Faber and Faber

Shroud for a Nightingale	Faber and Faber
Автор: James P.D. Издательство: Faber and Faber, 2006	PDF, 336 страниц, 10.08 МБ 0 Оценка:
The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly, brutally killed. Another student dies equally mysteriously, and it is up to Adam Dalgliesh to unmask a killer who has decided to prescribe murder as the cure for all ills.
1216 phoenix7 14 июля 2009	Скачать книгу

The Skull Beneath the Skin	Faber and Faber
Автор: James P.D. Издательство: Faber and Faber, 2006	PDF, 400 страниц, 12.00 МБ 8 Оценка:
Hired to protect a beautiful but neurotic actress, Cordelia Gray soon becomes embroiled in a case as dangerous to her own life as it is mysterious. Clarissa Lisle hopes to make a spectacular comeback in a production of The Duchess of Malfi, to be played in Ambrose Gorringe's sinister castle at Courcy Island. Cordelia is there to ensure her safety following the appearance of a number of poison-pen letters. But it soon becomes clear that all are in danger. Trapped within the walls of the Gothic Castle, the treacherous past of the island re-emerges, and everyone seems to have a motive for sending Clarissa 'down, down the hell'.
1447 admin 15 июня 2008	Скачать книгу

A Taste for Death	Faber and Faber
Автор: James P.D. Издательство: Faber and Faber, 2005	DOC, 528 страниц, 1.00 МБ 7 Оценка:
Two men lie in a welter of blood in the vestry of St Matthew's Church, Paddington, their throats brutally slashed. One is Sir Paul Berowne, a baronet and recently resigned Minister of the Crown, the other an alcoholic vagrant. Dalgliesh and his team, set up to investigate crimes of particular sensitivity, are faced with a case of extraordinary complexity as they discover the Berowne family's veneer of prosperous gentility conceals ugly and dangerous secrets.
1910 carabin 07 апреля 2009	Скачать книгу

An Unsuitable Job for A Woman	Faber and Faber
Автор: James P.D. Издательство: Faber and Faber, 2006	PDF, 240 страниц, 7.20 МБ 8 Оценка:
Meet Cordelia Gray: twenty-two, tough, intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Her first assignment finds her hired by Sir Ronald Callender to investigate the death of his son Mark, a young Cambridge student found hanged in mysterious circumstances. Required to delve into the hidden secrets of the Callender family, Cordelia soon realizes it is not a case of suicide, and that the truth is entirely more sinister.
868 admin 22 апреля 2010	Скачать книгу

The Coma	Faber and Faber
Автор: Garland Alex Издательство: Faber and Faber, 2012	DOC, 168 страниц, 1.00 МБ 7 Оценка:
Carl is brutally assaulted in an underground train while protecting a young woman from a gang of thugs. Beaten unconscious he lies for days in a hospital bed — but appears to make a full recovery. On discharge from hospital Carl picks up the threads of his daily life, visiting friends, seeing his girlfriend — until he starts to notice strange leaps in time, distortions in his experience. Is he truly interacting with the outside world, or could he still be in the coma? So begins a dark pschological drama of the unconscious that raises profound questions about the boundary between the real and the imagined.
609 pdsolid 09 февраля 2014	Скачать книгу

Amrita	Faber and Faber
Автор: Yoshimoto Издательство: Faber and Faber, 2010	PDF, 356 страниц, 10.68 МБ 0 Оценка:
An actress dies in shocking circumstances. She leaves behind an unconventional extended family of three who embark on a journey through grief and suffering, memories lost and gained, forbidden romance, redemption and recovery, and a confrontation with spirits on a remote Pacific island.
1291 vlad22 14 февраля 2012	Скачать книгу

