Saul and Patsy (bestseller author of the Feast of Love). Charles Baxter Both from the East Coast, they met in college, fell in love, and settled down to married life in the Midwest. Five Oaks, Michigan is not exactly where Saul and Patsy meant to end up. On Saul’s initiative (and to his continual dismay) they have
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Norwegian Wood. Haruki Murakami Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire - to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he
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Mini Shopaholic. Sophie Kinsella She can create havoc everywhere from Harrods to Harvey Nicks to her own christening. Becky Brandon thought motherhood would be a breeze and that having a daughter was a dream come true — a shopping friend for life! But it’s trickier than she
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Memories of My Melancholy Whores. Marquez Gabriel Garcia As is his habit–he has purchased hundreds of women–he asks a madam for her assistance. On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. Yet with this sleeping beauty at his side, it is
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Birds Without Wings. Louis de Bernieres When war is declared and the outside world intrudes, the twin scourges of religion and nationalism lead to forced marches and massacres, and the peaceful fabric of life is destroyed. Set against the backdrop of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, the
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All this is mine. Ray French But his drab life is enlivened by the arrival of the glamorous Marek Sikorski - foreign, courageous to the point of foolishness and in possession of a former fighter pilot for a father. Life is short on pleasures for Liam Bennett; watching the
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Assualt, The. Harry Mulisch 2002. A novel that probes moral devastation in the wake of the slaughter of an innocent family by the Nazis in retaliation for the association with a Dutch collaborator.
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Brighton Rock (Film Tie-in). Graham Greene Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Graham Greene was born in 1904. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous,
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Breakfast of Champions. Kurt Vonnegut What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth. In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the
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Diary. Чак Паланик Once a promising young artist, she’s now stuck on an island ruined by tourism, drinking too much and working as a waitress in a hotel. Misty Wilmot has had it. Suddenly, though, Misty finds her artistic talent returning as she begins a period
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Dead Babies. Мартин Эмис, Martin Amis But as Friday melts into Saturday and Saturday spirals into Sunday and sobriety sets in, the orgiastic romp descends to disastrous depths. Blitzed on uppers, downers, blue movies and bellinis, the bacchanalia bent bon-vivants ensconced at Appleseed
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Flights of love. Бернхард Шлинк His characters–men with importunate appetites and unfortunate habits of deception–are uneasily suspended between the desire for love and the impulse toward flight. Bernhard Schlink brings to these seven superbly crafted stories the same sleek
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Whores for Gloria. William T. Vollmann From the acclaimed author of The Rainbow Stories comes this fever dream of a novel about an alcoholic Vietnam veteran, who devotes his government check and his waking hours to the search for a beautiful and majestic street whore--a woman who may or
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The Free World. David Bezmozgis It is the summer of 1978, and the Krasnansky family, bickering, tired and confused, are supposed to be passing through. Welcome to Rome. But escaping Communism is not so easy, especially when some of the Krasnanskys insist on bringing it with
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The Pathfinder. James Fenimore Cooper Natty Bumpoo is the quintessential Western hero, a faultless arbiter of wilderness justice. Here is the gripping original Western that set the standard for the genre. 2011. But he finds his love divided between the woman he has pledged to
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Sister Carrie. Theodore Dreiser Hers is a story of struggle--from sweatshop to stage success--and of the love she inspires in an older, married man whose obsession with her threatens to destroy him. Small-town girl Carrie Meeber arrives in Chicago with nothing but a few dollars
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Riders of the Purple Sage. Zane Grey In the remote border country of southern Utah, a man is about to be whipped by the Mormons in order to pressure Jane Withersteen into marrying against her will. The novel that set the pattern for the modern Western, Riders of the Purple Sage was
