The latest stirring instalment of the urban fantasy-thriller series starring Rachel Morgan. A pacey and addictive novel of sexy bounty-hunting witches, cunning demons and vicious vampires. Having barely escaped being skewered by the criminal vampire overlord of Cinncinati, Rachel now has even bigger problems to contend with. The demon, Algaliarept, although banished back into the everafter has infected others of his kind with his interest in a witch who can channel demon magic. Rachel soon finds herself with not one but three hellions on her tail; and one of them is even crazier and more dangerous than all the fairy assassins, weres and vampires on the planet. Published as `The Outlaw Demon Wails` in the US.
ISBN: 978-0-00-732196-4
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
A modern, action-packed detective story. Salahadin El Nur is an inspector in the Antiquities Department of the Egyptian police. The death of a visiting European archaeologist leads Salahadin to investigate the whereabouts of a priceless statuette. He is soon on the trail of a gang of international smugglers.
ISBN: 978-1-4050-7638-8
Издательство:
Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: июль 2011
In Black Heart And White Heart, Henry Rider Haggard mounts once more those trusty steeds of his, the nobility of the savage and the rascality of the civilized white. He rides, too, with all his old dexterity, and the story concerning Zulus, witches, battles, sacrifices, and traitors.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06608-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
When Maxudov`s bid to take his own life fails, he dramatises the novel whose failure provoked the suicide attempt. To the resentment of literary Moscow, his play is accepted by the legendary Independent Theatre and Maxudov plunges into a vortex of inflated egos. With each rehearsal more sparks fly and the chances of the play being ready to perform recede. "Black Snow" is the ultimate back-stage novel and a brilliant satire by the author of "The Master and Margarita" on his ten-year love-hate relationship with Stanislavsky, Method-acting and the Moscow Arts Theatre.
ISBN: 978-0-09-947932-1
Издательство:
Vintage Classics
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Paha Sapa, `Black Hills`, is a Red Indian shaman who as a young boy at the Battle of Little Bighorn takes the ghost of the dying General Custer into his own body. Sixty years later as an old man working as a dynamiter on Mount Rushmore, he plots to blow it up. Meanwhile, Custer finds himself trapped in a strange, dark place and begins to write sensuous, heartbreaking missives to his beloved wife. Thus begins an intricate narrative that sweeps across decades of American history, building up a portrait of one country`s relentless expansion and what was lost and destroyed in its path. Black Hills is historical fiction with Dan Simmons` trademark twist. He weaves in real places, events and people with his own uniquely weird take on reality...
ISBN: 978-1-84916-090-2
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: август 2011
It`s a dank January in the Worcestershire village of Black Swan Green and thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor - covert stammerer and reluctant poet - anticipates a stultifying year in the deadest village on Earth. But Jason hasn`t reckoned with a junta of bullies, simmering family discord, the Falklands War, an exotic Belgian emigre, a threatened gypsy invasion and the caprices of those mysterious entities known as girls. BLACK SWAN GREEN charts thirteen months in the black hole between childhood and adolescence, set against the sunset of an agrarian England still overshadowed by the Cold War. Wry, painful, funny and vibrant with the stuff of life, it is David Mitchell`s subtlest and most captivating achievement to date.
ISBN: 978-0-340-82280-7
Издательство:
Hodder
Дата выхода: август 2011
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set largely in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. In Black Heart and White Heart, Henry Rider Haggard mounts once more those trusty steeds of his, the nobility of the savage and the rascality of the civilized white. He rides, too, with all his old dexterity, and the story concerning Zulus, witches, battles, sacrifices, and traitors.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07598-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
The ivied walls of "Blandings Castle" have seldom glowed as sunnily as in these wonderful stories - but there are snakes in the rolling parklanc ready to nip Clarence, the absent-minded Ninth Earl of Emsworth, when he least expects it. For a start the Empress of Blandings, in the running for her first prize in the Fat Pigs Class at the Shropshire Agricultural Show, is off her food and can only be coaxed back to the trough by a call in her own language. Then there is the feud with Head Gardener McAllister, aided by Clarence`s sister, the terrifying Lady Constance, and the prospect of the summer fete - twin problems solved by the arrival of a delightfully rebellious little girl from London. But first of all there is the vexed matter of the...
ISBN: 978-0-09-951383-4
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
It is 1852 and three young people meet for the first time in High Court of Chancery. They are the latest victims to be caught in the long-running court case of Jamdyce vs Jamdyce. A case which has caused the financial and moral breakdown of many previous claimants.
