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"Этот очаровательный человек" Кейм Макдоннелл - вторая книга из признанной критиками серии "Странные времена" • Вампиров не существует. Все это знают. Поэтому особенно раздражает, когда они начинают появляться в окрестностях Манчестера • Это никому не нравится. Ни Основателям, тайной организации, для которой вампиры были придуманы как аллегория, ни Народу, волшебным сущестам, скрытым у всех на виду, желающим только спокойной жизни. И уж точно не жителям Манчестера, потому что нет ничего более неприятного, чем быть убитым взбесившейся аллегорией. Кто-то должен быстро разобраться с этим, пока не разразился ад • Книга на английском языке • Vampires do not exist. Everyone knows this. So it's particularly annoying when they start popping up around Manchester

Meet Rachel Walsh • She's been living it up in New York City, spending her nights talking her way into glamorous parties before heading home in the early hours to her adoring boyfriend, Luke • But her sensible older sister showing up and sending her off to actual rehab wasn't quite part of her plan • She's only agreed to her incarceration because she's heard that rehab is wall-to-wall jacuzzis, spa treatments and celebrities going cold turkey - plus it's about time she had a holiday • Saying goodbye to fun and freedom will be hard - and losing the man who might just be the love of her life will be even harder • But will hitting rock bottom help Rachel learn to love herself, at last?

Meet Anna Walsh • Lying in her parents' Good Front Room, covered in bandages, Anna dreams of leaving Dublin and returning to her beloved New York • To her home. To her job. And most of all to her husband Aidan • Unfortunately, her family have other ideas. She's staying put. And Aidan? He's refusing to even take her calls • The last thing Anna wants is to think about how she ended up in this mess. But with nothing else to do, she's forced to ask herself why she's thousands of miles from the life she loves • Where did it all go wrong? And can she fix it, before it's too late?

Penguin Picks are stories you'll want to read again and again. Beautifully and stylishly designed by a modern artist, they are not only stories you'll keep coming back to but also books whose looks will never go out of fashion • From the bestselling author Marian Keyes, the hilariously heartbreaking Angels follows the tale of the fabulous and uplifting Walsh sister, Maggie • 'Though he never said anything, I knew Garv blamed me • And that was OK, because I blamed me too.' • One day Maggie Walsh walks out on her husband of nine years and runs away to Hollywood. There she joins her best friend Emily, who is busily pitching scripts to studios, mixing with movie stars and generally living the heck out of the dream. Maggie should be enjoying herself but she can't stop thinking about her husband Garv and the life she's run away from

'This is the record of a box man'. Anonymous and alone, the box man peeps out of his cut-out eyeholes and watches the world from behind his four cardboard walls. At first repulsed by the strange phenomenon of people who have decided to abandon society and live in boxes on the Tokyo streets, he has found himself drawn into the anonymity and voyeurism of their life. As he becomes obsessed with spying on a young nurse, his identity slips away, in Kobo Abe's eerie, disorienting and seductive masterpiece of unease

'Myself and Hugh . . . We're taking a break.' • 'A city-with-fancy-food sort of break?' • If only • Amy's husband Hugh says he isn't leaving her • He still loves her, he's just taking a break - from their marriage, their children and, most of all, from their life together • Six months in South-East Asia. And nothing she says can stop him • But when does a break become a break-up? • A lot can happen in six months. And it's enough to send Amy and her family of gossips, misfits and troublemakers teetering over the edge • When Hugh returns, if he returns, will he be the same man she married? • Will Amy be the same woman? • Because if Hugh is on a break from their marriage, then . . . isn't she on one too?

Meet Helen Walsh • Wasp-tongued private investigator Helen doesn't believe in love, fear or hot drinks • But when a missing persons case takes her into the dark, glamorous world of her dodgy ex, Jay Parker, she is drawn away from Artie Devlin, her distinctly unglamorous detective boyfriend • This isn't good news for Helen • For Jay's fame-hungry world is one of smoke and mirrors, and Helen is no longer sure what she's doing, or quite why she's doing it • To save herself from the brink, she'll have to start believing in something - and fast • But will it be fear? Or love?

Ever wished you could trade your life in for a better one? • One day, sitting in traffic, married Dublin mum Stella Sweeney attempts a simple good deed • When the result is a terrible car accident, she meets a handsome stranger with a Range Rover who wants her number - no, for insurance purposes - and in this meeting a seed is born which will change Stella's life forever • What happens next will take Stella thousands of miles from her old life, turning an ordinary woman into a superstar and, along the way, wrenching her whole family apart • Was meeting Mr Range Rover destiny or karma? • Should she be grateful or just hopping mad? • And can Stella grab a chance at real, honest-to-goodness happiness now it finally seems within her reach?

Meet Jessie, Cara and Nell • Married to brothers Johnny, Ed and Liam Casey • Three very different women tied to three very different men • Every family occasion is a party - until the day the secrets spill out • Playtime is over • But where are the grown-ups? • This book has been printed with four different colour designs: blue, green, pink and orange. Covers are assigned to orders at random so we are unable to accept specific requests

In this remarkable autobiography, Man Ray - painter, photographer, sculptor, film maker and writer - relates the story of his life, from his childhood determination to be an artist and his technical drawing classes in a Brooklyn high school, to the glamorous and heady days of Paris in the 1940s, when any trip to the city 'was not complete until they had been "done" by Man Ray's camera' • Friend to everyone who was anyone, Ray tells everything he knows of artists, socialites and writers such as Matisse, Hemingway, Picasso and Joyce, not to mention Lee Miller, Nancy Cunard, Alberto Giacometti, Gertrude Stein, Dali, Max Ernst and many more, in this decadent, sensational account of the early twentieth-century cultural world

The last novel from the unsurpassed master of American detective fiction, Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man is a genre-defining mystery novel, published in Penguin Modern Classics • Ex-detective Nick Charles plans to spend a quiet Christmas holed up in a hotel suite with his glamorous wife Nora, their pet Schnauzer and a case of good Scotch. But then a bullet-riddled corpse and a missing inventor (not to mention the attentions of a beautiful young woman) force him out of retirement and back into business. Trying to make sense of false leads, suspicious alibis and mistaken identities, Nick and Nora are thrown into a world of gangsters, hoodlums and speakeasies, where no-one can be trusted. Dashiell Hammett was credited with inventing the hardboiled crime novel, and this story of murder and mayhem in Manhattan, with its breakneck plot, snappy dialogue - and the hard-drinking, wisecracking couple Nick and Nora - is one of his most thrillingly enjoyable mysteries

A first ink drawing showed a hanged man swinging from a gallows on which perched an enormous crow. And there were at least twenty other etchings and pen or pencil sketches that had the same leitmotif of hanging • On the edge of a forest: a man hanging from every branch • A church steeple: beneath the weathercock, a human body dangling from each arm of the cross. . . Below another sketch were written four lines from Francois Villon's Ballade of the Hanged Men • On a trip to Brussels, Maigret unwittingly causes a man's suicide, but his own remorse is overshadowed by the discovery of the sordid events that drove the desperate man to shoot himself • This novel has been published in previous translations as Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets and The Crime of Inspector Maigret