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Жанр "Исторические романы на английском языке"
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One of the most acclaimed novels of recent times, The Underground Man is the fictionalised diary of a deeply eccentric English...
And the black man and the white were like two men alone in the world ….
Xuma will never forget the day he arrived in the...
1948: Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the...
A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro’s beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a...
Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where...
Alexandria, Egypt. Trams, palm trees and watermelon stalls lie honey-bathed in sunlight; in darkened bedrooms, sweaty lovers...
1985: twenty-two year old Ananda is a student adrift in Thatcher’s Britain, homesick and isolated. His eccentric uncle, Radhesh,...
India, 1975. An unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency. Amidst a backdrop of wild...
A young Italian scholar is captured by pirates between Venice and Naples. After being put up for auction at the Istanbul slave...
The Romans have long since departed, and Britain is steadily declining into ruin.
The Buried Giant begins as a couple, Axl...
One of the most vivid and realised characters of recent fiction, Willie Dunne is the innocent hero of Sebastian Barry’s highly...
Blackpool, 1938. Miss Margaret Finch - a rather demure young woman - has just begun work in a position that relies on her...
He handed the easel to the boatman, reaching down the pier wall towards the sea.
Mr Lloyd has decided to travel to the island...
George and Serena Pemberton arrive in the wilds of the North Carolina mountains to build a life together in a rural logging town....
After years away from her family, Maya Haque is on the journey home to Dhaka. But what if, as Maya discovers, everything you once...
There is no such thing as history, you see. It's a dream, perhaps even a dream of a dream…
Walter Benjamin is dead. One of the...
Zubaida is on a journey to unearth the past. It will lead her from the corridors of Harvard to the scorching deserts of Pakistan,...
Thirteen-year-old Tom Curdie, the product of a Glasgow slum, is on probation for theft. His teachers admit that he is clever, but...
In 1788 Daniel Rooke sets out on a journey that will change the course of his life. As a lieutenant in the First Fleet, he lands...
Three journeys. One road.
England, 1348. A gentlewoman flees an odious arranged marriage, a proctor sets out for a monastery in...
‘His face made a fist at the world. The twined remnant of umbilicus projected vulnerably. Hands, feet and prick. He had come...
In this dazzling collection, Nam Le takes us across the globe as he enters the hearts and minds of characters from all over the...
In the shadow of a war that rages through Europe, brothers Calum and Neil work to gather pine cones in the grounds of a Scottish...
Spring, 1971, East Pakistan. Rehana Haque is throwing a party for her beloved children, Sohail and Maya. Her young family is...
Word has come. King Lear is dead. His three daughters too, broken in battle. But someone has survived: Lear’s queen.
Though her...
A woman’s life, erupting with brilliance and promise, is fissured by betrayal and the pressures of duty. What had once seemed a...
Animalia retraces the history of a modest peasant family through the twentieth century as they develop their small plot of land...
Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction from the author of ‘Wonder Boys’, ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay’ is a...
Hull, 1856.
James Ripley and his wife Moira have always looked out for the poor of Hull. When, during one stormy night, there...
Unwanted and unloved, fourteen-year-old Marie Anne Lawson is everything her mother doesn't want her to be - adventurous,...
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