The house of stairs, Vine Barbara

Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: The Blood Doctor
ISBN: 1400032520 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781400032525
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 9810.00 T
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Описание: Sometimes it's best to leave the past alone. For when biographer Martin Nanther looks into the life of his famous great-grandfather Henry, Queen Victoria's favorite physician, he discovers some rather unsettling coincidences, like the fact that the doctor married the sister of his recently murdered fiancee. The more Martin researches his distant relative, the more fascinated--and horrified--he becomes. Why did people have a habit of dying around his great grandfather? And what did his late daughter mean when she wrote that he's done "monstrous, quite appalling things"?

Barbara Vine (a.k.a. Ruth Rendell) deftly weaves this story of an eminent Victorian with a modern yarn about the embattled biographer, who is watching the House of Lords prepare to annul membership for hereditary peers and thus strip him of his position. Themes of fate and family snake throughout this teasing psychological suspense, a typically chilling tale from a master of the genre.

Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: Grasshopper
ISBN: 0375726500 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375726507
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 8020.00 T
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Описание: They have sent me here because of what happened on the pylon.
When Clodagh Brown writes these words at the age of nineteen, she believes that she is leaving behind the traumatic events of her youth. But Clodagh soon learns that you can never entirely escape your past.

In the aftermath of the incident on the pylon--one of the great electrified structures that dot the English countryside like so many gargantuan grasshoppers--Clodagh goes off to university, moves into a basement flat arranged by her unsympathetic family, and finds freedom trekking across London's rooftops with a gang of neighborhood misfits. As she begins a thrilling relationship with a fellow climber, however, both Clodagh and the reader are haunted by the memory of the pylon and of the terrible thing that happened there--and by the eerie sense that another tragedy is just a footfall away.

Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: Asta`s Book
ISBN: 0141040459 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141040455
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 16710.00 T
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Описание: It is 1905. Asta and her husband Rasmus have come to East London from Denmark with their two little boys. With Rasmus constantly away on business, Asta keeps loneliness and isolation at bay by writing a diary. These diaries, published over seventy years later, reveal themselves to be more than a mere journal.

Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: The Chimney Sweeper`s Boy
ISBN: 0141040165 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141040165
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 14950.00 T
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Описание: When successful author Gerald Candless dies of a sudden heart attack, his eldest, adoring daughter Sarah embarks on a memoir of him and soon discovers that her perfect father was not all he appeared to be. That in fact he wasn`t Gerald Candless at all. But then, who was he? And what terrible secret had driven him to live a lie for all those years?

Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: The Brimstone Wedding
ISBN: 0140252800 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140252804
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 14950.00 T
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Описание: Jenny`s marriage is loveless, and she is having an affair. She works at an old people`s home, where she is especially fond of Stella, a gracious, dignified woman dying of cancer - whose own secrets parallel Jenny`s - with the difference that she may have been involved in murdering her lover`s husband...

Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: The Blood Doctor
ISBN: 0141009160 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141009162
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 17590.00 T
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Описание: This novel is about ambition and obsession, but primarily about blood - both in its metaphysical and its physical sense. Lord Nanther is writing a biography of his great-grandfather, physician to Queen Victoria and expert in blood diseases, when he uncovers a horrifying secret.

Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: Asta`s Book
ISBN: 0140176616 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140176612
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 4920.00 T
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Описание: Asta and her husband Rasmus have come to east London from Denmark with their two sons. With Rasmus constantly away on business, Asta keeps loneliness and isolation at bay by writing her diary. These diaries reveal themselves to be more than a journal, for they seem to hold the key to an unsolved murder.

Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: The Minotaur
ISBN: 0141020725 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141020723
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 3690.00 T
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Описание: Kerstin Kvist enters crumbling Lydstep Old Hall to live with the Cosways, and to act as nurse to John: a grown man fed drugs by his family to control his lunatic episodes. But John`s strangeness is grotesquely mirrored in that of his four sisters who roam the dark, mazy Essex country house under the strict gaze of eighty-year-old Mrs Cosway.

Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: The Child`s Child
ISBN: 0241963583 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241963586
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 4310.00 T
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Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: The Minotaur
ISBN: 0141042605 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141042602
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 14950.00 T
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Описание: Kerstin Kvist enters crumbling Lydstep Old Hall to live with the Cosways and to act as nurse to John: a grown man fed drugs by his family to control his lunatic episodes. But John`s strangeness is grotesquely mirrored in that of his four sisters who roam the dark, mazy Essex country house under the strict gaze of eighty-year-old Mrs Cosway.

Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: The Birthday Present
ISBN: 0141040637 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141040639
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 4010.00 T
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Описание:

Mention his name and most people will say, 'Who?' while the rest think for a bit and ask if he wasn't the one who got involved in all that sleaze back whenever it was...?

It's late spring of 1990 and a love affair is flourishing: between Ivor Tesham, a thirty-three year old rising star of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, and Hebe Furnal, a stunning North London housewife stuck in a dull marriage. What excitement Hebe lacks at home, however, is amply compensated for by the well-bred and intensely attractive Tesham - an ardent womanizer and ambitious politican.

On the eve of her twenty-eighth birthday, Tesham decides to give Hebe a present to remember: something far more memorable than, say, the costly string of pearls he's already lavished upon her.

Involving a fashionable new practice known as 'adventure sex', a man arranges for his unsuspecting but otherwise willing girlfriend to be snatched from the street, bound and gagged, and delivered to him at a mutually agreed venue ...

Set amidst an age of IRA bombings, the first Gulf War, and sleazy politics, The Birthday Present is the gripping story of a fall from grace, and of a man who carries within him all the hypocrisy, greed and self-obsession of a troubled era.

Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: Dark-Adapted Eye
ISBN: 0140086366 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140086362
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 4920.00 T
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Описание: England in the fifties was not kind to women who erred, so they had to use every means necessary to keep the truth hidden behind closed doors, even murder. No onlooker would guess that prim Vera Hillyard and her beautiful, adored younger sister, Eden, were locked in a dark and bitter combat over one of those secrets.

Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: King Solomon`s Carpet
ISBN: 0141040432 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141040431
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 14070.00 T
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Описание: Jarvis Stringer lives in a crumbling schoolhouse overlooking a tube line. His strange house draw a band of misfits into his orbit: young Alice, who has run away from her husband and baby; Tom, busker who rescues her; truant Jasper who gets his kicks on the tube; and mysterious Axel, whose dark secret later casts a shadow over all of their lives.

Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: A Dark-Adapted Eye
ISBN: 0141040181 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141040189
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 5540.00 T
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Описание: Like most families, they had their secrets ...And they hid them under a genteelly respectable veneer. No onlooker would guess that prim Vera Hillyard and her beautiful, adored younger sister, Eden, were locked in a dark and bitter combat over one of those secrets.

Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: The Child`s Child
ISBN: 0241963575 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241963579
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 14070.00 T
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Описание: When Grace and her brother Andrew inherit their grandmother`s house in Hampstead, they decide to move in together. They`ve always got on well, the house is large enough to split down the middle, and neither of them likes partying or loud music. There`s one thing they`ve forgotten though: what if one of them wants to bring a lover into the house?