4th Estate Death in Devon Sansom Ian

Около четырех часов дня 5 ноября 1937 года мисс Лиззи Уолтер, учительница начальной школы на Кингз-Роуд в Льюисе, попрощалась со своими юными учениками. Дети выбежали на темные улицы, готовясь к ночному празднику, и мисс Лиззи Уолтер больше никогда не видели живой • Гитлер, Муссолини и папа Павел V в огне. Взрываются фейерверки, по улицам тащат горящие бочки с дегтем. Это ночь костров в Льюисе. В своем пятом приключении Морли, Мириам и Сефтон оказываются втянутыми в хаос празднования • На следующее утро после предыдущей ночи Сефтон отправляется поплавать в Пеллс–Пул, старейшее пресноводное озеро в Англии – в самом центре Льюиса, - где обнаруживает тело женщины. Она утонула. Это несчастный случай или это может быть... убийство? • Присоединяйтесь к Морли, Мириам и Сефтону в романе Айана Сэнсома "Убийство в Сассексе"

A Match Made in Devon is being published as a four-part serial. This is the complete story in one package • Sometimes you have to play a part to realise who you really are… • Nina has always dreamed of being a star. Unfortunately her agent thinks she’s more girl-next-door than leading lady and her acting career isn't going quite as planned. Then, after a series of very public blunders and to escape a gathering storm of paparazzi, Nina is forced to flee from London • Her plan is to lay low with a friend in Devon, in beautiful Brightside Cove. But soon Nina learns that more drama can be found in a small village than on a hectic television set • And when a gorgeous man (and his adorable dog) catch her eye, it’s not long before London and showbiz start to lose their appeal

Published in 1957, two years after its author's death at the age of forty-five, A Death in the Family remains a near-perfect work of art, an autobiographical novel that contains one of the most evocative depictions of loss and grief ever written. As Jay Follet hurries back to his home in Knoxville, Tennessee, he is killed in a car accident - a tragedy that destroys not only a life, but also the domestic happiness and contentment of a young family. A novel of great courage, lyric force, and powerful emotion, A Death in the Family is a masterpiece of American literature

A haunting tale of a fourteen-year-old boy's coming of age in a political dystopia, with an introduction by Colm Tуibнn • Death in Spring is a dark and dream-like tale of a teenage boy's coming of age in a remote village in the Catalan mountains; a place cut off from the outside world, where cruel customs are blindly followed, and attempts at rebellion swiftly crushed. When his father dies, he must navigate this oppressive society alone, and learn how to live in a place of crippling conformity • Often seen as an allegory for life under a dictatorship, Death in Spring is a bewitching and unsettling novel about power, exile, and the hope that comes from even the smallest gestures of independence

"Смерть в Венеции" Томаса Манна - это история одержимости. Густав фон Ашенбах - успешный, но стареющий писатель, который приезжает в Венецию на каникулы. Однажды за ужином Ашенбах замечает исключительно красивого юношу, который остановился со своей семьей в том же отеле. Вскоре его дни начинают вращаться вокруг встреч с этим мальчиком, и он слишком рассеян, чтобы обращать внимание на зловещие слухи, которые начали распространяться о болезни, распространяющейся по городу • Книга на английском языке • 'A story of the voluptuousness of doom' Thomas Mann • Death in Venice is a story of obsession. Gustave von Aschenbach is a successful but ageing writer who travels to Venice for a holiday. One day, at dinner, Aschenbach notices an exceptionally beautiful young boy who is staying with his family in the same hotel

A fascinating look at the history and grandeur of bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon is also a deeper contemplation on the nature of cowardice and bravery, sport and tragedy, and is enlivened throughout by Hemingway's pungent commentary on life and literature • Seen through his eyes, bullfighting becomes an art, a richly choreographed ballet, with performers who range from awkward amateurs to masters of great grace and cunning

