Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: The hottest summer of the twentieth century. A tiny community of five houses enclosed by wheat fields. While the adults shelter indoors, six children venture out on their bikes across the scorched, deserted countryside. Whilst exploring a dilapidated and uninhabited farmhouse, nine-year-old Michele Amitrano discovers a secret so momentous, so terrible, that he dare not tell anyone about it. To…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 722 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 339) Аннотация: In December 2010, Julian Assange signed a contract with Canongate Books to write a book — part memoir, part manifesto — for publication the following year. At the time, Julian said: 'I hope this book will become one of the unifying documents of our generation. In this highly personal work, I explain our global struggle to force a new relationship between the people and their governments.' In the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people — at work, at school, at home. It is wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his paradigm-shattering book Drive, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and the world. Along the way, he takes us to…
Скачать книгу (размер 911 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 180) Аннотация: Simon Tofield returns with a charming follow-up which sees the adorable but incorrigible cat embark on a series of adventures beyond the garden fence. Sharply observed and beautifully drawn, this new book promises to be an even bigger hit than the first.
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey — named Beatrice and Virgil — and the epic journey they undertake together. With all the spirit and originality that made Life of Pi so…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: From the cruel irony of A member of the Family to the fateful echoes of The Go-Away Bird and the unexpectedly sinister The Girl I Left Behind Me, in settings that range from South Africa to the Portobello Road, Muriel Spark coolly probes the idiosyncrasies that lurk beneath the veneer of human respectability, displaying the acerbic wit and wisdom that are the hallmarks of her unique talent. The…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 296) Аннотация: The companion guide to the hysterical television show of the same name, in which Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant force their arrestingly simple pal Karl Pilkington on a global journey «He'd have been happier in medieval times in a village where you didn't travel beyond the local community.» —Stephen Merchant A cult celebrity due to his role in The Ricky Gervais Show, the most-downloaded…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: I loved an anthropologist. She went to Mongolia to study the gays. At first she kept their culture at arm's length, but eventually she decided that her fieldwork would benefit from assimilation. She worked hard to become as much like them as possible, and gradually she was accepted. After a while she ended our romance by letter. It breaks my heart to think of her herding those yaks in the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Brigadier Gerard stories surely constitute the finest series of historical short stories in literature, mingling the comedy and the tragedy, the pathos and the irony, or, in Napoleon's phrase, the sublime and the ridiculous. It is Napoleon and his Europe, his dedicated followers and the awakened nationalisms of the peoples they enraged, possessing our minds in savage…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The Death of Bunny Munro recounts the last journey of a salesman in search of a soul. Following the suicide of his wife, Bunny, a door-to-door salesman and lothario, takes his son on a trip along the south coast of England. He is about to discover that his days are numbered. With a daring hellride of a plot, The Death of Bunny Munro is also a modern morality tale of sorts, a stylish, furious,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: In 1788 Daniel Rooke sets out on a journey that will change the course of his life. As a lieutenant in the First Fleet, he lands on the wild and unknown shores of New South Wales. There he sets up an observatory to chart the stars. But this country will prove far more revelatory than the stars above. Based on real events, The Lieutenant tells the unforgettable story of Rooke's connection with an…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: This remarkable book defies categorisation. Under the Skin introduces Isserley, a woman obsessed with picking up male hitchhikers — so long as they're well-muscled and alone. But why? As the novel unfolds and the reason becomes clear, the reader is drawn inexorably into a completely unexpected and increasingly terrifying world.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 375 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 467) Аннотация: Alice Butler has been receiving some odd messages — all anonymous, all written in code. Are they from someone at PopCo, the profit-hungry corporation she works for? Or from Alice's long lost father? Or has someone else been on her trail? The solution, she is sure, will involve the code-breaking skills she learned from her grandparents and the key she's been wearing round her neck since she was…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 554 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 502) Аннотация: The nameless and beautiful narrator of The Gargoyle is driving along a dark road when he is distracted by what seems to be a flight of arrows. He crashes into a ravine and wakes up in a burns ward, undergoing the tortures of the damned. His life is over — he is now a monster. But in fact it is only just beginning. One day, Marianne Engel, a wild and compelling sculptress of gargoyles, enters his…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The study of sexual physiology — what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better — has been taking place behind closed doors for many hundreds of years. In this fascinating and funny book Mary Roach steps inside laboratories, brothels, pig farms, sex toy R&D lab — even in to Alfred Kinsey's attic — to tell us everything we wanted to know about sex, and a lot we'd never even thought to ask.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: This autumn Canongate invites you to join Howard Moon, Vince Noir, Naboo, Bollo, Bob Fossil, Old Gregg, the Moon, and all your other favourite characters on a unique journey in to the world of The Mighty Boosh. Incredibly funny, visually dynamic, surreal, musical, wildly creative... The Mighty Boosh is unlike anything else on British television, and this beautifully illustrated Christmas humour…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: If you knew a book was cursed would you read it? When Ariel Manto uncovers a copy of The End of Mr. Y is a second-hand bookshop, she can't believe her eyes. She knows enough about its author, the outlandish Victorian scientist Thomas Lumas, to know that copies are exceedingly rare. And, some say, cursed. With Mr. Y under her arm, Ariel finds herself thrust into a thrilling adventure of love, sex,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Why did London Underground once employed a one-legged man to ride up and down the escalators at Earl's Court tube station? What did Hitler plan to do with Nelson's Column? Why is London's only medieval mummy a prostitute named Clarice la Claterballock? How did a beer flood in Tottenham Court Road drown nine people? Where can you see a pair of Queen Victoria's knickers? Containing chapters…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: By 1910, Leo Tolstoy, the world's most famous author, had become an almost religious figure, surrounded on his lavish estate by family and followers alike. Set in the tumultuous last year of the count's life, The Last Station centres on the battle for his soul waged by his wife and his leading disciple.Torn between his professed doctrine of poverty and chastity on the one hand and the reality of…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: The Game recounts the incredible adventures of an everyday man who transforms himself from a shy, awkward writer into the quick-witted, smooth-talking Style, a character irresistible to women. But just when life is better than he could have ever dreamed (he uses his techniques on Britney Spears, receives life coaching from Tom Cruise, moves into a mansion with Courtney Love and is officially…