Лучшие книги Джесс Кидд

Брайди Дивайн — анахронизм в Лондоне конца XIX века или его неотъемлемый атрибут? С одной стороны, добропорядочность ее вызывает сомнения у поборников викторианской морали (достопочтенная вдова, и вдруг на службе у полиции!). А с другой – кому, как не ей, ориентироваться в густом тумане этого монструозного города: она умеет обращаться с трупами и даже если увидит…

Что, если храбрость – не твой конёк? Алфи знает – ничего хорошего. Особенно, если ты сын отважного исследователя и укротительницы львов. И особенно, если однажды тебе приходится переехать жить к странным тётям в мрачный особняк, стоящий на мрачной опушке очень мрачного леса. Из трубы особняка идёт зелёный дым, у одной из тёть есть огромная летучая мышь, а в…

SHORTLISTED FOR THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD.Unintentional psychic Maud Drennan arrives to look after Cathal Flood, a belligerent man hiding in his filthy, cat-filled home.Her job is simple: clear the rubbish, take care of the patient. But the once-grand house has more to reveal than simply its rooms. There is a secret here, and whether she likes it or not, Maud may be the one to finally uncover what has previously been kept hidden.

A charming ne’er-do-well returns to his haunted Irish hometown to uncover the truth about his mother in this “supernaturally skilled debut” (Vanity Fair) and turns the town—and his life—upside down.

Having been abandoned at an orphanage as a baby, Mahony assumed all his life that his mother wanted nothing to do with him. That is, until one night in 1976 while drinking a pint at a Dublin pub, he receives an anonymous note implying that she may have been forced to give him up. Determined to find out what really happened, Mahony embarks on a pilgrimage back to his hometown, the rural village of Mulderrig. Neither he nor Mulderrig can possibly prepare for what’s in store…

From the moment he arrives, Mahony’s presence completely changes the village. Women fall all over themselves. The real and the fantastic are blurred. Chatty ghosts rise from their graves with secrets to tell, and local preacher Father Quinn will do anything to get rid of the slippery young man who is threatening the moral purity of his parish.

A spectacular new addition to the grand Irish storytelling tradition, Himself “is a darkly comic tale of murder, intrigue, haunting and illegitimacy…wickedly funny” (Daily Express).