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A brilliant picture book debut on facing your fears, overcoming anxiety and being just a little bit brave – perfect for little worriers • When Sam lets in a little fear one night, he’s sure it won’t be any bother. But before he knows it, the fear has grown and grown and grown. Until even the sunniest of sunny days doesn’t feel very sunny any more. There’s only one thing for it. Sam must try and be a little bit brave … • Beautifully and simply told, this reassuring and empowering story on confronting your fears is a hugely exciting debut from author and illustrator Luke Scriven

The murders have begun… • Across England, a string of murders is taking place. Each different in method, but each horrifying and brutal • But the killer is just getting started… • Jess Ambrose is plunged into the investigation when her house is set ablaze. With her husband dead and the police pointing at her, she runs. Her only hope is disgraced detective Nate Griffin, who is convinced Jess is innocent • And he’s going to shock the world… • Soon, Jess and Griffin discover the unthinkable; this murderer is copying the world’s most notorious serial killers. And now, imitation isn’t enough. The killer dubbed The Echo Man is ready to create his own masterpiece, and it will be more terrifying than anything that has come before…

Когда тело Н`Ганы Фримбо, африканского фокусника, обнаруживают в его кабинете для консультаций, Перри Дарт, один из десяти чернокожих полицейских детективов Гарлема, вызывается для расследования. Вместе с доктором Арчером, врачом из дома напротив, Дарт полон решимости разгадать загадку, которой помогают и препятствуют Баббер Браун и Джинкс Дженкинс, местные парни, стремящиеся снять с себя подозрения в убийстве и провести собственное расследование • "Человек-заклинатель умирает" был самым первым детективным романом, написанным афроамериканцем. Выдающийся врач, талантливый музыкант и драматург, Рудольф Фишер был одним из главных писателей гарлемского ренессанса, но умер в 1934 году в возрасте всего 37 лет. Остроумный роман Фишера с захватывающим сюжетом и ярко прорисованными персонажами является замечательной временной капсулой одной из самых захватывающих эпох в истории черной фантастики

The electrifying new thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author, Simon Toyne • Only one boy can see the darkness. Only one man can save him from it • A Murder • An elderly tailor is found tortured and murdered in the ancient town of Cordes. Written in blood beside the body are the words: Finishing What Was Begun • A Secret • But the dead man has left a cryptic message for his granddaughter and her son, Leo - one that puts them in immediate danger • A Race • They are forced to go on the run, accompanied by the enigmatic Solomon Creed. What began as small-town murder becomes a race to uncover a devastating secret dating from World War II. The few men who know the truth are being killed by a powerful organization, and only one man stands in its way • Only Solomon Creed can stop the murders

The first novel by one of the legends of the Harlem Renaissance, a classic in the annals of Black fiction • When Black lawyer Fred Merrit purchases a house in the most exclusive white neighbourhood bordering Harlem, he has to hire the toughest removal firm in the area to help him get his belongings past the hostile neighbours. The removal men are Jinx Jenkins and Bubber Brown, who make the move anything but straightforward • This hilarious satire of jazz-age Harlem derides the walls people build around themselves—colour and class being chief among them. In their reactions to Merrit and to one another, the characters provide an invaluable view of the social and philosophical scene of the times • First published in 1928, The Walls of Jericho is the first novel by Rudolph Fisher, author of The Conjure-Man Dies, whom Langston Hughes called ‘the wittiest of the Harlem Renaissance writers, whose tongue was flavoured with the sharpest and saltiest humour’

В состав сборника входят предисловие автора, в котором Агата Кристи предается воспоминаниям о рождественских праздниках своего детства, а также пять рассказов • «Приключения рождественского пудинга» • «Тайна испанского сундука» • «Спящая собака» • «Четыре и двадцать чёрных дроздов» • «Сон» (The Dream) • «Причуда Гриншоу» • Сборник рассказов «Приключение рождественского пудинга и выбор закусок» Агаты Кристи станет отличным подарком для поклонников творчества писательницы • По мотивам произведений о мисс Марпл и Эркюле Пуаро неоднократно снимались фильмы и сериалы • Книга на английском языке • Agatha Christie’s seasonal Poirot and Marple short story collection in a new hardback special edition • First came a sinister warning to Poirot not to eat any plum pudding… then the discovery of a corpse in a chest… next, an overheard quarrel that led to murder… the strange case of the dead man who altered his eating habits… and the puzzle of the victim who dreamt his own suicide