Unnatural Causes	Faber and Faber
Автор: James P.D. Издательство: Faber and Faber, 2006	PDF, 240 страниц, 7.20 МБ 8 Оценка:
Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh had been looking forward to a quiet holiday at his aunt's cottage on Monksmere Head, one of the furthest-flung spots on the remote Suffolk coast. With nothing to do other than enjoy long wind-swept walks, tea in front of the crackling wood fire and hot buttered toast, Dalgliesh was relishing the thought of a well-earned break. However, all hope of peace is soon shattered by murder. The mutilated body of a local crime writer, Maurice Seaton, floats ashore in a drifting dinghy to drag Adam Dalgliesh into a new and macabre investigation.
868 admin 22 апреля 2010	Скачать книгу

Stalin's Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky	Faber and Faber
Автор: Patenaude Bertrand M. Издательство: Faber and Faber, 2010	DjVu, 352 страницы, 14.08 МБ 5 Оценка:
Leon Trotsky was the charismatic intellectual of the Russian Revolution, an authoritarian organizer, who might have succeeded Lenin and become the ruler of the Soviet Union. But by the time the Second World War broke out he was in exile, living in Mexico in a villa borrowed from the great artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, guarded only by several naive young American acolytes. The household was awash with emotional turmoil — tensions grew between Trotsky and Rivera, as questions arose over his relations with Frida Kahlo. His wife was restless and jealous. Outside of the villa, Mexican communists tried to storm the house, the Trotskys' sons were being persecuted and killed in Europe, and in Moscow, Stalin personally ordered his secret police to kill his fiercest left-wing critic — at any cost. By the summer of 1940, they had found a man who could penetrate the tight security around the house in far-away Mexico... Bertrand Patenaude's book reconstructs a famous state crime with chilling precision and a page-turning quality. It tells the amazing story of a deadly rivalry, revolutionary fanaticism and tragic violence and loss.
1276 anarho 24 июля 2011	Скачать книгу

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream	Faber and Faber
Автор: Obama Barack Издательство: Faber and Faber, 2008	PDF, 384 страницы, 11.52 МБ 0 Оценка:
In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. One phrase in particular anchored itself in listeners' minds, a reminder that for all the discord and struggle to be found in our history as a nation, we have always been guided by a dogged optimism in the future, or what Obama called the audacity of hope. The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama's call for a different brand of politics — a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated by the endless clash of armies we see in congress and on the campaign trail; a politics rooted in the faith, inclusiveness, and nobility of spirit at the heart of our improbable experiment in democracy. He explores those forces — from the fear of losing to the perpetual need to raise money to the power of the media — that can stifle even the best-intentioned politician. He also writes, with surprising intimacy and self-deprecating humor, about settling in as a senator, seeking to balance the demands of public service and family life, and his own deepening religious commitment. At the heart of this book is Barack Obama's vision of how we can move beyond our divisions to tackle concrete problems. He examines the growing economic insecurity of American families, the racial and religious tensions within the body politic, and the transnational threat — from terrorism to pandemic — that gather beyond our shores. And he grapples with the role that faith plays in a democracy — where it is vital and where it must never intrude. Underlying his stories about family, friends, and members of the Senate is a vigorous search for connection: the foundation for a radically hopeful political consensus. A public servant and a lawyer, a professor and a father, a Christian and a skeptic, and above all a student of history and human nature, Barack Obama has written a book of transforming power. Only by returning to the principles that gave birth to our Constitution, he says, can Americans repair a political process that is broken, and restore to working order a government that has fallen dangerously out of touch with millions of ordinary Americans. Those Americans are out there, he writes — waiting for Republicans and Democrats to catch up with them.
1391 yury-m 14 февраля 2010	Скачать книгу

Baba Yaga Laid an Egg	Faber and Faber
Автор: Ugresic Dubravka Издательство: Faber and Faber, 2010	PDF, 256 страниц, 7.68 МБ 0 Оценка:
Baba Yaga is an old hag who lives in a house built on chicken legs and kidnaps small children. She is one of the most pervasive and powerful creatures in all mythology. But what does she have to do with a writer's journey to Bulgaria in 2007 on behalf of her mother? Or with a trio of old women who decide to spend a week together at a hotel spa?
928 lawyer_78rus 27 апреля 2014	Скачать книгу

