Bloomsbury The Good Little Wolf Benjamin A.H

From his remote moorland home, David Hartley assembles a gang of weavers and land-workers to embark upon a criminal enterprise that will capsize the economy and become the biggest fraud in British history • They are the Cragg Vale Coiners and their business is 'clipping' – the forging of coins, a treasonous offence punishable by death. When an excise officer vows to bring them down and with the industrial age set to change the face of England forever, Hartley's empire begins to crumble • Forensically assembled, The Gallows Pole is a true story of resistance and a rarely told alternative history of the North

Jay McInerney's classic novel of New York in the shadow of 9/11 tells a story of love, family and conflicting desires • Ten years on from Brightness Falls, Russell Calloway is still a literary editor; his wife Corrine has sacrificed her career to watch anxiously over their children. Across town Luke McGavock, a wealthy ex-investment banker, is taking a sabbatical from moneymaking, struggling to reconnect with his socially resplendent wife Sasha and their angst-ridden teenage daughter, Ashley. These two Manhattan families are teetering on the brink of change when 9/11 happens. Through the lens of catastrophe, The Good Life explores that territory between hope and despair, love and loss, regret and fulfilment. This is Jay McInerney doing what he does best, presenting us with life in New York City, in all its moral complexity

У только что сошедшей с корабля из Англии Виты Марлоу есть задача. Ее любимого дедушку Джека обманул, лишив его дома и имущества, известный мошенник со связями в мафии. Видя, что дух Джека сломлен, Вита отчаянно хочет снова сделать его счастливым, и разрабатывает план, как перехитрить его врагов и вернуть его дом • Она находит молодого карманника, работающего на улицах города. А два мальчика с весьма необычными навыками и собственными секретами вот-вот будут втянуты в ее беззаконный, бросающий вызов смерти план • "Хорошие воры", пятый роман Кэтрин Ранделл - это невиданное ранее ограбление, история группы детей, которые сделают все, чтобы исправить несправедливость • Книга на английском языке • Fresh off the boat from England, Vita Marlowe has a job to do

Восхитительный пересказ классической истории, идеально подходящий для детей, практикующихся в чтении дома или в школе • Маленький лебедь не совсем похож на своих братьев и сестер. Он маленький, смуглый и просто не вписывается в обстановку. Итак, он отправляется один в большой, необъятный мир. Найдет ли Маленький Гадкий Лебедь друга? Узнает ли он, кто он на самом деле? • "Гадкий маленький лебедь" - это трогательная сказка с изюминкой от известного автора Джеймса Риордана. Идеально подходит для детей, которые учатся читать самостоятельно. В ней представлены привлекательные иллюстрации Брендана Кирни и необычные персонажи, перед которыми юным читателям будет трудно устоять • Книга на английском языке • A delightful retelling of a classic story with a twist, ideal for children practising their reading at home or in school

A teacher is dead, murdered by two of his students in front of the whole school • Right in front of Jackson Jones • But Mr Joseph was a good man – people liked him, respected him. How could those boys stab him and jog away like nothing had happened? • Unable to process what he has seen, Jackson begins his own investigation: everyone knows who did it, but as Jackson uncovers more about the boys, he becomes convinced that people need to understand why • Brilliantly written and with a real ear for dialogue, fans of Angie Thomas and Malorie Blackman will love Benjamin Zephaniah's novels for young adult readers

Things have changed for 17-year-old Zoe ever since the dramatic events that brought her together with the mysterious X took place. To save Zoe and her family, X did the unthinkable – he won their freedom by giving himself up to captivity in the Lowlands forever • But being back in the Lowlands has its advantages. It gives X the chance to discover his past, which could be the key to breaking the Lords' hold on him for good. Little does X know that Zoe has a plan to reunite them ... one that will see her risk her life and bring her perilously close to losing all that she and X are fighting for • Gripping and full of heart, this epic continuation of Jeff Giles's series, which already has rave reviews from Oscar-winning director Peter Jackson and New York Times bestselling authors Cassandra Clare and James Dashner, will bring readers right to the edge of everything

