Книги Windmill Books

The Balkan Trilogy | The Balkan Trilogy is the story of a marriage and of a war, a vast, teeming, and complex masterpiece in which Olivia Manning brings the uncertainty and adventure of civilian exist...

The Finest Type of English Womanhood | It is 1946, and seventeen-year-old Laura Telling is stagnating in her dilapidated Sussex family home, while her eccentric parents slip further into isolation. A ...

A Map of the Invisible. Journeys into Particle Physics | What is the universe really made of? How do we know? Follow the map of the invisible to find out... Over the last sixty years, scientists aroun...

The Daylight Gate | The Forest of Pendle used to be a hunting ground, but some say that the hill is the hunter - alive in its black-and-green coat cropped like an animal pelt. Good Friday, 1612. Two n...

Running Like a Girl | Alexandra Heminsley had high hopes: the arse of an athlete, the waist of a supermodel, the speed of a gazelle. Defeated by gyms and bored of yoga, she decided to run. Her first a...

Made for Love | Hazel has just moved into a trailer park of senior citizens, with her father and Diane - his sex doll companion. Life with Hazel's father is strained at best, but it's got to be better...

The Dark Net | Guns. Sex. Drugs. Murder. The Dark Net is just a click away. Beyond the familiar online world that most of us inhabit lies a vast network of sites, communities and cultures where freedo...

Before You Know It. The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do | 'John Bargh's Before You Know It moves our understanding of the mysteries of human behaviour one giant step forward. A brilliant and conv...

A Line Made By Walking | ‘When I finished Sara Baume’s new novel I immediately felt sad that I could not send it in the post to the late John Berger. He, too, would have loved it and found great joy i...

Strictly English. The Correct Way To Write... And Why It Matters | Издание полностью на английском языке. The author's incisive and amusingly despairing emails to colleagues at the "The Daily Telegrap...

Cold Hands | You thought you could leave the past behind. Think again. Donnie Miller counts himself lucky. Living in a beautiful, spacious house in the wild and remote landscape of central Canada, he ...

Marriage Material | To Arjan Banga, who has returned to the Black Country after the unexpected death of his father, his family's corner shop represents everything he has tried to leave behind - a leth...

King John. Treachery, Tyranny and the Road to Magna Carta | The brilliantly compelling new biography of the treacherous and tyrannical King John, published to coincide with the 800th anniversary of Ma...

The Lie | Set during and just after the First World War, The Lie is an enthralling, heart-wrenching novel of love, memory and devastating loss by one of the UK's most acclaimed storytellers. Cornwall,...

The Second Coming | God takes a look at the Earth around the time of the Renaissance and everything looks pretty good – so he takes a holiday. In Heaven-time this is just a week’s fishing trip, but on...

The Spoilt City | Bucharest, 1940. The city is on the brink of invasion and Guy and Harriet Pringle find their position growing ever more dangerous. Harriet longs for safety, while Guy's idealism frus...

Swan Song | To the outside world, they were the icons of high society - the most glamorous and influential women of their age. To Truman Capote they were his Swans: the ideal heroines, as vulnerable a...

Angelmaker | From the acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World - an adventure story, a war story, and a love story, all wound into one brilliant narrative that runs like clockwork. Shortlisted for the ...

In the Light of Morning | May 1944: High above the mountains of occupied Slovenia an aeroplane drops three British parachutists – brash MP Major Jack Farwell, radio operator Sid Dixon, and young acade...

Still Life with Bread Crumbs | Still Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographe...

Girl, Balancing | Haunting, uplifting, beautiful: the final work from Helen Dunmore Helen Dunmore passed away in June 2017, leaving behind this remarkable collection of short stories. With her tradema...

Holiday | 2019 marked the centenary of Stanley Middleton's birth. Holiday, winner of the 1974 Booker Prize, remains the most celebrated and popular novel from 'the Chekhov of suburbia'. Edwin Fisher h...

Straight White Male | Kennedy Marr is a novelist from the old school. Irish, acerbic, and a borderline alcoholic and sex-addict, his mantra is drink hard, write hard and try to screw every woman you m...

Tigerman | Sergeant Lester Ferris is a good man in need of a rest. He’s spent a lot of his life being shot at. He has no family, he’s nearly forty, burned out and about to be retired. The island of Ma...

Common Ground | After moving from London to a new home in Yorkshire, and about to become a father for the first time, Rob Cowen finds himself in unfamiliar territory. Disoriented, hemmed in by winter ...

Lonely Boy | Foreword by Chrissie Hynde Without the Sex Pistols there would be no punk rock, and without Steve Jones there would be no Sex Pistols. It was Steve who formed Kutie Jones and his Sex Pist...

The Story of Beautiful Girl | Категория: современная проза, на английском языке.

The Museum of You | Категория: современная проза, на английском языке.

Made for Love | Категория: современная проза, на английском языке.

The Shore | The Shore. A collection of small islands sticking out from the coast of Virginia into the Atlantic Ocean that has been home to generations of fierce and resilient women. Sanctuary to some ...

A Line Made By Walking | SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2017.Struggling to cope with urban life – and with life in general – Frankie, a twenty-something artist, retreats to the rural bungalow on...

Luckenbooth | 1910, Edinburgh. Jessie, the devil’s daughter, arrives on the doorstep of an imposing tenement building and knocks on a freshly painted wooden door. She has been sent by her father to be...

