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A Bend in the River

Aleksandr Malyshev — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:49:34 +0000

Книга «A Bend in the River». Издательство: Picador. Год выпуска: 2020. Серия: Picador Classic. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 326. Автор: Naipaul V S. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor

Aleksandr Malyshev — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 05:03:56 +0000

1930s King’s Cross, London.When aspiring film actress Estella Lamare is found dead on the cutting-room floor of a London film studio, Cameron McCabe finds himself at the centre of a police investigation. There are multiple suspects, multiple confessors and, as more people around him die, McCabe begins to perform his own amateur sleuth-work, followed doggedly by the mysterious Inspector Smith.But then, abruptly, McCabe’s account ends…Who is Cameron McCabe? Is he victim? Murderer? Novelist? Joker?And if not McCabe, who is the author of The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor?

The Psalm Killer

Aleksandr Malyshev — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 04:59:41 +0000

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.

The South

Aleksandr Malyshev — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 04:57:38 +0000

A classic work of Irish literature, this award-winning novel is an exploration of love, art and identity.This was the night train to Barcelona, some hours before the dawn. This was 1950, late September. I had left my husband. I had left my home.Katherine Proctor has dared to leave her family in Ireland and reach out for a new life. Determined to become an artist, she flees to Spain, where she meets Miguel, a passionate man who has fought for his own freedoms. They retreat to the quiet intensity of the mountains and begin to build a life together. But as Miguel’s past catches up with him, Katherine too is forced to re-examine her relationships: with her lover, her painting and the homeland she only thought she knew…The South is the book that introduced readers to the astonishing gifts of Colm Toibin, winning the Irish Times First Fiction Award in 1991. Arrestingly visual and enduringly atmospheric, it is a classic novel of art, sacrifice, and courage.

Unreliable Memoirs

Aleksandr Malyshev — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 04:55:14 +0000

Told with Clive James’s unassailable sense of humour and self-effacing charm, Unreliable Memoirs is a hilarious and touching introduction to the story of a national treasure. A million-copy bestseller, this classic memoir is a celebration of life in all its unpredictable glory.With an introduction by political satirist and journalist P. J. O’Rourke.I was born in 1939. The other big event of that year was the outbreak of the Second World War, but for the moment that did not affect me.In the first instalment of James’s memoirs we follow the young Clive on his journey from boyhood to the cusp of manhood, when his days of wearing short trousers are finally behind him. Battling with school, girls, various relatives and an overwhelming desire to be a superhero, Clive’s adventures growing up in the suburbs of post-war Sydney are hair-raising, uproarious and almost too good to be true…