Скачать книгу (размер 1 472 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 290) Аннотация: A parable about love, literature and fanaticism. A young university student becomes obsessed with a magical book that delves into the dangerous natures of love and self. Abandoning his studies and his family, he goes with the beautiful Janan on a search for the meaning of the book`s darker secrets.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Presented in handy pocket-size, this title catalogues the various misconceptions, mistakes and misunderstandings in «common knowledge» that can make you wonder why anyone bothers going to school.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Presents a compendium of popular misconceptions, misunderstandings and common mistakes culled from the hit BBC show, QI. This title sets out to show you that a lot of what you think you know is wrong.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Three children are massacred in their beds. The crushed corpse of their mother is discovered in a dockside warehouse. Then the husband, Bruno Gottewald, is dead and buried — killed while out on field manoeuvres. In less than a week, the entire Gottewald family has been wiped off the face of the earth. A tragic coincidence? Or are the invading French army using the massacre to expand their power?…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Aurelio Zen is posted to Calabria, where in the heart of a tight-knit traditional community there has been a brutal murder. Zen is determined to find a way to penetrate the code of silence and uncover the truth. But his mission is complicated by another secret which has drawn strangers from the other side of the world — a hunt for buried treasure launched by a single-minded player with millions…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Che is raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, precocious son of radical Harvard students in the sixties. Yearning for his famous outlaw parents, denied all access to television and the news, he takes hope from his long haired teenage neighbour who predicts they will come for you, man. They'll break you out of here. Soon Che too is an outlaw, fleeing down subways, abandoning…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 585 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 312) Аннотация: Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr Grene, and their relationship intensifies and complicates. Told through their respective journals, the story that…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 319 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 260) Аннотация: Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his 'damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother' Hugh, «Theft: A Love Story» once again displays Peter Carey's extraordinary flair for language. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo, it is a brilliant and moving exploration of art, fraud, responsibility and redemption.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Is Santa Claus really a magic mushroom in disguise? Was Alice in Wonderland a thinly veiled psychedelic mushroom odyssey? Did mushroom tea kick-start ancient Greek philosophy? This book tells the story of how hallucinogenic mushrooms, once shunned in the West as the most pernicious of poisons, came to be the illicit drug of choice.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Documents Daniel Kalder`s travels in the bizarre and mysterious worlds of Russia`s ethnic republics.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Yashim is no ordinary detective. Yashim is a eunuch. A concubine is strangled in the Sultans palace harem, and a young cadet is found butchered in the streets of Istanbul. Delving deep into the citys crooked alleyways, and deeper still into its tumultuous past, Yashim discovers that some people will go to any lengths to preserve the traditions of the Ottoman Empire. Brilliantly evoking Istanbul…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Presents an off-road safari through a hundred interesting members of the animal kingdom, with illustrations and diagrams. This title covers: 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.
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Imagine an edition of «The Guinness Book of Records» selected by a panel of stand-up comedians. This work is packed with original contributions from Stephen Fry, Alan Davies, Jo Brand, Bill Bailey and other regular guests on the show, with games to play at home, puzzles, cartoon strips, mini-encyclopaedias, how-to diagrams and masses of QI facts.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: An atmospheric mystery set in St Petersburg in the winter of 1867 sees detective Porfiry Petrovich taking his first murder case since Dostoevsky's «Crime and Punishment». When two frozen bodies are found in a park, he begins to suspect that the truth may be more complex than others wish him to believe, as his investigations lead him to a shocking discovery which reveals the city's darkest…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: It's the year 1793, and Hanno Stiffeniis is a magistrate in Prussia. He has been called to investigate a spate of murders which has reduced the city to a state of terror, under the watchful gaze of his mentor, Kant. Four people have died, and there is no sign of an end to the killing spree. When the killer tries to murder him, the magistrate finds himself confronted by the demons of his own past.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: When an English priest takes over a small Scottish parish, not everyone is ready to accept him. He makes friends with two local youths, Mark and Lisa, and clashes with a world he can barely understand. The town seems to grow darker each night. Fate comes calling and before the summer is out his quiet life is the focus of public hysteria. Meanwhile a religious war is unfolding on his doorstep...…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Opens in 1944, as the women of a small Welsh farming community wake one morning to find that their husbands have gone. Soon after that a German patrol arrives in their valley.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: »Ivan's War» is the first book to put the experience of the ordinary Russian soldier at the heart of a narrative of the war on the Eastern Front, displacing the dictators and their generals who have dominated books on the subject for the past sixty years. Ivan, the archetypal Russian infantryman, emerges at last as a human figure in Catherine Merridale's magnificent and hugely acclaimed new work.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 432 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 282) Аннотация: Kathy, Ruth and Tommy were pupils at Hailsham — an idyllic establishment situated deep in the English countryside. The children there were tenderly sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe they were special, and that their personal welfare was crucial. But for what reason were they really there? It is only years later that Kathy, now aged 31, finally allows herself to yield to the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: When a young girl is found murdered in a field, the scientific examination of the exhibits is just a routine job for the staff of Hoggatt's forensic science laboratory. But nothing could have prepared them for the brutal death of one of their own. When the senior biologist is found dead in his laboratory Commander Dalgliesh is called to the bleak fens of East Anglia, where the murderer is lying…