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Джо Несбо: Летучая мышь • Откройте для себя захватывающую первую книгу из серии бестселлеров "Гарри Хоул" • Детектив Гарри Хоул создан для того, чтобы держаться подальше от неприятностей. Молодая норвежская девушка, проходившая годичный отпуск в Сиднее, была убита, и Гарри был отправлен в Австралию, чтобы оказать посильную помощь • Он не должен слишком вмешиваться • Когда команда раскроет череду нераскрытых убийств и исчезновений, ничто не помешает Гарри узнать правду. Охота на серийного убийцу продолжается, но убийца будет говорить только с Гарри • Он может стать следующей жертвой • Книга на английском языке • Discover the addictive first book in the bestselling Harry Hole series • 'A stunning opening to the series' Sunday Times • Harry is out of his depth

«Харри Холе вышел на лестницу и сощурился на ярком июньском солнце. ...Он чувствовал, что все находится в гармонии, в равновесии...» Так заканчивается роман «Полиция», но не история любимого героя Ю Несбё. Увы, детектив Харри обманывал сам себя — мир по-прежнему был жесток и несовершенен, и требовалась сильная рука, чтобы навести в нем хотя бы подобие порядка. Харри Холе возвращается на службу в полицию Осло, чтобы начать охоту за серийным убийцей, нападающим на тех, кто назначает свидания через приложение для знакомств. След преступника приводит детектива к его собственному мрачному прошлому • «Жажда» - 11-я книга из популярного цикла писателя о противоречивом детективе Харри Холе, чей харизматичный образ принес Несбё мировой успех • Книга на английском языке

Sonny's on the run • Sonny is a model prisoner. He listens to the confessions of other inmates and absolves them of their sins. But then one prisoner's confession changes everything • He's been lied to his whole life • After learning the truth about his disgraced father, Sonny needs to break out of prison and make those responsible pay for their crimes • Sonny wants revenge, whatever the cost

Мальчик просыпается и обнаруживает, что его мать пропала. На улице он видит ее любимый шарф, обернутый вокруг шеи снеговика. Детектив Гарри Хоул вскоре обнаруживает, что за прошедшие годы пропало пугающее количество жен и матерей. Когда исчезает вторая женщина, худшее подозрение Гарри подтверждается: на территории его дома орудует серийный убийца • Скоро выпадет первый снег • И тогда он появится снова • И когда снег пройдет • Он заберет кого-нибудь другого. . . Книга на английском языке • A young boy wakes to find his mother missing. Outside, he sees her favourite scarf - wrapped around the neck of a snowman • Detective Harry Hole soon discovers that an alarming number of wives and mothers have gone missing over the years • When a second woman disappears, Harry's worst suspicion is confirmed: a serial killer is operating on his home turf

"The Jealousy Man" - первый сборник рассказов от короля криминала Ю Несбё • Познакомьтесь с детективом, идущим по следу человека, подозреваемого в убийстве своего близнеца; наемным убийцей, столкнувшимся лицом к лицу со своим злейшим противником; и двумя пассажирами, случайно встретившимися в самолете, что означает романтику или что-то гораздо более зловещее • В своем первом в истории сборнике коротких рассказов этот мастер криминала предлагает захватывающее чтение, от которого вы не сможете оторваться • Книга на английском языке • Murder. Assassination. Revenge • Discover the first short story collection from the King of Scandi Crime • Meet a detective on the trail of a man suspected of murdering his twin; a hired assassin facing his greatest adversary; and two passengers meeting by chance on a plane, spelling romance or something far more sinister

The Ds can't wait to go and stay with Nancy and Peggy in the Lake District during the summer holidays. But when the Amazons’ dreadful Great Aunt invites herself to stay too, the summer is threatened with dullness. Staying indoors and reading poetry is not what anyone had in mind. To save the Ds from total boredom, the Amazons arrange for their friends to stay in a tumble-down hut in the woods. And as long as no one discovers they're there they can sail all summer long • In the Backstory you can learn how to make a campfire! • Vintage Children’s Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives

'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

The Vintage Classics Europeans series - with covers provided by textile design firm Wallace Sewell, these are must-have editions of European masterpieces, celebrating the warp and weft of a shared literary treasury • It is the spring of 1869 and there is talk of revolution in Sicily, by day the rattle of firing squads and by night the flickering lights of bonfires lit by rebel bands. Prince Fabrizio knows that beneath these outward signs of transformation, the sensuality, languor and corruption of his native land will never change. But can his family’s ancient power endure? Lampedusa’s macabre myth remains astounding relevant, reflecting any modern edifice of power and money just as surely as it shows us a corner of Italy long ago

The Northmen’s Fury tells the Viking story, from the first pinprick raids of the eighth century to the great armies that left their Scandinavian homelands to conquer larger parts of France, Britain and Ireland. It recounts the epic voyages that took them across the Atlantic to the icy fjords of Greenland and to North America over four centuries before Columbus and east to the great rivers of Russia and the riches of the Byzantine empire • One summer’s day in 793, death arrived from the sea. The raiders who sacked the island monastery of Lindisfarne were the first Vikings, sea-borne attackers who brought two centuries of terror to northern Europe. Before long the sight of their dragon-prowed longships and the very name of Viking gave rise to fear and dread, so much so that monks were reputed to pray each night for delivery from ‘the Northmen’s Fury’

The Italian Renaissance shaped Western culture - but it was far stranger and darker than many of us realise. We know the Mona Lisa for her smile, but not that she was married to a slave-trader. We revere Leonardo da Vinci for his art, but few now appreciate his ingenious designs for weaponry. We visit Florence to see Michelangelo's David, but hear nothing of the massacre that forced the republic's surrender. In fact, many of the Renaissance's most celebrated artists and thinkers emerged not during the celebrated 'rebirth' of the fifteenth century but amidst the death and destruction of the sixteenth century • The Beauty and the Terror is an enrapturing narrative which includes the forgotten women writers, Jewish merchants, mercenaries, prostitutes, farmers and citizens who lived the Renaissance every day

The Bass Rock has for centuries watched over the lives that pass under its shadow on the Scottish mainland. And across the centuries the fates of three women are linked: to this place, to each other • In the early 1700s, Sarah, accused of being a witch, flees for her life • In the aftermath of the Second World War, Ruth navigates a new house, a new husband and the strange waters of the local community • Six decades later, the house stands empty. Viv, mourning the death of her father, catalogues Ruth's belongings and discovers her place in the past - and perhaps a way forward • Each woman's choices are circumscribed by the men in their lives. But in sisterhood there is the hope of survival and new life

The vivid scenes on the Bayeux Tapestry depict the events leading up to the Battle of Hastings in 1066. It is one of Europe's greatest treasures and its own story is full of drama and surprise • Who commissioned the tapestry? Was it Bishop Odo, William's ruthless half-brother? Or Harold's dynamic sister Edith, juggling for a place in the new court? Hicks shows us this world and the miracle of the tapestry's making: the stitches, dyes and strange details in the margins. For centuries it lay ignored in Bayeux cathedral until its 'discovery' in the eighteenth century. It became a symbol of power as well as art: townsfolk saved it during the French Revolution; Napoleon displayed it to promote his own conquest; the Nazis strove to make it their own; and its influence endures today