Vintage books Elizabeth and her German Garden фон Арним Элизабет

Her fresh start is about to turn into a nightmare… • Audra has finally left her abusive husband. She’s taken the family car and her young children, Sean and Louise, are buckled up in the back. This is their chance for a fresh start • Audra keeps to the country roads to avoid attention. Then she spots something in her rear-view mirror. A police car is following her and the lights are flickering. Blue and red • As Audra pulls over she is intensely aware of how isolated they are. Her perfect escape is about to turn into a nightmare beyond her imagining…

"Колдовской апрель", вышедший в 1922 году, мгновенно стал бестселлером в Великобритании и США и создал моду на итальянский курорт Портофино • Что ждет четырех эксцентричных англичанок из разных слоев общества, сбежавших от лондонской слякоти на Итальянскую Ривьеру? Отдых на средневековой вилле, возвращающий радость жизни, или феерическая ссора с драматическим финалом? Ревность и конкуренция или преображение, ведущее к искренней дружбе и настоящей любви? • Легкая, полная юмора и искрометности книга, ставшая классикой для многих поколений читателей • Элизабет фон Арним (1866-1941) - английская писательница, автор бестселлеров "Елизавета и ее немецкий сад", "Вера", "Все собаки моей жизни", "Мистер Скеффингтон" и др • Книга на английском языке • Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot, cowed and neglected by their husbands, make a daring plan: they will have a holiday

Элизабет Беннет, полная жизнерадостности и остроумия, ведет тихую деревенскую жизнь вместе со своими четырьмя сестрами. К радости их матери, преисполненной решимости найти своим дочерям подходящую партию, завидные женихи мистер Дарси и мистер Бингли приезжают по соседству, принося с собой танцы, богатство - и возможности. Поначалу не впечатленная надменным видом Дарси, Элизабет клянется не иметь с ним ничего общего. Но по мере того, как она совершает свои собственные ошибки в суждениях, пара начинает понимать друг друга и приходит к пониманию того, что первое впечатление не всегда такое, каким кажется • "Гордость и предубеждение", самая любимая повесть Джейн Остин о браке и обществе в георгианской Англии, продолжает радовать современных читателей своей социальной комедией, хорошо прорисованными персонажами и тонкими нюансами

'Now she had taken off her goodness and left it behind her like a heap of rain-sodden clothes, and she only felt joy' • Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot, cowed and neglected by their husbands, make a daring plan: they will have a holiday. Leaving a drab and rainy London one April and arriving on the shores of the Mediterranean, they discover a flower-filled paradise of beauty, warmth and leisure. Joined by the beautiful Lady Caroline and domineering Mrs Fisher, also in flight from the burdens of their daily lives, the four women proceed to transform themselves and their prospects

This tender story of parents, children and step-children, mistakes and secrets was Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel and is considered her masterpiece • Set in the watchful society of Hollingford, this is a warm tale of love and longing. Molly Gibson is the spirited, loyal daughter of the local doctor. Their peaceful close-knit home is turned upside down when Molly's father decides to remarry. Whilst Molly struggles to adjust to her snobbish stepmother, she forms a close relationship with her glamorous new stepsister Cynthia. The strength of this friendship is soon tested as their lives become entwined with Squire Hamley and his two sons

Люси Энтуисл и Эверард Уэмисс оба переживают недавнее несчастье, когда встречаются и быстро влюбляются друг в друга. Люси - "милая девочка" Уэмисса, а для Люси Эверард - это целый мир. Единственным пятном на счастье Люси является темная фигура первой жены Уэмисса, Веры, которая умерла при загадочных обстоятельствах. Но только когда счастливая пара возвращается домой и начинает свою счастливую супружескую жизнь, Люси по-настоящему начинает задаваться вопросом: что же все-таки случилось с Верой? • Книга на английском языке • Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss are both reeling from recent unhappiness when they meet and swiftly fall in love. Lucy is Wemyss’s ‘sweet girl’, and to Lucy, Everard is the whole world. The only blot on Lucy’s happiness is the shadowy figure of Wemyss’s first wife, Vera, who died in mysterious circumstances

The remarkable story of Bess of Hardwick, her ascent through Elizabethan society and the houses she built that shaped British architectural history • Born in 1521, Bess of Hardwick, businesswoman, money-lender and property tycoon, lived an astonishing eighty-seven years. Through canny choices, four husbands and a will of steel she rose from country squire's daughter to Dowager Countess, establishing herself as one of the richest and most powerful women in England, second only to Queen Elizabeth • Bess forged her way not merely by judicious marriage, but by shrewd exploitation of whatever assets each marriage brought. Wealth took concrete form in her passion for building and she oversaw every stage of the construction of her four houses including Hardwick New Hall, her sole surviving building, which stands as a celebration of one woman's triumphant progress through Elizabethan England

Battle is joined! Relish the underhand schemes and plots that unfold as Lucia vyes with Miss Mapp for social dominion over the town of Tilling • Look out for the new BBC adaptation starring Anna Chancellor, Miranda Richardson and Mark Gatiss! • Miss Elizabeth Mapp reigns supreme over the village of Tilling...until the advent of Mrs Emmeline Lucas, or 'Lucia' to her friends. No one could compete, surely, with Lucia's formidable armoury: her duchesses, her Italian, her financial speculations, her celebrated recipe for Lobster a la Riseholme. But Mapp will not relinquish her supremacy in local society so easily, and battle is joined between these two indomitable queens and their rather fickle allies

'Delightful... Her characters are, as always, wonderfully imperfect' New York Review of Books • Alan has changed because he's injured his back. Pain has altered his appearance and made him glum, demanding and resentful. His wife Jane has to do everything for him - fetching, carrying, shopping, cooking, even dressing and undressing him. Sometimes she longs for escape • Delia is a writer and researcher specialising in fairy tales - she is, in her own estimation, a 'Great Artist'. Her husband, Henry, manages her every need making certain Delia gets everything she desires including spectacular doses of adulation • Can Delia coax Alan out of his grumpiness? Can Henry stop Jane feeling guilty? Can the two couples break out of their fixed roles?

Meet Fahner, the retired small-town doctor who resorts to the garden axe when his patience with his cruel wife runs out • Meet Patrick, so entranced by the sight of his sleeping girlfriend that he cuts a small piece out of her back, just to see what she tastes like • Meet the silent assassin who calmly despatches two Neo-Nazi thugs on a railway platform • A nameless lawyer invites us to read an extraordinary dossier of violent and unspeakable acts. All the crimes have one thing in common: the guilty have never been convicted in a court of law. But however heinous the crime, the narrator shows how the human circumstances behind events can tell a different story

Isamay's unusual name comes from her two very different grandmothers, Isa and May, who were both present at her birth and who have both formed and influenced her whole life in very particular ways. Now almost thirty, Isamay is trying to write a thesis about grandmothers in history but is instead constantly ambushed by the startling secrets her own family has been keeping. When disturbing truths are revealed that force Isamay to examine her own certainties, will her grandmothers be able to build a bridge across the generations?