The Black Tower	Faber and Faber
Автор: James P.D. Издательство: Faber and Faber, 2005	PDF, 384 страницы, 11.52 МБ 0 Оценка:
The Peverell Press, a two-hundred-year-old publishing firm housed in a dramatic mock — Venetian palace on the Thames, is certainly ripe for change. But the proposals of its ruthlessly ambitious new managing director, Gerard Etienne, have made him dangerous enemies — a discarded mistress, a neglected and humiliated author, and rebellious colleagues and staff. When Gerard's body is discovered bizarrely desecrated, there is no shortage of suspects and Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of extraordinary complexity and a murderer who is prepared to strike again.
1389 yury-m 14 апреля 2009	Скачать книгу

Bright Young Things	Faber and Faber
Автор: Thomas Scarlett Издательство: Faber and Faber, 2012	DOC, 368 страниц, 1.00 МБ 7 Оценка:
'Bright Young Things wanted for Big Project'. They're in the prime of their lives but our bright young things are all burnt out. Six sparky twenty-somethings just out of university and working dead-end jobs, they are all bored to tears with their lives and looking for a way out. When a mysterious job is advertised in the newspaper, they all apply. What they least expect is to find themselves prisoners on a deserted island. There's food in the fridge and they have a bedroom each, but there's no telephone, no television, and no way to escape.
1336 lubacha 11 июля 2013	Скачать книгу

Capital	Faber and Faber
Автор: Lanchester John Издательство: Faber and Faber, 2013	DjVu, 592 страницы, 23.68 МБ 5 Оценка:
Pepys Road: an ordinary street in the Capital. Each house has seen its fair share of first steps and last breaths, and plenty of laughter in between. Today, through each letterbox along this ordinary street drops a card with a simple message: We Want What You Have. At forty, Roger Yount is blessed with an expensively groomed wife, two small sons and a powerful job in the City. An annual bonus of a million might seem excessive, but with second homes and nannies to maintain, he's not sure he can get by without it. Elsewhere in the Capital, Zbigniew has come from Warsaw to indulge the super-rich in their interior decoration whims. Freddy Kano, teenage football sensation, has left a two-room shack in Senegal to follow his dream. Traffic warden Quentina has exchanged the violence of the police in Zimbabwe for the violence of the enraged middle classes. For them all, this city offers the chance of a different kind of life. Capital is a post-crash state-of-the nation novel told with compassion and humour, featuring a cast of characters that you will be sad to leave behind.
2150 erdik 15 апреля 2017	Скачать книгу

Fear and Trembling	Faber and Faber
Автор: Nothomb Amelie Издательство: Faber and Faber, 2004	PDF, 132 страницы, 3.96 МБ 5 Оценка:
Amelie, a well-intentioned and eager young westerner, goes to Japan to spend a year working at the Yumimoto Corporation. Returning to the land where she was born is the fulfilment of a dream for Amelie, but working there turns into a comic nightmare of terror and self-abasement. Disturbing, hilarious and totally convincing Fear and Trembling displays an elegant and shrewd understanding of the intricate ways Japanese relationships are made and spoiled.
477 igotoparadize 25 мая 2009	Скачать книгу

The Lieutenant	Faber and Faber
Автор: Grenville Kate Издательство: Faber and Faber, 2010	PDF, 320 страниц, 9.60 МБ 8 Оценка:
In 1788 Daniel Rooke sets out on a journey that will change the course of his life. As a lieutenant in the First Fleet, he lands on the wild and unknown shores of New South Wales. There he sets up an observatory to chart the stars. But this country will prove far more revelatory than the stars above. Based on real events, The Lieutenant tells the unforgettable story of Rooke's connection with an Aboriginal child — a remarkable friendship that resonates across the oceans and the centuries.
1160 admin 19 марта 2013	Скачать книгу

