grant linda a stranger city
Grant Linda A Stranger City
When a dead body is found in the Thames, caught in the chains of HMS Belfast, it begins a search for a missing woman and confirms a sense that in London a person can become invisible once outside their community - and that assumes they even have a community. A policeman, a documentary film-maker and an Irish nurse named Chrissie all respond to the death of the unknown woman in their own ways. London is a place of random meetings, shifting relationships - and some, like Chrissie intersect with many. The film-maker and the policeman meanwhile have safe homes with wives - or do they? An immigrant family speaks their own language only privately; they have managed to integrate - or have they? The wonderful Linda Grant weaves a tale around ideas of home; how London can be a place of exile or expulsion, how home can be a physical place or an idea. How all our lives intersect and how coincidence or the randomness of birth place can decide how we live and with whom.
2210 Руб.McDermid Val A Darker Domain
The second riveting crime novel in the Karen Pirie series, from No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Val McDermid. Twenty-five years ago, a woman and her baby son were kidnapped and held to ransom. Catriona Grant ended up dead and little Adam's fate has remained a mystery ever since. When a new clue is discovered in a deserted Tuscan villa – along with grisly evidence of a recent murder – cold case expert DI Karen Pirie is assigned to follow the trail. She's already working a case from the same year. During the Miners' Strike of 1984, pit worker Mick Prentice vanished. Where did he really go? And is there a link to the Grant mystery? The truth is stranger – and far darker – than fiction.
1685 Руб.Grant Linda The Dark Circle
All over Britain life is beginning again now the war is over but for Lenny and Miriam, East End London teenage twins who have been living on the edge of the law, life is suspended - they've contacted tuberculosis. It's away to the sanatorium - newly opened by the NHS - in deepest Kent for them where they will meet a very different world: among other patients, an aristocract, a young university grad, a mysterious German woman and an American merchant seaman with big ideas about love and rebellion. They are not the only ones whose lives will be changed forever.
1260 Руб.Stanley Amy Stranger in the Shogun's City. A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan
The daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in 1804 in a village in Japan's snow country and was expected to lead a life much like her mother's. Instead - after three divorces and with a temperament much too strong-willed for her family's approval - she ran away to follow her own path in Edo, the city we now call Tokyo. Stranger in the Shogun's City is a rare, captivating portrait of one woman as she endeavours to recreate herself and her life, and provides a window into the drama and excitement of Japan at a pivotal moment in history.
2605 Руб.McEwan Ian The Comfort Of Strangers
Rediscover the classic novel of love, violence and obsessions from Booker prize-winning Sunday Times bestselling author Ian McEwan. Colin and Mary are a couple whose intimacy knows no bounds. Away on a holiday together in a nameless city, they get lost one evening in a labyrinth of streets and canals. They happen upon Robert, a stranger with a dark history, who takes them to a bar and ushers them down into a subterranean land of violence and obsession.
1915 Руб.Allingham Margery, Grafton Sue, Brett Simon Crime Story Collection. Level 4 +CD
Pearson English Active Readers is perfect for classrooms and group reading, the additional exercises and mini-projects encourage a more structured, in-depth reading experience. All titles are supported by an interactive MP3 with extra activities, resources and complete audio recordings. The murder of a stranger or a relative, in a quiet English town or a crowded American city. Short stories by some of the finest modern crime writers. 17,833 words. British English.
2486 Руб.Виниловая пластинка No-Man, Together Were Stranger (0802644886510)
Лицензионное издание, выпущенное на виниле. Содержание: Together Were Stranger, All The Blue Changes, The City In A Hundred Ways, Things I Want To Tell You, Blue Coda, Photographs In Black And White Back When You Were Beautiful, The Break-Up For Real, The Break-Up For Real (Drum Mix)
3900 Руб.Виниловая пластинка No-Man, Together Were Stranger (0802644886510)
Лицензионное издание, выпущенное на виниле. Содержание: Together Were Stranger, All The Blue Changes, The City In A Hundred Ways, Things I Want To Tell You, Blue Coda, Photographs In Black And White Back When You Were Beautiful, The Break-Up For Real, The Break-Up For Real (Drum Mix)
4335 Руб.Eurythmics Виниловая пластинка Eurythmics Sweet Dreams
Состояние носителя: S. Состояние конверта: S. Sweet Dreams. Виниловая пластинка . A1 Love Is A Stranger A2 I've Got An Angel A3 Wrap It Up A4 I Could Give You (A Mirror) A5 The Walk B1 Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) B2 Jennifer B3 This Is The House B4 Somebody Told Me B5 This City Never Sleeps Тип носителя: Виниловая пластинка
5616 Руб.Mieville China The City & The City
When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he probes, the evidence begins to point to conspiracies far stranger, and more deadly, than anything he could have imagined. Soon his work puts him and those he cares for in danger. Borlu must travel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own, across a border like no other. With shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and 1984, the multi-award winning The City & The City by China Mieville is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.
