Vintage books Love Дойл Родди

Just moved into a new apartment, alone for the first time in years, Victor Forde goes every evening to Donnelly’s pub for a pint, a slow one • One evening his drink is interrupted. A man in shorts and a pink shirt brings over his pint and sits down. He seems to know Victor’s name and to remember him from school. Says his name is Fitzpatrick • Victor dislikes him on sight, dislikes too the memories that Fitzpatrick stirs up of five years being taught by the Christian Brothers.He prompts other memories too – of Rachel, his beautiful wife who became a celebrity, and of Victor’s own small claim to fame, as the man who says the unsayable on the radio • But it’s the memories of school, and of one particular Brother, that he cannot control - and which eventually threaten to destroy his sanity

Love is Angela Carter's fifth novel and was first published in 1971. With surgical precision it charts the destructive emotional war between a young woman, her husband and his disruptive brother as they move through a labyrinth of betrayal, alienation and lost connections. This revised edition has lost none of Angela Carter's haunting power to evoke the ebb of the 1960s, and includes an afterword which describes the progress of the survivors into the anguish of middle age

From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes the highly entertaining sequel to Talking it Over • In Talking it Over Gillian and Stuart were married until Oliver - witty, feckless Oliver - stole Gillian away. In Love, etc Julian Barnes revisits the three of them, using the same intimate technique of allowing the characters to speak directly to the reader, to whisper their secrets, to argue for their version of the truth. Darker and deeper than its predecessor, Love, etc is a compelling exploration of contemporary love and its betrayals

'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

‘Well, Watson, we seem to have fallen upon evil days’ • Sherlock Holmes: the quintessential British hero and the world's most popular detective. Through his powers of deduction, and with the help of his faithful companion Dr Watson, Holmes takes on all manner of devious criminals and dangerous villains – and wins. But the cases involving murder are the most dastardly of them all… • Selected from The Complete Sherlock Holmes

'A brilliant and seemingly effortless accomplishment...steady uninterrupted delight' Sunday Telegraph • Faculty wife Emily Stockwell Turner is beautiful, rich, and principled. However, five years in a marriage devoid of passion is enough to propel Emmy, despite her principles, into an affair with a silver-tongued self-confessed libertine. Her husband, a dull, hard-working lecturer, suspecting everyone but the right man, sends himself half mad with jealousy. The shocking, unforeseen consequences of their affair shatter Emmy's most cherished delusions about friendship, romance, and the ties that bind

"Блестящий" Родди Дойла - замечательная, трогательная история о дружбе и семье для подростков • Глория и Рейзер должны спасти своего дядю Бена. Черный пес схватил его • По крайней мере, так они слышали от своей бабушки. И она говорит, что это тоже отняло у Дублина веселую жилку • Поскольку дублинский бизнес дяди Бена терпит крах, Глории и Рейзеру становится ясно, что что-то не так. Он просто не такой жизнерадостный, как обычно. Собрав все свое мужество, дети отправились в полуночное путешествие, чтобы выследить Черную собаку и прогнать ее прочь • Книга на английском языке • Roddy Doyle's 'brilliant' Brilliant is a wonderful, heartwarming middle grade tale of friendship and family • Gloria and Rayzer must save their Uncle Ben. The black dog has got him

Love and marriage, children and family, death and grief. Life touches everyone the same, but living under lockdown? It changes us alone • A man abroad wanders the stag-and-hen-strewn streets of Newcastle, as news of the virus at home asks him to question his next move. An exhausted nurse struggles to let go, having lost a much-loved patient in isolation. A middle-aged son, barred from his mother's funeral, wakes to an oncoming hangover of regret. Told with Doyle's signature warmth, wit and extraordinary eye for the richness that underpins the quiet of our lives, Life Without Children cuts to the heart of how we are all navigating loss, loneliness and the shifting of history underneath our feet

Paddy Clarke is ten years old. Paddy Clarke lights fires. Paddy Clarke's name is written in wet cement all over Barrytown. Paddy Clarke's heroes are Father Damien (and the lepers), Geronimo and George Best. Paddy Clarke knows the exact moment to knock a dead scab from his knee. Paddy Clarke hates his brother Francis because that’s the rule. Paddy Clarke loves his Ma and Da, but it seems like they don't love each other, and Paddy wants to understand, but can't

Когда доктор Ватсон въезжал в квартиру на Бейкер-стрит вместе с эксцентричным Шерлоком Холмсом, он не ожидал, что вскоре окажется вовлечён в расследование загадочного убийства. Найденное в закрытой комнате тело не несёт следов насилия, но Холмс уверен, что жертву убили. Заручившись поддержкой Ватсона, он намерен применить свою феноменальную способность к дедукции, чтобы раскрыть это исключительное дело и поймать преступника • Первая повесть культового британского писателя Артура Конана Дойла о гениальном детективе Шерлоке Холмсе в оригинале. В издание также входит рассказ «Скандал в Богемии» • Книга на английском языке • Discover the first classic Sherlock Holmes novel in this stunning edition, featuring an introduction from Mark Billingham. The is edition also features the short story ‘A Scandal in Bohemia’

Дано • Украденный драгоценный камень, необъяснимая смерть молодой девушки, пропажа одного из лучших скаковых коней Англии, отсутствующий дворецкий, загадочные пляшущие человечки, разбитый бюст Наполеона, кучер с простреленным сердцем • Решение • Элементарно! Вызвать Шерлока Холмса – гениального сыщика из дома 221Б на Бейкер-стрит • Сборник рассказов культового британского писателя сэра Артура Конана Дойла в оригинале. Включает словарь терминов и задания, с помощью которых можно проверить собственную внимательность и дедуктивные способности • Книга на английском языке • 'On the contrary, my dear Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see' • Herein lie the problems: a stolen jewel, the inexplicable death of a young woman, the disappearance of one of the most remarkable racehorses in England, a missing butler, the curious symbols of dancing men, a broken bust of Napoleon, a possible kidnapping and the bad business of a coachman shot through the heart

В этот сборник входят самые любопытные и запоминающиеся рассказы сэра Артура Конана Дойла о культовом сыщике Шерлоке Холмсе, включая истории о стычках с опасными загадочными незнакомцами, изобретательных ограблениях, смертельных заговорах и спрятанных бриллиантах. В погоне за новыми делами проницательный детектив и его отважный помощник посещают самые разные места – от привычных лондонских улочек до живописных английских деревень и холодных швейцарских скал, которые тонут в брызгах Райхенбахского водопада • Книга на английском языке • This volume collects together Sherlock Holmes's most memorable and intriguing cases, including adventures with mysterious masked strangers, ingenious heists, murderous plots and hidden jewels, which take the famous detective and his faithful sidekick Dr Watson from the streets of London and the English countryside to a chilling encounter at the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland