Harpercollins The Black Widow Силва Дэниел

Now you see her. Now you don’t. THE NEW GIRL. A thriller of deception, betrayal, and vengeance • She was covered from head to toe in expensive wool and plaid, the sort of stuff one saw at the Burberry boutique in Harrods. She carried a leather bookbag rather than a nylon backpack. Her patent leather ballet slippers were glossy and bright. She was proper, the new girl, modest. But there was something else about her • At an exclusive private school in Switzerland, mystery surrounds the identity of the beautiful raven-haired girl who arrives each morning in a motorcade fit for a head of state. She is said to be the daughter of a wealthy international businessman. In truth, her father is Khalid bin Mohammed, the much-maligned crown prince of Saudi Arabia

Art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is asked to visit Zurich, to clean the work of an Old Master for a millionaire banker. But when he gets there he finds the corpse of his client in a pool of blood beneath the masterpiece, and discovers that a secret collection of priceless paintings – stolen by Nazis in the war – is missing • With the Swiss authorities trying to pin the murder on Allon and a powerful cabal determined to make sure this wartime secret remains buried, the art restorer must use all his former spy skills to find out the truth. And with an assassin that he helped to train also on the loose, Allon will need all his wits just to stay alive …

When a terrorist returns to take revenge - watch out! • Two former Israeli intelligence agents are recalled in order to eliminate a top Palestinian terrorist. One agent is now an art restorer, the other a fashion model. Ten years before they were briefly lovers. Now their pasts and enemies come back to haunt them as the terrorist murders ambassadors in Paris and Holland. Will the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks be his next target? And what motivates the terrorist - politics or something more personal?

Germany, 1944 • The Allied invasion is not far away, and the high command desperately need to know where it will take place. It is time to activate one of Hitler’s last spies in Britain – Catherine Blake, a sleeper planted before the war and awaiting orders • British intelligence also has its orders, and academic Alfred Vicary has been recruited by Churchill himself to carry them out. It is his job to find Catherine and stop her before it is too late • But whose side are his own people on?

Spain, over a span of forty turbulent years, is the theatre for a drama of love, friendship, ideals, ambition and revenge in this powerful and passionate novel about the Spanish Civil War • On the bitter battlefields of the Spanish Civil War, an unlikely friendship is forged. Tom, an idealistic American, and Adam, a wayward young Englishman, fight on opposing sides, yet they have one thing in common - a passionate love for Spain… • With a fervour to match their own, a woman of Madrid is battling in the same bloody struggle. She is Ana, the Black Widow; young, beautiful, bereaved - and a dangerous freedom fighter • But the end of the armed conflict will not end the conflicting emotions that draw these people together. For over forty turbulent years, from the dark days of Franco's victory to the birth of modern Spain, they will be bound together in an intricate web - of love, betrayal, ambition and revenge… • Derek Lambert, who knew and loved Spain for many years, uses his unique understanding of Spanish history and character in this sweeping novel which encompasses some of the most crucial events of twentieth-century Europe, creates characters of extraordinary depth and humanity, and tells a story of compelling power and vitality

The reign of the Capetian kings has ended and John II, ‘The Good’, takes the throne • Under the leadership of this vain, cruel, incompetent monarch The Hundred Years War escalates and England and France begin to tear each other apart. Warring factions plunder the land, famine threatens the people and the Black Death spreads far and wide. France is bleeding to death around the new king…

This beautiful HarperCollins Children’s Classics edition of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book is the perfect addition to any bookshelf • Best known for its Mowgli stories – the thrilling tales of a ‘man-cub’ raised in the jungle by his animal companions – Rudyard Kipling’s masterpiece features some of the most memorable characters in literature: Baloo the bear, Bagheera the black panther, Kaa the python and Mowgli’s fearsome enemy, Shere Khan the tiger • This beloved collection of seven fables, each accompanied by a poem, brings to life a fantastical world brimming with danger, adventure and triumph. The Jungle Book continues to inspire major films and adaptations over a century after its publication

Впервые все указатели из каждого из двенадцати томов "Истории Средиземья" были опубликованы вместе в одном томе - чтобы создать высший указатель, отражающий написание шедевров Толкина "Властелин колец" и "Сильмариллион" • Книга на английском языке • Complete integrated indices of History of Middle-earth volumes to complement new series • For the first time every index from each of the twelve volumes of The History Of Middle-earth has been published together in a single volume – to create a supreme index charting the writing of Tolkien’s masterpieces The Lord of The Rings and The Silmarillion • This stunning work of reference complements the fascinating History of Middle-earth series, now repackaged to complement the distinctive and classic style of the ‘black cover’ A-format paperbacks of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales

The first novel by one of the legends of the Harlem Renaissance, a classic in the annals of Black fiction • When Black lawyer Fred Merrit purchases a house in the most exclusive white neighbourhood bordering Harlem, he has to hire the toughest removal firm in the area to help him get his belongings past the hostile neighbours. The removal men are Jinx Jenkins and Bubber Brown, who make the move anything but straightforward • This hilarious satire of jazz-age Harlem derides the walls people build around themselves—colour and class being chief among them. In their reactions to Merrit and to one another, the characters provide an invaluable view of the social and philosophical scene of the times • First published in 1928, The Walls of Jericho is the first novel by Rudolph Fisher, author of The Conjure-Man Dies, whom Langston Hughes called ‘the wittiest of the Harlem Renaissance writers, whose tongue was flavoured with the sharpest and saltiest humour’

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

HarperCollins с гордостью представляет свой невероятный ассортимент самой любимой и незаменимой классики • "Исповедь" описывает обращение святого Августина в христианство и является основой его репутации одного из самых влиятельных мыслителей христианства • Книга на английском языке • HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics • Confessions describes Saint Augustine's conversion to Christianity and is the basis for his reputation as one of Christianity's most influential thinkers

The profoundly moving and deeply intimate story of one Jewish family’s fate in the Holocaust, following the thread from Germany to Latvia and to Britain • In November 1941, Peter Bradley's grandparents, Sally and Bertha Brandes, were deported from their home in Bamberg to their deaths in Latvia • The Last Train is a profound and moving homage to Peter’s lost family and to his father who rarely spoke of the traumas through which he lived • It is also his attempt to understand, through the prism of his family’s story, how the Nazis came to conceive and implement the Final Solution • Why did Sally and Bertha’s fellow citizens put them on the train that carried them to the killing fields? • Why did the democracies which so loudly condemned Hitler’s persecution of the Jews deny them sanctuary? • And why, when Peter's father finally reached Britain after five terrible months in a Nazi concentration camp, was he arrested as an 'enemy alien'? • The quest for answers led Peter to explore the origins and evolution of an ancient hatred and the struggles against it of each generation of his family, from the Reformation, through the Enlightenment and the Age of Reform, to the catastrophe of the Holocaust