Windmill Books Worst. Person. Ever Коупленд Дуглас

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

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

Doctors are the people we turn to in our darkest moments. We trust them with our lives. But what does that stress do to a person? • What does it take to confront death, disease, distress and suffering every day? To work in a healthcare system stretched to breaking point? To make decisions that will change lives - or possibly end them? And how do doctors cope with their own questions and fears, when they are expected to have all the answers? • Caroline Elton is a psychologist who, for two decades, has specialised in helping doctors: the obstetrician whose own fertility treatment failed; the trainee oncologist struggling to face patients with the disease that killed her father; the brilliant neurosurgeon whose career stalled in an environment hostile to women; and many more

Fifteen-year old Anais Hendricks is smart, funny and fierce, but she is also a child who has been let down, or worse, by just about every adult she has ever met. Sitting in the back of a police car, she finds herself headed for the Panopticon, a home for chronic young offenders where the social workers are as suspicious as its residents. But Anais can't remember the events that have led her there, or why she has blood on her school uniform

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

Still Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made her an unlikely heroine for many women. Her career is now descendent, her bank balance shaky, and she has fled the city for the middle of nowhere. There she discovers, in a tree stand with a roofer named Jim Bates, that what she sees through a camera lens is not all there is to life • Brilliantly written, powerfully observed, Still Life with Bread Crumbs is a deeply moving and often very funny story of unexpected love, and a stunningly crafted journey into the life of a woman, her heart, her mind, her days, as she discovers that life is a story with many levels, a story that is longer and more exciting than she ever imagined

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

Set during and just after the First World War, The Lie is an enthralling, heart-wrenching novel of love, memory and devastating loss by one of the UK’s most acclaimed storytellers • Cornwall, 1920, early spring • A young man stands on a headland, looking out to sea. He is back from the war, homeless and without family • Behind him lie the mud, barbed-wire entanglements and terror of the trenches. Behind him is also the most intense relationship of his life • Daniel has survived, but the horror and passion of the past seem more real than the quiet fields around him • He is about to step into the unknown. But will he ever be able to escape the terrible, unforeseen consequences of a lie?

Alexandra Heminsley had high hopes: the arse of an athlete, the waist of a supermodel, the speed of a gazelle. Defeated by gyms and bored of yoga, she decided to run • Her first attempt did not end well • Six years later, she has run five marathons in two continents • But, as her dad says, you run with your head as much as with your legs. So, while this is a book about running, it's not just about running • You could say it's about ambition (yes, getting out of bed on a rainy Sunday morning counts), relationships (including talking to the intimidating staff in the trainer shop), as well as your body (your boobs don't have to wobble when you run). But it's also about realising that you can do more than you ever thought possible • Very funny, very honest and very emotional, whether you're in serious training or thinking about running for the bus, this is a book for anyone who after wine and crisps for supper a few too many times thinks they might

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

Бухарест, 1940 год. Город находится на грани вторжения, и Гай и Харриет Прингл обнаруживают, что их положение становится все более опасным. Харриет стремится к безопасности, в то время как идеализм Гая расстраивает его новую жену. Но когда вторгаются немцы, Гай считает, что они должны разделиться в отчаянной попытке найти безопасность, поэтому Харриет уезжает в Афины. "Испорченный город" Оливии Мэннинг - это драматичный и красочный портрет города, охваченного смятением, и молодой пары, изо всех сил пытающейся сохранить свой брак перед лицом невзгод • Книга на английском языке • Bucharest, 1940. The city is on the brink of invasion and Guy and Harriet Pringle find their position growing ever more dangerous. Harriet longs for safety, while Guy's idealism frustrates his new wife

In the past, Hugh Thomson has written acclaimed books about Peru, Mexico and the Indian Himalaya. Now he returns to the most exotic and foreign country of them all – his own • Walking right across England, along ancient trackways and green grass roads, Hugh explores the way the country was and the way it is today: the legends, literature and natural world that define us, and the undercurrent of regret running throughout our history; what he calls ‘the unicorn disappearing into the trees’ • From coast-to-coast and through the heart of the countryside, he shows how older,forgotten cultures like the Celts, Saxons and Vikings lie much closer to the surface than we may think. It is a journey enriched and partly told by the characters he meets along the way