Однажды белорус, украинец и русский попали в далекое будущее. На планете царит культ просвещения, науки и знаний, в карманах по нулям, о сале и картошке и борще никто даже не слышал! Что? Похоже на затянувшийся анекдот? Похоже, только почему-то смешного мало… Внимание! Фонограмма содержит нецензурную брань. ...
Согласно правилам вампирских кланов, Последний клан созданный Носферату, должен собрать всех своих собратьев в одном месте, избрать главу, выбрать город, где они останутся жить и прочее и прочее…, но кому это надо? Вампиры Последнего клана жаждут пользоваться своими способностями, жаждут жить на полную катушку, какие ещё правила? Большая сила, это большие возможности и идёт к чёрту весь мир – вот то, что могло бы стать их девизом. Содержит нецен ...
Gripping, emotional and uplifting – a novel about the true power of friendship.‘Tender, emotional and uplifting … I loved it’ Lucy Diamond’A superb writer – the Irish Jojo Moyes’ Irish ExaminerThe simple fact of the matter is that Iris loves life. Maybe she’s forgotten that. Sometimes that happens, doesn’t it? To the best of us? All I have to do is remind her of that one simple fact.Tuesday morning starts like any other – until Terry discovers h ...
A powerful debut set in Belfast and London in the latter years of the twentieth century. The Troubles turned Northern Ireland into a ghost factory: as the manufacturing industry withered, the death business boomed. In trying to come to terms with his father’s sudden death, and the attack on his harmless best friend Titch, Jacky is forced to face the bullies who still menace a city scarred by conflict. After he himself is attacked, he flees to Lo ...
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INAUGURAL ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION‘Intense, beautifully crafted . . . Her talent is electric. Get ready for a shock’ GuardianThis is a work of fiction. Keep telling yourself that.America has changed. For women, it has changed for the worse.Ro, a single high-school teacher, is desperate to become a mother. But with IVF now illegal – along with abortion and other reproductive rights – parenthood looks increasingly unl ...
‘Who is Rich? Is a tantalizing novel – acute and smart and stark, but mostly it’s unrelentingly funny about a large number of very inappropriate things. It’s one of those rare books: you open it, then you’re up all night. I was‘ Richard FordEvery summer, a once-sort-of famous cartoonist named Rich Fischer leaves his wife and two kids behind to teach a class at a week-long arts conference in a charming New England beachside town. It’s a place whe ...
A child left behind.A country at war.A love that endures a lifetime.‘This is storytelling at its best’ Sarah Winman ‘The perfect book club read’ AJ Pearce ‘Dazzling… fierce, physical and almost inexpressibly tender’ GuardianEllen Parr has always been sure she never wanted children. But when she finds a young girl asleep and unclaimed at the back of a bus fleeing the Blitz in Southampton, everything she once believed is overturned. As she takes P ...
The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili’s world are defined by the high walls of her family estate and the dictates of her fanatically religious father. Her life is regulated by schedules: prayer, sleep, study, prayer.When Nigeria is shaken by a military coup, Kambili’s father, involved mysteriously in the political crisis, sends her to live with her aunt. In this house, noisy and full of laughter, she discovers life and love – and a terrible, br ...
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER‘Written with love, told with joy’ Fredrik Backman, author of A Man Called Ove‘Wise and captivating’ People MagazineWithin the pages of 96-year-old Doris’s red address book are the names of all those she has loved and lost, telling the story of a colourful life. Living alone in Stockholm, she is comforted by the weekly calls of her grand-niece Jenny, who is haunted by a painful childhood.Finally, Doris decides to put ...
