Имоджен Эдвардс-Джонс — новинки

Inspired by real characters, this transporting historical fiction debut spins the fascinating story of two princesses in the Romanov court who practiced black magic, befriended the Tsarina, and invited Rasputin into their lives—forever changing the course of Russian history.

As daughters of the impoverished King of Montenegro, Militza and Stana must fulfill their duty to their father and leave their beloved home for St. Petersburg to be married into senior positions in the Romanov court. For their new alliances to the Russian nobility will help secure the future of the sisters’ native country. Immediately, Militza and Stana feel like outcasts as the aristocracy shuns them for their provincial ways and for dabbling in the occult. Undeterred, the sisters become resolved to make their mark by falling in with the lonely, depressed Tsarina Alexandra, who—as an Anglo-German—is also an outsider and is not fully accepted by members of the court. After numerous failed attempts to precipitate the birth of a son and heir, the Tsarina is desperate and decides to place her faith in the sisters’ expertise with black magic.

Promising the Tsarina that they will be able to secure an heir for the Russian dynasty, Militza and Stana hold séances and experiment with rituals and spells. Gurus, clairvoyants, holy fools, and charlatans all try their luck. The closer they become to the Tsarina and the royal family, the more their status—and power—is elevated. But when the sisters invoke a spiritual shaman, who goes by the name of Rasputin, the die is cast. For they have not only irrevocably sealed their own fates—but also that of Russia itself.

Brimming with black magic, sex and intrigue, The Witches of St. Petersburg is an exquisite historical fiction debut novel filled with lush historical details from the Romanov era.

Hotel Babylon

Tuscany for Beginners

Hospital Babylon is an in-depth, amusing and highly insightful expose of the extraordinary world of modern medicine. It will take the reader on a journey through the various departments and wards where babies are made, thighs are reduced, noses straightened and spare kidneys are flown in from the Indian subcontinent. We will meet doctors who sleep with nurses. Doctors who sleep with patients. Doctors who fiddle their insurance forms. Doctors who suck fat, pump up breasts, plump lips and lengthen penises. The doctor who specialises in flatulence. The doctor who shoots up before he operates. Doctor Feelgood who will give you anything and everything you need. As well as the doctor who makes a fortune doing buttock enlargements in the Caribbean. En route, we will discover what touches them, what amuses them and quite how obsessively insane you have to be to make it to the top. Why does a private room cost over ?1000 a night? Who are the people changing your bedpan? Holding your hand as you go to sleep? What do they do to you while you're out cold? Why are drugs so expensive? How easy is it for the pharmaceutical companies to grease the good doctor's palm? Who exactly is profiting from your illness, embarrassing affliction or brand new nose? And, of course, what happens when it all goes wrong? Packed with true stories, anecdotes and revelations, Hospital Babylon is a riveting, entertaining and shocking look at 24 hours in the life of a hospital. Both amusing and appalling, it will make you question whether you should sign that consent form after all...

How does it feel to live and work in the world's most beautiful and luxurious tropical island resort, surrounded by white sandy beaches and aquamarine seas? How does it feel to be in the lap of luxury when you're thousands of miles from anywhere else? And when the guests are some of the richest and most demanding people in the world, where do you find the energy every day to smile, smile and smile again? Beach Babylon takes you behind the scenes at a five-star tropical island resort. Do all the stories which take place behind the closed doors of the exclusive spa have happy endings? What do the world's richest people expect from room service during their fortnight in paradise? What does the windsurfing instructor do to keep sane after hours? In the bestselling tradition of her previous Babylon books, Imogen Edwards-Jones investigates the rivalries and alliances between the staff at a resort where pandering to the guests' most extravagant whims is de rigueur. With a cast of millionaires, celebrities, hangers-on and prostitutes, Beach Babylon takes you to a world where extreme luxury is the norm and where excess somehow isn't always enough...

What makes a restaurant hot? Whose name do you need to drop to get a table? Why is one place booked solid for the next nine months while somewhere equally delicious is as empty and inhospitable as the Gobi desert? Welcome to the restaurant business, where the hours are punishing, the conditions are brutal and the Chef's Special has been languishing at the back of the fridge for the past three days. This is an industry plagued with obsessives. Why else do some chefs drive themselves crazy in pursuit of elusive Michelin stars, when in reality all they're doing is 'making someone else's tea'? Nothing is left to chance: the lighting, the temperature or even the cut of the salmon fillet. There's even a spot of psychology behind the menu. What do they want you to order? What makes them the most money? And why should you really hold back on those side dishes? In Restaurant Babylon, Imogen Edwards-Jones and her anonymous industry insider lift the lid on all the tricks of the food trade and what really makes this GBP90 billion a year industry tick. So please do sit down, pour yourself some heavily marked-up wine and make yourself comfortable (although we'll need that table back by 8.3 0 sharp).

