Книга объединяет шесть историй, главные герои которых имеют нечто общее: родимое пятно в форме кометы. В остальном — у каждого свой путь, свои шансы умереть или выжить. Цепь случайностей, связывающих жизни людей, в которых есть место предательствам и убийствам, но также и любви, преданности, подвигу.

Cloud Atlas / David Mitchell. - London: Sceptre, 2004.

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The Fun Factory. A Life in the BBC. / Will Wyatt. - London : Aurum Press, 2003

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London's Secret Tubes. / Andrew Emmerson, Tony Beard. - Harrow: Capital Transport, 2004.

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Made in Britain. Tradition and style in contemporary British fashion. / Catherine McDermott. - London : Mitchell Beazley, 2002.

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Сочетая карьеру музыканта и журналиста, Алекс Джеймс на протяжении многих лет пишет материалы для известных британских изданий: The Sun, Esquire, The Independent и др.

Bit of a Blur: Autobiography. / Alex James. - London : Little, Brown., 2007.

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A former playwright with only two movies under his belt, Anthony Minghella took Hollywood by storm in 1996 with The English Patient, a universally lauded epic described by Roger Ebert as "... poetic, evocative film . . . told with sweep and visual richness." This robust romance garnered nine Academy Awards, amongst them Best Picture and Best Director. His follow-up, The Talented Mr. Ripley, combined stunning vistas with the masterful suspense of studio-era Hollywood; praised by the New York Times' Janet Maslin as a "hypnotic, sensually charged adaptation," the film also found the attention of the Academy, receiving five nominations. With yet another ambitious adaptation creating tremendous buzz - Charles Frazier's best-selling Cold Mountain--Minghella is well on his way to becoming one of the most respected directors of the decade.

A thorough craftsman painstakingly involved with each step of the moviemaking process, Minghella here shares knowledge gleaned from years of experience as a musician and writer for the theater. Praised for his ability to adapt the psychological density of the novel to the silver screen, he discusses the screenwriting process at length, imparting valuable lessons regarding pacing and narrative with a refreshing perspective as unique as the characters that pass before his lens.

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"At the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal. Hapless veterans of World War II, Archie and Samad and their families become agents of England’s irrevocable transformation. A second marriage to Clara Bowden, a beautiful, albeit tooth-challenged, Jamaican half his age, quite literally gives Archie a second lease on life, and produces Irie, a knowing child whose personality doesn’t quite match her name (Jamaican for “no problem”). Samad’s late-in-life arranged marriage (he had to wait for his bride to be born), produces twin sons whose separate paths confound Iqbal’s every effort to direct them, and a renewed, if selective, submission to his Islamic faith. Set against London’s racial and cultural tapestry, venturing across the former empire and into the past as it barrels toward the future, White Teeth revels in the ecstatic hodgepodge of modern life, flirting with disaster, confounding expectations, and embracing the comedy of daily existence".

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