3439 Руб.Виниловая пластинка The Shadows - Best Of (remastered) (180g) (1 LP)
Record Label: Vinyl PassionStyle: PopТреклист:Apache, Man of Mystery, The Stranger, F.b.i, Midnight, The Frightened City, Quatermasster's Stores, Back Home, Sleepwalk, Kon-tiki, 36-24-36, The Savage, Peace Pipe, Blue Star, See You in My Drums, Gonzales, Nivram, Find Me a Golden Street
7899 Руб.Mieville C. The City & The City
When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he probes, the evidence begins to point to conspiracies far stranger, and more deadly, than anything he could have imagined. Soon his work puts him and those he cares for in danger. Borlu must travel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own, across a border like no other. With shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and 1984, the multi-award winning The City & The City by China Mieville is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.
812 Руб.Mieville C. The City & The City
When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he probes, the evidence begins to point to conspiracies far stranger, and more deadly, than anything he could have imagined. Soon his work puts him and those he cares for in danger. Borlu must travel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own, across a border like no other. With shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and 1984, the multi-award winning The City & The City by China Mieville is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.
812 Руб.Grant Linda The Clothes On Their Backs
In a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents. Then one morning a glamorous uncle appears, dressed in a mohair suit, with a diamond watch on his wrist and a girl in a leopard-skin hat on his arm. Why is Uncle Sandor so violently unwelcome in her parents' home? This is a novel about survival - both banal and heroic - and a young woman who discovers the complications, even betrayals, that inevitably accompany the fierce desire to live. Set against the backdrop of a London from the 1950s to the present day, The Clothes on Their Backs is a wise and tender novel about the clothes we choose to wear, the personalities we dress ourselves in, and about how they define us all.
1182 Руб.Stevenson Robert Louis Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Strange Tales
".. losing hold of my original and better self, and becoming slowly incorporated with my second and worse." Victorian London is the setting for The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Stevenson's famous story of conflict between dual personalities: one good, and one ruthlessly evil. Other eerie tales in this volume are: The Body Snatcher (1881) inspired by the case of Burke and Hare; Markheim (1885) where a murderer meets a sinister smiling stranger; and The Bottle Imp (1893) in which an imp has the dubious power to grant the owner's every wish; also, The Weir ofHermiston (1896), an unfinished romance
503 Руб.Audio CD Azteca - Azteca / Pyramid Of The Moon (1 CD)
Azteca / Pyramid Of The MoonТреклист:1 La Piedra Del Sol, 2 Mamita Linda, 3 Ain’t Got No Special Woman, 4 Empty Prophet, 5 Can’t Take The Funk Out Of Me, 6 Peace Everybody, 7 Non Pacem, 8 Ah! Ah, 9 Love Not Then, 10 Azteca, 11 Theme: La Piedra Del Sol, 1 Someday We’ll Get By, 2 Mazatlan, 3 Find Love Today, 4 Whatcha Gonna Do, 5 New Day Is On The Rise, 6 Mexicana, Mexicana, 7 Red Onions, 8 Love Is A Stranger, 9 A Night In Nazca
11399 Руб.When a dead body is found in the Thames, caught in the chains of HMS Belfast, it begins a search for a missing woman and confirms a sense that in London a person can become invisible once outside their community - and that assumes they even have a community. A policeman, a documentary film-maker and an Irish nurse named Chrissie all respond to the death of the unknown woman in their own ways. London is a place of random meetings, shifting relationships - and some, like Chrissie intersect with many. The film-maker and the policeman meanwhile have safe homes with wives - or do they? An immigrant family speaks their own language only privately; they have managed to integrate - or have they? The wonderful Linda Grant weaves a tale around ideas of home; how London can be a place of exile or expulsion, how home can be a physical place or an idea. How all our lives intersect and how coincidence or the randomness of birth place can decide how we live and with whom.
