Black Swan Meet Me at the Museum Янгсон Энн

Tender and humorous novel of second chances and life-changing new friendship for fans of Rachel Joyce, Clare Chambers and Barbara Pym • Meet Eve, who has departed from her thirty-year career to become a Free Spirit; Sally, who has waved goodbye to her indifferent husband and two grown-up children; and Anastasia, a defiantly independent narrowboat-dweller, suddenly vulnerable as she awaits a life-saving operation • Inexperienced and ill-equipped, Sally and Eve embark upon a journey through the canals of England, guided by the remote and unsympathetic Anastasia. As they glide gently - and not so gently - through the countryside, the eccentricities and challenges of canalboat life draw them inexorably together, and a tender and unforgettable story unfolds

Where saying I do is just the beginning… • Lily loves living in Hawke's Cove, and planning her best friend's wedding at the Hawkesbury estate is the icing on the cake. But when the estate's owner dies, and his son cancels the wedding, Lily must face Henry Hawkesbury - a man she hasn't seen since that fateful night ten years ago… • Henry wants nothing more than to return to Hawke's Cove, sell his estranged late father's estate and leave. He certainly does not want to host a wedding, or face Lily, who gets on with everyone - except him! • But when Henry needs Lily's help, she will only provide it if the wedding can go ahead. Working together means both must face their pasts, and, in doing so embrace their future. But can two people afraid of love acknowledge what they have always wanted…?

Издание полностью на английском языке • Beyond the main street of Les Laveuses runs the Loire, smooth and brown as a sunning snake - but hiding a deadly undertow beneath its moving surface. This is where Framboise, a secretive widow, plies her culinary trade at the creperie - and lets her memory play strange games. As her nephew attempts to exploit the growing success of the country recipes Framboise has inherited from her mother, a woman remembered with contempt by the villagers, memories of a disturbed childhood during the German Occupation flood back, and expose a past full of betrayal, blackmail and lies

'The doctor was fated to go back to Bombay; he would keep returning again and again - if not forever, at least for as long as there were dwarves in the circus.' • Born a Parsi in Bombay, sent to university and medical school in Vienna, Dr Farrokh Daruwalla is a Canadian citizen - a 59-year-old orthopaedic surgeon, living in Toronto. Once, twenty years ago, Dr Daruwalla was the examining physician of two murder victims in Goa. Now, two decades later, the doctor will be reacquainted with the murderer

In house in a wood, Ada and her father live peacefully, tending to their garden and the wildlife in it. They are not human though. Ada was made by her father from the Ground, a unique patch of earth with birthing and healing properties. Though perhaps he didn’t get her quite right. They spend their days healing the local human folk – named Cures - who visit them, suspiciously, with their ailments • When Ada embarks on a relationship with a local Cure named Samson, and is forced to choose between her old life with her father, and a new one with her human lover. Her decision will uproot the town – and the Ground itself – for ever • A poised and simmering tour-de-force, Follow Me To Ground is a sinister vision of desire and freewill, voiced in earthy prose and eviscerating detail by an astoundingly original new writer

To those who think they know her, Eliza Curran has it all: two healthy children, a stunning home and a wealthy, adoring husband. No one would guess the reality of her life: trapped in an unhappy marriage to a controlling man, she longs for a way out • When she takes on a new tenant, her life changes unexpectedly. Dan Jones is charming and perceptive, and quickly becomes a close friend to the whole family • But Dan's arrival threatens to tip Eliza's fragile world out of balance. And when someone has as many secrets as Eliza does, the smallest slip could destroy everything

An old man looks into the fearful eyes of a burglar left to guard him while his brother is beaten; an Irish priest in a war-torn Syrian town teaches its young men the art of hurling; the driver of a car which crashed, killing a teenage girl, forges a connection with the girl’s mother; a squad of broken friends assemble to take revenge on a rapist; a young man sets off on his morning run, reflecting on the ruins of his relationship, but all is not as it seems • Donal Ryan’s short stories pick up where his acclaimed novels The Spinning Heart and The Thing About December left off, dealing with the human cost of loneliness, isolation and displacement. Sometimes this is present in the ordinary, the mundane; sometimes it is triggered by a fateful encounter or a tragic decision

