Vintage books The Son Несбё Ю

«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

Harry is out of his depth. Detective Harry Hole is meant to keep out of trouble. A young Norwegian girl taking a gap year in Sydney has been murdered, and Harry has been sent to Australia to assist in any way he can. He's not supposed to get too involved. When the team unearths a string of unsolved murders and disappearances, nothing will stop Harry from finding out the truth. The hunt for a serial killer is on, but the murderer will talk only to Harry. He might just be the next victim. Appearing in English for the first time, The Bat is the legendary first novel from the worldwide phenomenon Jo Nesbo

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

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

Saramago's ingenious fictionalised account of the life of Jesus • Saramago's Jesus is the son not of God but of Joseph. Mary Magdalene is his lover not his convert. In the wilderness he tussles not with the Devil – a kindly and necessary evil – but with God, a fallible, power-hungry autocrat. And he must die not for the sins of the fathers but for the sins of the Father. By investigating these simple inversions Saramago has woven a dark parable; a secular gospel of astonishing richness and depth • ‘An original, wild and beautiful book’ Times Literary Supplement

"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 crime: Reykjavik, August 1941. When a travelling salesman is found murdered in a basement flat, the police initially suspect a member of the Allied occupation force • The suspect: Flovent, Reykjavik’s sole detective, is joined by the young military policeman Thorson. Their investigation focuses on a family of German residents, the retired doctor Rudolf Lunden and his estranged son Felix, who is on the run, suspected of being a spy • The ex-lover: Flovent and Thorson race to solve the case before US Counterintelligence can take it out of their hands. As evidence emerges of dubious experiments carried out on Icelandic schoolboys in the 1930s, Thorson becomes increasingly suspicious of the role played by the murdered man’s former girlfriend, Vera, and her British soldier lover

‘The funniest book in the world’ Evelyn Waugh • Mr Charles Pooter is a respectable man. He has just moved into a very desirable home in Holloway with his dear wife Carrie, from where he commutes to his job of valued clerk at a reputable bank in the City. Unfortunately neither his dear friends Mr Cummings and Mr Gowing, nor the butcher, the greengrocer's boy and the Lord Mayor seem to recognise Mr Pooter's innate gentility, and his disappointing son Lupin has gone and got himself involved with a most unsuitable fiancee • George and Weedon Grossmith's comic novel, perfectly illustrated by Weedon, is a glorious, affectionate caricature of the English middle-class at the end of nineteenth century

The captivating life of Margaret Douglas - a life of scandal, political intrigue and royal romance that spanned five Tudor reigns • Royal Tudor blood ran in her veins. Some thought Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, should be queen of England • She ranked high at the court of her uncle, Henry VIII, and was lady of honour to five of his wives. Beautiful and tempestuous, she created scandal - twice - by falling in love with unsuitable men • Throughout her life her dynastic ties to two crowns proved hazardous. A born political intriguer, she was imprisoned in the Tower of London three times, once under sentence of death. Her husband and son were brutally murdered, she warred with two queens, and proved instrumental in securing the Stuart succession to the throne of England for her grandson

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