Orion Books
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Arthur Miller: v: 2
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Orion Books
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Автор: Bigsby Christopher
Издательство: Orion Books, 2005
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PDF, 608 страниц, 18.24 МБ
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The first volume of Christopher Bigsby's award-winning biography of Arthur Miller was hailed as a masterpiece and the definitive account of Miller's early years. This is the second half of Miller's captivating story, covering his life from 1962 to his death in 2005. In 1962, Miller's legacy was incomplete. Ahead lay eighteen plays, five films, a novella and a handful of stories. On a personal level, 1962 saw the death of his second wife, the iconographic Marilyn Monroe, and his marriage to the photographer Inge Morath who was to transform him as a writer and a person. A visit to Mauthaussen concentration camp and to the Frankfurt trials of Auschwitz-Birkenau guards moved the Holocaust to the centre of his attention and he became a more directly political person. Christopher Bigsby brilliantly and elegantly maps out the journey of Miller's life and work. Shedding new light on Miller's complexities, and revealing unknown facts about his public and private life, Bigsby shares new insights and perspectives crucial to an understanding of one of the world's greatest playwrights.
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2199
 cool10den
16 мая 2008
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The Christmas Mystery
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Orion Books
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Автор: Gaarder Jostein
Издательство: Orion Books, 1999
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PDF, 256 страниц, 7.68 МБ
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Fifty years ago a girl disappeared from her home in Norway. She ran after a lamb and found herself travelling right across Europe to Palestine, and back through 2000 years to meet the Holy Family in Bethlehem. There she met angels, shepherds, wise men and other biblical characters who joined her on her pilgrimage; and she heard of many of the things that happened in the world in the last 2000 years. In present-day Norway, a boy acquires a strange old Advent calendar. Hidden in each of the windows is a tiny piece of paper. Little by little these pieces unfold the girl's story and as we learn what happened to her, another story is revealed — that of the strange old man who made the calender.
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923
lawyer_78rus
22 сентября 2009
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Turtle Recall: The Discworld Companion: So Far
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Orion Books
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Автор: Briggs Stephen
Издательство: Orion Books, 2013
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DOC, 368 страниц, 1.00 МБ
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The Discworld is a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants which, in turn, stand on the back of a giant turtle. And like any world, the Discworld is not always predictable — in fact, it's distinctly UNpredictable, what with rivers you could skateboard across (if they weren't so knobbly) and points of raw magic that'd turn a body inside out soon as look at it... For safety's sake, you need a guide to lead you through the highways and byways of this extraordinary world — how else will you find out where to get the best curry in Ankh-Morpork, or if the rumours about XXXX, the lost continent, are true? There were once five. Klatchian Curry Gardens, corner of God Street & Blood Alley. PS Don't use the kitchen entrance. They are.
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1336
lubacha
11 июля 2014
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The House of Silk
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Orion Books
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Автор: Horowitz Anthony
Издательство: Orion Books, 2012
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PDF, 403 страницы, 12.09 МБ
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THE GAME'S AFOOT... November 1890. London is gripped by a merciless winter. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are enjoying tea by the fire when an agitated gentleman arrives unannounced at 221b Baker Street. He begs Holmes for help, telling the unnerving story of a scar-faced man with piercing eyes who has stalked him in recent weeks. Intrigued, Holmes and Watson find themselves drawn into a series of puzzling and sinister events, stretching from the gas-lit streets of London to the teeming criminal underworld of Boston. As they delve deeper into the case, they stumble across a whispered phrase the House of Silk: a mysterious entity and foe more deadly than any Holmes has encountered, and a conspiracy that threatens to tear apart the very fabric of society...
