Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Mark Renton has it all: he's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at university. But there's no room for him in the 1980s. Thatcher's government is destroying working-class communities across Britain, and the post-war certainties of full employment, educational opportunity and a welfare state are gone. When his family starts to fracture, Mark's life swings out of control and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: With the festive season almost upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson is winding down at work and gearing up socially — kicking off Christmas with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam. There are irritating flies in the ointment, though, including a missing wife, a nagging cocaine habit, a dramatic deterioration in his genital health, a string of increasingly demanding extra-marital affairs.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Rebecca Navarro, best-selling authoress of Regency Romances, suffers a paralysing stroke. Assisted by her nurse, Rebecca plans her revenge on her unfaithful husband. But will Freddy Royle, hospital trustee, celebrity and necrophiliac, thwart those plans? Dave Thornton, soccer thug, has lost his heart to flawed beauty Samantha Worthington. They go in search of the man who marketed the drug that…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Mark Renton has it all: he's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at university. But there's no room for him in the 1980s. Thatcher's government is destroying working-class communities across Britain, and the post-war certainties of full employment, educational opportunity and a welfare state are gone. When his family starts to fracture, Mark's life swings out of control and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Troubled Environmental Health Officer Danny Skinner is engaged on a quest to uncover what he refers to as 'the bedroom secrets of the master chefs'. He regards the unravelling of this classified information as the key to learning genetic facts about himself and the crippling compulsions that threaten to wreck his young life. The ensuing journey takes him from Europe's festival city of Edinburgh…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: »Troubled restaurant inspector Danny Skinner is engaged on a quest to find the mysterious father his mother will not identify. He discovers that a television chef's book, «The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs», may hold the necessary clues. Unraveling this classified information is the key to learning the crippling compulsions that threaten to wreck his young life. His ensuing journey takes…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: An unsettling, shocking and very funny collection of stories. The characters in this extraordinary book are often — on the surface — depraved, vicious, cowardly and manipulative, but their essential humanity is never undermined. Two professors of philosophy turn pugilists; Leith removal men become the objects of desire for Hollywood goddesses; God turns Boab Coyle into a house-fly; and in the…