Все книги издательства «HarperCollins Publishers»

Brixton Beach	HarperCollins Publishers
Автор: Tearne Roma Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers, 2010	PDF, 432 страницы, 12.96 МБ 5 Оценка:
Opening dramatically with the horrors of the 2005 London bombings, this is the profoundly moving story of a country on the brink of civil war and a child's struggle to come to terms with loss. London. On a bright July morning a series of bombs brings the capital to a halt. Simon Swann, a medic from one of the large teaching hospitals, is searching frantically amongst the chaos and the rubble. All around police sirens and ambulances are screaming but Simon does not hear. He is out of breath because he has been running, and he is distraught. But who is he looking for? To find out we have first to go back thirty years to a small island in the Indian Ocean where a little girl named Alice Fonseka is learning to ride a bicycle on the beach. The island is Sri Lanka, and its community is on the brink of civil war. Alice's life is about to change forever. Soon she will have to leave for England, abandoning her beloved grandfather, and accompanied by her mother Sita, a woman broken by a series of terrible events. In London, Alice grows into womanhood. Trapped in a loveless marriage, she has a son. Slowly she fulfils her grandfather's prophecy and becomes an artist. Eventually she finds true love. But London in the twenty-first century is a mass of migration and suspicion. The war on terror has begun and everyone, even Simon Swann, middle class, rational, medic that he is, will be caught up in this war in the most unexpected and terrible way.
1566 olen33 21 июля 2011	Скачать книгу

A Good Land	HarperCollins Publishers
Автор: Awar Jarrar Nada Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers, 2010	PDF, 288 страниц, 8.64 МБ 7 Оценка:
Small truths, white lies; the many shades of friendship... The highly anticipated novel from the author of 'Dreams of Water' and 'Somewhere, Home'. The old neighbourhood block in Beirut was home to an ever-changing population as the fighting intensified and lessened. But three people were almost always there.The older Polish woman, Margo, refugee from her past, her country and family after another war, spinning her tales of freedom fighters, itinerant peoples, despair and courage. And Lebanese born and bred Layla, only recently returned from Australia after fleeing the earlier civil war to teach her students again. Palestinian Kamal; refugee, writer and lecturer, whose cherished faith in a free, tolerant, democratic Lebanon has been shattered by difficulties of living there now. Among their friends are older politicians, university friends often visiting from lucrative posts in Europe or the USA, and local political activists. The retaliation raids by Israel and the political aftermath further shatter their community: some flee to the mountains, many leave the country. Some like Layla try to identify more deeply what it is that holds her to this place, why she cannot leave. Nada Awar Jarrar has written a powerful and moving novel, full of character and insight, of joy and tears, which makes us understand how people can stand such daily fear of violence and can continue to have faith in the country of their heart.
1044 vitalysev 14 августа 2012	Скачать книгу

Blood Royal	HarperCollins Publishers
Автор: Bennett Vanora Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers, 2010	PDF, 608 страниц, 18.24 МБ 7 Оценка:
The story of a great queen, a woman of enormous courage who made her own rules, and a true survivor. This is the first in a series of early medieval novels by Vanora Bennett, the author of Portrait of an Unknown Woman. 1420, and a young princess is offered in marriage to her country's enemy, her nation's conqueror. She is Catherine of Valois, he is Henry V. She is a princess of the French blood royal, he is the son of the usurper of the English throne. Fresh from battle he claims his bride and the right to the throne of France. Now Catherine must live as queen to a man more comfortable with war than anything else and as the wife of a man determined to destroy her people. Alone and friendless, she finds the only man who can understand what she feels: a young Welshman, Owain Tudor, who is as much adrift among the English as she is. It's a matching of souls but this friendship will turn out to be as dangerous as it is irresistible!
2205 cool10den 7 октрября 2013	Скачать книгу

Juliet	HarperCollins Publishers
Автор: Fortier Anne Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers, 2010	DOC, 528 страниц, 1.00 МБ 7 Оценка:
Stunning debut dual timeline novel about a modern day woman tracing the story of her ancestor in 14thC Siena — the real Juliet, who inspired the story of Romeo and Juliet. 'Of all the great love stories ever told, hers is perhaps the most famous. To me, she is the key to my family's fate. To you, she is Juliet.' When Julie Jacobs inherits a key to a safety deposit box in Siena, she is told it will lead her to an old family treasure. Soon she is launched on a precarious journey into the true history of her ancestor Giulietta, whose legendary love for a young man named Romeo inspired Shakespeare's unforgettable story. As Julie crosses paths with the descendants of the families who turned medieval Siena upside down, she begins to realize that the notorious curse — 'a plague on both your houses!' Is still at work. It seems that the only one who can save her from her fate is Romeo-but where is he? Spanning centuries, Juliet is an unforgettable adventure that hopes to rewrite the fate of the star-crossed lovers, and reunite them at last.
1915 carabin 12 сентября 2015	Скачать книгу

