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Gervais Ricky: Flanimals: Day of the Bletchling

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: «The latest volume in the glorious bestiary «Flanimals» features the prolific class of flying, crawling invertebrates collectively known as Blugs. There are an endless variety of Movs, Bants and Zubs. The metamorphosis from Monk Worm to Frag Drier. And the evil incarnate that is the Bletchling. It is compulsive bedtime reading for children and disturbed adults alike. Night, night. And mind the…

Letcher Andy: Shroom

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Is Santa Claus really a magic mushroom in disguise? Was Alice in Wonderland a thinly veiled psychedelic mushroom odyssey? Did mushroom tea kick-start ancient Greek philosophy? This book tells the story of how hallucinogenic mushrooms, once shunned in the West as the most pernicious of poisons, came to be the illicit drug of choice.

R.N. Morris: A Gentle Axe

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: «An atmospheric mystery set in St Petersburg in the winter of 1867 sees detective Porfiry Petrovich taking his first murder case since Dostoevsky's «Crime and Punishment». When two frozen bodies are found in a park, he begins to suspect that the truth may be more complex than others wish him to believe, as his investigations lead him to a shocking discovery which reveals the city's darkest…

Paul Aгster: Travels in the Scriptorium

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: An old man sits in a room, with a single door and window, a bed, a desk and a chair. Each day he awakes with no memory, unsure of whether or not he is locked into the room. Attached to the few objects around him are one-word, hand-written labels, and on the desk is a series of vaguely familiar black-and-white photographs and four piles of paper. Then a middle-aged woman called Anna enters and…

Michael Gregorio: Critique of Criminal Reason

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: It's the year 1793, and Hanno Stiffeniis is a magistrate in Prussia. He has been called to investigate a spate of murders which has reduced the city to a state of terror, under the watchful gaze of his mentor, Kant. Four people have died, and there is no sign of an end to the killing spree. When the killer tries to murder him, the magistrate finds himself confronted by the demons of his own past.…

Andrew O'Hagan: Be Near Me

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: When an English priest takes over a small Scottish parish, not everyone is ready to accept him. He makes friends with two local youths, Mark and Lisa, and clashes with a world he can barely understand. The town seems to grow darker each night. Fate comes calling and before the summer is out his quiet life is the focus of public hysteria. Meanwhile a religious war is unfolding on his doorstep...…

Owen Sheers: Resistance

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Opens in 1944, as the women of a small Welsh farming community wake one morning to find that their husbands have gone. Soon after that a German patrol arrives in their valley.

Peter Carey: Theft: A Love Story

Скачать книгу (размер 1 319 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 260) Аннотация: «Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his 'damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother' Hugh, «Theft: A Love Story» once again displays Peter Carey's extraordinary flair for language. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo, it is a brilliant and moving exploration of art, fraud, responsibility and redemption.»

John Leigh: Football Lexicon

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: «Why is a left foot either trusty or educated, but a right foot is neither? Why is a bad back pass almost invariably suicidal? Why can you score from a corner with a free header, but never with a free shot? Why are hooligans always a tiny minority even when there seem to be hundreds of them throwing seats across Kenilworth Road? Discover how stock phrases — «schoolboy howler», «sweeper system» —…

Paul Auster: The Brooklyn Follies

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Nathan and Tom are an uncle and nephew double-act — one in remission from lung cancer, divorced, and estranged from his only daughter, the other hiding away from his once-promising academic career. Matters change when Lucy, a little girl who refuses to speak, comes into their lives...

Orhan Pamuk: Istanbul

Скачать книгу (размер 1 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 348) Аннотация: Guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways of Istanbul — the city of the author's birth and the home of his imagination. This is an account of one man's love affair with the city that has been his home since his birth.

Michael Dibdin: Back to Bologna

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: When the corpse of the shady industrialist, who owns the local football team, is found both shot and stabbed with a Parmesan knife, Italian police inspector Aurelio Zen is called to Bologna to oversee the investigation. Recovering slowly from surgery, Zen is only too happy to take on what at first appears to be an undemanding assignment.

Jane Harris: The Observations

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: «This work is set in Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her not-so-innocent past in Glasgow, Bessy Buckley — the wide-eyed Irish heroine of «The Observations» — takes a job as a maid in a big house outside Edinburgh working for the beautiful Arabella. Bessy is intrigued by her new employer, but puzzled by her increasingly strange requests and her insistence that Bessy keep a journal of her…

Ishiguro Kazuo: Never Let Me Go

Скачать книгу (размер 1 432 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 282) Аннотация: «Kathy, Ruth and Tommy were pupils at Hailsham — an idyllic establishment situated deep in the English countryside. The children there were tenderly sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe they were special, and that their personal welfare was crucial. But for what reason were they really there? It is only years later that Kathy, now aged 31, finally allows herself to yield to the…

James P.D.: Death of an Expert Witness

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: When a young girl is found murdered in a field, the scientific examination of the exhibits is just a routine job for the staff of Hoggatt's forensic science laboratory. But nothing could have prepared them for the brutal death of one of their own. When the senior biologist is found dead in his laboratory Commander Dalgliesh is called to the bleak fens of East Anglia, where the murderer is lying…

James P.D.: Innocent Blood

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Philippa Palfrey, adopted as a child, believes herself to be the motherless, illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic father. At eighteen she exercises her right to find out the truth. What she discovers will change her life forever. Philippa enters a new and terrifying world and soon comes to realize that she is not the only one interested in her parents' whereabouts.

James P.D.: A Mind to Murder

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: A piercing scream, shattering the evening calm, brings Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh hurrying from his literary party to the nearby Steen Psychiatric Clinic, where he discovers the body of a woman sprawled on the basement floor, a chisel thrust through her heart. As Dalgliesh probes beneath the apparently unruffled calm of the clinic, he discovers that many an intrigue lies hidden behind the…

James P.D.: Shroud for a Nightingale

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly, brutally killed. Another student dies equally mysteriously, and it is up to Adam Dalgliesh to unmask a killer who has decided to prescribe murder as the cure for all ills.

James P.D.: The Skull Beneath the Skin

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Hired to protect a beautiful but neurotic actress, Cordelia Gray soon becomes embroiled in a case as dangerous to her own life as it is mysterious. Clarissa Lisle hopes to make a spectacular comeback in a production of The Duchess of Malfi, to be played in Ambrose Gorringe's sinister castle at Courcy Island. Cordelia is there to ensure her safety following the appearance of a number of poison-pen…

James P.D.: An Unsuitable Job for A Woman

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Meet Cordelia Gray: twenty-two, tough, intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Her first assignment finds her hired by Sir Ronald Callender to investigate the death of his son Mark, a young Cambridge student found hanged in mysterious circumstances. Required to delve into the hidden secrets of the Callender family, Cordelia soon realizes it is not a case of suicide, and…