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The Indian Ocean, 1809. At stake: Britain's commercial lifeline to India and naval supremacy. In one fatal season, the natural order of maritime power since Trafalgar was destroyed. Storm and Conquest brings together the terrifying ordeal of men, women and children c... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:05 | Cold Hand in Mine was first published in the UK in 1975 and in the US in 1977. The story 'Pages from a Young Girl's Journal' won the Aickman World Fantasy Award in 1975. It was originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1973 before appearing... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:05 | UK Post-Punk is a selection of five essays that represents Simon Reynolds's astute and thought-provoking commentary on the musical fallout of the punk explosion. Diversity is the watchword, with groups as stylistically varied as PiL, Joy Division and the Specials tac... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:05 | Fairport Convention and Electric Folk tells of the blossoming of British folk music in the late sixties, as rediscovered pastoral sensibilities aligned themselves with electric instrumentation. The album that spearheaded this gentle revival was Fairport Convention's ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:05 | 'He ascended, eyes riveted, nailed to the steps leading up to the top of the pyramid of the sun. How many human hearts he wondered had been plucked from bodies there to feed the dying light of the sun and create an obsession with royal sculptures, echoing stone?... I... Полное описание |
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{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:05 | The Tree of the Sun, first published in 1978, begins where Wilson Harris's previous novel Da Silva da Silva's Cultivated Wilderness ended, and thus forms a sequel.The London-dwelling Brazilian painter Da Silva is deeply moved by his wife's pregnancy after eight years... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:05 | Salvage is the final part of Tom Stoppard's trilogy The Coast of Utopia. It is 1852. Alexander Herzen, who left Russia five years earlier, has arrived in London in retreat from a series of public and private calamities. Revolution in Europe has hit the rocks. 'I have... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:05 | 'You have to keep your ears open for Alan Bennett's Insurance Man. It had visual impact so powerful that you were in danger of missing some very good lines simply because nobody spoke them in close up; you had to catch them on the wing. And if there was one line that... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:05 | This play ran at the National Theatre, London, throughout 1978 and the New York production in the autumn of 1982 was equally well received. In counterpointing the experiences of an Englishwoman helping the French Resistance during the war with her life in the followi... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:05 | This third collection of John Osborne's dramatic work includes three classic plays for the stage which confirm his reputation as one of the greatest British playwrights of the twentieth century. A Patriot for Me 'It is a landmark play in its open treatment of homosex... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:05 | Children's TV superstar and MBE Justin Fletcher is back with all-new jokes!What noise does a cat make going down a motorway?Miaoooooooooooowww!Which dog likes having bubble baths?A shampoodle.In a great little chunky, child-friendly format to complement his new Justi... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:05 | The National Health Service, described by Nigel Lawson as Britain's only 'national religion', has never been more popular. So why is the government so desperate to reform it? Last year, the Office of National Statistics reported higher public satisfaction with the NH... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:06 | When one of corporate London's transient typists unexpectedly crosses Ralph Loman's path, her disruptive beauty ignites a brief blaze of excitement in his troubled heart. But Francine Snaith is ravenous for attention, driven by a thirst for conquest, and when Ralph t... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:06 | Kleinzahler's poetry is, as ever, concerned with permeability: voices, places, the real and the dreamed, the present and the past, colliding and intersecting and spilling over into each other. Whether the voice embodied is that of 'an adult male of late middle age, /... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:06 | 'King Ludwig has fascinated me ever since I was a child, yet fascination is not quite the right word. Fellow-feeling would be the proper phrase...' David Stacton, 1957With his fourth published novel - and his first on historical themes and personages - David Stacton'... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:06 | 'Charlie Smith is only one of many similar men who are at this moment living unhappily among us, or are confined in prison now but must sooner or later be released.'The Unknown Citizen (1963) was Tony Parker's second study of a criminal recidivist.'Mr Parker's very m... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:06 | Originally published in 1999, The Haunt, set in a seedy, decaying hotel on the Cornish coast, was to be the final entry in A. L. Barker's brilliant fifty-year writing career.'The Haunt is the novel that A. L. Barker had just finished [in 1998] when she was struck dow... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:06 | Correlli Barnett described his Audit or War as an 'operational study' to 'uncover the causes of Britain's protracted decline as an industrial country since the Second World War.' First published in 1986, the book swiftly became one of the most controversial and influ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:06 | Reverend Septimus Treloar, retired as Chief Inspector of the CID after thirty years service, is now country parson of the seemingly sleepy St. Mary's Danedyke. But the rural calm of his and the villagers' lives are thrown into chaos when mysterious happenings cause t... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:06 | It's 1799 and Michael Fitton joins the crew of the HMS Abergavenny as acting-lieutenant. Volunteering to command the armed launch bought by Abergavenny's crew to cruise the seas searching for prizes, Fitton must set sail with unknown soldiers who haven't seen action ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:06 | This third edition of Alan Brownjohn's Collected Poems was first published by the Enitharmon Press in 2006. It adds over 140 poems to the second, which appeared in 1988. This volume comprises all of the work that Brownjohn wishes to retain from his twelve individual ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:06 | Satirist William Hone is the forgotten hero of the British press. In 1817 he was forced to defend himself against a censorious government, in what amounted to a show trial pitting a self-educated Fleet Street journalist against the Lord Chief Justice and a hand-picke... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:06 | In this, the first biography of Flaubert to be written for many years, Geoffrey Wall brilliantly recreates the life and times of a writer of immeasurable talent and influence - a writer who wrote to within an inch of his life and in the process left a body of work th... Полное описание |
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