Fitzcarraldo Editions Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Токарчук Ольга

"Книги Иакова" • В середине восемнадцатого века, когда новые идеи начинают проникать на континент, в одну из польских деревень прибывает молодой еврей загадочного происхождения. Вскоре он меняет не только свое имя, но и личность. Якоб Франк, которого посещают, казалось бы, экстатические переживания, накладывает на себя харизматическое заклятие, привлекающее все более горячих последователей. В течение десятилетия Франк будет путешествовать по империи Габсбургов и Османской империи, толпы учеников будут находиться в его плену, а он будет снова и снова перевоплощаться, переходить в ислам, а затем в католичество, подвергаться поношению как еретик и почитаться как мессия, и сеять хаос в традиционном порядке, как иудейском, так и христианском, скандальными слухами о тайных ритуалах его секты и распространением его все более иконоборческих убеждений

Zubaida is on a journey to unearth the past. It will lead her from the corridors of Harvard to the scorching deserts of Pakistan, and the bones of an ancient whale. It will carry her back to Bangladesh, and the dark horrors of a ship-breaking yard. Here - deep inside a beached ocean liner, steeped in mystery and tragedy - lies the key to her story. And a lifeline to the man she loves, but whose heart she may never win back • Echoing with loneliness and longing, The Bones of Grace is a story of lost love and conflicted identity; of the urgent need to discover who we are, before we can truly belong anywhere and truly love anyone

The simple, rapid-results, do-anywhere programme to get into amazing shape, from elite Special Operations physical trainer Mark Lauren • Elite trainer Mark Lauren has been at the front lines of preparing US Special Operations soldiers for action, getting them lean and strong in record time. Now, he shares the secrets to his simple, yet amazingly effective regimen to get you into the best shape of your life • - Rapid results with minimum time commitment – work out for only 30-minutes a day, four times a week • - No gym or equipment required – simple bodyweight resistance exercises you can do anywhere • - Build muscle and burn fat – get more effective results than weightlifting and aerobics • - Suitable for men, women and all abilities – choose your level from Basic, 1st Class, Master Class and Chief Class • - Safe and effective – develop balance, stability and prevent injuries • With 125 clear exercises to work every muscle in your body, motivation techniques and nutritional advice, Mark Lauren’s method will get you the body you want simply by using the body you have

This brilliant book introduces a completely new maze concept: interactive flaps that transform the routes! Open and close the flaps to reveal new paths and escape the dead ends. There is only one route through, but can you find it? There are 8 mazes to try, each with flaps to turn a tricky puzzle into something fiendishly fun and absolutely absorbing! Children aged 7 and up will love being actively involved in finding the right path

На дворе 1560 год, Элизабет Тюдор на троне уже год. Доктор Джон Ди, уже в 32 признанный по всей Европе – ее астролог и консультант по тайным искусствам… спорное назначение в дни суеверия и религиозной борьбы • Теперь тихий, оторванный от реальности Ди отправляется в Гластонбури, чтобы найти останки Короля Артура, чье наследие всегда было важным для семьи Тюдор. С ним, едва ли безопасный компаньон, его друг друг и бывший студент Роберт Дудли, любящий рисковать оторва и, возможно, тайный любовник Королевы • Известный мистический город все еще оплакивает казнь своего Настоятеля церкви, Ричарда Уайтинга. Но почему в действительности убили Настоятеля? Что за секрет хранят монахи с тех пор, как Настоятеля нашел Джозеф из Аматеи, дядя Христа и защитник Священной Граали? • Миссия отправляет Ди в запутанные корни Английской магии, в неожиданную жестокость, темную некроманию, волнующую бездыханную первую любовь… и холодное сердце сюжета против Элизабет

Buried deep in rural France, little remains of the isolated hamlet of the Three Lone Girls, save a few houses and a curiously assembled quartet: Patrice Bergogne, inheritor of his family’s farm; his wife, Marion; their daughter, Ida; and their neighbour, Christine, an artist. While Patrice plans a surprise for his wife’s fortieth birthday, inexplicable events start to disrupt the hamlet’s quiet existence: anonymous, menacing letters, an unfamiliar car rolling up the driveway. And as night falls, strangers stalk the houses, unleashing a nightmarish chain of events • Told in rhythmic, propulsive prose that weaves seamlessly from one consciousness to the next over the course of a day, Laurent Mauvignier’s The Birthday Party is a deft unravelling of the stories we hide from others and from ourselves, a gripping tale of the violent irruptions of the past into the present, written by a major contemporary French writer

‘After many years I had excised myself from the life I had led in town, just as one might cut a figure out of a landscape or group photo. Abashed by the harm I had wreaked on the picture left behind, and unsure where the cut-out might end up next, I lived a provisional existence. I did so in a place where I knew none of my neighbours, where the street names, views, smells and faces were all unfamiliar to me, in a cheaply appointed flat where I would be able to lay my life aside for a while.’ • In River, a woman moves to a London suburb for reasons that are unclear. She takes long, solitary walks by the River Lea, observing and describing her surroundings and the unusual characters she encounters. Over the course of these wanderings she amasses a collection of found objects and photographs and is drawn into reminiscences of the different rivers which haunted the various stages of her life, from the Rhine, where she grew up, to the Saint Lawrence, the Hooghly, and the banks of the Oder

Annie Ernaux’s father died exactly two months after she passed her exams for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labour, Ernaux’s father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed his family little affection. Narrating his slow ascent towards material comfort, Ernaux’s cold observation in A Man’s Place reveals the shame that haunted her father throughout his life. She scrutinizes the importance he attributed to manners and language that came so unnaturally to him as he struggled to provide for his family with a grocery store and cafe in rural France. Over the course of the book, Ernaux grows up to become the uncompromising observer now familiar to the world, while her father matures into old age with a staid appreciation for life as it is and for a daughter he cautiously, even reluctantly admires

Flights, a novel about travel in the twenty-first century and human anatomy, is Olga Tokarczuk’s most ambitious to date. It interweaves travel narratives and reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. From the seventeenth century, we have the story of the Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyen, who dissected and drew pictures of his own amputated leg. From the eighteenth century, we have the story of a North African-born slave turned Austrian courtier stuffed and put on display after his death. In the nineteenth century, we follow Chopin’s heart as it makes the covert journey from Paris to Warsaw. In the present we have the trials of a wife accompanying her much older husband as he teaches a course on a cruise ship in the Greek islands, and the harrowing story of a young husband whose wife and child mysteriously vanish on a holiday on a Croatian island

The first novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk about Kevin is a compelling and provocative story of love and how we suffer for it • Still unattached and childless at fifty-nine, world-renowned anthropologist Gray Kaiser is seemingly invincible-and untouchable. Returning to make a documentary at the site of her first great triumph in Kenya, she is accompanied by her faithful middle-aged assistant, Errol McEchern, who has loved her for years in silence • When young graduate assistant Raphael Sarasola arrives on the scene, Gray is captivated and falls hopelessly in love-before an amazed Errol's eyes. As he follows their affair with jealous fascination, Errol watches helplessly from the sidelines as a proud and fierce woman is reduced to miserable dependence through miserable dependence