What makes a restaurant hot? Whose name do you need to drop to get a table? Why is one place booked solid for the next nine months while somewhere equally delicious is as empty and inhospitable as the Gobi desert?
Welcome to the restaurant business, where the hours are punishing, the conditions are brutal and the Chef's Special has been languishing at the back of the fridge for the past three days. This is an industry plagued with obsessives. Why else do some chefs drive themselves crazy in pursuit of elusive Michelin stars when in reality all they're doing is 'making someone else's tea'?
Nothing is left to chance: the lighting, the temperature or even the cut of the salmon fillet. There's even a spot of psychology behind the menu. What do they want you to order? What makes them the most money? And why should you really hold back on those side dishes?

"Hospital Babylon" is an in-depth, amusing and highly insightful expose of the extraordinary world of modern medicine. It will take the reader on a journey through the various departments and wards where babies are made, thighs are reduced, noses straightened and spare kidneys are flown in from the Indian subcontinent. We will meet doctors who sleep with nurses. Doctors who sleep with patients. Doctors who fiddle their insurance forms. Doctors who suck fat, pump up breasts, plump lips and lengthen penises. The doctor who specialises in flatulence. The doctor who shoots up before he operates. Doctor Feelgood who will give you anything and everything you need. As well as the doctor who makes a fortune doing buttock enlargements in the Caribbean. En route, we will discover what touches them, what amuses them and quite how obsessively insane you have to be to make it to the top. Why does a private room cost over GBP1000 a night? Who are the people changing your bedpan? Holding your hand as you go to sleep? What do they do to you while you're out cold? Why are drugs so expensive? How easy is it for the pharmaceutical companies to grease the good doctor's palm? Who exactly is profiting from your illness, embarrassing affliction or brand new nose? And, of course, what happens when it all goes wrong? Packed with true stories, anecdotes and revelations, "Hospital Babylon" is a riveting, entertaining and shocking look at 24 hours in the life of a hospital. Both amusing and appalling, it will make you question whether you should sign that consent form after all...

Изнанка самого счастливого дня в жизни мужчины и женщины - глазами сотрудника компании, занимающейся организацией свадеб! На что мы тратимся широко и лихо?
В какой ситуации мы забываем об экономии и тратим тысячи и тысячи долларов на дорогущие столы, нелепые торты и платье "от кутюр", точно зная, что наденем его только раз в жизни?
Конечно же, речь - о свадьбе!
То, что агентства по организации свадеб дерут со своих клиентов три шкуры, известно всем. Но... так ли уж они не правы, эти "демоны в человеческом обличье"?
Вместе с героем этого невероятно смешного романа, основанного на реальных событиях, мы побываем на трех свадьбах - и увидим, на каких страстях и скандалах строится жесткий свадебный бизнес...

Following a week in the life of a busy wedding planner, and based entirely on true but anonymous stories, Wedding Babylon takes you to the heart of an industry where emotions run high, money flows like champagne and ?3,000 cakes are made of polystyrene. Why are weddings so expensive? What makes us spend a year's wages on one Big Day? And just how Big does your Day actually have to be? Hilarious, shocking and full of jaw-dropping true tales of wedding days from hell, here is definitive proof that, sadly, the course of true love never did run entirely smooth ...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that everyone loves a good wedding. Except, possibly, the bride and groom, who spend the day in such an overexcited frenzy that they can't remember it. And the bridesmaids, who are forced to wear ill-fitting peach taffeta so as not to outshine the bride. And the best man, who has to make a terrifying speech in front of a room of drunken people he's never met before, then fight off the attentions of the chief bridesmaid. Oh, and the father of the bride, who has to pay through the nose for the whole thing...Now, in the bestselling Babylon tradition, Imogen Edwards-Jones lifts the lid on the excesses of the wedding industry. The scams which inflate the prices of everything from flowers to cakes to marquee hire. And the wedding disaster stories of high jinks at the altar and disastrous low comedy in the speeches. The potential for things to go horribly, horribly wrong is never higher than at a wedding. Hilarious, shocking and thoroughly entertaining, "Wedding Babylon" is proof positive that the dream day is never far from becoming a nightmare...

What is fashion? Who decides what's in and what's out? Is the catwalk really catty? And what's so super about supermodels? Based entirely on true but anonymous stories, Material Girl covers six months in a designer's life and gives you exclusive access to a world where women get paid thousands for getting dressed in the morning and where the wrong shirt length can cost you your career. Tracking the development of a collection from concept to catwalk, onto the front pages of Vogue and then to the high street, it reveals the shocking mark-ups, the fabulous extremes and the shoddy shortcuts which the fashion industry would rather you didn't know about...

