Жанр "Современная зарубежная литература на английском"

It is 1862 and Japan is a land in chaos as the power of the Shogun wanes and the rival factions plan to restore the Emperor. In...

This is James Clavell's tour-de-force; an epic saga of one Pilot-Major John Blackthorne, and his integration into the struggles...

Fourteen years after her last adventure, Thursday Next, literary detective, finds herself in an unusual situation her job...

Over one hundred years have passed since Dirk Struan founded Hong Kong’s oldest trading company. But now, the Noble House is in...

Set in Changi, the most notorious prisoner of war camp in Asia, King Rat is an heroic story of survival told by a master...

Emmy Carter's mother is a prostitute - and her life has made Emmy determined to avoid the same fate. But Emmy is beautiful, so...

At eighteen Cathie longs for more than life as a settler in the Australian bush. She accepts her uncle's offer to send her to...

Seventeen-year-old Liza is happy working as a lady's maid - until her employers decide to emigrate and her father makes up his...

Thursday Next, literary detective and newlywed is back to embark on an adventure that begins, quite literally on her own...

Rachel Smedling is not like the other women in her isolated Pennine village: she is taller, stronger and weaves cloth like a man....

When Mattie Harris's body is found drowned in the river, everyone in Lydmouth knows something is wrong. Mattie wasn't a swimmer -...

Lizzie Kershaw is an independent spirit; ever since her father's death she has had to be a survivor.

She makes an ill-advised...

At the dawn of the Enlightenment, James Dyer is born unable to feel pain. A source of wonder and scientific curiosity as a child,...

In 1789 in Sydney Cove, the remotest penal colony of the British Empire, a group of convicts and one of their captors unite to...

The 14th century tale of Scotland's hero, Robert the Bruce.

This trilogy tells the story of Robert the Bruce and how, tutored...

The great Zhaon empire is in turmoil. The emperor is dead, and the crown prince has fallen to hidden schemes, leaving his most...

The doctors and nurses who worked in the Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals (Mash) during the Kroean War were well trained,...

Father Salvatore was a simple, lumbering priest, a kappillan serving the poor Valetta, when war came out of the blue skies to...

1996: in a Ugandan dive bar, the 'freight dogs' gather. An anarchic group of mercenary pilots from Texas, Russia, Kenya and...

On a beautifully restored barge on the Seine, Jean Perdu runs a bookshop; or rather a 'literary apothecary', for this bookseller...

Measuring the World recreates the parallel but contrasting lives of two geniuses of the German Enlightenment - the naturalist and...

Cowan's beautifully drawn, multi award-winning first novel of love in the hostile climate of modern British society

When his...

Bestselling author Laline Paull returns with an immersive and transformative new novel of an ocean world - its extraordinary...

With GLOW, Ned Beauman has reinvented the international conspiracy thriller for a new generation.

A hostage exchange outside a...

York, 1799.

In August, an artist is found murdered in his home - stabbed with a pair of scissors. Matthew Harvey's death is...

Roma is the story of the ancient city of Rome, from its mythic beginnings as a campsite along a trade route to its emergence as...

Welcome to a world where every desire is visible, rising from the body as a plume of Smoke. A world where bodies speak to one...

Thomas Paine Kydd, a young wig-maker from Guildford, is seized by the press gang, to be a part of the crew of the 98-gun...

Warleader
Autumn 1192. With Jerusalem still in the Saracens' hands, and a peace treaty agreed with their leader Saladin, Richard...

It is known as the Discworld. It is a flat planet, supported on the backs of four elephants, who in turn stand on the back of the...