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"Казнь" - исторический роман С. Дж. Пэррис • Предательский заговор • Англия, 1586 год. Джордано Бруно, еретик, ставший шпионом, передает жизненно важную информацию руководителю шпионской сети сэру Фрэнсису Уолсингему. Банда англичан-католиков замышляет убить королеву Елизавету и посадить на английский трон Марию, королеву Шотландии • Смертельная ловушка • Уолсингем, уже знающий о заговоре, позволяет ему развиваться. Он надеется, что Мэри выразит свою поддержку в письменном виде - и обрекет себя на смерть предателя • Королева в опасности • Бруно должен действовать под прикрытием, присоединиться к заговорщикам и остановить их. Королеве суждено умереть; Бруно должен убедиться, что это правильный выбор • Книга на английском языке • A Treasonous Plot • England, 1586

Королевский разведчик. Трон под угрозой • В Англии времен Елизаветы истинная вера не препятствует даже самому кровавому убийству… • Оксфорд, 1583 год. В кампусе университета плетутся опасные интриги • По всей Англии идут слухи о заговоре с целью убить королеву Елизаветы и вернуть королевства к католической вере. Джордано Бруно под прикрытием в Оксфорд, чтобы разоблачить коварное покушение. Ему нужно любой ценой сохранить свою тайну • Когда серия ужасающих убийств вносит разлад в дружную студенческую жизнь, Бруно вынужден провести расследование, в ходе которого он узнает, что на кону стоит сам трон Тюдоров… • “Heresy” является первой книгой в цикле “Giordano Bruno” • Книга на английском языке • In Elizabeth’s England, true faith can mean bloody murder… • Oxford, 1583

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER was banned on its publication in 1928, creating a storm of controversy. Lawrence tells the story of Constance Chatterley's marriage to Sir Clifford, an aristocratic and an intellectual who is paralyzed from the waist down after the First World War. Desperate for an heir and embarrassed by his inability to satisfy his wife, Clifford suggests that she have an affair. Constance, troubled by her husband's words, finds herself involved in a passionate relationship with their gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. Lawrence's vitriolic denunciations of industrialism and class division come together in his vivid depiction of the profound emotional and physical connection between a couple otherwise divided by station and society

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. '!for her, life was as cold as an attic with a window looking to the north, and ennui, like a spider, was silently spinning its shadowy web in every cranny of her heart.' Married to Charles, a provincial doctor, Emma Bovary yearns for a more glamorous life. Disenchanted with her husband and seeking an escape from their dull marriage she is soon tempted into a brief romantic liaison with another man. Although short-lived, she remains desirous of passion and the finer things in life and embarks on another affair, destroying her reputation. Considered scandalous at the time, Emma Bovary's superficial and immoral behaviour shocked readers and caused moral outcry. Flaubert holds up to ridicule not only Madame Bovary herself, but the society that dares to judge her

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.' Autobiographical in tone, Joyce's tale of Stephen Dedalus' journey into adulthood explores the intellectual and moral development of an artist as he struggles to overcome the ingrained Catholic consciousness of his childhood - a family life governed by Irish history, religion and politics. Realistic and innovative in its approach, the style of writing proved controversial upon publication in 1916 and the character of Stephen on a quest for his identity did not appeal to readers.However, Joyce expertly encapsulates the development of individual consciousness and the role of the artist in society in what is considered one of his greatest works

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The movements of his mind seemed to tend to the thought that some power was working against him.' When Henchard, an out-of-work hay-trusser gets drunk and sells his wife at a country fair, his life will never be the same. Eighteen years later, his wife and daughter return to Casterbridge to find that Henchard has become Mayor. Although he's spent most of his life attempting to repent for his actions, he remains a rash and impetuous man. Hardy portrays Henchard as a tragic hero, searching for love and acceptance from the community around him, posing the overarching question of whether we shape our own fate, or whether life deals us an inevitable hand

