The Child`s Child, Vine Barbara

Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: The Child`s Child
ISBN: 0241963575 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241963579
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 2111.00 р.
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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?

Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: The Birthday Present
ISBN: 0141040637 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141040639
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 601.00 р.
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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: No night is too long
ISBN: 0140250409 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140250404
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 1793.00 р.
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Описание: Set in Alaska and Suffolk, this story involves a brother (Ivo) and sister (Isabel), each of whom has a sexual relationship with Tim. When Ivo is left for dead on an Arctic island, the way seems clear for Tim and Isabel. But nothing plays itself out in the way one might expect.

Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: The House of Stairs
ISBN: 0140114467 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140114461
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 2111.00 р.
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Описание: Lizzie hasn`t seen her old friend, Bell, for some fourteen years, but when she spots her from a taxi in a London street she jumps out and pursues her despite `all the terrible things` that passed between them. As Lizzie reveals those events, little by little, the women rekindle their friendship, with terrifying results...

Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: Grasshopper
ISBN: 0140293027 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140293029
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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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.

Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: King Solomon`s Carpet
ISBN: 0140156917 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140156911
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 646.00 р.
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Описание: Eccentric Jarvis lives in a crumbling schoolhouse overlooking the tube line, compiling his obsessive history of the Underground. A group of misfits are also drawn towards his strange house. Damaged, dispossessed, outcasts, they are brought together in violent and unforeseen ways by London`s dark and dangerous underground system.

Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: Barbara Vine Pack
ISBN: 0140912053 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140912050
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 923.00 р.
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Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: The Child`s Child
ISBN: 0241963575 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241963579
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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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?

Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: The Child`s Child Hb
ISBN: 145169489X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781451694895
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
Цена: 2989.00 р.
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Описание: From three-time Edgar Award-winning mystery writer Ruth Rendell, writing here under her Barbara Vine pseudonym, an ingenious novel-within-a-novel about brothers and sisters and the violence lurking behind our society's taboos.

When their grandmother dies, Grace and Andrew Easton inherit her sprawling, book-filled London home, Dinmont House. Rather than sell it, the adult siblings move in together, splitting the numerous bedrooms and studies. The arrangement is unusual, but ideal for the affectionate pair--until the day Andrew brings home a new boyfriend. A devilishly handsome novelist, James Derain resembles Cary Grant, but his strident comments about Grace's doctoral thesis soon puncture the house's idyllic atmosphere.

When he and Andrew witness their friend's murder outside a London nightclub, James begins to unravel, and what happens next will change the lives of everyone in the house. Just as turmoil sets in at Dinmont House, Grace escapes into reading a manuscript--a long-lost novel from 1951 called The Child's Child--never published because of its frank depictions of an unwed mother and a homosexual relationship. The book is the story of two siblings born a few years after World War One. This brother and sister, John and Maud, mirror the present-day Andrew and Grace: a homosexual brother and a sister carrying an illegitimate child. Acts of violence and sex will reverberate through their stories.

The Child's Child is an enormously clever, brilliantly constructed novel-within-a-novel about family, betrayal, and disgrace. A master of psychological suspense, Ruth Rendell, in her newest work under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, takes us where violence and social taboos collide. She shows how society's treatment of those it once considered undesirable has changed--and how sometimes it hasn't.

Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: The house of stairs
ISBN: 1405882220 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781405882224
Издательство: Pearson Education
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Цена: 2167.00 р.
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Описание: Contemporary / British English Twenty years ago a group of people lived in a house in London. One of them was murdered, but who was it? We slowly find out the truth, as the past, the present and the future join together in a frightening story.

Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: The Brimstone Wedding
ISBN: 0140252800 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140252804
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 2243.00 р.
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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: Asta`s Book
ISBN: 0140176616 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140176612
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 738.00 р.
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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 Blood Doctor
ISBN: 1400032520 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781400032525
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1471.00 р.
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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: 1203.00 р.
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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.