Inspiria Портрет Лукреции. Трагическая история Медичи О`Фаррелл Мэгги

"Гамлет", вероятно, не имеет соперников по своей популярности на всех сценах мира, ей подвластна любая зрительская аудитория. Центральная роль, допускающая самые различные прочтения и при этом исполненная философской глубины - предмет мечтаний лучших актеров. Перевод Б.Л.Пастернака - прекрасный поэтический эквивалент этого произведения. Если "Гамлет" может быть воспринят как трагедия творческой личности, "Сон в летнюю ночь" - плод счастливой окрыленной фантазии поэта, волшебная сказка. Перевод Т.Л.Щепкиной-Куперник передает нам очарование феерии, этого "сна наяву"."

Florence, the 1560s. Lucrezia, third daughter of Cosimo de' Medici, is free to wander the palazzo at will, wondering at its treasures and observing its clandestine workings. But when her older sister dies on the eve of marriage to Alfonso d'Este, ruler of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, Lucrezia is thrust unwittingly into the limelight: the duke is quick to request her hand in marriage, and her father to accept on her behalf • Having barely left girlhood, Lucrezia must now make her way in a troubled court whose customs are opaque and where her arrival is not universally welcomed. Perhaps most mystifying of all is her husband himself, Alfonso. Is he the playful sophisticate her appears before their wedding, the aesthete happiest in the company of artists and musicians, or the ruthless politician before whom even his formidable sisters seem to tremble? • As Lucrezia sits in uncomfortable finery for the painting which is to preserve her image for centuries to come, one thing becomes worryingly clear

История жизни и любви адмирала Нельсона и леди Гамильтон всегда привлекала внимание. Невозможно подсчитать количество книг, статей и фильмов, посвященных этой теме. Национальный герой Англии и профессиональная куртизанка… Была то настоящая взаимная любовь или просто скандальный мезальянс? Почему история отношений Нельсона и Эммы Гамильтон до сих пор интересует и волнует людей. Какие тайны хранят истории их жизни? Обо всем этом вы узнаете, прочитав новую книгу известного российского писателя-мариниста Владимира Шигина «Адмирал Нельсон и леди Гамильтон» • Оставьте сиюминутные заботы и домашние дела! Вас ждет увлекательное путешествие в прошлое, морские приключения и сражения, политические интриги и, конечно же, великая любовная драма. Вместе с автором вы проживете жизнь героев книги, будете сопереживать и возмущаться их поступкам, радоваться и печалиться успехам и неудачам

Случалось ли тебе когда-нибудь неожиданно проснуться ночью, и… увидеть рядом загадочного незнакомца, будто сотканного из невесомой снежной ткани? Именно это произошло с маленькой Сильвией, и сначала она испугалась не на шутку! Но новый знакомый и сам растерялся: ведь он был самым настоящим снежным ангелом и спустился с небес, чтобы спасти Сильвию! Но разве ей грозит какая-то опасность? • Лиричная история о чудесах и невидимых защитниках, которые всегда рядом

On a cold February afternoon, Stella catches sight of a man she hasn't seen for many years, but instantly recognises. Or thinks she does. At the same moment on the other side of the globe, in the middle of a crowd of Chinese New Year revellers, Jake realises that things are becoming dangerous • They know nothing of one another's existence, but both Stella and Jake flee their lives: Jake in search of a place so remote it doesn't appear on any map, and Stella for a destination in Scotland, the significance of which only her sister, Nina, will understand

It's July 1976. In London, it hasn't rained for months, gardens are filled with aphids, water comes from a standpipe, and Robert Riordan tells his wife Gretta that he's going round the corner to buy a newspaper. He doesn't come back. The search for Robert brings Gretta's children - two estranged sisters and a brother on the brink of divorce - back home, each with different ideas as to where their father might have gone. None of them suspects that their mother might have an explanation that even now she cannot share

When Lily moves into Marcus's flat and plunges headlong into a relationship, she must contend not merely with the disapproval of flatmate Aidan, but with a more intangible, hostile presence. Could it be that Sinead, Marcus's ex, is trying to communicate with her? When Lily begins to 'see' Sinead, first about the flat, and then on the streets of London, she must question not merely her sanity, but whether the man she loves is someone she can, or indeed ought, to live with at all

Edinburgh in the 1930s. The Lennox family is having trouble with its youngest daughter. Esme is outspoken, unconventional, and repeatedly embarrasses them in polite society. Something will have to be done • Years later, a young woman named Iris Lockhart receives a letter informing her that she has a great-aunt in a psychiatric unit who is about to be released • Iris has never heard of Esme Lennox and the one person who should know more, her grandmother Kitty, seems unable to answer Iris's questions. What could Esme have done to warrant a lifetime in an institution? And how is it possible for a person to be so completely erased from a family's history?

When the sophisticated Innes Kent turns up on her doorstep, Lexie Sinclair realises she cannot wait any longer for her life to begin, and leaves for London. There, at the heart of the 1950s Soho art scene, she carves out a new life. In the present day, Elina and Ted are reeling from the difficult birth of their first child. Elina struggles to reconcile the demands of motherhood with her sense of herself as an artist, and Ted is disturbed by memories of his own childhood that don't tally with his parents' version of events. As Ted begins to search for answers, an extraordinary portrait of two women is revealed, separated by fifty years, but connected in ways that neither could ever have expected

A distraught young woman boards a train at King's Cross to return to her family in Scotland. Six hours later, she catches sight of something so terrible in a mirror at Waverley Station that she gets on the next train back to London • After You'd Gone follows Alice's mental journey through her own past, after a traffic accident has left her in a coma. A love story that is also a story of absence, and of how our choices can reverberate through the generations, it slowly draws us closer to a dark secret at a family's heart

A reclusive ex-film star living in the wilds of Ireland, Claudette Wells is a woman whose first instinct, when a stranger approaches her home, is to reach for her shotgun. Why is she so fiercely protective of her family, and what made her walk out of her cinematic career when she had the whole world at her feet? • Her husband Daniel, reeling from a discovery about a woman he last saw twenty years ago, is about to make an exit of his own. It is a journey that will send him off-course, far away from the life he and Claudette have made together. Will their love for one another be enough to bring Daniel back home?

Афера, убийство и журналистское расследование под одной обложкой! • Действие романа развернется вокруг сети ресторанчиков в Австралии, в диаспоре греческих эмигрантов • Лаки Маллиос — главный герой или же главный злодей? Всего одно неосмотрительное решение запускает цепочку необратимых событий. Теперь всю жизнь ему придется отчаянно пытаться переписать концовку своей трагической истории. Эмили Мэйн — журналистка, которая хочет выяснить подробности жестокой бойни, произошедшей в одном из ресторанчиков Лаки. Что это — профессиональный интерес или побег от последствий развода? • Пожар, который изменит все. Статья в «Нью-Йоркере», которая должна спасти карьеру. Тайна пропавшего отца. Любовь, потерянная и вновь обретенная • В этом романе сплетены истории, полные несбывшихся надежд и вопросов без ответов