Original Sin	Faber and Faber
Автор: James P.D. Издательство: Faber and Faber, 2005	PDF, 560 страниц, 16.80 МБ 8 Оценка:
The Peverell Press, a two-hundred-year-old publishing firm housed in a dramatic mock — Venetian palace on the Thames, is certainly ripe for change. But the proposals of its ruthlessly ambitious new managing director, Gerard Etienne, have made him dangerous enemies — a discarded mistress, a neglected and humiliated author, and rebellious colleagues and staff. When Gerard's body is discovered bizarrely desecrated, there is no shortage of suspects and Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of extraordinary complexity and a murderer who is prepared to strike again.
2026 admin 23 августа 2009	Скачать книгу

Sarah Thornhill	Faber and Faber
Автор: Grenville Kate Издательство: Faber and Faber, 2012	PDF, 320 страниц, 9.60 МБ 8 Оценка:
This is a new novel from Kate Grenville and a journey back to the Thornhill family of the bestselling The Secret River. Sarah Thornhill, the youngest daughter of William Thornhill of the Hawkesbury River, has always believed she would marry the handsome Jack Langland. Me and Jack, she thinks, how could it go wrong? But there's an ugly secret in Sarah's family. It takes her into the darkness of the past, across an ocean and to a place she never imagined she would be. Kate Grenville takes us back to the early Australia of The Secret River and the Thornhill family. This is Sarah's story. It's a story of love lost and found, tangled histories and how it matters to keep stories alive.
1161 admin 20 декабря 2014	Скачать книгу

Siberian Red	Faber and Faber
Автор: Eastland Sam Издательство: Faber and Faber, 2012	PDF, 336 страниц, 10.08 МБ 0 Оценка:
September 1939. The Second World War Has Begun. Even as the fighting rages in Poland, Stalin's long time obsession with the missing treasure of Tsar Nicholas II is rekindled. An informant claims to have information about the whereabouts of the man entrusted by the Tsar with hiding his gold. As the news of the informant reaches Stalin, however, the man is knifed to death. Stalin summons Pekkala to the Kremlin and orders him to solve the murder. To accomplish his mission, he must return to Borodok, the notorious Gulag where he himself spent many years as a prisoner. There, he must pose as a inmate in order to unravel the mystery... As he returns to the nightmares of his past, is this a mission too far for the great Pekkala?
1219 phoenix7 18 марта 2015	Скачать книгу

Silent House	Faber and Faber
Автор: Pamuk Orhan Издательство: Faber and Faber, 2013	DOC, 416 страниц, 1.00 МБ 0 Оценка:
In an old mansion in Cennethisar, a former fishing village near Istanbul, an old widow Fatma awaits the annual summer visit of her grandchildren. She has lived in the village for decades, ever since her husband, an idealistic young doctor, first arrived to serve the poor fishermen. Now mostly bedridden, she is attended by her faithful servant Recep, a dwarf and the doctor's illegitimate son. They share memories, and grievances, of the early years, before Cennethisar became a high-class resort. Her visiting grandchildren are Faruk, a dissipated failed historian; his sensitive leftist sister, Nilgun; and Metin, a high school student drawn to the fast life of the nouveaux riches, who dreams of going to America. But it is Recep's nephew Hassan, a high-school dropout, lately fallen in with right-wing nationalists, who will draw the visiting family into the growing political cataclysm issuing from Turkey's tumultuous century-long struggle for modernity.
1511 delovar 08 марта 2016	Скачать книгу

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting	Faber and Faber
Автор: Kundera Milan Издательство: Faber and Faber, 1996	PDF, 318 страниц, 9.54 МБ 7 Оценка:
Kundera whirls through comedy and tragedy towards his central question: how does a person, any person, live today? In constructing his answer, he writes of politics, sex, literature, modern man's alienation — and of their antidotes: laughter and forgetting.
1145 mustafaka 14 августа 2009	Скачать книгу

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