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Flames and funerals, circus feats and seduction, neighbours and nakedness: a sparkling historical drama from the bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring.Uprooting from their quiet Dorset village to the carnal streets of London, young Jem Kellaway and his family feel far from home. The Kellaways struggle to fi nd their place in a tumultuous city, alive with repercussions from the blood-splattered French Revolution. Luckily streetwise Maggie Butterfi eld is on hand to show Jem the ropes....
| Автор | Tracy Chevalier |
Two hundred years ago, India was seen as a place with little history and less culture.Today it is revered for a notable prehistory, a magnificent classical age and a cultural tradition unique in both character and continuity. How this extraordinary change in perception came about is the subject of this fascinating book.The story, here reconstructed for the first time, is one of painstaking scholarship primed by a succession of sensational discoveries. The excitement of unearthing a city twice as...
| Автор | John Keay |
Robbed in Iran and imprisoned for over 100 days for suspected espionage, this is the true story of one woman's shocking ordeal in the country she called home.The morning of 30 December 2006 began routinely for Haleh Esfandiari. The Iranian-American academic was due to return home to the United States after visiting her ailing mother in Tehran. She got into a taxi to the airport, and was driven by the driver who she always used when in Iran. Fifteen minutes later, Haleh was robbed at knife point...
| Автор | Haleh Esfandiari |
If you don’t learn from history . . .You’re destined to repeat itNot without you, she’d said. And I’d let her down…Hollywood, 1961: when beautiful, much-loved movie star Eve Noel vanishes at the height of her fame, no-one knows where, much less why.Fifty years later, another young British actress, Sophie Leigh, lives in Eve’s house high in the Hollywood Hills. Eve Noel was her inspiration and Sophie, disenchanted with her life in LA, finds herself becoming increasingly obsessed with the mystery...
| Автор | Harriet Evans |
A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA powerful, thought-provoking novel about two sisters who must reclaim themselves after their lives are dramatically upended from one of our finest authorsAlison Donnelly has suffered for love. Still stuck in the small Northern Irish town where she was born, working for her father’s real estate agency, she hopes to pick up the pieces and get her life back together. Her sister Liz, a fiercely independent college professor who lives in New York City, is about to...
| Автор | Nick Laird |
‘If there is one dominant myth about the world, one huge mistake we all make … it is that we all go around assuming the world is much more of a planned place than it is.’From the industrial revolution and the rise of China, to urbanisation and the birth of bitcoin, Matt Ridley demolishes conventional assumptions that the great events and trends of our day are dictated by those on high. On the contrary, our most important achievements develop from the ground up. In this wide-ranging and erudite...
| Автор | Matt Ridley |
Professor Tudor Parfitt, a real-life British Indiana Jones, has made the biggest discovery of the last 3,000 years – the secret location of the fabled Ark of the Covenant. In 2006, he made an incredible journey to its final resting place and in February 2008 he will reveal this to the world. This is the amazing story of his quest.This is the real-life account of Professor Tudor Parfitt's remarkable discovery – of the lost Ark of the Covenant that disappeared from the Temple of Jerusalem...
| Автор | Tudor Parfitt |
Leninsky Prospekt is an enthralling novel about conflicting allegiances, to family, friends, nations, ideals, at a time of legendary international tension.In October 1962, Nikita Krushchev and John Kennedy confronted each other over the deployment of Russian missiles in Cuba, and world came as close as it has ever been to nuclear holocaust. During the crisis, the New York City Ballet, led by the Russian-born choreographer, George Balanchine, was performing in Moscow. And the dissident movement...
| Автор | Katherine Bucknell |
The story of Britain’s colourful maritime past seen through the changing fortunes of the Cornish port of Falmouth.Within the space of few years, during the 1560s and 1570s, a maritime revolution took place in England that would contribute more than anything to the transformation of the country from a small rebel state on the fringes of Europe into a world power. Until then, it was said, there was only one Englishman capable of sailing across the Atlantic. Yet within ten years an English ship...
