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Kerri ni Dochartaigh was born in Derry at the very height of the Troubles. One parent was Catholic, the other Protestant. In the space of a year Kerri’s family were forced out of two homes and when she was eleven a homemade petrol bomb was thrown through her bedroom window. For families like hers, terror was in the very fabric of the city • In Thin Places, Kerri explores how nature kept her sane and helped her heal, and how we are again allowing our borders to become hard and terror to creep back in. Kerri asks us to reclaim and rejoice in our landscape, and to remember that the land we fight over is much more than lines on a map

What did your face look like before your parents were born? Who are you? What is your true self? These are the questions in Ruth Ozeki’s mind as she challenges herself to spend three hours gazing into her own reflection, recording every thought and detail • What follows are a lifetime’s worth of meditations on race, ageing, family, death, the body, self-doubt and, finally, acceptance. In this profound encounter with memory and the mirror, Ozeki weaves together personal history, professional experience, Zen philosophy, Japanese culture and more to paint a rich, intimate and utterly unique portrait of a life as told through a face

Punti Di Vista Baxter Balm Of Bone Bamboo - Бальзам-кондиционер увлажняющий на основе бамбука - это питательное кондиционирующее средство на основе экстракта из сердцевины бамбука. Предназначен для ухода за ослабленными, сухими и химически поврежденными волосами. Придает мягкость, шелковистость и интенсивный блеск • Объем: 1000 мл

Два проклятия. Одно пророчество. Вечная слава Королю и Королеве Ада • Эмилия мечтает о своём короле, манящем Принце Гнева. Она хочет завладеть его сердцем и душой, но пока что загадочный демон не готов исполнить её желание • Тем временем в Аду погибает высокопоставленный демон Жадности, и главной подозреваемой оказывается Виттория. Эмилия готова на всё, чтобы понять, правдивы ли обвинения в адрес её сестры… и знала ли она хоть когда-нибудь, что творилось в её душе • Чтобы найти убийцу и предотвратить волнения среди нечистой силы, Эмилии и Гневу придётся сыграть в опасную игру. Игру, все участники которой не стесняются лжи и обмана. В мире Проклятых всё не то, чем кажется… но могли ли злодеи прятаться ещё ближе, чем можно было представить? • Young adult роман «Царство Страха» – третья часть цикла «Царство Греха», начавшегося с одноимённого бестселлера Керри Манискалко, автора цикла «Охота на Джека-потрошителя»

Одна сестра. Два принца сил зла. Бессчётное множество нитей, из которых сплетается паутина лжи, и немного мести… • Добро пожаловать в Ад • Эмилия продала свою душу дьяволу в обмен на роль Королевы Проклятых и отправилась в Семь Кругов Ада вместе с загадочным принцем Гнева. Её цель – исполнить клятву и отомстить за сестру • Но здесь есть свои правила. И главное из них – никому доверять нельзя. Даже Гнев, протянувший ей руку помощи в мире смертных, явно что-то умалчивает о своей истинной природе • Эмилия, впрочем, не возражает, ведь у неё тоже есть свои тайны. Ей придётся столкнуться с вероломными придворными, местными владыками, упивающимися страхом, роскошными дворцами, ослепительными балами… и, конечно, неопределённостью. Ведь наводки, с помощью которых она надеется понять, что случилось с её сестрой, противоречат друг другу

There is no such thing as history, you see. It’s a dream, perhaps even a dream of a dream … • Walter Benjamin is dead. One of the most radiant minds of the twentieth century has been snatched away by death in a small town on the border between Spain and France. His thousand-page manuscript, carried the length of France during his flight from the Nazis, has vanished with him, never to be recovered • Jay Parini’s extraordinary novel traces Benjamin’s steps back through time, from the salons of Berlin to the winding roads of Catalonia. A tale of escape and pursuit, Benjamin’s Crossing dramatises one of the most moving peripheral episodes of the Holocaust; and above all, it is a love story

It is Scotland in the early eighteenth century. Fear and superstition grip the land. Robert Wringhim, a boy of strict Calvinist upbringing, is corrupted by a shadowy figure who calls himself Gil-Martin. Under his influence Robert commits a series of murders which he regards as ‘justified’ by God under the tenets of his faith • Hogg’s masterpiece is a brilliant portrayal of the power of evil and a scathing critique of organised religion. Superbly crafted and deftly executed, it resists any easy explanation of events: is this stranger a figment of Robert’s imagination, or the devil himself?

In the shadow of a war that rages through Europe, brothers Calum and Neil work to gather pine cones in the grounds of a Scottish estate. When Calum releases two mutilated rabbits from a snare, he comes face to face with Duror, the gamekeeper. In retaliation, in the depths of the wood, Duror lays a trap for the cone-gatherers • Neil prophesises that forces of evil will encroach upon the harmony of their lives. It is a prophesy that comes true when Duror commits an act so brutal it destroys all sense of humanity in the once thriving wood. Powerful and unforgettable, Robin Jenkins’ masterpiece is a haunting story of love and violence, and an investigation of class-conflict, war and envy

In the early fifteenth century, as winter falls away, the people of Albania know that their fate is sealed. They have refused to negotiate with the Ottoman Empire, and war is now inevitable • Soon enough dust kicked up by Turkish horses is spotted from a citadel. Brightly coloured banners, hastily constructed minarets and tens of thousands of men fill the plain below. From this moment on, the world is waiting to hear that the fortress has fallen • The Siege tells the enthralling story of the weeks and months that follow - of the exhilaration and despair of the battlefield, the constantly shifting strategies of war, and those whose lives are held in balance, from the Pasha himself to the technicians, artillerymen, astrologer, blind poet and harem of women that accompany him

Zubaida is on a journey to unearth the past. It will lead her from the corridors of Harvard to the scorching deserts of Pakistan, and the bones of an ancient whale. It will carry her back to Bangladesh, and the dark horrors of a ship-breaking yard. Here - deep inside a beached ocean liner, steeped in mystery and tragedy - lies the key to her story. And a lifeline to the man she loves, but whose heart she may never win back • Echoing with loneliness and longing, The Bones of Grace is a story of lost love and conflicted identity; of the urgent need to discover who we are, before we can truly belong anywhere and truly love anyone

Kate Grenville’s The Secret River was one of the most loved novels of 2006. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and awarded the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, the story of William Thornhill and his journey from London to the other side of the world has moved and exhilarated hundreds of thousands of readers • Searching for the Secret River tells the story of how Grenville came to write this wonderful book. It is in itself an amazing story, beginning with Grenville’s great-great-great grandfather. Grenville starts to investigate her ancestor, hoping to understand his life. She pursues him from Sydney to London and back, and slowly she begins to realise she must write about him. Searching for the Secret River maps this creative journey into fiction, and illuminates the importance of family in all our lives

Teoh Yun Ling was seventeen years old when she first heard about Aritomo and the garden. But a war would come to Malaya, and a decade pass before she would travel to see him. A man of extraordinary skill and reputation, Aritomo was once the gardener for the Emperor of Japan, and now Yun Ling needs him. She needs him to help her build a memorial to her beloved sister, killed at the hands of the Japanese. She wants to learn everything Aritomo can teach her, and do her sister proud, but to do so she must also begin a journey into her own past, a past inextricably linked with the secrets of her troubled country • A story of art, war, love and memory, The Garden of Evening Mists captures a dark moment in history with richness, power and incredible beauty