Harpercollins Portrait of a Spy Silva Daniel

She is an iconic member of the British Royal Family, beloved for her beauty and charitable works, resented by her former husband and his mother, the Queen of England. When a bomb explodes aboard her holiday yacht, British intelligence turns to one man to track down her killer: legendary spy and assassin Gabriel Allon • Gabriel’s target is Eamon Quinn, a master bomb maker and mercenary of death who sells his services to the highest bidder. Fortunately Gabriel does not pursue him alone; at his side is Christopher Keller, a British commando turned professional assassin who knows Quinn’s murderous handiwork all too well • And though Gabriel does not realize it, he is stalking an old enemy—a cabal of evil that wants nothing more than to see him dead

Gabriel Allon, master art restorer and assassin, returns in a spellbinding new thriller from No.1 bestselling author Daniel Silva. For all fans of Robert Ludlum • When a beautiful young British woman vanishes on the island of Corsica, a prime minister’s career is threatened with destruction. And Gabriel Allon, master art restorer, spy, and assassin, is thrust into a game of shadows where nothing is what it seems … and where the only thing more dangerous than his enemies might be the truth …

She was his best-kept secret … • In an isolated village in the mountains of Andalusia, a mysterious Frenchwoman begins work on a dangerous memoir. It is the story of a man she once loved in the Beirut of old, and a child taken from her in treason’s name. The woman is the keeper of the Kremlin’s most closely guarded secret. Long ago, the KGB inserted a mole into the heart of the West – a mole who stands on the doorstep of ultimate power • Only one man can unravel the conspiracy: Gabriel Allon, the legendary art restorer and assassin who serves as the chief of Israel’s vaunted secret intelligence service. Gabriel has battled the dark forces of the new Russia before, at great personal cost. Now he and the Russians will engage in a final epic showdown, with the fate of the postwar global order hanging in the balance

Bruised and war-weary following his secret war to bring down a terrorist mastermind, Gabriel Allon returns to his beloved Rome to restore a Caravaggio masterpiece • But early one morning Gabriel is summoned by his friend and occasional ally Monsignor Luigi Donati, the all-powerful private secretary to the Pope. The broken body of a beautiful woman lies beneath Michelangelo's magnificent dome. Donati fears a public inquiry will inflict more wounds on an already-damaged Church so he calls upon Gabriel to use his matchless talents and experience to quietly pursue the truth – was it suicide, or something more sinister? • Gabriel discovers that the woman revealed a dangerous secret that threatens powers beyond the Vatican. And an old enemy plots revenge in the shadows, an unthinkable act of sabotage that will plunge the world into a conflict of apocalyptic proportions

In a spellbinding new masterpiece by #1 New York Times–bestselling author Daniel Silva, Gabriel Allon undertakes a high-stakes search for the greatest art forger who ever lived • Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon has at long last severed ties with Israeli intelligence and settled quietly in Venice, the only place he has ever truly known peace. His beautiful wife, Chiara, has taken over day-to-day management of the Tiepolo Restoration Company, and their two young children are clandestinely enrolled in a neighborhood scuola elementare. For his part, Gabriel spends his days wandering the streets and canals of the watery city, parting company with the demons of his tragic, violent past • But when the eccentric London art dealer Julian Isherwood asks Gabriel to investigate the circumstances surrounding the rediscovery and lucrative sale of a centuries-old painting, he is drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse where nothing is as it seems

Легендарный шпион и реставратор произведений искусства Габриэль Аллон наконец-то разорвал связи с израильской разведкой и спокойно обосновался в Венеции, единственном месте, где он когда-либо по-настоящему знал покой. Его красавица жена Кьяра взяла на себя повседневное управление реставрационной компанией Тьеполо • Но когда эксцентричный лондонский арт-дилер Джулиан Ишервуд просит Габриэля расследовать обстоятельства, связанные с повторным открытием и прибыльной продажей картины многовековой давности, он оказывается втянутым в смертельную игру в кошки-мышки, где все не так, как кажется • Вскоре Габриэль обнаруживает, что работа, о которой идет речь, портрет неизвестной женщины, приписываемый сэру Энтони ван Дейку, почти наверняка является дьявольски искусной подделкой

