From Victorian London to the vibrant port cities of England and France, from gracious stately homes in Gloucestershire to the decadence of Paris, Master of His Fate launches an unforgettable new historical series.London 1884: Queen Victoria is Empress of India and Britain is at its peak of worldwide power.James Falconer works as a barrow boy in a flourishing London market owned by Henry Malvern. But James hungers for more. Turning away from family tradition, he dreams of building an empire of stores like Fortnum and Mason’s and believes that Henry, along with his daughter and heir Alexis, could offer him a way to climb beyond his beginnings.But tragedy and betrayal threaten the dreams of both James and Alexis – and jeopardise everything they hold dear…

Two women, centuries apart. Linked in a place haunted by its history…Separated by more than six hundred years of history, two women are drawn together by Sleeper’s Castle, a house steeped in memory and magic. This is an epic tale of forbidden love, cruel revenge and a war that time can’t forget.Grieving and lost, Miranda has moved to Hay to escape, and slowly she feels herself coming to life in the solitude of the mountains. But her vivid dreams at Sleeper’s Castle introduce her to Catrin, a young women whose gift for foretelling the future embroiled her in a bloody revolt against English rule – many centuries ago.An unbreakable connection is forged across history. Catrin is reaching out . . . and only Miranda can help. But time is running out…Sunday Times bestselling author Barbara Erskine returns to Hay in the year that marks the 30th anniversary of her sensational debut bestseller, Lady of Hay.

Murder, lies and betrayal in Regency EnglandEngland 1819. Thomas Shield, a master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the child’s sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Helplessly drawn to Frant’s beautiful, unhappy mother, Shield becomes entwined in their family’s affairs.When a brutal murder takes place in London’s seedy backstreets, all clues lead to the Frant family, and Shield is tangled in a web of lies, money, sex and death that threatens to tear his new life apart.Soon, it emerges that at the heart of these macabre events lies the strange American boy. What secrets is the young Edgar Allan Poe hiding?

It all started with the school rabbit…Snowflake is the school rabbit, and Snowflake is trouble.At least that’s what Tommy thinks. And when Snowflake unexpectedly comes to stay just before Christmas and everything starts to go wrong, it looks like Tommy might be right.With a sick sister left in bed, a snobby actor left with suspiciously damp trousers, and no rabbit anywhere to be seen, Tommy and his family may just be doomed.Is Tommy suffering The Curse of the School Rabbit? Or can all this bad luck turn good in the end?A fantastically funny and exquisitely illustrated young fiction title from much-loved author and illustrator Judith Kerr.

Книга «The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner». Издательство: Harper Collins. Год выпуска: 2007. Серия: Harper Perennial Modern Classics. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 192. Автор: Sillitoe Alan. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

A loving marriage…Golden couple Annie and David Crayce have it all. A perfect marriage, three beautiful children and a thriving family business. Life couldn’t be better. Until the unthinkable happens…A long-buried crime…Suddenly, David is the prime suspect of a murder committed twenty years ago. As the police investigate the cold case, so does Annie. But it all comes down to a few lost hours she can’t solve.Now Annie must prove the man she loves is innocent.The clock is ticking…

A stunning novel set in the Tudor court, from the Sunday Times No.1 bestseller Philippa Gregory.I would have been a fool indeed to tell the truth in this court of liars…1553. King Edward is on his deathbed, and the future of the Tudor dynasty swings perilously.Forced out of Spain by the Inquisition, Hannah Green arrives in a volatile kingdom. She is identified as a seer and sworn into the service of Robert Dudley, the son of King Edward’s protector and a key player at court. Her task: to keep watch on Princess Mary, the forgotten heir.Mary’s grip on the Crown is fragile. Elizabeth, Mary’s half-sister, is ready to take England’s throne. Caught in the rivalry between the daughters of Henry VIII, Hannah must navigate her way through a treacherous court if she is to survive.

