Bloomsbury The Tent Этвуд Маргарет

Рассказы, вошедшие в сборник Old Babes in the Wood, посвящены самым разным темам. Путешествия женатой пары; двое друзей, которые по-разному видят свое прошлое; правильный способ помочь человеку, если он подавился; дочь, которая пытается выяснить, является ли ее мать ведьмой; унаследованные мечи с парадов Второй мировой… • Герои рассказов – любимые кошки, запутавшаяся улитка, Марта Геллхорн, Джордж Оруэлл, философ-астроном-математик Гипатия, целая толпа пожилых женщин-ученых и инопланетянин, которому было поручено задание собирать человеческие сказки • Old Babes in the Woods – это сборник рассказов канадской писательницы Маргарет Этвуд, ее первое произведение со времен «Заветов». Используя свои превосходные творческие способности, Этвуд вызывает у читателей целый спектр эмоций

Республика Галаад гниет изнутри. Две девушки с противоположными взглядами на режим лицом к лицу сталкиваются с безжалостной теткой Лидией. Как далеко каждая из них готова зайти ради своих убеждений? • В данном издании содержатся дополнительные материалы: вопросы для обсуждения в книжном клубе и интервью с Маргарет Этвуд, в котором писательница рассказывает о реальных событиях, вдохновивших ее на написание «Рассказа служанки» и «Заветов» • Книга на английском языке • The Republic of Gilead is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, two girls with radically different experiences of the regime come face to face with the legendary, ruthless Aunt Lydia. But how far will each go for what she believes? • Now with additional material: book club discussion points and an interview with Margaret Atwood about the real-life events that inspired The Testaments and The Handmaid's Tale

Рассказы канадской писательницы Маргарет Этвуд, вошедшие в сборник Murder in the Dark, обладают странным очарованием. В них хлеб перестает быть хлебом; пятилетки готовят яд; а умение вовремя остановиться имеет роковое значение в игре «Убийство в темноте»… • Сборник станет отличным подарком для поклонников творчества писательницы • Книга на английском языке • These short fictions and prose poems are beautifully bizarre: bread can no longer be thought of as wholesome comforting loaves; the pretensions of the male chef are subjected to a loght roasting; a poisonous brew is concocted by cynical five year olds; and knowing when to stop is of deadly importance in a game of Murder in the Dark

Адам – лидер Божьих садовников, религиозной группы, полностью посвятившей себя жизни под властью природы. Они носят мешки из бежевой ткани, выращивают грибы, собирают мед и оскорбляют друг друга словом «свиноед». CorpSeCorps не воспринимает их как угрозу • Их мир – это мир, где генная инженерия стала нормой; где скрещивают львов ягнят, а свиньям подсаживают человеческую ДНК. Все в этом мире переменчиво, и лоялность большой корпорации столь же ненадежна, как и экологическая стабильность, а будущее по-настоящему туманно. А если Безводный потом и правда наступит, будет ли вообще это будущее? • Рен – танцовщица, которую после разрыва биопленки помещают в одиночную камеру до тех пор, пока не станет ясно, что она не больна. Ее история – одна из частей нашего путешествия в этот мир

Sixteen-year-old Bentley Royce is the wild child of a super-glam reality TV dynasty. She has it all - designer clothes, a fancy school and an actual Bentley to drive around in. Her ambitious mum Mercedes has dragged the family from trailer park to Hollywood stardom. But Bentley wants out - she wants to go to college, escape her own storyline, be normal - but Royces don't do normal (or college) • Rolling with the Royces is running out of ways to keep viewers hooked and suddenly the show is threatened with cancellation. Bentley faces an impossible choice. Without the show, she could live the college dream - but her family would crumble (they are already twenty million dollars in debt). Bentley Royce has a mission. She must use her brains to save the show; if she saves the show, she can save her family - and she'll do whatever it takes … • Royce Rolls is a laugh-out-loud funny romp with a twist of mystery - a behind-the-scenes comedy with a brilliant voice, a hilarious and subversive antidote to the Kardashians and TOWIE (which will still work for fans of both!)

Deep beneath the silvery waves, in a kaleidoscope of colourful coral, lies the magical kingdom of Coralia. This is where the FurFins live, and today is a VERY special day: StarTail has invited her friends to a sleepover! • StarTail is nervous – what if it doesn't go well? But soon RubyTail is helping to put up a cosy tent for them to sleep in, TinyTail is making friendship bracelets, and they all help CherryTail to bake her famous cherry buns for a midnight feast. That's what friends are for! But when they hear a scary noise outside the tent during the night, will everything be ruined? Or will it be the best sleepover ever? • With a sparkly cover and gorgeous colour illustrations, this charming underwater adventure is the third in an exciting picture book series featuring the endearing FurFins with their glittery tails and adorably furry faces

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

The Digital Republic is the definitive guide to the great political question of our time: how can freedom and democracy survive in a world of powerful digital technologies? • Not long ago, the tech industry was widely admired and the internet was regarded as a tonic for freedom and democracy. Not anymore. Every day, the headlines blaze with reports of racist algorithms, data leaks, and social media platforms festering with falsehood and hate. In The Digital Republic, acclaimed author Jamie Susskind argues that these problems are not the fault of a few bad apples at the top of the industry. They are the result of our failure to govern technology properly, a failure derived from decades of muddled ideas and wishful thinking • The Digital Republic charts a new course, with new legal standards, new public bodies and institutions, new duties on platforms, new rights and regulators, and new codes of conduct for people in the tech industry

The Sunday Times bestseller, from the bestselling author of The Bone Season and The Priory of the Orange Tree • Paige Mahoney has eluded death again. Snatched from the jaws of captivity and consigned to a safe house in the Scion Citadel of Paris, she finds herself caught between those factions that seek Scion's downfall and those who would kill to protect the Rephaim's puppet empire • The mysterious Domino Programme has plans for Paige, but she has ambitions of her own in this new citadel. With Arcturus Mesarthim - her former enemy - at her side, she embarks on an adventure that will lead her from the catacombs of Paris to the glittering hallways of Versailles. Her risks promise high reward: the Parisian underworld could yield the means to escalate her rebellion to outright war

The Wombles live in a beautifully snug, well-ordered and cosy burrow underneath Wimbledon Common - the perfect base from which to sort and recycle all the rubbish that unthinking humans constantly drop. But the Wombles' peaceful and harmonious existence is suddenly under threat. The heavy lorries that thunder along the roads near the Common make the burrow shake and tremble so much that it is no longer safe for the Wombles to live there. With a heavy heart, Great Uncle Bulgaria decides that the Wombles will have to move from the burrow that they have lived in for many, many years. And it is up to young Bungo and Orinoco to bravely sally forth and try to locate a new home for the Wombles