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Тик-так, тик-так, тик-так... полночь • Когда старое тысячелетие переходит в новое, две очень разные женщины рожают двух очень похожих дочерей • Хоуп уходит с красивой малышкой • Анна уходит с пустыми руками • Семнадцать лет спустя правда о той ночи, ужасная и глубокая, начинает докатываться до них всех • Грядет расплата. Жизни столкнутся • И материнская любовь будет испытана • "Из-за тебя" - потрясающий новый роман Дон Френч, рассказанный с ее фирменным юмором, теплотой и такой большой любовью • Книга на английском языке • The Life-Affirming And Moving Sunday Times Bestseller From Number-One Bestselling Author Dawn French • Longlisted For The Women's Prize For Fiction And A Richard & Judy Book Club Pick • 'I absolutely loved Because of You. Fantastic, passionate, compassionate, so much wisdom, a lot of humour, very real and credible' Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other • 'Gorgeous

The Foreign Land of the Very Wealthy - otherwise known as Manhattan's Upper East Side - has its own rigid code of behaviour. It's a code strictly adhered to by the Wilder-Bingham family • Emotional displays - unacceptable • Unruly behaviour - definitely not welcome • Fun - no thanks • This is Glenn Wilder-Bingham's kingdom. A beautifully displayed, impeccably edited fortress of restraint • So when Rosie Kitto, an eccentric thirty-eight-year-old primary school teacher from England, bounces into their lives with a secret sorrow and a heart as big as the city, nobody realises that she hasn't read the rule book • Because after a lifetime of saying no, what happens when everyone decides to start saying . . . yes?

The hilarious and heartwarming memoir from one of Britain's best-loved comedians and Women's Prize longlisted author, Dawn French • Dawn French is one of the greatest comedians of our time with a career that has spanned nearly four decades. Loved for her irreverent humour, Dawn has achieved massive mainstream success while continuing to push boundaries and challenge stereotypes. Here, she describes the journey that would eventually establish her as a perhaps unlikely, but nevertheless genuine, national treasure • As part of the much loved duo French and Saunders, Dawn helped create a repertoire of brilliantly observed characters, impersonating everything from Madonna and Harry Potter to The Exorcist. Dawn's iconic role in the Vicar of Dibley showcased not only her talent but also her ability to take a controversial and topical issue and make it mainstream - and very funny

Me You: Not A Diary is a pocket diary without the diary part. Or the pocket • It includes everything you loved about the original but without the calendar pages. To keep a working diary alongside Dawn, we recommend the hardback edition of Me You: A Diary • Me You is a place for me and you to reflect on the patterns and changes of the year. It's full of my thoughts about the seasons, the months and what matters. It's your guide to reflecting on the year you've just had - or the one still to come • Dive in, the paper's lovely

Patrick French's India: A Portrait tells the story of how India emerged from a turbulent struggle for independence to become a vibrant democracy with one of the fastest-growing economies in the world • India is the biggest democracy on earth, a country of dynamic change, huge divisions and countless identities. Is there any way to discover the 'real' India? • In this intimate biography of 1.2 billion people, Patrick French travels all over the country talking to everyone from political leaders to mafia dons, from chained quarry workers to self-made billionaire entrepreneurs, to tell the story of post-independence India as never before

Everyone hates the perfect family • So you'll love the Battles • Meet Mo Battle, about to turn 50 and mum to two helpless, hormonal teenagers. There's 17-year-old daughter Dora who blames Mo for, like, EVERYTHING and Peter who believes he's quite simply as darling and marvellous as his hero Oscar Wilde. Somewhere, keeping quiet, is Dad . . . who's just, well . . . Dad • However, Mo is having a crisis. She's about to do something unusually wild and selfish, which will leave the entire family teetering on the edge of a precipice • Will the family fall? • Or will they, when it really matters, be there for each other?

In The Viral Storm award-winning biologist Nathan Wolfe - known as 'the Indiana Jones of virus hunters' for his work in jungles and rain forests across the world - shows why we are so vulnerable to a global pandemic • The Viral Storm examines how viruses like HIV, swine flu, and bird flu have almost wiped us out in the past - and may do so in the future. It explores why modern life makes us so at risk to global pandemics, and what new technologies can do to prevent them. Wolfe's provocative vision may leave you feeling distinctly uncomfortable - but it will reveal exactly what it is we are up against

Meet Aisling. She's a small-town girl with a big heart • She has a steady job and a loyal boyfriend (though he hasn't put a ring on it even after seven years) • Then one disastrous romantic getaway convinces Aisling to leave him behind and head for the bright lights • But with glamorous new flatmates, a scandal at work and a weird love square, Aisling has no idea what's about to hit her • Fans of Marian Keyes, Bridget Jones and Sophie Kinsella will LOVE this

'Christening? We never said nothing about no christening, Ma, did we?' • And so with the appearance of a letter announcing the imminent arrival of Madame Dupont, Pop and Ma Larkin learn that little Oscar and Blenheim - Charley and Mariette's new boy - are to be christened • In fact, once Mr Candy - who will be officiating (much to raven-haired Primrose's delight) - learns that Pop and Ma have neglected the entire Larkin brood, the whole family seems set for a dunking! • Pop, who needs no excuse to open a few bottles of Dragon's Blood and host the perfick party, rushes out and buys a fun fair to celebrate • But there are one or two gatecrashers even Pop hadn't counted on turning up

Люси Бартон - успешная писательница, живущая в Нью-Йорке, во второй половине своей жизни недавно овдовевшая и воспитывающая двух взрослых дочерей. Неожиданная встреча приводит ее к воссоединению с Уильямом, ее первым мужем и давним другом и наперсницей. Вспоминая свои студенческие годы, рождение дочерей, болезненный распад брака и жизни, которые они строили с другими людьми, Страут создает потрясающий по своей тонкости портрет нежного, сложного партнерства, длившегося десятилетия • Роман Элизабет Страуд "О, Уильям!" запечатлевает радость и печаль от наблюдения за тем, как дети растут и создают собственные семьи; от раскрытия семейных тайн в зрелом возрасте, которые меняют все, что, как нам кажется, мы знаем о самых близких нам людях; и о том, как люди живут и любят, несмотря ни на что

'I should like to go to France,' said Ma • 'God Almighty,' Pop said. 'What for?' • 'For a holiday of course,' Ma said. 'I think it would do us all good to get some sun.' • And so at the end of a rainy English August the Larkins - all ten of them, including little Oscar, the family's new addition - bundle into the old Rolls and cross the Channel to escape the hostile elements • But far from being the balmy, sunny and perfick spot Ma Larkin hoped for, France proves less than welcoming to an eccentric English family. The tea's weak, the furniture breakable and the hotel manager is almost as hostile as the wind and the rain they've brought with them! • And when the manager learns that Ma and Pop are unmarried yet sharing a room under his roof, the trouble really begins

Someone's watching you. You don't know who. But he knows you • Zoe, Jennifer and Nadia are three women with nothing in common. Except for the man who wants to kill them. He sends them terrifying letters - promising to bring their lives to a violent, horrible end. But not before he has enjoyed himself • He delights in watching the women suffer, thrilled by his power to leave them utterly helpless, alone and in terror. Except they're not all as helpless as he thinks