The Buried Circle	HarperCollins Publishers
Автор: Mills Jenni Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005	PDF, 400 страниц, 12.00 МБ 8 Оценка:
A pacy literary thriller, 'The Buried Circle' is a gripping blend of fact and fiction, peopled with extraordinary characters. The village of Avebury is one of the most mysterious places in the English countryside. Surrounded by ancient standing stones, crop circles and burial mounds, this is a place where all is not as it seems. In 1938, the archaeologist Alexander Keiller — a millionaire playboy with a passion for ritual magic — plans to reconstruct the 5,000-year-old stone circle at Avebury. As war looms, Frannie Robinson and her boyfriend Davey are among those who fall under Keiller's spell, with fatal results. Seventy years later, Frannie's granddaughter India, filming in the area, survives a helicopter crash. Devastated, she decides to move back to Avebury and to her grandmother, setting out on a quest to discover the truth about her family. But why is her grandmother so reluctant to talk about Keiller and the war? And exactly whose past is India unearthing!?
1447 admin 15 июня 2009	Скачать книгу

The Hungry Ghosts	HarperCollins Publishers
Автор: Berry Anne Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005	DOC, 416 страниц, 1.00 МБ 0 Оценка:
A novel for those who loved Behind the Scenes at the Museum, The Poisonwood Bible and The Lovely Bones. Raped then murdered in Japanese-occupied Hong Kong in 1942, Lin Shui's 'Hungry Ghost' clings tenaciously to life. Holing up in a hospital morgue, which is destined to become a school, just in time she finds a host off whom to feed. It is twelve-year-old Alice Safford, the deeply-troubled daughter of a leading figure in government. The parasitic ghost follows her to her home on the Peak. There, the lethal mix of the two, embroiled in the family's web of dark secrets and desperate lies, unleashes chaos. All this unfolds against a background of colonial unrest, riots, extremes of weather and the countdown to the return of the colony to China. As successive tragedies engulf Alice, her ghostly entourage swells alarmingly. She flees to England, then France, in a bid to escape the past, only to find her portable 'Hungry Ghosts' have accompanied her. It seems the peace she longs for is to prove far more elusive that she could ever have imagined. 'The Hungry Ghosts' is a remarkable tour de force of the imagination, full of instantly memorable characters whose lives intermesh and boil over in a cauldron of domestic mayhem, unleashing unworldly spirits into the troubled air.
1505 delovar 02 сентября 2010	Скачать книгу

Obstacles to Young Love	HarperCollins Publishers
Автор: Nobbs David Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers, 2010	PDF, 432 страницы, 12.96 МБ 5 Оценка:
From one of the greatest comedic writers of a generation comes a story of love, faith and taxidermy. Aged seventeen, two lovers perch precariously on the cusp of adulthood. Timothy Pickering is a budding taxidermist, following in his father's footsteps. Naomi Watts dreams of a career on stage. But one of them is about to drop a bombshell that will quash this burgeoning romance! Ten years later they meet again, this time both on their respective honeymoons — each the epitome of marital bliss. But there's trouble in paradise and old emotions are raised to the surface. Brought together through life's tapestry of events, their two lives continue to interweave. But will destiny unite them ultimately? A novel of great scope that spans a lifetime, explores the timeless appeal of first love, faith and the enduring bond of family.
1566 olen33 21 июля 2011	Скачать книгу

Saraswati Park	HarperCollins Publishers
Автор: Joseph Anjali Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers, 2011	PDF, 300 страниц, 9.00 МБ 8 Оценка:
A tremendous first novel from an exciting young author. Famous for its electric chaos, the city of Bombay also accommodates pockets of calm. In one such space works Mohan, a contemplative man who has spent his life observing people from his seat as a letter-writer outside the main post office. But Mohan's lack of engagement with the world has caused a thawing of his marriage. At this delicate moment Mohan — and his wife, Lakshmi — are joined at their home in Saraswati Park by their nephew, Ashish, a sexually uncertain 19-year-old who has to repeat his final year in college. As the novel unfolds, the lives of each of the three characters are thrown into relief by the comical frustrations of family life: annoying relatives, unspoken yearnings and unheard grievances. When Lakshmi loses her only brother, she leaves Bombay for a relative's home to mourn not only the death of a sibling but also the vital force of her marriage. Ashish, meanwhile, embarks on an affair with a much richer boy in his college and, not long afterwards, succumbs to the overtures of his English tutor. As Mohan scribbles away in the margins of the sort of books he secretly hopes to write one day, he worries about whether his wife will return, what will become of Ashish, and if he himself will ever find his own voice to write from the margins about the centre of which he will never be a part.
1088 admin 14 апреля 2015	Скачать книгу

