Penguin The Girl on the Train Хокинс Пола

A dark love story set in wartime Rome from the author of In Love and Your Face for the World to See • Rome, 1944. Robert is a lonely American soldier looking for a girl. Lisa is cold and hungry, obliged to seek work at Mamma Pulcini's house on the Via Flaminia. Their lives come together in what should be a simple exchange, a temporary arrangement without love or complication. But in a city broken by war, its people defeated, nothing is simple. Based on Alfred Hayes'own experiences of wartime Italy, this spare, searing novel exposes the dark complexities of the relationship between men and women, victor and vanquished

No one else knows what happened that summer. Or so she believes • Grace first came to France a lifetime ago. Young and full of dreams of adventure, she met two very different men • She fell under the spell of one. The other fell under hers • Until one summer night shattered everything • Now, Grace is living an idyllic life with her husband, sheltered from the world in a magnificent Provencal villa, perched atop a windswept cliff • Every day she looks out over the sea - the only witness to that fateful night years ago • Until a stranger arrives at the house. A stranger who knows everything, and won't leave until he gets what he wants • The past and present spectacularly collide in this gripping story of love and betrayal echoing across the decades

Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She's even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. 'Jess and Jason', she calls them. Their life - as she sees it - is perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy • And then she sees something shocking. It's only a minute until the train moves on, but it's enough • Now everything's changed. Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she's only watched from afar • Now they'll see; she's much more than just the girl on the train

Rome, 1944. Robert is a lonely American soldier looking for a girl. Lisa is cold and hungry, obliged to seek work at Mamma Pulcini's house on the Via Flaminia. Their lives come together in what should be a simple exchange, a temporary arrangement without love or complication. But in a city broken by war, its people defeated, nothing is simple. Based on Alfred Hayes'own experiences of wartime Italy, this spare, searing novel exposes the dark complexities of the relationship between men and women, victor and vanquished

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GIGGED goes inside the Silicon Valley companies leading the way to this emerging ‘gig economy’. It tells the stories of the workers – from computer programmers to online comment moderators – who are getting by in a new wave of precarious, short-term employment. And it sketches out what tomorrow’s economy might look like: one where the fortunate get to work when they want, how they want, while the rest live lives of extraordinary hardship • It might just be the future of work for all of us

When Sam Marlowe falls in love with his cousin's sparky ex-fiancee he finds himself up against stiff opposition from her millionaire father, her father's best friend and the best friend's son for whom she is destined, all of them travelling together aboard the RMS Atlantic. Nothing daunted, Sam perseveres in his suit: though he fails at sea he eventually triumphs on land. This Anglo-American musical comedy in prose begins in New York, crosses the Atlantic in leisurely fashion and ends in an English country house where all manner of things go bump in the night

When the Titanic sank, so did the Edwardian age that created it. In this brilliantly original history, Gareth Russell recasts a tragedy we think we know to explore an era of seismic change • With new research and previously unseen first-hand accounts, Gareth Russell peers through the most famous portholes in the world to follow six travellers. Amongst them, a Jewish-American immigrant, an American movie star, a member of the British nobility, and a titan of industry. Setting these lives against that of the Titanic, Russell investigates social class, technological advancement, political turmoil and pioneering ambition in an age that swang between folly and brilliance, hubris and triumph • A dramatic history of human endeavour told through extraordinary, diverse personalities, The Ship of Dreams dispels myth to revive the story of a ship that was to become symbolic of its own doomed era

For centuries, scientists had only one way to study the brain: wait for misfortune to strike - strokes, seizures, infections, lobotomies, horrendous accidents, phantom limbs, Siamese twins - and see how the victims changed afterwards. In many cases their survival was miraculous, and observers marvelled at the transformations that took place when different parts of the brain were destroyed. Parents suddenly couldn't recognise their children. Pillars of the community became pathological liars and paedophiles. Some people couldn't speak but could still sing. Others couldn't read but could write • The stories of these people laid the foundations of modern neuroscience and, century by century, key cases taught scientists what every last region of the brain did

В этих двух захватывающих романах Герберт Уэллс рисует ужасающее будущее, в котором под угрозой оказывается сама цивилизация • Рассказчик "Войны миров" быстро обнаруживает, что то, что казалось падающей звездой, на самом деле было металлическим цилиндром, приземлившимся с Марса. Шесть миллионов человек начинают в панике покидать Лондон, когда появляются захватчики с щупальцами и захватывают город. Можно ли что-нибудь сделать, чтобы остановить марсиан? • В "Войне в воздухе" наивный, но находчивый Берт Смоллуэйз приходит в восторг от скорости и очарован новыми летательными аппаратами. Любопытство случайно увлекает его в немецкий план завоевания Америки, начинающийся с разрушения Нью-Йорка. Легкость передвижения в воздушной войне означает, что ничто и никто не находится в безопасности, когда вспыхивает Тотальная война, цивилизация рушится, а надежды Берта вернуться в Лондон, чтобы жениться на своей возлюбленной, кажутся невероятно далекими

The Scorching New Thriller From The Bestselling Author Of The Girl On The Train And Into The Water • 'This twisted story with its cast of damaged characters builds to a brilliant conclusion.' • Shari Lapena • 'Here are characters who are real and likeable, even when they are complicated and flawed. Paula Hawkins is a genius' • Lisa Jewell • Three women, connected by one brutal crime • Three women, determined to right the wrongs done to them • Three women, with everything to hide • When it comes to revenge, even good people are capable of terrible things • But only one person killed Daniel Sutherland • How long can their secrets smoulder, before they explode into flame?

Когда в плавучем доме находят тело молодого художника Дэниела, у полиции есть все основания предполагать, что это жестокое убийство совершила женщина • Но кто она? • Лора, его симпатичная подружка, подверженная вспышкам ярости? • Карла, тетя Дэниела, много лет считающая его мать виновной в гибели своего сына? • Или Мириам, живущая на соседней барже? И кажется, ей явно есть, что скрывать… • Три женщины, так или иначе связанные с убитым • Три женщины, в душе которых горит желание исправить причиненное им зло • Но как далеко могла зайти каждая из них, чтобы обрести покой? И как долго могут тлеть секреты, прежде чем они превратятся в настоящий огонь? • "Тлеющий огонь" - книга, отражающая стиль Полы Хокинс. Обманы памяти, противоречивость чувств героев, внимание к их мыслям и мелким деталям - все это выдаёт почерк автора