Все книги издательства «Faber and Faber»

The Iron Man	Faber and Faber
Автор: Hughes Ted Издательство: Faber and Faber, 2005	PDF, 80 страниц, 2.40 МБ 8 Оценка:
Mankind must put a stop to the dreadful destruction caused by the Iron Man. A trap is set for him, but he cannot be kept down. Then, when a terrible monster from outer space threatens to lay waste to the planet, it is the Iron Man who finds a way to save the world.
289 admin 14 февраля 2009	Скачать книгу

The Unconsoled	Faber and Faber
Автор: Ishiguro Kazuo Издательство: Faber and Faber, 2013	DjVu, 544 страницы, 21.76 МБ 0 Оценка:
Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he traverses a landscape by turns eerie and comical — and always strangely malleable, as a dream might be — he comes steadily to realise he is facing the most crucial performance of his life. Ishiguro's extraordinary study of a man whose life has accelerated beyond his control was met on publication by consternation, vilification — and the highest praise.
1976 garun-al-rashid 24 августа 2015	Скачать книгу

Yes Prime Minister	Faber and Faber
Автор: Lynn Jonathan Издательство: Faber and Faber, 2010	PDF, 112 страниц, 3.36 МБ 5 Оценка:
Yes, Minister, and the equally successful sequel Yes, Prime Minister captured a niche in the political consciousness of the nation. First broadcast thirty years ago, the original writers of these classic series have reunited to create a bang up to date Yes, Prime Minister for the stage. Spin, blackberries, sexed-up dossiers, sleaze, global warming and a country on the brink of financial meltdown form the backdrop to mayhem at Chequers as the Foreign Minister of Kumranistan makes a seriously compromising offer of salvation. Prime Minister Jim Hacker remains in power with his coterie of close advisors including Cabinet Secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby and Principal Private Secretary Bernard Woolley, but for how long? They govern a whole new world. Yes, Prime Minister premiered in the Festival Theatre, Chichester, in May 2010.
406 dimon0 05 июня 2012	Скачать книгу

Men and Cartoons	Faber and Faber
Автор: Lethem J. Издательство: Faber and Faber, 2013	PDF, 160 страниц, 4.80 МБ 8 Оценка:
The author of The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn now beguiles his readers nine times over into the ironic, heartbroken, eerie and absurd territory he has made forever his own. The nine stories in this collection present characters struggling with loneliness, failed relationships and the consequences of strange powers. Men and Cartoons is a place where superheroes take tenured positions at colleges, where innermost secrets are blurted out in baroque dinner-party games, where a magical spray product reveals that which two tormented lovers have concealed from one another, where sheep bred for suicide defy the imperatives of their creators, and where the smallest moments of life, from fitting a pair of glasses to choosing a record to play during a tryst, become unexpectedly revelatory, uncanny and hilarious. In these nine tales Lethem brings his quarry into the light: men, not boys, caught in the act of never completely growing up.
581 admin 26 декабря 2015	Скачать книгу

Loving Sabotage	Faber and Faber
Автор: Nothomb A. Издательство: Faber and Faber, 2013	DOC, 144 страницы, 1.00 МБ 0 Оценка:
So announces the narrator of Loving Sabotage, Amelie Nothomb's critically acclaimed novel about a young girl already stripped of illusions. The daughter of diplomats posted to Peking in the mid-seventies, our unnamed narrator charges about her tightly enclosed world on her 'horse' (bicycle) with the dictatorial clarity and loneliness of a warrior-philosopher. 'From puberty onwards', she announces at one point, 'life is just an epilogue'. There, on the asphalt-playground-battlefield, she discovers her first love: six-year-old Elena, her very own coldly indifferent 'Helen of Troy'. But she also learns life's hardest rule: that if she wants to be loved, she must be cruel in return. Poignant, provocative — and often hilarious — Loving Sabotage chronicles one girl's precocious understanding of the struggles and pains of adult life.
523 alex033ru 22 сентября 2018	Скачать книгу

