Harpercollins Warriors of the Storm Корнуэлл Бернард

"Война волка" - одиннадцатый роман Барнарда Корнуэлла из цикла «Саксонские хроники» • Доблестный полководец Утред отвоевал свое родовое гнездо, крепость Беббанбург, но это не означает окончания жестокой войны за целостность средневековой Британии. В Мерсии бушует восстание, в Уэссексе продолжается династическая борьба за трон и оттуда надвигается прежний враг, на земли Нортумбрии покушается ярл Скёлль со своими воинами-ульфхединами, обретающими в битве свирепость волков. Недруги со всех сторон одолевают Утреда. Неужели он навеки проклят и ему не суждено добиться объединения своей родины? • Книга на английском языке • A hero will be forged from this broken land • Lord Uhtred of Bebbanburg knows that peace is far from reach. Though he has won the battle for his ancestral home, rebellion looms in Mercia and invading Norsemen appear at every turn

"Повелители Севера" Бернарда Корнуэлла - третья книга из эпической серии бестселлеров, которая покорила миллионы людей • На этой разрушенной земле будет выкован герой • Утред хочет отомстить. Он хочет получить землю и замок, которые принадлежат ему. Он хочет, чтобы его вероломный дядя заплатил за то, что забрал их • Направляясь на север со своей возлюбленной, бывшей монахиней Хильд, он застает хаос, поскольку викинги сражаются между собой, чтобы укрепить свою власть в регионе. В центре всего этого - люди из прошлого Утреда - Свен Одноглазый и Кьяртан Жестокий, люди с дурной репутацией. Тем не менее, он и раньше встречался с такими мужчинами • Книга на английском языке • The third book in the epic and bestselling series that has gripped millions • A hero will be forged from this broken land

The action-packed second novel in the No. 1 bestselling Conqueror series, bringing to the epic story of Genghis Khan brilliantly to life • The gathering of the tribes of the Mongols has been a long time in coming but finally, triumphantly, Temujin of the Wolves, Genghis Khan, is given the full accolade of the overall leader and their oaths • Now he can begin to meld all the previously warring people into one army, one nation. But the task Genghis has set himself and them is formidable. He is determined to travel to the land of the long-time enemy, the Chin and attack them there. The distances and terrain-the wide deserts, the impenetrable mountains-make it a difficult venture even for the legendary Mongolian speed of movement, but the greatest problem is that of the complex fortifications, a way of fighting wars of a settled urban population which the nomadic Mongolians had never come across

The first book in the bestselling Conqueror series featuring Genghis Khan and his descendants • 'I am the land and the bones of the hills. I am the winter.' • Temujin, the second son of the khan of the Wolves tribe, was only eleven when his father died in an ambush.His family were thrown out of the tribe and left alone, without food or shelter, to starve to death on the harsh Mongolian plains • It was a rough introduction to his life, to a sudden adult world, but Temujin survived, learning to combat natural and human threats. A man, a small family, without a tribe was always at risk but he gathered other outsiders to him, creating a new tribal identity. It was during some of his worst times that the image of uniting the warring tribes and bringing the silver people together came to him

The quest for the Vampaneze Lord continues for the hunters of the dusk. Darren gets an unwelcome taste of reality when he is forced to go back to school and his past catches up with him • Maturing at one fifth the rate of a normal human, Darren has the looks of a fifteen year old, even though he is very much older. Vampire Prince and vampaneze killer he may be, but someone has shopped him to the authorities and it's time for Darren to go back to school • But school is not the only thing Darren has to come to terms with: faces from the past, the death of a clan member, a clash with a vampire hunter and blood-thirsty vampaneze mean Darren's past is catching up with him - fast. It's time for the allies of the night to join forces. The hunt is on

The third novel in the No. 1 bestselling Conqueror series, following the life and adventures of the mighty Genghis Khan and his descendants • Genghis Khan has fulfilled his dream of uniting the many warring tribes of his lands into one great nation. He has taken his armies against the mighty cities of their oldest enemies. Now he finds trouble rising west of the Mongolian plains. His emissaries are being mutilated or killed and his trading gestures rebuffed. He decides to divide his armies to conquer, using his sons as generals and sending them out simultaneously in many directions • As well as discovering new territories and laying waste the cities which resist, Genghis knows that the actions of his generals will help him decide who, from his rival sons and heirs, should succeed him as khan

