Скачать книгу (размер 1 386 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 273) Аннотация: Expo 58 — Good-looking girls and sinister spies: a naive Englishman at loose in Europe in Jonathan Coe's brilliant comic novelLondon, 1958: unassuming civil servant Thomas Foley is plucked from his desk at the Central Office of Information and sent on a six-month trip to Brussels. His task: to keep an eye on The Brittania, a brand new pub which will form the heart of the British presence at Expo…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 390 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 470) Аннотация: Assassin's Creed: Unity is the seventh title in Oliver Bowden's phenomenally successful Assassin's Creed videogame tie-in series.1789: The magnificent city of Paris sees the dawn of the French Revolution. The cobblestone streets run red with blood as the people rise against the oppressive aristocracy. But revolutionary justice comes at a high price...At a time when the divide between the rich and…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: «Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a compelling, moving story exploring injustice and mob hysteria by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. 'On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on.' Santiago Nasar is brutally murdered in a…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: «Nobel Prize winner and author of «One Hundred Years of Solitude» and «Love in the Time of Cholera», Gabriel Garcia Marquez blends the natural with supernatural in «Of Love and Other Demons» — a novel which explores community, superstition and collective hysteria. 'An ash-grey dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst on to the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday of December'. When…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: How does the stuff we see in art galleries or the middle of roundabouts come to be made and valued? Drawing on his life as an artist, Grayson Perry sets off to explore the boundaries and tensions at the heart of modern art, with many visual aids along the way. From the slippery subject of quality to the problem of rebelling in a world that thrives on rebellion to the tricky question of what can…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: The Separation, Dinah Jefferies' stunning debut novel, is the heartbreaking tale of a family fractured by lies and one mother's love reaching across the distance of years and continents. A country at war with itself, a family divided and betrayed, a bond that can never be broken... Malaya, 1955. Lydia Cartwright returns from visiting a sick friend to an empty house. The servants are gone. The…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Let David Lynn Golemon thrill you with Primeval from the magnificent Event Group series. A race to find the treasure of the last czar has uncovered an ancient evil. When Czar Nicholas II was executed with his family it brought Russia's Romanov dynasty to an end. But some believed that the Czar's children, Alexei and Anastasia, survived the slaughter and escaped with the royal treasury. One…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: What kind of world would you like to inhabit? Here, Keri Smith begins with a list. Writing down everything the reader is drawn to, from things they love or collect to things that fascinate and excite, including objects, colours, sounds, textures, memories, places and people, the list serves as the building block for the creation of a new world. This world is based entirely on who the reader is as…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else. How to be Bothis a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s. There's the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: The final book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that redefined the spy novel for young readers — Alex Rider! Alex Rider's life changed forever with the silent pull of a trigger. Every story has a beginning. For teen secret agent Alex Rider, that beginning occurred prior to his first case for MI6, known by the code name Stormbreaker. By the time Stormbreaker forever changed Alex's life,…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 905 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 767) Аннотация: #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George delivers a new masterpiece of suspense in her Inspector Lynley series: a gripping child-in-danger story that tests Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers as never before. Barbara is at a loss: Hadiyyah, the daughter of her friend Taymullah Azhar, has been taken by her mother, and Barbara can’t really help. Azhar has no legal claim. Just when Azhar…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: More gripping than The Hunger Games, The Vault by Emily McKay is the third in this series following on from The Farm and The Lair. In a world where vampires rule and teenaged humans are quarantined as a food source, there is only one choice: resist or die. But fighting the Ticks comes at a terrible cost to twin sisters Mel and Lily and their best friend Carter — with Lily exposed to the Tick…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Peter Rabbit's Christmas Collection is full of festive fun. A treasure trove of Christmas delights, this collection includes some of Beatrix Potter's best-known works, such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit and The Tale of Benjamin Bunny. Hidden among these favourites are some of her previously-unpublished Christmas-card illustrations. This beautiful treasury has something for everyone. Beatrix Potter…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 971 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 976) Аннотация: The major new biography that restores a sense of surprise, even wonder, to the way we think about Stalin, the twentieth century, revolution, and indeed the art of history itself. The product of a decade of scrupulous and intrepid research, Stalin contains a host of astonishing revelations. Kotkin gives an intimate new view of the Bolshevik regime's inner geography, bringing to the fore materials…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: The dazzling new novel in the #1 New York Times—bestselling series from the grand master of adventure... It is called zero-point energy, and it really exists — a state of energy contained in all matter everywhere, and thus all but unlimited. Nobody has ever found a way to tap into it, however — until one scientist succeeds. Unfortunately, his intentions are far from noble. The scientist is…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: When Charles Wallace Murry goes searching through a 'wrinkle in time' for his lost father, he finds himself on an evil planet where all life is enslaved by a huge pulsating brain known as 'It'. How Charles, his sister Meg and friend Calvin find and free his father makes this a very special and exciting mixture of fantasy and science fiction, which all the way through is dominated by the funny and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Stella Sweeny is back in Dublin. After living the dream in New York for a year — touring her self-help book, appearing on talk shows all over the USA and living it up in her 10-room duplex on the Upper West Side — she's back to normality with a bang. And she's got writer's block. Stella wants a clean break as she didn't exactly leave New York on a high. Why isshe back in Ireland so soon? Who is…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Gideon calls me his angel, but he's the miracle in my life. My gorgeous, wounded warrior, so determined to slay my demons while refusing to face his own. The vows we'd exchanged should have bound us tighter than blood and flesh. Instead they opened up old wounds, exposed pain and insecurities, and lured bitter enemies out of the shadows. I felt him slipping from my grasp; my greatest fears…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: This is a pacy, compelling and penetrating account — from the great Norman Stone. The best short primer on the war in twenty years. (Andrew Roberts). Norman Stone's gripping book tells the narrative of the Second World War in as brief a compass as possible, making a sometimes familiar story utterly fresh and arresting. As with his highly acclaimed World War One: A Short History, there is a…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Jonathan Coe's widely acclaimed novel is set in the 1970s against a distant backdrop of strikes, terrorist attacks and growing racial tension. A group of young friends inherit the editorship of their school magazine and begin to put their own distinctive spin onto events in the wider world. A zestful comedy of personal and social upheaval, The Rotters' Club captures a fateful moment in British…