Abacus The Man In The Wooden Hat Gardam Jane

It is a wet day in Dorset, and walking to a luncheon party is Sir Edward Feathers QC, followed by two elderly friends: his scruffy neighbour and sparring partner, Veneering, and Fiscal-Smith, the meanest lawyer ever to make a fortune at the Bar. Fans of Jane Gardam's bestselling novel, Old Filth, will be delighted to encounter Filth, now almost ninety, making his immaculate way to Privilege Hill, named perhaps for the Prive-Lieges who arrived with the Normans, but more probably for the village privies • Ranging from a Victorian mansion converted into a home for unmarried mothers to a wartime hospital in the middle of the Blitz, from ghost stories to brilliant observations of love and loneliness in their various manifestations - including, in 'Pangbourne', a woman who falls in love with a gorilla - to reflections on the haphazard nature of intellect and memories in 'The Last Reunion', the stories in this collection mix Jane Gardam's trademark sardonic wit with a delicate tenderness and a touch of the surreal

'I ought to tell you at the beginning that I am not quite normal having had a violent experience at the age of nine' • Jessica Vye's 'violent experience' colours her schooldays and her reaction to the world around her- a confining world of Order Marks, wartime restrictions, viyella dresses, nicely-restrained essays and dusty tea shops. For Jessica she has been told that she is 'beyond all possible doubt', a born writer. With her inability to conform, her absolute compulsion to tell the truth and her dedication to accurately noting her experiences, she knows this anyway. But what she doesn't know is that the experiences that sustain and enrich her burgeoning talent will one day lead to a new- and entirely unexpected- reality

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On the second floor of the famous F. G. Goode department store, in Ladies’ Cocktail Frocks, the women in black are girding themselves for the Christmas rush. Among the staff are Patty Williams with her wayward husband Frank, the sweet but unlucky Fay, faithful Mrs Jacob of the measuring tape, and Lisa, the new Sales Assistant (Temporary), who is waiting for the results of her Leaving Certificate. Across the floor and beyond the arch, Lisa will meet the glamorous Continental refugee, Magda, guardian of the rose-pink cave of Model Gowns • With the lightest touch and the most tender of comic instincts, Madeleine St John conjures a vanished summer of innocence

Outside a London theatre a throng of people wait expectantly for the last performance of a popular musical. But as the doors open at last, something spoils all thought of entertainment: a man in the queue is found murdered by the deadly thrust of a stiletto

America, fifteen years after the end of the Second World War. The winning Axis powers have divided their spoils: the Nazis control New York, while California is ruled by the Japanese. But between these two states - locked in a cold war - lies a neutal buffer zone in which legendary author Hawthorne Abendsen is rumoured to live. Abendsen lives in fear of his life for he has written a book in which World War Two was won by the Allies

Police inspector Teresa Battaglia is • [ ] Too old for her job • [ ] Overweight and diabetic • [ ] Terrified • [ ] The best detective you'll ever meet • [X] All of the Above • A ruthless killer is spreading panic in a quiet village in the Italian Alps • Police Inspector Teresa Battaglia is the only one who can stop them • But how can you catch a monster when you're slowly losing your mind?

Молодая и привлекательная Энн Беддингфелд приезжает в Лондон в поисках приключений. Но приключения находят ее: девушка становится свидетельницей инцидента в метро. Завидев кого-то в толпе, человек падает на рельсы. Полиция выносит вердикт – смерть наступила в результате несчастного случая. Но кем тогда был тот таинственный чевлоек в коричневом костюме, который осмотрел тело, а затем поспешно покинул место происшествия? У Энн есть лишь одна зацепка, но она намерена найти убийцу, дабы справедливость восторжествовала • По мотивам книги были снят фильм «Джентльмен в коричневом» • Книга на английском языке • Pretty, young Anne Beddingfield has come to London looking for adventure. But adventure finds her when a strange-smelling man falls off an Underground platform and is electrocuted on the rails

«Человек в коричневом костюме» — детективный роман Агаты Кристи, впервые опубликованный в Великобритании в 1924 году • Молодая женщина расследует случайную смерть на станции лондонского метро и оказывается на корабле, направляющемся в Южную Африку • Хорошенькая юная Энн приехала в Лондон в поисках приключений. На самом деле, приключение приходит за ней - и сразу же находит ее на станции метро Hyde Park Corner. Энн присутствует на платформе, когда худой мужчина, от которого разит нафталином, теряет равновесие и падает на рельсы, пораженный электрическим током • Вердикт Скотленд-Ярда - смерть в результате несчастного случая. Но Энн этим не удовлетворена • В конце концов, кто был тот мужчина в коричневом костюме, который осматривал тело? И почему он умчался, оставив после себя загадочное сообщение: "Замок Килморден, 17-122"? • Книга на английском языке

Насколько хорошо мы знаем себя и своих близких? Вдруг в ком-то из них обитает древний демон? Вдруг любимый супруг на самом деле окажется серийным убийцей? Вдруг наши ночные кошмары были не просто ужасными видениями, а реальностью? В каждой семье есть свой «скелет в шкафу», но вопрос в том, стоит ли его оттуда доставать. Современные технологии позволяют человеку сыграть временную роль всемогущего бога и обеспечивают связь с потусторонним миром, а коварный дьявол заставляет нас идти на сделки с собственной совестью. Но самое страшное, по мнению знаменитого писателя Стивена Кинга, — это необходимость выбора: жить или умереть, пожертвовать собой или другим. И каким бы он ни был, мы всё равно заплатим за него ужасную цену • В книгу вошли десять замечательных рассказов автора, отобранных из сборников разных лет

This delightful novel describes the post-war summer of 1946 - and follows the growing-up of three young women in the months between leaving school and taking up their scholarships at university. Una Vane, whose widowed mother runs a hairdressing salon in her front room ('Maison Vane Glory - Where Permanent Waves are Permanent'), goes bicycling with Ray, the boy who delivers the fish and milk. Hetty Fallowes struggles to become independent of her possessive, loving, tactless mother. And Lieselotte Klein, who had arrived in 1939 on a train from Hamburg, uncovers tragedy in the past and magic in the present • Rooted in the north of England, The Flight Of The Maidens is peopled with extraordinary characters, who are evoked with all the humour, compassion and eye for detail that mark Jane Gardam as one of Britain's most gifted and original novelists

A wonderful bittersweet story about a misguided do-gooder • Eliza Peabody is one of those dangerously blameless women who believe they have God in their pocket. She is a modern-day Florence Nightingale, always up at the Hospice or the Wives' club; she is too enthusiastic; she talks too much. Her concern for the welfare of her wealthy south London neighbours even extends to ingenuous, well-meaning notes of unsolicited advice under the door • It is just such a one-sided correspondence that heralds Eliza's undoing. Did her letter have something to do with Joan's abrupt disappearance from number forty-one? What to make of the long absences of her husband and Joan's, and of the two men's new, inseparable friendship? And why will no one else on Rathbone Road speak of Joan? As Eliza's own life seems to disintegrate, she finds that, despite the pity and embarrassment with which her neighbours greet her, she is at last being drawn into their lives - although not in the way she had once fantasised about