Книги пользователя perepelkin, жанр Современная зарубежная проза

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...

'At magic hour; when the sun has gone but the light has not, armies of flying foxes unhinge themselves from the Banyan trees in the old graveyard and drift across the city like smoke... '
So beg...

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...

The author was 14 when he set himself on fire,,, He survived. This is the story of his physical and mental recovery written by himself.

Dawn of the XX century, first air race across the US - one true Hollywood love story in exotic surroundings.

Shaw has to deal with a former KGB officer now trading nuclear fuel to terrorists. The problem is, Shaw is not the only one who has - and they get in each other's way...

In 1954 a fisherman is found dead in the nets of his boat, and a local Japanese-American man is charged with his murder. In the course of his trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than...

Bellman & Black is a heart-thumpingly perfect ghost story, beautifully and irresistibly written, its ratcheting tension exquisitely calibrated line by line. Its hero is William Bellman, who, as a ...

Comissario Brunetti gets involved in a case of an 11-year old Gypsy girl drowned in Venice under suspicious circumstances...

Murano glass, possible murder and beautiful Venice in an "Inspector Brunetti" series Leon's beautiful novel.

Ellie Haskell, sleuth and Gothic romance addict, visits Yorkshire moors Cragstone House with her husband Ben and sidekick Mrs Roxie Malloy, on behalf of his young cousin Ariel. The kindly cook Mrs. Ca...

At first, one feels irritation - petty feelings, pretense, cliches and trivia. A novel in letters - too many times used method. But then real feelings of Canadian grown-ups and adolescents begin to em...

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...

A NY student in search of income becomes a nanny in a well-to-do and good-to-nothing family. Written by two actual former nannies)

Once a successful surgeon, Frederick Welin now lives in self-imposed exile on an island in the Swedish archipelago. Nearly twelve years have passed since he was disgraced for attempting to cover up a ...