Peeling the Onion. Гюнтер Грасс This memoir evokes his modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians and concludes with the writing of "The Tin Drum", in Paris. Gunter Grass` parents ran a corner shop, but his mother, whom he adored, encouraged him
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Life and Fate. Василий Гроссман This work offers a vision of a totalitarian regime where the spirit of freedom that arose among those under fire was feared by the state at least as much as were the Nazis. Aims to give a view of Soviet society during World War II as Tolstoy did of
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Death at Intervals. Jose Saramago This understandably causes great consternation amongst religious leaders - if there`s no death, there can be no resurrection and therefore no reason for religion - and what will be the effect on pensions, the social services, hospitals?
2009. On
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Missing Kissinger. Этгар Керет He is dismissed in 1727 on the death of George I, recruits the new King`s clever wife, Caroline, and bounces cheerfully back. Robert Walpole, once imprisoned for financial chicanery, assumes political control and becomes `Prime Minister`. A story
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Courilof Affair, The. Ирен Немировски This is an unsparing observation of human motives and the abuses of power and an elegy to lost world. In 1903, Leon M - a devout terrorist - is given the responsibility of `liquidating` Valerian Alexandrovitch Courilof, the notoriously brutal and
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Le Bal. Ирен Немировски, Irene Nemirovsky Their daughter Antoinette, who has just turned fourteen, dreams of attending. The Kampfs decide to throw a ball in order to launch themselves into society. Instead, Antoinette is forced to sleep in the laundry room, as her bedroom is used as
Baby Group. Rowan Coleman 2007. The Baby Group meets regularly, taking turns to host–from a Victorian mansion to a high-rise flat — there’s baby music and swimming, developing new and strong friendships during a time of great personal upheaval from which there is no
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Day Watch, The. Сергей Васильевич Лукьяненко She is sent to recuperate at a youth camp. Alice, a powerful Dark Other, attends a planning meeting with her comrades in the Day Watch. Alice remembers him as one of those involved in the battle that left her crippled. There she meets Igor, a
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Second Opinion, The. Michael Palmer But Petros` daughter Thea refuses to accept that her father might not survive his devastating injuries. Left for dead by a hit-and-run driver, Dr Petros Sperelakis` chances of survival are slim. But without proof, she can dig no deeper. As she
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Fatal Lies. Frank Tallis In St Florian`s military school, a rambling edifice set high in the hills of the City`s famous woods, a young cadet is found dead - his body lacerated with razor wounds. Vienna, 1903. 2008. Once again, Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt calls on his
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Collected Short Stories. Volume III. Уильям Сомерсет Моэм, W.Somerset Maugham Based on Maugham’s own experiences with the British Intelligence service in Switzerland, the stories are vignettes in which he dramatizes both the romance and absurdity of espionage as well as its ruthlessness and brutality. This third volume of
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Invisible monsters. Чак Паланик, Chuck Palahniuk She then has to learn that reinventing herself means erasing her past and making up something better. A fashion model with everything is disfigured in a road "accident" and goes from being the beautiful centre of attention to being a monster, so
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Talented Mr. Ripley. Патриция Хайсмит Wanted money, success - the good life. Ripley wanted out. Was willing to kill for it. He is struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors when a chance acquaintance offers him a free trip to Europe. 1999. When his new-found happiness is
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Fatherland. Роберт Харрис, Robert Harris As March discovers the identity of the body, he uncovers signs of a conspiracy that could go to the very top of the German Reich. It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler`s 75th birthday, Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is
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Belching Out the Devil. Mark Thomas In our homes, our workplaces, even our schools. Coca-Cola and its logo are everywhere. A truly universal product, it has even been served in space. It is a company that sponsors the Olympics, backs US presidents and even re-brands Santa Claus.
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Jeeves Omnibus. Volume 3. P.G. Wodehouse her titles in the omnibus series are "Jeeves 1", "Jeeves 2", "Aunts", "Golf" and "Drones". Part of the omnibus series, this volume contains "The Mating Season", "Ring for Jeeves" and "Very Good Jeeves". 1991.
