Random House

From the internationally acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries comes an extraordinary stand-alone novel - both a mystery and a sweeping drama - that traces the legacy of the nineteenth-century slave trade between China and America. January 2006. In the small Swedish hamlet of Hesjovallen, a horrific scene is discovered: nineteen people have been tortured and massacred an the only clue is a red silk ribbon found at the scene. Judge Birgitta Roslin has a particular reason to be shocked by the crime: her mother`s adoptive parents, the Andrens, are among the victims. Investigating further, she learns that an Andren family living in Nevada has also been murdered. Travelling to Hesjovallen, she finds a diary, kept by a gangmaster on...

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011

'The mind is a time machine that travels backwards in memory and forwards in prophecy, but he has done with prophecy ; Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent's Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George Wells, '; to his family and friends, looks back on a life crowded with incident, books, and women. Has it been a success or a failure? Once he was the most famous writer in the world, 'the man who invented tomorrow'; now he feels like yesterday's man, deserted by readers and depressed by the collapse of his utopian dreams. He recalls his unpromising start, and early struggles to acquire an education and make a living as a teacher; his rapid rise to fame as a writer with a prophetic imagination and a...

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2012

After killing a man in the line of duty, Inspector Kurt Wallander finds himself spiralling into an alcohol-fuelled depression. He has just decided to leave the police when an old friend approaches him for help investigating his father`s suspicious death. Kurt doesn`t want to know. But then his friend is found shot dead. Against his better judgment, he returns to work to head what may now have become a double murder case. But while Wallander is on the trail of the killer, somebody is on the trail of Wallander, and closing in fast.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2008

Miles Green wakes up in a mysterious hospital with no idea of how he got there or who he is. He definitely doesn`t remember his wife, or his children`s names. An impossibly shapely specialist doctor tells him his memory nerve-center is connected to sexual activity, and calls in the even shapelier Nurse Cory to assist with the most unorthodox of hospital rooms we eavesdrop on the serious discourse, virulent abuse and hilarious mockery of the erotic guerrilla war that is Mantissa.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011

Roy Strang is engaged is a strange quest in a surrealist South Africa. His mission is to eradicate the evil predator-scavenger bird, the marabou stork, before it drives away the peace-loving flamingo from the picturesque Lake Torto. But behind this world lies another: the world of Roy`s bizarre family, the Scottish housing scheme in which he grew up, his mundane job, a disastrous emigration to Africa, and his youthful life of brutality with a gang of soccer casuals. As one world crashes into the other, this potentially charming story of ornithological goodwill mutates into a filthy tale of violence, abuse and redemption. Формат: 13 см х 19,5 см.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004

When Margaret Thatcher unexpectedly emerged to challenge Edward Heath for the Conservative leadership in 1975, the public knew her only as the archetypal Home Counties Tory Lady, more famous for her hats than for any outstanding talent. Yes almost overnight she reinvented herself. Journalists who set out to discover where she came from were amazed to find that she had grown up above a grocer`s shop in Grantham. Within weeks of her becoming Tory leader an entirely new image was in place, based around the now famous corner shop beside the Great North Road; the strict Methodist upbringing; and her father, who taught her the `Victorian values` which were the foundations of her subsequent career.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: февраль 2012

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2014

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2008

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2020

Mary Boleyn is remembered by posterity as a `great and infamous whore`. She was the mistress of two kings, Francois I of France and Henry VIII of England, and sister to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII`s second wife. She may secretly have borne Henry a child and it was because of his adultery with Mary that his marriage to Anne was annulled. It is not hard to see how this tangled web of relationships has given rise to rumours and misconceptions that have been embroidered over the centuries. In this, the first full-scale biography of Mary Boleyn, Alison Weir explodes much of the mythology that surrounds her subject and uncovers the facts about one of the most misunderstood figures of the Tudor age. Her extensive, forensic research has facilitated...

