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Captain Cleve Connell arrives in Korea with a single goal: to become an ace, one of that elite fraternity of jet pilots who have downed five MIGs. But as his fellow airmen rack up kill after kill - sometimes under dubious circumstances - Cleve’s luck runs bad. Other pilots question his guts. Cleve comes to question himself. And then in one icy instant 40,000 feet above the Yalu River, his luck changes forever. Filled with courage and despair, eerie beauty and corrosive rivalry, James Salter’s luminous first novel is a landmark masterpiece in the literature of war

Rand lives free; lean, pure and defiant, the world has little influence on him. His passion is climbing – the mountains, the huge vertical faces. There, where storms, snow, or rockfall can kill, he finds his happiness, sometimes climbing with others, sometimes alone. This is a novel of obsession and where it leads. Rand, not intending it, becomes suddenly famous for a daring rescue in the Alps. What happens when passion is spent and what becomes of heroes is revealed in this terse and powerfully written novel

The dead don't always rest in peace . . . Discover the gripping Richard and Judy pick, and first thriller in the bestselling Inspector McLean series • From the Sunday Times bestseller comes an electrifying crime thriller for fans of Ian Rankin, Peter James and Stuart MacBride • Edinburgh is horrified by a series of bloody killings • Deaths for which there appears to be neither rhyme nor reason, and which leave the city's police stumped • DI Tony McLean is focused on the investigation, but his attention is drawn by a chilling cold case • A young girl, ritualistically murdered • Her remains hidden for sixty years • It seems impossible that there could be any connection between the cases, but McLean starts to wonder • Because if it's true, they might be facing an evil beyond anything they ever imagined

365 is James Robertson's innovative collection of 365 stories, each 365 words long • In 2013, James Robertson wrote a story every day. Each was exactly 365 words long. A year later, on a daily basis, the stories were published on the Five Dials website. Now the 365 stories are gathered together in one volume. Some draw on elements of ancient myth and legend, others are outtakes from Scottish history and folklore; there are squibs and satires, songs and ballads in disguise, fairytales, stories inspired by dreams or in the form of interviews, and personal memories and observations • Underpinning all of them are vital questions: Who are we? What are we doing here? What happens next?

Will Parks needs to man up • A man stands. A man fights. A man bleeds • These are the first lessons you learn in a town where girls are objects, words are weak and fists do the talking • Will's more at home in the classroom than the gym, and the most important woman in his life is his gran. So how can a boy who's always backed away from a fight become the hero who saves the day? • Because a disaster is coming. One that Will can prevent. But only if he learns the most important lesson of all: sometimes to step up, you have to man down • A searingly powerful exploration of toxic masculinity, perfect for fans of Juno Dawson or They Both Die at the End

Фредди - бывший полицейский из Лос-Анджелеса, находящийся в розыске. Он хладнокровно расправился с убийцей полицейского - и это сильно его задело. Теперь он подлый частный детектив, вымогатель, сутенер - и, что самое примечательное, главный силач журнала Confidential • Добро пожаловать в роман Джеймса Эллроя "Повсеместная паника" - историю о всепроникающей паранойе, изобилующей коммунистическими заговорами, аферистами из ФБР, непристойными фильмами о знаменитостях и странными партнерами по постели • Книга на английском языке • Freddy is an ex-L.A. cop on the skids. He snuffed a cop killer in cold blood - and it got to him bad. Now he's a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp - and, most notably, the head strongarm goon for Confidential magazine

James Tiptree Jr, the pen name of Alice Bradley Sheldon, is widely considered to be one of the most influential American genre writers ever, and a pioneer of feminist science fiction • 10,000 Light Years from Home, her brilliant debut collection, displays all her trademark humour, intensity and originality, with dark dystopian thrills, fast-paced intergalactic satire and hardboiled tales of alien invasion. A startling and unforgettable depiction of humanity's experience among the stars, the collection includes some of Tiptree's most powerful stories: 'And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side', 'The Man Who Walked Home' and 'Beam Us Home'

Роман «Годы» повествует о семействе Парджитеров. Это история о близости и отчуждении, о страхах и надеждах. Читатель будет следить за их жизнью в постоянно меняющемся Лондоне на протяжении полувека, станет свидетелями того, как ломаются устои викторианской эпохи, а правила этикета проникают из салонов в бомбоубежища. В своем предпоследнем романе Вирджиния Вулф демонстрирует стойкость человеческого духа, способного выстоять перед временем, изменениями, жизнью, смертью и возрождением. «Годы» станут идеальным подарком для любителей модернистской литературы • Книга на английском языке • The Years is the story of the Pargiter family - their intimacies and estrangements, anxieties and triumphs - mapped out against the bustling rhythms of London's streets during the first decades of the twentieth century, as their Victorian upbringing gives way to a new world, where the rules of etiquette have shifted from the drawing room to the air-raid shelter

Истинную дружбу ничто не способно разрушить • Эвакуированная из разрушенного бомбардировками Лондона, застенчивая Элизабет Уайт отправляется погостить к семье О’Коннор в Килгаррет, Ирландию, где у нее завязывается неожиданная дружба с живой, неистовой Эшлинг О’Коннор • Ни одна из них даже и не догадывается, что это станет самой важной дружбой в жизни. Их связь будет непоколебимой, несмотря на бурные годы перемен и хаоса, радости и печали, возвышенных мечтаний и жгучих предательств • С теплотой, остроумием и большим состраданием Мэйв Бинчи рассказывает великолепную историю двух женщин, связанных дружбой, которую ничто не могло разрушить — даже мужчина, который угрожал встать между ними навсегда • «Зажги свечу» Мейв Бинчи — отличная книга в подарок, это глубокий и пронзительный роман об отношениях между людьми, о дружбе, верности и любви

Last Night is a spellbinding collection of stories about passion - by turns fiery and subdued, destructive and redemptive, alluring and devastating. A lover of poetry is asked by his wife to give up what may be his most treasured friendship. A book dealer is forced to face the truth when a figure from his past pays an unexpected visit. In the title story, a husband has promised to assist his wife's suicide • Drawn in by a lingering swirl of tone, revelation and insight, the reader of these ten powerful stories will be transfixed as, seemingly without effort, Salter finds the charged moments that will come to shape a fate and detonates them before our very eyes

All That Is explores a life unfolding in a world on the brink of change. The life is that of Philip Bowman and we see his formative experiences as a young naval officer in battles off Okinawa, his post-war career as a book editor in New York, his trips to the great European cities - for publishing parties in London, romantic holidays in Paris • But despite his success, what eludes him is love. His first marriage goes bad, another fails to happen, finally he meets a woman who enthrals him before setting him on a course he could never imagine for himself • James Salter's dazzling, seductive and haunting novel offers a fiercely intimate account of the great shocks and grand pleasures of being alive

1960-е годы. Филип Дин, вольный выпускник Йельского университета, путешествует по провинциальной Франции, а иногда и по Парижу на взятом напрокат, некогда элегантном автомобиле. У него начинается неподходящий роман с молодой продавщицей по имени Энн-Мари. Вместе они сгорают в повседневном, но потрясающе чувственном раю • "Спорт и времяпрепровождение" - соблазнительная классика, создавшая Джеймсу Солтеру репутацию одного из лучших писателей современности. Она примечательна своим эротизмом, яркой прозой и способностью исследовать границы между тем, о чем мечтают, и тем, что проживают, между телом и душой • Книга на английском языке • The 1960s. Philip Dean, a footloose Yale dropout, is touring provincial France and sometimes Paris in a borrowed, once elegant car