Corvus The Museum of Broken Promises Бушан Элизабет

Welcome to the River Wye: a place of poetry, historic obsession… and occult murder • The curious death of an estate agent is being investigated by detective David Vaynor who, before joining the police, studied the famous 18th century poet William Wordsworth. As Vaynor is discovering, the dark paganism that changed Wordsworth’s life still lingers on the banks of the River Wye today – and there are some killings even the police can’t approach… • Enter Merrily Watkins, parish priest, single mum, and diocesan exorcist for Hereford. Called away from her local hauntings, Merrily finds herself confronting the riverside ghosts who, as Wordsworth puts it, ‘promote ill purposes and flatter foul desires’. In the ancient heart of the Wye Valley, a buried grudge is about to come to light

Foresight is not always a gift… • The summer Natasha Rothwell turns fifteen, strange dancing lights appear in the sky above her small town, lights that she interprets as portents of doom • Natasha leads a sheltered life with her beautiful, bohemian mother in a crumbling house by the sea. As news of the lights spreads, more and more visitors arrive in the town, creating a feverish atmosphere of anticipation and dread. And the arrival of a new lodger, the handsome Mr Bowen, threatens to upset the delicate equilibrium between mother and daughter • Then Natasha’s fears seem to be realized when a local teenager goes missing, and she is called on to help. But her actions over that long, hot summer will have unforeseen and ultimately tragic consequences that will cast a shadow for many years to come…

На дворе 1560 год, Элизабет Тюдор на троне уже год. Доктор Джон Ди, уже в 32 признанный по всей Европе – ее астролог и консультант по тайным искусствам… спорное назначение в дни суеверия и религиозной борьбы • Теперь тихий, оторванный от реальности Ди отправляется в Гластонбури, чтобы найти останки Короля Артура, чье наследие всегда было важным для семьи Тюдор. С ним, едва ли безопасный компаньон, его друг друг и бывший студент Роберт Дудли, любящий рисковать оторва и, возможно, тайный любовник Королевы • Известный мистический город все еще оплакивает казнь своего Настоятеля церкви, Ричарда Уайтинга. Но почему в действительности убили Настоятеля? Что за секрет хранят монахи с тех пор, как Настоятеля нашел Джозеф из Аматеи, дядя Христа и защитник Священной Граали? • Миссия отправляет Ди в запутанные корни Английской магии, в неожиданную жестокость, темную некроманию, волнующую бездыханную первую любовь… и холодное сердце сюжета против Элизабет

Рим, 58 год нашей эры. Рим снова на пороге кризиса. Император Нерон присмотрел себе новую жену, но чтобы она могла занять подобающее ей положение, он должен убить Клавдию Октавию, свою императрицу. Веспасиан не может действовать опрометчиво: Поппея Саббина, новая любовница Нерона, ему не подруга, и её головокружительный взлёт представляет для него немалую опасность • Ну а тем временем достигшая доселе невиданных высот расточительность Нерона может ввергнуть Британию в финансовый кризис. Веспасиану поручают спасти положение, но после прибытия в Лондиний его застаёт кровопролитное восстание, которое может опустошить Британию и дестабилизировать империю • Седьмая книга цикла исторических бестселлеров Роберта Фаббри «Веспасиан» • Книга на английском языке

Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of her close friend Charlotte Bronte was published in 1857 to immediate popular acclaim, and remains the most significant study of the enigmatic author who gave Jane Eyre the subtitle An Autobiography. It recounts Charlotte Bronte's life from her isolated childhood, through her years as a writer who had 'foreseen the single life' for herself, to her marriage at thirty-eight and death less than a year later. The resulting work - the first full-length biography of a woman novelist by a woman novelist - explored the nature of Charlotte's genius and almost single-handedly created the Bronte myth