Elizabethan England, and a dastardly Spanish plot to take over the throne is uncovered. It’s up to Agent Archie Noble to save Queen and country in this saucy and swashbuckling romp from the bestselling author of The Flashman Papers and The Pyrates.Spoiled, arrogant, filthy rich, and breathtakingly beautiful, the young Lady Godiva Dacre is exiled from the court of Good Queen Bess (who can’t abide red-haired competition) to her lonely estate in distant Cumberland, where she looks forward to bullying the peasantry and getting her own imperious way. Little does she guess that the turbulent Scottish border is the last place for an Elizabethan heiress, beset by ruthless reivers (many of them unshaven), blackmailing ruffians, fiendish Spanish plotters intent on regime change and turning Merrie England into a ghastly European Union province.And no one to rely on but her half-witted blonde school chum, a rugged English superman with a knack for disaster, and a dashing highwayman who looks like Errol Flynn but has a Glasgow accent. To say nothing of warlocks, impersonators, taxi-drivers riding brooms, burlesque artists, the drunkest man in Scotland, and several quite normal characters — oh, yes, gossips, it’s all happening in The Reavers, a moral tale obviously conceived in some kind of fit by Flashman author George MacDonald Fraser … well, he’s getting on, and was bound to crack eventually. He admits (nay, insists) that it’s a crazy story for readers who love fun for its own sake.

The new book in the heart-warming WW2 family saga series!As the tides of war turn, friendship has never been more important…Spring 1944. As the Allied forces push on towards longed-for victory, Lily Collins yearns to join up and do her bit. But where does her duty lie?Her best friend Gladys faces having her first baby alone, with her new husband back with the Navy.And their friend Beryl is run off her feet building her bridal-hire business amid the bomb damage.So while wedding bells are ringing for others at Marlows Department Store, where Lily works, will they be heard for Lily herself – or does fate have another twist in store?

Книга «Worlds Explode». Издательство: Harper Collins. Год выпуска: 2017. Серия: Darkmouth. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 446. Автор: Hegarty Shane. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство. Иллюстраторы: de la Rue James.

Princess Florizella may live in a classic fairy-tale world, but she’s no ordinary princess…These three stories were originally published under the titles Princess Florizella, Princess Florizella and the Wolves and Princess Florizella and the Giant.They were originally dedicated to her daughter but have been reimagined in this edition which she has dedicated to her grandchildren.“Princess Florizella was friends with some of the princesses who had studied The Princess Rules, and behaved just as the Rules said they should. Florizella thought their hair was lovely: so golden and so very long. And their clothes were nice: so richly embroidered. And their shoes were delightful: so tiny and handmade in silk. But their days bored her to death…”Instead, Princess Florizella rides her horse, Jellybean, all over the kingdom, having adventures of her own…

The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the number one bestseller Vagabond, this is the third instalment in Bernard Cornwell’s Grail Quest series, in a bright and bold repackage.It is 1347. The Hundred Years War has been suspended. The truce releases English archer Thomas of Hookton to pursue his arch enemy and resume his quest for the most prized relic in Christendom: the Holy Grail. Heading south, Thomas and his men-at-arms begin lightning raids to draw out his enemy.But fate takes an unexpected hand when the plague strikes. What had been a landscape of castles, monasteries, vineyards and villages becomes death’s kingdom and the need for the grail, as a sign of God’s favour, is more urgent than ever.

