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Томным летом 1977 года наивная юная барышня по имени Калиста выпархивает из Афин в большой мир. Она направляется на остров, превращенный в съемочную площадку, чтобы работать на знаменитого голливудского режиссера Билли Уайлдера, фильмов которого она никогда не видела. Мир кинодив, ироничных мужчин, шампанского и странных отношений. Калиста радуется выпавшему ей приключению, тогда как сам мистер Уа…
From the author of the Man Booker prize-winners ‘Wolf Hall’ and ‘Bring Up the Bodies’ comes a story of suburban mayhem and merciless, hilarious revenge.Barricaded inside their house filled with festering rubbish, unhealthy smells and their secrets, the Axon family baffle Isabel Field, the latest in a long line of social workers.Isabel has other problems too: a randy, untrustworthy father and a sla…
The Number One Bestseller.A novel of Ancient Egypt from the bestselling author of River God. Wilbur Smith is a master at the helm of one of the greatest stories of all time.On the banks of the Nile, a hero will riseEgypt is under threat. Taita, a freed slave and the Pharaoh’s closest advisor, must create a master plan to crush the kingdom’s historic enemy and return Egypt to its former glory.He mu…
They were prisoners, exiles, pawns of a corrupt government. Now they are Dr Rachel Dycek's adin: surgically transformed beings who can survive new lives on the surface of Mars. But they are still exiles, unable ever again to breathe Earth's air … And they are still pawns.They were prisoners, exiles, pawns of a corrupt government. Now they are Dr. Rachel Dycek’s adin: surgically transformed beings …
Adultery, murder and dangerous love collide in Jessie Keane’s gritty debut novel.For longer than she cares to remember Annie Bailey has lived in the shadow of her older sister Ruthie. Now Ruthie has her hands on Max Carter, the much feared head of the Carter family and a top class villain.Seducing Max wasn't a problem, but the guilt, shame and anger of rejection afterwards was.Thrown onto the stre…
Одна из лучших книг года по версии Glamour, TIME, The Washington Post, Book Riot, USA TODAY, Lithub и The Millions. Мрачно-забавный психологический триллер, где героини средневековых сказок Братьев Гримм оказываются взрослыми, современными женщинами, нуждающимися в психотерапевтической помощи. У каждой из них своя история. У каждой – свои травматические воспоминания о пережитом. В современном Нью…
Huntress Eve Williams had a personal—and painful—reason to want Andre Vossimer dead.The professor was devastatingly handsome, dangerously charismatic. . . and a member of the Secret Vampire Society. He was also the man who killed her sister. But when Andre unexpectedly kissed Eve, her need for revenge was replaced by desire. . . and the hope that Andre might not be a killer after all.Their passion…
Kidnapped by rebels, Belle Winters discovers her rescuer is Rafiq al Akhtar, Sovereign Prince of the desert kingdom of Q'roum.Whisked away to his exotic palace, Rafiq expects her to show her gratitude–by marrying him! Rafiq demands Belle perform all her royal duties–both in public and in private.Soon she succumbs to the sultry heat of the desert and to Rafiq's seduction. Belle is no longer an unwi…
НЕЗАКОННОЕ ПОТРЕБЛЕНИЕ НАРКОТИЧЕСКИХ СРЕДСТВ, ПСИХОТРОПНЫХ ВЕЩЕСТВ, ИХ АНАЛОГОВ ПРИЧИНЯЕТ ВРЕД ЗДОРОВЬЮ, ИХ НЕЗАКОННЫЙ ОБОРОТ ЗАПРЕЩЕН И ВЛЕЧЕТ УСТАНОВЛЕННУЮ ЗАКОНОДАТЕЛЬСТВОМ ОТВЕТСТВЕННОСТЬ Элвуд Кертис, шестнадцатилетний афроамериканский подросток, хорошо учится, после школы подрабатывает в магазине, готовится к поступлению в колледж: он мечтает стать учителем. Но из-за нелепой случайности его …
‘An intelligent and moving novel’ The TimesWhat happens when you fall in love with the one person you shouldn't?In the aftermath of a family tragedy, Jess Arrowsmith is powerless to resist her attraction to Rob, twenty years her junior, and the person she has reason to hate most in the world. As their love affair threatens to blow her family apart, Jess finds herself in a desperate struggle to def…
A high-stakes thriller which weaves Turkey’s war-torn past with action, adventure and conspiracy.A TERRIFYING ATTACKSouthern Turkey. Business intelligence operative Iain Black, having survived the hotel bombing that killed his friend and partner, vows to find out who was responsible – then make them pay.A PAST THAT WON’T STAY BURIEDHistorian Karin Visser, who also lost friends in the blast, teams …
A heartrending saga of a sister separated from her baby brother by tragedy and prejudice, who will brave the Blitz to bring him to safetyMolly’s life changes forever when her mother is killed in a horrific accident. Although her beloved grandfather wants to keep her and little brother Kevin with him in Birmingham, the authorities decide it’s best for the girl to live with her maternal grandmother,…
For all fans of TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY comes this masterclass in suspense about a spy caught up in his own web of deception…Alec Milius is young, smart and ambitious – with a talent for deception. When a chance encounter opens the door to a career with MI6, he is desperate to make his mark.But life as a spy begins to take a terrible toll on himself and those around him, and soon Alec is chasing…
The new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Josephine Cox – the master storyteller.Finding a new beginning means taking the hardest road…but the journey is where you find your true courage.Torn away from their beloved home, the journey for the Carter family has just begun…In the middle of the night, Evie is torn away from her beloved home and close-knit community, as her family run away to …
The landmark first novel by acclaimed Cold War thriller writer Derek Lambert.Derek Lambert’s classic spy novel exposes the truth about the life of the Western community in post Stalin Moscow, and their existence in which tensions and hostility of the Soviet Union sometimes prove intolerable.An American working for the US embassy and the CIA, a young Englishman at the British Embassy gradually crac…