Жанр "Современная зарубежная литература на английском"

Louise Hart has endured a great deal of pain from her callous husband Paul, but one cold December night in 1959 she can take no...

Jessie Sullivan has been married half her life, and has become accustomed to her role. But when she returns to the isolated...

It is 1948, and England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern Street, London, the conflict has only just begun. Queenie...

It's 1925 and when Renee McDarmount marries Walter Sutton, Carrie McDarmount is delighted, for the two families have always been...

Girl in Hyacinth Blue tells the story of an imaginary painting by Vermeer, and the aspirations and longings of those whose lives...

In 1831 Charles Darwin set off in HMS Beagle under the command of Captain Robert Fitzroy on a voyage that would change the world....

Cadiz, 1811. While the city is under siege from the marauding French army, an even greater menace is lurking within the city...

As a child, Devi befriends a young boy whose mother has died in tragic circumstances. Over the years, Devi and Devanna become...

Kingsley is fresh out of university, eager to find an engineering job so he can support his family and marry the girl of his...

When Elizabeth, a reclusive historian, is found drowned in a tributary of the River Cam, she is clutching a glass prism and has...

Julio Carrion Gonzalez, a man of tremendous wealth and influence in Madrid, has come home to be buried. But as the family stand...

Father Terry Dunn thought he'd seen everything on the mean streets of Detroit, but that was before he went on a little retreat to...

War in Cuba isn't Ben Tyler's concern. Still, sailing mares and guns into Havana harbor in 1898 - right past the submerged...

Jack Foley was busting out of Florida's Glades Prison when he ran head-on into Karen Sisco with a shotgun. Suddenly the...

Palm Beach playboy Chip Ganz needs money - fast. He has spiralling debts, and his mother's gravy-train has just derailed.

So...

Harry Arno runs a South Miami Beach gambling operation. To protect his position, he was forced to cut a deal with the local...

When someone delivers an alligator to Judge Bob Gibbs' porch, there's no shortage of suspects - hard-sentencing, womanising...

Vietnam veteran Vincent Majestyk had his belly-full of killing in Asia. It was his job and he was one of the best, but when he...

An extraordinary, beguiling bestselling tale of fly-fishing and political spinning, of unexpected heroism and late-blooming...

It's the spring of 1968, the sun shines down on an America on the brink of civil war. Martin Luther King preaches in vain for...

'When she rose in the morning the house at first seemed to be the same. The sun shone through the curtains of her window. On the...

It is a dream of electrifying eroticism and inexplicable violence, recounted by a young woman to her analyst, Sigmund Freud. It...

It's almost Christmas. Cecilia lies sick in bed as her family bustle around her to make her last Christmas as special as...

Summer at Fairacre charmingly recounts this bright, bustling season and the problems and possibilities that unfold against the...

'People in Fairacre simply won't stand for their children being uprooted, and carted away in buses like so many - er, so...

Clara Casey has more than enough on her plate. Her daughters are a handful and Clara, a senior cardiac specialist, has a new job...

Thrush Green is buzzing with gossip, which everyone is keen to share with two ex-schoolteachers, who have returned to visit their...

When Miss Read took early retirement, she anticipated days of relaxation and calm. She couldn't have been more wrong! Instead she...

Charles Henstock, vicar of Thrush Green is living in his new vicarage after the old one burned down. In its place, eight...

Charles Henstock, rector of Thrush Green, has difficulty living up to his predecessor when he moves to the parish of Lulling. He...