Meet Drew Lord Haig, called upon to sing the obscure hit from his youth at a paramilitary event. Or Max, who recalls an eventful journey to a Christian film festival. Meet Mrs Dallesandro, in the tanning salon on her wedding anniversary dreaming of a teenage sexual experience. And Sonya, who scours the streets of Belfast for the missing posters of her dead son.In Dance Move, the collection of stories from Wendy Erskine, we meet characters who are looking to wrest control of their lives, only to find themselves defined by the moment in their past that marked them.In these stories — as in real life — the funny, the tender and the devastating go hand in hand. Full of warmth, the familiar and the strange, they are about what it means to live in the world, how far you can end up from where you came from, and what it means to look back.

It’s January 1st and Brian Bilston’s life needs to change. His ex-wife has taken up with a new man, a motivational speaker and marketing guru to boot; he seems to constantly disappoint his long-suffering son; and at work he is drowning in a sea of spreadsheets and management jargon.Brian’s resolution is to write a poem every day; poetry will be his salvation. But there is an obstacle to his happiness in the form of Toby Salt, his arch nemesis in the Poetry Group and rival suitor to Liz, Brian’s new poetic inspiration. When Toby goes missing, Brian is the number one suspect.Part tender love story, part suburban murder mystery, part scathing description of a wasted life, and interspersed with some of the funniest poems about the mundane and the profound, Diary of a Somebody is a unique, original and hilarious novel.

Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded with a man she doesn’t love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. She spends her days in isolated tedium and her nights in a blur of vodka and self-recrimination. Until, early one morning, she sees a shadow drifting up the beach below her house. It is Luther Fox, an outcast, a man on the run from his own past. And now here he is stepping into Georgie’s life. He brings hope, maybe even love, but also danger…

From the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles comes Elizabeth Jane Howard’s Love All.The late 1960s. For Persephone Plover, the daughter of distant and neglectful parents, the innocent, isolated days of childhood are long past. Now she must deal with the emotions of an adult world…Meanwhile in Melton, in the West Country, Jack Curtis — a self-made millionaire — has employed Persephone’s aunt, a garden designer in her sixties, to deal with the terraces and glasshouses of the once beautiful local manor house he has acquired at vast expense. He also has plans to start an arts festival, as a means to avoid the loneliness of the recently divorced.Also in Melton are the Musgrove siblings, Thomas and Mary, whose parents originally owned and lived in Melton House. They are still trying to cope with emotional consequences of the tragic death of Thomas’s wife, Celia… as is Francis, Celia’s brother, who has come to live with them and thereby, perhaps, to find his way through life.

The first step was learning to read, but if she really wants to turn her life around, Maggsie is going to have to trust other people — and that might just be the hardest lesson she’s ever faced…Small and dyslexic, with a short fuse, bad teeth, a prison record and something to prove, Marguerite McNaughton — Maggsie — doesn’t need anybody or anything, thank you very much. She’s more than capable of looking after herself.She’s also about to discover that everyone needs someone, sometimes.Even her.The thing about trusting others, though, is that not everyone is trustworthy…It starts when a fellow inmate gives Maggsie reading lessons. Then she’s offered a job in London as a kitchen assistant, together with supported accommodation and a colleague who seems determined to befriend Maggsie, no matter what.At first, Maggsie is convinced nothing will change.Especially her.But maybe this time can be different? Maybe Maggsie can be different — if she can just put her previous mistakes behind her and her trust in the right people.

Henry, Lee, Kip and Ronny grew up together in rural Wisconsin. Friends since childhood, their lives all began the same way, but have since taken different paths. Henry stayed on the family farm and married his first love, whilst the others left in search of something more. Ronnie became a rodeo star, Kip made his fortune in the city, and musician Lee found fame — but heartbreak, too.Now all four are back in town for a wedding, each of them hoping to recapture their old closeness but unable to escape how much has changed. Amid the happiness of reunion and celebration, old rivalries resurface and a wife’s secret threatens to tear both a marriage and a friendship apart . . .This is a novel about the things that matter — love and loyalty, the power of music and the beauty of nature — told in a uniquely beautiful, warm-hearted and profound way and exploring the age-old question of whether we can ever truly come home.