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Free. Chris Anderson 2010. What happens when advances in technology allow many things to be produced for more or less nothing? And what happens when those things are then made available to the consumer for free? In this book, the author considers a brave new world
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Time Out Madrid. Guides Ltd Time Out Put together by journalists resident in the city, Time Out Madrid also covers the artistic jewels housed in the Prado, Thyssen and Reina Sofia, as well as the etiquette of watching a bullfight or joining in with a flamenco performance, as well as
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Forbidden Temple, The. Patrick Woodhead In the ruthless pursuit of his goals, he would sacrifice anything. To Luca Matthews, the dangers of the high mountain peaks are the air upon which he thrives. When he sights a virgin peak in the Himalayas that exists on no map, no one is surprised
Torchwood: Risk Assessment. Trevor Baxendale The Torchwood Assessor is roused from her deep sleep in only the worst of times - it`s happened just four times in the last 100 years. Agnes Havisham is awake, and Jack is worried. The coffins of the dead are coming through the Rift. Can the
Hollywood Undercover. Ian Halperin 2008. Written by the author who posed as a model in 2001 to expose the fashion industry, this book gives us a scandalous glimpse behind the scenes of the movie business.
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Snuff. Чак Паланик On camera. Cassie Wright, porn princess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial fornication. "Snuff" unfolds from the perspectives of Mr 72, Mr 137 and Mr 600, who await their turn on camera in a very crowded
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Child in Time. Иэн Макьюэн, Ian McEwan While waiting in line, his attention is distracted and his daughter is kidnapped. Stephen Lewis, a successful author of children`s books, takes his three-year-old daughter on a routine Saturday morning trip to the supermarket. 1997. From there,
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Extreme Measures. Michael Palmer What he doesn`t know is, that he`s being watched by an elite clique of medical professionals who want him to join their secret club. Dr Eric Najarian has all the qualities they`re looking for at White Memorial Hospital. 1998. But, Eric has
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Filth. Ирвин Уэлш, Irvine Welsh There are irritating flies in the ointment, though, including a missing wife, a nagging cocaine habit, and a dramatic deterioration in his genital health. With the festive season almost upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson is winding down
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All We Ever Wanted Was Everything. Janelle Brown When Paul Miller’s pharmaceutical company goes public, making his family IPO millionaires, his wife, Janice, is sure this is the windfall she’s been waiting years for — until she learns, via messengered letter, that her husband is divorcing
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Borgia Ring, The. Michael White But there is one very conspicuous clue. When a blackened skeleton is unearthed on a building site in the City of London, no one can have the slightest idea of its extraordinary link to a plot to assassinate the Queen of Englandover 500 years ago.
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Book of Secrets, The. Tom Harper Before she can reveal it, she disappears. In a snowbound village in the German mountains, a young woman discovers an extraordinary secret. Nick Ash does research for the FBI in New York. All that survives is a picture of a mysterious medieval
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Rescue Man, The. Anthony Quinn Unable to commit to anything, either personal or professional, he is left looking in at life from the outside, with only his fascination for architecture to connect him. Orphaned as a child and now approaching forty with no prospect of a family of
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Mantissa. Джон Фаулз, John Fowles He definitely doesn`t remember his wife, or his children`s names. Miles Green wakes up in a mysterious hospital with no idea of how he got there or who he is. Из серии: Vintage Classics
2009. An impossibly shapely specialist doctor tells
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Paradise lost. John Milton His rebellion has failed, he has been cast out from heaven and is doomed to spend eternity in hell. Satan is out for revenge. He fixes upon God`s beloved new creations, Adam and Eve, as the vehicles of his vengeance. Somehow he must find a way to
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The Saltmarsh Murders. Gladys Mitchell Bradley, undertakes an unnervingly unorthodox investigation into the mysterious pregnancy. When the vicar’s wife discovers that her unmarried housemaid is pregnant, sometime detective and full-time Freudian, Mrs. 2009.
