Harpercollins The Conjure-Man Dies. A Harlem Mystery Fisher Rudolph

The murders have begun… • Across England, a string of murders is taking place. Each different in method, but each horrifying and brutal • But the killer is just getting started… • Jess Ambrose is plunged into the investigation when her house is set ablaze. With her husband dead and the police pointing at her, she runs. Her only hope is disgraced detective Nate Griffin, who is convinced Jess is innocent • And he’s going to shock the world… • Soon, Jess and Griffin discover the unthinkable; this murderer is copying the world’s most notorious serial killers. And now, imitation isn’t enough. The killer dubbed The Echo Man is ready to create his own masterpiece, and it will be more terrifying than anything that has come before…

Культовая классика, которая все еще может изменить вашу жизнь… • Пусть решают кости! • Это философия, которая меняет жизнь скучающего психиатра Люка Райнхарта – и в некотором смысле меняет и мир тоже • Потому что, как только ты ставишь свою жизнь на кон, может случиться все, что угодно • Занимательный, с чувством юмора, пугающий, шокирующий, подрывной "Человек в кости" - один из культовых бестселлеров нашего времени • Книга на английском языке • The cult classic that can still change your life… • Let the dice decide! • This is the philosophy that changes the life of bored psychiatrist Luke Rhinehart – and in some ways changes the world as well • Because once you hand over your life to the dice, anything can happen • Entertaining, humorous, scary, shocking, subversive, The Dice Man is one of the cult bestsellers of our time

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’

The electrifying new thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author, Simon Toyne • Only one boy can see the darkness. Only one man can save him from it • A Murder • An elderly tailor is found tortured and murdered in the ancient town of Cordes. Written in blood beside the body are the words: Finishing What Was Begun • A Secret • But the dead man has left a cryptic message for his granddaughter and her son, Leo - one that puts them in immediate danger • A Race • They are forced to go on the run, accompanied by the enigmatic Solomon Creed. What began as small-town murder becomes a race to uncover a devastating secret dating from World War II. The few men who know the truth are being killed by a powerful organization, and only one man stands in its way • Only Solomon Creed can stop the murders

В состав сборника входят предисловие автора, в котором Агата Кристи предается воспоминаниям о рождественских праздниках своего детства, а также пять рассказов • «Приключения рождественского пудинга» • «Тайна испанского сундука» • «Спящая собака» • «Четыре и двадцать чёрных дроздов» • «Сон» (The Dream) • «Причуда Гриншоу» • Сборник рассказов «Приключение рождественского пудинга и выбор закусок» Агаты Кристи станет отличным подарком для поклонников творчества писательницы • По мотивам произведений о мисс Марпл и Эркюле Пуаро неоднократно снимались фильмы и сериалы • Книга на английском языке • Agatha Christie’s seasonal Poirot and Marple short story collection in a new hardback special edition • First came a sinister warning to Poirot not to eat any plum pudding… then the discovery of a corpse in a chest… next, an overheard quarrel that led to murder… the strange case of the dead man who altered his eating habits… and the puzzle of the victim who dreamt his own suicide

Роман "Одиночество бегуна на длинные дистанции" рассказывает о Смите, дерзком молодом бунтаре, живущем на ничейной земле в узаконенном Борстале. Когда его ровный ритм бега трусцой переносит его по безжалостной, промерзшей земле, он задается вопросом, почему, для кого и ради чего он бежит • Новаторская работа Алана Силлитоу запечатлела мрачную изоляцию рабочего класса в английском Мидленде в 1960-х годах. Но изображение Силлитоу мелкой преступности и глубоко укоренившегося гнева в промышленных и отчаявшихся городах сегодня остается таким же мощным, как и почти полвека назад • Книга на английском языке • Reissue of a groundbreaking work of fiction from one of our best loved authors • The title story in this classic collection tells of Smith, a defiant young rebel, inhabiting the no-man's land of institutionalised Borstal

The Join the Dots Detectives: Dot, Beans and McClusky are back on the case in a third, brand-new mystery! • Dot and Beans can’t wait for their school trip to Adventure Camp where they will do lots of exciting activities like zip-wiring, grass tobogganing and roasting marshmallows round a campfire! But once they arrive, strange things start happening. Could mean girl Laura could be up to her old tricks in a bid to win the Adventure Camp Prize…? It’s up to the Join the Dots Detectives to find out! • Meanwhile, TOP DOG McClusky is entered into a local dog show! Will he keep up his training while Dot’s away and win the prize for handsomest pooch?

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

The true story of one of Scotland’s most notorious and romantic heroes • He was a spy, a clan-chief, a traitor. A polyglot, a deserter and a man of philosophy • Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, was the last of the great Scottish chiefs – and the last nobleman executed for treason. In life, his wit, ambition and dubious sense of morality kept him in the thick of political intrigue. With a taste for risk and determined to make his fortune, Lovat made pacts with Catholics and Protestants, Scots and Englishmen • Lovat found his famous end a turncoat and a martyr: he threw himself in with the ‘45 rebellion and fought for Prince Charles against the crown. His execution in Tower Hill, at the age of 80, was the last of its kind • Lovat was one of Scotland’s most notorious and romantic figures: a man whose loyalty had no home, whose sword had a price

The brilliant, inspirational next book by the author of the incredible No. 1 bestseller FIRST MAN IN • Without fear, there’s no challenge. Without challenge, there’s no growth. Without growth, there’s no life • Ant Middleton is no stranger to fear: as a point man in the Special Forces, he confronted fear on a daily basis, never knowing what lay behind the next corner, or the next closed door. In prison, he was thrust into the unknown, cut off from friends and family, isolated with thoughts of failure and dread for his future. And at the top of Everest, in desperate, life-threatening conditions, he was forced to face up to his greatest fear, of leaving his wife and children without a husband and father • But fear is not his enemy. It is the energy that propels him

The perfect day for a hike • Leaving behind their everyday lives, four friends hike out into the beautiful Norwegian wild - nothing between them and the mountain peak but forest, sea and sharp blue sky • The perfect place to disappear • But there's a darker side to the wilderness. A woman went missing here one year ago, scarring the mountain with suspicion and unanswered questions • Now, the friends are hiking into the heart of the mystery. And waiting on the trail is someone who'd do anything to keep their secrets buried - and to stop the group walking away alive

The very best of Le Fanu’s supernatural fiction, including such classics as: ‘Schalken the Painter’, ‘Squire Toby's Will’, ‘Mr Justice Harbottle’, ‘The Familiar’, ‘Green Tea’, ‘Madam Crowl’s Ghost’ and ‘The Murdered Cousin’, introduced by genre expert Michael Cox • ‘Sheridan Le Fanu,’ wrote S.M. Ellis in 1916, ‘retains his own special place and fame as the Master of Horror and the Mysterious.’ • Today, Le Fanu’s reputation is as high as ever amongst connoisseurs of supernatural and mystery fiction and well deserves the enthusiastic praise lavished on him by some of the most accomplished ghost fiction writers of the twentieth century – including E.F. Benson and M.R. James • Born in 1814, the son of an Anglo-Irish Protestant clergyman, Le Fanu single-handedly created a new kind of fictional ghost story