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Пятичасовая история в реальном времени, действие которой разворачивается в коктейль-баре аэропорта во время глобальной катастрофы. Пять непохожих друг на друга людей оказались в ловушке внутри: Карен, мать-одиночка, ожидающая своего онлайн-свидания; Рик, неудачливый бармен в зале ожидания аэропорта; Люк, пастор в бегах; Рэйчел, крутая блондинка Хичкока, неспособная на настоящий человеческий контакт; и, наконец, таинственный голос, известный как Игрок Один. Постепенно каждый раскрывает правду о себе, в то время как мир, каким они его знают, подходит к концу • В традициях Курта Воннегута и Дж.Дж. Балларда Коупленд исследует современные кризисы времени, человеческой идентичности, общества, религии и загробной жизни. В книге задано столько же вопросов, сколько и ответов, и читатели, прочитав эту историю, не будут сомневаться в том, что мы вступаем в новую фазу существования как биологического вида - и что пути назад нет подробнее

В ближайшем будущем пчелы вымрут - до тех пор, пока не будут ужалены пять не связанных между собой особей в разных частях света. Немедленно схваченные зловещими фигурами в защитных костюмах, подвергнутые тщательному допросу в нейтральных камерах, похожих на Ikea, а затем выпущенные в качестве 15-минутных знаменитостей в мир, почти полностью управляемый Интернетом, эти пять незабываемых людей переживают шквал необычных обстоятельств 21-го века. Харизматичный ученый с сомнительными мотивами в конце концов объединяет квинтет, и их общий опыт объединяет их так, как они никогда не могли себе представить • Поколение А отражает структуру поколения X 1991 года, поскольку оно выступает за чтение и рассказывание историй как за одну из немногих защит, которые у нас все еще есть против постоянной бомбардировки органов чувств в цифровом мире

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Windmill Books Worst. Person. Ever Коупленд Дуглас

Острый, как бритва, портрет морально обанкротившегося и радостно порочного современного человека, худшего из худших. "Худший. Человек. Когда-либо" - восхитительно грязный, невероятно смешной и незабываемый роман Дугласа Коупленда • Познакомьтесь с Рэймондом Гантом. Порядочный парень, который старается поступать правильно. Или, другими словами, худший человек на свете: сквернословящий оператор-мизантроп, за которым по пятам тянутся кредиторы, бывшие жены и несчастные бездомные. Мужчинам он не нравится, женщины бегут от него • Наихудший. Человек. Когда-либо. это глубоко недостойная книга об ужасном человеческом существе, не имеющем абсолютно никакой искупительной социальной ценности • Книга на английском языке • A razor-sharp portrait of a morally bankrupt and gleefully wicked modern man, Worst

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Windmill Books Legacy Harding Thomas

A panoramic new history of modern Britain, as told through the story of one extraordinary family, and one groundbreaking company • This is the story of how a family transformed themselves from penniless immigrants to build a company that revolutionised the way we eat, drink and are entertained. For over a century, Lyons was everywhere. Its restaurants and corner houses were on every high street, its coffee and tea in every cup, its products in every home. But it was a victory that was not easily won • Told through the lives of five generations, Legacy is at once intimate and sweeping, charting the tragedy and unimaginable success of one of Britain's most famous families. It is also an illuminating new exploration of Britain and its place in the world, from the bestselling author of Hanns and Rudolf and The House by the Lake

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Windmill Books Leap In. A Woman, Some Waves, and the Will to Swim Heminsley Alexandra

Alexandra Heminsley thought she could swim. She really did • It may have been because she could run. It may have been because she wanted to swim; or perhaps because she only ever did ten minutes of breaststroke at a time. But, as she learned one day while flailing around in the sea, she really couldn't • Believing that a life lived fully isn't one with the most money earned, the most stuff bought or the most races won, but one with the most experiences, experienced the most fully, she decided to conquer her fear of the water • From the ignominy of getting into a wetsuit to the triumph of swimming from Kefalonia to Ithaca, in becoming a swimmer, Alexandra learns to appreciate her body and still her mind. As it turns out, the water is never as frightening once you're in, and really, everything is better when you remember to exhale

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Windmill Books The Peterloo Massacre Reid Robert

The Peterloo Massacre is a revealing and compelling account of one of the darkest days in Britain's social history • On 16 August 1819, a strong force of yeomanry and regular cavalry charged into a crowd of more than 100,000 workers who had gathered on St Peter’s Field in Manchester for a meeting about Parliamentary reform • Many were killed. This violent, startling event became known as Peterloo, one of the darkest days in Britain’s social history • The Peterloo Massacre provides a revealing narrative account of the events leading up to Peterloo, starkly describes the actions of that fateful day, and examines its aftermath. It offers a new perspective on the political and military activities of the time, and shows how the very nature of society was powerfully influenced by irreversible technological change: a pattern that, two-hundred years later, still has relevance in understanding the forces shaping our world today

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Windmill Books The Brother Gardeners. Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession Wulf Andrea