The First Ladies	HarperCollins Publishers
Автор: Burley Kay Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers, 2011	PDF, 432 страницы, 12.96 МБ 5 Оценка:
Behind every great man, there's a great woman, only in Julian Jenson's case, there are three! Suave PM Julian Jenson has just been re-elected. He is the nation's darling and can talk the birds from the trees. At his side is his wife, Valerie Jenson. Trim, tall, well educated but deeply unhappy — with her son and daughter away at school, Valerie spends her time drinking. Sally Simpson is at the peak of her game. Powerful editor of the bestselling magazine Celeb, she can't wait to take her rightful place by Julian's side as his new wife and glamorous chatelaine of No.10. Sexy TV reporter Isla McGovern has caught Julian's eye, and she will do anything (or anyone) to get to the top. When the three women meet, so begins a perfect storm that could bring down a government and end a Prime Minister's career. And only one woman can emerge victorious. 'Juiciest read of the year. I loved it'.
1567 olen33 21 июня 2013	Скачать книгу

The Confession of Katherine Howard	HarperCollins Publishers
Автор: Dunn Suzannah Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers, 2011	PDF, 320 страниц, 9.60 МБ 8 Оценка:
The new novel from the bestselling author of THE SIXTH WIFE. When twelve-year-old Katherine Howard comes to live in the Duchess of Norfolk's household, poor relation Cat Tilney is deeply suspicious of her. The two girls couldn't be more different: Cat, watchful and ambitious; Katherine, interested only in clothes and boys. Their companions are in thrall to Katherine, but it's Cat in whom Katherine confides and, despite herself, Cat is drawn to her. Summoned to court at seventeen, Katherine leaves Cat in the company of her ex-lover, Francis, and the two begin their own, much more serious, love affair. Within months, the king has set aside his Dutch wife Anne for Katherine. The future seems assured for the new queen and her maid-in-waiting, although Cat would feel more confident if Katherine hadn't embarked on an affair with one of the king's favoured attendants, Thomas Culpeper. However, for a blissful year and a half, it seems that Katherine can have everything she wants. But then allegations are made about her girlhood love affairs. Desperately frightened, Katherine recounts a version of events which implicates Francis but which Cat knows to be a lie. With Francis in the Tower, Cat alone knows the whole truth of Queen Katherine Howard — but if she tells, Katherine will die.
1161 admin 19 февраля 2013	Скачать книгу

The Trinity Six	HarperCollins Publishers
Автор: Cumming Charles Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers, 2011	DOC, 416 страниц, 1.00 МБ 0 Оценка:
Europe is still littered with the darkest secrets of the Cold War. And the most deadly revelation of them all is about to be made! Hard-up Russia expert Dr Sam Gaddis finally has a lead for a book that could set his career back on track. He has staggering new information about an unknown sixth member of the infamous Cambridge spy ring — a man who has evaded detection for his entire life. But when his source suddenly dies, Gaddis is left with just shreds of his investigation, and no idea that he is already in too deep. He is threatened, betrayed, hunted — and alone. To get his life back, he must scour a continent still laced with lies to find the truth behind the Trinity Six. Both Moscow and MI6 will use everything in their power to keep their fragile peace intact. But why murder people to hide secrets that should by now be history? Gaddis starts to understand — far too late — that he is closing in on a discovery that will shake Europe to its foundations!
1509 delovar 07 апреля 2015	Скачать книгу

The Last Kestrel	HarperCollins Publishers
Автор: McGivering Jill Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers, 2011	DjVu, 304 страницы, 12.16 МБ 0 Оценка:
Two strong women. Two cultures. One unifying cause: survival. Ellen Thomas, experienced war correspondent, returns to Afghanistan's dangerous Helmand Province on assignment, keen to find the murderer of her friend and translator, Jalil. In her search for justice in a land ravaged by death and destruction, she uncovers disturbing truths. Hasina, forced by tradition into the role of wife and mother, lives in a village which is taken by British Forces. Her only son, Aref, is part of a network of underground fighters and she is determined to protect him, whatever the cost. Ellen and Hasina are thrown together — one fighting for survival, the other searching for truth — with devastating consequences for them both. The Last Kestrel is a deeply moving and lyrical story of disparate lives — innocent and not-so-innocent — caught up in the horrors of war. It is a book which will resonate with fans of The Kite Runner and The Bookseller of Kabul.
1103 stalker1965 7 октрября 2014	Скачать книгу

