Blue in Chicago brings together the bittersweet short stories of the remarkable American writer Bette Howland. Hailed as a major talent before all but disappearing from public view, this tenderly compiled collection restores her vital voice to our shelves.Bette Howland was an outsider: an intellectual from a working-class neighborhood in Chicago; a divorcee and single mother, to the disapproval of her Jewish family; an artist chipped away at by poverty and self-doubt. Her stories radiate a passionate commitment to the lives of ordinary people and the humble grace of everyday.From city streets to the hospital to the public library to the mundane family outing, her sly humour, aching melancholy and tender insight illuminate every page. Here is an astonishing literary voice rediscovered.Blue in Chicago features an afterword by Honor Moore and was published in the US under the title Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage.

It’s January 1st and Brian Bilston’s life needs to change. His ex-wife has taken up with a new man, a motivational speaker and marketing guru to boot; he seems to constantly disappoint his long-suffering son; and at work he is drowning in a sea of spreadsheets and management jargon.Brian’s resolution is to write a poem every day; poetry will be his salvation. But there is an obstacle to his happiness in the form of Toby Salt, his arch nemesis in the Poetry Group and rival suitor to Liz, Brian’s new poetic inspiration. When Toby goes missing, Brian is the number one suspect.Part tender love story, part suburban murder mystery, part scathing description of a wasted life, and interspersed with some of the funniest poems about the mundane and the profound, Diary of a Somebody is a unique, original and hilarious novel.

Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded with a man she doesn’t love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. She spends her days in isolated tedium and her nights in a blur of vodka and self-recrimination. Until, early one morning, she sees a shadow drifting up the beach below her house. It is Luther Fox, an outcast, a man on the run from his own past. And now here he is stepping into Georgie’s life. He brings hope, maybe even love, but also danger…

Книга «Give Me Your Hand». Издательство: Picador. Год выпуска: 2019. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 342. Автор: Abbott Megan. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

From the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles comes Elizabeth Jane Howard’s Love All.The late 1960s. For Persephone Plover, the daughter of distant and neglectful parents, the innocent, isolated days of childhood are long past. Now she must deal with the emotions of an adult world…Meanwhile in Melton, in the West Country, Jack Curtis — a self-made millionaire — has employed Persephone’s aunt, a garden designer in her sixties, to deal with the terraces and glasshouses of the once beautiful local manor house he has acquired at vast expense. He also has plans to start an arts festival, as a means to avoid the loneliness of the recently divorced.Also in Melton are the Musgrove siblings, Thomas and Mary, whose parents originally owned and lived in Melton House. They are still trying to cope with emotional consequences of the tragic death of Thomas’s wife, Celia… as is Francis, Celia’s brother, who has come to live with them and thereby, perhaps, to find his way through life.

The first step was learning to read, but if she really wants to turn her life around, Maggsie is going to have to trust other people — and that might just be the hardest lesson she’s ever faced…Small and dyslexic, with a short fuse, bad teeth, a prison record and something to prove, Marguerite McNaughton — Maggsie — doesn’t need anybody or anything, thank you very much. She’s more than capable of looking after herself.She’s also about to discover that everyone needs someone, sometimes.Even her.The thing about trusting others, though, is that not everyone is trustworthy…It starts when a fellow inmate gives Maggsie reading lessons. Then she’s offered a job in London as a kitchen assistant, together with supported accommodation and a colleague who seems determined to befriend Maggsie, no matter what.At first, Maggsie is convinced nothing will change.Especially her.But maybe this time can be different? Maybe Maggsie can be different — if she can just put her previous mistakes behind her and her trust in the right people.

Henry, Lee, Kip and Ronny grew up together in rural Wisconsin. Friends since childhood, their lives all began the same way, but have since taken different paths. Henry stayed on the family farm and married his first love, whilst the others left in search of something more. Ronnie became a rodeo star, Kip made his fortune in the city, and musician Lee found fame — but heartbreak, too.Now all four are back in town for a wedding, each of them hoping to recapture their old closeness but unable to escape how much has changed. Amid the happiness of reunion and celebration, old rivalries resurface and a wife’s secret threatens to tear both a marriage and a friendship apart . . .This is a novel about the things that matter — love and loyalty, the power of music and the beauty of nature — told in a uniquely beautiful, warm-hearted and profound way and exploring the age-old question of whether we can ever truly come home.

