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Almost nine million people from all over the world flock to the Louvre in Paris every year to see its incomparable art collection. Yet few, if any, are aware of the remarkable history of that location and of the buildings themselves, and how they chronicle the history of Paris itself-a fascinating story that historian James Gardner elegantly tells for the first time • Before the Louvre was a museum, it was a palace, and before that a fortress. But much earlier still, it was a place called le Louvre for reasons unknown. People had inhabited that spot for more than 6,000 years before King Philippe Auguste of France constructed a fortress there in 1191 to protect against English soldiers stationed in Normandy. Two centuries later, Charles V converted the fortress to one of his numerous royal palaces

On a sunlit evening in l882, Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke, Chief Secretary and Undersecretary for Ireland, were ambushed and stabbed to death while strolling through Phoenix Park in Dublin. The murders were carried out by the Invincibles, a militant faction of republicans armed with specially-made surgeon’s blades. They ended what should have been a turning point in Anglo-Irish relations. A new spirit of goodwill had been burgeoning between Prime Minister William Gladstone and Ireland’s leader Charles Stewart Parnell, with both men forging in secret a pact to achieve peace and independence in Ireland – with the newly appointed Cavendish, Gladstone’s protege, to play an instrumental role. The impact of the Phoenix Park murders was so cataclysmic that it destroyed the pact, almost brought down the government and set in motion repercussions that would last long into the twentieth century

Vauhini Vara's lyrical and thought-provoking debut novel begins in India in the 1950s, following a young man born into a Dalit family of coconut farmers in a remote village in Andhra Pradesh. King Rao, as he comes to be known, later moves to the US, where he studies in Seattle, meeting the love of his life and his business partner, the smart and self-assured Margie. King Rao ultimately rises up through Silicon Valley to become the most famous tech CEO in the world and the leader of a powerful, corporate-owned global government. Yet he ultimately ends up living on a remote island off the coast of Washington state, an exile from the world which he has helped build • There, in a beautiful home on an otherwise deserted island, he brings up his brilliant daughter, Athena

In the new mystery in the bestselling Richard Jury series, Martha Grimes brings London’s finest on a double-homicide case that involves Kenyan art, rare gems, astrophysics and a long-fermented act of revenge • Robbie Parsons is one of London’s finest, a black cab driver who knows every street, every theatre, every landmark in the city by heart. In his backseat is a man with a gun in his hand – a man who shot Robbie’s previous pair of customers point-blank in front of the Artemis Club, a rarefied art gallery-cum-casino, then jumped in and ordered Parsons to drive • As the killer eventually escapes to Nairobi with ten-year-old Patty Haigh – one of a crew of stray kids who serve as the cabbies’ eyes and ears at Heathrow and Waterloo – in pursuit, superintendent Richard Jury comes across the double-homicide in the Saturday paper

An elegant, epic debut novel that follows one young woman’s search for a lost figure from her childhood, a journey that takes her from Southern India to Kashmir and to the brink of a devastating political and personal reckoning • In the wake of her mother’s death, Shalini, a privileged and restless young woman from Bangalore, sets out for a remote Himalayan village in the troubled northern region of Kashmir. Certain that the loss of her mother is somehow connected to the decade-old disappearance of Bashir Ahmed, a charming Kashmiri salesman who frequented her childhood home, she is determined to confront him. But upon her arrival, Shalini is brought face to face with Kashmir’s politics, as well as the tangled history of the local family that takes her in

К сожалению, со временем люди и даже целые племена рано или поздно вырождаются. У них выпадают острые клыки, они забывают свой язык и робеют, их спины гнутся от изнурительного труда на полях • Лемет - мальчик из доисторического леса. Его полностью устраивает жизнь в семье охотников и собирателей. Но однажды неподалёку селятся какие-то странные чужеземцы со странной (но интригующей верой), приплывшие на кораблях, и лес начинает пустеть. Желающих перебраться в их деревню и заниматься земледелием и печь хлеб становится всё больше. Но Лемета и других отказавшихся перебираться обитателей леса жизнь, полная тяжёлого труда, не привлекает. Они не хотят приспосабливаться к переменам и продолжают сосуществовать с голозадыми приматами-традиционалистами, похотливыми медведями и гигантской вшой