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1463
svs-sp
20 декабря 2014
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A Half-forgotten Song
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Orion Books
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Автор: Webb Katherine
Издательство: Orion Books, 2005
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PDF, 496 страниц, 14.88 МБ
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England, 1937. In the village of Blacknowle on the Dorset coast, fourteen-year-old Mitzy Hatcher has endured a wild and lonely upbringing. Shunned by her neighbours, the arrival of renowned artist Charles Aubrey, along with his exotic mistress and their daughters, is like a breath of fresh air. As Charles's muse, Mitzy develops a deep and abiding bond with the Aubrey household over the course of the following three summers. Gradually, Mitzy begins to perceive a future she had never thought possible, and a powerful love is kindled in her. A love that will grow as she does: from innocence to obsession; from childish infatuation to something far more complex. It will be almost seventy-five years before the consequences of this potent desire are fully played out, as a young man in an art gallery looks at a hastily-drawn portrait and wonders at the intensity of it. The questions he asks will lead him back to Blacknowle, and draw him to the truth about those fevered summers in the 1930s...
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1794
neptun
15 октрября 2008
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The Icarus Agenda
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Orion Books
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Автор: Ludlum Robert
Издательство: Orion Books, 2010
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PDF, 848 страниц, 25.44 МБ
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In the Sultanate of Oman over two hundred hostages are being held at gunpoint. And the world watches helplessly as the madness begins. The spirit of the Mahdi is abroad, intent on complete financial and political domination. Evan Kendrick, a quiet Congressman, is an unlikely hero. But in his past is a violence that he cannot forget. On the other side of the world, five very eccentric, very rich people are meeting. They are the Inheritors of Inver Brass. Their aim — to utterly transform the world. They seek a new saviour, an innocent messiah. Evan Kendrick is to be their unwilling victim...
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3075
marina_abcd
23 октрября 2013
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The Beach Hut
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Orion Books
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Автор: Henry Veronica
Издательство: Orion Books, 2010
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PDF, 400 страниц, 12.00 МБ
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This summer, 2010, Veronica Henry will bring us THE BEACH HUT. A wonderful novel of linked short stories, each focussing on a gaily painted row of beach huts on the picturesque Woolacoombe beach in Devon. Just as each beach hut has a girl's name painted above the door, each has its own individual story. Ronnie has spent many summers eavesdropping on what goes on in them. Various comings and goings, the people who hire them, the people who own them, and what goes on in the huts on this beautiful beach over a long, hot, lazy summer...
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admin
16 марта 2013
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Best Served Cold
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Orion Books
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Автор: Abercrombie Joe
Издательство: Orion Books, 2013
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PDF, 768 страниц, 23.04 МБ
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Springtime in Styria. And that means war. There have been nineteen years of blood. The ruthless Grand Duke Orso is locked in a vicious struggle with the squabbling League of Eight, and between them they have bled the land white. While armies march, heads roll and cities burn, behind the scenes bankers, priests and older, darker powers play a deadly game to choose who will be king. War may be hell but for Monza Murcatto, the Snake of Talins, the most feared and famous mercenary in Duke Orso's employ, it's a damn good way of making money too. Her victories have made her popular — a shade too popular for her employer's taste. Betrayed, thrown down a mountain and left for dead, Murcatto's reward is a broken body and a burning hunger for vengeance. Whatever the cost, seven men must die. Her allies include Styria's least reliable drunkard, Styria's most treacherous poisoner, a mass-murderer obsessed with numbers and a Northman who just wants to do the right thing. Her enemies number the better half of the nation. And that's all before the most dangerous man in the world is dispatched to hunt her down and finish the job Duke Orso started... Springtime in Styria. And that means revenge.
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2789
veditos
28 июня 2015
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Cat's Cradle
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Orion Books
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Автор: Vonnegut Kurt
Издательство: Orion Books, 2008
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PDF, 224 страницы, 6.72 МБ
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Experiment Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it, Solution Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of ice-nine, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three eccentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness. Felix Hoenikker's death-wish comes true when his last, fatal, gift to mankind brings about an end that, for all of us, is nigh.
