Gallowglass, Vine Barbara

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
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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 Child`s Child
ISBN: 0670922218 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780670922215
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. It seems the obvious thing to do: 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.

Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: A Fatal Inversion
ISBN: 0141040475 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141040479
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Описание: In the long hot summer of 1976, a group of young people are camping in Wyvis Hall. Adam, Rufus, Shiva, Vivien and Zosie hardly ask why they are there or how they are to live; they scavenge, steal and sell the family heirlooms. In short, they exist. Ten years later, the bodies of a woman and child are discovered in the Hall`s animal cemetery.

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: The Brimstone Wedding
ISBN: 0140252800 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140252804
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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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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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: 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 Minotaur
ISBN: 0141020725 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141020723
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 553.00 р.
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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 HB
ISBN: 067092220X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780670922208
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: The house of stairs
ISBN: 1405882220 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781405882224
Издательство: Pearson Education
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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 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.