Michel is a civil-servant at the Ministry of Culture. When his father is murdered, Michel takes leave of absence to go on a package tour to Thailand. Infuriated by the shallow hypocrisy and mediocrity of his fellow...
Three sassy, but very different heroines: knock-out brunette Peaches Gold, LA`s most influential madam, who in her late thirties is certainly fooling everyone that she`s much younger than she looks; twenty-something...
Издание полностью на английском языке. This is a real-time five-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster. Five disparate people are trapped inside: Karen, a single mother waiting for her...
With a 17-point lead and just minutes to go, Rick Dockery provided what was arguably the worst single performance in the history of the NFL. Overnight, he became a national laughing stock and, of course, was...
Pocket Gardens: Contemporary Japanese Miniature Designs
Called tsubo-niwa after a unit of measurement that is two person-sized tatami mats placed side by side, the pocket garden has been a part of the Japanese architectural canon for thousands of years. Undergoing a...
Edgar Allan Poe served as a soldier and began his literary career composing verses modelled on Byron; soon he was trying out his `prose-tales` - often horror melodramas such as The Fall of the House of Usher. As...
Aldous Huxley`s lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. By presenting a vision of life in...
Following RIDERS and RIVALS, and containing many of the same characters, a novel set in the world of polo which follows the fortunes of a woman polo player as she seeks success in this glamorous and almost exclusively...
How do you make it as a pop star? Packed with scandal and intrigue, Pop Babylon takes you to the dark heart of one of the world`s most wicked and secretive industries. Tracking a year in the making of a brand new boy...
Ten years on from Trainspotting, Simon `Sick Boy` Williamson is back in Edinburgh after a long spell in London. Having failed spectacularly as a hustler, pimp, husband, father and businessman, Sick Boy taps into an...
Porterhouse College is world renowned for its gastronomic excellence, the arrogance of its Fellows, its academic mediocrity and the social cachet it confers on the athletic sons of county families. Sir Godber Evans,...
The book was called Pleasuring: One Couple`s Journey to Fulfillment. The title, when the children had first heard it and begun to understand it, was so incontestably mortifying that it threatened to stunt them...
Postcard Killers #дата изд.18.08.11#
NYPD detective Jacob Kanon is on a tour of Europe`s most gorgeous cities. But the sights aren`t what draw him he sees each museum, each cathedral, and each cafe through the eyes of his daughters killer. Kanon`s...
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
`Truly superb - a magnificent achievement. It is hard to imagine how a better - and more readable - history of the emergence of today`s Europe from the ashes of 1945 could ever be written; I can`t think of another...
Power and the Glory (intro. John Updike)
During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the `whisky priest`, is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape are being shut off, his chances getting fewer. But...
This is the story of Precious Jones, a sixteen year old illiterate black girl who has never been out of Harlem. She is pregnant by her own father for the second time, and kicked out of school when that pregnancy...
The year is 1970, and the youth of Europe are in the ecstatic throes of the sexual revolution. Though dedicated to the cause they have yet to realize this disturbing truth: that between the death of one social order...
Children can now enjoy their favourite Poppy story, time and time again with this brilliant picture book and DVD set. The DVD features a soundtrack read by Tamzin Outhwaite, animated stills from the book and brilliant...