| Автор | Philip Marsden |
A two-book collection of Max Hastings’ bestselling works about the 20th century’s most terrible global conflicts.‘Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914’: In this centenary year, Hastings’ thrilling and also deeply moving account seeks to explain both how Europe plunged into what was then called ‘The Great War’, what befell the millions of people of many nations caught up in the first months on the battlefield and as civilian victims.‘All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945’: This is...
| Автор | Макс Хейстингс |
The stunning conclusion to a powerful epic fantasy from the worldwide bestselling author of the Saga of the Pliocene Exile.For sixteen years King Conrig Ironcrown has ruled High Blenholme, battling both to preserve the Sovereignty he ruthlessly established over the four provinces of the island kingdom and to repel the invading Salka monsters that threaten them all. His hope for the future is his heir, Prince Orrion, whose betrothal to a princess of the province of Didion should assure the future...
| Автор | Julian May |
A compelling story of old loves and old secrets.Sebastian, the fifty-six-year-old patriarch of the Locke clan, is handsome, charismatic, a man of immense charm and intelligence. He heads up the philanthropic Locke Foundation, and travels the globe, personally giving away millions a year to the poor, the sick, and the victims of natural disasters and wars. And now, he is dead – murdered in mysterious circumstances that have the police at a loss. Who would want to kill the world’s greatest...
| Автор | Barbara Taylor Bradford |
The extraordinary new novel from David Flusfeder chronicles a pilgrimage to Rome made by three young men with a secret burden. But they will meet with temptation along the way…‘John the Pupil’ is a medieval road movie, Umberto Eco seen through the eyes of Quentin Tarrantino, recounting the journey taken from Oxford to Viterbo in 1267 by John and his two companions, at the behest of the friar and magus Roger Bacon, carrying a secret burden to His Holiness Clement IV. As well as having to fight...
| Автор | David Flusfeder |
Beautifully repacked edition of this stunning novel of contemporary and historical betrayal and revenge, from the author of LADY OF HAYAfter a broken love affair, biographer Kate Kennedy retires to a remote cottage on the wild Essex coast to work on her new book, until her landlord's daughter uncovers a Roman site nearby and long-buried passions are unleashed…In her lonely cottage, Kate is terrorized by mysterious forces. What do these ghosts want? Should the truth about the violent events of...
| Автор | Barbara Erskine |
"Dziś sięgam do moich wspomnień z trzech, zupełnie różnych powodów. Pierwszy jest bardzo oczywisty i ma być dowodem na to, że moje świadectwo prawdy, które wyznaję w tych skoroszytach, musi mieć czysty i klarowny obraz. Nie mogę pozostawić żadnych niedomówień lub niejasności. Drugi powód, motywujący mnie do tego wyzwania, jest bardziej wzniosły i uduchowiony. Robię to w hołdzie dla ludzi, którzy byli bliscy mojemu sercu. Tylko w ten sposób mogę uczcić ich pamięć i chwałę tamtych dni....
| Автор | Krzysztof Andrzej Spadło |
Szkocja, XIX wiek. Jest mroźny grudzień 1837 roku. Liczna rodzina Cynsterów przyjeżdża wraz z domownikami do zasypanej śniegiem posiadłości Casphairn Manor w północnej Szkocji, aby świętować Boże Narodzenie – a gdzie zbierają się Cynsterowie, tam zawsze pojawia się miłość. Przy świątecznym stole spotykają się Daniel Crosbie, guwerner synów Alasdaira Cynstera, i Claire Meadows, guwernantka córki Richarda Cynstera. Ci dwoje poznali się już wcześniej i tli się między nimi uczucie. Jednak...