This Storm | A brilliant historical crime novel, set in Los Angeles and Mexico during the pulse-pounding aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor. January, ‘42. L.A. reels behind the shock of Pearl Har...

A Gentleman in Moscow | On 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Squ...

The Daylight Gate | The Forest of Pendle used to be a hunting ground, but some say that the hill is the hunter - alive in its black-and-green coat cropped like an animal pelt. Good Friday, 1612. Two n...

How to Be Human | SHORTLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2018. You’ve seen a fox. Come face to face in an unexpected place, or at an unexpected moment. And he has looked at you, as you have looked ...

The F*ck-it List | Frank Brill, a retired small-town newspaper editor, has just been given a terminal diagnosis. Rather than compile a bucket list of all the things he's ever wanted to do in his life,...

The Divide. A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions | * The richest eight people control more wealth than the poorest half of the world combined. * Today, 60 per cent of the world’s popul...

Educated | Tara Westover and her family grew up preparing for the End of Days but, according to the government, she didn’t exist. She hadn’t been registered for a birth certificate. She had no school ...

Furious Hours | The stunning story of an Alabama serial killer and the true-crime book that Harper Lee worked on obsessively in the years after To Kill a Mockingbird. Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rur...

The Liar s Dictionary | Swansby’s New Encyclopaedic Dictionary is riddled with fictitious entries known as mountweazels penned by Peter Winceworth, a man wishing to make his lasting mark back in 1899....

Salt Houses | Although she keeps her predictions to herself that day, they soon come to pass in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967. Caught up in the resistance, Alia’s brother disappears, while Alia ...

The German Heiress | Essen, 1946. Clara Falkenberg, once an iconic heiress, is on the run. With the city in ruins and her dear friend Elisa missing, Clara enlists the help of Jakob, a charming young r...

How Do We Know We re Doing It Right? And Other Thoughts On Modern Life | Stop searching for the answers - and start delighting in the questions with Pandora Sykes, co-host of The High Low podcast. Код...

St Petersburg: Three Centuries of Murderous Desire | From Peter the Great to Putin, this is the unforgettable story of St Petersburg - one of the most magical, menacing and influential cities in the w...

Rich People Problems | Nicholas Young's grandmother Su Yi is on her deathbed. While he rushes to be by her bedside, he's not the only one. The entire Shang-Young clan has convened from all corners of ...

The Gone-Away World | The Jorgmund Pipe is the backbone of the world, and it's on fire. Gonzo Lubitsch, professional hero and troubleshooter, is hired to put it out - but there's more to the fire, and...

Night Film | On a damp October night the body of beautiful Ashley Cordova is discovered in a Manhattan warehouse. Though her death is ruled a suicide, investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects o...

Gnomon | Near-future Britain is a state in which citizens are constantly observed and democracy has reached a pinnacle of 'transparency.' Every action is seen, every word is recorded and the System ha...

When Ziggy Played Guitar. David Bowie and Four Minutes that Shook the World | 6 July, 1972 David Bowie appears on Top of the Pops for a third time. His quiff is big, bold, and the colour of fire. His ...

Castle. A History of the Buildings that Shaped Medieval Britain | Beginning with their introduction in the eleventh century, and ending with their widespread abandonment in the seventeenth, Marc Morri...

Kill Your Friends | Meet Steven Stelfox. London 1997: New Labour is sweeping into power and Britpop is at its zenith. A&R man Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through the music industry, fu...

The Age of Spectacle. The Rise and Fall of Iconic Architecture | In Dubai, a luxury apartment block is built in the shape of a giant iPod. In China, President Xi Jinping denounces the trend of constru...

Less is More. How Degrowth Will Save the World | A groundbreaking exploration of the best possible solution to the climate crisis: a new economic model, and a new way of viewing our relationship with ...

The Secrets We Kept | No one looks twice at the women in the typing pool. No one knows that two of them are trading secrets. The secret is a book, the size of the one in your hands, and within its pag...

No Good Deed | The viciously funny novel by John Niven, bestselling author of Kill Your Friends and Straight White Male. What do you do when a homeless man knows your name? How about when he turns out...

The Race to Save the Romanovs. The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family | A work of investigative history that will completely change the way in which we see the Romanov st...

Blood's A Rover | It's 1968. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King are dead. The Mob, Howard Hughes and J Edgar Hoover are in a struggle for America's soul, drawing into their murderous conspiracies th...

David Bowie. A Life | Drawn from a series of conversations between David Bowie and Dylan Jones across three decades, together with over 180 interviews with friends, rivals, lovers, and collaborators -...

The Tell-Tale Brain. Unlocking the Mystery of Human Nature | A groundbreaking book about what we learn about human nature when the brain goes wrong, by the world's most exciting brain scientist. John,...

Ancient Worlds. An Epic History of East and West | Acclaimed historian and TV presenter Michael Scott guides us through an epic story spanning ten centuries to create a bold new reading of the classic...

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake | On the eve of her ninth birthday, Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mo...

Immortal | The two time winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award on George Best, considered the greatest footballer of our time. No other imposed himself so completely on to the romant...

A Light That Never Goes Out | The first group biography of one of the greatest British bands of all time - The Smiths. To this day, they were, their fans believe, the best band in the world. Critics a...