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"The Jealousy Man" - первый сборник рассказов от короля криминала Ю Несбё • Познакомьтесь с детективом, идущим по следу человека, подозреваемого в убийстве своего близнеца; наемным убийцей, столкнувшимся лицом к лицу со своим злейшим противником; и двумя пассажирами, случайно встретившимися в самолете, что означает романтику или что-то гораздо более зловещее • В своем первом в истории сборнике коротких рассказов этот мастер криминала предлагает захватывающее чтение, от которого вы не сможете оторваться • Книга на английском языке • Murder. Assassination. Revenge • Discover the first short story collection from the King of Scandi Crime • Meet a detective on the trail of a man suspected of murdering his twin; a hired assassin facing his greatest adversary; and two passengers meeting by chance on a plane, spelling romance or something far more sinister

Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, retired, they chose instead to remain in the small hill town of Pangkot, with its eccentric inhabitants and archaic rituals left over from the days of the Empire. Only the tyranny of their landlady, the imposing Mrs Bhoolabhoy, threatens to upset the quiet rhythm of their days • Both funny and deeply moving, Staying On is a unique, engrossing portrait of the end of an empire and of a forty-year love affair

Midnight, New Year’s Eve, 1976. Nine lives are about to be changed forever • Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, heirs to one of New York's greatest fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and Samantha, two suburban teenagers seduced by the punk scene; an obsessive magazine reporter and his idealistic neighbour – and the detective trying to figure out what any of them have to do with a shooting in Central Park on New Year’s Eve • Then, on July 13th, 1977, the lights go out

In a quiet English suburb, a love affair ignites. For our nameless narrator, Louise is the last in a long line of explosive passions, but the first to have broken their heart. With Louise's husband, Elgin, blocking love's course, their affair is doomed to unravel - until, that is, a terrible choice must be made • With its witty and masterful prose, Written on the Body takes the reader on a beguiling and defying exploration of love and its physical forms

A student moves to the city to research Gothic nudes, renting an apartment from a painter, Agnes, who lives in another town with her husband. One day, Agnes arrives in the city and settles into the upstairs studio • Agnes tells stories of her youth, her family, her marriage, and ideas for her art. As the months pass, it becomes clear that Agnes might not have a place to return to. Her stories are frenetic; her art scattered and unfinished, white paint on a white canvas • White on White is a sharp exploration of what it means to be truly vulnerable and laid bare

A unique and captivating collection of Hemingway's writings on war, including extracts from his unparalleled war novels, some classic short stories, an extract from his only full-length play and a range of his war journalism • Ernest Hemingway witnessed many of the seminal conflicts of the twentieth century, as a Red Cross ambulance driver during the First World War and during his twenty-five years as a war correspondent. This edition offers an unparalleled portrayal of the physical and psychological impact of war and its aftermath. It contains extracts from A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls, some of Hemingway’s very best short stories, his only full-length play, The Fifth Column as well as selections from his wartime journalism. Hemingway on War represents the author's penetrating chronicles of perseverance and defeat, courage and fear, and love and loss in the midst of modern warfare

"Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?" • From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haines is trapped in a nightmare of shared guilt and an insidious merging of personalities. The psychologists would call it folie a deux • Strangers on a Train was Patricia Highsmith's first novel, and adapted into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock

We are poised on the edge of discovery in particle physics (the study of the smallest objects we know of) and cosmology (the study of the largest), and when these breakthroughs come, they will revolutionise what we think we know about the universe, and the modern world • Lisa Randall guides us through the latest ideas, charting the thrilling progress we have made in understanding the universe – from Galileo and Newton to Einstein and the Large Hadron Collider and the search for the Higgs boson. Yet it's about more than just physics - Randall explains how we decide what questions to ask; how risk, beauty, creativity and truth play a role in scientific thinking; and how answering the big questions will ultimately tell us who we are and where we came from

A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring and adventurous journey • When war correspondent Tim Butcher was sent to cover Africa in 2000 he quickly became obsessed with the idea of recreating H.M. Stanley's famous nineteenth century trans-Africa expedition - but travelling alone • Despite warnings that his plan was 'suicidal', Butcher set out for the Congo's eastern border with just a rucksack and a few thousand dollars hidden in his boots. Making his way in an assortment of vessels including a motorbike and a dugout canoe, helped along by a cast of unlikely characters, he followed in the footsteps of the great Victorian adventurers • Butcher's journey was a remarkable feat, but the story of the Congo, told expertly and vividly in this book, is more remarkable still

'As a novel it stands very high, but it is in its qualities as a "social document" that its great value lies' Times Literary Supplement • In Hanky Park, near Salford, Harry and Sally Hardcastle grow up in a society preoccupied with grinding poverty, exploited by bookies and pawnbrokers, bullied by petty officials and living in constant fear of the dole queue and the Means Test. His love affair with a local girl ends in a shotgun marriage, and, disowned by his family, Harry is tempted by crime. Sally, meanwhile, falls in love with Larry Meath, a self-educated Marxist. But Larry is a sick man and there are other more powerful rivals for her affection

Пятнадцатилетний Кафка Тамура сбегает из дома, преследуемый мрачным пророчеством отца • Простая жизнь Накаты, так и не оправившегося от странного недуга детства и занимающегося поиском пропавших кошек, переворачивается с ног на голову • Их раскрывающиеся параллельно истории фантасмагоричны: кошки разговаривают с людьми, рыбы падают с неба, сутенёр замогильного образа даёт полюбоваться цитирующей Гегеля ночной фекй, в лесу прячутся солдаты времён Второй мировой, ни капли не постаревшие за прошедшие десятилетия. Не обходится и без жестокого убийства, но неизвестной остаётся личность как самого преступника, так и его жертвы. И это лишь одна из загадок, из которых складывается "Кафка на пляже" - элегантный и фантастический образец литературного искусства