Black Swan My Not So Perfect Life Кинселла Софи

Эмма похожа на любую девушку в мире. У нее есть несколько маленьких секретов • пока она не выложит все это красивому незнакомцу в самолете. В конце концов, она никогда больше его не увидит • Но в понедельник утром офис Эммы гудит из-за прибытия Джека Харпера, неуловимого генерального директора компании. Внезапно Эмма оказывается лицом к лицу с незнакомцем из самолета, мужчиной, который знает о ней все до единой унизительные подробности • Хуже уже быть не могло... Пока они этого не сделают • Книга на английском языке • Emma is like every girl in the world. She has a few little secrets • Secrets from her mother • 1. I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom to Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching TV • … From her boyfriend • 2. I’m a size twelve

Mother to five children, Clover Stroud has navigated family life across two decades, both losing and finding herself. In her touching, provocative and profoundly insightful book, she captures a sense of what motherhood really feels like - how intense, sensuous, joyful, boring, profound and dark it can be • My Wild and Sleepless Nights examines what it means to be a mother, and reveals with unflinching honesty the many conflicting emotions that this entails: the joy and the wonder, the loneliness and despair

Sue Black confronts death every day. As a Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses on mortal remains in her lab, at burial sites, at scenes of violence, murder and criminal dismemberment, and when investigating mass fatalities due to war, accident or natural disaster • In All That Remains she reveals the many faces of death she has come to know, using key cases to explore how forensic science has developed, and examining what her life and work has taught her • Do we expect a book about death to be sad? Macabre? Sue's book is neither. There is tragedy, but there is also humour in stories as gripping as the best crime novel • Part memoir, part science, part meditation on death, her book is compassionate, surprisingly funny, and it will make you think about death in a new light

Аву тошнит от онлайн-знакомств. В любом случае, она всегда доверяла своим собственным инстинктам, а не алгоритму, и она хочет отдохнуть от всего этого. Поэтому, когда она записывается на полутихий анонимный писательский ретрит в славной Италии, любовь - последнее, о чем она думает • Пока она не встречает красивого незнакомца... Все, что она знает, это то, что он забавный, он добрый и - как она вскоре узнает - он великолепен в постели. Он тоже влюблен, и после бурного, опьяняющего романа они клянутся друг другу в любви, даже не зная настоящих имен друг друга • Но когда они возвращаются домой, реальность обрушивается на них. Они оба сходят с ума из-за странных причуд и раздражающих привычек друг друга, начиная с его эксцентричной семьи, любящей ходить в сауну голышом, и заканчивая ее ужасно воспитанной собакой, рвущей рубашки

Пруды: небольшие водоемы, как естественного, так и искусственного происхождения, где обитают удивительные, разнообразные формы жизни. Пруды определяют наше детство: лягушачью икру, золотых рыбок, кормление уток, а также нашу деревенскую жизнь, наши фермы, наш ландшафт. И они многослойны - от карпа, кружащего у дна, до водяных лодочников, лысухи и птиц-стрекоз над головой. В книге "Тихая вода. Глубинная жизнь пруда" Джон Льюис-Стемпел погружается в темные глубины, как в буквальном, так и в переносном смысле, чтобы исследовать тихие воды британской сельской местности в течение каждого месяца года • Книга на английском языке • Great nature writing needs to be informative, detailed, accurate, lyrical, and, above all, to instil a sense of gratitude and wonder

One encounter and life is never the same again • The Logans were an enchanting and admirable couple. Archie had snatched Liza from her own engagement party to someone else, wooed her, swept her off to his father in Scotland, and finally married her • Now bedded firmly into country life - three children, Archie the village doctor, Liza a teacher, everything comfortable, funny, affectionate - they awaited the arrival of Archie's father, the brilliant Sir Andrew Logan, a widower for over thirty years • When his city-clean Rover stopped in the drive, Sir Andrew was not alone. Beside him was a golden lady in caramel suede, a warm, witty, desirable widow whom everyone - except Archie - adored at once • Archie saw his father's mistress as the worm in the bud of his perfect life - a life that was to be wrenched apart before he and Liza could re-create their world

Tender and humorous novel of second chances and life-changing new friendship for fans of Rachel Joyce, Clare Chambers and Barbara Pym • Meet Eve, who has departed from her thirty-year career to become a Free Spirit; Sally, who has waved goodbye to her indifferent husband and two grown-up children; and Anastasia, a defiantly independent narrowboat-dweller, suddenly vulnerable as she awaits a life-saving operation • Inexperienced and ill-equipped, Sally and Eve embark upon a journey through the canals of England, guided by the remote and unsympathetic Anastasia. As they glide gently - and not so gently - through the countryside, the eccentricities and challenges of canalboat life draw them inexorably together, and a tender and unforgettable story unfolds

Would you take a chance and set something in motion that could change everything? • The Grey House is the final piece in the jigsaw of Alice Jordan's perfect life. It seems to be the ultimate achievement of her outwardly happy marriage - a loyal, if dull husband, three children, two cars and now the house. So why does she feel as if something is missing? • As Alice and her family settle themselves into village life, the something missing becomes something huge and then breaks, scandalizing the village and opening up old wounds • But because of it, Alice begins to feel that there is hope and humour and understanding and compassion in the new life she must build for herself

How far would you go to keep a secret? • Alice has a perfect life – a great job, happy kids, a wonderful husband. Until he goes missing one night; she receives a suspicious phone call; things don’t quite add up • Alice needs to know what’s going on. But when she uncovers the truth she faces a brutal choice. And how can she be sure it is the truth? • Sometimes it’s better not to know

Pop music’s a simple pleasure. Is it catchy? Can you dance to it? Do you fancy the singer? • But what’s fascinating about pop is our relationship with it. David Hepworth is interested in the human side of pop. He’s interested in how people make the stuff and, more importantly, what it means to us • In this collection of essays written throughout his career, Hepworth shows how it is possible to take music seriously and, at the same time, not drain the life out of it. From the legacy of the Beatles to the dramatic decline of the record shop via the bewildering nomenclature of musical genres; with characteristic insight and humour Hepworth asks some essential questions about music and, indeed, life: is it all about the drummer; are band managers misunderstood; and is it appropriate to play ‘Angels’ at funerals? • As Pope John Paul II said ‘of all the unimportant things, football is the most important’

How Far Would You Go to Get the Life You Can't Have? • Shyama, aged forty-eight, has fallen for a younger man. They want a child together • Meanwhile, in a rural village in India, young Mala, trapped in an oppressive marriage, dreams of escape • When Shyama and Mala meet, they help each other realise their dreams. But will fate guarantee them both happiness? • Brimming with warmth, wit and indignation, Meera Syal immerses us in a devastating story of friendship, family and the lengths we will go to have a perfect life. THE HOUSE OF HIDDEN MOTHERS is her long-awaited third novel and shows Meera Syal at the height of her literary powers

It only takes a moment to unravel a perfect life • When Grace's fiance vanishes without a trace the night after proposing, her life is turned upside down. But has Nick walked out on her, or is he in danger? • As Grace desperately searches for answers, it soon becomes clear that Nick wasn't the uncomplicated man she thought she knew. And when she uncovers a hidden tragedy from his childhood, she realises an awful truth: that you can run from your past - but your secrets will always catch up with you