Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: He wants to go out. She wants to stay in. For some reason, they are best friends. Luke is twenty-five, allergic to the sun and housebound. He's stuck in his bedroom where the world comes to him through TV, the internet and Julie's visits. Julie meanwhile is brilliant, kind and could be changing the world. Unfortunately she is too terrified of aeroplane crashes, road accidents and potentially…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: 'Bright Young Things wanted for Big Project'. They're in the prime of their lives but our bright young things are all burnt out. Six sparky twenty-somethings just out of university and working dead-end jobs, they are all bored to tears with their lives and looking for a way out. When a mysterious job is advertised in the newspaper, they all apply. What they least expect is to find themselves…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: If Kelsey Newman's theory about the end of time is true, we are all going to live forever. For Meg — locked in a hopeless relationship and creatively uninspired — this thought fills her with dread. But could there be an important connection to be made between a wild beast living on Dartmoor, a ship in a bottle, the science of time, a knitting pattern for the shape of the universe and the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 375 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 467) Аннотация: Alice Butler has been receiving some odd messages — all anonymous, all written in code. Are they from someone at PopCo, the profit-hungry corporation she works for? Or from Alice's long lost father? Or has someone else been on her trail? The solution, she is sure, will involve the code-breaking skills she learned from her grandparents and the key she's been wearing round her neck since she was…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: If you knew a book was cursed would you read it? When Ariel Manto uncovers a copy of The End of Mr. Y is a second-hand bookshop, she can't believe her eyes. She knows enough about its author, the outlandish Victorian scientist Thomas Lumas, to know that copies are exceedingly rare. And, some say, cursed. With Mr. Y under her arm, Ariel finds herself thrust into a thrilling adventure of love, sex,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: A topical novel about branding, code breaking, insidious marketing and strangely powerful toys from Scarlett Thomas.