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Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Since its very origins the island has become the home for successive series of invaders — the Celts, Christians, Vikings, Normans. It was in the Tudor era that Ireland was made the first colony of the English Empire with the Plantation projects of Henry VIII and had been in an uneasy and often brutal relationship with England. The island's story is scarred with Cromwell's raids, William III's…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: These are the year's best, and darkest, tales of terror, showcasing the most outstanding new short stories by both contemporary masters of the macabre and exciting newcomers. As ever, this acclaimed anthology also offers a comprehensive overview of the year in horror, a necrology of recently deceased luminaries, and a list of indispensable addresses horror fans and writers. The Mammoth Book of…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: In this the twenty-fifth edition of his celebrated annual Mammoth Book of Best New SF (its 29th as The Year's Best SF in the United States), award-winning editor Gardner Dozois presents most outstanding pieces of short science fiction from 2011, along with his typically informative notes on each author. Many are the work of award-winning writers, but there are also some surprising newcomers. The…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Welcome to New York City, where the socialites are witches. Ever since fabulously wealthy Malcolm Doran walked into her life and swept her off her feet, Jane Boyle has been living a fairy-tale. When he proposes, Jane can't believe her incredible luck and decides to leave her Paris-based job as a fledgling architect and make a new start with Malcolm in New York. But when Malcolm introduces Jane to…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: When Inspector John Carlyle discovers a disorientated girl in a park near Buckingham Palace, he takes it upon himself to find out who she is and where she's from. His hunt for the identity of this lost girl takes him from Ukrainian gangsters in North London to the lower reaches of the British aristocracy. Soon, the inspector is on the trail of a child-trafficking ring that stretches from Kiev to…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: This is the very best short SF fiction of any given year as recommended and nominated by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America: the best novella, novelette and short story. Here you will find the cream of the crop of science fiction and fantasy — startling ideas, the intricate construction of new worlds and mind-bending experimental writing. This anthology includes not…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: This is an anthology focusing on newer elements of steampunk, one which deconstructs the staples of the genre and expands on them, rather than simply repeating them, with a greater spread both in terms of location and character. This is steampunk with a modern, post-colonial sensibility. Contributors include: Jeff VanderMeer, Caitlin Kiernan Paul Di Filippo, Mary Robinette Kowal, Jay Lake, Cherie…

Скачать книгу (размер 993 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 196) Аннотация: 'If you have a Wild, Unruly, or Undisciplined Daughter, two Ladies of Genteel Birth offer to Bring Out said Daughter and Refine what may have seemed Unrefinable. We can make the Best of the Worst'. When Amy and Effie Tribble, two charming but impoverished spinster sisters, lose out on an inheritance, they place this advertisement in The Morning Post and hire themselves out as professional…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 356) Аннотация: Can you win an election and cover up murder at the same time? In the middle of a General Election, someone is targeting former members of the ultra-exclusive Merrion Club, youthful hedonists addicted to excess transformed into pillars of the political establishment. Next in the killer's sights is charismatic, ruthless Edgar Carlton, the man poised to be the next Prime Minister. But, with power…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: How Great Britain was born — from the restoration to the Great Exhibition. In 1660 England emerged from the devastations of the Civil Wars and restored the king, Charles II, to the throne. Over the next 190 years Britain would establish itself as the leading nation in the world — the centre of burgeoning Empire, at the forefront of the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. However, radical…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: This is a 'mosaic novel' set in the near-future, when a desperate and ever-more controlling UK government decides to restore a sense of national pride with a New Festival of Britain. However, controversial plans to build on the site of an old church in South London releases a centuries-old plague that turns its victims into flesh-hungry ghouls whose bite or scratch passes the contagion on to…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Which fifty people made Britain the wreck she is? From ludicrous propagandist Alastair Campbell to the Luftwaffe's allies, the modernist architects, it's time to name the guilty. Quentin Letts sharpens his nib and stabs them where they deserve it, from TV gardener Alan Titchmarsh, the dumbed-down buffoon who put the 'h' in Aspidistra, to the perpetrators of the 'Credit Crunch'. Margaret Thatcher…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: In London: The Autobiography the life of the capital is told, for the first time, by those who made it and saw it at first hand. From Roman times to the 21st century, Londoners and visitors to the city have recounted the extraordinary events, everyday life and character of this unique and influential city — from politics, culture, sport, religion, and reportage. This book brings to vivid life the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: This is a whistle-stop tour through 2,000 years of our nation's story from the Roman invasion to the Falklands War. Setting out the wide sweep of British history that is often ignored, historian George Chamier weaves together a reader-friendly combination of key dates with linking narrative. Here are all our good Kings and usurpers, low dealings and acts of heroism, moments of great conquest,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: From the death of Richard III on Bosworth Field in 1485 to the execution of Charles I, after the Civil Wars of 1642-48, England was transformed by two Dynasties. Firstly the Tudors, who won the crown on the battlefield and changed both the nature of kingship but also the nation itself. England became a Protestant nation and began to establishment itself as a trading power; facing down impossible…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Henry VIII changed the course of English life more completely than any monarch since the Conquest. In the portraits of Holbein, Henry Tudor stands proud as one of the most powerful figures in renaissance Europe. But is the portrait just a bluff? In his new book, Derek Wilson explores the myths behind the image of the Tudor Lion. He was the monarch that delivered the Reformation to England yet…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: This title features over 30 landmark interviews, accounts, and memoirs of The Beatles and their entourage, recording how they inadvertently became counter-culture's figureheads and changed society. The pieces include Paul Johnson's The Menace of Beatlism, Maureen Cleave's Beatles Bigger than Christ feature, the News of the World feature suggesting The Beatles were spent forces — just before they…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: 1904: Powerscourt comes out of retirement for one last time, heading for Russia in one of the strangest cases of his career. A British diplomat has been discovered, his throat cut, on one of the bridges spanning the Nevskii Prospekt in St Petersburg. It transpires the diplomat knew a secret — and that secret killed him. As Powerscourt strides through the halls of the Winter Palace and falls foul…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The birth pangs of Nazism grew out of the death agony of the Kaiser's Germany. Defeat in World War I and a narrow escape from Communist revolution brought not peace but five chaotic years (1918-1923) of civil war, assassination, plots, putsches and murderous mayhem to Germany. The savage world of the trenches came home with the men who refused to admit defeat and 'who could not get the war out of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Why it started, when, and what was the reality of 'The Crusades' are some of the questions this book aims to answer. Many people saw the Crusades as pilgrimages, many believed they were doing the will of God, and many more were there for the booty. This was an institution that for more than five centuries punctuated European history, troubled Christian consciences and embittered Muslim attitudes…