Клэр Фуллер4.0 Выживальщик Джеймс Хиллкоут готовится к концу света — строит убежище в подвале своего лондонского дома и делает запасы.
Однако со временем подвал начинает казаться ему ненадежным, и после размолвки с женой он без ее ведома увозит восьмилетнюю дочь Пегги в заброшенную хижину посреди глухого леса где-то в Германии. Так начинается история их выживания. История последних двух людей на земле, как думает Пегги, — ведь отец убедил ее, что во всем мире больше никого не осталось …
Девять лет спустя Пегги возвращается домой, к матери, но попытки выяснить, что произошло в лесу, приводят к новым загадкам.
Эмма Хили3.8 У восьмидесятилетней Мод Стенли серьезные проблемы с памятью. Она моментально забывает все, что произошло с нею буквально пять минут назад. Порою даже не может вспомнить свою дочь, которая приходит к ней каждый день. При этом события своей юности она помнит ярко и в мельчайших подробностях. Но одна мысль крепко-накрепко засела в ее мозгу: Мод считает, что ее ближайшая подруга Элизабет недавно пропала, и ее необходимо найти. И вот, ежеминутно теряясь во времени и пространстве, Мод пытается выяснить, куда подевалась Элизабет, при этом постоянно вспоминая подробности еще одного загадочного исчезновения – своей сестры Сьюки в конце 1940-х годов. Ей даже в голову не может прийти, насколько тесно окажутся связаны между собой эти два события …
Кэрис Брэй0.0 A mesmerizing literary debut novel of doubt, faith, and perseverance in the aftermath of a family tragedy—for fans of Me Before You, Little Bee, and Tell the Wolves I’m Home.
The Bradleys see the world as a place where miracles are possible, and where nothing is more important than family. This is their story.
It is the story of Ian Bradley—husband, father, math teacher, and Mormon bishop—and his unshakeable belief that everything will turn out all right if he can only endure to the end, like the pioneers did. It is the story of his wife, Claire, her lonely wait for a sign from God, and her desperate need for life to pause while she comes to terms with tragedy.
And it is the story of their children: sixteen-year-old Zippy, experiencing the throes of first love; cynical fourteen-year-old Al, who would rather play soccer than read the Book of Mormon; and seven-year-old Jacob, whose faith is bigger than a mustard seed—probably bigger than a toffee candy, he thinks—and which he’s planning to use to mend his broken family with a miracle.
Intensely moving, unexpectedly funny, and deeply observed, A Song for Issy Bradley explores the outer reaches of doubt and faith, and of a family trying to figure out how to carry on when the innermost workings of their world have broken apart.
Praise for A Song for Issy Bradley
“I loved A Song for Issy Bradley. It’s wry, smart . . . moving and comforting. . . . A terrific book [about] faith, and what happens to that faith when the unimaginable happens.”—Nick Hornby, The Believer
“The Book of Mormon with an English accent.”—New York Post
“Bray fully inhabits each of her characters, displaying an admirable range of narrative talent rare in a first novel. Fans of The Lonely Polygamist and Where’d You Go, Bernadette will savor this thrilling glimpse behind the scenes of a family in crisis.”—Booklist (starred review)
“With wit and compassion, plus insider knowledge of the Mormon way of life, Bray exposes the raw emotions of a family in crisis. An intriguing and heartbreaking story from an author to watch.”—Library Journal
“An absorbing, beautifully written debut novel with surprising moments of humor.”—Kirkus Reviews
“In this wry, original, generous-spirited debut novel, members of a family come to terms with grief, each in his or her own way. They wrestle with belief and disillusionment, desire and hopelessness, pervasive sorrow and moments of transcendent joy. The result is riveting, powerful, and quietly devastating. Quite simply, A Song for Issy Bradley took my breath away.”—Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train
“A Song for Issy Bradley is that rarest of things—a book that is beautiful, tender, and a page-turner. Carys Bray made me fall hopelessly in love with each and every one of the Bradleys.”—Carol Rifka Brunt, New York Times bestselling author of Tell the Wolves I’m Home
“I cannot remember the last time I have felt so emotionally invested in a novel. It is brilliant and profoundly moving, utterly compelling and almost unbearably real.”—Nathan Filer, author of The Shock of the Fall
Джесси Бёртон3.3 Автор переносит нас в Амстердам XVII века, в дом очень состоятельного купца Йоханнеса Брандта. Сюда приезжает Нелла Оортман, которую сосватали за Брандта. Она почти незнакома с будущим мужем, но готова стать ему хорошей женой.
Она чувствует, что Йоханнес — не такой, как все. Он умный, образованный, независимый, и это ее притягивает.
Нелла молода, полна надежд и очень плохо знает жизнь. Но судьба позаботится о том, чтобы она недолго пребывала в счастливом неведении. Ей предстоит узнать, как жестоки люди к тем, кто от них отличается, и осознать, что нет ничего страшнее, чем знание того, что будет.
Алекс Кристофи0.0 Glass is pure. Glass is transparent. Glass is sharp.
Günter Glass, ex-milkman and aspiring window-cleaner, is certainly pure. And he's pretty transparent. But the jury's still out on how sharp he is.
What naïve young Günter does have is a head for heights and, ever since he visited a glassblower's workshop as a child, an unusual fixation with glass. When a minor adventure up the spire of Salisbury Cathedral makes Günter a local celebrity, John Blades - window-cleaner to the stars - comes calling. He wants Günter to join him in London to clean Europe's tallest skyscraper, the newly constructed Shard in London Bridge.
