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Reissue of the classic tale of espionage set in Cold War Europe, where the world’s greatest circus acrobat must break into an impenetrable fortress, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.Bruno Wildermann of the Wrinfield Circus is the world’s greatest trapeze artist, a clairvoyant with near-supernatural powers and an implacable enemy of the East European regime that arrested his family …
Guilt can eat away at you, but love can cut like a knife…Wanting his best friend’s girlfriend is a cliché Billy knows well – it’s the tightrope he’s walked for years.But now Jason and Lindy have broken up and Billy can’t help but be there for the girl he’s loved from afar for so long. She’s hurting.Fighting to find a road to the future, Lindy’s heart hurts. She’s trying to escape the truth, but Bi…
Несмотря на шокирующее название, данное произведение не является очередной апологией сталинизма. Это взгляд на нашу общую историю глазами того, кто почти тридцать лет стоял во главе нашей некогда единой Родины – самого большого государства в мире и первого в мире государства рабочих и крестьян – Советского Союза. Это взгляд на нашу жизнь глазами того, кто принял страну, лежащую в руинах после рево…
Something is wrong with Esmé. Kicked out of school in New York, her sister sends her to live with their grandmother in the small town she hasn’t visited since she was a child. But something is wrong with the grandmother Ez hasn’t seen for years; she leaves the house at midnight, carrying a big black bag. Something is wrong with her grandmother’s house, a decrepit mansion full of stray cats, sta…
The second novel by the author of Puppies are for Life, is another light-hearted comedy of manners. Following a change in her husband’s career, Marjorie Benson suddenly finds that she has to uproot herself in mid-life and start afresh.Marjorie Benson is a product of her generation. Born in the Forties with few educational qualifications she was raised to be a wife and mother only.She is married to…
A standalone mystery from the author of the Kelsey and Lambert series.A mystery story that centres around the young and successful Alison Rolt. Complex strands of small town life unravel in the search for a murderer.
A short story by Tessa Hadley from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.In ‘My Mother’s Wedding’, a bohemian wedding party takes an unexpected turn for the bride and her daughter.Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader, I Married Him, brings together some of the finest and most creative voices in fiction today, to celebrate and salute the strength and …
Bernard Samson returns to Berlin in the second novel in the classic spy trilogy, FAITH, HOPE and CHARITY.Bernard is trying hard to readjust his life in the face of questions about his wife Fiona, and her defection to the East. Is she the brilliant high-flyer that her Department seems to think she is? Or is she a spent force, a wife and mother unwilling or unable to face her domestic responsibiliti…
From the acclaimed master of action and suspense. The all time classic.An airliner crashes in the polar ice-cap. In temperatures 40 degrees below zero, six men and four women survive.But for the members of a remote scientific research station who rescue them, there are some sinister questions to answer – the first one being, who shot the pilot before the crash?
Pursuing a secret liaison that you dare tell no one about, ever, is an enduring sexual fantasy. ‘My Secret Life’ is a collection of sexy erotica including new stories by Megan Hart, Kim Dean, Justine Elyot and Charlotte Stein.Being married but meeting a stranger in a motel room, returning to an ex for great sex while every instinct screams “stay away from him!”, going too far with a husband’s best…
The ‘bonkers’ book that 'it is impossible not to be moved by' DAILY MAILA joyful and hilarious tale of some very spirited septuagenarians as they overcome innumerable obstacles to save their beloved mutt from a heartless exterminator in a land where bureaucracy reigns above all else.Perhaps you’re not a member of the Azov House of Culture Elderly Club?Perhaps you missed the talk on the Cabbage Roo…
The nail-biting tale of sabotage set in the desolate frozen wastes of two ice-bound oil fields, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.SABOTAGE!THE VICTIMSTwo of the most important oil-fields in the world – one in Canada, the other in Alaska.THE SABOTEURSAn unknown quantity – deadly and efficient. The oil flow could be interrupted in any one of thousands of places down the trans-Alaskan …
Судьба книги чем-то схожа с судьбой человека. Роман «Потерянные страницы» принадлежит к такой категории книг, которые с первых же страниц занимают важное место в твоей жизни. Опытный читатель вновь встретится с героями романа великого грузинского писателя Чабуа Амиреджиби «Дата Туташхия», где рассказывается об участи героев в трагических событиях Российской империи всего XX века.
— Попрошу внимание. Наши дорогие гости, вы в прямом эфире! — С лица ведущего не сходила улыбка. В утренней программе Happy good morning было настолько много детей, что от их аплодисментов, казалось, взорвался бы зал. Вышедший на сцену к ведущему Марку по собственному желанию Мэтт Хьюз, шестилетний мальчик, невольно осмотрел пришедших гостей на передачу. Робкими руками он схватил со стойки микрофон…
— Попрошу внимание. Наши дорогие гости, вы в прямом эфире! — С лица ведущего не сходила улыбка. В утренней программе Happy good morning было настолько много детей, что от их аплодисментов, казалось, взорвался бы зал. Вышедший на сцену к ведущему Марку по собственному желанию Мэтт Хьюз, шестилетний мальчик, невольно осмотрел пришедших гостей на передачу. Робкими руками он схватил со стойки микрофон…