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A quest for secrets in the blue afternoon • Los Angeles, 1936. Kay Fischer, a young and ambitious architect, is being followed by an old man. When confronted, he explains that his name is Salvador Carriscant - and that he is her father • In a matter of weeks Kay will join Salvador on an extraordinary journey as they delve back into his past to not only learn the truth behind her own birth, but also to discover the whereabouts of a woman long thought dead - and to uncover the identity of a killer

Henderson Dores is an Englishman in New York - and completely out of his depth • He should be concentrating on his job as an art assessor, but his complicated personal life keeps intruding. And that's before we even get to his sense of alienation, of being a fish out of water. For Henderson is a shy man lost in a country of extraverts and weirdos. Subway poets, loony millionaires, Bible-bashers and sharp-suited hoods stalk him wherever he goes. But it is only when he's sent to America's deep South to examine a rare collection of paintings that matters take a life-threatening turn. Still, if it doesn't kill you, they say it can only make you stronger

Meet John James Todd • Scotsman, auteur, Rousseau-fanatic - and 'subversive element' • Born in 1899, John James Todd is one of the great, failed geniuses of the last century. His reminiscences, collected in The New Confessions, take us from Edinburgh to the Western Front, the Berlin film-world in the Twenties to Hollywood in the Thirties, Forties and beyond • Suffering imprisonment, shooting, marriage, fatherhood, divorce and McCarthyism, Todd is a hostage to good fortune, ill-judgement, bad luck, the vast sweep of history and the cruel, cruel hand of fate

«Распутство и разбой, разбой и распутство – это всегда в моде!» • Вот уже семь лет продолжается Троянская война. Под стенами Трои разбит лагерь греков. В битву возвращается Ахилл, легендарный греческий герой. Тем временем царевич Трои влюбляется в Крессиду, чей отец сбежал во вражеский лагерь. Обмен пленными разлучает влюбленных – как им кажется, навсегда… • «Троил и Крессида» – это пьеса Шекспира, вдохновленная одноименной поэмой Чосера и гомеровской «Илиадой». Книга содержит вступление Колина Барроу, введение в биографию Шекспира и театр елизаветинской эпохи, хронологию творчества писателя, рекомендации для дальнейшего чтения, эссе об адаптациях в кино и театре и комментарии к пьесе • По мотивам произведения было снято несколько фильмов • Книга на английском языке

«О, кто гнуснее может быть, чем тот, • Кто друга в бездну горя низведет?» • Тимон Афинский растрачивает все свое состояние и погрязает в долгах. Однако перспектива окончательно обнищать его не пугает: он надеется, что друзья, которым он так часто помогал, отплатят ему тем же. Но теперь, когда Тимон оказался в затруднительном положении, их обещания ничего не значат… • «Жизнь Тимона Афинского» – это пьеса Шекспира, сочетающая в себе как оптимизм, так и пессимизм; это трагикомедия, сатира, крик души от боли и несправедливости… • Книга содержит введение в биографию Шекспира и театр елизаветинской эпохи, вступление к пьесе, хронологию творчества писателя, рекомендации для дальнейшего чтения, эссе об адаптациях в кино и театре и комментарии к пьесе • По мотивам произведения было снято несколько фильмов

Soldier. Farmer. Felon. Writer. Father. Lover • One man, many lives • Born in 1799, Cashel Greville Ross experiences myriad lives: joyous and devastating, years of luck and unexpected loss. Moving from County Cork to London, from Waterloo to Zanzibar, Cashel seeks his fortune across continents in war and in peace. He faces a terrible moral choice in a village in Sri Lanka as part of the East Indian Army. He enters the world of the Romantic Poets in Pisa. In Ravenna he meets a woman who will live in his heart for the rest of his days. As he travels the world as a soldier, a farmer, a felon, a writer, a father, a lover, he experiences all the vicissitudes of life and, through the accelerating turbulence of the nineteenth century, he discovers who he truly is

In this fully revised and updated Sunday Times bestseller, Steve Hilton shows that we can create a more local, more accountable, more human way of living that will make us more productive, more fulfilled and ultimately happier • Both campaigns are treating people like simpletons. In More Human, read the truth about Brexit, from someone who really knows • In this powerful manifesto, Steve Hilton argues that the frustrations people feel with government, politics, their economic circumstances and their daily lives are caused by deep structural problems with the systems that dominate our modern world - systems that have become too big, bureaucratic and distant from the human scale. He shows how change is possible, offering us a more human way of living

The material world is itself emptiness • Emptiness is itself the material world • Powerful, mystical and concise, the Heart Sutra is believed to contain the condensed essence of all Buddhist wisdom. This brief poem on emptiness has exerted immense influence throughout Asia since the seventh century and is woven into the fabric of daily life. Yet even though it rivals the teachings of Laozi and Confucius in importance, this ancient Buddhist scripture remains barely known in the West • During the many years he has spent living in Japan, Alex Kerr has been on a quest after the secrets of the Heart Sutra. Travelling from Japan, Korea, and China, to India, Mongolia, Tibet and Vietnam, this book brings together Buddhist teaching, talks with friends and mentors, and acute cultural insights to probe the universe of thought contained within this short but intense philosophical work

С пафосом и юмором Флобер представляет себе неизведанную жизнь служанки • Представляем классику Little Black: 80 книг к 80-летию Пингвина. Little Black Classics прославляет огромный ассортимент и разнообразие классической литературы Penguin, включающей книги со всего мира на протяжении многих столетий. Они переносят нас от полета на воздушном шаре над викторианским Лондоном к цветущему саду в Японии, от Огненной земли до Калифорнии 16 века и русской степи. Здесь представлены рассказы лирические и жестокие; стихи эпические и интимные; эссе сатирические и вдохновляющие; и идеи, которые сформировали жизни миллионов • Гюстав Флобер (1821-1880). Произведения Флобера, доступные в Penguin Classics, - "Мадам Бовари", "Сентиментальное воспитание", "Три сказки" и "Саламбо"

Orkney, 1941 • Five hundred Italian prisoners of war arrive to fortify these wild and desolate islands • Orphaned sisters Dorothy and Constance volunteer to nurse the wounded. But while beautiful, damaged Constance remains wary of the men, Dot finds herself increasingly drawn to Cesare, a young man fighting on the wrong side and broken by the horrors of battle. Secretly, passionately, they fall in love • When a tragic mistake from Con's past returns to haunt them, Dot must make a choice • Protect her sister no matter the costs, or save the man who has captured her heart?

Overweight, oversexed and over there • Morgan Leafy is hardly the most respectable of Her Majesty's representatives in the West African state of Kinjanja. For starters, he probably shouldn't have involved himself in wholesale bribery. Nor was it a good career move to go chasing after his boss's daughter; especially when his doctor banned him from horizontal pursuits • But life is about to change for young Morgan Leafy. Every betrayal and humiliation he has suffered at the hands of petty persecutors is suddenly put into perspective. For Morgan has a dead body on his hands - and somehow, some way he's going to have to get rid of it

The infamous literary hoax that fooled the art world • On January 8 1960, artist Nat Tate set out to burn his entire life's work. Four days later he jumped off a Staten Island ferry, killing himself. His body was never found • When William Boyd published his biography of Abstract Expressionist Nat Tate, tributes poured in from a whole host of artists and critics in the New York art world. They toasted the troubled genius in a Manhattan launch party attended by David Bowie and Gore Vidal • But Nat Tate never existed. The book was a hoax • Will Boyd's biography of a fake artist is a brilliant probe into the politics of authenticity and reputation in the modern art scene. It is a playful and intelligent insight into the fascinating, often cryptic world of modern art