Set in the author’s native Belfast, the ten stories in Sweet Home lay bare the heartbreak and quiet tragedies that run under the surface of everyday lives. A lonely woman is fascinated by her niqab-wearingneighbours; a middle-aged teacher becomes obsessed with a young Gaelic football player; and an employer covers for his two employees caught having sex in a public toilet.Wendy Erskine offers perfectly formed, brilliantly observed portraits of people trying to carve out a life for themselves, all the while being buffeted by the loss, grief and regret that come their way. Warm, compassionate and funny, Sweet Home captures life in contemporary East Belfast, in all of its forms.

A startlingly beautiful story of a family’s survival, The End We Start From is a haunting but hopeful dystopian vision of a familiar world made dangerous and unstable.Megan Hunter’s honed and spare prose paints an imagined future as realistic as it is frightening. Though the country is falling apart around them and its people are forced to become refugees, this family’s world — of new life and new hope — sings with love.In the midst of a mysterious environmental crisis, as London is submerged below flood waters, a woman gives birth to her first child. Days later, the family are forced to leave their home in search of safety. As they move from place to place, shelter to shelter, their journey traces both fear and wonder as the baby’s small fists grasp at the things he sees, as he grows and stretches, thriving and content against all the odds.

At dusk on a November evening in 2020 a woman slips out of her garden gate and turns up the hill. Kate is in the middle of two weeks of isolation, but she just can’t take it any more — the closeness of the air in her small house, the confinement. And anyway, the moor will be deserted at this time. Nobody need ever know.But Kate’s neighbour Alice sees her leaving and Matt, Kate’s son, soon realizes she’s missing. And Kate, who planned only a quick solitary walk — a breath of open air — falls and badly injures herself. What began as a furtive walk has turned into a mountain-rescue operation . . .Unbearably suspenseful, witty and wise, The Fell asks probing questions about the place the world has become since March 2020, and the place it was before. This novel is a story about compassion and kindness and what we must do to survive.

Книга «Wilful Disregard. A Novel About Love». Издательство: Picador. Год выпуска: 2016. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 196. Автор: Andersson Lena. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство. Переводчик: Death Sarah.

A Voice in the Night is the twentieth compelling crime novel in the phenomenally successful Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri.Feeling his age, as his birthday rolls round once again, Inspector Montalbano decides to cheer himself up by dealing with a young driver’s road rage in his own unique way.But his joy is short-lived, as at police headquarters he receives an angry phone call from a supermarket boss: there’s been a robbery at his store and Montalbano’s colleague is treating him as a suspect. On arrival at the scene, Montalbano quickly agrees with Inspector Augello that this was no ordinary break-in, but with the supermarket’s infamous links to the Sicilian Mafia creating problems at every turn, this isn’t going to be an easy case for the inspector to solve.And to add to the inspector’s burden, the young driver he made an enemy of earlier on has returned to police headquarters to report a shocking crime…

It was always the same nightmare. Cross saw them lined up in rows, in stretches of city wasteland — those derelict spaces once described to him by a child as the blank bits where things had been before they’d got blown up.It is 1985 and a killer moves through Belfast’s blighted streets. In a time and place ruled and divided by political and religious differences, this series of crimes cuts across all those boundaries. Detective Inspector Cross, together with Westerby, a young policewoman, enters a maze of conspiracy and paranoia, and, as the investigation draws closer to the truth, they find themselves in a nightmare world, with little hope of escape.The Psalm Killer is Chris Petit’s epic thriller set during the Irish Troubles. Masterfully written, disturbing and exciting, it is a book of immense intelligence and a real classic of its genre.

She’s accused of four murders. She’s only guilty of three…When Ruby was a child growing up in Miami, she saw a boy from her school struggling against the ocean waves while his parents were preoccupied. Instead of helping him, Ruby dove under the water and held his ankle down until he drowned. She waited to feel guilty for it, but she never did.And, as Ruby will argue in her senior thesis while studying psychology at Yale, guilt is sort of like eating ice cream while on a diet — if you’re already feeling bad, why not eat the whole carton? And so, the bodies start to stack up.Twenty-five years later, Ruby’s in an interrogation room under suspicion of murder, being shown four photographs. Each is a person she once knew, now deceased. The line-up includes her husband Jason. She is responsible for three of the four deaths… but it might be the crime that she didn’t commit that will finally ensnare her.

Книга «Brenda Is a Sheep». Издательство: Two Hoots. Год выпуска: 2020. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 32. Автор: Hood Morag. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство. Иллюстраторы: Hood Morag.

