Harper Collins UK Eight Days of Luke Wynne Jones Diana

С самого начала в Люке не было ничего странного - за исключением, пожалуй, змей. Если бы это были змеи, то есть… Дэвид не был уверен • "Просто разожги пламя, и я буду с тобой", - говорит Люк. Дэвид думает, что он шутит, но, конечно, всякий раз, когда он чиркает спичкой, Люк немедленно появляется • Но у нового друга Дэвида, похоже, есть несколько необычных друзей и родственников, а также несколько очень мрачных секретов. И когда Дэвид заключает сделку с таинственным одноглазым мистером Веддингом, жизнь действительно становится очень жаркой! • Книга на английском языке • There seemed nothing odd about Luke to begin with - except perhaps the snakes. If they were snakes, that is… David wasn't sure • "Just kindle a flame and I'll be with you," says Luke

The bestselling guides to Britain's canals and rivers for 50 years • The map companion to the Collins Nicholson Waterways Guides, covering the entire network of canal and river navigations in England, Scotland and Wales, including newly restored/opened canals and rivers • The map identifies • - narrow and broad canals • - navigable rivers • - tidal river navigations • - waterways under construction • Also • - contact telephone numbers and dimensions for each waterway • - internet links • Clear insets of the Birmingham Canal Navigations, Scottish inland waterways, the Norfolk Broads and the London area

Good Housekeeping Book of British Food is a superb collection of imaginatively prepared, home-produced fare, using fresh ingredients and high-quality produce • The vast array of delectable ingredients that Britain has to offer are all included – succulent Scottish beef, tender Welsh lamb, Stilton and Cheddar cheese, young asparagus, tangy rhubarb, juicy Cox's apples and luxurious smoked salmon to name but a few • The triple-tested recipes represent the wide variety of British produce, whether recently introduced or grown here for centuries – food for any day of the year and every meal of the day. Many are favourite regional dishes, such as Scotch Broth, Irish Stew, Welsh Rabbit, Melton Mowbray Pork Pie, Bakewell Pudding and Soda Bread. And, of course, there are traditional recipes for the most recognized British dish, the Sunday roast

By the authors of Cool Names for Babies, and with over 50,000 hugely imaginative entries from around the world, this is the ultimate book of baby names • Way more than just a standard list of names and their meanings, Baby Names offers witty and insightful opinions. Here are unisex names, names that are good for middle names (but not first names), names that should be avoided at all costs, celebrity baby names, names that are trendier than you’d think and much more • With creatively-titled lists such as Music Names, Names for Blond Babies, and Names That Are Classic But Not Boring, parents will have plenty of fun as they make the choice of what name is right for their baby

From the multiple award-winning author of Ysabel, Tigana and A Song for Arbonne, this powerful, moving saga evokes the Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, and Norse cultures of a thousand years ago • There is nothing soft or silken about the north. The lives of men and women are as challenging as the climate and lands in which they dwell. For generations, the Erlings of Vinmark have taken their dragon-prowed ships across the seas, raiding the lands of the Cyngael and Anglcyn peoples, leaving fire and death behind. But times change, even in the north, and in a tale woven with consummate artistry, people of all three cultures find the threads of their lives unexpectedly brought together… • Bern Thorkellson, punished for his father's sins, commits an act of vengeance and desperation that brings him face-to-face, across the sea, with a past he's been trying to leave behind

Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт – один из главных авторов историй о сверхъестественном XX века, творчество которого оставило неизгладимый след на массовой культуре. Его влияние прослеживается во множестве самых разных произведений в жанре ужасов, от Стивена Кинга до ряда серий «Баффи – истребительницы вампиров» • В данный сборник вошли семь ключевых произведений Лавкрафта, в том числе три повести: «Случай Чарльза Декстера Варда», «Хребты безумия» и «Сомнамбулический поиск неведомого Кадафа». Перед вами нестареющая классика хоррора, зловещие и гротескные истории, способные ввергать читателей в ужас и по сей день • Именно творчеству Лавкрафта мы обязаны культовой настольной игрой «Ужас Аркхэма», фильмами «Дагон» и «Цвет из иных миров», книгой «Страна Лавкрафта» и снятым по ней одноимённым сериалом, а также множеством других знаковых образцов современной массовой культурой

