Bloomsbury A Splash of Soy. Everyday Food from Asia Lee Lara

An invitation to supper at Angela Hartnett's house is a real treat. Nestled in the heart of London's vibrant East End, you know you're going to get delicious food, great company and a relaxed atmosphere that is as far removed from the high-octane stress of a professional kitchen as it is from the awkward social anxiety that many of us face when hosting a dinner • Angela knows the secrets to throwing the most relaxed and enjoyable dinners for friends and family – sometimes mad, but always magical evenings that people talk about for months afterwards – and in this book she's going to share them. Recipes include • Potato and Wild Garlic Soup • Braised Oxtail • Whole Trout with Almond and Herb Stuffing • Sunday Night Cupboard Spaghetti • Queen of Puddings • Great flavours and simple recipes abound in these pages, each one a joy to cook and eat, from satisfying one-pot dishes and comforting risottos to perfect party food and bakes to feed a hungry crowd

This summer, here are the only recipes you need • What is a 'summer kitchen'? In Ukraine, it means a small cooking space located in the veg garden, away from the main house. Calling on fond childhood memories and countless conversations and cooking sessions, Olia Hercules shows how you can truly make the most of summery ingredients to create new, inventive and utterly delicious plates of food. Her recipes include Ukrainian favourites like • · burnt aubergine butter on tomato toast • · sourdough garlic buns • · poppyseed cake with elderflower and strawberries • With each bite more delicious than the last • As you cook your way through generous salads, moreish mains and sweet delights, you'll discover a way of cooking that is both traditional and contemporary, because these techniques and flavour combinations have been handed down through generations, yet reworked for every home kitchen

Любимица миллионов читателей Элизабет Гилберт возвращается к художественной прозе с потрясающим романом "Город женщин" - о любви в декорациях Нью-Йорка 1940-х. История рассказана от лица пожилой женщины, которая с удовольствием, а иногда и с сожалением (но чаще все-таки с удовольствием) оглядывается на собственную молодость, прошедшую на театральных подмостках • Книга на английском языке • New York, 1940. Young, glamorous and inseparable, Vivian and Celia are chasing trouble from one end of the city to the other. But there is risk in all this play - that's what makes it so fun, and so dangerous. Sometimes, the world may feel like it's ending, but for Vivian and Celia, life is just beginning • City of Girls is about daring to break conventions and follow your desires: a celebration of glamour, resilience, growing up, and the joys of female friendship - and about the freedom that comes from finding a place you truly belong

Vehement, comic and shrewd, Abdulrazak Gurnah's first novel is an unwavering contemplation of East African coastal life • Poverty and depravity wreak havoc on Hassan Omar's family. Amid great hardship he decides to escape • The arrival of independence brings new upheavals as well as the betrayal of the promise of freedom. The new government, fearful of an exodus of its most able men, discourages young people from travelling abroad and refuses to release examination results. Deprived of a scholarship, Hassan travels to Nairobi to stay with a wealthy uncle, in the hope that he will release his mother's rightful share of the family inheritance • The collision of past secrets and future hopes, the compound of fear and frustration, beauty and brutality, create a fierce tale of undeniable power

Amid the carnage of the 100 Years War – the bloodiest conflict in medieval history – a young English archer confronts his destiny • England, 1346: For Thomas Blackstone the choice is easy – dance on the end of a rope for a murder he did not commit, or take up his war bow and join the king's invasion • As he fights his way across northern France, Blackstone learns the brutal lessons of war – from the terror and confusion of his first taste of combat, to the savage realities of siege warfare • Vastly outnumbered, Edward III's army will finally confront the armoured might of the French nobility on the field of Crecy. It is a battle that will change the history of warfare, a battle that will change the course of Blackstone's life, a battle that will forge a legend

A dazzling new novel of friendship, identity and the unknowability of other people - from the international bestselling author of Home Fire, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction • Sometimes it was as though the forty years of friendship between them was just a lesson in the unknowability of other people… • Maryam and Zahra • In 1988 Karachi, two fourteen-year-old girls are a decade into their friendship, sharing in-jokes, secrets and a love for George Michael. As Pakistan's dictatorship falls and a woman comes to power, the world suddenly seems full of possibilities. Elated by the change in the air, they make a snap decision at a party. That night, everything goes wrong, and the two girls are powerless to change the outcome • Zahra and Maryam • In present-day London, two influential women remain bound together by loyalties, disloyalties, and the memory of that night, which echoes through the present in unexpected ways