The Character of Rain	Faber and Faber
Автор: Nothomb A. Издательство: Faber and Faber, 2013	PDF, 112 страниц, 3.36 МБ 5 Оценка:
The Japanese believe that until the age of three, children are gods, each one an okosama, or 'Lord Child'. On their third birthday they fall from grace and join the rest of mankind. Narrated by a child — from the age of two and a half up until her third birthday — this novel reveals how this fall from grace can be a very difficult thing indeed from which to recover. 'Nothomb potently distils from the state of infancy the intensity of beginnings, the precariousness, the trailed clouds of glory — that grow indistinct as childhood approaches.' New York Times. 'Amélie Nothomb, like an urchin about to pick your pocket, has frighteningly clear eyes and a disarming voice with a wicked snap.' Luc Sante
406 dimon0 06 мая 2016	Скачать книгу

The Expats	Faber and Faber
Автор: Pavone Chris Издательство: Faber and Faber, 2012	PDF, 496 страниц, 14.88 МБ 0 Оценка:
Kate Moore is an expat mum, newly transplanted from Washington D.C. In the cobblestoned streets of Luxembourg, her days are filled with play dates and coffee mornings, her weekends spent in Paris or skiing in the Alps. Kate is also guarding a secret — one so momentous it could destroy her neat little expat life — and she suspects that another American couple are not who they claim to be; plus her husband is acting suspiciously. As she travels around Europe, she finds herself looking over her shoulder, terrified her past is catching up with her. As Kate begins to dig, to uncover the secrets of those around her, she finds herself buried in layers of deceit so thick they threaten her family, her marriage and her life. A thrilling debut-to-remember, Chris Pavone's The Expats will keep you guessing until the very end.
1800 neptun 16 марта 2015	Скачать книгу

Safe House	Faber and Faber
Автор: Ewan Chris Издательство: Faber and Faber, 2013	PDF, 464 страницы, 13.92 МБ 0 Оценка:
When Rob Hale wakes up in hospital after a motorcycle crash he is told that Lena, the woman he claims was travelling with him, doesn't exist. The woman he describes bears a striking resemblance to his recently deceased sister, Laura, but has he really only imagined her? Rob sets out to find the answers to who Lena is and where she has gone. He is aided by Rebecca Lewis, a London-based PI, who has come to the Isle of Man at the behest of his parents to investigate his sister's suicide. But who is Rebecca really and how did she know his sister? Together Rob and Rebecca follow the clues to discover who took Lena. In doing so they discover that even on an island where most people know each other, everyone hides a secret, and that sometimes your best option isn't to hide but to stay and fight.
1685 biomg 27 сентября 2018	Скачать книгу

The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language	Faber and Faber
Автор: Forsyth Mark Издательство: Faber and Faber, 2013	PDF, 272 страницы, 8.16 МБ 8 Оценка:
BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK, READ BY HUGH DENNIS The Horologicon (or book of hours) gives you the most extraordinary words in the English language, arranged according to the hour of the day when you really need them. Do you wake up feeling rough? Then you're philogrobolized. Pretending to work? That's fudgelling, which may lead to rizzling if you feel sleepy after lunch, though by dinner time you will have become a sparkling deipnosophist. From Mark Forsyth, author of the bestselling The Etymologicon, this is a book of weird words for familiar situations. From ante-jentacular to snudge by way of quafftide and wamblecropt, at last you can say, with utter accuracy, exactly what you mean.
988 radius 28 мая 2016	Скачать книгу

1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off	Faber and Faber
Автор: Lloyd John Издательство: Faber and Faber, 2013	PDF, 336 страниц, 10.08 МБ 0 Оценка:
QI is the smartest comedy show on British television, but few people know that we're also a major legal hit in Australia, New Zealand, Israel and Africa and an illegal one on BitTorrent. We also write books and newspaper columns; run a thriving website, a Facebook page, a Twitter feed; and produce an iPhone App and a sister Radio 4 programme. At the core of what we do is the astonishing fact — painstakingly researched and distilled to a brilliant and shocking clarity. In Einstein's words: 'Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.' Did you know that: cows moo in regional accents; the entire internet weighs less than a grain of sand; the dialling code from Britain to Russia is 007; potatoes have more chromosomes than human beings; the London Underground has made more money from its famous map than it has from running trains; Tintin is called Tantan in Japanese because TinTin is pronounced 'Chin chin' and means penis; the water in the mouth of a blue whale weighs more than its body; Scotland has twice as many pandas as Conservative MPs; Saddam's bunker was designed by the grandson of the woman who built Hitler's bunker; Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act of 1981, it is explicitly illegal in Britain to use a machinegun to kill a hedgehog. 1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off will make you look at the universe (and your socks) in an alarming new way.
1220 phoenix7 18 марта 2016	Скачать книгу