The partner to 'Cats of the National Trust', this beautiful gift book tells the stories of the dogs associated with NT places • Many incredible dogs have lived at National Trust places – and still do • This book tells their stories, from faithful Gelert immortalised in stone at Beddgelert and the celebrated Spaniels bred at Clumber Park, to the tiny Pekingese inhabiting Ightham Mote’s enormous stone-built kennel – originally built to house Dido the St Bernard • Discover the digs at the side of some of Britain’s greatest figures, such as Churchill’s Poodle Rufus, Agatha Christie’s beloved ‘dog in a thousand’ Peter and Thomas Hardy’s tyrannical Terrier Wessex, who delighted his master but terrorised guests • Meet also the canine colleagues who live and work at National Trust properties today

The simple fact of the matter is that Iris loves life. Maybe she’s forgotten that. Sometimes that happens, doesn’t it? To the best of us? All I have to do is remind her of that one simple fact • Monday morning starts like any other – until Terry discovers her best friend Iris has gone missing. Finding her takes Terry, Iris and Terry’s confused father Eugene, into an extraordinary journey – one that will change all of their lives. And, along the way, what should be the worst six days of Terry’s life turn into the best • Because friendship teaches us all to be brave. And, sometimes, the rules are made to be broken

A stunning gift collection of animal poems from master storyteller Michael Morpurgo, celebrating with heart and humour the creatures with whom we share our planet • Collaborating once more with iconic artist, Michael Foreman, Morpurgo's poems are inspired by The Carnival of the Animals – a humorous musical by the French composer Camille Saint-Saens. Building on this classic framework, Michael has added many more animals – they speak in their own voices, full of humour and brio, to tell of their lives and the impact of humanity on their habitats • With full colour illustrations throughout, this celebrated partnership has created a gift book with a strong ecological message that will also ignite a love of poetry in young readers and will appeal to fans of The Lost Words

A classic thriller featuring the most daring escape of the Second World War, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Eagle Has Landed • American Colonel Hugh Kelso is washed ashore on German-held Jersey in Spring 1944, with top-secret D-Day plans in his possession. To get him back, the most daring escape of the Second World War must be planned and executed • Harry Martineau, bilingual philosophy professor turned assassin, and Sarah Drayton, a beautiful, half-French Jersey native, are selected to carry out the mission, and set off to steal the most precious Allied asset from under the noses of the Nazis…

Когда посреди ночи Ханна Хит принимает звонок из своего сиднейского дома с сообщением о драгоценном средневековом манускрипте, извлеченном из дымящихся руин разрушенного Сараево, она понимает, что находится на пороге события всей своей жизни. Известный библиотекарь, она должна отправиться в Боснию, чтобы начать работу по восстановлению еврейского молитвенника "Сараевская Агада" — раскрыть его секреты и собрать воедино историю его чудесного выживания. Но поездка приведет в движение ряд событий, которые могут разрушить упорядоченную жизнь Ханны • Как и все предыдущие работы Брукса, "Люди книги" — это захватывающий и трогательный роман о войне, искусстве, любви и выживании • Книга на английском языке • The new novel from the author of 'March' and 'Year of Wonders' takes place in the aftermath of the Bosnian War, as a young book conservator arrives in Sarajevo to restore a lost treasure

Форт - это исторический роман 2010 года, написанный Бернардом Корнуэллом и повествующий о событиях Пенобскотской экспедиции 1779 года во время Войны за независимость США • Лето 1779 года • Семьсот пятьдесят британских солдат и три небольших корабля Королевского флота. Их приказ: построить форт над гаванью, чтобы создать базу, с которой можно было бы контролировать побережье Новой Англии • Сорок один американский корабль и более девятисот человек. Их приказ: изгнать англичан • Последовавшая за этим битва стала классическим примером того, как самые тщательно продуманные планы могут быть нарушены личностью и политикой, и того, как война может выявить как лучшее, так и худшее в людях. Это неподвластная времени повесть о людях на войне, написанная мастером-рассказчиком