Sure the doll was dead. But that didn’t mean Jack Forrester was going to pay for his clandestine crime

Eighteen twisted tales of the wildest West that’s ever been imagined, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Pip & Flinx series Strange things lurk up in the mountains and out in the plains and deserts of the West, but few are as unique as the giant mountain man named Amos Malone, who some call “Mad Amos”—though not to his face. Atop his unnatural steed, Worthless, Mad Amos is prepared to step into any fray and set things right, albeit in his own unusual way. Now all of his uncanny exploits—including the brand-new story “Stuck”—are collected together for the first time. For this special edition, Alan Dean Foster has also penned original introductions to the series and to each individual adventure. Featuring eight never-before-collected stories, including… GHOST WIND: Nature has a way of making even the strongest folks meek. And with a ghost wind coming over the valley, even Mad Amos Malone is feeling the chill. HOLY JINGLE: Of all the dangers of the Wild West, love might be the most perilous. Because when it goes awry, there’s no telling what might be at stake. A MOUNTAIN MAN AND A CAT WALK INTO A BAR: Mad Amos isn’t quickly moved to action. Still, when it comes to a dog fight, he’s not afraid to bare his teeth. STUCK: The untouched grove of Sequoias is one of the most beautiful, soul-rejuvenating, downright sacred places Amos has ever visited. Until he hears a cry for help…

2017 FOREWORD REVIEWS INDIE GOLD MEDAL WINNER FOR HUMOR NOVEL OF THE YEAR! A Southern librarian fights back when the city cuts off funding for her library in this funny, angry book from award-winning author Michael Guillebeau. Publishers Weekly said, “Guillebeau blends humor and mystery perfectly in this comic thriller… Guillebeau keeps things light with frequent laugh-out-loud lines.” They weren’t alone. Other reviewers said:

The magic and mayhem continue in this thrilling second instalment of Hobb's new series. Althea Vestrit has found a new home aboard the liveship Ophelia, but she lives only to reclaim the Vivacia as her rightful inheritance. However, the Vivacia has been captured by the pirate, 'King' Kennit, and is acquiring a keen bloodlust. Meanwhile in Bingtown, the fading fortunes of the Vestrit family lead Malta deeper into the magical secrets of the mysterious Rain Wilds Traders. And just outside Bingtown, Amber dreams of relaunching the Paragon, The Mad Ship… The second volume in this superb trilogy from the author of THE FARSEER TRILOGY continues the dramatic tale of piracy, serpents, love and magic

Mad, Bad Dangerous is a stand-alone sequel to Almost Human.Baelvar is gorgeous, charming, insane, childish and mildly psychotic. He-s also mated to Kett, who-s brilliant, bitchy, violent and more than a little psychotic herself. It-s a match made in heaven, except for one tiny detail-Kett doesn-t want to be mated to anyone.The Curse of Kett has befallen everyone she-s ever cared about, but impressing this fact upon Bael is a little difficult, what with all the terrifically explosive sex getting in the way. Oh, and the repeated attempts on Kett-s life from persons unknown are a bit distracting too.Still, if they can just stop shagging and fighting for their lives for two seconds, surely she can convince Bael they-re actually a match made in hell. Can-t she?