Faith	HarperCollins Publishers
Автор: Haigh Jennifer Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers, 2011	PDF, 320 страниц, 9.60 МБ 8 Оценка:
One woman's search for the truth after scandal rocks her family, and the explosive family secrets she uncovers, in this complex, moving novel from award-winning author Jennifer Haigh. In Faith, Jennifer Haigh explores the repercussions of one family's history of silence, when a priest's sex scandal forces his family's untold past to surface. Art, Sheila, and Mike are siblings in a large extended Irish-American family from the Boston suburbs. Though their father is a non-believer, their mother is lace curtain Irish-Catholic, having raised her children to keep family secrets just that — secret — in a home where most subjects are taboo. Sheila is concerned when Art, beloved priest leading a major Catholic parish outside Boston, seems to fall off the grid just days before Easter. Then the news breaks that he has been accused of sexual misconduct. The media coverage shatters the community and pits Art's family members against one another, leaving Sheila determined to uncover the truth and -she hopes — clear his name. Determined to help prove Art's innocence, Sheila finds herself locking horns with her younger brother, Mike, who cannot shake the feeling that Art might be guilty. By turns disturbed by what Art might have done and furious at the seemingly unfair accusations, the truth remains elusive for readers in this artfully-crafted family drama.
1161 admin 19 февраля 2013	Скачать книгу

Lucifer's Tears	HarperCollins Publishers
Автор: Thompson James Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005	DjVu, 352 страницы, 14.08 МБ 5 Оценка:
A brutal murder. A country's darkest secret. A detective pushed to the edge! Inspector Kari Vaara returns, more haunted than ever, in the follow-up to Snow Angels. The Sufia Elmi case left Kari Vaara with a scarred face, chronic insomnia, a constant migraine, and a full body count's worth of ghosts. Now it's a year later, in Helsinki, and Kari is working the graveyard shift in the homicide unit, terrified that his heavily pregnant wife will miscarry again after she lost the twins just after Christmas. Kari is pushed into investigating a ninety-year-old national hero for war crimes committed during World War II. The Interior Minister demands a conclusion of innocence, preserving Finland's heroic perception about itself and its role in the war, but Germany wants extradition. In a seeming coincidence, Kari is drawn into the murder-by-torture case of Iisa Filippov, the philandering wife of a Russian businessman. Her lover is clearly being framed for the crime-and Ivan Filippov's arrogance and nonchalance point the finger at him. But he's being protected from above, leading Kari to the corrupt corridors of power. Soon the past and present collide in ways no one could have anticipated.
1273 anarho 23 октрября 2008	Скачать книгу

The Marriage Plot	HarperCollins Publishers
Автор: Eugenides Jeffrey Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers, 2012	PDF, 513 страниц, 15.39 МБ 5 Оценка:
The new novel from the bestselling author of Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides. Brown University, 1982. Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English student and incurable romantic, is writing her thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot — authors of the great marriage plots. As Madeleine studies the age-old motivations of the human heart, real life, in the form of two very different men, intervenes. Leonard Bankhead, brilliant scientist and charismatic loner, attracts Madeleine with an intensity that she seems powerless to resist. Meanwhile, her old friend Mitchell Grammaticus, a theology student searching for some kind of truth in life, is certain of at least one thing — that he and Madeleine are destined to be together. But as all three leave college, they will have to figure out how they want their own marriage plot to end.
1862 gerdim 19 февраля 2014	Скачать книгу

The Scarlet Contessa	HarperCollins Publishers
Автор: Kalogridis Jeanne Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005	PDF, 400 страниц, 12.00 МБ 8 Оценка:
From Jeanne Kalogridis, critically acclaimed author of The Borgia Bride, Painting Mona Lisa and The Devil's Queen, comes another irresistible historical novel about a countess whose passion and willfulness knew no bounds: Caterina Sforza. Daughter of the Duke of Milan and wife of the conniving Count Girolamo Riario, Caterina Sforza was the bravest warrior Renaissance Italy ever knew. She ruled her own lands, fought her own battles, and openly took lovers whenever she pleased. Her remarkable tale is told by her lady-in-waiting, Dea, a woman knowledgeable in reading the 'triumph cards' — the predecessor of modern-day Tarot. As Dea tries to unravel the truth about her husband's murder, Caterina single-handedly holds off invaders who would steal her title and lands. However, Dea's reading of the cards reveals that Caterina cannot withstand a third and final invader — none other than Cesare Borgia, son of the corrupt Pope Alexander VI, who has an old score to settle with Caterina. Trapped inside the Fortress at Ravaldino as Borgia's cannons pound the walls, Dea reviews Caterina's scandalous past and struggles to understand their joint destiny, while Caterina valiantly tries to fight off Borgia's unconquerable army.
1447 admin 15 июня 2009	Скачать книгу