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Invention of Everything Else, The. Samantha Hunt Louisa discovers that the mysterious guest is Nikola Tesla, one of the most brilliant - and most neglected - inventors of the 20th century. Louisa is an imaginative and curious chambermaid who, while cleaning rooms at the New Yorker Hotel, stumbles
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Heliopolis. James Scudamore Now twenty-seven, he works high above the sprawling metropolis of Sao Paulo for a vacuous `communications company`. As a child Ludo is plucked out of the shantytown where he was born and transported to a world of languid, cosseted luxury. 2010.
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Illuminations. Eva Hoffman Isabel meets Anzor Islikhanov, a political exile from war-torn Chechnya driven by a powerful desire to help and avenge his people. Isabel Merton is a renowned concert pianist whose playing is marked by rare intensity. 2009. As their paths cross
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In the Wake. Пер Петтерсон, Per Petterson 2007. At times unbearably moving, In the Wake is a powerful and heart-rending novel based on Per Petterson’s personal tragedy of losing many of his family in the sinking of the Estonia.
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Blood, tears and folly. Len Deighton The British were bankrupt and the United States only driven from isolation by the humiliation at Pearl Harbour. By 1942, the civilised world had been brought to the brink of ruin. This is an account of a time when humanity was consumed by violence
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All the Sad Young Literary Men. Keith Gessen 2009. A portrait of young adulthood at the opening of the twenty-first century that charts the lives of Sam, Mark, and Keith, as they overthink their college years, underthink their love lives, and struggle through the encouragement of the women
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Sacred Sierra. Jason Webster 2010. In a book, rich with characters and plants, this is a romantic and alluring leap into Spanish rural life with the author and his partner, a flamenco dancer, who buy a farm in a remote, steep valley and set about clearing land, planting and
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Tom Jones & The Rachel Papers. Мартин Эмис, Генри Филдинг In "The Rachel Papers," Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly sexed teenager, is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twenty. Betrayed by jealous relatives, Tom is exiled from home and must undergo a variety of
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Angel Uncovered. Katie Price But all is not as it seems and there is heartache in store. Angel Summer married to the love of her life, sexy footballer Cal, they have a beautiful baby girl and Angel is Britain`s top glamour model. 2009. Her worst nightmares come to life when
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Tale of Two Sisters. Анна Макстед, Anna Maxted They were the best of friends, they were the worst of friends . Lizbet and Cassie are close, yet far apart. After a clueless upbringing (their parents’ basic childrearing beliefs: ‘play a trombone, see a monkey, get some fresh air’), the two
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Starfishing. Nicola Monaghan From the start - he`s sexy, charismatic and a lot of fun. Frankie Cavanagh, a trader, fancies her American boss, Tom. As Frankie begins to lose her grip, she speeds head on towards the ultimate question
2009. They embark on an exciting but
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Homesick. Eshkol Nevo Noa is studying photography in Jerusalem and Amir is a psychology student in Tel Aviv, so they choose a tiny flat in a village called El-Kastel. It is 1995 and Noa and Amir have decided to move in together. 2009. Noa and Amir`s flat is separated
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Spanish Bow, The. Andromeda Romano-Lax But as Civil War turns to World War, shared love for their trio partner - an Italian violinist named Aviva - forces them into their final and most dangerous collaboration. Feliu Delargo`s troubled childhood and rise to fame lead him into a thorny
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Waltenberg. Hedi Kaddour It tells the story of the love between Hans Kappler, a German novelist, and Lena Hotspur, an American singer. An epic novel in which the hotel Waldhaus in the Swiss mountain village of Waltenberg is central to the action, which takes place in
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Illegal Action. Stella Rimington How the Russian is to be silenced is unclear, but the Foreign Office dreads any kind of incident and Liz must work fast to protect him. When MI5 intelligence officer Liz Carlyle learns of a Russian government plot to kill super-rich Nikita