Время действия: конец XVIII - конец XIX веков. Место действия: Лондон и Перу, Филадельфия и Таити, Амстердам и самые отдаленные уголки Земли. Мудрый, глубокий и захватывающий роман о времени, - когда ботаника была наукой, требовавшей самопожертвования и азарта, отваги и готовности рисковать жизнью, - когда ученый был авантюристом и первооткрывателем, дельцом и романтиком, - когда люди любили не менее страстно, чем сейчас, но сдержанность считалась хорошим тоном. "Происхождение всех вещей" Элизабет Гилберт - великий роман о великом столетии • Книга на английском языке • 5 January 1800. At the beginning of a new century, Alma Whittaker is born into a perfect Philadelphia winter. Her father, Henry Whittaker, is a bold and charismatic botanical explorer whose vast fortune belies his lowly beginnings as a vagrant in Sir Joseph Banks's Kew Gardens and as a deck hand on Captain Cook's HMS Resolution

The Museum of Innocence - set in Istanbul between 1975 and today - tells the story of Kemal, the son of one of Istanbul`s richest families, and of his obsessive love for a poor and distant relation, the beautiful Fusun, who is a shop-girl in a small boutique. The novel depicts a panoramic view of life in Istanbul as it chronicles this long, obsessive, love affair between Kemal and Fusun; and Pamuk beautifully captures the identity crisis esperienced by Istanbul`s upper classes who find themselves caught between traditional and westernised ways of being

Still reeling from the sudden death of her mother, Jess is about to do the hardest thing she's ever done: empty her childhood home so that it can be sold • But when in the process Jess stumbles across the mysterious Alex, together they become custodians of a strange archive of letters, photographs, curios and collections known as The Museum of Ordinary People • As they begin to delve into the history of the objects in their care, Alex and Jess not only unravel heartbreaking stories that span generations and continents, but also unearth long buried secrets that lie much closer to home • Inspired by a box of mementos found abandoned in a skip following a house clearance, The Museum of Ordinary People is a thought-provoking and poignant story of memory, grief, loss and the things we leave behind

Sensible, serious Norbert Norris knows all the important things: dinosaurs, planets, shapes and sums • But when the Museum of Marvellous Things is in trouble, Norbert doesn't know what to do. Only magic can save it - and he knows nothing about magic! • Norbert must learn to believe, because when you imagine incredible things, almost anything can happen

Sara has never left Sweden but at the age of 28 she decides it’s time. She cashes in her savings, packs a suitcase full of books and sets off for Broken Wheel, Iowa, a town where she knows nobody • Sara quickly realises that Broken Wheel is in desperate need of some adventure, a dose of self-help and perhaps a little romance, too. In short, this is a town in need of a bookshop • With a little help from the locals, Sara sets up Broken Wheel’s first bookstore. The shop might be a little quirky but then again, so is Sara. And as Broken Wheel’s story begins to take shape, there are some surprises in store for Sara too…

This summer, Clover Quinn wants to find the missing pieces of her story • Clover Quinn was a surprise. She used to imagine she was the good kind, now she's not sure. She'd like to ask Dad about it, but growing up in the saddest chapter of someone else's story is difficult. She tries not to skate on the thin ice of his memories • Darren has done his best. He's studied his daughter like a seismologist on the lookout for waves and surrounded her with everything she might want - everything he can think of, at least - to be happy • What Clover wants is answers. This summer, she thinks she can find them in the second bedroom, which is full of her mother's belongings. Volume isn't important, what she is looking for is essence; the undiluted bits: a collection of things that will tell the full story of her mother, her father and who she is going to be

Arky Levin, a film composer in New York, has promised his wife that he will not visit her in hospital, where she is suffering in the final stages of a terminal illness. She wants to spare him a burden that would curtail his creativity, but the promise is tearing him apart. One day he finds his way to MOMA and sees Mariana Abramovic in The Artist is Present. The performance continues for seventy-five days and, as it unfolds, so does Arky. As he watches and meets other people drawn to the exhibit, he slowly starts to understand what might be missing in his life and what he must do