Harpercollins Dean Koontz's Frankenstein. The Dead Town Кунц Дин

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

The story of one of the most brutal battles in modern history - fought at a major turning point of the Second World War • Kohima. In this remote Indian village near the border with Burma, a tiny force of British and Indian troops faced the might of the Imperial Japanese Army. Outnumbered ten to one, the defenders fought the Japanese hand to hand in a battle that was amongst the most savage in modern warfare • A garrison of no more than 1,500 fighting men, desperately short of water and with the wounded compelled to lie in the open, faced a force of 15,000 Japanese. They held the pass and prevented a Japanese victory that would have proved disastrous for the British. Another six weeks of bitter fighting followed as British and Indian reinforcements strove to drive the enemy out of India

The suicide of a sales clerk at the box office of a London cinema leaves another girl in fear for her life. Persuaded to seek help from Scotland Yard, Miss Darke confides in Inspector Joseph French about a gambling scam by a mysterious trio of crooks and that she believes her friend was murdered. When the girl fails to turn up the next day, and the police later find her body, French's inquiries reveal that similar girls have also been murdered, all linked by their jobs and by a sinister stranger with a purple scar…

Странный Томас, самый популярный герой Дина Кунца, заслужившего международное признание автора бестселлеров в жанре ужасов, вернулся. "Казино смерти" - увлекательный и пронзительный остросюжетный роман, полный напряжения, загадок и жути • Зло никогда не отступает, вот и у Странного Томаса, нашего необычного героя, нет выбора, и он снова должен защитить нас от наших главных страхов • Томас никогда не хотел вести беседы с мертвецами; они сами нашли его в маленьком пустынном городке Пико Мундо, покинуть который он не в силах. Он уже потерял любовь всей своей жизни, а теперь пропал его лучший друг, и есть основания опасаться худшего • Но когда Странный прибегает к своим необычным талантам, чтобы раскрыть тайну исчезновения, он находит кое-что пострашнее бездыханного тела: воплощение зла пришло по души обитателей этого уголка пустыни - как живых, так и мёртвых

Он видит то, чего не видит никто другой. Он делает то, что никто другой не может • Томас – харизматичный молодой человек, обладающий сверхъестественными способностями. Томас находится в добровольном изгнании. Трагические события привели его из дома в выжженной солнцем пустыни Пико Мундо в монастырь в Высокой Сьерре в поисках покоя. Сейчас декабрь, и отдаленное аббатство осаждено ледяными ветрами и снегом. Но даже в тишине гор опасность и отчаяние все еще преследуют его… • Странности всегда следуют за Томасом. Белая собака по кличке Бу подружилась с ним, как и призрак Элвиса. А всемирно известный физик проводит эксперименты в катакомбах аббатства. Может быть, именно поэтому Томас снова может видеть призрачных предвестников беды, молчаливо бродящих по залам аббатства? • Чем все это закончится? И как Томас сможет победить своего самого опасного врага? • Дин Кунц является одним из самых популярных писателей нашего времени: по всему миру продано больше 400 миллионов экземпляров его книг

Rogue FBI agent Jane Hawk knows she’s living on borrowed time. But as long as she’s breathing, she’ll never cease her one-woman war against the terrifying conspiracy that threatens the freedom – and free will – of millions. Battling the mysterious epidemic of murder-suicides that claimed Jane’s husband has made Jane a wanted fugitive, hunted relentlessly by the secret cabal behind the plot. They are determined to see her dead . . . or make her wish she was. Propelled by her righteous fury, Jane will confront head-on the lethal forces arrayed against her. But nothing can prepare her for the chilling truth that awaits when she descends the crooked staircase to the dark and dreadful place where her long nightmare was born

От автора мировых бестселлеров Дина Кунца — триллер года, который обязательно нужно прочесть любителям темного психологического саспенса. Девушка, сказавшая смерти «нет». Биби Блэр — энергичная, забавная, бесстрашная молодая женщина, которой доктор объявляет, что жить ей осталось один год. Она отвечает: «Посмотрим». Ее неожиданное излечение поражает медицинскую науку. Таинственная женщина убеждает Биби в том, что ее побег от смерти может помочь спасти кого-то еще. Кого-то с именем Эшли Белл. Но спасти ее от чего? И кто такая Эшли Белл?

В книге С. Парриса "Глухая зима. Три новеллы Джордано Бруно" собраны три истории • Тайные мертвецы • Лето 1556 года. В неаполитанском монастыре найдено тело девушки. Монах-послушник Джордано Бруно полон решимости раскрыть случившееся, но его расследование может привести его в руки инквизиции • Академия тайн • Осень 1568 года. Джордано Бруно получает приглашение от тайного общества философов. Бруно в восторге, но сохранение их еретических секретов вскоре становится вопросом жизни и смерти • Рождественский реквием • Зима 1569 года. Джордано Бруно вызывает папа римский, который заинтригован его талантом к играм на память. Но Рим - логово беззакония, и Бруно повезет, если он покинет Вечный город живым • Книга на английском языке • The Secret Dead • Summer 1556

A brand new young fiction series by TV broadcaster and intrepid explorer Ben Fogle, inspired by his real-life animal experiences… • Co-written with best-selling children’s author Steve Cole and illustrated throughout with beautiful black and white illustrations by Nikolas Ilic • You can always count on Mr Dog to help an animal in trouble… • When Mr Dog takes a trip into town, he doesn’t expect to stay for long. But then he meets a fox who needs his help – a fox who’s very far from home…

This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is a mesmerising, minute-by-minute account of that terrible day • In the days and months after 9/11, Mitchell Zuckoff, then a reporter for the Boston Globe, wrote about the attacks, the victims, and their families. After further years of meticulous reporting, Zuckoff has filled Fall and Rise with voices of the lost and the saved. The result is an utterly gripping book, filled with intimate stories of people most affected by the events of that sunny Tuesday in September: an out-of-work actor stuck in an elevator in the North Tower of the World Trade Center; the heroes aboard Flight 93 deciding to take action; a veteran trapped in the inferno in the Pentagon; the fire chief among the first on the scene in sleepy Shanksville; a team of firefighters racing to save an injured woman and themselves; and the men, women, and children flying across country to see loved ones or for work who suddenly faced terrorists bent on murder

Following on from his epic ‘1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow’, bestselling author Adam Zamoyski has written the dramatic story of the Congress of Vienna • In the wake of his disastrous Russian campaign of 1812, Napoleon's imperious grip on Europe began to weaken, raising the question of how the Continent was to be reconstructed after his defeat. There were many who dreamed of a peace to end all wars, in which the interests of peoples as well as those of rulers would be taken into account. But what followed was an unseemly and at times brutal scramble for territory by the most powerful states, in which countries were traded as if they had been private and their inhabitants counted like cattle • The results, fixed at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, not only laid the foundations of the European world we know; it put in place a social order and a security system that lie at the root of many of the problems which dog the world today

To mark the publishing centenary of Freeman Wills Crofts, ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’, this is one of six classic crime novels being issued in 2020 featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television • The Jane Vosper is plunged to the bottom of the Atlantic by a series of explosions in her hold. With no innocent explanation of the cause, it appears that someone must have sunk the ship for the insurance money. When The Land and Sea Insurance Company’s official investigator then disappears, Inspector French is called in from Scotland Yard to find him. French decides that the only way to find his missing person is to solve the baffling mystery of the sinking of the Jane Vosper first…