Книги пользователя perepelkin, жанр english

When he was a boy in Henning, Tennessee, Alex Haley's grandmother used to tell him stories about their family—stories that went back to her grandparents, and their grandparents, down through the gener...

Marooned in outer space after an attack on his ship, Nomad, Gulliver Foyle lives to obsessively pursue the crew of a rescue vessel that had intended to leave him to die.

The world's finest living short story writer turns to her family for inspiration; and what follows is a fictionalised, brilliantly imagined version of the past. From her ancestors' view from Edinburgh...

Tells of the bizarre adventures of an 18th-century watchmaker and mechanical wizard - Claude Page. Maimed by surgery at the age of 12, his manual dexterity destines him to become one of Europe's most ...

It is 1948, and England is recovering from a war. Queenie Bligh's neighbours do not approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers, but Queenie doesn't know when her husband will return, or if he...

1172, Britain - king's lover is dead, and the bishop of St Albans summons an Italian female physician-cum-detective to find out the truth...

In medieval Cambridge, England, four children have been murdered. The crimes are immediately blamed on the town's Jewish community, taken as evidence that Jews sacrifice Christian children in blasphem...

Adelia Aguilar is a unique person - she is Doctor to the Dead, in XI century. She has to accompany 10-year-old Princess Joanna on her thousand-mile journey to marry the King of Sicily. But when member...

1176 AD. On hearing of this momentous discovery, King Henry II demands evidence that the legendary Arthur is dead. So he calls upon his Mistress of the Art of Death, anatomist Adelia Aguilar, to exami...

The Grand Babylon Hotel is an exclusive London establishment, and American millionaire Theodore Racksole, visiting the hotel with his spirited 23-year-old daughter Nella, decides to buy the place. Wha...

Must read! Jungle and high politics, racism and religion, joy and sorrow - but first of all - who we are and "What are we doing? " To ourselves, to each other and to Mother Earth.

Set in Kenya, in 1919, this book is of a British family, who settle on an estate on the homeland of Kikuyu and the antagonism that develops between them and the tribe's own medicine woman, whose power...

You may want to have the back story to appreciate the unique style over combining magic with police procedural. However, that is not necessary - especially if you love London and jazz...