Vintage books Before She Met Me Барнс Джулиан

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 • Staring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020. We follow her bruising experience in marriage, her probing of male truths, her adventures in motherhood and in China and we cannot fail to be moved by the questions she asks of life and the often unsatisfactory answers it provides

«Шум времени» — новейшее сочинение прославленного Джулиана Барнса • В мае 1937 года мужчина лет тридцати с небольшим ждет у лифта в ленинградском многоквартирном доме. Он ждет всю ночь, ожидая, что его заберут в Большой дом. Любая знаменитость, с которой он был знаком в предыдущее десятилетие, сейчас ему ни к чему. И немногие из тех, кого забирают в Большой дом, когда-либо возвращаются • Книга на английском языке • In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who are taken to the Big House ever return

When Janie Ryan is born, she is destined to be the latest in a long line of Aberdeen fishwives • Ahead of her lies a life filled with feckless men, filthy council flats and bread & marge sandwiches • But Janie isn’t like the rest of them. She wants a different life • And Janie, born and bred for combat, is ready to fight for it

Когда Люси Нельсон была еще ребенком, ее безответственный отец-алкоголик попал в тюрьму. С тех пор Люси превратилась в разъяренного подростка, выступающего против жизни среднего класса и провинциального американского благочестия, намеревающегося изменить окружающих ее мужчин: особенно своего некомпетентного маменькиного сынка-мужа Роя. Время идет, Люси изо всех сил пытается освободиться от ужасного разочарования, вызванного ее отцом, и вечно тоскует по мужчине, которым он никогда не смог бы стать • В романе "Когда она была хорошей" с точностью, подобной скальпелю, Рот изображает ярость, ненависть и неистовство чувств, которые вскоре овладевают жизнью Люси • Книга на английском языке • When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her irresponsible, alcoholic father thrown in jail

London, 1920. Arlette works in Liberty by day, and by night is caught up in a glamorous whirl of parties, clubs, cocktails and jazz. But when tragedy strikes she flees the city, never to return • Over half a century later, in the grungy mid-90s, her granddaughter Betty arrives in London • She can't wait to begin her new life. But before she can do so, she must find the mysterious woman named in her grandmother's will • What she doesn't know is that her search will uncover the heart-breaking secret that changed her grandmother's life, and might also change hers forever

'An intricately crafted novel, sharp-eared, current and full of heart' Guardian, Books of the Year • A spirited fourteen-year-old, Fay, goes missing from a Lincoln council estate. Is she a runaway, or a victim – another face on a poster gradually fading with time? The story of her last few days before she vanishes is interwoven with the varied lives of six locals – all touched in life-changing ways • David is on a family holiday on the bleak Lincolnshire coast; Howard, a retired steel worker with some dodgy friends; Cosmina, a Romanian immigrant; Sheena, middle-aged and single, running a kiddies’ clothes shop; Mike, owner of a second-hand bookshop and secretly in love with Cosmina; and Chris, a TV-producer-become-monk struggling to leave the ordinary world behind

'I've been telling everyone I know about Mary Lawson . . . Each of her novels is just a marvel' Anne Tyler • Clara's rebellious older sister is missing. Grief-stricken and bewildered, she yearns to uncover the truth about what happened • Liam, newly divorced and newly unemployed, moves into the house next door and within hours gets a visit from the police • Elizabeth is thinking about a crime committed thirty years ago, one that had tragic consequences for two families. She desperately wants to make amends before she dies

This is a story of East and West. A story of love, betrayal, and lost illusions • The end of the Cold War seems unimaginable for Milena, a Red Princess trapped in a lifetime of limitless luxury • Yet when she meets Jason, a confident British poet, it's not long before she's secretly planning her escape to Britain • 1980s London defies her privileged expectations. And when she discovers Jason's concept of freedom confronts her deepest-held beliefs, the very ideas of family and state come into question

A powerful, moving book of secrets, longing and loss, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Gathering • If it hadn't been for the child then none of this might have happened • She saw me kissing her father • She saw her father kissing me • The fact that a child got mixed up in it all made us feel that it mattered, that there was no going back

Thomas needs to speak to his mother before she dies • But he's set to give a talk to a conference of physiotherapists in the Netherlands; if he leaves now will he get to her deathbed in time? • Will he be able to say what he couldn't say before? He can't concentrate on what is happening now: his mind won't sit still. Should he try to solve his friend's marital crisis? Should he reconsider his separation from his own wife? And why does he need to pee again? • In Extremis is Tim Parks's masterwork: a darkly hilarious and deadly serious novel about infidelity, mortality and the frailties of the human body

Uncovering the mystery of her mother's disappearance as a child: Laura Cumming, prize-winning author and art critic, takes a closer look at her family story • Autumn 1929 - a young girl is kidnapped from a beach. Five agonising days go by before she is discovered safe and well in a nearby village. The child remembers nothing of these events and at home, nobody ever speaks of them again • Decades later, Laura Cumming delves into the mystery surrounding her mother's disappearance. Examining everything from old family photos to letters, tickets and recipes, she uncovers a series of secrets and lies perpetuated not just by her family but by the whole community and in doing so unlocks a mystery almost a century old

These interlocking essays uncover art as an active force in the world - neither elitist or remote, present to those who want it, affecting even those who don't. Winterson's own passionate vision of art is presented here, provocatively and personally, in pieces on Modernism, autobiography, style, painting, the future of fiction, in two essays on Virginia Woolf, and more intimately in pieces where she describes her relationship to her work and the books that she loves