Флэнаган, Ричард Смерть речного лоцмана

Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all fishes in the sea and all living things on the land were destroyed, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a white convict who fell in love with a black woman and discovered too late that to love is not safe. Silly Billy Gould, invader of Australia, liar, murderer and forger, condemned to the most feared penal colony in the British Empire and there ordered to paint a book of fish

Forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men who were on the Line, and the rest of humanity, who were not • In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle’s young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever • This is a story about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost

Trapped within a waterfall on the wild Franklin River, Tasmanian river guide, Aljaz Cosini, lies drowning. As the tourists he has been guiding down the river seek to save him, Aljaz is beset by visions horrible and fabulous. As the rapids rise, Aljaz relives not just his own life but also his country’s dreaming

In the winter of 1954, in a construction camp in the remote Tasmanian highlands, when Sonja Buloh was three years old and her father was drinking too much, her mother disappeared into a blizzard never to return • Thirty-five years later, Sonja returns to the place of her childhood to visit her drunkard father. The shadows of the past begin to intrude ever more forcefully into the present, changing forever his living death and her ordered life

After a one-night stand with an attractive stranger, pole-dancer Gina Davies finds herself prime suspect in an attempted terrorist attack on Sydney. Hunted by the police, her face stares back at her on the unremitting 24/7 news cycle. She is soon running away from her dreams for a better life and witnessing every truth turn into a betrayal • The Unknown Terrorist is a startlingly prescient novel that drums with the cadences of city life; where fear invades individual lives, pushing one woman ever closer to breaking point

Mathinna, an Aboriginal girl from Van Diemen’s Land, is adopted by nineteenth-century explorer, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane. Franklin is confident that shining the light of reason on Mathinna will lift her out of savagery and desire. But when Franklin dies on an Arctic expedition, Lady Jane writes to Charles Dickens, asking him to defend Franklin’s reputation amid rumours of his crew lapsing into cannibalism • Dickens responds by staging a play in which he takes the leading role as Franklin, his symbol of reason’s triumph, only to fall in love with an eighteen-year-old actress. As reason gives way to wanting, the frontier between civilisation and barbarity dissolves, and Mathinna, now a teenage prostitute, goes drinking on a fatal night

An ember storm of a novel, this is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving-and astonishing-best • Anna's aged mother is dying - if her three children would just allow it. Forced by their pity to stay alive, she increasingly escapes through her hospital window into visions of horror and delight • When Anna's finger vanishes and a few months later her knee disappears, Anna too feels the pull of the window. She begins to see that all around her others are similarly vanishing, but no one else notices. All Anna can do is keep her mother alive. But the window keeps opening wider, taking Anna and the reader ever deeper into a strangely beautiful novel about hope, love and orange-bellied parrots

Young and penniless, Kif Kehlmann, is rung in the middle of the night by notorious con man and corporate criminal, Siegfried Heidl. About to go to trial for defrauding the banks of $700 million, Heidl proposes a deal: $10,000 for Kehlmann to ghostwrite his memoir in six weeks • Kehlmann accepts but soon begins to fear that he is being corrupted by Heidl. Is he ghostwriting a memoir, or is Heidl is rewriting him? As the deadline draws closer everything that is certain grows uncertain as he begins to wonder: who is Ziggy Heidl - and who is Kif Kehlmann?

Ричард Флэнаган – известный австралийский писатель, удостоенный Букеровской премии 2014 года за роман "Узкая дорога на дальний север". Истории, которые он рассыказывает со страниц своих книг, поражают не только глубиной, но и реалистичностью • "В 1991 году, когда работал над своим первым романом, я получил предложение от величайшего афериста Австралии и корпоративного преступника, Джона Фридриха: написать от его лица мемуары за шесть недель", — так начинает рассказ о своей скандальной новинке лауреат Букеровской премии Ричард Флэнаган • "Первое лицо" — это уникальная вещь в жанре автофикш, где писатель мастерски показывает жизнь людей, которых можно смело назвать сливками общества. Киф, так зовут главного героя, сделает все, чтобы за шесть недель создать миф – алиби для Зигфрида Хайдля, беспринципного бизнесмена, пытающего не сесть в тюрьму

Ричард Брэнсон. Один из самых известных, богатых и удачливых людей Великобритании. Предприниматель без страха и упрека. Создатель бизнес-империи под брендом Virgin Group. Этот образ растиражирован всеми СМИ мира. Но сколько в нем правды? • Журналист Том Боуэр, биограф таких знаменитостей, как Берни Экклстоун, Конрад Блэк и Роберт Максвелл, предпринял собственное расследование истории блестящего успеха экстравагантного "хиппаря от бизнеса" и его детища. И выяснил, что значительная часть этого образа - фальшивка. Пионер-бунтарь превратился в циничного делягу (или всегда таким и был). Компания-инноватор, декларировавшая громкие и благородные цели - в рыхлый конгломерат не слишком успешных предприятий. Легендарный бренд - в пустышку без наследия, без будущего (да и стояло ли за брендом Virgin хоть что-то, кроме отчаянной саморекламы)

Ричард бывал на коне и под конем, наносил удары и принимал сам, гонялся за драконами и убегал от них, он завладел волшебными мечами, у него под седлом единорог, а рядом необыкновенный Пес... ...однако не мог представить, что попадет в такую ситуацию, да-да, вот в такую, совсем уж нелепую и безысходную! Но - попал. И пока не видит выхода

Ричард Длинные Руки ценой огромных усилий сумел подняться от простолюдина до благородного звания оруженосца, а затем и до настоящего рыцаря, посвященного в сие высокое звание не по выслуге, а на поле брани. Великое достижение, но герой продолжает совершать подвиги, и вот его удостаивают высочайшего звания паладина • Что такое паладин, чем отличен от обычного рыцаря, мы узнаем из этого увлекательнейшего романа