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Ginger, You're Barmy Ginger, You're Barmy
Автор: Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2006 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 09 февраля 2008
   «When it isn't prison, it's hell — or at least that's the belief of conscripts Jonathan Browne and Mike «Ginger» Brady. For this is the British Army in the days of National Service.»
 
Paradise News Paradise News
Автор: Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 7 октрября 2014
   Bernard Walsh, agnostic theologian, has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to Hawaii with his reluctant father Jack, to visit Jack's dying, estranged sister it feels more like purgatory than paradise. Surrounded by quarrelling honeymooners, a freeloading anthropologist and assorted tourists in search of their own personal paradise, and with his father whisked off to hospital after an unfortunate accident, Bernard is beginning to regret ever coming to Haiwaii. Until, that is, he stumbles on something he had given up hope of finding: the astonishing possibility of love.
 
Changing Places Changing Places
Автор: Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 23 февраля 2013
   When Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic. Nobody is immune to the exchange: students, colleagues, even wives are swapped as events spiral out of control. And soon both sundrenched Euphoric State university and rain-kissed university of Rummidge are a hotbed of intrigue, lawlessness and broken vows...
 
The British Museum is Falling Down The British Museum is Falling Down
Автор: Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 2013
   «The British Museum is Falling Down» is a brilliant comic satire of academia, religion and human entanglements. First published in 1965, it tells the story of hapless, scooter-riding young research student Adam Appleby, who is trying to write his thesis but is constantly distracted — not least by the fact that, as Catholics in the 1960s, he and his wife must rely on 'Vatican roulette' to avoid a fourth child.»
 

 

 

 

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