‘What some might call beauty, I find monstrous’In the age of the Faerie Queene, Elizabeth I, Lord Francis Rodermere starts to lay waste to a forest.Furious, the sorceress who dwells there scrawls a curse into the bark of the first oak he fells:A faerie boy will be born to you whose beauty will be your death.Ten years later, Lord Rodermere’s son, Beau is born — and all who encounter him are struck by his great beauty.Meanwhile, many miles away in a London alchemist’s cellar lives Randa — a beast deemed too monstrous to see the light of day.And so begins a timeless tale of love, tragedy and revenge…A stunning retelling of Beauty and the Beast

Cornwall, summer of 1986.The Davenports, with their fast cars and glamorous clothes, living the dream in a breathtaking house overlooking the sea.If only… thinks sixteen-year-old Tamsyn, her binoculars trained on the perfect family in their perfect home.If only her life was as perfect as theirs.If only Edie Davenport would be her friend.If only she lived at The Cliff House…Amanda Jennings weaves a haunting tale of obsession, loss and longing, set against the brooding North Cornish coastline, destined to stay with readers long after the final page is turned.

Could one mother’s mistake cost her daughter everything?Once you’re in, they’ll never let you leave.At Oak Leaf Farm you will find a haven.Welcome to The Family.Laura is grieving after the sudden death of her husband. Struggling to cope emotionally and financially, Laura is grateful when a local community, Oak Leaf Organics, offer her and her 17-year-old daughter Tilly a home.But as Laura and Tilly settle into life with their new ‘family’, sinister things begin to happen. When one of the community dies in suspicious circumstances Laura wants to leave but Tilly, enthralled by the charismatic leader, Alex, refuses to go.Desperately searching for a way to save her daughter, Laura uncovers a horrifying secret but Alex and his family aren’t the only ones with something to hide. Just as Laura has been digging into their past, they’ve been digging into hers and she discovers the terrifying reason they invited her and Tilly in, and why they’ll never let them leave…

A fast-paced and action-packed thriller, full of twists and turns you won’t see coming. It is the most gripping suspense mystery you’ll read this year.They said it was an accident. Her mother knows they’re lying. But the truth comes with a price…It’s every parent’s worst nightmare.Abi Knight is startled awake in the middle of the night to a ringing phone and devastating news — her teenage daughter, Olivia, has been in a terrible accident.Abi is told that Olivia slipped and fell from a bridge into the icy water below, and now she lies silent, dependent on life support.But then Abi sees the angry bruises around Olivia’s wrists and learns that her sensible daughter is in fact three months pregnant…Would you believe it if they told you it was an accident?

Тетрадь общая.Количество листов: 48.Формат: А5.Внутренний блок: белый офсет, плотность 60 гр/м2.Тип линовки блока: клетка, с красными полями.Крепление блока: скрепка.Создана для современной молодежи, с учетом актуальных трендов. На обложке изображены забавные животные, в каждом из которых можно найти частичку себя.Классический внутренний блок в клетку делает тетрадь универсальной в использовании.

A collection of Penelope Fitzgerald’s short stories.Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the most highly-regarded writers on the English literary scene. Apart from Iris Murdoch, no other writer has been shortlisted so many times for the Booker. Her last novel, ‘The Blue Flower’, was the book of its year, garnering extraordinary acclaim in Britain, America and Europe.This superb collection of stories, originally published in anthologies and newspapers, shows Penelope Fitzgerald at her very best. From the tale of a young boy in 17-century England who loses a precious keepsake and finds it frozen in a puddle of ice, to that of a group of buffoonish amateur Victorian painters on a trip to Brittany, these stories are characteristically wide ranging, enigmatic and very funny. They are each miniature studies of the endless absurdity of human behaviour.

Книга «Finding Henry Applebee». Издательство: One More Chapter. Год выпуска: 2019. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 420. Автор: Reynolds Celia. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

Книга «Doggerland». Издательство: 4th Estate. Год выпуска: 2020. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 248. Автор: Smith Ben. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

Книга «All the Beautiful Girls». Издательство: 4th Estate. Год выпуска: 2019. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 326. Автор: Church Elizabeth J. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

