Жанр "Современная зарубежная литература на английском"

First published in 1962, a year after Revolutionary Road, this sublime collection of stories seems even more powerful today. Out...

John Wilder is in his mid-thirties, a successful salesman with a place in the country, an adoring wife and a ten-year-old son.But...

Evan Shepard is a young man with a chequered past when he first meets the Drakes, after his car breaks down outside their house....

At the heart of the Sultan's vast empire stands the mysterious Palace of Dreams. Inside, the dreams of every citizen are...

It all started with a silly prank, a play and a dance - a love so enduring, so indestructible that it would survive against all...

'Wickedly good' John Updike

In a small Southern town, shy teenager Evie Decker becomes obsessed with local rock singer Bertram...

There is an old saying that when lovers fall out, a plane goes down. This is the story of one such plane.
Why did a Hercules...

An eminent, ageing Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled Strong Opinions. For him, troubled by...

Returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman - incontinent and impotent - comes back to New York, the...

Willie Upton returns to her ancestral home of Templeton, New York after a disastrous affair with her married archaeology...

'I came fully equipped with the old prejudice that anything to do with Egypt involved corruption and deceit.'

AD 77. Egypt was...

‘What did he eat last? Whom did he eat, in fact?’

Lumbered with working alongside reptilian Chief Spy Anacrites, Falco has the...

‘The first concern of an author is to do down his colleagues.’

In the long, hot Roman summer of AD 74, Falco, private informer...

A frightened child approaches Roman informer Marcus Didius Falco, pleading for help. Nobody believes Gaia's story that a relation...

'The fountain was not working. Nothing unusual in that...'

Marcus Didius Falco and his laddish friend Petronius find their...

Nobody was poisoned at the dinner for the Society of Olive Oil Producers of Baetica, though in retrospect this was quite a...

Petronius Longus, captain of the Aventine watch and Falco's oldest friend, has finally nailed one of Rome's top criminals. Under...

AD 71, Germania Libera: dark dripping forests, inhabited by bloodthirsty barbarians and legendary wild beasts, a furious...

Things are going well for Marcus Didius Falco, ancient Rome's investigator: he hates sharing a cell with a rodent, although being...

Rome, AD 71: Against his better judgement, Marcus Didius Falco secretly disposes of a decayed corpse for the Emperor Vespasian,...

Marcus Didius Falco is a private informer, the closest thing that first-century Rome has to a detective.

A new emperor,...

Patterson... , Ledwidge...

A man who calls himself 'the Teacher' is devising a meticulous plan. Cold-hearted and cunning, he plans to teach New York a...

They came for his family. Now Detective Alex Cross is out for vengeance.

Cross is met with shocking news that his niece has...

A killer's trail leads Detective Alex Cross to Africa - and a whole new world of danger…

Detective Alex Cross is called to a...

The bestselling novel from the author of The Snakes, The Outcast is a powerful portrait of unexpected love and treacherous...

Seventeen-year-old Juno Marlowe has just waved off to war the two young men she has loved for the best part of her life when the...

It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in...

A panoramic new history of modern Britain, as told through the story of one extraordinary family, and one groundbreaking...

VIENNA, 1911. Greta Goldbaum has always dreamed of being free to choose her own life's path, but the Goldbaum family, one of the...

Boone Daniels is a laid-back kind of private investigator. He has sleuthing skills to burn but is rarely out of his boardshorts,...