Japan, 1865, the women’s palace in the great city of Edo. Bristling with intrigue and erotic rivalries, the palace is home to three thousand women and only one man - the young shogun. Sachi, a beautiful...
Joey Cooley is a golden-curled child film star, the idol of American motherhood. Reginald, Third Earl of Havershot, is a boxing blue on a mission to save his wayward cousin from the fleshpots of Hollywood. Both are...
"Le Bal" depicts the life of the Kampfs who, having recently gone up in the world thanks to luck with the stock decide to throw a ball in order to launch themselves into society. Their daughter Antoinette, who has...
Ladу Constance Keeble, sister of Lord Emsworth of Blandings Castle, has both an imperious manner and a valuable diamond necklace. The precarious peace of Blandings is shattered when her necklace becomes the object of...
A tale of love, courage and family, interweaving the lives of two extraordinary women - a writer working in the heart of modern academia, and a daring young Sioux on an unforgettable journey in the eighteenth century....
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011. From the hairdessing salon where an old man measures out his life in haircuts, to the concert hall where a music lover carries out an obsessive campaign against those...
Stephen Fry`s breathtakingly outrageous debut novel, by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly Текст романа на английском языке.
With his second collection of short stories, Richard Yates continues to extend his range as a writer of stunning power and eloquence. "Liars in Love" is concerned with troubled relations and the elusive nature of...
A murderer is on the loose on the streets of New York City: nicknamed the Doomsday Killer, he`s claimed six victims in just two weeks, and the city is terrified. Even worse, the police are mystified: the victims have...
Life and Times of Thunderbolt Kid
Bill Bryson`s first travel book opened with the immortal line, "I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to". In this deeply funny new book, he travels back in time to explore the ordinary kid he once was, in the curious...
This sweeping account of the siege of Stalingrad aims to give as panoramic a view of Soviet society during World War II as Tolstoy did of Russian life in the epoch of the Napoleonic Wars. Completed in 1960 and then...
Evacuated from Blitz-battered London, shy and genteel Elizabeth White is sent to stay with the boisterous O`Connors in Kilgarret, Ireland. It is the beginning of an unshakable bond between Elizabeth and Aisling...
Lily isn`t home ALONE - but she sort of wishes she was; looking after her three younger siblings is a lot of responsibility. When Mum goes off on holiday with her new boyfriend and her stepdad fails to show up, Lily...
Sunset lives a life of luxury with her beautiful ex-model mum, her world-famous ex-rocker dad and two little celeb siblings. But life on the red carpet is no compensation for rowing parents, constant nagging,...
Two worlds are about to collide. Justin and Angela Kennedy are doing fine. Better than fine. They have wealth, position, love, children and a limitless future. Jo-Jo Mackendrick is a pillar of Dublin gangland, a man...
Why did he do it? Why had it happened? What sort of fiend was he? Why should Victor Jenner, the child of happily married, middle-class parents, succumb to such violent rages? Why should he have needed to make...
Polly Cameron is happy being thirty-five and celibate, living in a small Gloucestershire town with a possessive cat for company and a Rayburn for comfort. After all, a relationship would only complicate things... But...
