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Кэролин Гиллан переезжает. Её новый дом – замок Келли, шотландское имение семьи Аласдера, её нового мужа. Все силы Кэролин уходят на заботу о её с Аласдером малыше и попытки избегать встреч с её странной свекровью. В такой обстановке её терзает одиночество; она чувствует себя неприкаянной • Но в старых бумагах её дожидается секрет, который меняет всё. Оказывается, одна из невест рода Гиллан пропала из семейной истории. Известна лишь личность её законного ребёнка: им была бабушка Аласдера • Кэролин открывает для себя полную страстей и приключений историю, герои которой оставили свой след даже за Полярным кругом. Она становится одержима историей пропавшей из семейных анналов невесты. И когда на территории имения находят бездыханное тело, она начинает расследование

Аннотация к книге "Затерянные огни Сент-Килды" • Крисси Гиллис - представительница последней общины, жившей на прекрасном изолированном шотландском острове Сент-Килда. Эвакуированная в 1930 году, она никогда не забудет ни свою жизнь там, ни человека, которого она любила и потеряла, посетив его одним роковым летом за несколько лет до этого • Фред Лоусон был схвачен, избит и заключен в тюрьму во Франции, контролируемой нацистами. В отчаянном побеге через оккупированную территорию его поддерживает одна мысль: найти Крисси, женщину, которую он не должен был оставлять на этом пустынном, славном островке • "Потерянные огни Сент-Килды" - это захватывающая история любви, пересекающая океаны и десятилетия, и свидетельство необыкновенной силы надежды в самые темные времена

For a Good Doctor there's only one rule: first do no harm • On the planet of Lobos, the Doctor halts a violent war between the native Loba and human colonists. Job done, the TARDIS crew departs – only for Ryan to discover he’s left his phone behind. Again • Upon returning, the Doctor finds that the TARDIS has slipped hundreds of years into the future – and that something has gone badly wrong. The Loba are now slaves, serving human zealots who worship a godlike figure known as The Good Doctor • It's time for the Doctor to face up to the consequences of her last visit. With Lobos on the brink of catastrophe, will she be able to make things right? • Featuring the Thirteenth Doctor, Yasmin, Ryan and Graham, as played by Jodie Whittaker, Mandip Gill, Tosin Cole and Bradley Walsh

Полный оптимизма Лоуренс Уотерс прибывает в свою сельскую больницу. Фрэнк, недовольный помощник шерифа, вынужден делить место работы с новоприбывшим, но собирается держаться подальше от амбициозных планов Лоуренса. И когда полуразрушенная больница разграблена, двое мужчин оказываются непростыми союзниками в мире, где прошлое требует возмещения от настоящего • Роман Дэймона Гэлгута "Хороший доктор" - это мощная история о дружбе, омраченной предательством, на фоне надежд и разочарований Южной Африки после апартеида • Книга на английском языке • Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and shortlisted for the Man Booker, The Good Doctor is a powerful tale of a friendship overshadowed by betrayal, set against the tawdry hopes and disappointments of a post-apartheid South Africa • Laurence Waters arrives at his rural hospital postingfull of optimism

I was twelve when the coat was made. Nathan, our tailor and dear friend, cut it for Grandfather in the first week of March 1938. It was the last week of freedom for Warsaw and for us • Even in the most difficult of lives, there is hope. When Mika's grandfather dies in the Warsaw ghetto, he inherits not only his great coat, but its treasure trove of secrets. In one remote pocket, he finds a papier mache head, a scrap of cloth... a puppet prince. And what better way to cheer the cousin who has lost her father, the little boy who is ill, the neighbours living in one cramped room, than a puppet show? Soon the whole ghetto is talking about the puppet boy - until the day when Mika is stopped by a German officer and is forced into a secret life