| Автор | Stephanie Laurens |
Ogniem i mieczem – pierwsza z trzech powieści historycznych napisanych ku pokrzepieniu serc przez Henryka Sienkiewicza w latach 1884-1888. Akcja powieści rozgrywa się w latach 1648-1651 w okresie powstania Chmielnickiego na Ukrainie. Pozostałe części Trylogii to Potop i Pan Wołodyjowski. Powieść była pierwotnie wydana w odcinkach w latach 1883 – 1884 w warszawskim dzienniku Słowo i, z minimalnym opóźnieniem w stosunku do Słowa, także w dzienniku krakowskim Czas. Pierwsze wydanie książkowe...
| Автор | Генрик Сенкевич |
Ogniem i mieczem – pierwsza z trzech powieści historycznych napisanych ku pokrzepieniu serc przez Henryka Sienkiewicza w latach 1884-1888. Akcja powieści rozgrywa się w latach 1648-1651 w okresie powstania Chmielnickiego na Ukrainie. Pozostałe części Trylogii to Potop i Pan Wołodyjowski. Powieść była pierwotnie wydana w odcinkach w latach 1883 – 1884 w warszawskim dzienniku Słowo i, z minimalnym opóźnieniem w stosunku do Słowa, także w dzienniku krakowskim Czas. Pierwsze wydanie książkowe...
| Автор | Генрик Сенкевич |
Boleśnie doświadczeni, okaleczeni duchowo bohaterowie próbują odbudować własne życie. Desperacko szukają szczęścia i swojego miejsca na ziemi. Niektórzy nie wiedzą, że los jeszcze niejeden raz wystawi ich charaktery na ciężką próbę. Inni wciąż nie mogą poradzić sobie z uczuciem straty i osamotnienia. Spoglądają w przeszłość, jak gdyby ta miała dać im odpowiedź na nurtujące ich pytania o sens istnienia i granice ludzkiej wrażliwości. Czy uda im się odzyskać utracone zaufanie i ocalić miłość, a...
| Автор | Joanna Jax |
Chasing the Moon thoroughly reimagines the race to the moon, upending much of the conventional mythology. With newly revealed stories about the moon race, from its earliest days to the monumental achievement of the lunar landing in 1969, the book features a diverse cast of characters who played key roles in these historic events.Utilising a wealth of previously overlooked and lost archival material, much of which has never before been revealed to the public, the Space Age is recast as a...
| Автор | Robert Stone |
‘This will sweep you away for the summer. Lucy Foley blends a rich history, haunting secrets and a timeless love story’ Santa Montefiore, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Deverill seriesISTANBUL, 1921Before the Occupation, Nur’s city was a tapestry of treasures: the Grand Bazaar alive with colour, trinkets and spices; saffron sunsets melting into the black waters of the Bosphorus; the sweet fragrance of the fig trees dancing on the summer breeze . . .Now the shadow of war hangs over the...
| Автор | Lucy Foley |
An utterly gripping non-fiction adventure narrative, 'Lost in Shangri-La' is an untold true story of war, anthropology, survival, discovery, heroism, and a near-impossible rescue mission.Three months before the end of World War II, a U.S. Army plane flying over New Guinea’s Baliem Valley crashed in uncharted mountains inhabited by a Stone Age tribe. Nineteen passengers and crew were killed and two were mortally wounded. But somehow three survived: a lieutenant whose twin brother died in the...
| Автор | MItchell Zuckoff |
The epic life story of the Atlantic Ocean from the bestselling author, Simon WinchesterIn a narrative tour de force, Simon Winchester dramatises the life story of the Atlantic Ocean, from its birth in the farther recesses of geological time to its eventual extinction millions of years in the future.At the core of the book is the story of mankind's complex relationship with this immense sea, which stretches for 9,000 miles from pole to pole. The Atlantic has profoundly influenced the lives of...
| Автор | Simon Winchester |
Passionate, headstrong, and fiercely independent, twenty-one-year-old Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to live her life to the fullest. When her autocratic father attempts to curb her academic ambitions and social experiences, she escapes her stodgy, conventional world and sets out alone to make a fresh start in London. There, enrolled as a student of biology, she discovers a flourishing unknown world of intellectuals, suffragettes, socialists and free love. But the true cost of her new...
| Автор | Герберт Уэллс |