You’ve heard the old proverb about ambition, that it’s like setting a ladder to the sky. It can lead to a long and painful fall • If you look hard enough, you will find stories pretty much anywhere. They don’t even have to be your own. Or so would-be-novelist Maurice Swift decides early on in his career • A chance encounter in a Berlin hotel with celebrated author Erich Ackerman gives Maurice an opportunity. For Erich is lonely, and he has a story to tell; whether or not he should is another matter • Once Maurice has made his name, he finds himself in need of a fresh idea. He doesn’t care where he finds it, as long as it helps him rise to the top. Stories will make him famous, but they will also make him beg, borrow and steal. They may even make him do worse • This is a novel about ambition

"За кулисами музея" - блестящий и незабываемый первый роман Кейт Аткинсон, получивший премию "Уайтбрид" (ныне "Коста") Премия "Книга года" • Руби Леннокс была зачата Банти неохотно и родилась в то время, когда ее отец Джордж снимался в "Собаке и зайце" в Донкастере, рассказывая женщине в изумрудном платье и футболке D-cup, что он не женат. Банти никогда не хотела выходить замуж за Джорджа, но вот она здесь, застряла в квартире над зоомагазином на старинной улице под Йоркским собором, с рассудительной и язвительной пятилетней Патрицией, жадной Джиллиан, которая отказывалась, чтобы ее игнорировали, и Руби • Руби рассказывает историю семьи, начиная с того дня в конце девятнадцатого века, когда путешествующий французский фотограф запечатлел хрупкую красавицу Элис и ее детей, похожих на цветы в янтаре, и заканчивая поразительными, остроумными и запоминающимися событиями из собственной жизни Руби

Лекси очнулась в больнице после ужасающей аварии, уверенная, что сейчас 2004-й год, и она двадцатипятилетняя девушка с кривыми зубами и неудавшейся личной жизнью • Но, вопреки ее внутренним убеждениям, на самом деле сейчас 2007-й — и ей 28 лет, у нее весьма крепкие и здоровые зубы, и она босс собственного департамента — и она замужем! За обаятельным миллионером! Каким же волшебным образом ей удалось воплотить свою мечту в жизнь?! • Ей сложно поверить в свою фантастическую удачу — тем более, когда она видит свой шикарный новый дом. Она уверена, что ее ждет идеальный брак, как только она заново узнает своего мужа. Он составил для нее «руководство по браку», которое должно будет в этом помочь • Но по мере того, как она узнает больше о себе новой, в ее идеальной жизни начинают появляться пробелы

Эмоционально насыщенный, остроумный роман автора бестселлера номер один Софи Кинселлы о любви и выживании в длительных отношениях — и о том, как те, кого, как нам кажется, мы знаем лучше всех, порой нас больше всего удивляют… • Прожив вместе десять лет, Сильвия и Дэн обзавелись уютным домом, хорошей работой, красивыми девочками-близняшками и общаются так непринужденно, что заканчивают предложения друг за друга. У них счастливый брак, и они верят, что знают друг о друге все, что только можно знать. Пока в разговоре с ними случайно не упоминается, что они могли бы быть вместе еще шестьдесят восемь лет... и начинается паника • Они быстро решают преподносить друг другу маленькие сюрпризы, чтобы их отношения оставались свежими и веселыми. Но в процессе реализации проекта «Удиви меня» — от неожиданных подарков до свиданий в ресторане и фотосессий — возникают проблемы, которые приводят к катастрофическим и комичным последствиям

Here is a novelized version of the hit comedy film released by Fox Studios in December 06. It's an expanded version of Milan Trenc's picture storybook for children, "The Night at the Museum", which was first published by B.E.S. On his very first night at work, the night guard at New York's Museum of Natural History begins to see the museum's exhibits come to life. He tells his son about the many strange things he sees each night. At first reluctant to believe his father's fanciful tales, the son begins to see Dad in a new light when he, too, spends a night at the museum. He discovers that his father's amazing world is real. The film's unusual and entertaining story, starring Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Mickey Rooney, and Dick Van Dyke, is faithfully recreated in this funny and fanciful novelization for young readers