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Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: This is an utterly compelling and often unbelievable adventure into the world of madness. Jon Ronson meets everybody from a Broadmoor inmate who swears he faked a mental disorder to get a lighter sentence but is now stuck there to the influential psychologist who developed the industry standard Psychopath Test and who is convinced that many important CEOs and politicians are in fact psychopaths.…

Скачать книгу (размер 519 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 103) Аннотация: ‘It was the first murder case I ever investigated on my own’. Wexford said angrily. ‘There’s no mystery. Herbert Arthur Painter killed his ninety-year-old employer by hitting her over the head with an axe. He did it for two hundred pounds.’ Chief Inspector Wexford was sure that the murder of an old lady had been carried out by her employee, Herbert Painter, and the courts agreed with him. But…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Owl Hall is the story of Janet, a single mother, who goes to stay in an old farmhouse with her children, Kara and Martin. But there’s something strange about Kara’s relationship with her mother and brother. As the story develops, we discover that everyone at Owl Hall has a secret – even the house itself!

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Owl Hall is an original story written specifically for the Macmillan Readers series. It is the story of Kara, who goes to stay at Owl Hall. But there is something strange about Kara’s relationship with her family. As the story develops, we discover that everyone at Owl Hall has a secret – even the house itself!

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: ‘It was the first murder case I ever investigated on my own.’ Wexford said angrily. ‘There’s no mystery. Herbert Arthur Painter killed his ninety-year-old employer by hitting her over the head with an axe. He did it for two hundred pounds.’ Chief Inspector Wexford was sure that the murder of an old lady had been carried out by her employee, Herbert Painter, and the courts agreed with him. But…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: The year is 1740. George II is on the throne but England's remoter provinces remain largely a law unto themselves. In Lancashire a grim discovery has been made: a Squire's wife, Dolores Brockletower, lies in the woods above her home, Garlick Hall, her throat brutally slashed. Called to the scene, Coroner Titus Cragg finds the Brockletower household awash with rumour and suspicion. He enlists the…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: 'Part road movie, part joyful, nostalgic confession. A masterpiece' Daily Telegraph First published in Spanish in 1998, The Savage Detectives was immediately hailed as a critical success, wining the Herralde Prize and the Romulo Gallegos Prize. But with the 2007 English-language translation the book became more than a bestseller it began the global sensation of Bolanomania. New Year's Eve 1975,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Last Orders is a much-loved classic of English literature. It won both the 1996 Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2001, it was adapted into an award-winning film starring Michael Caine and Bob Hoskins. Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea. For reasons best known to herself,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Jack is now five and, like any little boy, excited at the prospect of presents and cake. But although Jack is a normal child in many ways, his upbringing is far from ordinary: Jack's entire life has been spent in a room that measures just 12 square feet; as far as he's concerned, Room is the entire world. He shares this world with his mother, with Plant, and TV and his friends the cartoon…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Living the high life in LA cocktail parties, exotic restaurants and a cosmopolitan boyfriend Ree Drummond thinks she's got it all figured out. But, try as she might, she can't shake the feeling that something is missing. Returning to her hometown to get her life in order, Ree is struck by a bolt of lightning — a blue-eyed, strong-jawed, enigmatic cowboy. She calls him Marlboro Man, and though…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 452 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 482) Аннотация: Miss Emily Fido Faithfull is a woman of business and a spinster pioneer in the British women's movement, independent of mind but naively trusting of heart. Distracted from her cause by the sudden return of a once-dear friend, the unhappily wed Helen Codrington, Fido is swept up in the intimate details of Helen's failing marriage and obsessive affair with a young army officer. What begins as a…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: After eleven years of coupled-up domesticity, Rory Carmichael is single for the first time in her adult life. Even she would admit that her ex-boyfriend Martin wasn't the most exciting man in the world let's face it, his idea of a rocking night was one spent discussing pension plans in a Harvester restaurant but Rory could rely on him and, having watched her mother rack up four turbulent…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Ten years ago, journalist Ben Webster had his investigation into a corrupt Russian business in Kazakhstan crushed, the cost of his scrutiny a terrible tragedy... Now employed by a private London intelligence agency, Webster's interest is piqued when a client asks him to expose the dealings of shadowy Russian oligarch Konstantin Malin. Before long Webster finds himself fixated by Malin and by his…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 356) Аннотация: Wendy Everly knew she was different the day her mother tried to kill her and accused her of having been switched at birth. Although certain she's not the monster her mother claimed she is she does feel that she doesn't quite fit in... The new girl in High School, she's bored and frustrated by her small town life and then there's the secret that she can't tell anyone. Her mysterious ability she…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Kate Forrest is invisible Ned, the husband she adores, doesn't seem to know she's alive, and her two charming children have grown into stroppy adolescents. Her boss is suddenly shunting her towards career Siberia, and her demanding mother is never off the phone. With her fortieth birthday fast approaching, all Kate wants to do is run away from the lot of them. And so she does. On impulse, Kate…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 356) Аннотация: Acknowledging that she was different from everyone else wasn't difficult for Wendy Everly she'd always felt like an outsider. But a new world and new family is a little hard for any girl to accept easily. Leaving behind the mysterious country of her birth, she is determined to fit back into normal life. But the world she's left behind won't let her go that easily... Kidnapped and imprisoned by…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 300) Аннотация: Wedding writers face particular challenges, envy being one of them, especially if the writer happens to be single, as Lucky is. Who are all these smug people, thinking life is just one great big happily ever after? Does anyone truly believe in fairytales any more? It's a different kind of 'big day' at Your Wedding magazine. Lucky Quinn once a lowly wedding writer is thrust into the spotlight as…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 300) Аннотация: Olympic rowing hopeful and senior Metropolitan Police officer DCI Rebecca Meredith goes out alone to train on the river in Henley on a dark afternoon in late October and doesn't return. When a desperate search by the police and a K9 team reveals the possibility of foul play, Scotland Yard wants one of their own on the case. Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid, returning from celebrating his…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 356) Аннотация: Having written enthralling biographies of London and of its great river, the Thames, Peter Ackroyd now turns to England itself. This first volume of six takes us from the time that England was first settled, more than 15,000 years ago, to the death in 1509 of the first Tudor monarch, Henry VII. In it, Ackroyd takes us from Neolithic England, which we can only see in the most tantalising glimpses…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: This is the UK number one hardback bestseller from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of «The Line of Beauty». It is the «Sunday Times» Novel of the Year. In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge friend Cecil Valance, a charismatic young poet, to visit his family home. Filled with intimacies and confusions, the weekend will link the families for ever, having the most lasting…