Penguin In Montmartre. Picasso, Matisse and Modernism in Paris, 1900-1910 Роу Сью

Вошедший в шорт-лист премии "Золотой кинжал" для писателей-криминалистов за научно-популярную литературу, "Настоящее преступление встречается с юмором в защите виновных" - уморительно смешное и открывающее глаза разоблачение системы уголовного правосудия • Каждый день адвокат по уголовным делам Алекс Макбрайд выступает в суде и пытается спасти людей от осуждения, тюрьмы и даже пожизненного заключения за решеткой. Иногда это безнадежный случай • Иногда у него есть шанс исправить ошибку. Но в основном его клиенты просто виноваты • Защищая виновных, Макбрайд вводит нас за кулисы британской системы уголовного правосудия. Он знакомит нас с его экстраординарными персонажами и загадочной эксцентричностью, а также рассказывает удивительные истории триумфа и поражения в зале суда

Inside the corrupt and secret business of global shipping, the explosive true story of a notorious international fraud and murder • In July 2011, the oil tanker Brillante Virtuoso was drifting through the treacherous Gulf of Aden when a crew of pirates attacked and set her ablaze in a devastating explosion. But when David Mockett, a maritime surveyor working for Lloyd's of London, inspected the damaged vessel, he was left with more questions than answers. Soon after his inspection, he was murdered • Dead in the Water is a shocking expose of the criminal inner-workings of international shipping, an old-world industry at the backbone of our global economy. Through first-hand accounts of those who lived the hijacking - from members of the ship's crew and witnesses to the attacks, to the ex-London detectives turned private investigators seeking to solve Mockett's murder - award-winning reporters Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel piece together the astounding truth behind one of the most brazen financial frauds in history

Сью Таунсенд, автор бестселлеров серии "Эдриан Моул", возвращается с "Женщиной, которая год не выходила из постели", забавным и трогательным романом о том, что происходит, когда кто-то перестает быть тем, кем все хотят его видеть • В тот день, когда ее близнецы уходят из дома, Ева забирается в постель и остается там. В течение семнадцати лет ей хотелось закричать на весь мир: "Остановитесь! Я хочу выйти". Наконец-то это ее шанс • Легионы поклонников, полагая, что она протестует, собираются на улице. В то время как Александр, человек из белого фургона, приносит чай, тосты и сочувствие. И из этого странного, но успокаивающего места Ева начинает видеть и себя, и мир совсем, совсем по-другому • Книга на английском языке • What happens when a duvet day turns into a duvet year? • Sue Townsend, the bestselling author of the Adrian Mole series, returns with The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year, a funny and touching novel about what happens when someone stops being the person everyone wants them to be

In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails and property vanishes. People suffer fits and are plagued by strange visions and dreams. Children sicken and die. As tensions rise, rumours spread of witches and heretics, and the community becomes tangled in a web of spite, distrust and denunciation. The finger of suspicion falls on a young couple struggling to make a home and feed their children: Hugh Parsons the irascible brickmaker and his troubled wife, Mary. It will be their downfall • The Ruin of All Witches tells the dark, real-life folktale of witch-hunting in a remote Massachusetts plantation. These were the turbulent beginnings of colonial America, when English settlers' dreams of love and liberty, of founding a 'city on a hill', gave way to paranoia and terror, enmity and rage

During the 1920s, in the Parisian neighbourhood of Montparnasse, a unique flowering of avant-garde artistic creativity became the cradle of Dada and Surrealism. In this crowd biography, Sue Roe tells the story - from Duchamp to Dali, via Man Ray and Max Ernst - of the salons and cafes, alliances and feuds, love affairs and scandals, successes and suicides of one of the most important and long-lasting artistic achievements of the twentieth century

The perfect edition for any Orwell enthusiasts' collection, discover Orwell's personal account of life on the streets beautifully reimagined by renowned street artist Shepard Fairey • To be poor and destitute in 1920s Paris and London was to experience life at its lowest ebb. George Orwell, penniless and with nowhere to go, found himself experiencing just this as he wandered the streets of both capitals in search of a job. By day, he tramped the streets, often passing time with 'screevers' or street artists, drunks and other hobos. At night, he stood in line for a bed in a 'spike' or doss house, where a cup of sugary tea, a hunk of stale bread and a blanket were the only sustenance and comfort on offer • First published in 1933, Down and Out in Paris and London is George Orwell's haunting account of the streets and those who have no choice but to live on them