Madagaskaras pasakas Sastādījusi J. Rodmane MĪTI UN LEĢENDAS ; Ibutiti jeb Kurš ir pats stiprākais ; Saule, Mēness, zvaigznes un vistas ; Zatuvu, kas nebija Zanahari radīts ; Odens vērsis ; Četras māsas ; Razuabe un Razuamasaji ; Vatumandri ; Punduris kalanuro ; Kinuli ; Ci-aumbi-aumbi ; Ivundrumbulu ; DZĪVNIEKU PASAKAS ; Kankafutra ; Vinci un kankafutra ; Takatra un vurundulu . ; Pārjuvista un gailis ; Vista un papango ; Perļuvista un mājas vista ; Vista un žurka ; Cilvēks un ods ; Par meža vērsi, kas ieraudzīja ūdenī savu atspulgu . . . . ; Zebu vērsis un krokodils ; Krokodils un ezis ; Govs un mežacūka ; Mežacūka un hameleons ; Meža suns un meža kaķis Rafosa, Rafanaluka un Ravuancira ; Posa un bruņurupucis ; Par vardēm, kas gribēja dabūt valdnieku ; Kāpēc čūskas ēd vardes ; Lielais zutis un mazais zutēns ; Tuhubevava, Ambacibedrangi un mazie vili ; Racibiluka un Raciririatra ; Putnu valdnieks ; BRĪNUMPASAKAS ; Rafara, ūdeņu jaunava ; Antsali mazulis jeb Putnēns, kas turpināja dziedāt cilvēka vēderā ; Faralahi, bagātais mantinieks ; Divi brāli Andriambahuakas ; Andriambahuaka Andrianunibe un viņa bezbērnu sieva . . . . ; Trīs andrianas un Andriamuhamuna ; Icihitanancu jeb Zēns, kas pārvērtās par nezvēru, un ar līmi no­ziestā māla lelle ; Bibiulu, milzīgais nezvērs, un viltīgie zēni ; Rabibibe un Kifundri jeb Lielais zvērs un mazais puisēns  ; Bezragu govs ; Andriamaruzua, cilvēks, kas gribēja pazudināt savu svaini, bet ; pazudināja pats sevi ; Vērša āda, no kuras radās vesela govs ; Andriambahuaka, kas gribēja dabūt bērnu ; Andamuhami ; Razuandranuvula un Razuandranumanga ; Razuanurumanga un Teluvuhaluguzi ; Andriambahuaka Ravuhimena un burvju graudi ; Rafaranumbi ; Trīs astaini brāļi ; Ifaramalemi un Ikutubekibu ; Divi brāļi un Zanahari ; Večiņa un nešpetnais nezvērs ; Razatuvu un Ranunera ; Bērns un fosa ; Rataulanduhamivulana ; Ramartungavatu ; Izilakuluna, kuram puse ķermeņa bija no koka ; Septiņi brāļi, kas uzdomāja precēt Ramituviamandrenini , Besurungula SADZĪVES PASAKAS ; Dejotājs Revere, kas mēdza zagt vēršus ; Par vīru, kuram bija trīs sievas ; Jafulavitra,"kura dēļ tika lauzta laulāto draugu uzticība . ; Zagļi ; Par vīru, kas gribēja pārbaudīt sievif ;  Trīs kurlie. . ; Rīsa lauks ; Trīs mednieki ; Trīs brāļi . . ; Rafuciarifanahi un Randrianarizena ; Zalahifina un Zavavifina ;Andriamihaninas trīs sievas . ; vecais vīrs un septiņi dēli ; Divi blēži — Kutufeci un Mahaka ; Kutufeci un Mahakas otrā likšanās ; Vēl viena Kulufeci un Mahakas tikšanās ; Kā Kututecl un Mahaka dabūja citronus ; Kā Kutufeci un Mahaka piespieda veco vīru nokaut viņierr ; vērsi ; Mahaka un vecajs vīrs ar lambu ; Kā Kulufeci un Mahaka piekrāpa bagātnieku ; Kā Kuluiecj un Mahaka iedzīvojās mirušā andriambahuaka mantā; Kā Mahaka kļuva par bagātā veča audžudēlu ; Kā Kutufeci unMahaka piemuļķoja andriambahuakas sievi Kā Kutufeci un Mahaka piekrāpa andriambahuaku . . Kā Kutufeci un Mahaka pazobojās par vientiesi; Kutuieci un Mahakas gals Izdevniecība «Zinātne» Riga 1975 Noskanējis grāmatu un failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis imantslochmelis@inbox.lv J. Rodmanes priekšvārds un komentāri No krievu valodas tulkojusi A. Feldhūne Māksliniece J. Antimonova Izdots saskaņā ar Latvijas PSR Zinātņu akadēmijas Redakciju un izdevumu padomes lēmumu Tulkojums latviešu valodā Izdevniecība «Zinātne», 1975

Powieść jest ironicznym portretem artysty z czasów młodości, dojrzewającego w peerelowskiej rzeczywistości schyłku lat sześćdziesiątych. Narrator opowiada o swoich latach nauki i o fascynacji starszą od niego, piękną, tajemniczą kobietą, która uczyła go francuskiego i dała mu lekcję wolności. Jest to zarazem opowieść o potrzebie marzenia, a także rozrachunek z epoką peerelu. Tradycyjna narracja, nie pozbawiona wątku sensacyjnego, skrzy się humorem, oczarowuje i wzrusza

When Emma Rouault marries Charles Bovary she imagines she will pass into the life of luxury and passion that she reads about in sentimental novels and women’s magazines. But Charles is a dull country doctor, and provincial life is very different from the romantic excitement for which she yearns. In her quest to realize her dreams she takes a lover, and begins a devastating spiral into deceit and despair

