Discover the moving powerful prequel to Snow Country • 'An extraordinary novel of magnificent scope' Evening Standard • As young boys both Jacques Rebiere and Thomas Midwinter become fascinated with trying to understand the human mind. As psychiatrists, their quest takes them from the squalor of the Victorian lunatic asylum to the crowded lecture halls of the renowned Professor Charcot in Paris; from the heights of the Sierra Madre in California to the plains of unexplored Africa • As the concerns of the old century fade and the First World War divides Europe, the two men's volatile relationship develops and changes, but is always tempered by one exceptional woman; Thomas's sister Sonia
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American academic Hannah and runaway Moroccan teenager Tariq have little in common, yet both find themselves haunted by the ghosts of Paris • Hannah listens to the extraordinary witness of women living under the German Occupation and finds a city bursting with clues, connections and past love affairs, while in the migrant suburbs Tariq is searching for a mother he barely knew. Urgent and deeply moving, Paris Echo asks how much we really need to know in order to live a valuable life
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The epic new novel from the bestselling author of Birdsong • 'Wistful, yearning and wise' Elizabeth Day • 1914: Aspiring journalist Anton arrives in Vienna where he meets Delphine, a woman of deep secrets. Anton is entranced by the light of first love, until his country declares war on hers • 1927: For Lena, life in a small town has been cosseted and cold. When her love affair with a young lawyer crumbles, she leaves to take a post at the snow-capped sanatorium, the Schloss Seeblick • 1933: Anton is sent to write about the mysterious Schloss Seeblick. In this place, on the banks of a silvery lake where the roots of human suffering are laid bare, two people will see each other as if for the first time
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Reissued in new series style to match Faulks's most recent novel Where My Heart Used to Beat, which was a major Sunday Times bestseller in 2016 • A vividly evocative novel set in Cold War and New Frontier era America, from the bestselling author of Birdsong and Charlotte Gray • America, 1959. With two young children she adores, loving parents back in London, and an admired husband, Charlie, working at the British embassy in Washington, the world seems an effervescent place of parties, jazz and family happiness to Mary van der Linden. But the Eisenhower years are ending, and 1960 brings the presidential battle between two ambitious senators: John Kennedy and Richard Nixon. But when Frank, an American newspaper reporter, enters their lives Mary embarks on a passionate affair, all the while knowing that in the end she must confront an impossible decision
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Любовь, общество и политика эдвардианской эпохи исследуются в романе Виты Саквилл-уэст "Эдвардианцы", идеальной книге для поклонников аббатства Даунтон • Себастьян молод, красив и романтичен, наследник огромного и красивого английского загородного поместья. Он - неизменная фигура в вечном круговороте роскошных вечеринок, интриг и традиций в холодном, декадентском сердце эдвардианского высшего общества. Все знают, какую роль он должен сыграть, но Себастьян не уверен, что хочет эту роль. У него будут положение, привилегии и богатство, - если, конечно, он сможет устоять перед соблазном дивного нового мира • Книга на английском языке • Edwardian era love, society and politics explored in this perfect read for Downton Abbey fans • Sebastian is young, handsome and romantic, the heir to a vast and beautiful English country estate
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Бывает, что человек, с которым никогда не встречался, или место, где никогда не был, странно кажутся нам знакомыми. Умом мы понимаем, что это невозможно. А сердце настаивает на своем... Порой, когда мы почти верим, что наша жизнь не лишена смысла, глупая случайность смешивает карты и обрывает сюжет. А иногда та же случайность заставляет нас ощутить присутствие чуда и осознать свое предназначение. Об этом — новая книга британского писателя Себастьяна Фолкса, автора мирового бестселлера «И пели птицы...». Пять новелл, соединенных в подобие симфонии, повествуют о пяти разных судьбах. Персонажи романа живут в разные эпохи и принадлежат к разным кругам общества. Присоединяясь к бойцам французского Сопротивления, английский филолог Джефф Тальбот не знает, что его ждет ад немецкого концлагеря
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«И пели птицы...» — наиболее известный роман Себастьяна Фолкса, ставший классикой современной английской литературы. С момента выхода в 1993 году он не покидает списков самых любимых британцами литературных произведений всех времен. Он включен в курсы литературы и английского языка большинства университетов. Тираж книги в одной только Великобритании составил около двух с половиной миллионов экземпляров • Это история молодого англичанина Стивена Рейсфорда, который в 1910 году приезжает в небольшой французский город Амьен, где влюбляется в Изабель Азер. Молодая женщина несчастлива в неравном браке и отвечает Стивену взаимностью. Невозможность справиться с безумной страстью заставляет их бежать из Амьена • Начинается война, Стивен уходит добровольцем на фронт, где в кровавом месиве вселенского масштаба отчаянно пытается сохранить рассудок и волю к жизни
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A thrillingly original, labyrinthine journey through myth, art, literature, history, archaeology and memoir • The tale of how the hero Theseus killed the Minotaur, finding his way out of the labyrinth using Ariadne's ball of red thread, is one of the most intriguing, suggestive and persistent of all myths, and the labyrinth - the beautiful, confounding and terrifying building created for the half-man, half-bull monster - is one of the foundational symbols of human ingenuity and artistry • Charlotte Higgins, author of the Baillie Gifford-shortlisted Under Another Sky, tracks the origins of the story of the labyrinth in the poems of Homer, Catullus, Virgil and Ovid, and with them builds an ingenious edifice of her own. Along the way, she traces the labyrinthine ideas of writers from Dante and Borges to George Eliot and Conan Doyle, and of artists from Titian and Velazquez to Picasso and Eva Hesse
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‘To myself alone could I look’ • Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe are heroines who depend upon no one but themselves. In the face of hardship, from small sacrifices to great heartache, they cling resolutely to their principles of self-reliance. Lucy's energy and enterprise take her to Belgium and a career in teaching, whilst Jane’s honest, intelligent mind draws declarations of love. Both are the unforgettable creations of the deeply independent and brilliant Charlotte Bronte • Selected from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Villette
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For thirty-five year old Charlotte Emory, leaving her husband seems to offer the only way out from the mundaneness of every day life's earthly possessions and emotional complications. In the bank, she withdraws enough money to escape a life and a marriage gone sour. But Charlotte is about to escape in a way she never expected, as a young bank robber takes her hostage, and they head south for Florida in a stolen car
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What would happen if society was run by women? Charlotte Perkins Gilman imagines the result • When three American men discover a community of women, living in perfect isolation in the Amazon, they decide there simply must be men somewhere. How could these women survive without man's knowledge, experience and strength, not to mention reproductive power? In fact, what they have found is a civilisation free from disease, poverty and the weight of tradition. All alone, the women have created a society of calm and prosperity, a feminist utopia that dares to threaten the very concept of male superiority
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Iris Murdoch really knows how to write, can tell a story, delineate a character, catch an atmosphere with deadly accuracy • John Betjeman • A revolver shot rings through a Whitehall office one hot afternoon in the middle of an English summer. A Government official has apparently shot himself, but the circumstances are questionable - prompting Octavian Gray, head of the department in which the dead man worked, to investigate • Lawyer John Ducane is charged with the task, interviewing other civil servants by day, and by night attempting repeatedly - and unsuccessfully - to break up with his mistress. When Ducane travels to Gray's Dorset home everything becomes even more mysterious and nothing is quite as it seems
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