Все книги издательства «Penguin Group»

Should Have Got Off at Sydney Parade	Penguin Group
Автор: Ross O'Carroll-Kelly Издательство: Penguin Group, 2007	DjVu, 304 страницы, 12.16 МБ 0 Оценка:
Ross O'Carroll-Kelly thought he knew all he needed to about women's bodies... So there I was, roysh, in a state of basically very blissful ignorance, when suddenly Sorcha's up the Damien and I have to listen to, like, women's stuff. And now he's getting a biology lesson he could have so lived without... I am telling you, roysh, I never even knew nipples could crack and I was very happy not knowing it. I mean, all I knew about the whole scenario was six seconds of seriously good loving, and now I'm basically expected to be an expert on how to, like, breathe like Dorth Vader and deal with baby turds. Sometimes, life just isn't fair to the babe magnet supremo... This is so not good for my rep — but do you think Sorcha even, like, cares about that? Not focking likely!
1100 stalker1965 16 февраля 2009	Скачать книгу

The New Confessions	Penguin Group
Автор: Boyd William Издательство: Penguin Group, 1989	DjVu, 592 страницы, 23.68 МБ 5 Оценка:
The New Confessions is the outrageous, extraordinary, hilarious and heartbreaking autobiography of John James Todd, a Scotsman born in 1899 and one of the great self-appointed (and failed) geniuses of the twentieth century. An often magnificent feat of story-telling and panoramic reconstruction... John James Todd's reminiscences carry us through the ups and downs of a long and lively career that begins in genteel Edinburgh, devastatingly detours out to the Western Front, forks off, after a period of cosy family life in London, to the electric excitements of the Berlin film-world of the Twenties, then moves on to Hollywood... to ordeal by McCarthyism and eventual escape to Europe — Peter Kemp, Observer.
2124 erdik 21 октрября 2009	Скачать книгу

Being Dead	Penguin Group
Автор: Crace Jim Издательство: Penguin Group, 2000	PDF, 224 страницы, 6.72 МБ 0 Оценка:
The author ponders the redemptive power of secular love in this novel. Their bodies had expired, but anyone looking at them could see that Joseph and Celice were still devoted, the couple seemed to have achieved a peace the world denies, a period of grace, defying even murder. They were still man and wife, quietly resting, dead but not yet departed.
808 allkonekt 07 апреля 2009	Скачать книгу

The Devil's Larder	Penguin Group
Автор: Crace Jim Издательство: Penguin Group, 2002	PDF, 208 страниц, 6.24 МБ 7 Оценка:
THE DEVIL'S LARDER is a cumulative novel in sixty-four parts, all on the subject of food. Crace's readers might learn that little is to be trusted about food from these hilarious, delightful and subversive ingredients, but they will encounter a startling and touching patchwork portrait of a community where meals are served with lashings of passion and recipes come spiced with unexpected challenges and hopes.
751 anatoly_24 16 декабря 2009	Скачать книгу

The Dark Volume	Penguin Group
Автор: Dahlquist G.W. Издательство: Penguin Group, 2009	DOC, 528 страниц, 1.00 МБ 7 Оценка:
With old loyalties tested by new and unlikely alliances, Miss Temple, Doctor Svenson, and Cardinal Chang must call on every reserve of courage to face a new and desperate struggle — after all, the integrity of their very minds is at risk. From palace intrigue and a city in turmoil to wolf-haunted mountains, underground tunnels and a suspicious hidden factory, they must overcome war and heartache to battle old enemies and a host of new villains, all hoping to seize for themselves the power of the blue glass books. Now one glass book in particular drives them all, its deadly contents the key to controlling the secrets of the blue glass, or destroying it forever. Praise for The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters: A page-turner, a rollicking ride. As stupendous as it is stupefying — Giles Foden, Guardian. Fantastic... I was in seventh heaven... Somewhere between Dickens, Sherlock Holmes and Rider Haggard — Kate Mosse, author of Labyrinth.
1914 carabin 11 октрября 2012	Скачать книгу