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2013

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2009

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2008

Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon were 18th-century British surveyors who ran the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland - the Mason-Dixon Line. This is their story, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, erotic and political conspiracies, naval warfare and caffeine abuse.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004

Surely no stranger work exists in the annals of protest literature than "The Master and Margarita". Written during the Soviet crackdown of the 1930s, when Mikhail Bulgakov`s works were effectively banned, it wraps its anti-Stalinist message in a complex allegory of good and evil. Or would that be the other way around? The book`s chief character is Satan, who appears in the guise of a foreigner and self-proclaimed black magician named Woland. Accompanied by a talking black tomcat and a "translator" wearing a jockey`s cap and cracked pince-nez, Woland wreaks havoc throughout literary Moscow. First he predicts that the head of noted editor Berlioz will be cut off; when it is, he appropriates Berlioz`s apartment. (A puzzled relative receives...

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2004

One hot spring the devil arrives in Moscow accompanied by two demons, a beautiful naked witch and a huge black cat with a fondness for chess and vodka. When the visitors leave, the asylums are full and the forces of law and order in disarray. Only the Master, a man devoted to truth, and Margarita, the woman he loves, remain undiminished. An audacious revision of the stories of "Faust" and "Pontius Pilate", "The Master and Margarita" is one of the essential classics of modern Russian literature. Книга на английском языке. Формат издания: 13 см х 20 см.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004

At Deverill Hall, an idyllic Tudor manor in the picture-perfect village of King`s Deverill, impostors are in the air. The prime example is man-about-town Bertie Wooster, doing a good turn to Gussie Fink-Nottle by impersonating him while he enjoys fourteen days away from society after being caught taking an unscheduled dip in the fountains of Trafalgar Square. Bertie is of course one of nature`s gentlemen, but the stakes are high: if all is revealed, there`s a danger that Gussie`s simpering fiancee Madeline may turn her wide eyes on Bertie instead. It`s a brilliant plan - until Gussie himself turns up, imitating Bertram Wooster. After that, only the massive brain of Jeeves (himself in disguise) can set things right. Формат...

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2019

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2000

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2010

In this spellbinding blend of suspense and human drama, Danielle Steel tells a powerful and unusual story of one woman’s journey from darkness into light, as she fights to escape a mesmerizing sociopath who holds her in his thrall. . . . Top photographer Hope Dunne has known joy and heartbreak, and finds serenity through the lens of her camera. Content in her SoHo loft, she isn’t looking for a man or excitement. But these things find her when she flies to London to photograph one of the world’s most celebrated writers. Finn O’Neill exudes warmth and a boyish charm. Enormously successful, he is a perfect counterpoint to Hope’s quiet, steady grace—and he’s taken instantly by her. He courts her as no one ever has before,...

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011

This collection of Somerset Maugham`s short stories includes stories based in England, France and Spain, as well as the South Pacific. It includes Rain, the tradgedy of a missionary and a prostitute and The Three Fat Women of Antibes, a sardonic tale of abstention and greed.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

The stories in this collection move from Malaya to America and England, and include some of Maugham`s most famous tales; `Flotsam and Jetsam`, the story of an old woman trapped for years in a loveless marriage in the remote rubber plantations; `The Man with the Scar`, and notably the opening story `The Vessel of Wrath`, a tale of the unexpected love that grows between a devout missionary nurse and a drunken reprobate. In this second volume of his collected stories, Maugham illustrates his characteristic wry perception of human foibles and his genius for evoking compelling drama from an acute sense of time and place.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2012

The third volume of Somerset Maugham`s Collected Short Stories, introduced by the author, contains the celebrated series about Ashenden, a secret service agent in World War I. Based on Maugham`s own experiences with the British Intelligence service in Switzerland, the stories are vignettes in which he dramatizes both the romance and absurdity of espionage as well as its ruthlessness and brutality. Accountable only to `R`, Ashenden travels all over the Continent on assignments which entangle him with such characters as the traitor Grantley Caypor, the passionate Guilia Lazzari, and the sinister `hairless Mexican`.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011