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It doesn't look like murder in a city full of death. A pandemic called 'The Sweats' is sweeping the globe. London is a city in crisis. Hospitals begin to fill with the dead and dying, but Stevie Flint is convinced that the sudden death of her boyfriend Dr Simon Sharkey was not from natural causes. As roads out of London become gridlocked with people fleeing infection, Stevie's search for Simon's killers takes her in the opposite direction, into the depths of the dying city and a race with death. A Lovely Way to Burn is the first outbreak in the Plague Times trilogy. Chilling, tense and completely compelling, it's Louise Welsh writing at the height of her powers.

Magnus McFall is no stranger to trouble, but he never expected a life sentence. He is arrested just as a pandemic called ‘The Sweats’ hits London. Growing public disorder results in emergency powers and he finds himself imprisoned without trial. An unlikely alliance with long-termer Jeb and a prison riot offer the opportunity of escape. The two men force their way through the devastated city and head north into countryside fraught with danger. Magnus is unsure if Jeb is an ally or an enemy and soon he is forced to decide how far he will go in order to survive.

Professor Murray Watson is rather a sad sack. His family, his career, his affair…not even drinking offers much joy. All his energies are now focused on his research into Archie Lunan, a minor poet who drowned 30 years ago off a remote stretch of Scottish coast. By redeeming Lunan's reputation, Watson hopes to redeem his own. But the more he learns about Lunan's sordid life, the more unlikely redemption appears.

Случайно наткнувшись на фотографии со «снаффом», мистер Рильке решает узнать правду об их происхождении. Над ним смеются, его бьют, забирают в полицию, ему рассказывают истории. Безумцы, наркоманы, религиозные фанатики и люди, имена которых лучше не произносить вслух… Улисс из Глазго не рассуждает и не оценивает. Но невольно Рильке заглядывает в потемки чужих душ, не сразу замечая, что одна из них – его собственная.

Увлекательный роман известной шотландской писательницы Луизы Уэлш посвящен трагической гибели великого драматурга XVI века Кристофера Марло, которому некоторые критики приписывают авторство шекспировских пьес. Опираясь на исторические факты, писательница создала динамичное и захватывающее повествование, в котором нашли образное воплощение высокие и низкие свойства человеческой души: благородство дружба, ревность, страсть, предательство, ненависть, возмездие…