“The Ebony Tower. Eliduc. The Enigma”
Джон Фаулз – один из крупных британских прозаиков, произведения которого за два последних десятилетия завоевали популярность в Англии и за ее пределами. Он пишет о нерасторжимой связи жизни и искусства (“Башня из черного дерева”), о любви, победившей предрассудки времени (“Элидюк”), сатирически рисует нравы английской буржуазной верхушки (“Загадка”). Издание сопровождается вступительной статьей и комментариями к тексту, […]
“The End of Days”
Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Hans Fallada Prize, The End of Days, by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consists essentially of five “books,” each leading to a different death of the same unnamed female protagonist. How could it all have gone differently?―the narrator asks in the intermezzos. The first chapter […]
“The End of Mr. Y”
A cursed book. A missing professor. Some nefarious men in gray suits. And a dreamworld called the Troposphere? Ariel Manto has a fascination with nineteenth-century scientists—especially Thomas Lumas and The End of Mr. Y, a book no one alive has read. When she mysteriously uncovers a copy at a used bookstore, Ariel is launched into […]
“The Fall of Gondolin”
Edited by Christopher Tolkien With illustrations by Alan Lee In the Tale of The Fall of Gondolin are two of the greatest powers in the world. There is Morgoth of the uttermost evil, unseen in this story but ruling over a vast military power from his fortress of Angband. Deeply opposed to Morgoth is Ulmo, […]
“The Fallen”
Amos Decker, David Baldacci’s unique special agent with the gift of a remarkable memory, returns in The Fallen. Small towns which have seen better times are not unusual. But the mysterious events in Baronville, Pennsylvania, are raising the highly-tuned antennae of agent Amos Decker and his FBI partner, Alex Jamison. What was supposed to be […]
“The Final Days”
Evil plays a deadly game. A dark, chilling and brilliantly written thriller set in the canyon lands of Utah. It started with a child’s letter: o god help me hes going to hurt me if you don’t do what he says. San Francisco psychologist Karen Wiley thought she understood moral dilemma; a tormented past, a […]
“The Fire”
Katherine Neville´s debut novel, The Eight, dazzled audiences and paved the way for the era of such epic thrillers as The Da Vinci Code. Now the electrifying tale of the mystical chess set that once belonged to Charlemagne continues. 2003, Colorado: Alexandra Solarin is summoned to her family´s Rocky Mountain hideaway for her mother´s birthday. […]
“The Flood”
President Bliss is handling a tricky situation with customary brio, but after months of ceaseless rain the city is sinking under the floods. The rich are safe on high ground, but the poor are getting damper in their packed tower blocks, and the fanatical ‘Last Days’ sect is recruiting thousands. When at last the sun […]
“The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets´ Nest”
Salander is plotting her revenge – against the man who tried to kill her, and against the government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. But it is not going to be a straightforward campaign. After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in Intensive Care, and is set to face […]
“The Girl who Played with Fire”
Part blistering espionage thriller, part riveting police procedural, and part piercing exposé on social injustice, The Girl Who Played with Fire is a masterful, endlessly satisfying novel. Mikael Blomkvist, crusading publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation. On the eve of its publication, […]
“The God Effect. Quantum Entanglement, Science’s Strangest Phenomenon”
What is entanglement? It’s a connection between quantum particles, the building blocks of the universe. Once two particles are entangled, a change to one of them is reflected – instantly – in the other, be they in the same lab or light-years apart. So counterintuitive is this phenomenon and its implications that Einstein himself called […]
“The Hobbit”
Illustrated by Alan Lee A great modern classic and the prelude to The Lord of the Rings Smaug certainly looked fast asleep, when Bilbo peeped once more from the entrance. He was just about to step out onto the floor when he caught a sudden thin ray of red from under the drooping lid of […]
“The host”
Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of human hosts while leaving their bodies intact. Wanderer, the invading “soul” who has been given Melanie’s body, didn’t expect to find its former tenant refusing to relinquish possession of her mind. As Melanie fills Wanderer’s […]
“The Housekeeper and the Professor”
“How exactly does a man live with only eighty minutes of memory?! He is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem – ever since a traumatic head injury seventeen years ago, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is a sensitive but astute young housekeeper who is entrusted to take […]
“The Last Coin. The Paper Grail. All the Bells on Earth”
Introduction from the Encyclopedia of Sience Fiction From the vaults of The SF Gateway, the most comprehensive digital library of classic SFF titles ever assembled, comes an ideal introduction to two-time World Fantasy Award-winner James P. Blaylock, one of modern fantasy´s most unique voices. Mentored by Philip K. Dick, james P. Blaylock is best known […]
“The Letter for the King”
One of the King’s most trusted knights has vanished in the snow, so young Sir Tiuri and his best friend Piak must journey into the shadowy heart of the forest to find him. The Wild Wood is a place of mysteries, rumours and whispered tales. A place of lost cities, ancient curses, robbers, princesses and […]
“The Little Stranger”
One postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country physician, is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once impressive and handsome, is now […]
“The Madman’s Tale”
Twenty years later, Francis Petrel, once a patient at the hospital, writes his account of the events of the murder and its investigation on the walls of his tiny apartment. As he goes deeper and deeper into his story, he plunges further into the return of his own madness. He remembers how he is co-opted […]
“The Making of the Representative for Planet 8”
The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 is the fourth volume in Doris Lessing´s celebrated space fiction series, “Canopus in Argos: Archives”. In this interlinked quintet of novels, she creates a new, extraordinary cosmos where the fate of the Earth is influenced by the rivalries and interactions on three powerful galactic empires, Canopus, Sirius […]
“The Makioka Sisters”
“Until the cherries came again the following year, they could close their eyes and see again the colour and line of a trailing brench”. Tanizaki’s masterpiece is the story of four sisters, and the declining fortunes of a traditional Japanese family. It is a loving and nostalgic recreation of the sumptuous, intricate upper-class life of […]