Two women, two very different destinies, drawn together in the shadow of the Tower of London • Elizabeth of York, her life already tainted by dishonour and tragedy, now queen to the first Tudor king, Henry the VII • Joan Vaux, servant of the court, straining against marriage and motherhood and privy to the deepest and darkest secrets of her queen. Like the ravens, Joan must use her eyes and her senses, as conspiracy whispers through the dark corridors of the Tower • Through Joan's eyes, The Lady of the Ravens inhabits the squalid streets of Tudor London, the imposing walls of its most fearsome fortress and the glamorous court of a kingdom in crisis

In a country at war, a secret inheritance reveals a dark conspiracy … • On a sunlit afternoon in seventeenth-century Dorset, a young girl falls in love with a stranger • But when her Puritan brother tries to force her into an unbearable marriage she flees, taking with her only the gift left to her by her unknown father, a gold pendant sealed by an engraving of an axe, and the words: St Matthew • One of four intricately wrought seals – each holding a secret within – it can, when combined with the other three, bring great wealth and power. This power is her true inheritance – but it’s a perilous legacy others will kill for …

Can she tread a dangerous line between love and duty? • Raven-haired and fiercely independent, Joan Guildford has always remained true to herself. As lady-in-waiting and confidante to Queen Elizabeth, wife of Henry VII, Joan understands royal patronage is vital if she and her husband, Sir Richard, are to thrive in the volatile atmosphere of court life • But Tudor England is in mourning following the death of the Prince of Wales, and within a year, the queen herself. With Prince Henry now heir to the throne, the court murmurs with the sound of conspiracy. Is the entire Tudor project now at stake or can young Henry secure the dynasty? • Drawn into the heart of the crisis, Joan’s own life is in turmoil, and her future far from secure. She faces a stark choice – be true to her heart and risk everything, or play the dutiful servant and watch her dreams wither and die

From the much-loved, witty and excoriating voice of journalist Nick Cohen, a powerful and irreverent dissection of the agonies, idiocies and compromises of mainstream liberal thought • Nick Cohen comes from the Left. While growing up, his mother would search the supermarket shelves for politically reputable citrus fruit and despair. When, at the age of 13, he found out that his kind and thoughtful English teacher voted Conservative, he nearly fell off his chair: 'To be good, you had to be on the Left.' • Today he's no less confused. When he looks around him, in the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq, he sees a community of Left-leaning liberals standing on their heads. Why is it that apologies for a militant Islam that stands for everything the liberal-Left is against come from a section of the Left? After the American and British wars in Bosnia and Kosovo against Slobodan Milosevic's ethnic cleansers, why were men and women of the Left denying the existence of Serb concentration camps? Why is Palestine a cause for the liberal-Left, but not, for instance, China, the Sudan, Zimbabwe or North Korea? Why can't those who say they support the Palestinian cause tell you what type of Palestine they would like to see? After the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington why were you as likely to read that a sinister conspiracy of Jews controlled American or British foreign policy in a liberal literary journal as in a neo-Nazi rag? It's easy to know what the Left is fighting against – the evils of Bush and corporations – but what and, more to the point, who are they fighting for? • As he tours the follies of the Left, Nick Cohen asks us to reconsider what it means to be liberal in this confused and topsy-turvy time

Агата Кристи: Тайна дымоходов • Молодой бродяга находит больше, чем рассчитывал, когда соглашается доставить посылку в английский загородный дом… • Энтони Кейд и не подозревал, что простое поручение от имени друга сделает его центральной фигурой смертоносного международного заговора. Кто-то не остановится ни перед чем, чтобы помешать восстановлению монархии в далекой Герцословакии • Объединенным силам Скотленд-Ярда и французской полиции не остается ничего лучшего, как ходить кругами - до последнего убийства в Чимниз, огромном загородном поместье, которое раскрывает удивительную тайну… • Книга на английском языке • A young drifter finds more than he bargained for when he agrees to deliver a parcel to an English country house… • Little did Anthony Cade suspect that a simple errand on behalf of a friend would make him the centrepiece of a murderous international conspiracy