Vintage books The Devonshires. The Story of a Family and a Nation Hattersley Roy

"Вещи: История шестидесятых" - это история молодой пары, которая хочет наслаждаться жизнью, и единственный известный им способ сделать это - владеть "вещами". Этот роман Джорджа Перека получил премию Рено и стал культовой книгой для целого поколения • В "Спящем человеке" повествование от второго лица следует за 25-летним студентом, который однажды решает быть безразличным к миру • Книга на английском языке • Things: A Story of the Sixties is the story of a young couple who want to enjoy life, but the only way they know how to do so is through ownership of 'things'. Perec's first novel won the Prix Renaudot and became the cult book for a generation • In A Man Asleep, a young student embarks upon a disturbing and exhaustive pursuit of indifference, following his experience in non-existence with relentless logic

A powerful, heart-breaking story about tempting fate and living with the consequences • Arthur and Jake are brothers yet worlds apart • Arthur is older, shy, dutiful and set to inherit his father's farm. Jake is younger, handsome and reckless, a dangerous man to know • When Laura arrives in their rural community, the fragile balance of the brothers' rivalry is pushed to the edge of catastrophe

One morning Herman Mussert wakes up in a hotel room in Lisbon, where twenty years previously he slept with another man’s wife. Yet he is quite certain that the night before he went to sleep as normal in his house in Amsterdam. And so Herman begins a physical journey and a metaphysical adventure, which will re-route him via past loves, through the pangs and pleasures of memory, and to the very heart of that crucial question: ‘who am I?’

In this enthralling book van der Post establishes his role as a distinguished explorer and writer describing the rediscovery of the Bushmen, outcast survivors from Stone Age Africa • Laurens van der Post was fascinated and appalled at the fate of this remarkable people. Ostracised by all the changing face of African cultural life they retreated deep into the Kalahari desert. His fascinating attempt to capture their way of life and the secrets of their ancient heritage provide captivating reading and a unique insight into a forgotten way of life

Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Cezanne, Renoir, Degas, Sisley, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt • Though they were often ridiculed or ignored by their contemporaries, astonishing sums are paid today for the works of these artists. Their dazzling pictures are familiar - but how well does the world know the Impressionists as people? In a vivid and moving narrative, biographer Sue Roe shows the Impressionists in the studios of Paris, rural lanes of Montmartre and rowdy riverside bars as Paris underwent Baron Haussman's spectacular transformation • For over twenty years they lived and worked together as a group, struggling to rebuild their lives after the Franco-Prussian war and supporting one another through shocked public reactions to unfamiliar canvasses depicting laundresses, dancers, spring blossom and boating scenes

At Edinburgh's Department of Environmental Health, hard-drinking, womanising officer Danny Skinner wants to uncover secrets: 'the bedroom secrets of the master chefs', secrets he believes might just help him understand his self-destructive impulses. But the arrival of the virginal, model-railway enthusiast Brian Kibby at the department provokes an uncharacteristic response in Skinner, and threatens to throw his mission off course. Consumed by loathing for his nemesis, Skinner enacts a curse, and when Kibby contracts a horrific and debilitating mystery virus, Skinner understands that their destinies are supernaturally bound, and he is faced with a terrible dilemma

An ember storm of a novel, this is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving-and astonishing-best • Anna's aged mother is dying - if her three children would just allow it. Forced by their pity to stay alive, she increasingly escapes through her hospital window into visions of horror and delight • When Anna's finger vanishes and a few months later her knee disappears, Anna too feels the pull of the window. She begins to see that all around her others are similarly vanishing, but no one else notices. All Anna can do is keep her mother alive. But the window keeps opening wider, taking Anna and the reader ever deeper into a strangely beautiful novel about hope, love and orange-bellied parrots

Roland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It’s February 1980 and he has just come from lunch with Francois Mitterrand. Barthes dies soon afterwards. History tells us it was an accident • But what if it were an assassination? What if Barthes was carrying a document of unbelievable, global importance? A document explaining the seventh function of language – an idea so powerful it gives whoever masters it the ability to convince anyone, in any situation, to do anything • Police Captain Jacques Bayard and his reluctant accomplice Simon Herzog set off on a chase that takes them from the corridors of power to backstreet saunas and midnight meetings. What they discover is a worldwide conspiracy involving the President, murderous Bulgarians and a secret international debating society

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

Did you know that pigs frequently throw tantrums? • That chickens are capable of complex communication? • That sheep know their own names? • That cows grieve when their calves are taken away from them? • Jeffrey Masson delves deep into the mysterious world of farm animals and reveals just how sophisticated these creatures truly are - capable of joy, sadness, love and friendship - just like us

Знали ли вы, что деревья могут влиять на вращение Земли? • Или что волки могут изменять русла рек? • Или что дождевые черви контролируют популяции диких кабанов? • Мир природы - это паутина сложных связей, многие из которых остаются незамеченными человеком. Но именно эти связи поддерживают тонко сбалансированное равновесие природы • Опираясь на последние научные открытия и многолетний опыт лесовода, в книге "Тайная сеть природы" Питер Воллебен показывает нам, как взаимодействуют различные животные, растения, реки, скалы и погодные системы, и что поставлено на карту, когда эти хрупкие системы выходят из равновесия • Книга на английском языке • An exploration of the invisible connections sustaining the entire natural world from the bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees • Did you know that trees can influence the rotation of the earth? • Or that wolves can alter the course of a river? • Or that earthworms control wild boar populations? • The natural world is a web of intricate connections, many of which go unnoticed by humans

In his eightieth year, Colin Thubron takes a dramatic and often treacherous journey from the Amur's secret source to its giant mouth, covering almost 3,000 miles • Rising in the Mongolian mountains and flowing through Siberia to the Pacific, the Amur River forms the tense border between Russia and China. This is the most densely fortified frontier on Earth • Harassed by injury and by arrest from the local police, Thubron makes his way along both the Russian and Chinese shores. By the time he reaches the river's desolate end, a whole, pivotal world has come alive