Picador And Thereby Hangs a Tale Арчер Джеффри

Author of the bestselling Clifton Chronicles, Jeffrey Archer, gives us fifteen gripping and rewarding short stories for readers to return to time and again • Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to solve a murder and the pretentious schoolboy whose discovery of the origins of his father’s wealth changes his life forever. Follow the stories of the woman who dares to challenge the men at her Ivy League university during the 1930s, and another young woman who thumbs a lift and has an encounter of a lifetime • From the master of the short story, the refreshingly original stories in Tell Tale prove why Archer has been described by the Mail on Sunday as ‘probably the greatest storyteller of our age’

Кажется, еще недавно Гарри Клифтон был персоной нон грата, человеком, вычеркнутым из жизни, — даже имя имел чужое. Но время все расставляет по местам, и вот он уже успешный писатель, счастлив в браке с любимой Эммой, у них растет сын Себастьян. И все-таки существуют силы, ломающие судьбы людей. Себастьяна отчисляют из школы, он сбегает из дома и становится игрушкой в руках преступника. Гарри делает все возможное, чтобы вернуть сына к нормальной жизни… «Тайна за семью печатями» — третий роман «Хроник Клифтонов», истории триумфов и поражений нескольких поколений одной семьи, истории, разворачивающейся на двух континентах, разделенных водами океана. На русский переведен впервые

Suspenseful and thrilling, Sunday Times bestselling author Jeffrey Archer’s Sons of Fortune is a powerful tale of twins separated by fate and reunited by destiny • In the late 1940s in Hartford, Connecticut, a set of twins is parted at birth • Nat Cartwright goes home with his parents, a schoolteacher and an insurance salesman. His twin brother is adopted and becomes Fletcher Davenport, the only son of an American multi-millionaire and his society wife • Unaware the other exists, the brothers grow up and follow different paths, confronted by challenges and obstacles, tragedy and heartache. Nat goes to Vietnam and returns a hero, whilst Fletcher distinguishes himself as a criminal defence lawyer before embarking on a political career • But when Nat enters politics and both decide to run for governor, the brothers become unwitting rivals, setting off a train of events that will either forge their bond or break it forever

Heads You Win is the incredible and thrilling novel by the master storyteller and bestselling author of the Clifton Chronicles and Kane and Abel, Jeffrey Archer • Leningrad, Russia, 1968 • From an early age it is clear that Alexander Karpenko is destined to lead his countrymen. But when his father is assassinated by the KGB for defying the state, Alexander and his mother will have to escape Russia if they hope to survive. At the docks, they have an irreversible choice: board a container ship bound for America or one bound for Great Britain. Alexander leaves the choice to a toss of a coin… • In a single moment, a double twist decides Alexander's future. During an epic tale, spanning two continents and thirty years, we follow Alexander through triumph and defeat as he sets out on parallel lives, as Alex in New York and Sasha in London

"Honour Among Thieves" has a wickedly paced political plot, full of all the twists and turns you can expect from bestselling author, Jeffrey Archer • Who would pay a billion dollars to humiliate America? • The time, 1993. The place, Washington DC. Of the adversaries in the Gulf War, the sole survivor is Saddam Hussein. And Saddam is planning a revenge so diabolical that the United States will be left with no choice but to retaliate

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online • Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content • The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers story comprehension and develop vocabulary

With a will of steel, Florentyna Rosnovski is indeed Abel’s daughter • Inheriting all of her father’s drive but none of his wealth, she is in pursuit of an ambition that far exceeds either her father or his great rival William Kane – to be the first female president • Born into a life of luxury, Richard Kane is determined to carve his own path in the world whilst building a future with Florentyna, the woman he loves • With Florentyna’s ultimate goal only a heartbeat away, both are about to discover the shattering price of power as a titanic battle of betrayal and deception reaches out from the past – a blood feud between two generations that threatens to destroy everything they have fought to achieve

Некоторые мечты столь масштабны, что их исполнение обеспечит мечтателю место в анналах истории. Но что если кто-то воплотит подобный проект в жизнь, не оставив современникам и потомкам свидетельств успеха? • Такая участь постигла Джорджа Мэллори, героя нашей истории. Однажды он сказал американскому репортёру, что хотел покорить Эверест "просто потому, что он есть". Ему было тридцать семь лет на момент его третьей попытки в 1924 году, когда он пропал из виду в шестистах футах от вершины. В 1999 году нашли его тело. И до сих пор неизвестно, удалось ли ему достичь пика • Книга на английском языке • Some people have dreams that are so magnificent that if they were to achieve them, their place in history would be guaranteed. But what if one man had such a dream…and once he'd fulfilled it, there was no proof that he had achieved his ambition? • This is the story of such a man: George Mallory

Джеффри Арчер - самый популярный британский писатель, друг Маргарет Тэтчер, отставной парламентарий, мультимиллионер • В сборник "Короче говоря" вошли четырнадцать рассказов, большинство из которых основаны на реальных событиях • Это истории пропажи шедевров и обретения богатств, политических и любовных игр, гениальных афер и удачливых мошенников. Миллионера, объявившего себя банкротом, дипломата, пускающего казенные деньги в оборот, и президента банка, мечтающего поменяться местами с бродягой

Thrilling and absorbing, Cometh the Hour is the sixth novel in international bestseller Jeffrey Archer's the Clifton Chronicles sees the Clifton and Barrington families navigate the 1970s in this epic tale of tragedy and hope • There are devastating consequences for Harry and Emma Clifton, her brother Giles Barrington and their arch enemy Lady Virginia when a suicide note is read out in court • Having fallen in love, Giles must decide if he should withdraw from politics to try and rescue the woman he loves from behind the Iron Curtain

The fourteen short stories in To Cut a Long Story Short show Jeffrey Archer's great skills with a wide variety of character, of subject and of setting, but all with that trademark twist in the tale • Every reader will have their own favourites: the choices run from love at first sight across the train tracks to the cleverest of confidence tricks, from the quirks of the legal profession and those who are able to manipulate both sides of the Bar to the creative financial talents of a member of Her Majesty's diplomatic service but for a good cause. The last story, The Grass is Always Greener, is possibly the best piece Archer has written, and will haunt you for the rest of your life

Quiver Full of Arrows is a collection of twelve exciting short stories from bestselling author, Jeffrey Archer • Two friends fall under the spell of a New York beauty - with an unexpected outcome. A casual remark is taken seriously by a Chinese sculptor, and the British Ambassador becomes the owner of a priceless work of art. An insurance claims adviser has a most surprising encounter on the train home to Sevenoaks • This marvellous collection of twelve stories ends with a hauntingly written, atmospheric account of two undergraduates at Oxford in the 1930s, a tale of bitter rivalry that ends in a memorable love story