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Париж. 1941 год • Жан Кассон возвращается в оккупированный Париж под новым именем • До войны он был продюсером, но теперь, когда его разыскивает гестапо, ему лучше держаться подальше от своих старых знакомых. Его новая жизнь разворачивается в темных парижских закоулках и дешевых отелях квартала красных фонарей • Но война продолжается, и Жан становится частью Французского сопротивления… • Red Gold – это роман американского писателя Алана Фюрста, входящий в цикл Night Soldiers • Книга на английском языке • Set in the underworld of Paris in 1941 • Reluctant spy Jean Casson returns to occupied Paris under a new identity • He is wanted by the Gestapo therefore must stay away from the civilised circles he knew as a film producer and learn to survive in the shadowy backstreets and cheap hotels of Pigalle

1934 год. Болгария. На глазах у Христо Стоянова до смерти избивают его родного брата. Мужчина покидает родную страну и уезжает в Москву, чтобы пройти обучение и стать агентом НКВД. Первое задание приводит его в Каталонию, где бушует гражданская война. Опасаясь репрессий, Христо вновь бежит – на этот раз в Париж. Тем временем над Европой нависает тень грядущей войны… • Night Soldiers – это один из величайших шпионских романов XX века, первая книга в одноименном цикле Алана Фюрста. Книга станет прекрасным подарком для любителей исторических романов • Книга на английском языке • Bulgaria, 1934. Khristo Stoianev sees his brother kicked to death by a gang of fascist thugs. Taking a risk on the promise of Communism, he flees to Moscow and is trained as an agent of the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service

1937 год. Андре Шара пережил погромы в Польше и гражданские войны в России и теперь работает журналистом в газете «Правда». Когда над Европой нависает угроза новой войны, он присоединяется к НКВД, тайной советской разведывательной службе. Андре беспрекословно выполняет приказы и старается не попадать в неприятности, но опасность сама настигает его: выполняя одно из поручений, он попадает в тайный мир запутанных интриг • Шара становится главой парижской шпионской службы. Один из его новых агентов в Берлине может предоставить ему крайне ценную информацию… • Dark Star – это исторический роман американского писателя Алана Ферста, вторая часть цикла Night Soldiers. Роман станет прекрасным подарком для поклонников исторической прозы • Книга на английском языке

When Nora takes the train from London to visit her sister in the Oxfordshire countryside, she expects to find her waiting at the station, or at home cooking dinner. But when she walks into Rachel's familiar house, what she finds is entirely different: her sister has been the victim of a brutal murder • Stunned and adrift, Nora finds she can't return to her former life. An unsolved assault in the past has shaken her faith in the police, and she can't trust them to find her sister's killer. Haunted by the murder and the secrets that surround it, Nora is under the harrow: distressed and in danger. As Nora's fear turns to obsession, she becomes as unrecognisable as the sister her investigation uncovers • A riveting psychological thriller, Under the Harrow explores the fierce love between two sisters and the terrifying power of the past

Words are under threat • It's time to fight back • Imagine a world without words • A world in which books, libraries and newspapers are things of the past • A world where personal devices provide all you could want or need • Anana Johnson and her father, Doug, are hard at work on the final edition that will ever be printed of the English Dictionary. But one evening, Doug disappears and Anana unearths a single written clue: ALICE • In the battle to save her father, Anana discovers secret societies, dark incinerator rooms and underground passages • Above all, she finds a world that faces ruin from the dark side of technology

A dark and addictive story of betrayal and desire • Nineteenth-century rural France • Before he is called to bless the body of a woman at the nearby asylum, Father Gabriel receives a strange, troubling confession: hidden under the woman's dress he will find the notebooks in which she confided the abuses she suffered and the twisted motivations behind them • And so Rose's terrible story comes to light: sold as a teenage girl to a rich man, hidden away in an old manor house deep in the woods and caught in a perverse web, manipulated by those society considers her betters. A girl whose only escape is to capture her life - in all its devastation and hope - in the pages of her diary • The English-language debut of critically acclaimed author Franck Bouysse, this exquisitely written novel is both a keen social commentary and a chilling horror story

Andrew Landford, MP is driving home one night along a dark country lane when a barn owl flies into his windscreen. It is an accident, nothing more. But Andrew sits on a parliamentary committee concerned with the protection of endangered species, and the death of the owl threatens to destroy his hopes of reaching No. 10 • Also in the car is Andrew's old Oxford friend and political adviser, Charles Fryerne. Will they be able to keep the crime under wraps, or will circumstances conspire against them?

'For a while he watched the butterflies which still swooped and fluttered in this little glade, impervious to the bombs that had fallen round about.' • 1939: Walter Blackett, ruthless rubber merchant, is head of British Singapore's oldest and most powerful firm. And his family's prosperous world of tennis parties, cocktails and deferential servants seems unchanging. No one suspects it - but this world is poised on the edge of the abyss. This is the eve of the Fall of Singapore • A love story and a war story, a tragicomic tale of a city under siege and a dying way of life, The Singapore Grip is a modern classic from a Booker prize-winning author

As a child, Devi befriends a young boy whose mother has died in tragic circumstances. Over the years, Devi and Devanna become inseparable as they go to school together and learn more about the extended family that surrounds them • However things change when Devi meets Muthi, a young man who has killed a tiger and is feted as a hero. Although she is still a child and Muthi is a man, Devi vows that one day she will marry him. It is this love that will gradually drive a wedge between her and her friend Devanna, who has been taken under the wing of a local missionary. For Devi is blind to the fact that Devanna himself has fallen for her • Devanna leaves the village to study medicine, in the hope that when he returns Devi will see his worth and return his love, but then a tragedy changes the fate of all three, with far-reaching consequences for the generations to come

'We look on past ages with condescension, as a mere preparation for us... but what if we are a mere after-glow of them?' • Krishnapur, 1857: India is on the brink of a violent and bloody mutiny. In this remote town on the vast North Indian plain, life for the British is still orderly and genteel. But when the sepoys at the nearest military cantonment rise in revolt, the British community retreats with shock into the Residency. They prepare to fight for their lives with what weapons they can muster • As food and ammunition grow short when the British find themselves under actual siege, the true character of their dominion - at once brutal, blundering and wistful - is soon revealed

Vietnam veteran Vincent Majestyk had his belly-full of killing in Asia. It was his job and he was one of the best, but when he stripped off his uniform he never wanted to go back to it • Now he works under the open skies of the American Southwest, growing melons on his farm, where nobody knows about his past. And that is why a cheap crook named Kopas, a hard-named cop named McAllen, and a big-time hit man named Renda all figured Majestyk was another local yokel to be pushed around • It looks like Majestyk is about to go to war again

The President tells the story of a ruthless dictator and his schemes to dispose of a political adversary in an unnamed country usually identified as Guatemala. Drawing on his experience as a journalist writing under repressive conditions, Miguel Angel Asturias provides a blazing indictment of totalitarian government and its damaging psychological effects on society - from the harvest of terror to cowardice, to sycophancy, to treachery and intrigue, and the total sacrifice of human values to lust for power • Written in a language of freedom and originality, full of extraordinary symbolism, biting satire, poetry and dream sequences, with an imagination that is both lyrical and ferocious, The President is a surrealist masterpiece and one of the most influential books of the twentieth century