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Any Human Heart
Автор: Boyd William Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2003 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20092008-08-17
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Any Human Heart is an ambitious, all-encompassing novel. Through the intimate journals of Logan Mounstuart we travel from Uruguay to Oxford, on to Paris, the Bahamas, New York and West Africa, and meet his three wives, his family, his friends and colleagues, his rivals, enemies and lovers, including notables such as the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Ernest Hemingway and Virginia Woolf.
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Should Have Got Off at Sydney Parade
Автор: Ross O'Carroll-Kelly Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2007 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20092008-12-13
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Ross O'Carroll-Kelly thought he knew all he needed to about women's bodies... So there I was, roysh, in a state of basically very blissful ignorance, when suddenly Sorcha's up the Damien and I have to listen to, like, women's stuff. And now he's getting a biology lesson he could have so lived without... I am telling you, roysh, I never even knew nipples could crack and I was very happy not knowing it. I mean, all I knew about the whole scenario was six seconds of seriously good loving, and now I'm basically expected to be an expert on how to, like, breathe like Dorth Vader and deal with baby turds. Sometimes, life just isn't fair to the babe magnet supremo... This is so not good for my rep — but do you think Sorcha even, like, cares about that? Not focking likely!
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The New Confessions
Автор: Boyd William Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1989 Страниц: 592 Дата загрузки: 21 октрября 20091992-04-29
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The New Confessions is the outrageous, extraordinary, hilarious and heartbreaking autobiography of John James Todd, a Scotsman born in 1899 and one of the great self-appointed (and failed) geniuses of the twentieth century. An often magnificent feat of story-telling and panoramic reconstruction... John James Todd's reminiscences carry us through the ups and downs of a long and lively career that begins in genteel Edinburgh, devastatingly detours out to the Western Front, forks off, after a period of cosy family life in London, to the electric excitements of the Berlin film-world of the Twenties, then moves on to Hollywood... to ordeal by McCarthyism and eventual escape to Europe — Peter Kemp, Observer.
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Being Dead
Автор: Crace Jim Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2000 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 07 апреля 20092002-07-28
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The author ponders the redemptive power of secular love in this novel. Their bodies had expired, but anyone looking at them could see that Joseph and Celice were still devoted, the couple seemed to have achieved a peace the world denies, a period of grace, defying even murder. They were still man and wife, quietly resting, dead but not yet departed.
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The Devil's Larder
Автор: Crace Jim Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2002 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 16 декабря 20092003-06-15
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THE DEVIL'S LARDER is a cumulative novel in sixty-four parts, all on the subject of food. Crace's readers might learn that little is to be trusted about food from these hilarious, delightful and subversive ingredients, but they will encounter a startling and touching patchwork portrait of a community where meals are served with lashings of passion and recipes come spiced with unexpected challenges and hopes.
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The Dark Volume
Автор: Dahlquist G.W. Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 528 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20122011-10-31
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With old loyalties tested by new and unlikely alliances, Miss Temple, Doctor Svenson, and Cardinal Chang must call on every reserve of courage to face a new and desperate struggle — after all, the integrity of their very minds is at risk. From palace intrigue and a city in turmoil to wolf-haunted mountains, underground tunnels and a suspicious hidden factory, they must overcome war and heartache to battle old enemies and a host of new villains, all hoping to seize for themselves the power of the blue glass books. Now one glass book in particular drives them all, its deadly contents the key to controlling the secrets of the blue glass, or destroying it forever. Praise for The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters: A page-turner, a rollicking ride. As stupendous as it is stupefying — Giles Foden, Guardian. Fantastic... I was in seventh heaven... Somewhere between Dickens, Sherlock Holmes and Rider Haggard — Kate Mosse, author of Labyrinth.
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Land of the Living
Автор: French Nicci Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2003 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20092004-12-20
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Abbie Devereaux wakes in the dark. She is hooded and bound, with no idea where she is or how she got there. Kept alive by a man she never sees, his only promise is that eventually he will kill her — like the others. But Abbie has spirit and bloody-mindedness on her side. She counts the seconds spent alone and plots her survival. Above all she dreams of returning to normal, careless, everyday life — the land of the living. Grasping at memories, Abbie recalls snatches of her identity, her career, and her disintegrating relationship with her boyfriend. Is there a connection between her real life and the voice in the darkness? And how can she survive in a place where fear becomes madness and the effort to survive seems too much to bear?