Some days you remember forever. But what if you could live them again? • If Isla Pembroke could turn back time, she knows exactly which days of her life she would change • The day she started working in the local aquarium, not knowing that she'd still be stuck there seven years later. The day her sister Morgan ran away from home. And, most of all, the day that changed everything, when her mother's death cracked her family in two • So when she's given an impossible gift - a chance to go back and relive those life-changing moments - Isla realises that she might be able to save the people she loves • But sometimes the most surprising days aren't the ones that change everything, but the ones that come after • Fresh, funny, and heart-wrenching, this is a story for anyone who's ever wanted to turn back time

The perfect companion to Wonder, the #1 New York Times bestseller! Choose Kind with 365 Days Of Wonder • In Wonder, readers were introduced to memorable English teacher Mr. Browne and his love of precepts. Join Mr. Browne, Auggie, Julian, Summer and Jack in this collection of essays, quotes and words of wisdom • With a precept for each day of the year-drawn from popular songs to children's books to inscriptions on Egyptian tombstones to fortune cookies! • Packed with words of wisdom from such noteworthy people as Anne Frank, Martin Luther King Jr., Confucius, Goethe, Sappho-and over 100 readers of Wonder who sent R. J. Palacio their own precepts-this book is the perfect celebration of everyday wonder and hope!

Tom, devoted single father to Hannah, is the manager of a tiny local theatre. On each of her birthdays, its colourful cast of part-time actors have staged a fantastical production just for her - a day of wonder • But there is a reason for these shows . . . Hannah has a heart condition and Tom wants to make every moment magical for her • Now, as she approaches adulthood and begins to spread her wings, and with the theatre under threat of closure, Hannah and Tom have to learn a new way of living. But maybe, just maybe, one final day of magic might just save them both • A story about finding joy in everyday life, Days of Wonder is the most beautiful and uplifting novel you'll read all year

It began with the breathtaking Daughter of Smoke and Bone... the story continues in the astounding, must-read sequel, Days of Blood and Starlight • The story continues in this astounding, must-read sequel to Daughter of Smoke and Bone • Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love and dared to imagine a new way of living - one without massacres and torn throats and bonfires of the fallen, without revenants or bastard armies or children ripped from their mothers' arms to take their turn in the killing and dying • Once, the lovers lay entwined in the moon's secret temple and dreamed of a world that was like a jewel-box without a jewel - a paradise waiting for them to find it and fill it with their happiness • This was not that world

The McKenzies are your average complicated family: knotted together by in-jokes, arguments and a few closely-guarded secrets. Thirty-something sisters Leni and Alice became inseparable following the divorce of their parents, Belinda and Tony, with younger brother Will always trying to keep up. They're not perfect, but they love each other - most of the time, anyway • But then one ordinary summer day, an accident changes the family forever. Questions arise, guilt surfaces and secrets begin to emerge. Scattered by grief and seeking comfort in the unlikeliest of places, can the McKenzies find their way back to each other? • Set over the course of one life-changing year, The Best Days of Our Lives is a warm, big-hearted and poignant story, full of hope, heartache and love

From the twice CWA Dagger shortlisted author of The Twelve Strange Days of Christmas come twelve thirteen stories to transport you to the macabre world of inexplicable phenomena • As dark winter nights draw in, prepare to lose yourself in the world of the peculiar. With a tale for each day of the festive period and an unlucky thirteenth, Christmas is not the only spirit in these pages. ’Tis the season for sacrificial feasts, cultish communities and sinister rituals. So wrap up warm and get ready to be terrified and delighted as you journey from the spooky to the downright strange