Madame Bovary est un roman de Gustave Flaubert paru en 1857. Le titre original était Madame Bovary, mœurs de province. Au début, Flaubert ne voulait qu'on illustre son roman avec un portrait de femme pour laisser libre cours à l'imagination du lecteur. Flaubert commence le roman en 1851 et y travaille pendant 5 ans, jusqu’en 1856. À partir d’octobre, le texte est publié dans la Revue de Paris sous la forme de feuilleton jusqu’au 15 décembre suivant. En février 1857, le gérant de la revue, Léon Laurent-Pichat, l’imprimeur et Gustave Flaubert sont jugés pour «outrage à la morale publique et religieuse et aux bonnes mœurs». Défendu par l’avocat Maître Jules Sénard, Gustave Flaubert sera finalement acquitté. Le roman connaîtra un important succès en librairie. Honoré de Balzac avait déjà abordé le même sujet dans la Femme de trente ans en 1831 sous forme de nouvelle-roman qui parut en 1842 dans l’édition Furne de la Comédie humaine, sans toutefois faire scandale

Après les maternités, les paternités difficiles, les révoltes adolescentes, les embarras conjugaux, voici le roman d’un divorce. Publié par hasard au moment où s’amorce une révision de la loi, ce livre peut accessoirement lui fournir des arguments. Mais son thème n’est pas là. La procédure est une chose. L’état de divorcé(e) en est une autre qui — l’union par l’enfant restant indissoluble — dramatise souvent toute une vie. Aline, devenue Madame Ex, Louis remarié à Odile, leurs enfants divisés en Papiens et Mamiens, leurs parents, leurs amis, leurs avocats — intervenant sans cesse dans une guérilla où la rancune, l’intérêt, l’orgueil, le remords, le souvenir se mélangent — en fournissent ici un exemple tour à tour passionné et douloureux. Madame Ex, par le ton, le trait, le mouvement, la précision du détail, est un roman typique d’Hervé Bazin et sans doute l’un des plus émouvants dans l’évocation de ce tragique quotidien où se meuvent comme nous ses personnages

Meet Madame Koska—a fabulous haute couture designer and the owner of a new atelier in 1920s London who has a knack at solving crimes that baffle the police. When a priceless brooch disappears from a museum in Russia, Madame Koska is suddenly drawn into the mystery. But who is Madame Koska? And what does the missing jewel have to do with her?

Era todavía una niña cuando decidió desobedecer a su madre y liberarse de las vendas que iban a convertir sus pies en muñones, haciendo de ella una mujer deseable. Éste fue el primer acto de rebelión de la hija de una concubina, que acabaría siendo la última esposa de Mao Zedong. Todos recuerdan a Madame Mao como la tirana cruel y ambiciosa que gobernó China después de la muerte de su marido, pero pocos saben qué tuvo que hacer para escalar los peldaños del poder y cuáles fueron sus armas de seducción. Actriz experta y siempre en busca del éxito, la mujer que encandiló a Mao y se encerró con él en la cueva de las colinas de Yenan se había propuesto desde muy joven entender la vida como una gran obra de teatro, donde ella estaba destinada a brillar como prima donna hasta el final del espectáculo. Cuando en mayo de 1991 Madame Mao decidió ella misma bajar el telón, quizá no hubo aplauso, pero una sensación extraña de reverencia y miedo recorrió el escenario… Después de tres años de búsqueda y recopilación de datos, Anchee Min ha sido capaz de atar los cabos sueltos de este drama fascinante, y nos propone la biografía novelada de una de las mucheres más temidas y admiradas de la historia del siglo XX

In 2001, a woman’s skeleton was found in the woods overlooking Montreal’s Royal Victoria Hospital. Despite an audit of the hospital’s patient records, a forensic reconstruction of the woman’s face, missing-person appeals, and DNA tests that revealed not only where she had lived, but how she ate, the woman was never identified. Assigned the name Madame Victoria, her remains were placed in a box in an evidence room and, eventually, forgotten. But not by Catherine Leroux, who constructs in her form-bending Madame Victoria twelve different histories for the unknown woman. Like musical variations repeating a theme, each Victoria meets her end only after Leroux resurrects her, replacing the anonymous circumstances of her death with a vivid re-imagining of her possible lives. And in doing so, Madame Victoria becomes much more than the story of one unknown and unnamed woman: it becomes a celebration of the lives and legacies of unknown women everywhere. By turns elegiac, playful, poignant, and tragic, Madame Victoria is an unforgettable book about the complexities of individual lives and the familiar ways in which they overlap

