Книги пользователя perepelkin, жанр english

Four of the earlier AChristie "Poirot" stories.

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...

16 stories by a famous writer and newspaperman about American Civil war.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx's The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American (Newfoundland) family.

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...

Berlin, 1920-1933 - gloomy years of German history. Russian emigres keep getting killed by a murky big man, may be he is hunting Anna who claims she is daughter of Nikolas II, miraculously surviving t...

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...

Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty; inside the...

Golems against autocracy, vodyanoi as one of many races living aside with men, perpetual train and chimerical man-made creatures - it all boils down to moral choice...