ISBN: 978-1-405-07321-9
Издательство:
Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: январь 2011
In a unique creative experiment, Dickens divides the narrative between his heroine, Esther Summerson, who is psychologically interesting in her own right, and an unnamed narrator whose perspective both complements and challenges hers.
ISBN: 9781853260827
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: октябрь 2022
The lgal case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce has become a joke to some people. People are born, marry and die, and still the case continues. But will the lives of Ada and Richard be ruined, like so many before? And how will their friend Esther be affected by secrets from her past?
ISBN: 978-1-4082-3118-0
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: август 2011
Unlike most vampires, Eleisha Clevon doesn t like to kill, but self-preservation comes first. After an old friend destroys himself by walking into the sunlight, she is shocked to discover the depravity that had marked his life, in this first title of a new dark fantasy series.
ISBN: 9780451463050
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: октябрь 2009
James and Chantal are enjoying an evening of magic at the Blue Cat Club. Merlin the magician is clever and his tricks are exciting but are they dangerous too?
ISBN: 978-1-4058-5196-1
Издательство:
Longman Group UK Limited
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Now that she is finally and happily married to Mr , Mma Ramotswe of the famous No. l Ladies` Detective Agency might have expected life to grow more sedate. But the many problems that lead customers to her door seem, if anything, to have multiplied. There is a disturbing case of blackmail and theft at the government catering college, and a rumour of witchcraft on the Mokolodi Game Reserve. And all the while Precious has questions of a philosophical nature to consider, such as whether it is right to find happiness in small things like a new pair of blue shoes, a slice of cake or a red sunset over the Kalahari. Формат: 12,5 см х 19,5 см.
ISBN: 978-0-349-11772-0
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Neil Gaiman wrote Blueberry Girl for a friend who was about to become the mother of a little girl. He has turned the deeply personal wish for a daughter into a book that celebrates the glory of growing up. Illustrated throughout with gorgeous art by Charles Vess, whose work can also be seen in Susanna Clarke`s The Ladies of Grace Adieu.
ISBN: 978-0-7475-9598-4
Издательство:
Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: август 2011
The bestselling author of "A Wedding in December" returns with a scintillating new novel about a young widow torn between two brothers during one long New England summer.
ISBN: 978-0-349-11901-4
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The year is 1539. Henry VIII must take another wife and the dangerous prize of the crown of England is won by Anne of Cleves. Although she is fascinated by the glamour of her new surroundings, she can sense a trap closing around her. Katherine Howard, meanwhile, is to flirt her way to the throne. But her kinswoman Jane Boleyn is haunted by the past and the Boleyn inheritance of suspicion, betrayal and death. In this time of upheaval and uncertainty, these three young women must try to survive the most volatile court in Europe.
ISBN: 978-0-00-719033-1
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
What if a demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman wrote a book to his estranged son to give him some fatherly advice? What if that book was buried in Hampstead and hundreds of years later, when rising sea levels have put London underwater, spawned a religion? What if one man decided to question life according to Dave? And, what if Dave had indeed made a mistake? Shuttling between the recent past and a far-off future where England is terribly altered, "The Book of Dave" is a strange and troubling mirror held up to our times: disturbing, satirizing and vilifying who and what we think we are.
ISBN: 978-0-14-101454-8
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Bridging the gap between novelty board books and picture flats, this adorable new series encourages little readers to engage with a central character and then follow a simple plot. With questions to answer (What can you see at the farm? What noises do the farm animals make?) and interactive elements throughout, the child is drawn in from the outset. A rich reading experience, designed to stimulate speech and build book-confidence.
ISBN: 9781788003599
Издательство:
Nosy Crow
Дата выхода: январь 2020
"The Book of Human Skin" is a large volume with many pages of villainy writ upon it. There are people who are a disease, you know. 13 May, 1784, Venice: Minguillo Fasan, heir to the decaying, gothic Palazzo Espagnol, is born. Yet Minguillo is no ordinary child: he is strange, devious and all those who come near him are fearful. Twelve years later Minguillo is faced with an unexpected threat to his inheritance: a newborn sister, Marcella. His untempered jealousy will condemn his sister to a series of fates as a cripple, a madwoman and a nun. But in his insatiable quest to destroy her, he may have underestimated his sister`s ferocious determination, and her unlikely allies who will go to extraordinary lengths to save
ISBN: 978-1-4088-0964-8
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: август 2011
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. Beginning with a dilemma about whether he spends more money on reading or smoking, George Orwell`s entertaining and uncompromising essays go on to explore everything from the perils of second-hand bookshops to the dubious profession of being a critic, from freedom of the press to what patriotism really means....
ISBN: 978-0-14-103661-8
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011