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Теперь она принадлежит ему навсегда • Маленький городок скрывает множество секретов • Родной город Эрики Фальк, куда она вернулась после похорон родителей, оказался на грани трагедии. Смерть её подруги Алекс — это только начало. Её запястья перерезаны, тело заморожено в ледяной ванне. Все выглядит так, будто она покончила с собой • Тем временем собственное расследование начинает местный детектив Патрик Хедстрём. Когда он начинает работать вместе с Фальк, они начинают раскрывать тайны маленького городка с тревожащим прошлым… • “The Ice Princess” – это дебютный психологический триллер "шведской Агаты Кристи" Камиллы Лэкберг, ставший бестселлером №1 • Книга на английском языке • The psychological thriller debut of No.1 bestselling Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg

Январь. Тихий прибрежный город Фьельбака. По лесу идет девушка. На ней практически нет одежды. Когда она доходит до дороги, из ниоткуда появляется машина. Водитель не успевает остановиться • Жертвой оказалась девушка, которая пропала четыре месяца назад. С ней обращались очень жестоко. Детектив Патрик Хедстрём считает, что это лишь начало • Полицейские выясняют, что в соседних городах также пропадали девушки, и по их делам никаких зацепок нет. Но когда жена Патрика находит связь со старым делом об убийстве, детективу приходится по-новому взглянуть на преступление • Роман «Укрощение» Камиллы Лэкберг – это продолжение цикла «Фьельбака» об Эрике Фальк и Патрике Хедстрёме • Книга на английском языке • See No Evil • It's January in the peaceful seaside resort of Fjallbacka

Эрика Фальк находит среди вещей своей матери Железный крест. Чтобы выяснить, откуда он мог взяться, она обращается к чудаковатому историку на пенсии. Однако спустя два дня после визита женщины его находят мертвым • Несмотря на то, что детектив Патрик Хедстрёме находится в отпуске по уходу за ребенком, он берется за расследование, ведь на этот раз к делу имеет отношение его жена… • Будут раскрыты самые страшные тайны Второй мировой войны, связанные с прошлым их семей… • «Железный крест» – это пятый детективный роман Камиллы Лэкберг из цикла «Фьельбака» • По мотивам произведения был снят фильм «Убийство у моря» • Книга на английском языке • Crime writer Erica Falck is shocked to discover an old Nazi medal among her late mother's belongings. Inspired to dig deep into her past, she visits a retired history teacher for answers

The Scent of Almonds • Из-за снежной бури семья застревает в отеле на островке недалеко от Фьельбаки…а потом в библиотеке находят тело • An Elegant Death • Две сестры становятся свидетельницами убийства в модном бутике • Dreaming of Elisabeth • Женщина застревает на судне с мужчиной, которого начинает бояться… • The Widows’ Cafe • Марианна подает опасный отвар в своем кафе • The Scent of Almonds – это сборник рассказов Камиллы Лэкберг, как ничто другое демонстрирующий литературный талант писательницы • Книга на английском языке • The scent of almonds • A snowstorm traps a family in a hotel on a tiny island off Fjallbacka - and then a body is discovered in the library • An elegant death • Two sisters witness a murder in a fashion boutique • Dreaming of Elisabeth • Malin is trapped on a boat with a man she is beginning to fear… • The widows' cafe • Marianne is serving up a dangerous concoction at the Widows' Cafe

The disturbing new thriller from the king of southern gothic • When he was a prosecuting attorney Penn Cage sent hardened killers to death row. But it is as mayor of his hometown - Natchez, Mississippi - that Penn will face his most dangerous threat • Urged by old friends to restore the town to it's former glory, Penn has ridden into office on a tide of support for change. But in it's quest for new jobs and fresh money, Natchez has turned to casino gambling. Five fantastical steamboats float on the river beside the old slave market like props from Gone With the Wind. But one boat isn't like the others. Rumour has it that the Magnolia Queen has found a way to pull the big players from Las Vegas. And with them comes an unquenchable taste for one thing: blood sport, and the dark vices that go with it

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 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 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

The third volume in the acclaimed Emperor series, in which Conn Iggulden brilliantly interweaves history and adventure to recreate the astonishing life of Julius Caesar - an epic tale of ambition and rivalry, bravery and betrayal • The Gates of Rome, The Death of Kings and now The Field of Swords tell the powerful, dramatic story of the friendship and enmity between the two men who ruled the Roman world • Following the defeat of the Spartacus rebellion, Julius Caesar and Marcus Brutus, who have been sent to run the Roman colonies in Spain, return to challenge powerful senators to become one of the Consuls of Rome. Political opposition, family quarrels, armed rebellions and corruption make this a highly contemporary scene, fuelled by the intrigue of the major characters, who are now developing as full adults

The fifth and penultimate book in the bestselling bookwandering series for readers aged eight to twelve. As Tilly and Milo hurtle towards their final showdown with the Alchemist, the stakes are higher than ever – though there is always time for hot chocolate! • Milo Bolt is ready to be the hero of his own story. With Uncle Horatio trapped in an enchanted sleep by the power-hungry Alchemist, he sets off with his new friend Alessia to find a cure and save them all • Their journey leads them to the magical treehouse – home of the Botanist, the Alchemist’s sworn enemy. Against the clock, they hunt for the cure: foraging in the Secret Garden, challenging Robin Hood and confronting the mighty Jabberwock • But the Alchemist will stop at nothing to unlock the powerful secrets of The Book of Books, and Tilly, Pages & Co

The first novel Patrick O’Brian ever wrote about the sea – and the precursor to the famous Aubrey-Maturin series • The Golden Ocean is the first novel Patrick O’Brian ever wrote about the sea. The novel shares the same sense of excitement and the rich humour of the Aubrey-Maturin novels, invoking the eloquent style and attention to historical detail that O’Brian readers admire so much • The protagonist of this story is Peter Palafox, son of a poor Irish parson, who signs on as a midshipman, never before having seen a ship. He is a fellow who would have delighted the young Stephen Maturin or Jack Aubrey … and quarrelled with them as well. Together with his life-long friend Sean, Peter sets out to seek his fortune, embarking on a journey of danger, disappointment, foreign lands and excitement

The second book Patrick O’Brian wrote about the sea and a brilliant sequel to The Golden Ocean • As in The Golden Ocean, The Unknown Shore tells the tale of another ill-fated ship on Anson’s expedition round the world – the Wager. Parted from her squadron in the fearful storms off Cape Horn, the Wager struggles on alone up the ironbound coast of Chile, before she is driven onto rocks and sinks. The survivors include Jack Byron, a midshipman, and his eccentric protege Toby, an alarmingly naive surgeon’s mate with a single-minded devotion to zoology • Faced with a surplus of rum, a disappearing stock of food, and a hard, detested captain, the survivors soon descend into trouble of every kind, including drunkeness, mutiny and bloodshed. As they make their way northwards under the guidance of a band of stony and depraved Indians, they at last find safety and good treatment in Valparaiso