Set in the author’s native Belfast, the ten stories in Sweet Home lay bare the heartbreak and quiet tragedies that run under the surface of everyday lives. A lonely woman is fascinated by her niqab-wearingneighbours; a middle-aged teacher becomes obsessed with a young Gaelic football player; and an employer covers for his two employees caught having sex in a public toilet.Wendy Erskine offers perfectly formed, brilliantly observed portraits of people trying to carve out a life for themselves, all the while being buffeted by the loss, grief and regret that come their way. Warm, compassionate and funny, Sweet Home captures life in contemporary East Belfast, in all of its forms.

At dusk on a November evening in 2020 a woman slips out of her garden gate and turns up the hill. Kate is in the middle of two weeks of isolation, but she just can’t take it any more — the closeness of the air in her small house, the confinement. And anyway, the moor will be deserted at this time. Nobody need ever know.But Kate’s neighbour Alice sees her leaving and Matt, Kate’s son, soon realizes she’s missing. And Kate, who planned only a quick solitary walk — a breath of open air — falls and badly injures herself. What began as a furtive walk has turned into a mountain-rescue operation . . .Unbearably suspenseful, witty and wise, The Fell asks probing questions about the place the world has become since March 2020, and the place it was before. This novel is a story about compassion and kindness and what we must do to survive.

Fierce and lyrical, The Shepherd’s Hut by Tim Winton is a story of survival, solitude and unlikely friendship. Most of all it is about what it takes to keep hope alive in a parched and brutal world.For years Jaxie Clackton has dreaded going home. His beloved mum is dead, and he wishes his dad was too, until one terrible moment leaves his life stripped to nothing. No one ever told Jaxie Clackton to be careful what he wishes for.And so Jaxie runs. There’s just one person in the world who understands him, but to reach her he’ll have to cross the vast saltlands of Western Australia. It is a place that harbours criminals and threatens to kill those who haven’t reckoned with its hot, waterless vastness. This is a journey only a dreamer — or a fugitive — would attempt.

Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Cole and Linda Porter, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos — all are summer guests of Gerald and Sara Murphy. Visionary, misunderstood, and from vastly different backgrounds, the Murphys met and married young, and set forth to create a beautiful world. They alight on Villa America: their coastal oasis of artistic genius, debauched parties, impeccable style and flamboyant imagination. But before long, a stranger enters into their relationship, and their marriage must accommodate an intensity that neither had forseen. When tragedy strikes, their friends reach out to them, but the golden bowl is shattered, and neither Gerald nor Sara will ever be the same.Ravishing, heart-breaking, and written with enviable poise, Villa America delivers on all the promise of Liza Klaussmann’s bestselling debut, Tigers in Red Weather. It is an overwhelming, unforgettable novel.

Buildings are driven by human emotions and desires; hope, power, money, sex, the idea of home.In Why We Build Rowan Moore explores the making of buildings from conception to inhabitation and reveals the paradoxical power of architecture: it looks fixed and solid, but is always changing in response to the lives around it.Moving across the globe and through history, through works of folly, beauty, spectacle, and subtlety, Moore gives a provocative and iconoclastic view of what makes architecture, why it matters, and why we find it fascinating. You will never look at a building in the same way again.

It was always the same nightmare. Cross saw them lined up in rows, in stretches of city wasteland — those derelict spaces once described to him by a child as the blank bits where things had been before they’d got blown up.It is 1985 and a killer moves through Belfast’s blighted streets. In a time and place ruled and divided by political and religious differences, this series of crimes cuts across all those boundaries. Detective Inspector Cross, together with Westerby, a young policewoman, enters a maze of conspiracy and paranoia, and, as the investigation draws closer to the truth, they find themselves in a nightmare world, with little hope of escape.The Psalm Killer is Chris Petit’s epic thriller set during the Irish Troubles. Masterfully written, disturbing and exciting, it is a book of immense intelligence and a real classic of its genre.

Start the journey here and you will be hookedDr Ruth Galloway is called in when a child’s bones are discovered near the site of a prehistoric henge on the north Norfolk salt marshes. Are they the remains of a local girl who disappeared ten years earlier — or are the bones much older?DCI Harry Nelson refuses to give up the hunt for the missing girl. Since she vanished, someone has been sending him bizarre anonymous notes about ritual sacrifice, quoting Shakespeare and the Bible. He knows that Ruth’s expertise and experience could help him finally to put this case to rest.But when a second child goes missing, Ruth finds herself in danger from a killer who knows she’s getting ever closer to the truth…