An epic chronicle of the last twenty years of British life from the Booker shortlisted and Granta Best of Young British novelist, Philip Hensher.Beginning in 1974 and ending with the fading of Thatcher’s government in 1996, ‘The Northern Clemency’ is Philip Hensher’s epic portrait of an entire era, a novel concerned with the lives of ordinary people and history on the move.Set in Sheffield, it charts the relationship between two families: Malcolm and Katherine Glover and their three children; and their neighbours, the Sellers family, newly arrived from London so that Bernie can pursue his job with the Electricity Board. The day the Sellers move in there is a crisis across the road: Malcolm Glover has left home, convinced his wife is having an affair. The consequences of this rupture will spread throughout the lives of both couples and their children, in particular ten-year-old Tim Glover, who never quite recovers from a moment of his mother’s public cruelty and the amused taunting of fifteen-year-old Sandra Sellers, childhood crises that will come to a head twenty years later. In the background, England is changing: from a manufacturing- and industrial-based economy into a new world of shops, restaurants and service industries, a shift particularly marked in the North with the miners’ strike of 1984, which has a dramatic impact on both families.Inspired by the expansive scale and webs of relationships of the great nineteenth-century Russian novels, ‘The Northern Clemency’ shows Philip Hensher to be one of our greatest chroniclers of English life.

From Beachy Head to Brighton, and from Chichester to Rye, Flaming Sussex sees our intrepid trio plunge once again into the dark heart of EnglandAt about four o’clock on 5th November 1937, Miss Lizzie Walter, a teacher at the King’s Road Primary School in Lewes, said goodbye to her young pupils. The children clattered out into the dark streets, preparing for that night’s revelries – and Miss Lizzie Walter was never seen alive again.Hitler, Mussolini and Pope Paul V are on fire. Fireworks explode and flaming tar barrels are being dragged through the streets. Bonfire Night in Lewes is the closest England comes to Mardis Gras. In their fifth adventure, Morley, Miriam and Sefton find themselves caught up in the celebrations and the chaos.On the morning after the night before, Sefton goes for a swim in Pells Pool, the oldest freshwater lido in England – in the very centre of Lewes – where he discovers a woman’s body. She has drowned. Is it a misadventure or could it be … murder?Join Morley, Miriam and Sefton on another journey into the dark heart of England.

Книга «Inspector French and the Mystery on Southampton Wa». Издательство: Harper Collins. Год выпуска: 2020. Серия: Inspector French. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 344. Автор: Wills Crofts Freeman. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

Ежедневник для тех, кто стремится к гармонии и эстетике во всём! Завораживающие орнаменты, созданные по мотивам работ легендарного британского художника Уильяма Морриса, украшают каждый разворот этого издания. Уильям Моррис – ярчайший представитель культурного направления Arts & Crafts и подлинная икона стиля для нескольких поколений дизайнеров. Вместе с яркими иллюстрациями в ежедневнике собраны мудрые высказывания самого мастера, содержащие тезисы о жизни и искусстве, которые страстно защищал сам Моррис. Удобный формат, плотные цветные страницы, классическая линовка в линию, ленточка-закладка и возможность начать вести записи в любой момент – всё это превратит использование нашего ежедневника в истинное удовольствие!

A mer-tastic tale in the Mr Men Magic series!When Little Miss Trouble catches a mermaid with her fishing rod she finds herself at the beginning of a watery adventure that will teach her an important lesson.This colourful adventure, with a sparkly glittery cover, has been adapted to an upsized picture book format which will delight children of two years and upwards.The Mr Men and Little Miss Magic series takes kids on a series of sparkling adventures where they meet some extraordinary characters including a dragon, an ogre, a mermaid, a princess, a fairy, pirates and many others.

Join Mr Jelly on a swashbuckling adventure!Mr Jelly is scared of everything, then one day, he plucks up the courage to go into the sea. But how will he react when he meets a gang of pirates?!The Mr Men and Little Miss Magic series takes kids on a series of sparkling adventures where they meet some extraordinary characters including a dragon, an ogre, a mermaid, a princess, a fairy, pirates and many others.These colourful adventures will delight children of two years and upwards. Bold illustrations and funny stories make Mr Men and Little Miss the perfect story time experience.

