Бонни Гармус4.3 Все боятся Элизабет Зотт. Кто-то — ее ума, кто-то — остро заточенного карандаша, который она носит в прическе, а кто-то — четырнадцатидюймового ножа из ее сумочки (ведь каждый уважающий себя кулинар пользуется только своими собственными ножами). Причудливый зигзаг судьбы привел ее из Научно-исследовательского института Гастингса, где она мечтала заниматься абиогенезом (теорией возникновения жизни из неорганических веществ), на телевидение, где она ведет самую популярную в стране кулинарную передачу «Ужин в шесть». «Кулинария — это химия, — говорит она. — А химия — это жизнь. Она дает нам возможность изменить все, включая себя». Тем временем ее пятилетняя дочь Мадлен, растущая под присмотром минно-розыскного пса по кличке Шесть-Тридцать, пытается найти в школьной библиотеке Набокова и Нормана Мейлера, а также выстроить родословное древо, на котором должно найтись место и без пяти минут нобелевскому лауреату по химии Кальвину Эвансу, и фее-крестной, и деду в полосатой тюремной робе, и бабке, укрывшейся от налоговой полиции в Бразилии...
Tony Curtis0.0 ‘The city of light’ under German occupation: Paris, a place, a people, their lives in flux. And in these uncertainties, these compromised loyalties, these existences constantly under threat, Marcel Petiot, a mass murderer. A doctor, a resistance fighter, a collaborator: who can tell? Not even the people he kills.
Джонатан Франклин0.0 SHORTLISTED FOR THE SOCIETY OF AUTHORS PAUL TORDAY PRIZE
Amidst the greens of the Amazon
and the flames of its destruction
they tried
‘Red Road Green beautifully and brutally captures the tough era when settlers and cattle ranchers plunged into the forests of the Brazilian Amazon...’
JOHN HEMMING – DIRECTOR OF THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY 1975 TO 1996.
‘The description of the forest with all its beauty and wilderness is incredibly vivid and moving...’
MAIZA LUIZA RONDON –
GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER OF MARSHALL CANDIDO RONDON, FOUNDER OF THE INDIAN PROTECTION SERVICE NOW FUNAI.
‘A thrilling and timely book about a critically important subject...’
ROBIN HANBURY-TENISON –
PART FOUNDER AND NOW
PRESIDENT OF SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL.
‘The contrast between the nobleness of purpose of some, and the darker side of human nature of others, reminds me of Graham Greene.’
NICHOLAS READE, SÃO PAULO. AMAZON, BRAZIL 1965. The government offers land and money to those brave enough to travel 2000 kilometres to make a new life in the jungle. A brave young woman, Idenea, and her family are given a 50 hectare plot and begin clearing 40 metre high trees. Malaria is rampant; Indians watch; life is hard. When her baby is stolen, she is forced to flee in search of her child. Nearby, is an unlikely ally. Bobby, an ex British soldier, has turned to ranching to hide from the demons of his past. Meeting in the Perfect Peace Motel they fall in love. He tries to protect her from slavery and his troubled history. Full of reckless youth, they build a life together. But when political violence strikes can their love survive?
Julie Owen Moylan0.0 Transport yourself to mid-century New York in this compelling and evocative story of secrets, jealousy and hidden love
'BOOK OF THE MONTH' WOMAN & HOME
'DAZZLING DEBUT' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
'SUPERLATIVE' RED
'SO VIVIDLY EVOKED' CLARE CHAMBERS, AUTHOR OF SMALL PLEASURES
'I WAS GRIPPED FROM THE FIRST PAGE' SARA COX
'BROKE ME, PUT ME BACK TOGETHER. JUST BUY THIS. YOU WON'T REGRET IT' 5* READER REVIEW
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1955
In an apartment on the Lower East Side, school teachers Dovie and Gillian live as lodgers. Dancing behind closed curtains, mixing cocktails for two, they guard their private lives fiercely. Until someone guesses the truth . . .
1975
Twenty years later in the same apartment, Ava Winters is keeping her own secret. Her mother has become erratic, haunted by something Ava doesn't understand - until one sweltering July morning, she disappears.
Soon after her mother's departure, Ava receives a parcel. Addressed simply to 'Apartment 3B', it contains a photo of a woman with the word 'LIAR' scrawled across it.
Ava does not know what it means or who sent it.
But if she can find out then perhaps she'll discover the answers she is seeking - and meet the woman at the heart of it all . . .
Richard Coles0.0 Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rectory alongside his widowed mother - opinionated, fearless, ever-so-slightly annoying Audrey - and his two dachshunds, Cosmo and Hilda.
When Daniel announces a plan to install a lavatory in church, the parish is suddenly (and unexpectedly) divided: as lines are drawn, long-buried secrets come dangerously close to destroying the apparent calm of the village.
And then Anthony Bowness - cousin to Bernard de Floures, patron of Champton - is found dead at the back of the church, stabbed in the neck with a pair of secateurs.
As the police moves in and the bodies start piling up, Daniel is the only one who can try and keep his fractured community together... and catch a killer.
