Defence lawyer Mickey Haller has had some problems but now he`s put all that behind him and is ready to resume his career. Then another lawyer dies, leaving Mickey his entire practice - including a very high-profile...
Thor has broken the sword Tyrfing so that it cannot strike at the roots of Yggdrasil, the tree that binds together earth, heaven and hell. But now the mighty sword is needed again to save the elves in their war...
`I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn, and so the next morning I travelled down there from Westchester to scope out the terrain`... So begins Paul Auster`s remarkable new novel, The...
Jack Mullen is a driven student of the law. His brother Peter is a servant of the rich, parking the cars of the Hamptons` elite —and perhaps satisfying their more intimate needs as well. Then Peter`s body is found on...
Сборник рассказов известного американского писателя-фантаста включает в себя рассказы из различных авторских сборников Р.Брэдбери. Это и рассказы философские: об отношении автора к техническому прогрессу, к влиянию...
The Best of Edgar Allan Poe. Vol. 2 = Эдгар Аллан По. Избранное: кн. на англ.яз
The name Edgar Allan Рое conjures up thoughts of hearts beating long after their owners are dead, of disease and plague amid wealth, and of love that extends beyond the grave. The richness of Poe`s writing, however,...
The classic story of finding fun on the farm from the Nation’s favourite storyteller, gorgeously re-illustrated by Sam Usher.From Sir Michael Morpurgo comes a classic story of one small boy, and one very lucky...
Nat and his family live near the sea. Nat watches the birds over the sea. Suddenly the weather is colder, and there is something strange about the birds. They are angry. They start to attack. They want to get into the...
This is a dazzling, white-knuckle debut thriller starring an ex-convict who combines the government conspiracy angle of 24`s Jack Bauer with the action of Lee Child`s Jack Reacher, plus a dash of supernatural suspense.
The motto of the boarding school to which Tommy Bedford is dispatched is Fortune Favours the Brave. It`s 1959 and the school bristles with bullies and sadistic staff. Tommy, a quirky loner, obsessed with cowboys and...
When the beautiful teenage Lily arrives in Lima in 1950, fifteen-year-old Ricardo falls instantly in love with her. She claims to be from Chile, but vanishes the moment it becomes clear that she has lied about both...
Michael Adams shares a flat with three other men in their late twenties. Days are spent lying in bed, playing computer games and occasionally doing a bit of work. And then, when he feels like it, he crosses the river...
Discover the classics with Looking Glass Library, a series that offers the world`s finest literature, with introductions by some of the foremost writers of today. In eight highly imaginative tales, beloved children`s...
Rhyme`s cousin has been arrested for murder. The evidence clearly shows he did it, but Rhyme agrees to check things out. It turns out that the cousin along with other people has been wrongly convicted because the true...
