Новинки Линды Грант

It's 1913 and a young, carefree and recklessly innocent girl, Mina, goes out into the forest on the edge of the Baltic sea and meets a gang of rowdy young men with revolution on their minds. It sounds like a fairy tale but it's life.

The adventure leads to flight, emigration and a new land, a new language and the pursuit of idealism or happiness - in Liverpool. But what of the stories from the old country; how do they shape and form the next generations who have heard the well-worn tales?

From the flour mills of Latvia to Liverpool suburbia to post-war Soho, The Story of the Forest is about myths and memory and about how families adapt in order to survive. It is a story full of the humour and wisdom we have come to relish from this wonderful writer.

From the Orange Prize-winning and Man Booker-shortlisted Linda Grant.

When a dead body is found in the Thames, caught in the chains of HMS Belfast, it begins a search for a missing woman and confirms a sense that in London a person can become invisible once outside their community - and that assumes they even have a community. A policeman,a documentary film maker and an Irish nurse named Chrissie all respond to the death of the unknown woman in their own ways. London is a place of random meetings, shifting relationships - and some, like Chrissie intersect with many. The filmmaker and the policeman meanwhile have safe homes with wives - or do they? An immigrant family speaks their own language only privately; they have managed to integrate - or have they? The wonderful Linda Grant weaves a tale around ideas of home; how London can be a place of exile or expulsion, how home can be a physical place or an idea. How all our lives intersect and how coincidence or the randomness of birth place can decide how we live and with whom.

The Second World War is over, a new decade is beginning but for an East End teenage brother and sister living on the edge of the law, life has been suspended. Sent away to a tuberculosis sanatorium in Kent to learn the way of the patient, they find themselves in the company of army and air force officers, a car salesman, a young university graduate, a mysterious German woman, a member of the aristocracy and an American merchant seaman. They discover that a cure is tantalisingly just out of reach and only by inciting wholesale rebellion can freedom be snatched.

It is April 1946. Evelyn Sert, 20 years old, a hairdresser from Soho, sails for Palestine, where Jewish refugees and idealists are gathering from across Europe to start a new life in a brand new country. In the glittering, cosmopolitan, Bauhaus city of Tel Aviv, anything seems possible - the new self, new Jew, new woman are all feasible. Evelyn, adept at disguises, reinvents herself as the bleached blonde Priscilla Jones. Immersed in a world of passionate idealism, she finds love, and with Johnny, her lover, finds herself at the heart of a very dangerous game.

In a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents. Then one morning a glamorous uncle appears, dressed in a mohair suit, with a diamond watch on his wrist and a girl in a leopard-skin hat on his arm. Why is Uncle Sandor so violently unwelcome in her parents' home?
This is a novel about survival - both banal and heroic - and a young woman who discovers the complications, even betrayals, that inevitably accompany the fierce desire to live.
Set against the backdrop of a London from the 1950s to the present day, The Clothes on Their Backs is a wise and tender novel about the clothes we choose to wear, the personalities we dress ourselves in, and about how they define us all.

"Одинокая женщина в сорок девять лет - это, сами понимаете, уже не смешно. Начинаешь всерьез опасаться, что любовь и желание для тебя навсегда остались в прошлом. Конечно, это не смертельно; но чтобы с этим примириться, нужна большая внутренняя сила..."

Ответ на вопрос, как обрести эту силу, и пытается найти не привыкшая пасовать перед трудностями Алике. Источник, способный дать силу героине романа, лежит в глубине веков, в непростом пути ее народа, гонимого и преследуемого, в его способности выстоять и обрести свою личную землю обетованную.

В 2002 году роман английской писательницы Линды Грант (р. 1951) "Все еще здесь" был включен в лонг-лист Букеровской премии.

Two middle-aged people meet in Liverpool, once the embarkation point for nine million future Americans, now a dying port. Alix has returned for her mother's death and to receive her dying wish. Joseph, an American architect, is there to build a hotel. Both are hiding a great deal - from others and from themselves.

Somewhere in San Francisco, a kid of 16 was mugging a woman old enough to be his grandmother, a junkie was waving a gun at the clerk in a tiny neighborhood grocery, and a rising young executive who hadn't risen fast enough was quietly making his company several hundred thousand dollars poorer. The mugger and the junkie would end up on the police blotter. The young executive would wind up across a desk from me because CEOs prefer not to admit to the stockholders that they've been taken by their employees.So goes the life of a private investigator who specializes in uncovering corporate fraud. When Catherine Sayler's lover Peter Harman is framed for the murder of a gorgeous blonde secretary, Catherine plunges into the case, determined to find the real killer. She soon finds that corporate grime and greed sometimes make for a deadly mix.

Sybil Ross has been brought up by her Jewish furrier father and style-obsessed mother to be an empty-headed fashion plate. But on the worst night of Liverpool's blitz she uncovers a secret that leaves her disorientated and eventually leads her to the very edge of America and a final choicе

At U.C. Berkeley's plant genetics lab, precious specimens are being trashed and genetic material is disappearing. Student pranks? With a major grant coming up for renewal, it's not likely.

Then everybody's favorite staff member dies suddenly, and the lab's brainy researchers start squabbling like children. Shrewd private investigator Catherine Sayler wonders if the race for lucrative biotech breakthroughs caused this ugly rift. But the big question is: Are some of these budding genetic geniuses also experimenting with murder?

Catherine Sayler has been taking some time off from her regular work as a financial P.I. when a criminal investigation catches her interest. Mitch Morrison, a loner and recovering alcoholic, has been killed, and Catherine thinks it's connected to a respected judge who sexually abused Mitch when he was a child.

Catherine learns quickly what kind of man would abuse children and how he could get away with it for years. The more she uncovers about the judge, the more she learns about the endless perils children face every day -- and the more she puts both her reputation and her life on the line....