Книги жанра классическая проза
The sequel to the cult classic The Dice Man, available in e-book format for the first time.The rules are down to you. The rules that stop you seducing your neighbour downstairs, that stop you hitting your boss, that stop you leaving your family and leaving the country. The rules that stop you living.The dice don’t do rules; the dice do life.Luke Rhinehart is a psychiatrist, a husband and a father,…
Double action thrillers by the classic adventure writer set in Norway, Finland and Sweden.THE TIGHTROPE MENWhen Giles Denison of Hampstead wakes up in an Oslo hotel room and finds the face looking back at him in the mirror is not his own, things could surely get no more bizarre. But it is only the beginning of a hair-raising adventure in which Denison finds himself trapped with no way to escape. O…
A literary thriller with a heart. ‘The Valparaiso Voyage’ blows the lid off the Celtic Tiger and looks at the corruption that spawned today’s Ireland.Dermot Bolger is one of the leading figures on the Irish literary scene: very influential, amazingly energetic and prolific, popular and well respected. This is his eighth novel (and his third for Flamingo).Bolger’s previous novel, ‘Temptation’, was …
Selected from sermons delivered by C. S. Lewis during World War II, these nine addresses show the beloved author and theologian bringing hope and courage in a time of great doubt.Addressing some of the most difficult issues we face in our day-to-day lives, C.S. Lewis’s ardent and timeless words provide an unparalleled path to greater spiritual understanding.Considered by many to be Lewis’s finest …
A major international debut novel from a storyteller who couples a timelessly beguiling style to an energetically modern worldscape.Thirteen passengers are stranded at an airport. Tokyo, their destination, is covered in snow and all flights are cancelled. To pass the night they form a huddle by the silent baggage carousels and tell each other stories.Robert De Niro’s child, conceived in a Laundrom…
Set in his native Northern Ireland, John Lynch's debut novel is a lyrically told and exquisitely tender story of innocence and loss.‘He remembers when he was very young standing by water…How he had got there or where the pond was he couldn’t remember, but he can vaguely recall a larger hand on his and being led through the high rooms of a large building, to a large garden, where bees wove dozy pat…
Ray Bradbury’s first ever poetry collection, available in ebook for the first time.Carried into strange and enticing realms by his fantastic stories, the multitudes of his admirers have never doubted that the author of Dandelion Wine, The Martian Chronicles, and other uniquely imaginative works of short and long fiction is a poet. But, even so, the intensity of feeling, the imaginative range, the …
One of Ray Bradbury’s classic poetry collections, available in ebook for the first time.Ray Bradbury writes of childhood, Melville, and God as well as space launchings and other-world things in this second collection of his poems.
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘March’ and ‘People of the Book’.A young woman’s struggle to save her family and her soul during the extraordinary year of 1666, when plague suddenly struck a small Derbyshire village.In 1666, plague swept through London, driving the King and his court to Oxford, and Samuel Pepys to Greenwich, in an attempt to escape contagion. The north of England remaine…
Philliphe is a victorious man in every aspect of life. Nothing else can wish to be happy until something terrible happens. The new situation provokes a great revolt in your world. Lost, just stumbled onto at the thought of an innocent young man. His words are so comforting and optimistic that opens a new perspective amid so much pain. Is launched then the following challenge:Be able understand the…
Thirteen stories. A dreamer, a young man and two archangels in search of truth. What does a depressive, a pedophile, an abortionist, a drug addict, a professional player, scientists, criminals, a sexologist, a schizophrenic, and a handicapped have in common? Thirteen stories. A dreamer, a young man and two archangels in search of truth. What does a depressive, a pedophile, an abortionist, a drug a…
I am Fruit of the Earth comes to present as the main background the indigenous culture so forgotten by most of the Tupiniquins. It is a trip of knowledge and liberation. I Am Fruit Of The Earth is a historical study about the natives of Brazil. In a classic language, is focused on the main concepts related to the true Brazilian. It is an exciting journey about our culture emphasizing its importanc…
A vida nos faz viver dias tenebrosos, tristezas que não queremos que fossem reais. “A noite escura da alma” é a continuação de “O vidente”, sendo que o personagem principal retornou a uma montanha em busca de respostas para um período conturbado de sua vida, momentos que se esquecera de Deus, dos seus princípios, perdendo-se em pecados. A vida nos faz viver dias tenebrosos, tristezas que não quere…
Орасио Кирога (Уругвай) рассказывает историю молодого человека, который флиртует одновременно с двумя сестрами. Отношения в повести развиваются в собственном темпе, с неожиданными поворотами, и разворачиваются не так, как читатель мог бы предположить в начале чтения. Прямая и доступная проза Кироги, отличающаяся от прозы его современников, сосредоточена на отношениях между главными героями и размы…
Щенок по имени Арчи попадает к восторженному мальчишке, который тут же стал его лучшим другом. И с годами старательный Арчи научился всему, чего ждал от него человек. Но сможет ли человек ответить своему другу такой же преданностью, какую ждёт от собаки?