Жанр "Художественная литература на английском языке"

When the Department - faded since the war and busy only with bureaucratic battles - hears rumour of a missile base near the West...

After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus...

Here's the thing about being Inside. Ain't no one believes that they are.

Ele has never been Outside, but she knows it exists...

In 1958, Sylvia Blackwell, fresh from one of the new post-war Library Schools, takes up a job as children's librarian in a run...

Charlie Calloway has a life most people would kill for - a tight-knit family, a loyal set of friends, and top grades at a...

'I always wanted to be friends with both my sisters. Perhaps that was the source, really, of all the troubles of my...

When Lana goes missing for four desperate days and returns refusing to speak of what happened, Jen fears the very worst. She...

Captain Lannec has finally managed to buy his own ship with the financial help of his in-laws, the Pitards - and they've never...

Aldo Cassidy is a cautious man. He has a pleasant family, drives a safe, expensive car and wears luxurious clothes. But his...

An illegal Muslim immigrant arrives in Hamburg with a traumatic past and the key to a fortune held in a private bank. He says his...

A classic slice of Southern Gothic, shot through with psychological suspense - now the basis for Sofia Coppola's highly...

Drawing on George Eliot's own childhood experiences to craft an unforgettable story of first love, sibling rivalry and regret,...

Oscar Wilde's alluring novel of decadence and sin was a succes de scandale on publication. It follows Dorian Gray who, enthralled...

Three men trek to the remote African interior in search of a lost friend - and reach, at the end of a perilous journey, an...

A new translation of Simenon's gripping novel about lives transformed by deceit and the destructive power of lust.

It was all...

'...revealing great shining fangs more than three inches long.'

Some of the most macabre and wonderful of all Chinese stories,...

A moving nineteenth-century account - lost for many decades - of a Chinese official's all-consuming love for his wife.

'Our...

Poor Cecile! And yet she was still young. Maigret had seen her papers: barely twenty-eight years old. But it would be difficult...

'Yes, bastard, you're the one I love'

A pair of lovers - a young female journalist and an older man who owns an isolated farm...

'I felt the powerful strength of my family overrunning me like a heavy rush of water'

For Andre, a young man growing up on a...

This selection of John Donne's most powerful prose shows that the man remembered predominantly for his poetry was also a...

It had a smell of holidays. The previous evening, in Cannes harbour, with the setting sun, had also had the smell of holidays,...

As usual with the Sherlock Holmes stories it is very hard to say which are the best - but there are many stories here which would...

Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work...

Jane Austen's brilliant, hilarious - and often outrageous - early stories, sketches and pieces of nonsense.

Jane Austen's...

A novel of the friendships and woes of two couples, which tells the story of their lives in lyrical, evocative prose by one of...

A man picked up for wandering in obvious distress among the cars and buses on the Grands Boulevards. Questioned in French, he...

She wasn't an ordinary supplicant. She didn't lower her eyes. There was nothing humble about her bearing. She spoke frankly,...

Maigret savoured the sensations of his youth again: the cold, stinging eyes, frozen fingertips, an aftertaste of coffee. Then,...

The Pearl is Steinbeck's flawless parable about wealth and the evil it can bring. When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the...