Land of the Living	Penguin Group
Автор: French Nicci Издательство: Penguin Group, 2003	PDF, 400 страниц, 12.00 МБ 8 Оценка:
Abbie Devereaux wakes in the dark. She is hooded and bound, with no idea where she is or how she got there. Kept alive by a man she never sees, his only promise is that eventually he will kill her — like the others. But Abbie has spirit and bloody-mindedness on her side. She counts the seconds spent alone and plots her survival. Above all she dreams of returning to normal, careless, everyday life — the land of the living. Grasping at memories, Abbie recalls snatches of her identity, her career, and her disintegrating relationship with her boyfriend. Is there a connection between her real life and the voice in the darkness? And how can she survive in a place where fear becomes madness and the effort to survive seems too much to bear?
1445 admin 14 августа 2009	Скачать книгу

Jemima J:	Penguin Group
Автор: Green Jane Издательство: Penguin Group, 1998	PDF, 464 страницы, 13.92 МБ 0 Оценка:
Jemima Jones is overweight. About seven stone overweight. Treated like a slave by her thin and bitchy flatmates, lorded over at the Kilburn Herald by the beautiful Geraldine (less talented, better paid), her only consolation is food. That and a passion for her charming, sexy colleague Ben. Her life needs to change and soon. But can Jemima reinvent herself? Should she? This is a novel about attraction, obsession and the meaning of true love.
1672 biomg 23 декабря 2009	Скачать книгу

The Other Woman	Penguin Group
Автор: Green Jane Издательство: Penguin Group, 2005	DjVu, 448 страниц, 17.92 МБ 7 Оценка:
Ellie and Dan are living proof that opposites attract. He always follows instructions and she throws the manual away. He loves sports whereas Ellie's allergic to any form of exercise. Ellie doesn't have a mother. And Dan does — a mother who wants to take over EVERYTHING. At first Ellie is thrilled to have Linda as her adopted mother and to be a part of the close, loving Cooper family. But when she and Dan decide to get married and wedding plans progress, she starts to wonder: is it normal for Linda and Dan to speak on the phone twice a day? How on earth do they come to be having a reception with Chilean bloody seabass and humongous bloody white ribbons tied everywhere when all she wanted was a quiet registry office? In fact, is she marrying Dan OR HIS MOTHER? And Ellie's problems have just begun. When she discovers she's pregnant she realises that Linda's only been rehearsing for the real takeover. She seems to want to live her life through Ellie and in the words of the immortal Princess Diana, there are three of them in the marriage.
1620 vtormai 18 марта 2008	Скачать книгу

The Moon Tunnel	Penguin Group
Автор: Kelly Jim Издательство: Penguin Group, 2006	PDF, 400 страниц, 12.00 МБ 8 Оценка:
In the past: a man crawls desperately through a claustrophobic escape tunnel beneath a POW camp in the Cambridgeshire Fens. Above, a shadow passes across the moon, while ahead only death awaits him. In the present: Philip Dryden is reporting on an archaeological dig at the old POW camp, when a body is uncovered. But there is something odd: the man appears to have been shot in the head, and the position indicates that he was trying to get into the camp, not escape it. It's a puzzle which excites Dryden far more than the archaeologists or the police. That is, until a second, more recent, body is discovered...
1447 admin 15 июня 2008	Скачать книгу

Down into Darkness	Penguin Group
Автор: Lawrence David Издательство: Penguin Group, 2008	DOC, 416 страниц, 1.00 МБ 0 Оценка:
The naked body of a young woman is found hanging from a tree on a London roadside. Scrawled across her back, the words Dirty Girl. Detective Sergeant Stella Mooney and the AMIP 5 squad are faced with a murder as baffling as it is chilling. With no means to identify the victim and no apparent motive, the case is blocked, until... A man is found on a bench by the river, his throat cut back to the vertebrae. And, as before, the killer has left a trademark comment: Filthy Coward. Stella and her team can see there's a connection: but what? One victim is a young girl — maybe one of the hookers who work the Strip; the other a researcher for a prominent and controversial MP. More evidence is needed. And soon enough, it comes: another death; another message...
1507 delovar 05 июня 2010	Скачать книгу