«На нынешней неделе праздновалась столетняя годовщина первого представления первой русской комедии, положившей такое достославное основание драматической сатире в России. Можно даже сказать, не отрицая заслуг «Ябеды», что от «Недоросля» до «Горя от ума» («Ревизор» явился позднее) не было сатирического произведения, которое бы по таланту, по критической меткости, а главное – по своему воздействию на общество равнялось с знаменитым произведением Фонвизина…»

Книга выходила и переиздавалась несколько раз под названием «Трудно быть фотомоделью». Елену Вольскую — модель № 1 — приглашают сниматься в кино именно тогда, когда странным образом одна за другой погибают три известные модели. Приятная и бессмысленная жизнь вокруг нее начинает рушиться и порой она сама не может понять, где кончается реальность и начинается замысел талантливого режиссера. И не станет ли выдуманный сценарий ее настоящим кошмаром?

A man-made plague has swept the earth, but a small group survives, along with the green-eyed Crakers — a gentle species bio-engineered to replace humans. Toby, onetime member of the Gods Gardeners and expert in mushrooms and bees, is still in love with street-smart Zeb, who has an interesting past. The Crakers’ reluctant prophet, Snowman-the-Jimmy, is hallucinating; Amanda is in shock from a Painballer attack; and Ivory Bill yearns for the provocative Swift Fox, who is flirting with Zeb. Meanwhile, giant Pigoons and malevolent Painballers threaten to attack. Told with wit, dizzying imagination, and dark humour, Booker Prize-winning Margaret Atwood’s unpredictable, chilling and hilarious MaddAddam takes us further into a challenging dystopian world and holds up a skewed mirror to our own possible future

Феликс Зак, страстный любитель и знаток кино категории Б, всю жизнь пытался сочинять киносценарии, однако ничего у него не получалось, и он бросал все на полдороге. И вдруг ему улыбнулась удача: очередным его шедевром — историей о жестоких убийствах в доме престарелых, где доживают свой век второразрядные актеры, — заинтересовался неизвестный продюсер. Однако радовался Феликс рано: все события, описанные в сценарии, стали происходить в реальной жизни. А автором занялась полиция. Роман Ж. М. Эрра «Made in France» — юмористический детектив, он продолжает блистательную традицию этого жанра, прославившего имена Даниноса и Сан-Антонио

Сборник рассказов о жизни репатриантов в Израиле

Семнадцатилетний Богсь Ковальски проснулся в один прекрасный момент и узнал, что сообщение, которое он хотел бы сообщить миру заключается в выражении «Fuck Off», которое татуирует себе на лбу

КГБ перехватывает снимки секретного ракетодрома. Контрразведка не может понять, кем же они сделаны. А шпион оказывается очень необычным…

Nadia Stafford isn't your typical nature lodge owner. An ex-cop with a legal code all her own, she's known only as 'Dee' to her current employers: a New York crime family who pays her handsomely to bump off traitors. But when Nadia discovers that a troubled teenage employee and her baby have vanished in the Canadian woods, the memory of a past loss comes back with a vengeance, and her old instincts go into overdrive. With her enigmatic mentor, Jack, covering her back, Nadia unearths sinister clues that point to an increasingly darker and deadlier mystery. Now, with her obsession over the case deepening, the only way Nadia can right the wrongs of the present is to face her own painful ghosts – and either bury them for good, or die trying. Because in her book, everyone deserves a chance. And everyone deserves justice

Two days before New Years, a pack of five friends — three men and two women — head to a remote cabin near Lake Tahoe to celebrate the holidays. They've been buddies forever, banded together by scrapes and squalor, their relationships defined by these wild times. After a car accident leaves one friend sick and dying, and severe weather traps them at the cabin, there is nowhere to go, forcing them to finally and ultimately take stock and confront their past transgressions, considering what they mean to one another and to themselves. With some of the most luminous and purple prose flexed in recent memory, D. Foy is an incendiary new voice and Made to Break, a grand, episodic debut, redolent of the stark conscience of Denis Johnson and the spellbinding vision of Roberto Bolaño

A commonplace book, arranging works of criticism looking at Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo with fragments of memoir/fiction. Presented first as random notes on watching Hitchcock, the fragments soon take up multiple narratives and threads and, like a classic Hitchcock movie, present competing realities. Fragments from a dizzying list of authors, from Truffaut to Philip K. Dick and Geoff Dyer to Bruno Schultz, are meticulously arranged in a fascinating, multilayered reading experience

