Скачать книгу (размер 1 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 244) Аннотация: Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his father outsIde a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least, unconventional. Frank's mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and his father measures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale. Frank has turned to strange acts of violence to vent his frustrations. In the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: A world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, frozen in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse, such a world requires a firm hand and a guiding light. But does it need the Concern: an all-powerful organisation with a malevolent presiding genius, pervasive influence and numberless invisible…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 982 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 390) Аннотация: Dark family secrets, a long-lost love affair, and a multimillion-pound gaming business lie at the heart of this intriguing new novel by the author of «The Player of Games» and «Consider Phlebas.»
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Ken Nott is a devoutly contrarian, vaguely left-wing radio shock-jock living in London. After a wedding breakfast, people start dropping fruits from a balcony on to a deserted car park below. As they get carried away, dropping more, they're told a plane has just crashed into the World Trade Center.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 998 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 393) Аннотация: Kate Telman is a senior executive officer in The Business, a powerful and massively discreet transglobal organisation. Financially transparent, internally democratic and disavowing conventional familial inheritance, the character of The Business seems, even to Kate, to be vague to the point of invisibility. It possesses, allegedly, a book of Leonardo cartoons, several sets of Crown Jewels and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 280) Аннотация: The war is ending, perhaps ended. But for the castle and its occupants, the troubles are just beginning — armed gangs roam a lawless land and taking to the roads with the other refugees, anonymous in their raggedness, seems safer than remaining in the ancient keep.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 314 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 455) Аннотация: A little knowledge can be a very dangerous thing. Innocent in the ways of the world, an ingenue when it comes to pop and fashion, the Elect of God of a small but committed Stirlingshire religious cult: Isis Whit is no ordinary teenager. When her cousin Morag — Guest of Honour at the Luskentyrian's four — yearly Festival of Love — disappears after renouncing her faith, Isis is marked out to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 962 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 386) Аннотация: The man who wakes up in the extraordinary world of a bridge has amnesia, and his doctor doesn't seem to want to cure him. Does it matter? Exploring the bridge occupies most of his days. But at night there are his dreams. Dreams in which desperate men drive sealed carriages across barren mountains to a bizarre rendezvous; an illiterate barbarian storms an enchanted tower under a stream of verbal…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: By the author of «The Wasp Factory» and «Walking on Glass», this book is set in Japan and on the Panama Canal. It concerns a world famous Japanese cellist, who refuses to fly, and as a result finds herself involved in the ominous realm of global «realpolitik».