Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: A compulsive tale of betrayal and its impact upon a group of flatmates and lovers, Maggie O'Farrell's second novel does not disappoint. With the sensuality, passion and emotional acuteness which characterised her debut, she has written a gripping exploration of the ambivalence at the heart of intimate relationships, a keenly observed portrayal of shifting metropolitan lives and a superbly…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: After three years in prison, Shadow has done his time. But as the time until his release ticks away, he can feel a storm brewing. Two days before he gets out, his wife Laura dies in a mysterious car crash, in adulterous circumstances. Dazed, Shadow travels home, only to encounter the bizarre Mr Wednesday claiming to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America. Together…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Katie Wilkinson has found the perfect man at last — but one day he disappears from her life, leaving behind only a diary for her to read. The diary was written by a new mother, as a keepsake for her baby son. In it she touchingly recounts the initial romance between herself and the child's father, and the unparalleled joy that motherhood has brought her. As Katie reads this moving account, it…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: A thrilling oral history of the «Finest Hour» of British history, tying in to a major TV documentary.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Tansy is desperate to get away from her media job, her coke habit, her dead mother and her selfish boyfriend. Travelling through Asia, she finds it more smelly than romantic, but she is determined not to give in. Soon she starts to enjoy her journey, until she discovers murder is following her.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 192 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 431) Аннотация: Best known for his Sandman graphic novels about Morpheus, Lord of Dreams, Neil Gaiman has also written the standalone books Good Omens (with Terry Pratchett), Never Where from his BBC TV series revealing a fantastic realm under London, and Star Dust, a poignant fairy tale. His shorter fantasies are regularly picked for Year's Best collections. Smoke and Mirrors assembles 36 of his favourite…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 712 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 533) Аннотация: In post-war Germany, Erich Seyss, former SS officer, has escaped from captivity to find refuge with a shadowy organisation of former Nazis. Desperate to prevent whatever they are plotting from becoming reality, American lawyer Devlin Judge sets out to find him at all costs.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: This text looks at why hooliganism continues to pose a major threat to the modern game, and reveals how football violence has evolved from the terrace conflict of the 1970s into the Internet-led designer combat of the millennium.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Love is always just around the corner in a Jill Mansell novel — with a few surprises and a lot of humour on the way to happiness Suzy fell for Harry the moment she showed him her husband's sperm sample. It didn't really belong to her husband, though, because she wasn't married. It wasn't a sperm sample either, it was a drinks carton containing the dregs of her milkshake. But when you're trying to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Under the streets of London there is a world of which most people could never dream. When Richard Mayhew accidentally stumbles on this hidden city of monsters, saints, murderers and angels, he is catapulted from a safe and predictable world into one that is eerily familiar yet utterly bizarre.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: An explosive story of East End violence, the terrors of prison life and the pursuit of justice against all odds, with a heroine whose heartbreaking story will stay with you forever.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 105 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 218) Аннотация: Life moves at a leisurely pace in the tiny town of Wall — named after the imposing stone barrier which separates the town from a grassy meadow. Here, young Tristran Thorn has lost his heart to the beautiful Victoria Forester and for the coveted prize of her hand, Tristran vows to retrieve a fallen star and deliver it to his beloved. It is an oath that sends him over the ancient wall and into a…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Moonlight Bay, California. A safe, secluded small town that is at its most picturesque in the gentle night-times that inspired its name. Now, somewhere in the night, children are disappearing. The police cannot be trusted since they were long ago corrupted by a greater authority, hidden behind the supposedly shuttered walls of the adjacent military base, Fort Wyvern. Christopher Snow, victim of a…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Best friends Jo Ryan and Aisling Moran have it all. As a fashion journalist with an Irish glossy magazine, Jo has a great career, independence and a drop-dead gorgeous boyfriend. Aisling is deliriously happy with her brilliant editor husband, two beautiful ten-year-old sons and a home she's rag-rolled and stencilled to within an inch of its life. But all that's about to change. One Friday…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 243 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 245) Аннотация: This volume offers an insight into the behavior of the football thug. It features many first-hand accounts of incidents, from both perpetrators and victims, that make chilling reading. It builds up to provide a comprehensive look behind the matchday madness and explores other related issues.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: When a death at the big house is announced to the village of Compton Dando, few people are surprised, as The Golden Windhorse is home to some new-age oddballs. When the coroner deems the death an accident, it is something of a disappointment. But then another death is reported.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 329 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 458) Аннотация: An epic tale for fans of Justin Cronin, THE HUNGER GAMES and Cormac McCarthy. The final part in the PURE trilogy. Inside the Dome, Partridge has taken his father's place as leader of the Pures. His struggle has led him here, intent upon bringing down the Dome from the inside, with the help of a secret resistance force. But things are not as simple from his new position of power and he finds…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: The second exhilarating novel in bestselling novelist James Patterson's first teen series. It's 24 hours since Max Ride and her fellow bird-kids escaped the New York Institute, and they're still on the run. But the six companions — 98% human, 2% bird — came away with some vital information. If they can decode the garbled words and numbers, perhaps they'll find out where their parents are. There's…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: On the brink of a life-changing decision, Alexis Fielding longs to find out about her mother's past. But, Sofia has never spoken of it. All she admits to is growing up in a small Cretan village before moving to London. When Alexis decides to visit Crete, however, Sofia gives her daughter a letter to take to an old friend, and promises that through her she will learn more. Arriving in Plaka,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Kristin Burns has lived her life by the philosophy, ‘don’t think, just shoot’ – pictures that is. Struggling to make ends meet, she works full time as nanny to the fabulously wealthy Turnbull family, looking after their two children and waiting for her life as a New York fashion photographer to begin. But Kristin has a major distraction: forbidden love. The man of her dreams is almost hers for…