 'Lily' in Lima in 1950, where she claims to be from Chile but vanishes the moment her claim is exposed as fiction. He loves her next in Paris as 'Comrade Arlette', an activist en route to Cuba, an icy, remote lover who denies knowing anything about the Lily of years gone by. Whoever the bad girl turns up as and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Set in London in 1989, the year of the fatwah and the fall of the Berlin Wall, this is a thriller with a background of raves, ecstasy, religious ferment and sexual passion. By the author of «The Buddha of Suburbia» and «Sammy and Rosie Get Laid»..
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Juxtaposes two tales about mothers, trans-sexuality, kitchens, love, tragedy, and the terms they all come to in the minds of a pair of free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J.R.R. Tolkien and he keeps falling hopelessly in love. With dazzling energy and insight, Diaz immerses us in the tumultuous lives of Oscar and his family and their attempts to find love and belonging. Rendered with uncommon…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in her career as a criminal lawyer. But just four weeks later, Miss Aldridge is found dead. Commander Adam Dalgliesh, called in to investigate, finds motives for murder among the clients Venetia has defended, her professional…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agnes becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articulates Milan…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: After a shooting in London goes hideously wrong, two hitmen, Ray and Ken, are sent to hide out in the strange, Gothic, medieval town of Bruges, Belgium, by their volatile and dangerous boss, Harry Waters. While awaiting instructions from him as to what to do next, the pair attempt to deal with their feelings over the botched killing.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. One phrase in particular anchored itself in listeners' minds, a reminder that for all the discord and struggle to be found in our history as a nation, we have always been guided by a dogged optimism in the future, or what Obama called the audacity of…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: The son of a black African father and a white American mother, Obama was only two years old when his father walked out on the family. Many years later, Obama receives a phone call from Nairobi: his father is dead. This sudden news inspires an emotional odyssey for Obama, determined to learn the truth of his father's life and reconcile his divided inheritance. Written at the age of thirty-three,…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: The latest volume in the glorious bestiary «Flanimals» features the prolific class of flying, crawling invertebrates collectively known as Blugs. There are an endless variety of Movs, Bants and Zubs. The metamorphosis from Monk Worm to Frag Drier. And the evil incarnate that is the Bletchling. It is compulsive bedtime reading for children and disturbed adults alike. Night, night. And mind the…