When a girl falls into a deep and impenetrable sleep, the borders between her provincial French village and the peculiar, beguiling realm of her dreams begin to disappear: A fat woman sprouts delicate wings and takes flight; a failed photographer stumbles into the role of pornographer; a beautiful young wife grows to resemble her husband's viol. And in their midst travels Madeleine, the dreamer, who is trying to make sense of her own metamorphosis as she leaves home, joins a gypsy circus, and falls into an unexpected triangle of desire and love

La «Préface», oeuvre à part entière, fait date dans l'histoire littéraire. Sur un ton enlevé, perfide et caustique, l'auteur attaque les bien-pensants, représentants de la tartufferie et de la censure, et ceux qui voudraient voir un côté «utile» dans une oeuvre littéraire, alors que l'art, par définition non assujetti à la morale ou à l'utilité, échappe à la notion de progrès pour ne s'allier qu'à celle du plaisir. Le roman lui-même, en grande partie épistolaire, nous parle avant tout de l'Amour, du Sexe, de la Femme, de l'Homme, éternels sujets…

Mademoiselle Fifi est un recueil de nouvelles de Guy de Maupassant publié en 1882-1883, et placé sous les thèmes du libertinage et de la guerre de 1870

La nouvelle qui donne son titre au recueil, est une des plus connues de Maupassant. Le château d'Uville est occupé par cinq officiers prussiens. Parmi eux, «un tout petit blondin fier et brutal», surnommé Mademoiselle Fifi à cause de son allure féminine. Le saccage du luxueux château ne parvenant pas à tromper l'ennui, on décide d'organiser une petite fête avec des dames de Rouen. Elles arrivent, ces cinq «filles à plaisir», dont Rachel, «une brune toute jeune, à l'œil noir comme une tache d'encre». Elle échoit en partage à Mademoiselle Fifi, qui la brutalise, «saisi d'une férocité rageuse, travaillé par son besoin de ravage». Au moment des toasts, les Allemands insultent les Français vaincus, et surtout les Françaises, qu'ils déclarent toutes leur propriété. Rachel se révolte alors…

Liberté a 18 ans. Elle refuse ce que la plupart des femmes tolèrent: un amour imparfait, sans folie. Inapte aux compromis, Mademoiselle Liberté ne conçoit pas d'être raisonnable, de se contenter d'une petite part de bonheur. L'infini est sa mesure, l'absolu son oxygène. Animée par un goût prodigieux pour le plaisir, elle bondit vers ses appétits. Horace, le proviseur de son lycée, sait lui aussi vivre la vie: ce furieux ne se repose que dans l'hyperbole. Marié à une épouse professionnelle, il rêve de foncer dans un destin superlatif. Liberté décide de chercher avec la perfection: elle ne se contentera pas d'un brouillon de liaison, elle exigera la passion intégrale, portée à son comble, fignolée jusqu'au délire. Ces deux forcenés tenteront un amour idéal. Ils désirent un chef d'œuvre sinon rien

Eva Ibbotson’s magical novel; set in that most poignant of all times and places, Vienna before the First World War. Susanna’s dress shop stands in the delightful Madensky Square and is the very hub and heart of life. Susanna sympathizes with her neighbours, watches over Signi, the wretched, orphaned child prodigy, and with her infallible eye for dress, turns an ugly duckling into a beautiful swan. Of all the colourful characters in Madensky Square, only her dear friend Alice has the slightest inkling that Susanna hides more than one secret. This hidden life full of passion and anguish gradually unfolds in a city of romance, music and gossip. ’Sunshine and shadows, laughter and tears… the grace and gaiety of a Viennese waltz’ Sunday Telegraph

My brother had spent a lifetime—mine, at least—telling me that I was normal, that I wasn't a monster. With his help, I'd finally realized that as long as I could remain who I was, I could survive what I was. It was only bad genes.... Half-human Cal Leandros and his brother, Niko, aren't exactly prospering with their preternatural detective agency. Who could have guessed that business would dry up in New York City, where vampires, trolls, and other creepy crawlies are all over the place? But now there's a new arrival in the Big Apple. A malevolent evil with ancient powers, dead set on making history with an orgy of blood and murder, is picking off humans like sheep. And for Cal and Niko, this is one paycheck they're going to have to earn...if they live long enough to collect it