Большие бабки, классные тёлки, крутые менеджеры, полные стадионы...
Так?
Не так.
Прыщавые фанатки, рабская система зависимости от звукозаписывающих лейблов, унылые, бесконечные турне и заведомо проплаченные, тщательно подобранные сплетни в "жёлтой прессе".
Тёлки? Половине попсовых "принцев" женщины вообще до лампочки, а вторая половина слишком пьяна или под кайфом, чтоб понять, кого... э-э-э... любит.
Полные стадионы? Точно. Только много ли бабла имеет с полных стадионов сам исполнитель?
Менеджеры? А вот это - самое интересное. Потому что историю очередных попсовых "королей на час" рассказывает не кто иной, как сам их менеджер...

Кто правит высокой модой?
Почему маленькое черное платье стоит целых три тысячи евро?
Правда ли, что в мире от-кутюр все сидят на наркотиках и пьют шампанское как воду?
Как серая мышка становится супермоделью, а начинающий дизайнер - знаменитым кутюрье?
Кто ворует чужие идеи?
Кто начинает и выигрывает закулисные войны?
Взлеты и падения...
Жестокая подковерная война...
Все тайны самого доходного и самого... модного бизнеса!
"Модный Вавилон" заставит вас взглянуть на глянцевые журналы по-новому!

Легко ли работать на роскошном тропическом курорте?
На какие ухищрения приходится идти топ-менеджерам, чтобы не потерять выгодных клиентов шестизвездочных отелей - русских бизнесменов и арабских шейхов?
Как развеселить скучающего олигарха, осчастливить пресыщенного ближневосточного принца и привести в восторг капризную голливудскую диву?
В туристическом бизнесе, как на войне, все средства хороши...
Имоджен Эдвардс-Джонс и ее анонимный соавтор раскрывают скандальные тайны элитных курортов.
Будет ли кто-то по-прежнему мечтать о Мальдивах и Канарах, прочитав эту книгу?

Легко ли работать на роскошном тропическом курорте?
На какие ухищрения приходится идти топ-менеджерам, чтобы не потерять выгодных клиентов шестизвездочных отелей - русских бизнесменов и арабских шейхов?
Как развеселить скучающего олигарха, осчастливить пресыщенного ближневосточного принца и привести в восторг капризную голливудскую диву?
В туристическом бизнесе, как на войне, все средства хороши...
Имоджен Эдвардс-Джонс и ее анонимный соавтор раскрывают скандальные тайны элитных курортов.
Будет ли кто-то по-прежнему мечтать о Мальдивах и Канарах, прочитав эту книгу?

Где удобнее заниматься сексом в самолете?
Как готовят еду, которую пассажирам предлагают во время рейса?
Что происходит с вещами, сданными в багаж?
Почему бокал шампанского, выпитый в воздухе, пьянит сильнее, чем целая бутылка на земле?
И вообще - каковы наши шансы спокойно долететь до пункта назначения?
Имоджен Эдварде-Джонс и ее анонимный соавтор раскрывают скандальную правду о жизни аэропортов и авиакомпаний.
Станем ли мы так же беспечно летать самолетами, прочитав эту книгу?

Кто правит модой? Почему маленькое черное платье стоит три тысячи евро? Правда ли, что в мире от-кутюр все сидят на наркотиках и пьют шампанское как воду? Как серая мышка становится супермоделью, а начинающий дизайнер - знаменитым кутюрье? Кто зарабатывает деньги на женском тщеславии? Кто ворует чужие идеи? Кто начинает и выигрывает закулисные войны? Взлеты и падения… Жестокая подковерная война… Все тайны самого доходного и самого… модного бизнеса! Вы любите баловать себя эксклюзивными обновками? Вы жадно следите за последними тенденциями моды? "Модный Вавилон" заставит вас взглянуть на глянцевые журналы по-новому!

Кто правит высокой модой?
Почему маленькое черное платье стоит целых три тысячи евро?
Правда ли, что в мире от-кутюр все сидят на наркотиках и пьют шампанское как воду?
Как серая мышка становится супермоделью, а начинающий дизайнер - знаменитым кутюрье?
Кто зарабатывает деньги на женском тщеславии?
Кто ворует чужие идеи?
Кто начинает и выигрывает закулисные войны?
Взлеты и падения...
Жестокая подковерная война...
Все тайны самого доходного и самого... модного бизнеса!
Вы любите баловать себя эксклюзивными обновками?
Вы жадно следите за последними тенденциями моды?
"Модный Вавилон" заставит вас взглянуть на глянцевые журналы по-новому!

All of the following is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the guilty. All the anecdotes, the stories, the characters, the situations, the highs, the lows, the scams, the drugs, the misery, the love, the death and the insanity are exactly as was told by Anonymous - someone who has spent his whole career working in hotels at the heart of London's luxury hotel industry. However, for legal reasons, the stories now take place in a fictitious hotel known as Hotel Babylon. More than a decade is compressed into twenty-four hours. Everything else is as it should be. It's just another twenty-four hours in an expensive London hotel.