Книги пользователя perepelkin, жанр английская литература

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...

On compassionate leave after the murder of his wife, Thomas Lynley is called back to Scotland Yard when the body of a woman is found stabbed and abandoned in an isolated London cemetery. His former te...

Last in a series: Inspector Lynley, eighth Earl of Asherton, and Sergeant Havers, his working-class partner, are drawn from Cambridge to London to the windswept town of Shaftesbury during one of their...

A real murder investigated by one of the first English official detectives. How did they operate in 1860, what did they rely upon? What does "clue" really mean? A gripping and to-the-point j...

M. Nabb lived in Florence for many years, and her superior knowledge of this part of Italy combines in her "marshal Guarnaccia" with her love for people and exquisite language. No ordinary w...

Fine romance of two young Ukranians of different political colours while in England trying to earn some money. Good humour, too.

One of the classic jewels by the Maitre.

Reading this book was a real repose - dramatic family events, if sometimes predictable, are masterfully intertwined with descriptions of English country and its modern life.

A welcome return to a writer whose last book, the much loved and admired Girl With a Pearl Earring has been such an outstanding success. 1901, the year of the Queen's death. The two graves stood next ...

"To my generation Gerhardie was the most important new novelist in our young life". Graham Greene

Уильям Мор - разочарованный в жизни и несчастливый в супружестве мужчина средних лет - преподает латынь и историю в школе Святого Брайда в сонной английской глубинке. Для него любовь к молодой художни...

Роман из знаменитой дилогии, произведение яркое и горькое, не способное оставить читателя равнодушным. Что принесла человеку `жизнь наверху`, во имя которой онпожертвовал самым дорогим, что имел, во и...