Embark on a strange and enchanting adventure with old foes and monsters in this glorious crossover of Doctor Who and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz • When a sudden tornado engulfs the TARDIS, the Thirteenth Doctor and her fam find themselves transported to the magical land of Oz. With a damaged TARDIS and an unexpected stowaway from the 1930s, their only hope of getting home is to follow the yellow brick road • But when an army of scarecrows ambushes them, they quickly realise that everything is not as it should be, and they're thrown into a fight for survival against a mysterious enemy. As each of her companions becomes a shadow of their former selves, only the Doctor is left standing • Desperate to save her friends, she must embark on a perilous journey to seek help from the mysterious Wizard of Oz - and stop whatever forces are at work before she and her friends are trapped in the fictional world forever

Morag and Heather, two eighteen-inch fairies with swords, green kilts and badly dyed hair fly through the window of the worst violinist in New York, an overweight and antisocial type named Dinnie, and vomit on his carpet • Who they are, how they came to New York and what this has to do with the lovely Kerry - who lives across the street, and has Crohn's Disease, and is making a flower alphabet - and what this has to do with the other fairies (of all nationalities) of New York, not to mention the poor repressed fairies of Britain, is the subject of this book • It has a war in it, and a most unusual production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Johnny Thunders' New York Dolls guitar solos. What more could anyone desire from a book?

'Why all of a sudden did this shock him? He was annoyed with himself for being shocked. He felt as if he had been sucked into the bourgeois, almost edifying, atmosphere that surrounded those epeople, 'good people' so everyone kept telling him.' • A retired manufacturer has been shot dead by his own pistol, last seen alive by his son-in-law. In this seemingly motiveless murder, Inspector Maigret must rely on his famous intuition to discover the truth • This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret and the Black Sheep

Шотландия, 1860 год. Преподобный Александр Фергюсон, неф и недавно рукоположенный, принимает свой новый приход, бедный, изолированный участок на гебридском острове Харрис. Время, проведенное на острове, безвозвратно изменит ход его жизни, но белый дом на краю дюн хранит молчание еще долго после отъезда Александра • Пройдет более столетия, прежде чем Морской Дом неохотно раскроет свои тайны. Рут и Майкл покупают величественное, но полуразрушенное здание и начинают превращать его в дом для семьи, которую они надеются завести. Но их мечты омрачены шокирующим открытием. Под домом похоронены крошечные кости младенца; хрупкие ножки ребенка срослись воедино – ребенок-русалка. Кто закопал кости? И почему? Рут нужно разгадать тайну своего нового дома, но ответы на ее вопросы могут лежать в ее собственном прошлом

The Penguin Book of Card Games is the authoritative up-to-date compendium, describing an abundance of games to be played both for fun and by serious players • Auctions, trumpless hands, cross-ruffing and lurching: card players have a language all of their own. From games of high skill (Bridge) to games of high chance (Newmarket) to trick-taking (Whist) and banking (Pontoon), David Parlett, seasoned specialist in card games, takes us masterfully through the countless games to choose from • Not content to merely show us games with the conventional fifty-two card pack, Parlett covers many games played with other types of cards - are you brave enough to play with Tarot? With a 'working description' of each game, with the rules, variations and origins of each, as well as an appendix of games invented by the author himself, The Penguin Book of Card Games will delight, entertain and inform both the novice and the seasoned player

The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spirit, and a celebration of the soul of humanity with its capacity for love. This extraordinary collection sets the acknowledged genius of poems such as Blake's 'Tyger', Coleridge's 'Khubla Khan' and Shelley's 'Ozymandias' alongside verse from less familiar figures and women poets such as Charlotte Smith and Mary Robinson. We also see familiar poets in an unaccustomed light, as Blake, Wordsworth and Shelley demonstrate their comic skills, while Coleridge, Keats and Clare explore the Gothic and surreal

"The Ladybird Book of London" is a gem from the Ladybird vintage archive. First published in 1961, this is a classic Ladybird hardback book, packed with information about Britain's capital. This new edition is exactly the same as the original, with a dust jacket and beautifully reproduced images. The story of London, her sights and history, is illustrated with twenty-four beautiful full-page pictures. Starting from Trafalgar Square this book takes you through famous streets to see historic buildings, to learn something of the story of Britain's famous capital. Westminster Abbey and St Paul's Cathedral, the Tower, Guildhall and the City, Hampton Court and Kew Gardens, the Zoo and Madame Tussaud's - they are all here