"Фунты лиха в Париже и Лондоне" - драматичная и в то же время преисполненная свойственным Джорджу Оруэллу язвительным юмором автобиографическая история молодого английского интеллектуала, перебивающегося в столицах случайными заработками посудомойщика в ресторанах. Мрачный, блестящий и точный автопортрет одного из типичных представителей европейского "потерянного поколения" • Книга на английском языке • George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a moving tour of the underworld of society • 'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them.' • Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, it documents his 'first contact with poverty'

Before publishing the sensuous and scandalous poems of Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) had already earned respect as a forthright and witty critic of art and literature. This stimulating selection of criticism reveals him as a worshipper at the altar of beauty, illuminating his belief that the pursuit of this ideal must be paramount in artistic expression. Reviews of exhibitions discuss works by great painters such as Delacroix and Ingres in fascinating detail, and 'Of Virtuous Plays and Novels' sees Baudelaire as an avenging angel in defence of true art. Writings on Poe, Flaubert and Gautier evoke a profound understanding of fellow artists, while his single excursion into musical criticism, 'Richard Wagner and Tannhauser in Paris', displays an incisive awareness of the magical power of suggestion in music

Acclaimed professor reveals how working couples can successfully combine love and work • Finding fulfilment in both love and work isn't easy--but it is possible • Most advice for working couples fails because it treats the challenge of balancing two careers as a zero-sum game in which one partner's gain is the other's loss. This book is different • In Couples That Work, professor Jennifer Petriglieri shifts away from the language of sacrifice and trade-offs, and focuses on how couples can tackle the challenges they will face throughout their lives--together • Petriglieri identifies three key phases of exploration and growth in every couple's work-life journey and provides tools to help couples navigate three pivotal questions together • · How can we make this work? • · What do we really want? • · Who are we now? • Based on five-years research interviewing over a hundred couples from thirty countries, Couples That Work is filled with vivid, real-life stories

A shocking expose: the inside story behind the fall of the most powerful man in Irish sport • Over the course of fifteen years, John Delaney ran the Football Association of Ireland as his own personal fiefdom. He had his critics, but his power was never seriously challenged until last year, when Mark Tighe and Paul Rowan published a sequence of stories in the Sunday Times containing damaging revelations about his personal compensation and the parlous financial situation of the FAI. Delaney's reputation as a great financial manager was left in tatters. He resigned under pressure, and the FAI was left hoping for a massive bail-out from the Irish taxpayer • In Champagne Football, Tighe and Rowan dig deep into the story of Delaney's career and of the FAI's slide into ruin

В этой потрясающе оформленной книге классических сказок удостоенный наград автор Филип Пуллман выбрал пятьдесят своих любимых историй из Братьев Гримм и представляет их в пересказе "прозрачном, как вода", своим уникальным и блестящим голосом. Эти новые версии показывают приключения в их самой яркой и увлекательной форме. "Сказки братьев Гримм для молодых и старых" о злых женах, храбрых детях и злодейских королях заставят вас читать, перечитывать их вслух еще много лет • Книга на английском языке • A phenomenal bestselling author meets the most magical stories ever told, now in a beautiful clothbound classics edition • In this stunningly designed book of classic fairy tales, award-winning author Philip Pullman has chosen his fifty favourite stories from the Brothers Grimm and presents them in a 'clear as water' retelling, in his unique and brilliant voice

In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world it built - and then lost - over nearly a millennium • From modest origins, the Habsburgs grew in power to gain control of the Holy Roman Empire in the fifteenth century. Then, in just a few decades, their possessions rapidly expanded to take in a large part of Europe stretching from Hungary to Spain, and from the Far East to the New World. The family continued to dominate Central Europe until the catastrophe of the First World War • With its seemingly disorganized mass of large and small territories, its tangle of laws and privileges and its medley of languages, the Habsburg Empire has always appeared haphazard and incomplete. But here Martyn Rady shows the reasons for the family's incredible endurance, driven by the belief that they were destined to rule the world as defenders of the Roman Catholic Church, guarantors of peace and patrons of learning