Thrilling, edge-of-seat fantasy adventure from the author of Take Back the Skies. Set in the same world, but with a new hero and an action-packed dramatic story • Aleks Vasin is the youngest of four brothers, each with his path mapped out. But Aleks doesn't want to work in his father's shop in a village in the westernmost corner of Siberene for the rest of his life. Tired of being picked on and treated like the runt of the family, he decides to save his parents the cost of his keep and leave. First he heads south - though everyone tells him not to - to Rudavin, headquarters of the Kingsguard. He signs up for the army, little knowing what brutality it entails. After only a few weeks, Aleks realises that this garrison is full of liars and thieves; he's signed away four years of his life to a commander who steals his money and a captain whose only goal is power

The Tent – это сборник эссе канадской писательницы Маргарет Этвуд. По духу работы напоминают ее предыдущие произведения, Good Bones и Murder in the Dark. Эссе писательницы одновременно жуткие и остроумные, пророческие и глубоко личные, увлекательные и язвительные. Этвуд с невероятной точностью отображает в них современную реальность. Иллюстрации для сборника были выполнены самой писательницей • Книга на английском языке • One of the world's most celebrated authors, Margaret Atwood has written a collection of smart and entertaining fictional essays, in the genre of her previous books Good Bones and Murder in the Dark. Chilling and witty, prescient and personal, delectable and tart, these highly imaginative tales tackle a broad range of subjects, reflecting the times we live in with deadly accuracy and knife-edge precision

The magical follow-up to The Monster Who Wasn't. The second book in this brilliantly rich and strange fantasy series will make us all believe in monsters – be they good, bad or somewhere in between • Sam might be half-monster and half-fairy, but since finding a loving family with the Kavanaghs, his daily life has been all human. And now he's facing one of the greatest human challenges – starting secondary school • But Sam barely has time to worry about the strange stuff teachers say (why do they call it the Great War when it sounds like was anything but great?) before he is thrust back into the world of monsters. Sam's school friends Amira, Hazel and Wilfred reveal that they are shifters: noble twin-souled beings who live half their lives as humans and the other half as dogs

The New Silk Roads – Peter Frankopan's follow-up to the 'Book of the Decade', The Silk Roads – takes a fresh look at the network of relationships being formed along the length and breadth of the Silk Roads today • The world is changing dramatically and in an age of Brexit and Trump, the themes of isolation and fragmentation permeating the western world stand in sharp contrast to events along the Silk Roads, where ties have been strengthened and mutual cooperation established • Following the Silk Roads eastwards from Europe through to China, by way of Russia and the Middle East, The New Silk Roads provides a timely reminder that we live in a world that is profoundly interconnected. In this prescient contemporary history, Peter Frankopan assesses the global reverberations of these continual shifts in the centre of power – all too often absent from headlines in the west

The internet is a network of physical cables and connections, a web of wires enmeshing the world, linking huge data centres to one another and eventually to us. All are owned by someone, financed by someone, regulated by someone • We refer to the internet as abstract from reality. By doing so, we obscure where the real power lies • In this powerful and necessary book, James Ball sets out on a global journey into the inner workings of the system. From the computer scientists to the cable guys, the billionaire investors to the ad men, the intelligence agencies to the regulators, these are the real-life figures powering the internet and pulling the strings of our society • Ball brilliantly shows how an invention once hailed as a democratising force has concentrated power in places it already existed – that the system, in other words, remains the same as it did before

The New Silk Roads takes a fresh look at the relationships being formed along the length and breadth of the ancient trade routes today. The world is changing dramatically and in an age of Brexit and Trump, the themes of isolation and fragmentation permeating the western world stand in sharp contrast to events along the Silk Roads, where ties are being strengthened and mutual cooperation established • This prescient contemporary history provides a timely reminder that we live in a world that is profoundly interconnected. Following the Silk Roads eastwards from Europe through to China, by way of Russia and the Middle East, Peter Frankopan assesses the global reverberations of continual shifts in the centre of power - all too often absent from headlines in the west