Weidenfeld & Nicolson Black Water Lilies Бюсси Мишель

Ночью 22 декабря 1980 года на франко-швейцарской границе потерпел крушение самолет. Единственным выжившим из 169 пассажиров стала трехмесячная малышка. Две семьи, одна бедная, другая богатая, называют себя родственниками девочки, в связи с чем начинается расследование, которое продлится почти два десятилетия. Кто же она: Лиза-Роза или Эмили? • Восемнадцать лет спустя частный детектив, которому не удалось докопаться до истины, планирует свести счеты с жизнью, предварительно передав девушке все материалы следствия. Однако в самый последний момент он узнает секрет, который меняет все. Его тут же убивают… • «Самолет без нее» – это роман французского писателя Мишеля Бюсси. По мотивам произведения был снят сериал «После катастрофы» • Книга на английском языке

Leyli Maal is a beautiful Malian woman, mother of three, living in a tiny apartment on the outskirts of Marseille • Her quiet life as a well-integrated immigrant is suddenly shaken when her beautiful eldest daughter, Bamby, becomes the main suspect in two murders linked to a lethal illegal immigration racket • Is Bamby really involved? And why is everyone desperate to get their hands on Leyli's mysterious red notebook?

Лето 1989 года. Пятнадцатилетняя Клотильд становится единственной выжившей в автокатастрофе, которая уносит жизни ее родителей и брата • Двадцать семь лет спустя она возвращается на Корсику со своим мужем и дочкой, чтобы наконец-то отпустить прошлое. Но этого не происходит, ведь ей приходит письмо…от погибшей матери • Это просто невозможно. Клотильда своими глазами видела их тела. Почти тридцать лет их призраки преследовали женщину. Кто же отправил это письмо – и зачем? • «Время – убийца» – это роман французского писателя Мишеля Бюсси. По мотивам произведения был снят сериал «Время убийственно» • Книга на английском языке • Summer, 1989. Corsica. Fifteen-year-old Clotilde is the sole survivor when her family's car plunges off a narrow road into a ravine

Пара влюбленных нежится в бирюзовых волнах на острове Реюньон. Безделье, пальмы, солнце. Восхитительный коктейль. Но этот прекрасный сон внезапно обрывается. Лиана исчезает из отеля, и ее муж Марсьяль становится идеальным обвиняемым... Растерявшийся, не знающий, как доказать свою невиновность, он сбегает с их шестилетней дочкой. Для полиции это равносильно признанию, и среди роскошной природы острова начинается погоня. Захватывающий детектив от мастера жанра, французского популярного автора Мишеля Бюсси

There's something in the water of Con Dao • To the locals, a monster • To the corporate owners of the island, an opportunity • To the team of three sent to study and protect, a revelation • Their minds are unlike ours • Their bodies are malleable, transformable, shifting • They can communicate • And they want us to leave • When pioneering marine biologist Dr. Ha Nguyen is offered the chance to travel to the remote Con Dao Archipelago to investigate a highly intelligent, dangerous octopus species, she doesn't pause long enough to look at the fine print. DIANIMA- a transnational tech corporation best known for its groundbreaking work in artificial intelligence - has purchased the islands, evacuated their population and sealed the archipelago off from the world so that Nguyen can focus on her research

No heart is safe on the savage side • Arcade and Daffodil are twin sisters born one minute apart. With their fiery red hair and thirst for escape, they form an imaginative world of their own, nurtured by their grandmother's stories. But no matter how hard they try, Arc and Daffy can't escape the generational ghosts that haunt their family. And so, left to fend for themselves in the shadow of their rural Ohio town, the two sisters cling tight to one another • Years later, a local woman is discovered dead in the river. Soon, more bodies are left floating in the water, and as the killer circles ever closer, Arc's promise to keep her sister safe becomes increasingly desperate - and the powerful riptide of the savage side more difficult to survive

Vera was painting the pony's hooves gold in the dining room; Janet said this was bad for him; poison would seep into his bloodstream • At the bottom of a great stone staircase, dressed in her mother's black lace evening dress, twisted in murderous death, lies Janet. So end the sixteen years of Janet's short life • A life spent in a draughty Scottish castle, where roses will not grow, and a jackdaw decides to live in the doll's house • A life peopled by prettier, smoother-haired siblings, a Nanny with a face like the North Sea and the peculiar, whisky-swigging Cousin Lila • A life where Janet is perpetually misunderstood - and must turn from people, to animals, to books, to her own wild and wonderful imagination

Janet is sad. And she's quite happy with that. But the world has other plans... Sad Janet introduces a hilarious, provocative new voice in literary fiction • A whip-smart black comedy for fans of The New Me and My Year of Rest and Relaxation • Meet Janet. Janet is sad. Not about her life, about the world. Have you seen it these days? • The thing is, she's not out to make anyone else sad. She's not turning up to weddings shouting that most marriages end in divorce. She just wants to wear her giant coat, get rid of her passive-aggressive boyfriend, and avoid human interaction at the rundown dog shelter where she works • That is, until word spreads about a new pill that promises cynics like her one day off from being sad. When her family stages an intervention, and the prospect of making it through Christmas alone seems like too much, Janet finally decides to give them what they want

A producer at the Belfast bureau of the BBC, Tessa is at work one day when the news of another IRA raid comes on the air. As the anchor requests the public's help in locating those responsible for this latest attack - a robbery at a gas station - Tessa's sister appears on the screen pulling a black mask over her face • The police believe Marian has joined the IRA, but Tessa knows this is impossible. But when the truth of what has happened to her sister reveals itself, Tessa will be forced to choose: between her ideals and her family

Meridian Hill, the brilliant and inquisitive daughter of a working-class Black family in the American south, comes of age against the turbulent backdrop of the 1960s civil rights movement. Life starts out hard - at seventeen, she finds herself married with a child and denied an education because of it. But Meridian is passionate and resolute, determined to improve the lives of those around her, even in the face of oppression and uncertainty, heartbreak and failing health. And amid the chaos of social upheaval, Meridian discovers who she is - a woman capable of great courage, resilience and hope • Charting the story of the civil rights movement through one woman's struggle, Meridian is a powerful meditation on community, womanhood and self-discovery from the Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Color Purple

Jamal loves to run. But one morning - as he is training on a path winding up a steep cliff - he stumbles across a woman in distress. It's a matter of seconds: suddenly she is falling through the air, crashing on the beach below • Jamal is only an unlucky bystander - or is he? • His version of events doesn't seem to fit with what other eyewitnesses claim to have seen. And how to explain the red scarf carefully arranged around the dead woman's neck? Perhaps this was no accident after all • Or perhaps there is something more sinister afoot - a devilish plan decades in the making, masterminded by someone hell-bent on revenge

A thrilling story of fame, fortune, and impossible choices • Caleb Horowitz is twenty-seven, and his wildest dreams are about to come true. His manuscript has caught the attention of the literary agent, who offers him fame, fortune and a taste of the literary life. He can't wait for his book to be shopped around to every editor in New York, except one: Avi Dietsch, a college rival and the novel's 'inspiration.' • When Avi gets his hands on the manuscript, he sees nothing but theft - and opportunity. And so Caleb is forced to make a Faustian bargain, one that tests his theories of success, ambition and the limits of art