Кэйго Хигасино — знаменитый на весь мир японский писатель, мастер оригинальных детективных романов, отмеченный множеством премий, в том числе номинированный на премию Эдгара Аллана По и получивший премию Эдогавы Рампо. На родине произведения Хигасино называют «умными книгами», ведь его запутанные и увлекающие сюжеты невозможно упрекнуть в противоречивости • "A Death in Tokyo" — это сложный и захватывающий триллер, в котором главную роль играет самый загадочный сыщик мировой криминальной литературы. Он переносит нас в самое сердце Токио • На мосту Нихонбаси в Токио стоит статуя мифического создания — кирина. Однажды вечером человек, шатаясь, ступил на мост и рухнул под ноги крылатому существу. Патрульный, находившийся на дежурстве, решил разбудить мужчину, который, как он предположил, был пьян, но обнаружил, что тот был ранен ножом в грудь

In this exquisitely designed and photographed volume, Britain's favourite Italian chef brings forth the work of a lifetime: combining old Locatelli family stories and recipes with the contemporary must-have dishes from his celebrated London restaurants • ‘I am an Italian chef who has cooked in Paris and come of age in London,’ says Giorgio Locatelli. ‘Innovative, imaginative food is what people expect from me, but everything I do has its roots in classical, regional Italian cooking.’ • This is the book that fans of Locatelli have been waiting for ever since he first made his name at Zafferano. The recent opening of Locanda Locatelli, widely regarded as one of the most exciting restaurants in London, has fuelled interest in this master chef • Locatelli lights up Locanda with his big, welcoming personality, seamlessly marrying style with an all-Italian mission simply to bring people together at the table to share food, relax and enjoy good company and conversation

In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails and property vanishes. People suffer fits and are plagued by strange visions and dreams. Children sicken and die. As tensions rise, rumours spread of witches and heretics, and the community becomes tangled in a web of spite, distrust and denunciation. The finger of suspicion falls on a young couple struggling to make a home and feed their children: Hugh Parsons the irascible brickmaker and his troubled wife, Mary. It will be their downfall • The Ruin of All Witches tells the dark, real-life folktale of witch-hunting in a remote Massachusetts plantation. These were the turbulent beginnings of colonial America, when English settlers' dreams of love and liberty, of founding a 'city on a hill', gave way to paranoia and terror, enmity and rage

In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails and property vanishes. People suffer fits and are plagued by strange visions and dreams. Children sicken and die. As tensions rise, rumours spread of witches and heretics, and the community becomes tangled in a web of spite, distrust and denunciation. The finger of suspicion falls on a young couple struggling to make a home and feed their children: Hugh Parsons the irascible brickmaker and his troubled wife, Mary. It will be their downfall • The Ruin of All Witches tells the dark, real-life folktale of witch-hunting in a remote Massachusetts plantation. These were the turbulent beginnings of colonial America, when English settlers' dreams of love and liberty, of founding a 'city on a hill', gave way to paranoia and terror, enmity and rage

When Penelope Kite swaps her humdrum life in Surrey for a picturesque farmhouse in the south of France, she imagines a simple life of long lunches and chilled rose . . . What she doesn't imagine is the dead body floating in her swimming pool • Convinced that the victim suffered more than a drunken accident, Penelope plunges headlong into local intrigue and long-simmering resentments to uncover the truth • But with a meddling estate agent, an unfriendly Chief of Police, a suspiciously charming Mayor, and the endless temptation of that second pain au chocolat, life in the delightful village of St Merlot is certainly never simple • Curl up and escape to the sunshine of Provence with this deliciously entertaining mystery!

Nothing experienced in human history, before or since, eclipses the terror, tragedy and scale of the Black Death, the disease which killed millions of people in Medieval Europe • The Scourging Angel tells the story of Britain immediately before, during and after this catastrophe. Against a backdrop of empty homes, half-built cathedrals and pestilence-saturated cities, we see communities gripped by unimaginable fear, shock and paranoia. By the time it completed its pestilential journey through the British Isles in 1350, the Black Death had left half the population dead. Despite the startling toll of life, physical devastation and sheer human chaos it inflicted, Britain showed an impressive resilience. Amid disaster many found opportunity, and the story of the Black Death is ultimately one of survival