The Victoria System	Penguin Group
Автор: Reinhardt Eric Издательство: Penguin Group, 2014	PDF, 480 страниц, 14.40 МБ 8 Оценка:
The Victoria System is Eric Reinhardt's novel of sex, power, capitalism and deception. It is shortlisted for The Prix Renaudot, The Prix Goncourt and The Grand Prix Du Roman De L'Academie Francaise. David Kolski is in charge of the construction of a huge Paris tower block, and the pressure is crushing him. But then he meets Victoria — a high-powered and ruthless executive by day and insatiable sensualist by night. David's hard-headed new lover gives him a new sense of purpose and renewed energy, but when she offers to use her position to help him in his career, a shadow falls over their affair. Is she capable of helping anyone other than herself? And who are the men in the Audi he keeps seeing, always a few cars behind him? Bold, arresting, accomplished, complex, sensual, sexual, intriguing, heady. (Le Monde). An ambitious and tragic novel which weaves together sex, power games and imagination. An ultracontemporary anti-fairy tale. (Les Inrocktibles). Finally, a sexy book by someone who appears to have actually had sex. (Dazed and Confused). Born in 1965, Eric Reinhardt is the is the author of four previous novels and a freelance publisher of art books. He lives and works in Paris. The Victoria System is his first novel to be translated into English. Sam Taylor is the English-language translator of HHhH, by Laurent Binet. He lives in France and the United States.
1744 admin 13 октрября 2017	Скачать книгу

The Hunting Season	Penguin Group
Автор: Rigbey Elizabeth Издательство: Penguin Group, 2007	DOC, 512 страниц, 1.00 МБ 5 Оценка:
Dense woodland — twisting paths — it's easy to lose your way in the wilderness... The rugged Rocky Mountains are a place some go to hide inside, some to escape into and others to hunt in. Dr Matt Seleckis has never been one for the woods: he remembers his childhood vacations there with his mother and father — and the looming threat of an unexplained death... Now Matt lives in the mountains' shadow, in Utah with his wife and young son. Yet the prospect of a hunting trip alone with his father is bringing back dark, unwelcome memories — of a certain vacation, of his beloved parents. And of a hushed-up tragedy that he's sure concerns him. But with the arrival of these unsettling memories comes the creeping realisation that in nature, death for the unwary lies around every corner. And in the woods, it's easy to take a wrong turn.
1854 nniikk 17 октрября 2010	Скачать книгу

Maigret in Court	Penguin Group
Автор: Simenon Georges Издательство: Penguin Group, 2007	DOC, 144 страницы, 1.00 МБ 0 Оценка:
In a great courtroom drama, Maigret has to explain why he does not believe that Gaston Meurant was capable of slitting his aunt's throat for money and smothering a small child. But in saving him from the gallows, Maigret must expose some dark secrets about Meurant's life. This is a painful story of an oppressive domestic tragedy and the compassionate insight of a remarkable detective. A truly wonderful writer... marvellously readable — lucid, simple, absolutely in tune with that world he creates of run-down hotels, cold, dark barges, quayside canal-taverns, lurking prostitutes, pot-bellied burghers, taciturn youths, slippery barmen — Muriel Spark, Sunday Times.
521 alex033ru 20 декабря 2009	Скачать книгу

The Barred Window	Penguin Group
Автор: Taylor Andrew Издательство: Penguin Group, 2007	DOC, 416 страниц, 1.00 МБ 0 Оценка:
It is 1993 and Thomas Penmarsh has lived in Finisterre, the house by the sea, all his life, sleeping each night in the room with the barred window. He's only 48 but has been an old man since one evening in 1967 when he lost everything he valued... However now his controlling mother has died and he is master of the house. When Esmond, his cousin and childhood confidante, comes to live with him Thomas is overjoyed — Esmond always looks after him... But is Esmond all that he seems? And why is he so concerned that Alice wants to come home too? Darling Alice, whom neither have seen since that fateful night twenty-six years ago...
1506 delovar 04 июля 2008	Скачать книгу