DEATH FROM THE SKIES Geronimo raised his hand over his eyes and squinted. “What are those things attached to the bottom of its wings?” “Your guess is as good as mine,” Blade said, and saw the aircraft arc into the heavens again. As it did, a small spherical object dropped from the right wing directly toward them. Blade’s intuition flared, and he gave his friends a shove. “Into the forest! Move!” Confused, Geronimo and Hickok nonetheless trusted the giant’s judgment enough to obey him instantly and without question. They darted to the northwest. Blade raced on their heels, his gray eyes glued to the spherical object. When it was 15 feet from the soil, he threw himself to the ground and bellowed, “Get down!” Again the pair complied, and not a moment too soon. For when they hit the ground, a blast with the force of a quarter-ton of dynamite rent the air and rocked the ground…

When Milo Morai’s Confederation forces defeated the army of the tyrannical King Zastros, the High Lord offered a peace settlement his defeated foes could scarce believe, welcoming them as full members of the newly formed Confederation of Eastern Peoples. Sending some of his most trusted agents before him, backed by those doughty warriors, the Horseclansmen, Milo hoped to see the decimated kingdom rapidly reorganized into a thriving realm. But neither he or any of his allies had bargained for the evil hidden within the very heart of the land’s new government—an evil fueled by Milo’s most ancient and hated enemies, an evil that might well destroy all of Southern Ehleenohee and become a dread weapon against the Confederation itself!

Безумие и величие — две стороны одной монеты. По крайней мере, так всегда говорил отец. Серсея невесело улыбается своим мыслям. Отец много чего говорил. Даже обещал. И вот теперь она сидит здесь, глядя, как лучшая швея с Утёса подшивает её свадебное платье, пьёт горьковатое вино и абсолютно точно знает — ноша короны куда тяжелей, чем ноша золотого венца. Скоро она станет королевой. Отец же обещал

When someone sabotages Jim Bob's grocery store with tainted tamale sauce, resulting in 23 cases of food poisoning and a sudden death, Police Chief Arly Hanks finds that her own mother, Rudy Dee, is one of the suspects. "This may be one of the funniest mysteries written in a long time…"-Ocala Star-Banner

Only three people can connect a present-day murderer to a serial killer who, fourteen years ago, terrorized a small Siberian town. And one of them is already dead. As a working mother, Lena Polyanskaya has her hands full. She’s busy caring for her two-year-old daughter, editing a successful magazine, and supporting her husband, a high-ranking colonel in counterintelligence. She doesn’t have time to play amateur detective. But when a close friend’s suspicious death is labeled a suicide, she’s determined to prove he wouldn’t have taken his own life. As Lena digs in to her investigation, all clues point to murder—and its connection to a string of grisly cold-case homicides that stretches back to the Soviet era. When another person in her circle falls victim, Lena fears she and her family may be next. She’s determined to do whatever it takes to protect them. But will learning the truth unmask a killer… or put her and her family in even more danger?

Rhys Hughes is a prolific short story writer with an eclectic mix of influences. Much of his work is of a humorously eccentric bent, often parodies and pastiches with surreal and absurdist overtones, although he is by no means limited to any of these forms and has proven to be extremely versatile. Madonna Park is a collection of six sublime stories from a true master of words. Rhys Hughes is Wales’ best kept literary secret. Championed by the likes of Michael Moorcock, his unique fantastical fictions have already achieved the level of cult-status. His fiction is both intellectual and hilarious with plenty of puns and satirical side-swipes to keep the reader constantly amused

Часто спрашивают: какова же истинная Мадонна? Существует расхожий стереотип, представляющий Мадонну алчной женщиной-вамп, в то время как для большинства женщин она является символом феминизма. Ее песни внятны и просты, хотя сама она личность сложная и изменчивая. Она впитала влияния тысячи различных культур, собрав их в единое целое, и стала самой продаваемой певицей за всю историю музыки. Все ее альбомы — это этапы большого путешествия. Переживая драмы и потери, она использовала музыку как способ противостоять боли, искала в ней новые источник радости. Ее стиль противоречив, тщеславие безгранично, и при этом она постоянно превращает свою жизнь в завораживающее произведение искусства. Беспристрастное исследование британского музыкального журналиста Люси О'Брайен — самая полная биография королевы поп-сцены

Set during the fall-out of the Cultural Revolution, these bizarre and delicate stories capture the collision of the old China of vanished dynasties, with communism and today's tiger economy. The mad woman on the bridge wears a historical gown which she refuses to take off. In the height of summer she stands madly on the bridge. Until a young female doctor, bewitched by the beauty of the mad woman's dress, plots to take it from her, with tragic consequences