Лучшие книги Иэна Сэнсома

Попробуйте представить мир без бумаги. Что нам останется? Да почти ничего. Бумага с нами везде. Книги, письма, дневники, а еще картонные подставки под пиво, свидетельства о рождении, настольные игры и визитные карточки, фотографии, билеты, чайные пакетики. Мы – люди бумаги. Но эпоха бумаги подходит к концу. Электронные книги и билеты заменяют бумажные, архивы оцифровывают. Мы вступаем в мир без бумаги, но Иэн Сэнсом рассказывает об этом самом парадоксальном из созданных человеком материале и доказывает, что в том или ином виде он всегда будет с нами.

This title introduces Israel Armstrong, one of literature`s most unlikely detectives in the first of a series of novels from the author of the critically acclaimed "Ring Road". Israel is an intelligent, shy, passionate, sensitive sort of soul: he`s Jewish; he`s a vegetarian; he could maybe do with losing a little weight. And he`s just arrived in Ireland to take up his first post as a librarian. But the library`s been shut down and Israel ends up stranded on the North Antrim coast driving an old mobile library. There`s nice scenery, but 15,000 fewer books than there should be. Who on earth steals that many books? How? When would they have time to read them all? And is there anywhere in this godforsaken place where he can get a proper cappuccino and a decent newspaper?

In The Norfolk Mystery, the first in the County Guides series, we meet Swanton Morley. Eccentric, autodidact - the People's Professor.
Morley plans to write a series of guides to the counties of England. He employs a young assistant, Stephen Sefton, veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and together with Morley's daughter, Miriam, they set off through Norfolk, where their sightseeing tour quickly turns into a murder investigation.
As Morley confronts the conventions of class, education and politics in 1930s England, as Sefton flees his memories of the war, and as Miriam seeks romance, join them on their first adventure into the dark heart of England.
When Morley's map leads to mystery, no one is above suspicion!

At about four o’clock on 5th November 1937, Miss Lizzie Walter, a teacher at the King’s Road Primary School in Lewes, said goodbye to her young pupils. The children clattered out into the dark streets, preparing for that night’s revelries – and Miss Lizzie Walter was never seen alive again.
Hitler, Mussolini and Pope Paul V are on fire. Fireworks explode and flaming tar barrels are being dragged through the streets. Bonfire Night in Lewes is the closest England

Октябрь 1937 года. Суонтон Морли, народный профессор, отправляется в Эссекс, чтобы продолжить писать свою книгу об истории Англии. Дочь Морли Мириам продолжает сеять хаос, а его ассистент Стивен всё глубже погружается в депрессию и отчаяние.
Морли — почётный гость на фестивале устриц в Колчестере. Но когда мэр внезапно умирает на приёме, подозрение падает на его коллег-советников. Мэр отравился? Или это может быть... убийство?
“Essex Poison” – это новое приключение Морли, Сефтона и Мириам в Англии 1930-х годов. Книга входит в цикл Иэна Сэнсома “The County Guides”.
Книга на английском языке.
October 1937. Swanton Morley, the People’s Professor, sets off to Essex to continue his history of England, The County Guides. Morley’s daughter Miriam continues to cause chaos and his assistant Stephen Sefton continues to slide deeper into depression and despair.
Morley is an honorary guest at the Colchester Oyster Festival. But when the mayor dies suddenly at the civic reception suspicion falls on his fellow councillors. Is it a case of food poisoning? Or could it be … murder?
Join Morley, Miriam and Sefton on another journey into the dark heart of England.

Чай со сливками! Школьные пиры! Дьявольские сёрферы!
Нашим главным героям предстоит раскрыть норфолкскую тайну и столкнуться со…смертью в Девоне.
Суонтон Морли, народный профессор, отправляется в Девон, чтобы продолжить писать свою книгу об истории Англии. Его дочь Мириам и ассистент Стивен Сефтон собираются на Английскую Ривьеру.
Морли был приглашен выступить с речью на День Основателя в школе. Однако по прибытии происходит трагедия: им становится известно о гибели мальчика при загадочных обстоятельствах. Было ли это несчастным случаем или... убийством?
“Death in Devon” – это новое приключение Морли, Сефтона и Мириам в Англии 1930-х годов. Книга входит в цикл Иэна Сэнсома “The County Guides”.
Книга на английском языке.
Cream teas! School dinners! Satanic surfers!
Join our heroes as they follow up a Norfolk Mystery with a bad case of … Death in Devon.
Swanton Morley, the People's Professor, sets off for Devon to continue his history of England, The County Guides. Morley's daughter Miriam and his assistant Stephen Sefton pack up the Lagonda for a trip to the English Riviera.
Morley has been invited to give the Founder's Day speech at All Souls School in Rousdon. But when the trio arrive they discover that a boy has died in mysterious circumstances. Was it an accident or was it - murder?
Join Morley, Sefton and Miram on another adventure into the dark heart of 1930s England.

Israel Armstrong—the hapless duffle coat wearing, navel-gazing librarian who solves crimes and domestic problems whilst driving a mobile library around the north coast of Ireland—finds himself on the brink of thirty. But any celebration, planned or otherwise, must be put on hold when a troubled teenager—the daughter of a local politician—mysteriously vanishes. Israel suspects the girl's disappearance has something to do with his lending her American Pastoral from the library's special "Unshelved" category. Now he has to find the lost teen before he's run out of town—while he attempts to recover from his recent breakup with his girlfriend, Gloria, and tries to figure out where in Tumdrum a Jewish vegetarian might celebrate his thirtieth birthday.

This is a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More than a work of literary criticism or literary biography, it is a record of why and how we create and respond to great poetry.This is a book about a poet – W. H. Auden, a wunderkind, a victim-beneficiary of a literary cult of personality who became a scapegoat and a poet-expatriate largely excluded from British literary history because he left.About a poem – ‘September 1, 1939’, his most famous and celebrated, yet one which he tried to rewrite and disown and which has enjoyed – or been condemned – to a tragic and unexpected afterlife.About a city – New York, an island, an emblem of the Future, magnificent, provisional, seamy, and in 1939 about to emerge as the defining twentieth-century cosmopolis, the capital of the world.And about a world at a point of change – about 1939, and about our own Age of Anxiety, about the aftermath of September 11, when many American newspapers reprinted Auden’s poem in its entirety on their editorial pages.