Наиболее известной работой Александры Бракен является её серия бестселлеров New York Times «Тёмные отражения». В новом, столь же известном, цикле «Пассажирка» ее основной темой становятся путешествия — как в пространство и время, так и в глубины человеческой души.Нью-Йорк, наши дни. За одну ночь Этта Спенсер оказывается оторванной от всего, что она знала и любила. Оказавшись в незнакомом мире, она может быть уверена только в одном: она удалилась не просто на мили, а на годы от дома.Атлантика, 1776 год. Капитану Николасу Картеру поручено доставить Этту к опасному семейству Айронвудов. Они что–то ищут — украденный предмет, который, по их мнению, может вернуть только она. Николаса тянет к своей таинственной пассажирке, и чем ближе он к ней, тем дальше от свободы.На краю света. Вместе Этта и Николас отправляются в опасное путешествие по векам и континентам, собирая воедино улики, оставленные отчаявшимся вором. По мере того, как Этта все глубже втягивается в игру Айронвудов, коварные силы угрожают разлучить ее не только с Николасом, но и с ее дорогой домой – навсегда.«Пассажирка» Александры Бракен — 1-я часть одноименного цикла (за ней следует «Странник), пронзительный научно-фантастический роман о любви и времени.Книга на английском языке.

She’s accused of four murders. She’s only guilty of three…When Ruby was a child growing up in Miami, she saw a boy from her school struggling against the ocean waves while his parents were preoccupied. Instead of helping him, Ruby dove under the water and held his ankle down until he drowned. She waited to feel guilty for it, but she never did.And, as Ruby will argue in her senior thesis while studying psychology at Yale, guilt is sort of like eating ice cream while on a diet — if you’re already feeling bad, why not eat the whole carton? And so, the bodies start to stack up.Twenty-five years later, Ruby’s in an interrogation room under suspicion of murder, being shown four photographs. Each is a person she once knew, now deceased. The line-up includes her husband Jason. She is responsible for three of the four deaths… but it might be the crime that she didn’t commit that will finally ensnare her.

‘When you come to the house, you will hear strange tales. They will tell you in the village that it is haunted, but you must not be afraid. When the time comes … you will know what to do.’Mr Blunden’s words echoed through Lucy’s ears as she explored the house. It was such an old house that it seemed to Lucy as if all the past was gathered up inside it as if in a great box; as though it had a life of its own that continued to exist just beyond the reach of her eyes and ears. Did Mr Blunden, who went out of his way to offer their mother the job as caretaker, mean to help or hurt them? Could she and her brother Jamie really help those troubled ghosts from another age?

Книга «And So It Begins». Издательство: Wildfire. Год выпуска: 2019. Серия: A Stephanie King Thriller. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 416. Автор: Abbott Rachel. Стандарт: 10. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

Writing on everything from a defence of suburban life and moderate politics to big ideas and pop culture, Daniel Finkelstein is one of the UK’s most entertaining and widely read columnists.This collection brings together Finkelstein’s greatest writings from The Times, ranging from the personal – with his articles on growing up Jewish in Hendon Central and on the deaths of both of his parents – to the political, with columns on how to predict elections, the way political science showed us Ed Miliband was on his way to defeat, and why the base rate of coups meant Jeremy Corbyn wouldn’t be ousted before an election.Wry, informed and often brilliantly funny, these pieces zip between Walt Disney, Hilary Clinton, David Bowie, Margaret Thatcher, Clement Attlee and Muhammed Ali. They make arguments about football, assisted dying, the art of becoming Prime Minister and the musical Hamilton. Cutting through the chatter to get to the centre of politics and culture, this varied and stimulating book gives an eclectic insight into the biggest conversations of the modern day. Everything is here. In moderation of course.

Книга «Her Royal Spyness». Издательство: Constable. Год выпуска: 2016. Серия: Royal Spyness. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 310. Автор: Bowen Rhys. Стандарт: 10. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

Книга «Reptile Memoirs». Издательство: Grove Press. Год выпуска: 2022. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 394. Автор: Ulstein Silje. Стандарт: 10. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

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Книга «Бумага цв.двухст.16л. 8цв,Электроник,ЦБ168454». Издательство: ЛИСТОЧЕК. Год выпуска: 2025. Серия: Бумага цветная. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Стандарт: 50. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Россия.

Книга «Почему культура постоянной занятости и заботы о себе делает нас тревожными, напряженными (6517)». Издательство: ИГ «Весь». Год выпуска: 2025. Серия: Психология. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 320. Автор: Фридман-Даймонд Паула. Стандарт: 10. Возрастная категория: 16+. Формат, ммсм: 140×208.