The Raven on the Water	Penguin Group
Автор: Taylor Andrew Издательство: Penguin Group, 2007	PDF, 496 страниц, 14.88 МБ 0 Оценка:
Back in 1964, Peter Redburn and his best friend Richard had spent a golden summer holiday playing out their special game — a private world of secret rituals and oaths of loyalty sworn for eternity. It was all very innocent — until James and Kate joined in... And then, one night, their childish game turned to tragedy... Now an adult, Peter has never been able to escape his own feelings of guilt about the events that summer. So when he stumbles across a hoard of childhood memories, he knows he must search out the truth. And with a funeral bringing all participants together again, bitter rivalries and sordid secrets are about to be unearthed.
1796 neptun 15 августа 2009	Скачать книгу

The Brimstone Wedding	Penguin Group
Автор: Vine Barbara Издательство: Penguin Group, 1997	PDF, 320 страниц, 9.60 МБ 8 Оценка:
Jenny's marriage is loveless, and she is having an affair. She works at an old people's home, where she is especially fond of Stella, a woman dying of cancer — whose own secrets parallel Jenny's — with the difference that she may have been involved in murdering her lover's husband.
1153 admin 17 октрября 2009	Скачать книгу

Trouble with Lichen	Penguin Group
Автор: Wyndham John Издательство: Penguin Group, 2008	PDF, 208 страниц, 6.24 МБ 7 Оценка:
Francis Saxover and Diana Brackley, two scientists investigating a rare lichen, discover it has a remarkable property: it retards the aging process. Francis, realising the implications for the world of an ever-youthful, wealthy elite, wants to keep it secret, but Diana sees an opportunity to overturn the male status quo by using the lichen to inspire a feminist revolution. As each scientist wrestles with the implications and practicalities of exploiting the discovery, the world comes ever closer to learning the truth. Trouble With Lichen is a scintillating story of the power wielded by science in our lives and asks how much trust should we place in those we appoint to be its guardians?
753 anatoly_24 17 сентября 2013	Скачать книгу

Blood Atonement	Penguin Group
Автор: Waddell Dan Издательство: Penguin Group, 2009	DjVu, 352 страницы, 14.08 МБ 5 Оценка:
Katie Drake was an affluent single mother living in Queen's Park — until someone cut her throat and tore out her tongue. Worse still, the killer has abducted her fourteen-year-old daughter, Naomi. Detective Chief Inspector Grant Foster quickly sees chilling parallels with the disappearance of teenager Leonie Stamey three years earlier. With hopes fading of finding Naomi alive, he calls on genealogist Nigel Barnes to piece together the links between the families of the two girls. The trail leads Nigel back to 1890, when a young couple arrived in the UK. A husband and wife fleeing a terrible crime in their past, and harbouring a secret that's now having bloody repercussions in the present.
1276 anarho 24 июля 2010	Скачать книгу

The Midwich Cuckoos	Penguin Group
Автор: Wyndham John Издательство: Penguin Group, 2008	PDF, 224 страницы, 6.72 МБ 0 Оценка:
In the sleepy English village of Midwich, a mysterious silver object appears and all the inhabitants fall unconscious. A day later the object is gone and everyone awakens unharmed — except that all the women in the village are discovered to be pregnant. The resultant children of Midwich do not belong to their parents: all are blonde, all are golden eyed. They grow up too fast and their minds exhibit frightening abilities that give them control over others and brings them into conflict with the villagers just as a chilling realisation dawns on the world outside. The Midwich Cuckoos is the classic tale of aliens in our midst, exploring how we respond when confronted by those who are innately superior to us in every conceivable way.
811 allkonekt 10 декабря 2010	Скачать книгу

A Stain on the Silence	Penguin Group
Автор: Taylor Andrew Издательство: Penguin Group, 2008	PDF, 432 страницы, 12.96 МБ 5 Оценка:
You can run from a guilty conscience, but you can't hide... James wasn't much more than a child when he had an affair with Lily. And now, twenty-four years later, Lily confesses to James that their affair led to a daughter, Kate. And Kate desperately needs her father's help: she's wanted for murder. But there is no room for murder in James' life. He has a wife, a good job, a nice house in the country... As Kate comes crashing into his world, so she lights the fuse under his ordered life. Because James has also been keeping a secret — a very dark and deadly one...
1565 olen33 20 сентября 2013	Скачать книгу

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