'Could you show me a djinn?' I asked. 'Certainly,' replied the Sufi. 'But you would run away.' • From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize shortlisted 'The Return of a King', this is William Dalrymple's captivating memoir of a year spent in Delhi, a city watched over and protected by the mischievous invisible djinns. Lodging with the beady-eyed Mrs Puri and encountering an extraordinary array of characters - from elusive eunuchs to the last remnants of the Raj - William Dalrymple comes to know the bewildering city intimately • He pursues Delhi's interlacing layers of history along narrow alleys and broad boulevards, brilliantly conveying its intoxicating mix of mysticism and mayhem • 'City of Djinns' is an astonishing and sensitive portrait of a city, and confirms William Dalrymple as one of the most compelling explorers of India's past and present

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

‘Portrait in Sepia’ is both a magnificent historical novel set at the end of the nineteenth century in Chile and a marvellous family saga peopled by characters from ‘Daughter of Fortune’ and ‘The House of the Spirits’, two of Allende's most celebrated novels • As a young girl, Aurora del Valle suffered a brutal trauma that has shaped her character and erased from her mind all recollection of the first five years of her life. Raised by her ambitious grandmother, the regal and commanding Paulina del Valle, she grows up in a privileged environment, free of the limitations that circumscribe the lives of women at that time, but tormented by terrible nightmares. When she finds herself alone at the end of an unhappy love affair, she decides to explore the mystery of her past, to discover what it was, exactly, all those years ago, that had such a devastating effect on her young life

On the morning after the Venice Preservation Society’s annual black-tie gala, art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon enters his favorite coffee bar on the island of Murano to find General Cesare Ferrari, the commander of the Art Squad, eagerly awaiting his arrival. The Carabinieri have made a startling discovery in the Amalfi villa of a murdered South African shipping tycoon—a secret vault containing an empty frame and stretcher matching the dimensions of the world’s most valuable missing painting. General Ferrari asks Gabriel to quietly track down the artwork before the trail goes cold • “Isn’t that your job?” • “Finding stolen paintings? Technically speaking, yes. But you’re much better at it than we are.” • The painting in question is The Concert by Johannes Vermeer, one of thirteen works of art stolen from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990

Канадская писательница Люси Мод Монтгомери (1874-1942) придумала рыжеволосую девочку Аню Ширли, о которой написала целую серию книг. Эти книги и по сей день пользуются невероятным успехом. Самая первая - "Аня из Зеленых Мезонинов" - увидела свет в 1908 году. История про девочку-сироту Аню, попавшую на ферму Зеленые Мезонины в семью брата и сестры, Мэтью и Мариллы, принесли Люси Мод Монтгомери славу. Своей добротой, открытостью и мечтательностью маленькая Аня может расположить к себе даже самых черствых и строгих людей • Книга на английском языке • This beautiful HarperCollins Children’s Classics edition of L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables is the perfect addition to any bookshelf • Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert are looking to adopt a boy to help out on their farm – so when the orphanage delivers a red-haired eleven-year-old girl named Anne instead, they are determined to fix the mistake

Цикл «Хроники Нарнии» выдающегося британского писателя Клайва Стейплза Льюиса полон говорящих зверей, героических подвигов и эпической борьбы добра со злом. На протяжении более чем 60-ти лет романы и повести цикла увлекали читателей всех возрастов в волшебный край говорящих зверей, кентавров, и фавнов, где живёт Великий Лев Аслан и злая Белая Колдунья • Произведения расположены в хронологическом порядке, который предпочитал сам К. С. Льюис • Все семь повестей и романов из цикла «Хроники Нарнии» в одном великолепном подарочном издании от издательства HarperCollins, станут отличным подарком для преданных поклонников творчества автора • По циклу снята одноимённая трилогия фильмов • Книга на английском языке • The Chronicles of Narnia have enchanted millions of readers over the last fifty years and the magical events described in C