4th Estate The Beginning of Spring Фицджеральд Пенелопа

It is 1912, and at Cambridge University the modern age is knocking at the gate • Fred Fairly, a Junior Fellow at the college of St Angelicus, where for centuries no female, not even a pussy cat, has been allowed to set foot, lectures in physics. Science, he is certain, will explain everything • Until into Fred's orderly life come Daisy. Fred is smitten. Why have I met her? He wonders. How can I tell if she's quite what she seems? Fred is a scientist. To him the truth should be everything. But even scientists make mistakes

Сборник рассказов Пенелопы Фитцджеральд • Пенелопа Фицджеральд была одной из самых уважаемых писательниц на английской литературной сцене. Кроме Айрис Мердок, ни одна другая писательница не попадала столько раз в шорт-лист Букеровской премии. Ее последний роман "Голубой цветок" стал книгой года, получив необычайное признание в Великобритании, Америке и Европе • Этот превосходный сборник рассказов, первоначально опубликованный в антологиях и газетах, показывает Пенелопу Фицджеральд с самой лучшей стороны. От истории о маленьком мальчике в Англии 17 века, который потерял драгоценный подарок на память и нашел его замерзшим в луже льда, до истории группы шутовских художников-любителей викторианской эпохи во время поездки в Бретань, эти истории характерно разнообразны, загадочны и очень забавны

‘If there is one dominant myth about the world, one huge mistake we all make … it is that we all go around assuming the world is much more of a planned place than it is.’ • From the industrial revolution and the rise of China, to urbanisation and the birth of bitcoin, Matt Ridley demolishes conventional assumptions that the great events and trends of our day are dictated by those on high. On the contrary, our most important achievements develop from the ground up. In this wide-ranging and erudite book, Matt Ridley brilliantly makes the case for evolution as the force that has shaped much of our culture, our minds, and that even now is shaping our future • As compelling as it is controversial, as authoritative as it is ambitious, Ridley’s deeply thought-provoking book will change the way we think about the world and how it works

An uncanny, startlingly beautiful story collection steeped in the Cornish landscape, from the award-winning author of Diving Belles and Other Stories and Weathering • At the very edge of England, where the Atlantic Ocean meets the land and visitors flock in with the summer like seagulls, there is a Cornwall that is not shown on postcards • It is a place where communication cables buzz deep beneath the sand; where satellite dishes turn like flowers on clifftops, and where people drift like flotsam, caught in eddying tides. Restless children haunt empty holiday homes, a surfer struggles with the undertow of family life, a girl watches her childhood spin away from her in the whirl of a night-time fairground and, in a web of sea caves, a brother and sister search the dark for something lost

A brilliant – and rather transgressive – collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light • Including a new story ‘The School of English’ • Nothing is as it seems. Childhood cruelty is played out behind bushes. Both the living and the dead commute to Waterloo station. Staying in for the plumber turns into a potentially fatal waiting game. And in ‘The School of English’, panic grips a household behind the stucco facade of a Notting Hill mansion. All that is clear and constant in these bracingly subversive stories is Hilary Mantel’s distinctive style and wit

Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience – classics which will endure for generations to come • Henry Skrimshander, newly arrived at college, shy and out of his depth, has a talent for baseball that borders on genius. But sometimes it seems that his only friend is big Mike Schwartz – who champions the talents of others, at the expense of his own. And Owen, Henry’s clever, charismatic, gay roommate, who has a secret that could put his brilliant college career in jeopardy • Pella, the 23-year-old daughter of the college president, has returned home after a failed marriage, determined to get her life in order. Only to find her father, a confirmed bachelor, has fallen desperately in love himself

In parched, war-torn central Africa, Dr Mallory watches his clinic fail and dreams of discovering a third Nile to make the Sahara bloom. During his search for water, an ancient tree stump is uprooted by a bulldozer and water wells up, spreading until it becomes an enormous river. With the once arid land now abounding in birds and beasts, the obsessed Mallory forges up-river in an old car ferry, clashing with hostile factions as he tries to find the source of his own creation • This edition is part of a new commemorative series of Ballard’s works, featuring introductions from a number of his admirers (including Ali Smith, Iain Sinclair, Martin Amis and Ned Beauman) and brand-new cover designs from the artist Stanley Donwood

Penny Rush has problems. Freshly divorced from her mobile knife-sharpener husband, she has returned home to Santa Barbara to deal with her grandfather, who is being moved into a retirement home by his cruel second wife. Her grandmother, meanwhile, has been found in possession of a sinister sounding weapon called ‘the scintilltor’ and something even worse in her woodshed. Penny’s parents have been missing in the Australian outback for many years now, and so Penny must deal with this spiralling family crisis alone • Enter The Dog of The North. The Dog of the North is a borrowed van, replete with yellow gingham curtains, wood panelling, a futon, a pinata, clunky brakes and difficult steering. It is also Penny’s getaway car from a failed marriage, a family in crisis and an uncertain future

A wonderful, warm novel from a major new American voice • Henry Skrimshander, newly arrived at college, shy and out of his depth, has a talent for baseball that borders on genius. But sometimes it seems that his only friend is big Mike Schwartz – who champions the talents of others, at the expense of his own. And Owen, Henry’s clever, charismatic, gay roommate, who has a secret that could put his brilliant college career in jeopardy • Pella, the 23-year-old daughter of the college president, has returned home after a failed marriage, determined to get her life in order. Only to find her father, a confirmed bachelor, has fallen desperately in love himself • Then, one fateful day, Henry makes a mistake – misthrows a ball. And everything changes…

«Это случилось 30 декабря 2003 года. Вам, наверное, кажется, что давно. Но если бы это c вами случилось, вам бы так не казалось…» • «Год магического мышления» – это мемуары американской писательницы и журналистки Джоан Дидион о переживании внезапной потери мужа и единственной дочери. Работа была удостоена Пулитцеровской премии и Национальной премии США • Данное издание содержит адаптацию мемуаров Дидион для постановки на Бродвее • Книга на английском языке • ‘This happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won't when it happens to you…’ • In this adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling memoir, Joan Didion transforms the story of the sudden and unexpected loss of her husband and their only daughter into a stunning and powerful one-woman play

A propulsive, seductive new novel about friendship, exploitation and intimacy from the prize-winning author of Where Reasons End • Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnиs, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised – the place that Fabienne helped Agnиs escape ten years ago. Now, Agnиs is free to tell her story • As children in a backwater town, they’d built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves – until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Agnиs on an epic trajectory through fame, fortune, and terrible loss

"Год магического мышления" - правдивый и горький рассказ о переживании утраты. Джоан Дидион описывает, как она прожила год после скоропостижной смерти мужа, с которым она была вместе сорок лет. Ее мучает один вопрос: могла ли она как-то повлиять на случившееся, могла ли распознать знаки, которые расставляла судьба? Или это были не знаки? Она подмечает в себе признаки магического мышления и пытается разобраться со своим сознанием, своим восприятием, своей памятью • Книга на английском языке • From one of America's iconic writers, a portrait of a marriage and a life – in good times and bad – that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. A stunning book of electric honesty and passion • Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill