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Издательство "Abacus"
Издательство "Abacus"
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When Polly and Theo Noble book the Casa Luna, near Cortona, for their summer holiday they plan a civilised Anglo-American...
The year is 1929 and Honora Beecher and her husband, Sexton, are just settling into a new marriage and a cottage on the coast of...
According to Queeney is a masterly evocation of the last years of Dr Johnson, arguably Britain’s greatest Man of Letters. The...
Marigold Green calls herself 'hideous, quaint and barmy'. Other people calle her Bilgewater, a corruption of Bill's daughter....
Set 100 years ago in Boston, Fortune's Rocks is a classic of literary and romantic storytelling.
Fourteen-year-old Olympic...
The murder of a media moghul in his country mansion appears to be the result of him disturbing a gang of would-be thieves. The...
Marnus is terrified he will not fulfil the expectations of his elite Afrikaner family who are certain of their superiority. But...
Sir Alfred Munnings, retiring President of the Royal Academy, chooses the 1949 Annual Banquet to launch a savage attack on Modern...
As the wife of a Resistance member in German-occupied Belgium, Claire Daussois has grown used to hiding strange men in her attic....
A wonderful bittersweet story about a misguided do-gooder
Eliza Peabody is one of those dangerously blameless women who...
For gauche young apprentice Milos Hrma, life at the small but strategic railway station in Bohemia in 1945 is full of complex...
Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat told with bristling tenderness and black humour the stories of that Titan of the Hong...
Atlanta, 1948. In this city, all crime is black and white.
On one side of the tracks are the rich, white neighbourhoods; on...
Feckless, unwashed, charming, penurious Sebastian Balfe Dangerfield, Trinity College Law student, Irish American with an English...
Throughout her career, prize-winning novelist Jane Gardam has been writing glorious short stories, each one hallmarked with all...
She was found hanging in a dingy London bedsit with a blood orange in her mouth. Diane Heybridge, a young woman without a past or...
On a Tuesday in May, in her thirty-fifth year, Rachel shot her husband dead. He stumbled backward with an odd look of...
Sam Morpeth is growing up way too fast, left to fend for a younger sister when their mother goes to prison and watching her...
'Beyond the fact that it was, in face of a vivid and calamitous ending, to reveal from his own experience the ardent splendours...
The barren, beautiful Cumbrian fells provide the bewitching setting for the adventures of Bill and Harry, two children who find...
The seventy-fifth anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Anthony Quinn.
London, 1939, and in the grimy publands of...
A funny, dark and moving novel about London, the end of the 1970s, and the end of an era, from the masterful author of Curtain...
During one glorious summer between the wars, the realities of life and the sexual ritual dance of the adult world creep into the...
Anointed as the chosen one when just a young shepherd boy, David will rise to be king, grasping the throne and establishing his...
Welcome to Corduroy Mansions in Pimlico: a temple of Arts and Crafts architecture, with comforting, weathered brickwork and...
Ernest Ralph Gorse's heartlessness and lack of scruple are matched only by the inventiveness and panache with which he swindles...
The night before Janie's sister, Hannah, is born, her grandmother tells her a story: Since the Japanese occupation of Korea,...
On Such A Full Sea takes Chang-rae Lee's elegance of prose, his masterly storytelling, and his long-standing interests in...
In the latest entertaining and hilarious Professor Dr Dr Moritz-Maria Von Igelfeld novel, our hopelessly out-of-touch hero is...
'I ought to tell you at the beginning that I am not quite normal having had a violent experience at the age of nine'
Jessica...
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