Harpercollins The Hundred Days О`Брайан Патрик

«Капитан» — семнадцатый исторический роман британского писателя Патрика О`Брайана из серии «Обри-Мэтьюрин», впервые опубликованный в 1995 году. Действие происходит во время наполеоновских войн и войны 1812 года • Долгая служба Джека Обри наконец-то была вознаграждена повышением в звании до капитана и получением под командование эскадры кораблей. Его новое задание сложное – во-первых, пресечь работорговлю у берегов Западной Африки, а затем, по возвращении, перехватить французский флот, груженный оружием, предназначенным для ирландцев • Но будет ли конфликт интересов непреодолимым для его друга, ирландца Стивена Мэтьюрина? • Книга на английском языке • To whom does one’s true allegiance lie? • Jack Aubrey’s long service has at last been rewarded with promotion to the rank of commodore, and a squadron of ships to command

«Кларисса Оукс» — пятнадцатый исторический роман британского писателя Патрика О`Брайана из серии «Обри-Мэтьюрин», впервые опубликованный в 1992 году. Действие происходит во время наполеоновских войн и войны 1812 года • Отплывая из Порт-Джексона, капитан Джек Обри не испытывает ничего, кроме облегчения от того, что оставляет исправительную колонию и ее обитателей далеко позади. Но он не знает, что среди его команды скрывается некая Кларисса Оукс. Поскольку Британия воюет на два фронта, как с Америкой, так и с Францией, Обри получает приказ отправиться на Сандвичевы острова и вмешаться в разгоревшийся там конфликт • Сколько же неприятностей может причинить одна женщина? • Книга на английском языке • With factions on board, and multiple enemies to contend with, only the most careful navigation will save them

"Синева над мачтой" - двадцатый и последний завершенный исторический роман Патрика О`Брайана из серии «Обри-Мэтьюрин», впервые опубликованный в 1999 году. Действие происходит после наполеоновских войн, в борьбе Чили за независимость от Испании • Для человека войны мирное время - это величайший вызов • Оставив позади Европу, все еще подводящую итоги после решающей битвы при Ватерлоо, Джек Обри и его друг Стивен Мэтьюрин плывут в Чили. Но даже при новоиспеченном мире жизнь на море по-прежнему полна опасностей и неминуемых катастроф, а политические потрясения на южноамериканском континенте равны любой угрозе, с которой они сталкивались раньше • После потери цели и любви - могут ли два друга спасти то, что им дороже всего? • Книга на английском языке

Вражеский фрегат неизбежно нанесет ущерб жизненно важной британской китобойной торговле и должен быть остановлен любой ценой • Наперегонки со временем капитан Джек Обри и его команда должны преследовать американский корабль "Норфолк", огибающий мыс Горн, преследуя его в Великом Южном море и за его пределами. Следуя вдоль экватора, впереди их ждут не только чудеса природы Галапагосских островов, но и череда катастроф - люди за бортом, потерпевшие кораблекрушение, тайфуны, кораблекрушения, не говоря уже об убийствах и преступном безумии • Одержат ли Джек Обри и его команда победу в смертельной игре в кошки-мышки со своими американскими врагами, несмотря ни на что? • Книга на английском языке • An enemy frigate is outward bound to play havoc with the vital British whaling trade, and must be stopped at all costs

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…

A major novel from the internationally bestselling author of ‘The Joy Luck Club’, ‘The Kitchen God’s Wife’ and ‘The Hundred Secret Senses’ • LuLing Young is in her eighties, and finally beginning to feel the effects of old age. Trying to hold on to the evaporating past, she begins to write down all that she can remember of her life as a girl in China. Meanwhile, her daughter Ruth, a ghostwriter for authors of self-help books, is losing the ability to speak up for herself in front of the man she lives with. LuLing can only look on, helpless: her prickly relationship with her daughter does not make it easy to discuss such matters. In turn, Ruth has begun to suspect that something is wrong with her mother: she says so many confusing and contradictory things

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 New York Times bestselling author turns the clock back to a time when two young girls convinced the world that fairies really did exist… • Cottingley, Yorkshire, 1917: When two young cousins, Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright, announce they have photographed fairies at the bottom of the garden, their parents are astonished. But when the great novelist, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, endorses the photographs’ authenticity, the girls become a sensation; their discovery offering something to believe in amid a world ravaged by war • One hundred years later: When Olivia Kavanagh finds an old manuscript and a photograph in her late grandfather’s bookshop it sparks a fascination with the story of the two young girls who mystified the world. Delving deeper into the past, and the truth behind an innocent game that became a national obsession, Olivia begins to question her own beliefs

The extraordinary story of the UK’s most gruelling and spectacularly beautiful islands. Tom Steel’s acclaimed portrait of the St Kildan’s lives is now updated in this reissued edition • Situated at the westernmost point of the United Kingdom, the spectacularly beautiful but utterly bleak island of St Kilda is familiar to virtually nobody. A lonely archipelago off the coast of Scotland, it is hard to believe that for over two thousand years, men and women lived here, cut off from the rest of the world • With a population never exceeding two hundred in its history, the St Kildans were fiercely self-sufficient. An intensely religious people, they climbed cliffs from childhood and caught birds for food. Their sense of community was unparalleled and isolation enveloped their day-to-day existence

The royal house of France has fallen. Charles IV is dead, fulfilling the curse of the Templars once and for all. This leaves the path to the throne open for Robert of Artois to place his cousin, Philippe of Valois, upon it. Having committed fraud, perjury and murder in the name of the new king, Robert expects to receive a title and his full reward • But the days of betrayal are far from over and Robert is banished to England. In the land of France’s enemies vengeance sparks fresh conflict as King Edward III and his new ally prepare for war. As swords are sharpened the lion wakes and a pretender threatens France once more …

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’