In the Piedmont of North Carolina, two families’ paths become unexpectedly intertwined over twenty years. Jade and Lacey May are two mothers determined to give their children the opportunities they never had. After a harrowing loss, Jade wants to hand down the tools her son, Gee, will need to survive in America as a sensitive young Black man.Meanwhile, Lacey May, having left the husband she loves, strives to protect her three half-Latina daughters from their charming father’s influence. When a county initiative draws students from the largely Black east side of town into a predominantly white high school on the west, each mother stands on different sides of the integration debate. Gee meets Lacey May’s daughter Noelle during the school play, and their families begin to form deeply knotted, messy ties that will shape the trajectory of their adult lives. And their mothers make choices that will haunt them for decades to come.What’s Mine and Yours is an expansive yet intimate multigenerational tapestry of motherhood, identity, and the legacies we inherit. It explores the unique organism that is every family: what breaks them apart and how they come back together.

Книга «And So It Begins». Издательство: Wildfire. Год выпуска: 2019. Серия: A Stephanie King Thriller. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 416. Автор: Abbott Rachel. Стандарт: 10. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

Writing on everything from a defence of suburban life and moderate politics to big ideas and pop culture, Daniel Finkelstein is one of the UK’s most entertaining and widely read columnists.This collection brings together Finkelstein’s greatest writings from The Times, ranging from the personal – with his articles on growing up Jewish in Hendon Central and on the deaths of both of his parents – to the political, with columns on how to predict elections, the way political science showed us Ed Miliband was on his way to defeat, and why the base rate of coups meant Jeremy Corbyn wouldn’t be ousted before an election.Wry, informed and often brilliantly funny, these pieces zip between Walt Disney, Hilary Clinton, David Bowie, Margaret Thatcher, Clement Attlee and Muhammed Ali. They make arguments about football, assisted dying, the art of becoming Prime Minister and the musical Hamilton. Cutting through the chatter to get to the centre of politics and culture, this varied and stimulating book gives an eclectic insight into the biggest conversations of the modern day. Everything is here. In moderation of course.

Lady Chatterley’s Lover was banned on its publication in 1928, creating a storm of controversy. Lawrence tells the story of Constance Chatterley’s marriage to Sir Clifford, an aristocratic and an intellectual who is paralyzed from the waist down after the First World War. Desperate for an heir and embarrassed by his inability to satisfy his wife, Clifford suggests that she have an affair. Constance, troubled by her husband’s words, finds herself involved in a passionate relationship with their gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. Lawrence’s vitriolic denunciations of industrialism and class division come together in his vivid depiction of the profound emotional and physical connection between a couple otherwise divided by station and society.

«Полагаю, что в самый первый вечер, когда я отправился на виллу Гэтсби, я оказался одним из немногих гостей, кого действительно пригласили. Людей не приглашали — они туда просто приезжали.»Роскошное поместье Джея Гэтсби на Лонг-Айленде переполнено кутящей молодёжью «ревущих двадцатых». Но сам Гэтсби, красивый и загадочно богатый, никогда не появляется перед своими гостями. Он держится подальше от толпы, томимый тем, чем никак не может обладать — Дейзи Бьюкенен, которая уже много лет замужем за другим. Одним судьбоносным летом пара наконец-то воссоединяется, и эта встреча приводит к событиям, которые разрушают их жизни, принося горе всем, кто их окружает.Классический роман выдающегося американского писателя Фрэнсиса Скотта Фицджеральда «Великий Гэтсби», литературная жемчужина «эпохи джаза», станет великолепным подарком поклонникам творчества автора.В 2013-м году по книге был снят одноименный фильм с Леонардо ди Каприо и Тоби Магуайром в главных ролях.Книга на английском языке.

