The world lies devastated after the massive oil crisis that was described in LAST LIGHT. Human society has more or less entirely broken down and millions lie dead of starvation or disease. There are only one or two beacon communities that have managed to fashion a new way of living. Jenny Sutherland runs one of these groups. Based on a series of decaying offshore oil rigs - for safety - a few hundred people have rebuilt a semblance of normality in this otherwise dead world. But as Jenny and her people explore their surroundings once again, they start to realise not every survivor has the same vision of a better future than their catastrophic past. There are people out there who would take everything they have. War is coming, and the...
ISBN: 978-1-4091-0306-6
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The midnight hour approaches in an almost empty all-night diner. Mari sips her coffee and glances up from a book as a young man, a musician, intrudes on her solitude. Both have missed the last train home. The musician has plans to rehearse with his jazz band all night, Mari is equally unconcerned and content to read, smoke and drink coffee until dawn. They realise they’ve been acquainted through Eri, Mari’s beautiful sister. The musician soon leaves with a promise to return before dawn. Shortly afterwards Mari will be interrupted a second time by a girl from the Alphaville Hotel; a Chinese prostitute has been hurt by a client, the girl has heard Mari speaks fluent Chinese and requests her help. Meanwhile Eri is at home and sleeps a...
After the master of Enderby Hall dies, his sister, Cora, suspects the generous patriarch met with foul play. But when Cora cries murder! she too is banished from the family tree - with eight blows of a hatchet. Detective Hercule Poirot fears she won`t be the last to go. Формат издания: 10,5 см х 17 см.
ISBN: 978-0-425-17390-9
Издательство:
Rem Distributors
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Sharrow was once the leader of a personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic litt commercial wars in the civilisation based around the planet Golter. Now she is hunted by the Huhsz, a religious cult which believes that she is the last obstacle before the faith’s apotheosis, and her only hope of escape is to find the last of the apocalyptically powerful Lazy Guns before the Huhsz find her.
ISBN: 978-1-85723-179-3
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Deceptively simple in style, stunning in its implications, this gem of an autobiography, Again Calls the Owl, carries readers back to the beginning of the century when Margaret Craven - one of a handful of women at Stanford and a groundbreaking woman journalist - made the audacious decision not only to work for a living, but to work as a writer.
ISBN: 0-440-30074-6
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
`Key is in the lock all right, sir. On the inside. Mr Ackroyd must have locked himself in.`Poor Roger Ackroyd. He knew that the woman he loved had been harbouring a guilty secret - she poisoned her first husband. And yesterday she killed herself.But guilty secrets rarely stay secret. Who had been blackmailing her before her death? Had it really driven her to suicide? And would it all be revealed in the letter that arrived in the evening post? Sadly Roger Ackroyd wasn`t going to live long enough to find out...
Agatha Christie`s seasonal Poirot and Marple short story collection, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. First came a sinister warning to Poirot not to eat any plum pudding... then the discovery of a corpse in a chest... next, an overheard quarrel that led to murder... the strange case of the dead man who altered his eating habits... and the puzzle of the victim who dreamt his own suicide. What links these five baffling cases? The little grey cells of Monsieur Hercule Poirot!
When Agatha Christie died in 1976, aged 85, she had become the world`s most popular author. Publishing at least one book every year since the 1920s, each one a bestseller, it was even claimed that Agatha must have a photographic memory. Was this true? Or did she resort to more mundane methods of planning her ingenious crimes? Unearthed among Agatha Christie`s affairs at the family home of Greenway were her private notebooks, 73 volumes in Agatha`s almost unreadable handwriting. When archivist John Curran began deciphering the notebooks, the extent of this treasure trove became This book lifts the lid on Agatha Christie`s biggest secret -how her pencilled notes, lists and drafts led to her many successful books, plays and stories....
ISBN: 978-0-00-731057-9
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
Agatha Christie`s disturbing 1960s mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.Gipsy`s Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea - and in Michael Rogers it stirred a child-like fantasy.There, amongst the dark fir trees, he planned to build a house, find a girl and live happily ever after.Yet, as he left the village, a shadow of menace hung over the land. For this was the place where accidents happened. Perhaps Michael should have heeded the locals` warnings: `There`s no luck for them as meddles with Gipsy`s Acre.`Michael Rogers is a man who is about to learn the true meaning of the old saying `In my end is my beginning...`
ISBN: 9780008196394
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: январь 2017
The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn, including Jane Marple, are agog with curiosity over an advertisement in the local gazette that read: "A Murder is Announced and will take place on Friday October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6:30 p.m." Unable to resist the mysterious invitation, a crowd begins to gather at Little Paddocks at the appointed time when, without warning, the lights go...
ISBN: 978-0-00-819655-4
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: январь 2018