Vintage books Road Ends Лоусон Мэри

In this non-fiction novel – road trip, confession, and erotic tour de force – Emmanuel Carrere pursues two consuming obsessions: the disappearance of his grandfather amid suspicions that he was a Nazi collaborator in the Second World War; and a violently passionate affair with a woman that he loves but which ends in destruction. Moving between Paris and Kotelnich, a grisly post-Soviet town, Carrere weaves his story into a travelogue of a journey inward, travelling fearlessly into the depths of his tortured psyche

Заново откройте для себя любимую классику детства - "Тайный сад" Бёрнетт Фрэнсис Ходжсон • Какая маленькая девочка сможет перевернуть весь дом с ног на голову и вдохнуть новую жизнь в странное старое поместье? Удивительно противоречивая, волевая, сердитая, непонятая Мэри Леннокс • Когда Мэри Леннокс отправляют в Мисселтуэйт-Мэнор жить к ее дяде, все говорят, что она самый неприятный на вид ребенок, которого когда-либо видели. Это тоже правда. Мэри бледная, избалованная и довольно упрямая. Но в то же время она ужасно одинока. И вот однажды она слышит о саде на территории поместья, который годами держали запертым и спрятанным • И когда дружелюбный Робин помогает Мэри найти ключ, она обнаруживает самое волшебное место, которое только можно себе представить

Colin Thurbon’s beautiful prose unfolds along the Silk Road, unearthing a richly layered past on his most ambitious journey • On buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great trade route out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey. A magnificent account of an ancient world in modern ferment, Thubron covers over 7000 miles in eight months enduring a near-miss with a drunk-driver, incarceration in a Chinese cell, and undergoing root canal treatment without anaesthetic, along the way • Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind

Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in The Times, Sunday Times and The Economist, and one of the 10 Best Books of 2016 in the New York Times • Shortly before his death, Stefan Hertmans' grandfather Urbain Martien gave his grandson a set of notebooks containing the detailed memories of his life. He grew up in poverty around 1900, the son of a struggling church painter who died young, and went to work in an iron foundry at only 13. Afternoons spent with his father at work on a church fresco were Urbain’s heaven; the iron foundry an inferno • During the First World War, Urbain was on the front line confronting the invading Germans, and ever after he is haunted by events he can never forget. The war ends and he marries his great love, Maria Emelia, but she dies tragically in the 1919 flu epidemic

'I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, Britain burns, while the world ends' Salman Rushdie • From the age of twelve, the Baron Cosimo Piovasco di Rondo makes his home among ash, elm, magnolia, plum and almond, living up in the trees. He walks through paths made from the twisted branches of olive, makes his bed in a holly oak, bathes in a fountain constructed from poplar bark. An aerial library holds the books with which he educates himself in philosophy and mathematics. Suspended among the leaves, the Baron adventures with bandits and pirates, conducts a passionate love affair, and watches the Age of Enlightenment pass by beneath him

A motherless girl grows up in isolated luxury, hidden from the world by her wealthy father. She believes their life together is normal – but as time passes, she has a growing sense that something between them is very wrong • She cannot escape, so she seeks solace in her books. Her favourite tales are those that conjure ancient worlds – of angry gods and heroic mortals, one of whom will some day come to her rescue • Soon, she will forget where the page ends and her mind begins

'I needed to get to the stopping places, so I needed to get on the road. It was the road where I might at last find out where I belonged.' • Damian Le Bas grew up surrounded by Gypsy history. His great-grandmother would tell him stories of her childhood in the ancient Romani language; the places they worked, the ways they lived, the superstitions and lores of their people • In a bid to better understand his heritage, Damian sets out on a journey to discover the stopping places – the old encampment sites known only to Travellers. Through winter frosts and summer dawns, from horse fairs to Gypsy churches, Damian lives on the road, somewhere between the romanticised Gypsies of old, and their much-maligned descendants of today

Прекрасное новое издание классического готического романа Мэри Шелли "Франкенштейн" • Путешествуя по Арктике, капитан корабля спасает человека, блуждающего на грани жизни и смерти среди полярных льдов. Как этот человек туда попал, раскрывает сама история амбиций, убийств и мести. Будучи молодым ученым, Виктор Франкенштейн раздвинул границы морали, чтобы пересечь последний рубеж и создать жизнь из неживой материи. Но его творение - монстр, сшитый из частей трупов, которому нет места в мире, и его существование может привести только к трагедии • Книга на английском языке • A beautiful new edition of Mary Shelley's Gothic horror classic, Frankenstein • Includes A Cultural History of Frankenstein's Monster by Jeanette Winterson • Navigating the Arctic, the captain of a ship rescues a man wandering near death across the ice caps

Hanna, Dan, Constance and Emmet return to the west coast of Ireland for a final family Christmas in the home their mother is about to sell. As the feast turns to near painful comedy, a last, desperate act from Rosaleen - a woman who doesn't quite know how to love her children - forces them to confront the weight of family ties and the road that brought them home

The next round in the beloved Two Pints series from the ever-brilliant, always hilarious imagination of bestselling author of The Commitments and Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha • Two men meet for a pint - or three - in a Dublin pub. They chew the fat, set the world to rights and mourn friends gone: David Bowie, Prince, Princess Leia and Young Frankenstein. Around them the world of Brexit, Trump, and referendums storm, but some things - good things - never change • Inspired by the last five years of news, Roddy Doyle's Two for the Road offers a strong brew of Roddy Doyle's comic genius - to be downed in one riotous sitting, or savoured over, laugh after laugh

"Революционная дорога" Ричарда Йейтса, признанная шедевром с момента своей первой публикации, - это история Фрэнка и Эйприл Уилер, яркой молодой пары, которым наскучила банальность жизни в пригороде и которые стремятся быть экстраординарными. С душераздирающим состраданием и ясностью Ричард Йейтс показывает, как решение Фрэнка и Эйприл изменить свою жизнь к лучшему приводит к предательству и трагедии • Книга на английском языке • Hailed as a masterpiece from its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright young couple who are bored by the banalities of suburban life and long to be extraordinary. With heartbreaking compassion and clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April's decision to change their lives for the better leads to betrayal and tragedy

A book about family, selfishness and compassion on Ireland’s Atlantic coast, from the Booker Prize-winner • Hanna, Dan, Constance and Emmet return to the west coast of Ireland for a final family Christmas in the home their mother is about to sell. As the feast turns to near painful comedy, a last, desperate act from Rosaleen – a woman who doesn't quite know how to love her own children – forces them to confront the weight of family ties and the road that brought them home