Riverrun Let the Old Dreams Die Линдквист Юн Айвиде

Oskar and Eli. In very different ways, they were both victims. Which is why, against the odds, they became friends. And how they came to depend on one another, for life itself • Oskar is a 12-year-old boy living with his mother on a dreary housing estate at the city’s edge. He dreams about his absentee father, gets bullied at school, and wets himself when he’s frightened • Eli is the young girl who moves in next door. She doesn’t go to school and never leaves the flat by day. She is a 200-year-old vampire, forever frozen in childhood, and condemned to live on a diet of fresh blood • John Ajvide Lindqvist’s novel is a unique and brilliant fusion of social novel and vampire legend, a deeply moving fable about rejection, friendship and loyalty

They only stopped watching her for a couple of minutes. That was all it took • It was a beautiful winter’s day. Anders, his wife and their feisty six-year-old, Maja, set out across the ice of the Swedish archipelago to visit the lighthouse. There was no one around, so they let her run on ahead. And she disappeared, seemingly into thin air, and was never found • Two years later, Anders is a broken alcoholic, his life ruined. He returns to the archipelago, the home of his childhood and his family. But all he finds are Maja’s toys and through the haze of memory, loss and alcohol, he realizes that someone – or something – is trying to communicate with him • His return sets in motion a series of horrifying events which exposes a mysterious and troubling relationship between the inhabitants of the remote island and the sea

In September 1985, nineteen-year-old John Lindqvist moves into a dilapidated old building in Stockholm, planning to make his living as a magician. Something strange is going on in the building's basement - and the price of entry is just a little blood • I Always Find You is a horror story - as bizarre and macabre as any of Lindqvist's bestselling novels. It's also a book about being young and lonely, about making friends and growing up. It's about magic, and the intensity of human connection - and a society's communal responsibility for a devastating act of political violence

He found her as a baby, abandoned in the forest. He saved her life. With her first breath – a perfect, musical note – he realised she was no ordinary child • It was for her own protection that he hid her from the authorities. Was it his fault, what she turned into? Or was that why she was left for dead in the first place? The girl who became a little star. Who became, with her extraordinary powers, the most terrifying thing imaginable • In John Ajvide Lindqvist’s fourth masterpiece, he ratchets up the tension until the story reaches its blood-chilling conclusion. In doing so, he confirms his place as the undisputed new king of horror

Something very peculiar is happening in Stockholm. There’s a heatwave on and people cannot turn their lights out or switch their appliances off. Then the terrible news breaks. In the city morgue, the dead are waking up • What do they want? • What everybody wants: to come home

Вашему вниманию представляется антология жутких и чарующих сказок Нила Геймана, Джоанн Харрис и других авторов бестселлеров с иллюстрациями Алана Ли, обладателя премии Оскар в категории «лучшая работа художника-постановщика» за фильм «Властелин колец: Возвращение короля • Лучшие современные писатели соблюли традиции Якоба и Вильгельма Гримм и написали свои собственные сказки с мрачным сюжетом. В сборник “Fearie Tales” вошли новые версии «Золушки», «Рапунцель», «Гензель и Гретель» и «Румпельштильцхена» и многих других сказок из нашего детства • Сказки были отобраны Стивеном Джонсоном, лучшим составителем антологий мрачных сказок, и проиллюстрированы Аланом Ли, который также подготовил дизайн обложки. В сборник вошли произведения Нила Геймана, Джоанн Харрис, Гарта Никса, Юна Айвиде Линдквиста, Маркуса Хайца, Майкла Маршалла Смита, Анджелы Слаттер, Роберта Ширмена, Кристофера Фаулера, Рэмси Кэмпбелла, Питера Краузера, Брайана Ходжа, Брайана Ламли, Реджи Оливера и Танит Ли

В сентябре 1985 года юный Йон Линдквист, будущий писатель, приезжает в Стокгольм. Он хочет стать фокусником и снимает квартиру в ветхом здании рядом с Брункебергским туннелем. Довольно скоро он понимает, что с его новым домом творится что-то странное: ему постоянно кто-то звонит и спрашивает одного и того же человека, в квартире невозможно слушать музыку, так как порой из магнитофона доносятся зловещие звуки, птицы падают с неба, соседи ведут себя подозрительно, а в туннеле неприятно ходить, словно за прохожими из стен следит что-то живое. И вскоре Йон, сам того не желая, столкнется с иным миром, миром бескрайней зеленой равнины и неба без солнца, откуда приходят настоящие чудовища

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles • A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman, now a widow, who escaped him fifteen years earlier. Neither of them doubts that the day will end in disgust, but for one intimate moment each finds a way to overcome mortality • Written in 1969, before Milan Kundera was known to English-speaking readers, this story renders male and female characters painful equals, and prompted Philip Roth to admire its ‘detached Chekhovian tenderness’ • Bringing together past, present and future in our ninetieth year, Faber Stories is a celebratory compendium of collectable work

Little Nell Trent lives in the quiet gloom of the old curiosity shop with her ailing grandfather, for whom she cares with selfl ess devotion. But when they are unable to pay their debts to the lecherous and demonic money-lender Daniel Quilp, the shop is • seized and they are forced to fl ee, thrown into a shadowy world in which there seems to be no safe haven. The Old Curiosity Shop an • instant bestseller that captured the hearts of the nation

The fifth China thriller sees Li Yan and Margaret Campbell uncover an insidious conspiracy on the eve of the Beijing Olympics • THE SUFFERER • A prodigious Chinese swimmer kills himself on the eve of the Beijing Olympics. Days later, a champion weightlifter suffers a fatal heart attack prior to competition • THE LISTENER • Detective Li Yan senses a conspiracy surrounding the fatalities, and finds a female athlete willing to talk. But she will only trust one person: Li's fiancee, Margaret Campbell • THE RUNNER • When Campbell's contact herself vanishes, the gun is fired on a race against time. And Li must now outrun, and outwit, an enemy bent on pushing him beyond endurance

Nessa Crowley's murderer has been protected by silence for ten years • Until a team of documentary makers decide to find out the truth • On the day of Henry and Keelin Kinsella's wild party at their big house a violent storm engulfed the island of Inisrun, cutting it off from the mainland. When morning broke Nessa Crowley's lifeless body lay in the garden, her last breath silenced by the music and the thunder • The killer couldn't have escaped Inisrun, but on-one was charged with the murder. The mystery that surrounded the death of Nessa remained hidden. But the islanders knew who to blame for the crime that changed them forever • Ten years later a documentary crew arrives, there to lift the lid off the Kinsella's carefully constructed lives, determined to find evidence that will prove Henry's guilt and Keelin's complicity in the murder of beautiful Nessa

Measuring the World recreates the parallel but contrasting lives of two geniuses of the German Enlightenment – the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss. Towards the end of the 18th century, these two brilliant young Germans set out to measure the world • Humboldt, a Prussian aristocrat schooled for greatness, negotiates savannah and jungle, climbs the highest mountain then known to man, counts head lice on the heads of the natives, and explores every hole in the ground • Gauss, a man born in poverty who will be recognised as the greatest mathematician since Newton, does not even need to leave his home in Gottingen to know that space is curved. He can run prime numbers in his head, cannot imagine a life without women and yet jumps out of bed on his wedding night to jot down a mathematical formula