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811
allkonekt
10 декабря 2010
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The Cut
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Автор: Pelecanos George
Издательство: Orion Books, 2012
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DjVu, 304 страницы, 12.16 МБ
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Spero Lucas has a new line of work. Since he returned home after serving in Iraq, he has been doing special investigations for a defence attorney. He's good at it, and he has carved out a niche: recovering stolen property, no questions asked. His cut is 40%. A high-profile crime boss who has heard of Lucas's speciality hires him to find out who has been stealing from his operation. It's the biggest job Lucas has ever been offered, and he quickly gets a sense of what's going on. But before he can close in he tangles with a world of men whose amorality and violence leave him reeling. Is any cut worth your family, your lover, your life?
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1103
stalker1965
02 сентября 2017
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The Impossible Dead
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Автор: Rankin Ian
Издательство: Orion Books, 2012
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PDF, 432 страницы, 12.96 МБ
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Malcolm Fox is has been sent to Fife to investigate whether fellow cops covered up for a corrupt colleague, Detective Paul Carter. Carter has been found guilty of misconduct — and the man who reported him was his own uncle. What should be a simple job is soon complicated by conspiracy and cover-up — and a brutal murder, a murder committed with a weapon that should not even exist. The spiralling investigation takes Fox back to 1985, a year of turmoil in British political life. Terrorists intent on a split between Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom were becoming more brazen and ruthless, sending letter-bombs and poisonous spores to government offices, plotting kidnaps and murder, and trying to stay one step ahead of the spies sent to flush them out. Fox has a duty to get at the truth, while the body count rises, the clock starts ticking, and he fights for his professional and personal life.
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1568
olen33
22 мая 2015
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Horrid Henry's Nits
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Orion Books
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Автор: Simon Francesca
Издательство: Orion Books, 2011
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PDF, 96 страниц, 2.88 МБ
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When Horrid Henry gets nits, and his little brother Peter Perfect doesn't, he makes sure that everyone esle gets them too. After that, he can turn his attention to sabotaging the school trip, ruining his parents' dinner party, and terrorizing Peter.
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348
katrina_28
15 апреля 2015
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The Lincoln Lawyer
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Orion Books
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Автор: Connelly Michael
Издательство: Orion Books, 2009
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PDF, 404 страницы, 12.12 МБ
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They're called Lincoln Lawyers: the bottom of the legal food chain, the criminal defence attorneys who operate out of the back of a Lincoln Town Car, taking whatever cases the system throws in their path. When a Beverly Hills rich boy is arrested, Mickey Haller has his first high-paying client in years. The evidence mounts on the defence's side, and Haller might even be in the rare position of representing a client who is actually innocent. But when his case starts to fall apart, Haller quickly discovers that when you swim with the sharks, it's easy to wind up as prey.
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1464
sssru
20 сентября 2014
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Mr P's Naughty Book (+ Audio CD)
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Orion Books
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Автор: Simon Francesca
Издательство: Orion Books, 2012
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PDF, 96 страниц, 2.88 МБ
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AARDVARK: shouts at BAKED BEANS: drops on cat KETCHUP: decorates mother with Mr Punishment has the perfect punishment for every naughtiness in the world and every day his telephone rings with parents desperate for his advice. But Mr Punishment never seems to get it quite right — with chaotic results!
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348
katrina_28
16 марта 2015
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Shadows of the Workhouse: The Drama of Life in Postwar London
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Orion Books
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Автор: Worth Jennifer
Издательство: Orion Books, 2009
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DjVu, 304 страницы, 12.16 МБ
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In this follow up to CALL THE MIDWIFE, Jennifer Worth, a midwife working in the docklands area of East London in the 1950s tells more stories about the people she encountered. There's Jane, who cleaned and generally helped out at Nonnatus House — she was taken to the workhouse as a baby and was allegedly the illegitimate daughter of an aristocrat. Peggy and Frank's parents both died within 6 months of each other and the children were left destitute. At the time, there was no other option for them but the workhouse. The Reverend Thornton-Appleby-Thorton, a missionary in Africa, visits the Nonnatus nuns and Sister Julienne acts as matchmaker. And Sister Monica Joan, the eccentric ninety-year-old nun, is accused of shoplifting some small items from the local market. She is let off with a warning, but then Jennifer finds stolen jewels from Hatton Garden in the nun's room. These stories give a fascinating insight into the lives of the poor in 1950s London, of the shadow of the workhouse that always hung over their lives but also of the resilience and spirit that enabled ordinary people to overcome their difficulties.