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The Osterman Weekend. Robert Ludlum In a small suburban town, where only the nicest people live, friends, neighbours, everyone and anyone could be part of a monstrous conspiracy of international evil. In a secret room in Washington DC John Tanner is asked to stake his life - and
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The Icarus Agenda. Robert Ludlum And the world watches helplessly as the madness begins. In the Sultanate of Oman over two hundred hostages are being held at gunpoint. Evan Kendrick, a quiet Congressman, is an unlikely hero. The spirit of the Mahdi is abroad, intent on complete
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The Bed I Made. Lucie Whitehouse He is undeniably attractive - and dangerous. When Kate meets dark, enigmatic Richard in a Soho bar, she barely hesitates before going home with him. But it is only the beginning. Now, eighteen exhilarating but fraught months later, Kate finishes
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Ordinary Thunderstorms. William Boyd With the police and a hit man in merciless pursuit, Adam has no choice but to go underground, joining the ranks of the disappeared, to understand how his life has unravelled so spectacularly. One May evening in London, as a result of a chance
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The Women. T. Сoraghessan Boyle Scandalous affairs rage behind closed doors, broken hearts are tossed aside, fires rip through the wings of the house and paparazzi lie in wait outside the front door for the latest tragedy in this never-ending saga. Welcome to the troubled,
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The Winter Vault. Anne Michaels The great temple at Abu Simbel must be dismantled and resurrected high above the rising waters of the Aswan Dam. Egvpt, 1964. But not everything can be saved once the floodgates have opened: villages will be deluged, thousands will be exiled from
Окончательный диагноз. Arthur Hailey Неадаптированный текст романа снабжен подробными комментариями и словарем. "Окончательный диагноз" - это роман о больнице, в которой
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A Farewell to Arms!. Ernest Hemingway Роман "Прощай, оружие!" - его "визитная карточка", принесшая ему фантастическую популярность. Эрнест Хемингуэй - один из самых
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Crisis Four. Andy McNab Sarah is beautiful, steel willed, intelligent. Nick Stone, ex SAS, now working for British Intelligence, is tough, resourceful, ruthless. 2004. As the pair are purued through the backwoods of the American South, Stones mission becomes a journey
Animal Farm. Джордж Оруэлл, George Orwell Самый нашумевший его рассказ "Скотный двор", который по понятным причинам был запрещен к изданию во времена СССР, а также подборка самых
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Тропик Козерога. Генри Миллер Миллера. "Tropic of Capricorn" - вторая часть скандально известной автобиографической трилогии Г. Из серии: Modern Prose
2011. В книге приводится полный
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Ребекка. Дафна дю Морье Неадаптированный текст романа снабжен комментариями и словарем. Вниманию читателей предлагается роман "Ребекка", прославивший ее
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Записка. Уильям Сомерсет Моэм Занимательный сюжет, неожиданная и неоднозначная развязка, простой и в то же время изящный язык, легкая ирония делают каждый рассказ
Flying finish. Francis Dick Большинство произведений писателя посвящено скачкам, скорее, их теневой стороне. Главный герой всех романов знаменитого английского
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Аэропорт. Arthur Hailey Его "производственные" романы "Отель", "Аэропорт", "Взлетная полоса 08", "Сильнодействующее средство" и многие другие неизменно
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Rich Man, Poor Man. Irwin Shaw Шоу "Богач, бедняк" описывается жизнь представителей одной семьи на протяжении нескольких десятилетий. В самом популярном романе И.
Travels with my aunt. Грэм Грин Генри, сыну усопшей, она представляется его тетей Августой. На похороны миссис Пулинг прибывает экстравагантная особа. В Париже
Теофил Норт. Торнтон Уайлдер "Теофил Норт" - частично автобиографический роман о молодом человеке, окончившем Йельский университет, который пробует пробиться в
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Stories. О. Генри Генри "Комната на чердаке", "Купидон а lа Carte", "Из любви к искусству", "Бабье лето Джонсона Сухого Лога" и др. В книгу вошли рассказы О.
Ночь нежна. Фрэнсис Скотт Фицджеральд Начинающая актриса Розмари Хойт знакомится с Диком и Николь Дайвер, которые кажутся ей идеальной парой, воплощением "американской
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Повелитель мух. Уильям Голдинг В этом романе-притче описана история группы школьников, попавших на остров и потерявших человеческий облик. Роман "Повелитель мух" (1954) -