Скачать книгу (размер 4 155 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 816) Аннотация: Sealed for one hundred and twenty-five years, Wilkie Collins's scribbled words launch a feverish descent into the underbelly of Victorian London as he is dragged into Charles Dickens's pursuit of a spectral figure known only as Drood.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: A richly entertaining, compellingly readable survey of 21st-century England from a sharp-eyed American with a winningly humorous way with words.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 758 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 542) Аннотация: Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder — and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, truculent computer hacker Lisbeth…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Something very peculiar is happening in Stockholm. There's a heatwave on and people cannot turn their lights out or switch their appliances off. Then the terrible news breaks. In the city morgue, the dead are waking up... What do they want? What everybody wants: to come home.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: When thirteen-year-old Johnny's talking computer Kovac detects an extraterrestrial signal, his life is set to change for ever. Until then, stuck in his children's home in Castle Dudbury New Town, with the nasty cook Mr Wilkins watching his every move, football had been his only escape. But soon things start happening around him that Johnny doesn't understand: why is his mother, who is on life…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Oskar and Eli. In very different ways, they were both victims. Which is why, against the odds, they became friends. And how they came to depend on one another, for life itself. Oskar is a 12 year old boy living with his mother on a dreary housing estate at the city's edge. He dreams about his absentee father, gets bullied at school, and wets himself when he's frightened. Eli is the young girl who…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Conn should have dropped dead the day he stole a wizard's locus stone, but miraculously he survives. Becoming the wizard's apprentice, Conn becomes embroiled in his master's plan to save the city, whose magic is slowly dying. Meanwhile, the Wizard, Nevery, is secretly beginning to question Conn's past: why did the thief survive in the Twilight and why is he immune to injury? But Conn is hiding a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Sherlock Holmes' nemesis lives again. It's the turn of the century and Moriarty has been away from London for several years, setting up crime syndicates in the US. But he's suddenly called back to London to deal with the European upstart criminals who have attempted to oust him.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The trouble with being a vampire is... You can't get a decent haircut. You live on guinea-pig blood. And even worse, most of the world's population wants to kill you. For no good reason. Nina Harrison became a vampire in 1973, when she was fifteen. Since then, life's been one big drag — mostly because she spends all her time with a bunch of vampires, in a vampire therapy group. Then one of them…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: In the final days of the Second World War, Michael Rogan, an American intelligence officer, is tortured by a group of seven senior Gestapo officers who need to discover the secrets he alone can give them. Ten years later, when he has recovered from the appalling injuries he suffered, and determined to revenge the death of his wife at the hands of the same men, he begins a quest to track down and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Dru Anderson: Night Hunter. Knife Wielder. Heart Breaker. Dru can sense evil, which helps when she and her Dad are tracking down ghosts, suckers, wulfen, and the occasional reanimated corpse. It's a dangerous life, but it's the only one she knows. Then Dru's dad turns up dead and she suddenly finds herself in the middle of a deadly game where every move she makes could be her last. Dru is more…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: December, and the river is rising. The village of Ledwardine has never been flooded in living memory. Within days it will be an island. There's no electricity. The church is serving as a temporary mortuary for two people who drowned. Only one man feels safer. An aggressively-atheist author has been moved, for his own safety, Rushdie-style, into a secluded house just outside the village.…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Monsters presents, in chronological order, grimly fascinating profiles of 101 notorious and profoundly sinister individuals whose actions have one thing in common: they have had a baleful and blood-soaked impact on the annals of history.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Courtney's boyfriend has just gone down on one knee and asked her to be his wife. She couldn't be happier. And with her super-organised sister, Norah, to help her plan the wedding, what could possibly go wrong? Nothing, until Courtney decides their other sister, Raine, should be invited. No one has seen or heard from Raine for six years — since she ruined Norah's own wedding and ran off with the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: What exactly is a credit crunch? Why do footballers earn so much more than the rest of us? Which country is likely to be the world's leading economy in 10 years' time? And how does economics affect each one of us, every day? In the seventh volume of the successful 50 Ideas series, Daily Telegraph economics editor Edmund Conway introduces and explains the central ideas of economics in a series of…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: The second installment in the Millennium Trilogy sees Lisbeth Salander wanted for murder while Blomkvist tries desperately to clear her name. Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. Two Millennium journalists about to expose the truth about sex trafficking in Sweden are murdered, and Salander's prints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable and vengeful behaviour makes her an official danger…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Salvador Dali was one of the most famous artists of the 20th century — and also one of its greatest eccentrics. Renowned for his striking and provocative work, as well as his unconventional behaviour, he attracted admiration and controversy in equal measure. This stunning volume showcases more than 90 of Dali's most famous works in magnificent giant size. Arranged chronologically to reflect…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Starting with a comprehensive introduction to Vermeer and his paintings — from his early life and influences, key themes and inspirations to his artistic vision and technique — followed by a virtual gallery showing a timeline of Vermeer's entire oeuvre. Individual chapters showcase all 36 works attributed to Vermeer.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: 50 Big Ideas You Really Need to Know is a concise, accessible and popular guide to the central tenets of Western thought. Every important principle of philosophy, religion, politics, economics, the arts and the sciences is profiled in a series of short illustrated essays, complemented by an informative array of timelines and box features. Platonism, The Soul, Communism, Aristotelianism, Faith,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 356) Аннотация: Is the young man simply drunk or does his staggering walk suggest something more sinister? When he collapses in front of the two sisters on that dark, wet night, the women guess rightly that he's been poisoned. So begins this gripping tale set in the town of Banff, Scotland in the 1620s. The body of the victim, the apothecary's apprentice, is found in the house of Alexander Seaton — a fallen…