London Knowledge Atlas	HarperCollins Publishers
Автор: Uk Collins Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers, 2006	PDF, 96 страниц, 2.88 МБ 0 Оценка:
This atlas is ideal for the driver in central London. The large scale and high level of detail make it an essential purchase. This atlas is ideal for all drivers in London; professional drivers; businesses; and residents. This large format atlas is the chosen product of many professional drivers in London. It has an extensive area of coverage, and is ideal for route planning and driving in London. To aid map reading, the busy central London area is shown at an extra large scale. The atlas includes: London and M25 route planning maps; an index to places of interest; full index to street names; and clear colour-coded roads and buildings. It extends from Heathrow in the west to Barking in the east, and from Edmonton in the north to Beckenham in the south. The main mapping is at 1:15,000 (4.25 inches to 1 mile), Central London at 1:7500 (8.5 inches to 1 mile).
347 katrina_28 15 мая 2009	Скачать книгу

Remarkable Birds	HarperCollins Publishers
Автор: Moss Stephen Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers, 2007	PDF, 208 страниц, 6.24 МБ 7 Оценка:
A celebration of the world's favourite birds, as nominated by birders and conservationists worldwide Birders worldwide were asked to tell us the top 10 favourite birds in their country and why. The responses included contributions from people from major organisations, such as Audubon and BirdLife, as well as bird lovers around the world, and formed the basis for the list of the 100 birds within this book. These include the most glamorous or extraordinary birds from the common to the less well-known: penguins to hummingbirds and toucans to cranes. A quirky design and gift format give this bird book a distinctive edge. Beautiful photos support fascinating text, which explores the cultural associations and conservation stories of our favourite species, and what exactly makes them special.
753 anatoly_24 17 сентября 2012	Скачать книгу

Gordon Brown	HarperCollins Publishers
Автор: Bower Tom Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers, 2007	DOC, 528 страниц, 1.00 МБ 7 Оценка:
The gripping inside story of the complex and ambitious Chancellor of the Exchequer — and Prime Minister in waiting. Gordon Brown's arrival at the Treasury in May 1997 was greeted with great excitement — not to mention anticipation. Officials of every rank looked on expectantly to see what miracles the chancellor would work. And so, as Master of the New Era, Brown created relationships across every Whitehall department and extended his influence to every aspect of government. He brought into effect the most important budgetary changes of the past decade: the commitment to Private Finance Initiative, which altered infrastructure from the London Underground to the NHS and state schools; the management of the Inland Revenue; the increase in taxes; and the demise of Britain's pension funds. In this gripping and fully updated biography, reissued to coincide with Brown's assumption of Tony Blair's mantle, best-selling author Tom Bower documents the rise to power of a driven and complex politician, and exposes how the ambitions of the Labour Party's leader-in-waiting will affect the country for decades to come.
1912 carabin 09 февраля 2009	Скачать книгу

Coming Up Next	HarperCollins Publishers
Автор: Smith Penny Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers, 2008	PDF, 256 страниц, 7.68 МБ 0 Оценка:
A darkly comic novel about the fall and rise of a TV presenter. Written by an insider, it's a page-turning account of life on the sofa and in front of the cameras. When Katie Fisher, morning TV presenter, returns from holiday it's to discover that she's literally yesterday's news. Publicly sacked from her job as anchor of Hello Britain! and replaced by a pert young thing, she does what any self-respecting thirty something would in these circumstances — she makes a dash for her parents and hits the bottle. But Katie, sooner or later, has to face the world, the photographers, and the backstage intrigue of morning television: the cut-throat, lecherous producers, the ambitious but vacant Keera, and Mike, her co-host, a trustworthy friend or just another one of the many back-stabbers? Humour is Katie's only weapon and, as things hit rock-bottom, it could provide a perfect solution to life after the sofa. Knowing, insightful and darkly comic, Penny Smith's novel is the insider's view of TV.
927 lawyer_78rus 26 мая 2011	Скачать книгу

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