Салман Рушди4.2 Мораиш Зогойби по прозвищу Мавр излагает семейную историю, вплетая в нее рассказы о современной Индии, в которых вымысел переплетается с правдой, но правит всем безудержное воображение автора. Сага о семействе да Гама — Зогойби, о проклятьях и ненависти, о безумной страсти, о преступных наклонностях и тяге к прекрасному, перемежается монологами главного героя, посвященными искусству, религиозному фанатизму, национальным традициям и, конечно же, любви.
Джастин Картрайт0.0 Set against the background of Nelson Mandela's release, IN EVERY FACE I MEET is the story of Anthony Northleach, and one intense, comic and horrifying day in his life. 'Glitteringly entertaining.' The Times 'A hugely readable, beautifully written, thoughtful book.' Marie Claire 'A brilliant and original book ...There can be nothing derivative about a novelist with Justin Cartwright's fresh accuracy of perception, which provides constant small shocks of recognition ...funny as well as bleak, and full of humanity. This is a novel that tackles all the big state-of-the modern-world themes; it is also intensely readable' Sunday Telegraph Set against the background of Nelson Mandela's release, this is the story of Anthony Northleach, and one intense, comic and horrifying day in his life. 'Glitteringly entertaining' The Times 'A hugely readable, beautifully written, thoughtful book' Marie Claire 'A brilliant and original book ...There can be nothing derivative about a novelist with Justin Cartwright's fresh accuracy of perception, which provides constant small shocks of recognition ...intensely readable' Sunday Telegraph
Kazuo Ishiguro3.5 The Unconsoled is at once a gripping psychological mystery, a wicked satire of the cult of art, and a poignant character study of a man whose public life has accelerated beyond his control.
The setting is a nameless Central European city where Ryder, a renowned pianist, has come to give the most important performance of his life. Instead, he finds himself diverted on a series of cryptic and infuriating errands that nevertheless provide him with vital clues to his own past.
In The Unconsoled Ishiguro creates a work that is itself a virtuoso performance, strange, haunting, and resonant with humanity and wit.
"Музей моих тайн" — дебютный роман прославленной Кейт Аткинсон, получивший престижную Уитбредовскую премию, обойдя "Прощальный вздох мавра" Салмана Рушди; ее цикл романов о частном детективе Джексоне Броуди ("Преступления прошлого", "Поворот к лучшему", "Ждать ли добрых вестей?", "Чуть свет, с собакою вдвоем"), успевший полюбиться и российскому читателю, Стивен Кинг окрестил "главным детективным проектом десятилетия".
Когда Руби Леннокс появилась на свет, отец ее сидел в пивной "Гончая и заяц", рассказывая женщине в изумрудно-зеленом платье, что не женат. Теперь Руби живет в тени йоркского собора, в квартирке над родительским зоомагазином, и пытается разобраться в запутанной истории четырех поколений своей семьи. Куда пропала прабабушка Алиса после того, как ее сфотографировал заезжий французский фотограф мсье Арман? Почему в пять лет Руби, ничего ей не объяснив, отправили жить к тете, и явно не на каникулы? Отыскивая дорогу в лабиринте рождений и смертей, тайн и обманов, девочка твердит себе: "Меня зовут Руби. Я драгоценный рубин. Я капля крови. Я Руби Леннокс".
Michael Morpurgo0.0 Michael travels to Scilly for his Great Aunt Laura's funeral and inherits her diary, which reveals the moving story of her childhood, the great storms and the discovery of Zanzibar.
Элизабет Арнольд0.0 Magic is at the heart of Freya's Romany world, and magic is not always easy to live with. When Freya is sent away to Aunt Emma and Uncle Jack's 'posh-polish' house to work her first solo magic, she feels lost and frightened. There are clashes between her and Aunt Emma who's never coped with a child before. Used to the freedom and space of gypsy life she feels trapped and hates every minute until she meets Maggie, a very special magpie. Together they set out to grant Aunt Emma's wish and gain their freedom, and that's when their problems really start! The Parsley parcel is the first book in The Gypsy Girl Trilogy filmed by Film and general Productions Ltd and shown on CITV. Shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's Award
Philip Ridley0.0 After his mother's brooch is stolen, Kasper leaves his home in the land of Nowhere and journeys to the land of Glitter and Gloom to get it back, confronting great dangers in a city ruled by a fierce orphan boy.
