Harpercollins Christmas on Coronation Street Sullivan Maggie

A charming and nostalgic read, perfect for fans of Coronation Street and readers who love stories set in wartime • They’ve waited a long time to be together • After years of war, the residents of Coronation Street are looking forward to saying goodbye to rations books, blackouts and bombs. However, life is slow to change and they are still waiting for the good times to return • Ida Barlow thought she was happy to have her husband back from the war. Frank can’t understand that his wife has no intention of giving up her new independence to wait on him hand and foot. Wendy Collins, a new arrival to the street, wants a fresh start, but struggles to fit in to her teaching job at the local school • Elsie Tanner’s latest fella has put a spring in her step

На дворе 1942 год. Энни Уокер – хозяйка таверны «Rovers Return» на улице Коронации • Пока её муж Джек сражается за страну и короля, Энни приходится совмещать материнство с поддержанием порядка в таверне • Грейси Эштон работает за стойкой бара и думает, что все девушки, падающие в обморок при виде американских солдат, просто сумасшедшие. Но когда она встречает красивого военного Чака Доусона, Грейси задается вопросом, всё ли в порядке с ней самой • И несмотря на то, что еду выдают только по карточкам, на улице постоянно воет сирена воздушной тревоги, а электричество постоянно отключают – жёны и матери с улицы Коронации не поддаются отчаянию. Правда в «Rovers Return» появляется нежеланный гость из прошлого. Похоже, что Энни он доставит больше хлопот, чем немецкие бомбы… • Наполненный знакомым юмором и теплом роман станет идеальным подарком на День матери

A charming and nostalgic read, perfect for fans of Coronation Street and readers who love stories set in wartime • They are digging for victory on the nation's favourite street • Vera Sharples longs for independence from her interfering mother, Coronation Street's tyrant in a hairnet, Ena Sharples • Vera's friend, Lily Longhurst, has found herself on the wrong side of a doomed romance and decides it's high time she and Vera took their lives into their own hands • The girls sign up for the Land Army and are sent to Kent, where life is very different from the familiar cobbles they know so well. Expected to work from daybreak until sunset, the routine and the constant air raids come as a shock • Even as the girls comes to grips with the country at war, back home Ena can't stop meddling

The dramatic story of a young woman's war - full of heartache and triumph from the bestselling author of Christmas on the Mersey and London Belles Kitty has seen her fair share of tragedy and instead of thinking about romance, is determined to do her bit for King and country. Her life as a WREN means she is kept busy much of the time, but when Kitty finds herself stationed back home on Merseyside, she meets up again with Frank Feeny, the brave young officer who has always held a place in her heart. Britain is on the verge of victory, but will Kitty embrace the future and learn to love again?

The East End of London has been devastated by the Blitz and the people are struggling to come to terms with their ravaged city. Rationing bites ever deeper and and everything that makes life better is in short supply. For the district nurses, the challenges are tougher than ever • Gladys loves her work in the Civil Nursing Reserve, but just when she needs to rely on her sister at home to help out with the chores, she turns into a handful of trouble. Edith is learning to cope with her boyfriend's injuries after Dunkirk but will she have to choose between her love for him and her career? • With no end in sight, the war reaches its darkest moment … Can the nurses – and the families and patients that rely on them – find the strength to carry on?

Uplifting and heartwarming: drama, courage and romance at Marlow's department store this Christmas • For Lily Collins and her fellow shop girls at Marlow's Department store, another Christmas with ration books, shortages of goods and staff - not to mention a store coping with war damage - will be a real challenge • But the girls rally round and put their worries aside to make this, the hardest wartime Christmas yet, one that their families, and their town, will never forget

Сможет ли она развеселить жителей Корнуолла на Рождество в этом году? • Все, чего Мередит Верран когда-либо хотела, - это сбежать от сезона отпусков, не надевая рождественский джемпер. Ее новая работа в уютном сувенирном магазине в живописном туристическом местечке Корнуолла не позволяет ей сохранять манеры скруджа • Поскольку их сезонные корзины есть в списке желаний каждого, Мередит должна изобразить улыбку и изобразить праздничное настроение. Затем она встречает новоприбывшего красавца Финна, который мечтает, чтобы Рождество было каждый день, и хочет, чтобы она чувствовала то же самое • Книга на английском языке • Can she spread Christmas cheer in Cornwall this year? • All Meredith Verren has ever wanted is to escape the holiday season without having to wear a Christmas jumper