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1102
stalker1965
7 декабря 2011
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Double Dexter
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Автор: Lindsay Jeff
Издательство: Orion Books, 2012
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PDF, 464 страницы, 13.92 МБ
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A witness. Such a simple concept — and yet for Dexter Morgan, a perfectly well-disguised serial killer, the possibility of a witness is terrifying. As an upstanding blood-spatter analyst for the Miami Police, Dexter has always managed to keep the darker side of his life out of the spotlight. An expert at finding truly bad people — murderers who've long escaped justice — Dexter has long been giving them his own special brand of attention. But now someone has seen him in the act. Dexter is being followed, manipulated and mimicked, leading him to realise that no one likes to have a double — especially when his double's goal is to kill him. Dexter is not one to tolerate such displeasure... in fact, he has a knack for extricating himself from trouble in his own pleasurable way.
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1684
biomg
27 сентября 2017
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The Heroes
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Orion Books
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Автор: Abercrombie Joe
Издательство: Orion Books, 2013
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PDF, 704 страницы, 21.12 МБ
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They say Black Dow's killed more men than winter, and clawed his way to the throne of the North up a hill of skulls. The King of the Union, ever a jealous neighbour, is not about to stand smiling by while he claws his way any higher. The orders have been given and the armies are toiling through the northern mud. Thousands of men are converging on a forgotten ring of stones, on a worthless hill, in an unimportant valley, and they've brought a lot of sharpened metal with them. Bremer dan Gorst, disgraced master swordsman, has sworn to reclaim his stolen honour on the battlefield. Obsessed with redemption and addicted to violence, he's far past caring how much blood gets spilled in the attempt. Even if it's his own. Prince Calder isn't interested in honour, and still less in getting himself killed. All he wants is power, and he'll tell any lie, use any trick, and betray any friend to get it. Just as long as he doesn't have to fight for it himself. Curnden Craw, the last honest man in the North, has gained nothing from a life of warfare but swollen knees and frayed nerves. He hardly even cares who wins any more, he just wants to do the right thing. But can he even tell what that is with the world burning down around him? Over three bloody days of battle, the fate of the North will be decided. But with both sides riddled by intrigues, follies, feuds and petty jealousies, it is unlikely to be the noblest hearts, or even the strongest arms that prevail. Three men. One battle. No Heroes.
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2557
krot
17 августа 2015
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The Legacy of Hartlepool Hall
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Orion Books
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Автор: Torday Paul
Издательство: Orion Books, 2012
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PDF, 288 страниц, 8.64 МБ
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Ed Hartlepool has been living in self-imposed exile for five years, but with a settlement regarding his inheritance looming, he must return to his ancestral seat, Hartlepool Hall. On his return, he discovers that his father has left him, along with the house, a seven million pound tax bill, two massive overdrafts, an 80-year-old butler, and a vast country estate that is creaking at the seams. Not only that, but there is a strange woman in residence — Lady Alice — who seems to have made herself very much at home. With the debts mounting, it seems that Ed's only recourse is to turn to his friend Annabel's new boyfriend, a property developer who plans to turn Hartlepool Hall into luxury flats and a golf course. But can Ed save his inheritance without such a drastic move? And is Lady Alice really the person she claims to be?
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1045
vitalysev
14 июля 2013
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