Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: America in 1963 is a country at a crossroads: Vietnam, the civil rights movement, the Cuban missile crisis, the sexual revolution, FBI, CIA, LSD — and a promise of change offered by a new President, John F Kennedy. Some people believe in the future. Other conspire to control it. Chandler Forrestal is a man whose life is changed forever when he is unwittingly dragged into a CIA mind-control…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: The astonishing new historical novel from one of the UK's most talented literary writers. It is the summer of 1891 and London is simmering under an oppressive heatwave. The air is thick with tension and sexual repression. But another wave is about to rock the capital -- one of morality -- as Oliver Wheeler and the puritans of his London Vigilance Committee seek out perversion and aberrant…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: This memoir was recently discovered and appears to have been written in the 1920s by somone who asserts that he was Jack the Ripper.This person is James Willoughby Carnac, this memoir written shortly before his death is an account of his entire life, including a few short months in 1888 when he became the murderer known to posterity as Jack the Ripper. This book introduces a new suspect for the…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: A hunter determined to wipe out every wolf in England almost succeeds, but then finds himself the prey—a reissue of the debut novel by the author of the acclaimed Smack It was a mistake for Ben to tell the Hunter that there were still wolves in Surrey, for the Hunter was a fanatic, always on the lookout for unusual prey. Driven by an ambition to wipe out the last English wolves, the Hunter sets…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 356) Аннотация: Stephen Hawking is one of the most remarkable figures of our time — a Cambridge genius who has earned international celebrity as a brilliant theoretical physicist and become an inspiration and revelation to those who have witnessed his courageous triumph over disability. This is Hawking's life story by Kitty Ferguson, who has had special help from Hawking himself and his close associates and who…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 135 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 420) Аннотация: Supernatural action and adventure meets brilliantly researched historical fiction in the second novel in the genre- busting Swords of Albion trilogy. 1593. Walsingham has been dead for two years and a new mood of suspicion and mistrust sweeps through England's network of spies. No one feels safe. Even the great Will Swyfte must watch his back. Then Will's best friend, playwright and spy Kit…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 356) Аннотация: The unexpected suicide of an apparently happy family man; a woman held captive for three years in a forgotten underground bunker; a middle aged clergyman at a crisis point in his life, drawn into an uncomfortable relationship with a teenaged girl. Against the backcloth of these interwoven tales comes the story of two very different men who meet accidentally and are dramatically thrown together.…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Do you hold on to your memories? Or do they hold on to you? Magicov the Magnificent, grand illusionist, earns his living entertaining the geriatrics of Lotus House Care Home. But Mr Magicov (also known as Peter) envies them — they've mastered a trick that eludes him. They can forget. Peter yearns to forget. But memories haunt him: the shameful moment an eight-years-old wrecked his life; the FBI…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: Three women know what they want. Three men are about to royally mess things up. Kizzy wants to race at the Olympics, and she'll do whatever it takes. But a tall, dark stranger wasn't part of the plan. Caro's perfect family life is unshakeable, until her vile ex-husband moves back with his cool-as-ice girlfriend. Calypso had higher hopes for country living than organizing eighty-year-olds'…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Alice loves to cook. She believes the secret of good food is to cook with passion. Her love affair with cookery has taken her from her parents' seaside hotel, to Paris and then one of Dublin's finest restaurants. Then she marries Liam, and is happy to hang up her chef's hat and cook for her family and friends instead. But now she's cooking for one! Her marriage to Liam over, it's high time she…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: For many of us the history of Africa is, at best, vague. We might think of Egyptian pyramids, legendary queens (of Sheba or Cleopatra) and Zulu warriors. The truth, however, is one of remarkably diverse, creative, culturally rich civilisations. In this book, which accompanies an 8-part BBC series, Gus Casely-Hayford takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of this remarkable…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: New York Times bestselling author Richelle Mead returns to the Otherworld, a mystic land inextricably linked to our own — and balanced precariously on one woman's desperate courage... Shaman-for-hire Eugenie Markham strives to keep the mortal realm safe from trespassing entities. But as the Thorn Land's prophecy-haunted queen, there's no refuge for her and her soon-to-be-born children when a…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Adult movie actress, Raven Lane, is one of the most lusted after women in America, with millions of fans to prove it. But when a headless corpse turns up in the trunk of her car, she realizes that fame carries a terrible price. Fearing for her life, and with the LAPD seemingly unable to protect her, Raven turns to elite bodyguard, Ryan Lock for help. Lock stops bad things happening to good…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 130 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 419) Аннотация: This is where the dragons went. They lie... not dead, not asleep, but... dormant. And although the space they occupy isn't like normal space, nevertheless they are packed in tightly. They could put you in mind of a can of sardines, if you thought sardines were huge and scaly. And presumably, somewhere, there's a key... Guards! Guards! is the eighth Discworld novel — and after this, dragons will…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: The eight-year-old boy had vanished from the car and — as if by slick, sick magic — had been replaced by a note on the steering wheel... 'You don't love him'... At the height of summer a dark shadow falls across Exmoor. Children are being stolen from cars. Each disappearance is marked only by a terse note — a brutal accusation. There are no explanations, no ransom demands ...and no hope.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Sarah Bridge is smart, successful and... single. As a newspaper journalist, she has a hectic day job, a busy social life and is perfectly happy with both. But something — or someone — is missing. At 38, she is starting to feel that time is running out. So what is she to do? 'There are plenty of men out there', her married friends say. 'You only have to look'. But they can't tell her where they…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Desire and power collide in the court of Elizabeth I Warwickshire, 1575. Pomp, fanfare and a wealth of lavish festivities await Elizabeth I at Kenilworth Castle. Organised by the Earl of Leicester, he knows this celebration is his last chance to persuade the Queen to marry him. But, a fickle man, he is unable to resist the seductive wiles of Lettice Knollys. Enraged by the couple's growing…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Georgian England, 1789. Under a cloud of scandal, Henrietta Lightfoot flees her home at Melmouth Park. She has little money and no worthwhile talents, for what use is a neat stitch and a pretty voice outside the drawing room? Without family support, her only hope of survival lies with the dashing but elusive Lord Allenham... In a desperate quest to find him, Henrietta embarks on a journey through…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: At ninety years old, the author is the only surviving child of Winston and Clementine Churchill. This title follows her early life from an idyllic childhood in her own 'Garden of Eden' at Chartwell to her ATS service in mixed anti-aircraft batteries during the war. It offers a glimpse into her personal diary.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: When Vavara, a young orphaned Polish girl, is brought to serve at Empress Elizabeth's glittering, dangerous court in St Petersburg, she is schooled by the Chancellor himself in skills from lock-picking to love-making, learning above all else to stay silent — and listen. Soon, she is Elizabeth's 'tongue' — her secret eyes and ears. Then Sophie, a vulnerable young princess, arrives from Prussia as…