Книги пользователя perepelkin, жанр Современная зарубежная проза

Still stinging from his unceremonious ouster from the Garda Síochána—the Guards, Ireland's police force—and staring at the world through the smoky bottom of his beer mug, Jack Taylor is stuck in Galwa...

Gripping the reader very soon, true-to-life, very plausible, lots of fine psychological convincing details. However predictable, the book is excellent reading.

Book 1 of 26 in the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter Series
She raises the dead and lays them down again. She slays vampires and befriends some of them. But then she meets a master of the city vampir...

A sweeping epic that follows the fortunes of one family and the fortunes of India in the violent aftermath of Partition, 'The Age of Shiva' is the powerful story of a country in turmoil and an extraor...

A young American model is murdered in the corporate boardroom of Los Angeles's Nakomoto Tower on the new skyscraper's gala opening night. Murdered, that is, unless she was strangled while enjoying sad...

Marshal Guarnacci's investigation draws him in the underworld of Florence

Suppose you meet an Australopithecine when on a Kenyan safari. You will have to learn his ways - surviving, hunting, making love... A thrilling mix of sci-fi with live action.

The thrilling climax to the trilogy that began with The Innocent and The Exiled brings Posie Graeme-Evans's bittersweet story of two lovers divided by the throne of England to its dramatic conclusion....

He who calls himself a Civilized Man, an Englishman - is he able to discipline his heart so as to distinguish oneself from a savage? That is the question - for Charles Dickens and for the wife of a go...

A not unlike John Updike critical look at the Americam middle class - spiced with some exotica.

In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under hi...

THE THREAT TO OUR FUTURE Moscow - a city under siege by hardcore Communists threatening to plunge the country back into Stalinist darkness. Into the heart of the firestorm, American ambassador Stephen...

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 ...

Англия, 1837 год. Когда королева Виктория начинает свое правление, Элиза Актон вносит последние штрихи в сборник стихов. Она мечтает, чтобы ее книга увидела свет, но своенравный издатель уверяет Элизу...