Vintage books Pure Juliet Гиббонс Стелла

Brother and sister, Constance and Kenneth Fielding live in calm respectability, just out of reach of London and the Blitz. But when a series of uninvited guests converge upon them – from a Balkan exile to Ken’s old flame and the siblings’ own raffish father – the household struggles to preserve its precious peace. In this full house, in a quiet corner of suburbia, no one expects to find romance

'Don't show proper feelin', does it, not turnin' up for 'is dad's funeral?' • Siblings Sophia, Harry and Francis have lost both their parents in the last six months. Attending the funeral for their estranged father, they wonder what will become of them now that the last connection to their difficult childhood has been severed. What have they inherited - financially and emotionally - to guide them to adulthood, and build a new home together? • Enbury Heath is a semi-autobiographical account of the years which Gibbons and her brothers spent living in a cottage in Hampstead Heath: a wonderfully astute, bittersweet novel about family, grief, money, and the pleasures of London

Uprooted from war-torn London, Alda Lucie-Brown and her three daughters start a new life at Pine Cottage in rural Sussex. Unsuited to a quiet life, Alda attempts to orchestrate - with varying degrees of success - the love affairs of her neighbours. Her unwilling subjects include an Italian POW, a Communist field-hand, a battery-chicken farmer and her intelligent friend Jean

What if this world is just a first draft, made by some great artist in order to be destroyed? • In this first draft, a woman named Mira leaves home to study. There, she meets Annie, whose tremendous power opens Mira's chest like a portal - to what, she doesn't know. When Mira is older, her beloved father dies, and she enters that strange and dizzying dimension that true loss opens up • Pure Colour tells the story of a life, from beginning to end. It is a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling and a shape-shifting epic that is celestially bright and streaked with beauty

"Здесь водятся драконы" - роман Стеллы Гиббонс • Когда Нелл Сил переезжает из сонного Дорсета в Хэмпстед, она оставляет позади детство с унылыми чаепитиями и деспотичными правилами ради свободы большого города. Наивная и всего девятнадцатилетняя, она связывается со своенравным Джоном Гонтом и попадает в лондонскую богемную тусовку. В этом городе соблазнительных, изменчивых нравов, прокуренных джаз-клубов и гламурных эспрессо-баров Нелл должна овладеть своей вновь обретенной независимостью и научиться идти своим собственным курсом • Книга на английском языке • When Nell Sely moves from sleepy Dorset to Hampstead she leaves behind a childhood of dull teas and oppressive rules for the freedom of the big city. Naive and only nineteen, she becomes embroiled with the wayward John Gaunt and falls in with London's bohemian crowd

On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not stop for ten weeks • The threat of nuclear war had reached its terrifying height with the recent Cuban Missile Crisis, unemployment was on the rise, and yet, underneath the frozen surface, new life was beginning to stir • From poets to pop stars, shopkeepers to schoolchildren, and her own family's experiences, Juliet Nicolson traces the hardship of that frozen winter and the emancipation that followed. That spring, new life was unleashed, along with freedoms we take for granted today

"Дневная жара" - напряженный триллер Элизабет Боуэн о подозрениях, предательстве и шпионаже, действие которого разворачивается в Лондоне военного времени • Это Лондон военного времени, и в вечернем воздухе витает беспечность людей, у которых нет будущего. Стелла обнаруживает, что ее возлюбленный Роберт подозревается в продаже информации врагу. Харрисон, агент британской разведки, идущий по его следу, хочет поторговаться, и ценой за его молчание будет сама Стелла. Оказавшись между двумя мужчинами и не зная, кому она может доверять, хрупкие структуры жизни Стеллы начинают рушиться • Книга на английском языке • A tense thriller of suspicion, betrayal and espionage set in wartime London • It is wartime London, and the carelessness of people with no future flows through the evening air

'The Anatomy Lesson is a ferocious, heartfelt book - lavish with laughs and flamboyant inventions' John Updike • With his fortieth birthday receding into the distance, along with his hairline and his most successful novel, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction – pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, finds himself physically unable to write a line • He treks from one doctor to another, but none can find a cause for the pain and nobody can assuage it. Could it be, he wonders to himself, that the cause of the pain is nothing less than the books he has written? • As he grapples with this possibility, he tries an onslaught of painkillers, then vodka, and finally marijuana

"Каникулы в середине зимы" - роман Бернарда Маклаверти • Супружеская пара на пенсии, Джерри и Стелла Гилмор, летят в Амстердам на каникулы в середине зимы. Отпуск, чтобы освежить чувства, осмотреть достопримечательности и в целом подвести итоги того, что осталось от их жизни. Но среди зимних улиц и обледенелых каналов мы видим, как их отношения разрушаются под поверхностью. И когда вновь всплывают воспоминания о смутном времени в их родной Ирландии, все начинает разваливаться на части. Когда их зимние каникулы подходят к концу, мы понимаем, насколько они далеки друг от друга - и можем только наблюдать, как они борются за свое спасение • Книга на английском языке • A retired couple, Gerry and Stella Gilmore, fly to Amsterdam for a midwinter break

A kiss that just won't happen. A disco at the end of the world. A teenage goth on a terror mission. And OAP kiddie-snatchers, and scouse real-ale enthusiasts, and occult weirdness in the backwoods • Dark Lies the Island is a collection of unpredictable stories about love and cruelty, crimes, desperation, and hope from the man Irvine Welsh has described as 'the most arresting and original writer to emerge from these islands in years'. Every page is shot through with the riotous humour, sympathy and blistering language that mark Kevin Barry as a pure entertainer and a unique teller of tales

In Falling Out of Time, David Grossman has created a genre-defying drama - part play, part prose, pure poetry - to tell the story of bereaved parents setting out to reach their lost children. It begins in a small village, in a kitchen, where a man announces to his wife that he is leaving, embarking on a journey in search of their dead son.The man - called simply the 'Walking Man' - paces in ever-widening circles around the town. One after another, all manner of townsfolk fall into step with him (the Net Mender, the Midwife, the Elderly Maths Teacher, even the Duke), each enduring his or her own loss. The walkers raise questions of grief and bereavement: Can death be overcome by an intensity of speech or memory? Is it possible, even for a fleeting moment, to call to the dead and free them from their death? Grossman's answer to such questions is a hymn to these characters, who ultimately find solace and hope in their communal act of breaching death’s hermetic separateness

Ройтхамер, персонаж, основанный на Витгенштейне, покончил с собой, будучи доведенным до безумия собственной пугающей силой чистой мысли. В романе Томаса Бернхарда "Коррекция" мы являемся свидетелями постепенного срыва гения, постоянно вынужденного исправлять и оттачивать свое восприятие, пока единственным логическим завершением не станет отрицание его собственной души • Книга на английском языке • Roithamer, a character based on Wittgenstein, has committed suicide having been driven to madness by his own frightening powers of pure thought. We witness the gradual breakdown of a genius ceaselessly compelled to correct and refine his perceptions until the only logical conclusion is the negation of his own soul