Книга «Core of the Sun, The». Издательство: Grove Press. Год выпуска: 2017. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 310. Автор: Sinisalo Johanna. Стандарт: 10. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

К сожалению, со временем люди и даже целые племена рано или поздно вырождаются. У них выпадают острые клыки, они забывают свой язык и робеют, их спины гнутся от изнурительного труда на полях.Лемет — мальчик из доисторического леса. Его полностью устраивает жизнь в семье охотников и собирателей. Но однажды неподалёку селятся какие-то странные чужеземцы со странной (но интригующей верой), приплывшие на кораблях, и лес начинает пустеть. Желающих перебраться в их деревню и заниматься земледелием и печь хлеб становится всё больше. Но Лемета и других отказавшихся перебираться обитателей леса жизнь, полная тяжёлого труда, не привлекает. Они не хотят приспосабливаться к переменам и продолжают сосуществовать с голозадыми приматами-традиционалистами, похотливыми медведями и гигантской вшой. Они, как и раньше, живут в лачугах, приручают волков и разговаривают со змеями.«Последний, кто знал змеиную молвь» — аллегорическая, яркая, одновременно сатирическая и трогательная сказка Андруса Кивиряхка о мальчике и народе, стоящих на пороге больших перемен.Книга на английском языке.

Diese Sammlung spielerischer Aktivitäten ist optimal auf das erweiterte Verständnis von Mediation im Begleitband des GeR abgestimmt. Sie hilft DaF- und DaZ-Lernenden die unterschiedlichen Bereiche von Mediation (Text-, Konzept- und Kommunikationsmediation) und die dazugehörigen Mediationsstrategien kennenzulernen und spielerisch zu trainieren.Die Spiele können unabhängig oder begleitend zu jedem Lehrwerk eingesetzt werden und enthalten detaillierte Spielbeschreibungen und Kopiervorlagen für den sofortigen Einsatz im Unterricht.Die Spielesind für die Niveaustufen A2 bis C1 konzipiert.eignen sich für den Unterricht mit Erwachsenen und Jugendlichen.sind direkt und flexibel im Unterricht einsetzbar.sind abwechslungsreich und originell – und machen einfach Spaß! Четыре причины купить 1Подходит для учащихся с уровнями A2-C1. 2Подходит для объяснения концепции Медиации и ее применения в учебном процессе. 3Содержат подробные описания игр. 4Подходит для подростков и взрослых.

Diese Spielesammlung enthalt 44 unterhaltsame, aktivierende Spiele zum abwechslungsreichen Uben der Fertigkeiten Sprechen, Horen, Lesen und Schreiben im Unterricht. Durch Aktivitaten mit Ratselcharakter, wie beispielsweise Spiele mit Wissenslucken, Logik- und Knobelratsel, werden die Lernenden in besonderem Masse zum Lernen motiviert. Die Spiele konnen begleitend zu jedem DaF-Sprachlehrwerk eingesetzt werden und enthalten detaillierte Spielbeschreibungen und Kopiervorlagen fur den sofortigen Einsatz im Unterricht.Die Spielesind fur die Niveaustufen A1 – B2 konzipiert.eignen sich fur den Unterricht mit Erwachsenen und Jugendlichen.erfordern wenig Vorbereitung.sind direkt und flexibel im Unterricht einsetzbar.fordern die Motivation der Lernenden durch den unterhaltsamen Ratselcharakter der Spiele.

> Kompetent kommunizieren im BerufTraining wichtiger berufssprachlicher KompetenzenRedemittel und Wortschatz aus Alltag und BerufGezielte Ausspracheübungen in jeder Lektion> Sicher und gezielt vorankommenKurze und klar strukturierte LektionenUmfangreiches ÜbungsangebotIntegrierte Aufgaben zu den telc-Berufsprüfungen und BULATS> Lebendig und praxisnah lernenZahlreiche Rollenspiele und SzenarienGrammatik im beruflichen KontextAuthentische Firmenporträts mit passenden Filmen> Alle Audios und Filme sind im separaten Medienpaket oder kostenlos online erhältlich (Zugangslink im Buch).

Wirtschaftslehrwerk für ErwachseneKursbuch A1-A2> Kompetent kommunizieren im BerufTraining wichtiger berufssprachlicher KompetenzenRedemittel und Wortschatz aus Alltag und BerufGezielte Ausspracheübungen in jeder Lektion> Sicher und gezielt vorankommenKurze und klar strukturierte LektionenUmfangreiches ÜbungsangebotIntegrierte Aufgaben zu den telc-Berufsprüfungen und BULATS> Lebendig und praxisnah lernenZahlreiche Rollenspiele und SzenarienGrammatik im beruflichen KontextAuthentische Firmenporträts mit passenden Filmen> Alle Audios und Filme sind im separaten Medienpaket oder kostenlos online erhältlich.