Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: On Millennium night, with Blair presiding over a superficially cool, sexed-up new version of the country, Benjamin Trotter finds himself watching the celebrations on his parents' TV. Watching, in fact, his younger brother, Paul, now a bright young New Labour MP who has bought wholeheartedly into the Blairite dream. Neither of them can know that their lives are about to implode. Set against the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Jeremy Paxman's magnificent history of the First World War tells the entire story of the war in one gripping narrative from the point of view of the British people. He writes so well and sympathetically, and chooses his detail so deftly, that if there is one new history of the war that you might actually enjoy from the very large centennial selection this is very likely it. (The Times). We may…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Catherine Alliott brings us the fabulously funny and wonderfully heart-warming My Husband Next Door. For better or worse... Ella was nineteen and madly in love when she married dashing young artist Sebastian Montclair. But that was a long time ago. Now Ella and the kids live in a ramshackle farmhouse while Sebastian and his paintings inhabit the outhouse next door — a family separated in every…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The New York Times bestseller! Sparkling white snowdrifts, beautiful presents wrapped in ribbons, and multicolored lights glittering in the night through the falling snow. A Christmas Eve snowstorm transforms one small town into a romantic haven, the kind you see only in movies. Well, kinda. After all, a cold and wet hike from a stranded train through the middle of nowhere would not normally end…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: June and Day arrive in Vegas just as the unthinkable happens: the Elector Primo dies, and his son Anden takes his place. With the Republic edging closer to chaos, the two join a group of Patriot rebels eager to help Day rescue his brother and offer passage to the Colonies. They have only one request—June and Day must assassinate the new Elector. It’s their chance to change the nation, to give…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: This Official Doctor Who Guide is essential reading for all wannabe Time Lords. Written as a gift from the Eleventh Doctor to the newly-regenerated Twelfth, it contains everything you need to know to be just like him. So if you've ever wondered if you'd make the grade in the Time Lord Academy, or how to fly the Tardis, or the correct way to dip your fish finger in custard, then this is the book…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Lauren and Alexander's journey continues in the second novel in Pippa Croft's Oxford Blue romance series. It's the beginning of a new term at Wyckham College, Oxford, and a fresh start for Lauren Cusack. Her fingers were badly burnt when a whirlwind romance with gorgeous English aristocrat, Alexander Hunt, became too hot to handle — and now she's determined to keep her distance. Her resolve is…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: The First Time We Met is the first novel in the sizzling new Oxford Blue romance series from Pippa Croft. Lauren and Alexander's journey continues in The Second Time I Saw You and Third Time Lucky, which are both available to pre-order in ebook now. When US Senator's daughter Lauren Cusack arrives at the enchanting Wyckham College of Oxford University, she hopes to mend her broken heart by…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: This is a brilliant noir farce, a dystopian vision and the story of an obsession. Michael is a lonely, rather pathetic writer, obsessed by the film, 'What A Carve Up!' in which a mad knifeman cuts his way through the inhabitants of a decrepit stately pile as the thunder rages. Inexplicably, Michael is commissioned to write the family history of the Winshaws, an upper class Yorkshire clan whose…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Poignant, fascinating, entertaining and informative... reminds us exactly how much did happen in that time span and of how many tantalising hints he left behind. (Financial Times). Brilliantly captures Kennedy's entire life through the prism of his final months... the hero, like the devil, is in the detail. (Mark Mason, Spectator, Books of the Year). Wonderfully vivid. (Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: The Keeper of Lost Causes (originally published in the UK as Mercy) is the nail-biting first book in the internationally bestselling Department Q series. It is now a major movie, released in the UK in August 2014. At first the prisoner scratches at the walls until her fingers bleed. But there is no escaping the room. With no way of measuring time, her days, weeks, months go unrecorded. She vows…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Jane hasn't lived anywhere longer than six months since her son was born five years ago. She keeps moving in an attempt to escape her past. Now the idyllic seaside town of Pirriwee has pulled her to its shores and Jane finally feels like she belongs. She has friends in the feisty Madeline and the incredibly beautiful Celeste — two women with seemingly perfect lives... and their own secrets behind…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: Fall From Grace is the best-selling thriller by Tim Weaver — featuring missing persons investigator David Raker, a man with a gift for finding the lost and bringing them home, alive or dead. No Goodbye. When Leonard Franks and his wife Ellie leave London for their dream retirement in the seclusion of Dartmoor, everything seems perfect. But then their new life is shattered. Leonard heads outside…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: With short and simple rhyming text, the Llama Llama board books introduce Llama Llama to babies and toddlers before they’re ready for longer full-length stories. And their small size and durable pages are perfect for little hands. In Llama Llama Jingle Bells, little llama and his friends give gifts, sing songs, and decorate cookies. It’s a very merry holiday indeed!
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Gabriel Garcia Marquez has been one of the literary giants of the past century; his body of work is an undisputed cultural landmark and a touchstone for countless readers and writers alike. In the wake of the author's death, Penguin is reissuing what is arguably his most beloved novel in a beautiful, commemorative hardback edition. One Hundred Years of Solitude is a true classic, a timelessly…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: As Henry Kissinger observes in this magisterial book, there has never been a true world order. For most of history, civilizations have defined their own concepts of order, each one envisioning its distinct principles as universally relevant. Now, as international affairs take place on a global basis, these historic concepts of world order are meeting. Every region participates in questions of…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: There is only one book to a man. Steinbeck wrote of East of Eden. Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the interwined destinies of two families — the Trasks and the Hamiltons — whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Here Steinbeck created some of his most memorable…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: What if the Allies had lost the Second World War...? The Nazis have taken over New York — the Japanese control California. In a neutral buffer zone existing between the two states an underground author offers his own vision of reality, an alternative world that offers hope to the disenchanted... Hugo Award winner Philip K Dick is one of the most original contributors to American sci-fi, and his…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: In the aftermath of an event that ripped their world apart, Sydney and Adrian now struggle to pick up the pieces and find their way back to each other. But first, they have to survive. For Sydney, trapped and surrounded by adversaries, life becomes a daily struggle to hold on to her identity and the memories of those she loves. Meanwhile, Adrian clings to hope in the face of those who tell him…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Since the publication of My Brilliant Friend, the first of the Neapolitan novels, Elena Ferrante's fame as one of our most compelling, insightful, and stylish contemporary authors has grown enormously. She has gained admirers among authors — Jhumpa Lahiri, Elizabeth Strout, Claire Messud, to name a few — and critics — James Wood, John Freeman, Eugenia Williamson, for example. But her most…