Navigate your way around London with this detailed, easy-to-use and up-to-date A-Z Street Atlas. First published in 1936, this iconic atlas is a trusted means of finding your way around the capital city • The main mapping extends beyond Central London from Heathrow Airport to Chingford at a scale of 2.88 inches to 1 mile, featuring postcode districts, one-way streets, the Congestion Charging Zone and Low Emission Zone • The large-scale street map of Central London – at a scale of 5.75 inches to 1 mile – cover Regent’s Park and Shoreditch, Chelsea and Vauxhall, Hyde Park and Bermondsey • A comprehensive index lists streets, selected flats, walkways and places of interest, place, area and junction names. Additional healthcare (hospitals, walk-in centres and hospices) and transport connections (National Rail, London Tramlink, Docklands Light Railway, London Underground and Overground stations, and River Bus pier) are indexed as well

Guilt, sacrifice and redemption in a freezing Derbyshire winter in this tense psychological thriller from the acclaimed author of ‘Black Dog’ • 'The sun had dropped over the edge of Irontongue Hill so that the snow-covered moor was in shadow … but Marie Tennent would never see the dawn.' • Marie's was not the only body lying undiscovered under the Peak District snow that January morning – nor the first. In 1945, the wreckage of a bomber was found on the Hill, full of dead crewmen. The missing pilot was declared responsible, but why would a decorated hero desert? The only other survivor refuses to talk. A young Canadian woman has arrived to uncover the truth – the pilot was her grandfather. DC Ben Cooper is intrigued. Perhaps he can help? • To his boss DS Fry, investigating two frozen bodies found on the moors, her colleague's interest is entirely unprofessional

Providence, RI, 1986 • Twenty-nine-year-old Danny Ryan is a hard-working longshoreman, loving husband, loyal friend, and occasional “muscle” for the Irish crime syndicate that oversees much of the city. He yearns for something more and dreams of starting over fresh, someplace far away • But when a modern-day Helen of Troy triggers a war between rival mob factions, Danny is embroiled in a conflict he can’t escape. Now it is up to him to step into the breach to protect his family, the friends who are closer to him than brothers, and the only home he’s ever known • Exploring classic themes of loyalty, betrayal, honour, and corruption on both sides of the law, City on Fire is a contemporary Iliad from Don Winslow, “one of America’s greatest storytellers” (Stephen King)

Two criminal empires together control all of New England • Until a beautiful woman comes between the Irish and the Italians, launching a war that will see them kill each other, destroy an alliance, and set a city on fire • Danny Ryan yearns for a more “legit” life and a place in the sun. But as the bloody conflict stacks body on body and brother turns against brother, Danny has to rise above himself. To save the friends he loves like family and the family he has sworn to protect, he becomes a leader, a ruthless strategist, and a master of a treacherous game in which the winners live and the losers die • From the gritty streets of Providence to the glittering screens of Hollywood to the golden casinos of Las Vegas, two rival crime families ignite a war that will leave only one standing

В этой удивительной иллюстрированной книге культовый американский писатель Доктор Сьюз знакомит читателей со словами, которые рифмуются • Создатель Кота в шляпе, Хортона и Гринча, известный своими уморительными сюжетами, потешными картинками и яркими рифмами, Доктор Сьюз веселит детей и помогает им учиться читать на протяжении уже более полувека. Его перу принадлежат мировые бестселлеры с общим тиражом в 600 миллионов экземпляров • Издательство HarperCollins подготовило обновлённые издания книг Доктора Сьюза, таких как «Кот в шляпе», «Зелёные яйца и ветчина» и «Лис в носках». Они получили новый дизайн, в который встроены рекомендации по чтению. Издания разделены на три категории: книги из синей линейки предназначены для чтения вместе с родителями, из зелёной – для начинающих самостоятельных читателей, а из жёлтой – для уверенных читателей