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Jemima J:
Автор: Green Jane Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1998 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 23 декабря 20092001-04-12
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Jemima Jones is overweight. About seven stone overweight. Treated like a slave by her thin and bitchy flatmates, lorded over at the Kilburn Herald by the beautiful Geraldine (less talented, better paid), her only consolation is food. That and a passion for her charming, sexy colleague Ben. Her life needs to change and soon. But can Jemima reinvent herself? Should she? This is a novel about attraction, obsession and the meaning of true love.
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The Other Woman
Автор: Green Jane Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2005 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 18 марта 20082007-07-24
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Ellie and Dan are living proof that opposites attract. He always follows instructions and she throws the manual away. He loves sports whereas Ellie's allergic to any form of exercise. Ellie doesn't have a mother. And Dan does — a mother who wants to take over EVERYTHING. At first Ellie is thrilled to have Linda as her adopted mother and to be a part of the close, loving Cooper family. But when she and Dan decide to get married and wedding plans progress, she starts to wonder: is it normal for Linda and Dan to speak on the phone twice a day? How on earth do they come to be having a reception with Chilean bloody seabass and humongous bloody white ribbons tied everywhere when all she wanted was a quiet registry office? In fact, is she marrying Dan OR HIS MOTHER? And Ellie's problems have just begun. When she discovers she's pregnant she realises that Linda's only been rehearsing for the real takeover. She seems to want to live her life through Ellie and in the words of the immortal Princess Diana, there are three of them in the marriage.
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The Moon Tunnel
Автор: Kelly Jim Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2006 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20082011-08-21
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In the past: a man crawls desperately through a claustrophobic escape tunnel beneath a POW camp in the Cambridgeshire Fens. Above, a shadow passes across the moon, while ahead only death awaits him. In the present: Philip Dryden is reporting on an archaeological dig at the old POW camp, when a body is uncovered. But there is something odd: the man appears to have been shot in the head, and the position indicates that he was trying to get into the camp, not escape it. It's a puzzle which excites Dryden far more than the archaeologists or the police. That is, until a second, more recent, body is discovered...
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Down into Darkness
Автор: Lawrence David Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20102009-06-11
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The naked body of a young woman is found hanging from a tree on a London roadside. Scrawled across her back, the words Dirty Girl. Detective Sergeant Stella Mooney and the AMIP 5 squad are faced with a murder as baffling as it is chilling. With no means to identify the victim and no apparent motive, the case is blocked, until... A man is found on a bench by the river, his throat cut back to the vertebrae. And, as before, the killer has left a trademark comment: Filthy Coward. Stella and her team can see there's a connection: but what? One victim is a young girl — maybe one of the hookers who work the Strip; the other a researcher for a prominent and controversial MP. More evidence is needed. And soon enough, it comes: another death; another message...
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The Victoria System
Автор: Reinhardt Eric Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2014 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20172016-07-24
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The Victoria System is Eric Reinhardt's novel of sex, power, capitalism and deception. It is shortlisted for The Prix Renaudot, The Prix Goncourt and The Grand Prix Du Roman De L'Academie Francaise. David Kolski is in charge of the construction of a huge Paris tower block, and the pressure is crushing him. But then he meets Victoria — a high-powered and ruthless executive by day and insatiable sensualist by night. David's hard-headed new lover gives him a new sense of purpose and renewed energy, but when she offers to use her position to help him in his career, a shadow falls over their affair. Is she capable of helping anyone other than herself? And who are the men in the Audi he keeps seeing, always a few cars behind him? Bold, arresting, accomplished, complex, sensual, sexual, intriguing, heady. (Le Monde). An ambitious and tragic novel which weaves together sex, power games and imagination. An ultracontemporary anti-fairy tale. (Les Inrocktibles). Finally, a sexy book by someone who appears to have actually had sex. (Dazed and Confused). Born in 1965, Eric Reinhardt is the is the author of four previous novels and a freelance publisher of art books. He lives and works in Paris. The Victoria System is his first novel to be translated into English. Sam Taylor is the English-language translator of HHhH, by Laurent Binet. He lives in France and the United States.
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The Hunting Season
Автор: Rigbey Elizabeth Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2007 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 17 октрября 20102011-03-19
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Dense woodland — twisting paths — it's easy to lose your way in the wilderness... The rugged Rocky Mountains are a place some go to hide inside, some to escape into and others to hunt in. Dr Matt Seleckis has never been one for the woods: he remembers his childhood vacations there with his mother and father — and the looming threat of an unexplained death... Now Matt lives in the mountains' shadow, in Utah with his wife and young son. Yet the prospect of a hunting trip alone with his father is bringing back dark, unwelcome memories — of a certain vacation, of his beloved parents. And of a hushed-up tragedy that he's sure concerns him. But with the arrival of these unsettling memories comes the creeping realisation that in nature, death for the unwary lies around every corner. And in the woods, it's easy to take a wrong turn.