A wonderfully readable investigation of the origins of the modern garden in 18th-century England. Popular history at its finest • One January morning in 1734, cloth merchant Peter Collinson hurried down to the docks at London's Custom House to collect cargo just arrived from John Bartram in the American colonies. But it was not bales of cotton that awaited him, but plants and seeds • Over the next forty years, Bartram would send hundreds of American species to England, where Collinson was one of a handful of men who would foster a national obsession and change the gardens of Britain forever: Philip Miller, author of the bestselling Gardeners Dictionary; the Swede Carl Linnaeus, whose standardised botanical nomenclature popularised botany; the botanist-adventurer Joseph Banks and his colleague Daniel Solander who both explored the strange flora of Tahiti and Australia on Captain Cook's Endeavour

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Windmill Books House of Gold Solomons Natasha

VIENNA, 1911. Greta Goldbaum has always dreamed of being free to choose her own life's path, but the Goldbaum family, one of the wealthiest in the world, has different expectations. United across Europe, Goldbaum men are bankers, while Goldbaum women marry Goldbaum men to produce Goldbaum children • So when Greta is sent to England to marry Albert, a distant cousin she has never met, the two form an instant dislike for one another. Defiant and lonely, Greta longs for a connection and a place to call her own. When Albert's mother gives Greta a garden, things begin to change • But just as she begins to taste an unexpected happiness, the Great War breaks out, threatening to tear everything away. For the first time in two hundred years, the family will find themselves on opposing sides

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Windmill Books Angelmaker Харкуэй Ник

From the acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World - an adventure story, a war story, and a love story, all wound into one brilliant narrative that runs like clockwork • Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Literature • Joe Spork, son of the infamous criminal Mathew ‘Tommy Gun’ Spork just wants a quiet life, repairing clockwork in a wet, unknown bit of London • Edie Banister, former superspy, lives quietly and wishes she didn’t. She’s nearly ninety and the things she fought to save don’t seem to exist anymore. She's beginning to wonder if they ever did • When Joe is asked to fix one particularly unusual device, his life is suddenly upended. The client? Unknown. The device? A 1950s doomsday machine. Having triggered it, Joe now faces the wrath of both the government and a diabolical South Asian dictator, Edie’s old arch-nemesis

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Windmill Books The Greatcoat Dunmore Helen

In the winter of 1952, Isabel Carey moves to the East Riding of Yorkshire with her husband Philip, a GP. With Philip spending long hours on call, Isabel finds herself isolated and lonely as she strives to adjust to the realities of married life • Woken by intense cold one night, she discovers an old RAF greatcoat hidden in the back of a cupboard. Sleeping under it for warmth, she starts to dream. And not long afterwards, while her husband is out, she is startled by a knock at her window • Outside is a young RAF pilot, waiting to come in • His name is Alec, and his powerful presence both disturbs and excites her. Her initial alarm soon fades, and they begin an intense affair. But nothing has prepared her for the truth about Alec's life, nor the impact it will have on hers

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Windmill Books Jasper Jones Silvey Craig

Summer, 1965 • Late one night, thirteen-year-old Charlie Bucktin is startled by a knock on his window • His visitor is Jasper Jones. Rebellious, mixed-race and solitary, Jasper is intriguing. And he needs Charlie’s help. In the dead of night, the boys steal through town, and Charlie learns of Jasper’s horrible discovery • Burdened by a terrible secret and the weight of a town’s suspicion, Charlie feels his world closing in • After this summer nothing will ever be the same again

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Windmill Books High Dive Lee Jonathan

‘A meticulous and gripping reimagination of the Brighton bomb’ Observer, Best Novels of 2015 • In September 1984, a man calling himself Roy Walsh checked into The Grand Hotel in Brighton and planted a bomb in room 629. The device was primed to explode in twenty-four days, six hours and six minutes, when intelligence had confirmed that Margaret Thatcher and her whole cabinet would be staying in the hotel • Moving between the luxurious hospitality of a British tourist town and the troubled city of Belfast, and told from the perspectives of a young IRA explosives expert, the deputy hotel manager and his teenage daughter, High Dive is a taut and tender retelling of one of the most ambitious assassination attempts against the British establishment

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Windmill Books Spill Simmer Falter Wither Baume Sara

You find me on a Tuesday, on my Tuesday trip to town. A note sellotaped to the inside of the jumble-shop window: COMPASSIONATE & TOLERANT OWNER. A PERSON WITHOUT OTHER PETS & WITHOUT CHILDREN UNDER FOUR • A misfit man finds a misfit dog. Ray, aged fifty-seven, ‘too old for starting over, too young for giving up’, and One Eye, a vicious little bugger, smaller than expected, a good ratter. Both are accustomed to being alone, unloved, outcast – but they quickly find in each other a strange companionship of sorts. As spring turns to summer, their relationship grows and intensifies, until a savage act forces them to abandon the precarious life they’d established, and take to the road • Spill Simmer Falter Wither is a wholly different kind of love story: a devastating portrait of loneliness, loss and friendship, and of the scars that are more than skin-deep

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