Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Louise and Rebecca, good friends since their BBC days in Belfast, work for a film company and are scouring the south of England for a suitable location to shoot a movie about Elizabeth I. As they stumble across Wooldene House, they meet Diana and Henry, who own the property. Diana, widowed, feels her life is slowly crumbling along with the house, and yearns for new romance. Diana spends her time…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: 'Justinian took a wife: and the manner she was born and bred, and wedded to this man, tore up the Roman Empire by the very roots' Procopius Charming, charismatic, heroic? Theodora of Constantinople rose from nothing to become the most powerful woman in the history of Byzantine Rome. In Stella Duffy's breathtaking new novel, she comes to life again? a fascinating, controversial and seductive…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: There are all kinds of products. The good ones. The bad ones. The ones that stay in the gararge mouldering for years until your garden gnome makes a home out of it. Most are harmless if handled properly, even if they do contain traces of peanuts. But some are not. Not the ones that contain traces of magic. Chris Popham wasn't paying enough attention when he talked to his SatNav. Sure, she gave…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Ex-cop Luther Malone — member of a very secret paranormal society — and Grace Renquist, quirky librarian, are a strange partnership. Grace has been hired as an aura-reading consultant in the quest for a murder suspect, but has zero field experience. Her bodyguard, Luther, walks with a cane and isn't good with a gun! So the last thing they expect is for romantic sparks to fly between them at their…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: 'Dear Mr Cornford, It is with regret that I begin the task of to writing to you about your niece, Emily. Her recent behaviour, which I have outlined to you in previous letters, compels me to request that she be formally removed from the school and returned to your care with immediate effect'. And so Emily Hudson, niece and ward, is dispatched into the care of her distant and cold uncle, to take…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: In a night of drunken revelry, Jasper Finley, Baron Montford, gambles his reputation as London's most notorious lover on one woman. His challenge? To seduce the exquisite, virtuous Katherine Huxtable within a fortnight. But when his best-laid plans go awry, Jasper devises a wager of his own. For Katherine, already wildly attracted to him, Jasper's offer is irresistible: to make London's most…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Two best friends and their brother husbands. Blissfully happy and living life to the full. But when a honeytrap is set to catch one brother cheating, their lives come crumbling down around them.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: 'THIS IS AN ASSASSINATION. NOT YOURS. BUT AN ASSASSINATION NONE THE LESS'. Avery Cates, criminal 'king' of New York, has climbed his way to the top of a heap of trouble. On his knees in the snow, with a gun to his head, Avery thinks this must finally be it. Instead, he is injected with nanotech and left confused but alive. Then everyone around him starts dying. With every moment bringing humanity…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: It has been said that the natural state of science fiction is the short story. If that is so, you won't find a better exporation of that state than Charles Stross's new collection. Centred around an original and previously-unpublished novella (TBD), UNPLUGGED is a showcase of some of the best short SF of the 21st century. With a introduction from the author and containing hitherto uncollected…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Bob has been behind a desk for too long, busy indexing and archiving the Laundry's secret files, and he's longing for a break when his wife, Mo, announces that she's landed a teaching assignment at a staff college in Cambridge. And he's worrying at the problem of a missing manuscript — an unfinished policy document found in the personal effects of Major-General J. F. C. Fuller (rtd) after his…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: On the eve of her wedding anniversary, Mary Gooch is waiting for her husband to come home, listening for his car along the dark, icy roads. As the night draws on, and he fails to appear, Mary reflects on the true nature of their marriage: the secrets, the silences, and the unmentionable yet inescapable fact that for each loss and disappointment, there has been a corresponding physical gain: the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Sophie and Jess Raven grow up knowing that a few little lies are necessary. You look great. It was only a joke. He's just stressed. It doesn't matter. Everything's fine. Everybody does it, don't they? But what about the big lies love, power and money? Are they ever justified? When Sophie discovers what her father, Bill, is doing with his accountant, Anthea, and Jess falls in love with the perfect…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: With her caramel coloring and green eyes, American Jade del Cameron is nothing short of exotic. But don't mistake her for a hothouse flower; she's tough, brave, smart, and stubborn, as she proved during her service in France during the Great War. What's more, she's a crackerjack shot. Her temperament and talents get a workout when she agrees to investigate the death of the father of a young…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: From Rich Hall, the grouchy, deadpan, comic genius and brilliantly witty author of THINGS SNOWBALL and OTIS LEE CRENSHAW: I BLAME SOCIETY comes this wonderful new collection of stories. With his trademark humour, this is guaranteed to delight his loyal fanbase as well as drawing new readers. Rich Hall quit his job as a hurricane namer for the United States Meteorological Service eighteen years…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Suzanne Perry is having a vivid nightmare. Someone is in her bedroom, touching her, and she can't move a muscle. She wakes, relieved to put the nightmare behind her, but when she opens the curtains, she sees a polaroid stuck to the window. A photo of her sleeping self, taken during the night. And underneath the words: 'I'm watching over you'. Her nightmare isn't over. In fact, it's just…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: After more than 30 years Anne Greves feels compelled to break her silence about her first lover, and a treacherous pursuit across Cambodia's killing fields. Once she was a motherless girl from taciturn immigrant stock. Defying fierce opposition, she falls in love with Serey, a gentle rebel and exiled musician. She's still only 16 when he leaves her in their Montreal flat to return to Cambodia…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: When Michiel Steyn returns to the family farmstead in South Africa for his mother's funeral, he has spent close to half his lifetime abroad. But even after fifteen years' absence, neither Michiel nor those he left behind have truly come to terms with his terrible flight from the farm they called Paradise. As Michiel submits himself to the rituals of mourning and remembrance in the small town and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Battle and burial are built into the history of Lansdown Hill, so it is no great shock when part of a skeleton is unearthed there. But Peter Diamond, Bath's Head of CID, can't ignore the fresh corpse found close to the folly known as Beckford's Tower. The hill becomes the setting for one of the most puzzling cases he has investigated, involving golf, horseracing, Civil War re-enactment and the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: HONOR BRADY falls in love with wine merchant Hugo Lambert and moves to Astignac, a village in the French wine region Entre Deux Mers. Hugo sells rare wines to connossieurs; wines with a story; wines hidden during the war; wines rescued from the Winter Palace in St Petersburg... MELANIE MILLER, an American student, discovers that the grandfather who raised her, fathered a child in Astignac during…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: An intriguing new mystery for Edinburgh-based philosopher Isabel Dalhousie Isabel Dalhousie is a new mother and a connoisseur of philosophy; she'd rather not be a sleuth. But when a chance conversation at a dinner party draws Isabel into the case of a doctor whose career has been ruined, she cannot ignore what may be a miscarriage of justice. Because for Isabel ethics are not theoretical at all,…