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First published as Johnson’s Life of London, now released with new material following Jubilee and Olympic celebrations in 2012. This updated history of London shows that the ingenuity, diversity, creativity and enterprise of the city are second to none.London’s buildings may be famous, London’s history may be lengthy and illustrious, but it is London’s people who have given, and continue to give, …
Книга посвящена памяти жителей Пермско-Сергинского района (ныне Сергинская территория Пермского края), трудившихся в тылу в годы Великой Отечественной войны 1941—1945 гг. Первая часть книги составлена на основе газетных заметок и воспоминаний жителей о трудовой жизни села. Во второй части представлены истории тружеников тыла и детей войны. Для обложки использованы материалы из архива автора-состав…
Now available in ebook format, ‘The Pyrates’ is a swashbuckling romp of a novel.The Pyrates is all the swashbucklers that ever were, rolled into one great Technicoloured pantomime – tall ships and desert islands, impossibly gallant adventurers and glamorous heroines, buried treasure and Black Spots, devilish Dons and ghastly dungeons, plots, duels, escapes, savage rituals, tender romance and steam…
The Quaker is watching you…In the chilling new crime novel from award-winning author Liam McIlvanney, a serial killer stalks the streets of Glasgow and DI McCormack follows a trail of secrets to uncover the truth…Winner of the 2018 McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the YearA city torn apart.It is 1969 and Glasgow has been brought to its knees by a serial killer spreading fear throughout …
Paul Kennedy’s international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might, explaining the journey to the present among the great powers of the world.Kennedy’s masterwork begins in the year 1500, at a time of various great centres of power including Minh China, the Ottomans, the rising Mughal state, the nations of Europe. But it was the la…
В 1920-х годах в журнале "Пионер" работали несколько молодых художников. Только-только начинающих. По большому счету, они были еще никто и звать их никак. Но что-то в них все-таки было, раз уж их приветили в "Пионере" и периодически давали заказы на иллюстрации. А в те голодные годы это иногда был вопрос жизни и смерти. А потом разруха кончилась, подработка перестала был залогом выживания, и каж…
Shakespeare in Love for the sonnets: a fictional tale of how Shakespeare wrote his most famous poems.No one knows for sure precisely when and where Shakespeare wrote his sonnets or, more intriguingly, who he wrote them for. In this wonderfully entertaining novel acclaimed author Warwick Collins imagines the circumstances that inspired 30 of the Bard's most popular sonnets.The young Will Shakespear…
The brand new dramatic novel about the power of a father’s love, a little boy’s journey,and the desperate search for a place to call home, from Number 1 best-selling author Josephine Cox.Eight-year-old Casey’s mother Ruth is a cruel woman, with a weakness for other women’s husbands.Casey’s father is gentle and hard-working and, though Tom Denton has long suspected his wife of having sordid affairs…
Sequel to the outstanding historical novel Earthly Joys, and written by the bestselling Philippa Gregory, the author of The Other Boleyn Girl and The Virgin’s Lover.John Tradescant the Younger has inherited his father’s unique collection of plants along with his unerring ability to nurture them. But as gardener to Charles I, he confronts an unbearable dilemma when England descends into Civil War. …
В книге рассказывается о малоизвестных страницах героической обороны Армавира и переправ большой излучины Кубани в ходе начального этапа битвы за Кавказ. События 3-8 августа 1942 г. рассматриваются в контексте анализа планов противоборствующих сторон на летнюю кампанию 1942 г. В работе кратко охарактеризован боевой потенциал соединений Красной Армии и авангардов вермахта, участвовавших в сражениях…
’A delightful read’ BooklistSome loves are worth sacrificing everything for . . . Santina is spending her final days at her home, Villa San Vito, in the beautiful Italian town of Positano. As she decides the fate of the magnificent eighteenth century palazzo she must confront the choices that led her here.In 1949, hoping to escape poverty, young Santina becomes housekeeper to a distinguished Briti…
Книга представляет первый том монументального семитомного страноведческого произведения выдающегося швейцарского археолога, путешественника, этнографа и натуралиста Фредерика Дюбуа де Монпере (1798–1850), единственного ученого, составившего общую историю стран и народов Западного и Центрального Кавказа, а также Закавказья – в культурном этническом, религиозном, археологическом и естественнонаучном…
For the first time ever, all four books in the Squire Quartet collected in one volume.Set during the last years of the Cold War, and spanning the duration of Thatcher’s Britain, The Squire Quartet follows the political, professional and private adventures of a group of linked characters. It is a vivid fictional portrait of Britain’s recent history.All four volumes – Life in the West, Forgotten Lif…