Бернард О’Донохью0.0 'The Weakness is one of those very rare collections of poems which haunt the reader with a sense of intrusive wonder. . . I'm fascinated by O'Donoghue's wry vision, his infinitely gentle manner of displacing our more predictable reactions to things as they are, so that we glimpse their underlying tragedy. ' - TOM PAULIN PASSIVE SMOKING takes up where THE WEAKNESS left off. Many of the poems involve O'Donoghue's Irish background and the collection includes numerous pen-portraits of family, friends and acquaintances, some hilarious, other very moving. Some poems begin in anecdote and memory but transform into parable and allegory. O'Donoghue's tone of voice is very approachable - very reader-friendly - he combines an obvious knowledge of literature with an eye and ear for colloquial speech and a good yarn.
Глин Максвелл0.0 Maxwell's precocious, prolific talent has established him as one of the brightest stars in the recent resurgence of British poetry. This, his third collection is another Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Its focus is men. The poems sort the men from the boys: boys at play, men at war, boys grown up, men reverting, men in love and poetry and politics, running countries, ruining things. From the playground to the bedroom to the battlefield, by way of Heaven, Home, and Hell, Maxwell rummages for the remains of childhood in the remains of the civilized.
Simon Armitage0.0 Simon Armitage is the most widely and unreservedly praised poet of his generation. The Dead Sea Poems, his fourth collection, culminates in a long visionary poem, 'Five Eleven Ninety Nine'. Elsewhere, questions of belief and trust, of identity and knowledge, dealt with as they occur in everyday domestic life, contribute to a picture of our contemporary world that is at once realistic and touched with a unique imaginative intensity
Roy Jenkins0.0 From the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill, a towering historical biography, available for the first time in paperback.
William Gladstone was, with Tennyson, Newman, Dickens, Carlyle, and Darwin, one of the stars of nineteenth-century British life. He spent sixty-three of his eighty-nine years in the House of Commons and was prime minister four times, a unique accomplishment. From his critical role in the formation of the Liberal Party to his preoccupation with the cause of Irish Home Rule, he was a commanding politician and statesman nonpareil. But Gladstone the man was much more: a classical scholar, a wide-ranging author, a vociferous participant in all the great theological debates of the day, a voracious reader, and an avid walker who chopped down trees for recreation. He was also a man obsessed with the idea of his own sinfulness, prone to self-flagellation and persistent in the practice of accosting prostitutes on the street and attempting to persuade them of the errors of their ways. This full and deep portrait of a complicated man offers a sweeping picture of a tumultuous century in British history, and is also a brilliant example of the biographer’s art.
Пол Берри0.0 Vera Brittain (1893-1970) is best known as the author of Testament of Youth, the eloquent memoir of her World War I experiences that gave voice to a generation forever shattered and haunted by the Great War. Paul Berry and Mark Bostridge provide a full and candid account of Brittain's life that alters in important respects the self-portrait she presented in Testament of Youth and her later autobiographical work, Testament of Experience. Drawing on a treasure trove of private family papers and memorabilia, Berry and Bostridge chronicle her conservative and provincial upbringing, university education, and the devastating losses of her fiance, younger brother, and two friends in the first World War. They examine her struggles to become a successful writer, her close relationship with writer Winifred Holtby, her unconventional marriage to political scientist George Catlin, and her courageous stance against Britain's saturation bombing of Germany in World War II.
Гитта Серени4.0 Albert Speer was not only Hitler's architect and armaments minister, but the Fuhrer's closest friend--his "unhappy love." Speer was one of the few defendants at the Nuremberg Trials to take responsibility for Nazi war crimes, even as he denied knowledge of the Holocaust. Now this enigma of a man is unveiled in a monumental biography by a writer who came to know Speer intimately in his final years.
Out of hundreds of hours of interviews, Sereny unravels the threads of Speer's personality: the genius that made him indispensable to the German war machine, the conscience that drove him to repent, and the emotional wounds that made him susceptible to Hitler's lethal magnetism. Read as an inside account of the Third Reich, or as a revelatory unsparing yet compassionate study of the human capacity for evil, Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth is a triumph.
"Fascinating...Not only a major addition to our knowledge of the Third Reich, but a stunning attempt to understand the nature of good and evil."--Newsday
"More than a biography...It also constitutes a perceptive re-examination of the mysterious appeal of Adolf Hitler."--San Francisco Chronicle
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