Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World
Dirty money, tax havens and the offshore system describe the ugliest and most secretive chapter in the history of global economic affairs. Billionaire Warren Buffet, currently the third wealthiest man in the world,...
Once, when Benet was about fourteen, she and her mother had been alone in a train carriage and Mopsa had tried to stab her with a carving knife. It was some time since Benet had seen her mad mother. So when Mopsa...
Every morning Hakan von Enke takes a walk in the forest near his apartment in Stockholm. However, one winter`s day he fails to come home. It seems that the retired naval officer has vanished without trace. Detective...
A fictionalised account of Hemingway`s time spent living and hunting in Kenya. The single draft, written in 1953, was discovered and edited by his son Patrick, and is published to commemorate the centenary of the...
When she was nine years old, Melody Browne`s house burned down, taking every toy, every photograph, every item of clothing and old Christmas card with it. But not only did the fire destroy all her possessions, it took...
Sooner or later, everybody pays - and the dead will set the Gerry Fegan, a former paramilitary contract killer, is haunted by the ghosts of the 12 people he has slaughtered. Every night he drowns their screams in...
Why is it that French women look just as glamorous in a T-shirt and pair of jeans as in a sleek designer dress? How do they look sexy, chic and timelessly elegant from eighteen to eighty? Pencil-thin, stylishly...
Money makes the world go round for Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge - and when there isn`t enough of it, the world just has to spin a bit faster. Ever on the lookout for a quick buck, a solid gold fortune, or at...
Издание полностью на английском языке. Set entirely on one day, 16 June 1904, "Ulysses" follows Leopold Bloom and Stephen Daedalus as they go about their daily business in Dublin. From this starting point, James Joyce...
The uncle in question is Frederick Altamount Cornwallis Twistleton, Fifth Earl of Ickenham, better known as Uncle Fred, an old boy of such a sunny and youthful nature that explosions of sweetness and light detonate...
Uncle Fred is one of the hottest earls that ever donned a coronet. Or as he crisply said, `There are no limits, literally none, to what I can achieve in the springtime.` Even so, his gifts are stretched to the limit...
Jettison the old rulebooks about home decor and undecorate your space. As the founder and creative director of DwellStudio - which is famous for its brightly colored, graphic textile designs for home furnishings -...
Iris Murdoch`s first novel is a gem - solid and sparkling. Set in a part of London, where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donaghue,...