Несколько лет назад Алина Львова сделала свой выбор.Она покинула мир людей, приняла магический знак и стала воителем на службе ветлой колдуньи Линды. Тогда она хотела отомстить за смерть возлюбленного, не понимая, насколько опасна жизнь на теневой стороне. Это изматывающие тренировки, ночи без сна, нескончаемая война между темными и светлыми, строгий кодекс правил, жестокие потери… и вечность, которая длится один миг. Казалось, Алина видела уже все, но испытания, которые ее ждут, способны проверить на прочность силу ее чувств, убеждений, ее волю. Самый опасный темный маг в истории — Сантьяго Испанский Дьявол — бросил вызов Линде. Вот-вот разразится война, в которой светлым не выстоять. Пока Алина пытается смириться с гибелью мужа и понять, какие отношения связывают ее с первым возлюбленным, внезапно появившимся в ее жизни, мир разваливается на части. Остается надеяться, что в темной цитадели скрыто немало тайн, которые Линда и ее воители смогут использовать, чтобы получить шанс уцелеть в жестокой схватке.»Тайны темной цитадели» — второй по счету роман Катерины Калюжной, который является продолжением книги «Демоны мрака». Знакомство с ним гарантирует несколько остросюжетных вечеров, наполненных эмоциями, романтикой и размышлениями о сути Света и Тьмы.Главная тема книги — любовь в широком смысле этого слова. Помимо отношений между мужчинами и женщинами, рассматриваются дружеские и семейные привязанности. Любовь — могучая сила, считает писательница. Любовь — оружие в борьбе со всем отвратительным, страшным, непредсказуемым, неправильным, что есть в нашем мире и перенесено с помощью пера автора в мир магический. Любовь — и есть смысл существования, смертного или бессмертного, отчетливо звучит со страниц. Динамичная история построена по типу «американских горок» и имеет множество крутых поворотов, за каждым из которых новая интрига. Напряжение нарастает от главы к главе в геометрической прогрессии и становится практически нестерпимым к моменту начала финальной битвы. Но и это еще не конец. Потому что война — это фон, который создает контрасты и позволяет Катерине Калюжной расставить акценты, но не основная идея произведения, построенного вокруг отношений и внутренних конфликтов очень разных людей, чьи интересы сошлись в одной точки, а жизни оказались неразрывно связаны круговоротом событий, развивающихся в «Тайнах темной цитадели» столь стремительно и непредсказуемо, что захватывает дух.

Набор цветного картона и бумаги из 16 листов от компании «Канц-Эксмо» отличается качественным наполнением: цветные листы офсетной бумаги (80гр/м), цветной картон (210гр/м), которые отлично сгибаются, не оставляют заломов, хорошо прокрашены, яркие и насыщенные цвета, а упаковка имеет привлекательный дизайн для дошкольников и учеников младших классов.На обороте папки содержится занимательная игра «Собери игрушку» (фигура для вырезания и склеивания), которая делает набор развивающей продукцией для детей.Работа с картоном и бумагой — это самый эффективный и недорогой способ развить у ребенка воображение, сформировать правильное восприятие цвета и мелкую моторику, о важности которой не перестают твердить школьные педагоги и психологи.Победитель в номинации «Золотой медвежонок 2020».В наборе: 8 листов картона, 8 листов бумаги.Количество цветов: 8.

Обучающий набор 3в1 включает в себя:- Лото с загадками — это всем известная игра, дополненная загадками;- Мемо-парочки. Игроки сначала подбирают пары, объединяя карточки по цвету и форме. Затем играют с этими карточками в мемо.- Домино-счёт — математическое домино для тех, кто только учится считать.Мини-пазлы в подарок:- 2 пазла из 24 элементов,- 1 пазл из 18 элементов.Изготовлено из бумаги, картона.Для детей старше 3-х лет.