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"Тюльпановая лихорадка" - роман английской писательницы Деборы Моггак • Амстердам семнадцатого века - город, охваченный тюльпанной лихорадкой • Муж Софии Корнелиус - один из счастливчиков, разбогатевших на этом новом экзотическом цветке. Чтобы отпраздновать это событие, он поручает талантливому молодому художнику нарисовать его вместе с его прекрасной невестой. Но по мере того, как портрет растет, растет и страсть между Софией и художником; а амбиции, желания и мечты порождают запутанный обман и безрассудную авантюру • Книга на английском языке • From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Tulip Fever is now re-jacketed along with the rest of Deborah Moggach's books in gorgeous series style • 'A gorgeous novel' Mail on Sunday • From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel comes a thrilling story of power, lust and deception

The first novel from one of the twentieth century's most admired and stylish writers • It's the balmy days of the 1920s and where could be more pleasant for a holiday than a hotel on the Italian Riviera? Filled with prosperous English visitors, the Hotel offers a closed world of wealth and comfort. It also provides the stage for the display of social niceties, for passionate but unspoken love affairs and for the comedy of the shared bathroom. With great wit and insight Elizabeth Bowen's first novel lays bare the intricacies and eccentricities of polite society

Discover the Sunday Times bestselling novel that inspired the beloved hit film starring Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Celia Imrie, Dev Patel and Penelope Wilton • Enticed by advertisements for a luxury retirement home in India, a group of strangers leave England to begin a new life • On arrival, however, they discover the palace is a shell of its former self, the staff are more than a little eccentric and the days of the Raj appear to be long gone • But, as they soon discover, life and love can begin again, even in the most unexpected circumstances • Previously published with the title These Foolish Things

"Бывшие жены" - роман Деборы Моггак • Холостяцкая жизнь Баффи вызывает беспокойство, пока он не встречает Селесту, молодую девушку в аптеке, у которой, похоже, есть рецепт на эликсир утраченной молодости Баффи. Ослепленный любовью, Баффи Литтл подозревает, что Селеста изучает его бывших жен, детей и пасынков и раскрывает секреты, которые безвозвратно изменят всю их жизнь • Книга на английском языке • Buffy's bachelorhood is worrying until he meets Celeste, a young girl at the chemist's shop who appears to hold the prescription for the elixir of Buffy's lost youth. Dazzled by love, Buffy little suspects that Celeste is researching his ex-wives, children and step-children, and unearthing secrets that will change all their lives irrevocably

Nella, daughter of millionaire Theodore Racksole, orders a dinner of steak and beer at the exclusive Grand Babylon Hotel in London. Her order is refused, so Theodore promptly buys the chef, the kitchen and the whole hotel. But when hotel staff begin to vanish and a German prince goes missing, Nella discovers that murder, blackmail and kidnapping are also on the menu. A rollicking murder mystery from one of the finest writers of the last century

Mitchell is the laureate of old New York. The hidden corners of the city and the people who lived there are his subject. He captured the waterfront rooming-houses , nickel-a-drink saloons, all-night restaurants, the 'visionaries, obsessives, imposters, fanatics, lost souls, the end-is-near street preachers, old Gypsy Kings and old Gypsy Queens, and out-and-out freak-show freaks.' Mitchell's trademark curiosity, respect and graveyard humour fuel these magical essays • Written between 1943 and 1965, Up in the Old Hotel is the complete collection of Joseph Mitchell 's New Yorker journalism and includes McSorley's Wonderful Saloon, Old Mr Flood, The Bottom of the Harbour and Joe Gould's Secret

An enjoyable 19th century read following doomed happenings and grisly, secret premonitions • An eminent doctor is visited by a desperate woman with a question: am I evil, or insane? • When the letters from Italian servant to his wife in London suddenly cease, she is convinced he has been murdered • In the darkened bedroom of a mouldering palazzo by the Grand Canal, an English lord sickens and suddenly dies • How are these little mysteries connected? Spend the night in Room 14 of Venice’s finest hotel, and find out the truth – if you dare…

Mid-1930s, Northern France. A mysterious young girl named Anne Louvet arrives at the seedy Hotel du Lion d’Or in the small French town of Janvilliers. She is seeking a job and a new life, far removed from the injustices of her past. At the hotel, Anne meets the cultured, rich and married Hartmann and begins anaffair with the married Great War veteran, revealing her secrets, fears and hopes to him. From award-winning author Sebastian Faulks, Girl at The Lion d’Or is a powerful story of love and conscience, will and desire • ‘Beautifully written and extraordinarily moving’ The Sunday Times

On a sultry afternoon in the summer of 1936 a young woman is witness to an attempted murder in a London hotel room • Nina, a West End actress, faces a dilemma: she shouldn't have been at the hotel in the first place, and certainly not with a married man. But once it becomes apparent that she has seen the face of the man the newspapers have dubbed ‘the Tie-Pin Killer’ she realises that unless she acts quickly, more women will die • From the glittering murk of Soho’s underworld, to the grease paint and ghost-lights of theatreland, Curtain Call is a poignant and gripping story about love and death in a society dancing towards the abyss

Building work in an expanding Reykjavik uncovers a shallow grave • Years before, this part of the city was all open hills, and Erlendur and his team hope this is a typical Icelandic missing person scenario; perhaps someone once lost in the snow, who has lain peacefully buried for decades. Things are never that simple • Whilst Erlendur struggles to hold together the crumbling fragments of his own family, his case unearths many other tales of family pain. The hills have more than one tragic story to tell: tales of failed relationships and heartbreak; of anger, domestic violence and fear; of family loyalty and family shame. Few people are still alive who can tell the story, but even secrets taken to the grave cannot remain hidden forever

'The most perfect of all the Dickens novels' Virginia Woolf • When David Copperfield escapes from the cruelty of his childhood home, he embarks on a journey to adulthood which will lead him through comedy and tragedy, love and heartbreak and friendship and betrayal. Over the course of his adventures, David meets an array of eccentric characters and learns hard lessons about the world before he finally discovers true happiness

Discover George Eliot’s first novel, a tale of rural tragedy and redemption • It may seem like an old tale: the beautiful village girl, her faithful admirer, a country squire's seduction. But seen through the eyes of any of its players, the old tale becomes one of fresh heartbreak, innocent hopes, best intentions gone awry, and better selves lost and restored. George Eliot's first novel shows all her humane intelligence and intimate knowledge of the richness and complexity of ordinary life