Памятник лени, напыщенности и презрению, гигант жира, метеоризма и яростной подозрительности ко всему современному - это Игнатиус Дж. Рейли из Нового Орлеана, благородный крестоносец против мира тупиц. Простые жители Нового Орлеана, похоже, думают, что он не в себе. Игнациус игнорирует их, проталкивая свою огромную тушу через городские притоны в благородном крестовом походе против порока, современности и невежества. Но у его мамы припасен неприятный сюрприз для него: Игнациус должен устроиться на работу. Неустрашимый, он использует свою новообретенную работу для продолжения своей миссии - и теперь у него есть костюм пирата и тележка с хот-догами, чтобы сделать это • Веселая сатира Джона Кеннеди Тула "Сговор остолопов", так и не опубликованная при его жизни, является дон Кихотом современности

A monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern - this is Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans, noble crusader against a world of dunces. The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged. Ignatius ignores them, heaving his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him: Ignatius must get a job. Undaunted, he uses his new-found employment to further his mission - and now he has a pirate costume and a hot-dog cart to do it with • This stunning clothbound edition of John Kennedy Toole's savagely funny, satirical masterpiece is designed by the acclaimed Coralie-Bickford Smith

Жизнь, увиденная сквозь призму восприятия ребенка или подростка, — одна из любимейших тем американских писателей-южан, исхоженная ими, казалось бы, вдоль и поперек. Но никогда, пожалуй, эта жизнь еще не представала настолько удушливой и клаустрофобной, как в романе «Неоновая библия», написанном вундеркиндом американской литературы Джоном Кеннеди Тулом еще в 16 лет • Крошечный городишко, захлебывающийся во влажной жаре и болотных испарениях, — одна из тех провинциальных дыр, каким не было и нет счета на Глубоком Юге. Кажется, здесь разморилось и уснуло само Время. Медленно, неторопливо разгораются в этой сонной тишине жгучие опасные страсти, тлеют мелкие злобные конфликты. Кажется, ничего не происходит: провинциальный Юг умеет подолгу скрывать за респектабельностью беленых фасадов и освещенных пестрым неоном церковных витражей ревность и ненависть, извращенно-болезненные желания и горечь загубленных надежд, и глухую тоску искалеченных судеб

The novel that inspired the epic new movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy • Hugh Glass isn’t afraid to die. He’s done it once already • Rocky Mountains, 1823 • The trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Hugh Glass is one of the most respected men in the company, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker • But when a scouting mission puts Glass face-to-face with a grizzly bear, he is viciously mauled and not expected to survive. Two men from the company are ordered to remain with him until his inevitable death. But, fearing an imminent attack, they abandon Glass, stripping him of his prized rifle and hatchet • As Glass watches the men flee, he is driven to survive by one all-consuming desire: revenge

The first novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk about Kevin is a compelling and provocative story of love and how we suffer for it • Still unattached and childless at fifty-nine, world-renowned anthropologist Gray Kaiser is seemingly invincible-and untouchable. Returning to make a documentary at the site of her first great triumph in Kenya, she is accompanied by her faithful middle-aged assistant, Errol McEchern, who has loved her for years in silence • When young graduate assistant Raphael Sarasola arrives on the scene, Gray is captivated and falls hopelessly in love-before an amazed Errol's eyes. As he follows their affair with jealous fascination, Errol watches helplessly from the sidelines as a proud and fierce woman is reduced to miserable dependence through miserable dependence

Miss Burma tells the story of modern-day Burma through the eyes of Benny and Khin, husband and wife, and their daughter Louisa. After attending school in Calcutta, Benny settles in Rangoon, then part of the British Empire, and falls in love with Khin, a woman who is part of a long-persecuted ethnic minority group, the Karen. World War II comes to Southeast Asia, and Benny and Khin must go into hiding in the eastern part of the country during the Japanese Occupation, beginning a journey that will lead them to change the country’s history • After the war, the British authorities make a deal with the Burman nationalists, led by Aung San, whose party gains control of the country. When Aung San is assassinated, his successor ignores the pleas for self-government of the Karen people and other ethnic groups, and in doing so sets off what will become the longest-running civil war in recorded history