'I gained his secret and we were both lost for ever' Mary Shelley's dark story of a bereaved man's disturbing passion for his daughter was suppressed by her own father, and not published for over a century. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
A powerful novel about the indelible effects of war and the memories which stir beneath the silence of a quiet Croatian town, from Orange Prize-shortlisted and Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning author Aminatta Forna
Michael and Pauline seemed like the perfect couple - young, good-looking, made
for each other. The moment she walked into his mother's grocery store in
Baltimore, he was smitten, and in the heat of World War II fervour, they marry
in haste.
Reissued to mark the 60th anniversary of Hiroshima, The AshGarden is a searing novel of three lives shattered by war, from a writer TheGlobe and Mail called "Canada’s next great novelist." • Winner of the Japan-Canada • A Globe100 Best Book of 2001 • Finalist for the 2003 IMPAC Award; the Amazon.com/Books in Canada FirstNovel Award; the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Prize; and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book (Caribbean and Canada Region)
Exhilerating...irreverent, and extremely funny,"- "Ms," Seventeen and sure of nothing, Maria has left her parents' small-town grocery for university life in Dublin. An ad in the Student Union-"2 " FEMALE SYMBOL]" seek flatmate. No bigots."-leads Maria to a home with warm Ruth and wickedly funny Jael, students who are older and more fascinating than she'd expected. A poignant, funny, and sharply insightful coming-of-age story, Stir-fry is a lesbian novel that explores the conundrum of desire arising in the midst of friendship and probes feminist ideas of sisterhood and nonpossessiveness. Emma Donoghue is the author of the forthcoming "Slammerkin, Hood" "and Kissing the Witch" . Born in Dublin, she now lives in Ontario, Canada. "Stir-fry" was her first novel. Also Available by Emma Donoghue "Hood" TP 11.95, 1-55583-453-1 CUSA
For Neville "Bunt" Mullard and his mother, Betty, Hong Kong is part of Britain - one of the pleasanter parts; it is also cozy, monotonous, profitable, and homely. Now ninety-nine years of colonial rule are about to end, and the British government is about to hand over Hong Kong to China. Betty and Bunt can see China from their parlor, but they have never been there. They detest Chinese food. "The Chinese take-away, " as they call the Hand-over, does not particularly concern them. When Bunt first meets Mr. Hung, a well-spoken gentleman from the Chinese mainland, he pays him little heed. And when Mr. Hung offers the Mullards a handsome sum for their family business - a fifty-year-old textile factory, Imperial Stitching, that was cofounded by Bunt's late father - Bunt refuses him out of hand. Yet it soon grows clear that Mr. Hung is different from the Chinese the Mullards have lived alongside for years. For Mr. Hung will accept no refusals. Then a young woman from the Mullards' factory vanishes, one of many disappearances. But this one is different. Ah Fu has last been seen in the company of Mr. Hung. And so Bunt is forced for the first time in his forty-three years to make decisions that matter. He even begins, maybe, to discover love. Yet against all of Bunt's good, if half-formed, intentions are pitted the will of Mr. Hung and the looming threat of the ultimate betrayal.
Long retired, Sherlock Holmes quietly pursues his study of honeybee behavior on the Sussex Downs. He never imagines he would encounter anyone whose intellect matched his own, much less an audacious teenage girl with a penchant for detection. Miss Mary Russell becomes Holmes's pupil and quickly hones her talent for deduction, disguises and danger. But when an elusive villain enters the picture, their partnership is put to a real test.
Koniec osemdesiatych rokov priniesol prevratné spoločenské a politické pomery vo východnej Európe. Na novú situáciu sú nútené reagovať aj západné spravodajské služby. Prehodnocujú svoje doterajšie stereotypné postupy a metódy práce, charakteristické pre obdobie studenej vojny, “železnej opony” medzi dvoma svetmi, a pripravujú aj s tým súvisiace personálne výmeny. Do predčasného dôchodku má odísť Sam McCready, čiže Falošný hráč, vysoký dôstojník britskej Tajnej spravodajskej služby, ktorý je nadriadeným tŕňom v oku pre svoje nekonvenčné, až dobrodružné pracovné postupy. Rozhodnutie ešte môže zmeniť odvolacia komisia. Na zasadnutí prerokováva štyri úspešné operácie, ktoré riadil Falošný hráč.
V prvom príbehu na území bývalej NDR psychicky zlyhá McCreadyho agent a hrozí strata vzácnych dokumentov o sovietskej vojnovej stratégii. V druhom príbehu sa McCready pričiní o odhalenie dvojitého agenta Orlova, v ďalšom zabráni dodávke zbraní pre teroristické skupiny v USA a napokon vyrieši vraždu guvernéra a volebný podvod v exkluzívnom prostredí karibského ostrova Sunshine.
Štyri napínavé špionážno-detektívne príbehy dokumentujú autorovu dôvernú znalosť štruktúr a metód tajných spravodajských služieb a zložitosť vzťahov medzi nimi.
Je to psychologický thriller, odohrávajúci sa v jednom z manhattanských mrakodrapov.
Dej sa odohráva v New Yorku a rozpráva o osudoch nájomníkov bytov v jednom z manhattanských vežiakov. Hlavná postava, Kay Norrisová, úspešná tridsaťdeväťročná rozvedená žena, sa presťahuje do luxusnej štvrti Carnegie Hill v Manhattane, do úzkeho strieborného vežiaku s exkluzívnymi bytmi. Prenajímateľ budovy, Peter Henderson, je sympatický, aj keď trochu posadnutý, ale svojich nájomníkov zahŕňajúci komfortom. Kay po nasťahovaní zisťuje, že vežiak má prezývku „Vežiak hrôzy“. Od výstavby budovy tu došlo k štyrom nevysvetliteľným úmrtiam.