With his mother recently passed away, his dad retired and no money to pay off the mortgage, Günter takes Blades up on his offer and soon finds himself, for the first time, among the bright lights of London. He has his first experience of romantic love with short-range psychic Lieve Toureau, tries not to encourage Blades' frequent racist outbursts, and cohabits a Hackney 'bachelor-pad' with a reclusive landlord who has spent decades writing a never-ending book in his cork-lined bedroom. But above all, Günter spends his time trying to figure out how to be good and follow his dear departed mother's advice as best he can.
Will Günter find his way along the straight and narrow? Or will his innocence put him on collision course with the frequently baffling modern world?
Джеймс Ханна0.0 A striking literary debut of love and mortality perfect for fans of quirky, heart-wrenching fiction like Nathan Filer, David Nicholls and Rachel Joyce.
Ivo fell for her.
He fell for a girl he can’t get back.
Now he’s hoping for something.
While he waits he plays a game:
He chooses a body part and tells us its link to the past he threw away.
He tells us the story of how she found him, and how he lost her.
But he doesn't have long.
And he still has one thing left to do ...
Jonathan Gibbs0.0 Beginning in the early 1990s, Randall is a satirical alternative history of the heady years of Cool Britannia and the emergence of the Young British Artists. It asks what would have happened if Damien Hirst had never arrived? If someone else had become the most notorious and influential young British artist? And what if that someone had been more talented, more provocative, more outrageous? And far, far funnier?
Early on in this bravura debut we are informed that Hirst was hit and killed by a train in 1989 (“apparently when drunk”) – and the focus of everyone’s attention falls instead on Randall. Randall – a big, lumbering ape of a man – is a genius of language as much as art, supremely able to baffle, bemuse and amuse the press, public and all around him. He makes a fortune, causes chaos, changes the art world – the whole world – and provides brilliant quips every step of the way: “There’s only two things you can do with art: make it, and buy it. Everything else – talking about it, thinking about it, selling it, looking at it – either comes under one of those two, or doesn’t count.”
Саймон Роу0.0 An outrageously funny and original debut set in the fast-paced and treacherous world of a restaurant kitchen
Fresh out of the university with big dreams, our narrator is determined to escape his past and lead the literary life in London. But soon he is two months behind on rent for his depressing Camden Town bed-sit and forced to take a job doing grunt work in the kitchen of The Swan, a formerly grand restaurant that has lost its luster.
Mockingly called “Monocle” by his boisterous co-workers for a useless English lit degree, he is suddenly thrust into the unbelievably brutal, chaotic world of professional cooking and surrounded by a motley cast of co-workers for which no fancy education could have prepared him. There’s the lovably dim pastry chef Dibden, who takes all kinds of grief for his “girly” specialty; combative Ramilov, who spends a fair bit of time locked in the walk-in freezer for pissing people off; Racist Dave, about whom the less said the better; Camp Charles, the officious head waiter; and Harmony, the only woman in a world of raunchy, immature, drug- and rage-fueled men. But worst of all, there’s Bob, the sadistic head chef, who runs the kitchen with an iron fist and a taste for cruelty that surprises and terrifies even these most hardened of characters.
Once initiated and begrudgingly accepted, Monocle enters into a strange camaraderie with his fellow chefs, one based largely on the speed and ingenuity of their insults. In an atmosphere that is more akin to a zoo—or a maximum security prison—than a kitchen he feels oddly at home. But soon an altogether darker tale unfolds as Monocle and his co-workers devise a plot to overthrow Bob and Monocle’s dead-beat father (who has been kicked out of the family home) shows up at his door. Not only does his dad insist on sleeping on the floor of Monocle’s apartment; he starts hanging out at The Swan’s dissolute bar in the evenings. As the plan to oust Bob clicks into motion and the presence of his father causes Monocle to revisit lingering questions from his unhappy childhood, Chop Chop accelerates toward its blackly hilarious, thrilling, and ruthless conclusion.
Лалин Полл3.6 Флора-717 — работник низшего уровня в пчелином улье. В тоталитарном обществе каждый должен быть готов пожертвовать всем ради Королевы. А нужно еще пережить религиозные чистки и атаки жестоких ос. Когда улью грозит опасность, Флора, неожиданно для себя самой, совершает один храбрый поступок за другим, поднимая свой статус и узнавая зловещие секреты, на которых держится устройство улья. Флоре позволяется все больше и больше, пока она не решается нарушить самый главный закон улья.
"Пчелы" — это гремящий дебют в духе "Рассказа Служанки" и "Голодных игр", который потрясет ваше воображение.
Пол Кингснорт0.0 Everyone knows the date of the Battle of Hastings. Far fewer people know what happened next...Set in the three years after the Norman invasion, The Wake tells the story of a fractured band of guerilla fighters who take up arms against the invaders. Carefully hung on the known historical facts about the almost forgotten war of resistance that spread across England in the decade after 1066, it is a story of the brutal shattering of lives, a tale of lost gods and haunted visions, narrated by a man of the Lincolnshire fens bearing witness to the end of his world. Written in what the author describes as 'a shadow tongue' - a version of Old English updated so as to be understandable for the modern reader - The Wake renders the inner life of an Anglo-Saxon man with an accuracy and immediacy rare in historical fiction. To enter Buccmaster's world is to feel powerfully the sheer strangeness of the past.
