A SUDDEN DEATH IN CYPRUS

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

Чай со сливками! Школьные пиры! Дьявольские сёрферы! • Нашим главным героям предстоит раскрыть норфолкскую тайну и столкнуться со…смертью в Девоне • Суонтон Морли, народный профессор, отправляется в Девон, чтобы продолжить писать свою книгу об истории Англии. Его дочь Мириам и ассистент Стивен Сефтон собираются на Английскую Ривьеру • Морли был приглашен выступить с речью на День Основателя в школе. Однако по прибытии происходит трагедия: им становится известно о гибели мальчика при загадочных обстоятельствах. Было ли это несчастным случаем или... убийством? • “Death in Devon” – это новое приключение Морли, Сефтона и Мириам в Англии 1930-х годов. Книга входит в цикл Иэна Сэнсома “The County Guides” • Книга на английском языке • Cream teas! School dinners! Satanic surfers! • Join our heroes as they follow up a Norfolk Mystery with a bad case of … Death in Devon

"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 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

"Внезапная смерть" Уилла Крофтса - один из шести классических криминальных романов с участием инспектора Френча • Энн Дэй - новая экономка во Фрейле, доме мистера Гринстеда и его жены-инвалида. К ужасу Энн, ее интуиция, подсказывающая, что в доме что-то очень не так, завершается неожиданной смертью. Поскольку полиция делает поспешные выводы, инспектор Френч прибывает для расследования. Пвествование переключается между точками зрения Анны и Френча, поочередно показывая внешнюю и внутреннюю сторону гениального и тщательно продуманного расследования. Произойдет ли трагедия во второй раз, прежде чем тайна будет раскрыта? • Книга на английском языке • To mark the publishing centenary of Freeman Wills Crofts, ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’, this is one of six classic crime novels being issued in 2020 featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television

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

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities • Reporter Kate Jensen investigates the death of a karate master in a 'dojo', a karate training room in London. Another death quickly follows and Kate finds herself drawn into the mystery. The trail takes her to Japan, back to London, and back in time to a crime committed over thirty years earlier

10 September 1961: at the boomerang-shaped racetrack at Monza half a dozen teams are preparing for the Italian Grand Prix. It is the biggest race anyone can remember. Phil Hill – the first American to break into the top ranks of European racing – and his Ferrari teammate, Count Wolfgang von Trips – a German nobleman with a movie-star manner – face one another in a race that will decide the winner of the Formula One drivers’ championship. By the day’s end, one man will clinch that prize. The other will perish face down on the track • Seeped in danger, seductive glamour and burning rivalry, this is the story of two young men living in the shadow of oblivion and dicing with death