Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: They were teenage sweethearts from opposite sides of the tracks — with a passion that would change their lives for ever. But life would force them apart. Years later, the lines they had drawn between past and present are about to slip... Called back to their hometown for the funeral of the mentor who once gave them shelter when they needed it most, they are faced with each other once again, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Polly, an average, completely ordinary property lawywer, is convinced she's losing her mind. Someone keeps drinking her coffee. And talking to her clients. And doing her job. And when she goes to the dry cleaner's to pick up her dress for the party, it's not there. Not the dress — the dry cleaner's. And then there are the chickens who think they are people. Something strange is definitely going…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Is there really such a thing as a good luck charm? Ex-soldier Logan Thibault thinks he just might have found one. Haunted by memories of the friends he lost in Iraq, Logan knows how fortunate he is to be home. He believes that a photograph he carried with him, a picture of a smiling woman he's never met, kept him safe. Even though he knows nothing about this woman, he hopes she might hold the key…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Pitched between THE CROW ROAD and THE WASP FACTORY, STONEMOUTH is set in a small town north of Aberdeen and involves two warring crime families. Our hero was run out of town five years ago and now he's back for a family funeral — some closeted skeletons are about to appear!
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Detective Catherine McLeod was always taught that in Glasgow, they don't do whodunit. They do score-settling. They do vendettas. They do petty revenge. They do can't-miss-whodunit. It's a lesson that has served her well, but Glasgow is also a dangerous place to make assumptions. Either way she looks at it, she recognises that the discovery of a dead drug-dealer in a back alley is merely a portent…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: In the summer of 1968, Rose sets off for the United States from Kentish Town; in her suitcase a polka-dot dress and a one-way ticket. Together with the sinister man known only as Washington Harold, she goes in search of the charismatic and elusive Dr Wheeler — the man Rose credits with rescuing her from a terrible childhood, and against whom Harold nurses a silent grudge. As the odd couple…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: This fascinating biography of Freddie Mercury which received outstanding acclaim from Queen and rock fans worldwide, has now been updated for reissue to coincide with the release of the film about his life. Laura Jackson addresses topics including: The reality behind Queen's flamboyant front man and lead singer; Mercury the star of mystery — amusing, loyal and generous, yet revealing a dark side…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: They were teenage sweethearts from opposite sides of the tracks — with a passion that would change their lives for ever. But life would force them apart. Years later, the lines they had drawn between past and present are about to slip... Called back to their hometown for the funeral of the mentor who once gave them shelter when they needed it most, they are faced with each other once again, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: 1947 Ten-year-old Fay Allen of Roswell, New Mexico, witnesses the fiery crash of an extraordinary craft unlike anything she's ever seen. 2011 More than sixty years later, army engineer Tyler Locke rescues Fay from gunmen. She says they were after a piece of wreckage she has retained from the Roswell crash — and she claims to know secrets about that incident that have never previously been…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils... Pagford is…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Happy with her husband-to-be and beloved son, Isabel Dalhousie has feelings about parenthood that grow more tender daily. So when Jane, a visiting academic adopted and sent to Australia as a baby, asks for help in tracing her Scottish origins, she cannot refuse. However, habitually upright Isabel finds herself beset by temptation — for instance, to be suspicious of Professor Lettuce's latest…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Now that Lia has found the missing pages of the Librum Maleficii et Disordinae, or the Book of Chaos, the end of the Prophecy is in sight. While Lia tries to save James from Alice's sinister grasp, she unlocks the prophecy's final mystery and a caveat that may put an end to any hope of ending the prophecy; to close the Gate to the Beast forever, Lia must convene in an ancient ritualistic ceremony…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: A little boy was found dead in a children's playground... Daniel Hunter has spent years defending lost causes as a solicitor in London. But his life changes when he is introduced to Sebastian, an eleven-year-old accused of murdering an innocent young boy. As he plunges into the muddy depths of Sebastian's troubled home life, Daniel thinks back to his own childhood in foster care — and to Minnie,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Rumour says the powerful Nicolai DeMarco can command the heavens, that the beasts below do his bidding... and that he is doomed to destroy the woman he takes as wife. It is whispered he's not wholly human — as untamed as his tawny mane and slashing amber eyes. Impoverished aristocrat Isabella Vernaducci would defy death itself to rescue her imprisoned brother. She'll even brave the haunted,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Seeking a fresh start, newly divorced Sarah and her daughter Elissa find the house of their dreams in a small, upscale, rural town. But when startling and unexplainable events begin to happen, Sarah and Elissa learn the town is in the shadows of a chilling secret. Years earlier, in the house next door, a daughter killed her parents in their beds, and disappeared — leaving only a brother, Ryan, as…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Twenty-something Londoner Natalie Bowen is envied by many, but her personal life is a disaster. Men can't cope with her career success and Natalie thinks she'll never find real happiness. Then she hears about an exclusive weekend retreat called The Haven, a place that specialises in introducing you to pleasures you could never have imagined. Shocked at the idea, but unable to resist finding out…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: SPELLBOUND. A fast-paced story of spells and consequences — a bewitchingly beautiful lady casts a thousand-year love spell on the man of her dreams — and unleashes a nightmare that only true love can conquer. EVER AFTER. Wearing an ancient star pendant, an enchanting woman journeys to an otherworldly land — and introduces a skeptical stranger to the magical powers of love...
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Over the remote central Pacific, a plane is suddenly rocked by a massive explosion. Despite the pilot's valiant efforts, the blast sends it plummeting into the ocean, leaving no witnesses to the fireball. Kai Tanaka, the new and untested director of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Honolulu, notes a minor seismic disturbance in that region but doesn't make the connection with the lost…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: In 1894 Henry James tried to drown a boatload of dresses belonging to the writer Constance Fenimore Woolson in the Venetian lagoon. She had fallen to her death from her Venice window three months before. James's elusive friendship with Fenimore echoed his mysterious relationship with Minny Temple who had died twenty years earlier at the age of twenty-four. From their graves they haunted his…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: Highly acclaimed when it was first published, Virago now reissues Lyndall Gordon's wonderful biography, The Imperfect Life of T S Eliot. Exploring Eliot's poetry, drama and essays in relation to his life in America and England, and to four quite different women who offer clues to his guarded character, this biography sees life and work as reciprocal parts of one design, the search for faith.…