The Black Book	Faber and Faber
Автор: Pamuk Orhan Издательство: Faber and Faber, 2006	PDF, 480 страниц, 14.40 МБ 8 Оценка:
Tells the story of Galip, an Istanbul lawyer whose wife has vanished. Playing the part of private investigator, he soon finds himself descending deeper and deeper into an extraordinary mystery.
1737 admin 11 июля 2009	Скачать книгу

Burned	Faber and Faber
Автор: Enger Thomas Издательство: Faber and Faber, 2012	PDF, 496 страниц, 14.88 МБ 0 Оценка:
A Brutalised Victim In The Wilds — A solitary tent is found to contain the body of a half-buried woman. She's been stoned to death. There are lash marks across her back. One of her hands has been cut off. A Lone Voice — Two years earlier internet reporter Henning Juul lost his son, Jonas, in a domestic fire. As he returns to work, physically and emotionally scarred, Henning struggles to escape this past and to be taken seriously again as a reporter — by his colleagues, his ex-wife and the police. A Mystery Ignited — Told to cover the story of the woman in the tent, he finds an increasingly dangerous trail and, despite an early arrest, he is convinced that the story is more complex than the police think...
1800 neptun 16 марта 2015	Скачать книгу

The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear	Faber and Faber
Автор: Lear Edward Издательство: Faber and Faber, 2001	PDF, 320 страниц, 9.60 МБ 8 Оценка:
The classic collection of nonsense by the greatest nonsensicalist of all time, Edward Lear — inventor of the limerick, and creator of the Jumblies and The Owl and the Pussy Cat.
1155 admin 17 августа 2009	Скачать книгу

Flight Behaviour	Faber and Faber
Автор: Kingsolver Barbara Издательство: Faber and Faber, 2013	PDF, 608 страниц, 18.24 МБ 7 Оценка:
On the Appalachian Mountains above her home, a young mother discovers a beautiful and terrible marvel of nature. As the world around her is suddenly transformed by a seeming miracle, can the old certainties they have lived by for centuries remain unchallenged? Flight Behaviour is a captivating, topical and deeply human story touching on class, poverty and climate change. It is Barbara Kingsolver's most accessible novel yet, and explores the truths we live by, and the complexities that lie behind them.
2208 cool10den 05 июня 2015	Скачать книгу

The Last Sherlock Holmes Story	Faber and Faber
Автор: Dibdin Michael Издательство: Faber and Faber, 2012	PDF, 208 страниц, 6.24 МБ 7 Оценка:
There can be no question that the contents of this book will prove extremely controversial. Many people will be deeply shocked by the nature of Watson's statement. Many will no doubt prefer to reject it rather than surrender the beliefs of a lifetime. Others will at least regret that two of the great mysteries of crime are finally solved... An extraordinary document comes to light which for fifty years had been held on deposit by the bankers of the deceased John Herbert Watson MD — better known as Dr Watson. The document, written by Dr Watson himself, opens in the East End of London in 1888. Three women have been savagely murdered by Jack the Ripper. To calm the public outcry, Scotland Yard approaches London's most eminent detective, Sherlock Holmes, and asks him to investigate the killer. Can Holmes solve the mystery of Jack the Ripper? And why has this story been suppressed for so long? As cunningly plotted as anything by Conan Doyle, The Last Sherlock Holmes Story is a thrilling addition to the Sherlock Holmes canon from another of Britain's best-loved crime writers.
755 anatoly_24 18 июля 2013	Скачать книгу