Роман "Одиночество бегуна на длинные дистанции" рассказывает о Смите, дерзком молодом бунтаре, живущем на ничейной земле в узаконенном Борстале. Когда его ровный ритм бега трусцой переносит его по безжалостной, промерзшей земле, он задается вопросом, почему, для кого и ради чего он бежит • Новаторская работа Алана Силлитоу запечатлела мрачную изоляцию рабочего класса в английском Мидленде в 1960-х годах. Но изображение Силлитоу мелкой преступности и глубоко укоренившегося гнева в промышленных и отчаявшихся городах сегодня остается таким же мощным, как и почти полвека назад • Книга на английском языке • Reissue of a groundbreaking work of fiction from one of our best loved authors • The title story in this classic collection tells of Smith, a defiant young rebel, inhabiting the no-man's land of institutionalised Borstal

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The movements of his mind seemed to tend to the thought that some power was working against him.' When Henchard, an out-of-work hay-trusser gets drunk and sells his wife at a country fair, his life will never be the same. Eighteen years later, his wife and daughter return to Casterbridge to find that Henchard has become Mayor. Although he's spent most of his life attempting to repent for his actions, he remains a rash and impetuous man. Hardy portrays Henchard as a tragic hero, searching for love and acceptance from the community around him, posing the overarching question of whether we shape our own fate, or whether life deals us an inevitable hand

The true story of one of Scotland’s most notorious and romantic heroes • He was a spy, a clan-chief, a traitor. A polyglot, a deserter and a man of philosophy • Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, was the last of the great Scottish chiefs – and the last nobleman executed for treason. In life, his wit, ambition and dubious sense of morality kept him in the thick of political intrigue. With a taste for risk and determined to make his fortune, Lovat made pacts with Catholics and Protestants, Scots and Englishmen • Lovat found his famous end a turncoat and a martyr: he threw himself in with the ‘45 rebellion and fought for Prince Charles against the crown. His execution in Tower Hill, at the age of 80, was the last of its kind • Lovat was one of Scotland’s most notorious and romantic figures: a man whose loyalty had no home, whose sword had a price

The brilliant, inspirational next book by the author of the incredible No. 1 bestseller FIRST MAN IN • Without fear, there’s no challenge. Without challenge, there’s no growth. Without growth, there’s no life • Ant Middleton is no stranger to fear: as a point man in the Special Forces, he confronted fear on a daily basis, never knowing what lay behind the next corner, or the next closed door. In prison, he was thrust into the unknown, cut off from friends and family, isolated with thoughts of failure and dread for his future. And at the top of Everest, in desperate, life-threatening conditions, he was forced to face up to his greatest fear, of leaving his wife and children without a husband and father • But fear is not his enemy. It is the energy that propels him

The Scent of Almonds • Из-за снежной бури семья застревает в отеле на островке недалеко от Фьельбаки…а потом в библиотеке находят тело • An Elegant Death • Две сестры становятся свидетельницами убийства в модном бутике • Dreaming of Elisabeth • Женщина застревает на судне с мужчиной, которого начинает бояться… • The Widows’ Cafe • Марианна подает опасный отвар в своем кафе • The Scent of Almonds – это сборник рассказов Камиллы Лэкберг, как ничто другое демонстрирующий литературный талант писательницы • Книга на английском языке • The scent of almonds • A snowstorm traps a family in a hotel on a tiny island off Fjallbacka - and then a body is discovered in the library • An elegant death • Two sisters witness a murder in a fashion boutique • Dreaming of Elisabeth • Malin is trapped on a boat with a man she is beginning to fear… • The widows' cafe • Marianne is serving up a dangerous concoction at the Widows' Cafe

The profoundly moving and deeply intimate story of one Jewish family’s fate in the Holocaust, following the thread from Germany to Latvia and to Britain • In November 1941, Peter Bradley's grandparents, Sally and Bertha Brandes, were deported from their home in Bamberg to their deaths in Latvia • The Last Train is a profound and moving homage to Peter’s lost family and to his father who rarely spoke of the traumas through which he lived • It is also his attempt to understand, through the prism of his family’s story, how the Nazis came to conceive and implement the Final Solution • Why did Sally and Bertha’s fellow citizens put them on the train that carried them to the killing fields? • Why did the democracies which so loudly condemned Hitler’s persecution of the Jews deny them sanctuary? • And why, when Peter's father finally reached Britain after five terrible months in a Nazi concentration camp, was he arrested as an 'enemy alien'? • The quest for answers led Peter to explore the origins and evolution of an ancient hatred and the struggles against it of each generation of his family, from the Reformation, through the Enlightenment and the Age of Reform, to the catastrophe of the Holocaust