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Maigret in Court
Автор: Simenon Georges Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2007 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20092008-06-11
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In a great courtroom drama, Maigret has to explain why he does not believe that Gaston Meurant was capable of slitting his aunt's throat for money and smothering a small child. But in saving him from the gallows, Maigret must expose some dark secrets about Meurant's life. This is a painful story of an oppressive domestic tragedy and the compassionate insight of a remarkable detective. A truly wonderful writer... marvellously readable — lucid, simple, absolutely in tune with that world he creates of run-down hotels, cold, dark barges, quayside canal-taverns, lurking prostitutes, pot-bellied burghers, taciturn youths, slippery barmen — Muriel Spark, Sunday Times.
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The Barred Window
Автор: Taylor Andrew Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2007 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 04 июля 20082009-07-11
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It is 1993 and Thomas Penmarsh has lived in Finisterre, the house by the sea, all his life, sleeping each night in the room with the barred window. He's only 48 but has been an old man since one evening in 1967 when he lost everything he valued... However now his controlling mother has died and he is master of the house. When Esmond, his cousin and childhood confidante, comes to live with him Thomas is overjoyed — Esmond always looks after him... But is Esmond all that he seems? And why is he so concerned that Alice wants to come home too? Darling Alice, whom neither have seen since that fateful night twenty-six years ago...
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The Raven on the Water
Автор: Taylor Andrew Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2007 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 15 августа 20092010-04-29
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Back in 1964, Peter Redburn and his best friend Richard had spent a golden summer holiday playing out their special game — a private world of secret rituals and oaths of loyalty sworn for eternity. It was all very innocent — until James and Kate joined in... And then, one night, their childish game turned to tragedy... Now an adult, Peter has never been able to escape his own feelings of guilt about the events that summer. So when he stumbles across a hoard of childhood memories, he knows he must search out the truth. And with a funeral bringing all participants together again, bitter rivalries and sordid secrets are about to be unearthed.
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The Brimstone Wedding
Автор: Vine Barbara Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1997 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 17 октрября 20091999-07-04
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Jenny's marriage is loveless, and she is having an affair. She works at an old people's home, where she is especially fond of Stella, a woman dying of cancer — whose own secrets parallel Jenny's — with the difference that she may have been involved in murdering her lover's husband.
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Trouble with Lichen
Автор: Wyndham John Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 17 сентября 20132011-04-17
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Francis Saxover and Diana Brackley, two scientists investigating a rare lichen, discover it has a remarkable property: it retards the aging process. Francis, realising the implications for the world of an ever-youthful, wealthy elite, wants to keep it secret, but Diana sees an opportunity to overturn the male status quo by using the lichen to inspire a feminist revolution. As each scientist wrestles with the implications and practicalities of exploiting the discovery, the world comes ever closer to learning the truth. Trouble With Lichen is a scintillating story of the power wielded by science in our lives and asks how much trust should we place in those we appoint to be its guardians?
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Blood Atonement
Автор: Waddell Dan Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20102011-07-18
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Katie Drake was an affluent single mother living in Queen's Park — until someone cut her throat and tore out her tongue. Worse still, the killer has abducted her fourteen-year-old daughter, Naomi. Detective Chief Inspector Grant Foster quickly sees chilling parallels with the disappearance of teenager Leonie Stamey three years earlier. With hopes fading of finding Naomi alive, he calls on genealogist Nigel Barnes to piece together the links between the families of the two girls. The trail leads Nigel back to 1890, when a young couple arrived in the UK. A husband and wife fleeing a terrible crime in their past, and harbouring a secret that's now having bloody repercussions in the present.
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The Midwich Cuckoos
Автор: Wyndham John Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20102012-03-29
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In the sleepy English village of Midwich, a mysterious silver object appears and all the inhabitants fall unconscious. A day later the object is gone and everyone awakens unharmed — except that all the women in the village are discovered to be pregnant. The resultant children of Midwich do not belong to their parents: all are blonde, all are golden eyed. They grow up too fast and their minds exhibit frightening abilities that give them control over others and brings them into conflict with the villagers just as a chilling realisation dawns on the world outside. The Midwich Cuckoos is the classic tale of aliens in our midst, exploring how we respond when confronted by those who are innately superior to us in every conceivable way.
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