Джон Бойн

The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father promised he wouldn't go away to fight - but he broke that promise the following day. Four years later, Alfie doesn't know where his father might be, other than that he's away on a special, secret mission. Then, while shining shoes at King's Cross Station, Alfie unexpectedly sees his father's name - on...

The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father promised he wouldn't go away to fight - but he broke that promise the following day. Four years later, Alfie doesn't know where his father might be, other than that he's away on a special, secret mission. Then, while shining shoes at King's Cross Station, Alfie unexpectedly sees his father's name - on a...

Июль 1910 года. В доме № 39 по лондонской улице Хиллдроп-креснт сделано кошмарное открытие: в его подвале нашли расчлененные останки певицы мюзик-холла Беллы Элмор, жены доктора Хоули Харви Криппена. Однако сам доктор Криппен и его любовница Этель Ле-Нев скрылись в неизвестном направлении. На другом берегу Ла-Манша, в Антверпене, капитан Кендалл отдает приказ команде парохода «Монтроз» начать...

July 1910: The grisly remains of Cora Crippen, music hall singer and wife of Dr Hawley Crippen, are discovered in the cellar of 39 Hilldrop Crescent, Camden. But the Doctor and his mistress, Ethel Le Neve, have vanished, much to the frustration of Scotland Yard and the outrage of a horrified London. Across the Channel in Antwerp, the SS Montrose sets sail on its two week voyage to Canada. Among...

Noah Barleywater Runs Away

A psychological drama of cat and mouse, A Ladder to the Sky shows how easy it is to achieve the world if you are prepared to sacrifice your soul. If you look hard enough, you can find stories pretty much anywhere. They don?t even have to be your own. Or so would-be writer Maurice Swift decides very early on in his career. A chance encounter in a Berlin hotel with celebrated novelist Erich Ac...

Новая книга Джона Бойна - не только "роман с ключом", где за многими главными действующие лицами стоят реальные люди, но и психологическая драма немалой силы, в которой наглядно показано, до чего легко покорить мир, если ты готов пожертвовать собственной душой. Ведь если присмотреться, истории можно отыскать повсюду, а где истории - там и сюжеты. Что еще нужно молодому человеку, который сам словно...

The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father promised he wouldn't go away to fight - but he broke that promise the following day. Four years later, Alfie doesn't know where his father might be, other than that he's away on a special, secret mission. Then, while shining shoes at King's Cross Station, Alfie unexpectedly sees his father's name - on...

The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father promised he wouldn't go away to fight - but he broke that promise the following day. Four years later, Alfie doesn't know where his father might be, other than that he's away on a special, secret mission. Then, while shining shoes at King's Cross Station, Alfie unexpectedly sees his father's name - on a...

Июль 1910 года. В доме № 39 по лондонской улице Хиллдроп-креснт сделано кошмарное открытие: в его подвале нашли расчлененные останки певицы мюзик-холла Беллы Элмор, жены доктора Хоули Харви Криппена. Однако сам доктор Криппен и его любовница Этель Ле-Нев скрылись в неизвестном направлении. На другом берегу Ла-Манша, в Антверпене, капитан Кендалл отдает приказ команде парохода «Монтроз» начать...

July 1910: The grisly remains of Cora Crippen, music hall singer and wife of Dr Hawley Crippen, are discovered in the cellar of 39 Hilldrop Crescent, Camden. But the Doctor and his mistress, Ethel Le Neve, have vanished, much to the frustration of Scotland Yard and the outrage of a horrified London. Across the Channel in Antwerp, the SS Montrose sets sail on its two week voyage to Canada. Among...