Nice, France, 1911: After three years of marriage, young seamstress Marcela Caretto has finally had enough. Her husband, Michael, an ambitious tailor, has become cruel and controlling and she determines to get a divorce • But while awaiting the judges' decision on the custody of their two small boys, Michael receives news that changes everything • Meanwhile fun-loving New York socialite Margaret Hays is touring Europe with some friends. Restless, she resolves to head home aboard the most celebrated steamer in the world – RMS Titanic • As the ship sets sail for America, carrying two infants bearing false names, the paths of Marcela, Michael and Margaret cross - and nothing will ever be the same again • From the Sunday Times-bestselling author, Celia Imrie, Orphans of the Storm dives into the waters of the past to unearth a sweeping, epic tale of the sinking of the Titanic that radiates with humanity and hums with life

In this action-packed new Bernicia Chronicles adventure from Matthew Harffy, Beobrand finds himself in a dangerous foreign land, caught between warring factions of royalty and the Church • AD 652. Beobrand has been ordered to lead a group of pilgrims to the holy city of Rome. Chief among them is Wilfrid, a novice of the church with some surprisingly important connections. Taking only Cynan and some of his best men, Beobrand hopes to make the journey through Frankia quickly and return to Northumbria without delay, though the road is long and perilous • But where Beobrand treads, menace is never far behind. The lands of the Merovingian kings are rife with intrigue. The queen of Frankia is unpopular and her ambitious schemes, though benevolent, have made her powerful enemies

The Tales of Beedle the Bard have been favourite bedtime reading in wizarding households for centuries. Full of magic and trickery, these classic tales both entertain and instruct, and remain as captivating to young wizards today as they were when Beedle first put quill to parchment in the fifteenth century. There are five tales in all: 'The Tale of the Three Brothers' Harry Potter fans will know from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows; 'The Fountain of Fair Fortune', 'The Warlock's Hairy Heart', 'The Wizard and the Hopping Pot' and 'Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump' complete the collection. These narrative gems are accompanied by explanatory notes by Professor Albus Dumbledore (included by kind permission of the Hogwarts Headmaster's archive)

Осмелитесь ли вы прочесть "Рассказы об ужасе из туннеля"? Потрясающий и леденящий душу сборник рассказов, проиллюстрированный Дэвидом Робертсом! • Мачеха сажает мальчика в поезд, чтобы он совершил свое первое самостоятельное путешествие. Но то, что должно было быть захватывающей поездкой, становится более странным, чем кто-либо мог себе представить, когда поезд останавливается у входа в туннель и элегантная женщина в белом предлагает помочь мальчику скоротать время, рассказывая ему истории • Но у этих историй есть отличие - и каждая из них более страшная, чем предыдущая... Кто эта таинственная рассказчица, и почему ее рассказы такие мрачные и жуткие? • Книга на английском языке • Do you dare to read the Tales of Terror? A stunning and commercial new paperback package for this chilling collection of short stories, illustrated throughout by David Roberts and featuring a gloriously creepy new cover! • A boy is put on a train by his stepmother to make his first journey on his own

Осмелитесь ли вы прочесть "Рассказы об ужасе с черного корабля"? Потрясающая и коммерческая новая книга Криса Пристли, леденящий душу сборник рассказов, проиллюстрированного Дэвидом Робертсом и имеющий восхитительно жуткую новую обложку • В старой гостинице, которая ненадежно прилепилась к вершине утеса над бушующим океаном, двое больных детей остаются одни, пока их отец ходит за доктором. Затем приходит посетитель, умоляющий о приюте, и так начинается долгая ночь рассказывания историй, в течение которой юные Итан и Кэти, у которых неестественный аппетит к историям жуткого толка, пережидают последние муки шторма в компании моряка, у которого более чем достаточно ужасных историй, чтобы удовлетворить их • Книга на английском языке • Do you dare to read the Tales of Terror? A stunning and commercial new paperback package for this chilling collection of short stories, illustrated throughout by David Roberts and featuring a gloriously creepy new cover

Jem is a joyful mystery to Alice: a whirl of glamour, subversion and literary references. And when she disappears from Alice's life, as suddenly as she entered it, Alice is left bereft • But then she meets Giovanni, presumptuous and hectoring, passionate and beautiful, who leads her back to her childhood friend and the mystery and chaos still surrounding her. Alice finds herself being seduced all over again