Новинки Стеф Пенни

Flora Mackie first crossed the Arctic Circle at the age of twelve. In 1889, the whaler's daughter from Dundee - dubbed by the press 'The Snow Queen' - sets out to become a scientist and explorer. She struggles to be taken seriously but determination and chance lead her back to northern Greenland at the head of a British expedition, despite the many who believe that a young woman has no place in this harsh world of men.

Geologist Jakob de Beyn was raised in Manhattan. Yearning for wider horizons, he joins a rival expedition, led by the furiously driven Lester Armitage. When Jakob and Flora's paths cross, it is a fateful meeting.

All three become obsessed with the north, a place where violent extremes exist side by side: perpetual night and endless day; frozen seas and coastal meadows; heroism and lies. Armitage's ruthless desire to be the true leader of polar discovery takes him and his men on a mission whose tragic outcome will reverberate for years to come.

Set against the stark, timeless beauty of northern Greenland, and fin-de-siecle New York and London, Under a Pole Star is a compelling look at the dark side of the 'golden age' of exploration, a study of the corrosive power of ambition, and an epic, incendiary love story. It shows that sometimes you have to travel to the furthest edge of the world in order to find your true place in it.

Перед вами дебютный роман, ставший лауреатом нескольких престижных наград (в том числе премии Costa — бывшей Уитбредовской). Роман, поразивший читателей по обе стороны Атлантики достоверностью и глубиной описаний канадской природы и ушедшего быта, притом что автор, английская сценаристка, никогда не покидала пределов Британии, страдая агорафобией. Роман, переведенный на 23 языка и ставший бестселлером во многих странах мира. Крохотный городок Дав-Ривер, стоящий на одноименной («Голубиной») реке, потрясен убийством француза-охотника Лорана Жаме; в то же время пропадает один из его немногих друзей, семнадцатилетний Фрэнсис. По следам…

Англия, конец XX века. К Рэю Лавеллу, частному детективу, обращается с просьбой незнакомец преклонных лет. Он хочет, чтобы Рэй отыскал его дочь, бесследно исчезнувшую семь лет назад вскоре после замужества. По слухам, ее новая семья пережила череду трагедий, и виной тому родовое проклятие. Но есть сильное подозрение, что за пропажей дочери скрывается преступление. Рэй, который и сам запутался в личных проблемах, берется за это дело. То, с чем он сталкивается в ходе расследования, настолько отдает мистикой, что он уже и сам сомневается, в каком мире живет — мире живых или мертвых…

In a hospital bed, small-time private detective Ray Lovell veers between paralysis and delirium. But before the accident that landed him there, he'd been hired to find Rose Janko, the estranged daughter of a traveling Gypsy family, who went missing seven years earlier.

Half Romany himself, Ray is well aware that he's been chosen more for his blood than for his investigative skills. Still, he's surprised by the intense hostility he encounters from the Jankos, who haven't had an easy past. Touched by tragedy, they're either cursed or hiding a terrible secret--the discovery of which Ray can't help suspecting is connected to Rose's disappearance...

Seamlessly toggling between Ray's past and present, and the perspective of the missing woman's young nephew JJ, Stef Penney builds a gripping page-turner that doesn't let go until its shocking end.

Впервые на русском - дебютный роман, ставший лауреатом нескольких престижных наград (в том числе премии Costa - бывшей Уитбредовской). Роман, поразивший читателей по обе стороны Атлантики достоверностью и глубиной описаний канадской природы и ушедшего быта, притом что автор, английская сценаристка, никогда не покидала пределов Британии, страдая агорафобией. Роман, переведенный на 23 языка и ставший бестселлером во многих странах мира. Крохотный городок Дав-Ривер, стоящий на одноименной ("Голубиной") реке, потрясен убийством француза-охотника Лорана Жаме; в то же время пропадает один из его немногих друзей, семнадцатилетний Фрэнсис. По…

A brilliant and breathtaking debut that captivated readers and garnered critical acclaim in the United Kingdom, The Tenderness of Wolves was long-listed for the Orange Prize in fiction and won the Costa Award (formerly Whitbread) Book of the Year.

The year is 1867. Winter has just tightened its grip on Dove River, a tiny isolated settlement in the Northern Territory, when a man is brutally murdered. Laurent Jammett had been a voyageur for the Hudson Bay Company before an accident lamed him four years earlier. The same accident afforded him the little parcel of land in Dove River, land that the locals called unlucky due to the untimely death of the previous owner.

A local woman, Mrs. Ross, stumbles upon the crime scene and sees the tracks leading from the dead man's cabin north toward the forest and the tundra beyond. It is Mrs. Ross's knock on the door of the largest house in Caulfield that launches the investigation. Within hours she will regret that knock with a mother's love -- for soon she makes another discovery: her seventeen-year-old son Francis has disappeared and is now considered a prime suspect.

In the wake of such violence, people are drawn to the crime and to the township -- Andrew Knox, Dove River's elder statesman; Thomas Sturrock, a wily American itinerant trader; Donald Moody, the clumsy young Company representative; William Parker, a half-breed Native American and trapper who was briefly detained for Jammett's murder before becoming Mrs. Ross's guide. But the question remains: do these men want to solve the crime or exploit it?

One by one, the searchers set out from Dove River following the tracks across a desolate landscape -- home to only wild animals, madmen, and fugitives -- variously seeking a murderer, a son, two sisters missing for seventeen years, and a forgotten Native American culture before the snows settle and cover the tracks of the past for good.

In an astonishingly assured debut, Stef Penney deftly weaves adventure, suspense, revelation, and humor into an exhilarating thriller; a panoramic historical romance; a gripping murder mystery; and, ultimately, with the sheer scope and quality of her storytelling, an epic for the ages.