Pierced	Faber and Faber
Автор: Enger Thomas Издательство: Faber and Faber, 2013	DjVu, 544 страницы, 21.76 МБ 0 Оценка:
A Convicted Killer: Despite always maintaining his innocence, Tori Pulli, once a powerful player on Oslo's underground crime scene, has been found guilty of murder. A Loose End: Scarred reporter, Henning Juul, is contacted by Pulli, who claims that if Henning can help clear his name he can give him details of who was responsible for the fire which killed his six-year-old son, Jonas. A Double Threat: Desperate to continue his own search for justice, Henning realises that the information Pulli promises is life threatening, to both of them and to others. As events take a deadly turn, Henning finds himself on the trail of two killers for whom the stakes have never been higher...
1976 garun-al-rashid 24 августа 2015	Скачать книгу

The Red Moth	Faber and Faber
Автор: Eastland Sam Издательство: Faber and Faber, 2013	PDF, 384 страницы, 11.52 МБ 0 Оценка:
As Hitler's forces smash into Soviet territory, annihilating the Red Army divisions in its path, a lone German scout plane is forced down. Contained within the briefcase of its passenger is the seemingly inconsequential painting of a hyalophoria cecropia, otherwise known as a red moth. Military Intelligence dismisses the picture as insignificant, but in the state of emergency Stalin suspects a German plot. He summons his old adversary, Inspector Pekkala — the elusive Finn who was once Tsar Nicholas II's personal detective — to discover the real significance of this strange wartime cargo. As the storm gathers around them, Pekkala, together with his assistant from the shadowy Bureau of Special Operations, soon find themselves on the path of the most formidable art thieves in history. Those real target is a secret and prized possession of the Romanovs, once considered to be the eighth wonder of the world. But as the Soviet Union crumbles in the face of the advancing cataclysm, and the chaos of war is everywhere, Pekkala realizes that to protect the Tsar's treasure he must break through enemy lines. His desperate mission is to outfox the German invaders, or face the wrath of Stalin himself.
1394 yury-m 15 сентября 2018	Скачать книгу

Skios	Faber and Faber
Автор: Frayn Michael Издательство: Faber and Faber, 2013	PDF, 288 страниц, 8.64 МБ 7 Оценка:
On the sunlit Greek island of Skios, the Fred Toppler Foundation's annual lecture is to be given by Dr Norman Wilfred, the world-famous authority on the scientific organisation of science. He turns out to be surprisingly young and charming — not at all the intimidating figure they had been expecting. The Foundation's guests are soon eating out of his hand. So, even sooner, is Nikki, the attractive and efficient organiser. Meanwhile, in a remote villa at the other end of the island, Nikki's old school-friend Georgie waits for the notorious chancer she has rashly agreed to go on holiday with, and who has only too characteristically failed to turn up. Trapped in the villa with her, by an unfortunate chain of misadventure, is a balding old gent called Dr Norman Wilfred, who has lost his whereabouts, his luggage, his temper and increasingly all normal sense of reality — everything he possesses apart from the flyblown text of a well-travelled lecture on the scientific organisation of science...
1046 vitalysev 14 июля 2014	Скачать книгу

This Is How You Lose Her	Faber and Faber
Автор: Diaz Junot Издательство: Faber and Faber, 2013	PDF, 224 страницы, 6.72 МБ 0 Оценка:
Junot Diaz's new collection, This Is How You Lose Her, is a collection of linked narratives about love — passionate love, illicit love, dying love, maternal love — told through the lives of New Jersey Dominicans, as they struggle to find a point where their two worlds meet. In prose that is endlessly energetic and inventive, tender and funny, it lays bare the infinite longing and inevitable weaknesses of the human heart. Most of all, these stories remind us that the habit of passion always triumphs over experience and that 'love, when it hits us for real, has a half-life of forever. One of contemporary fiction's most distinctive and irresistible voices. Writing this good comes along, if we're lucky, once or twice in a generation.
813 allkonekt 12 сентября 2018	Скачать книгу

Lord of the Flies	Faber and Faber
Автор: Golding William Издательство: Faber and Faber, 2011	PDF, 256 страниц, 7.68 МБ 0 Оценка:
A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast.
928 lawyer_78rus 27 апреля 2015	Скачать книгу

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