Harpercollins When Fishes Flew. The Story of Elena's War Морпурго Майкл

После жестокой бури мальчик обнаруживает человеческий череп, погребенный под корнями древнего дерева. Череп с легендарной историей… • Роман Майкла Морпурго "Преступник. История Робин Гуда" - яркое переосмысление истории легендарного героя • Бездомного и заблудившегося в темном, незнакомом лесу юного Робина спасает разношерстная команда неудачников. Он жаждет отомстить за своего отца и добиться справедливости против жестоких угнетателей, чтобы, наконец, раз и навсегда победить шерифа Ноттингема • И благодаря своим друзьям Робин Гуд находит в себе мужество стать легендарным героем • Книга на английском языке • After a fierce storm, a boy discovers a human skull, buried beneath the roots of an ancient tree. A skull with a legendary story… • Vivid re-imagining of the legendary hero Robin Hood by bestselling author of War Horse

A heart-warming tale of courage and warmth, set against the backdrop of the second world war, about an abandoned village, a lifelong friendship and one very adventurous cat! • 'Classic Morpurgo brilliance' - Publishing News • "Something's up. Something big too, very big. At school, in the village, whoever you meet, it's all anyone talks about. It's like a sudden curse has come down on us all. It makes me wonder if we'll ever see the sun again." • It's 1943, and Lily Tregenze lives on a farm, in the idyllic seaside village of Slapton. Apart from her father being away, and the 'townie' evacuees at school, her life is scarcely touched by the war. Until one day, Lily and her family, along with 3000 other villagers, are told to move out of their homes - lock, stock and barrel

This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is a mesmerising, minute-by-minute account of that terrible day • In the days and months after 9/11, Mitchell Zuckoff, then a reporter for the Boston Globe, wrote about the attacks, the victims, and their families. After further years of meticulous reporting, Zuckoff has filled Fall and Rise with voices of the lost and the saved. The result is an utterly gripping book, filled with intimate stories of people most affected by the events of that sunny Tuesday in September: an out-of-work actor stuck in an elevator in the North Tower of the World Trade Center; the heroes aboard Flight 93 deciding to take action; a veteran trapped in the inferno in the Pentagon; the fire chief among the first on the scene in sleepy Shanksville; a team of firefighters racing to save an injured woman and themselves; and the men, women, and children flying across country to see loved ones or for work who suddenly faced terrorists bent on murder

A timely and vivid look at Scotland’s long and difficult road to nationhood, re-exploring some cherished myths and unearthing a wealth of fascinating new detail • Magnus Magnusson’s starting point is Sir Walter Scott’s classic version of Scotland’s history, ‘Tales of a Grandfather’ (1827-29), which has moulded the views of generations of Scottish schoolchildren. Like Scott, Magnus Magnusson is a master story teller. In investigating the many questions raised by the nation’s turbulent and often poignant past, he gives full weight to the living treasure of local legends and tradition which he believes has as much resonance as academic analysis • Where did the ‘Scots’ come from? What is the truth about such historical figures as Macbeth, William Wallace and Robert Bruce? What was the significance of the tragic reign of Mary Queen of Scots? What was the impact of Bonnie Prince Charlie and his brutal defeat at Culloden? • Incorporating the findings of many leading modern historians, ‘Scotland: The Story of a Nation’ casts the nation’s history in a fascinating new light

To mark the publishing centenary of Freeman Wills Crofts, ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’, this is one of six classic crime novels being issued in 2020 featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television • The Jane Vosper is plunged to the bottom of the Atlantic by a series of explosions in her hold. With no innocent explanation of the cause, it appears that someone must have sunk the ship for the insurance money. When The Land and Sea Insurance Company’s official investigator then disappears, Inspector French is called in from Scotland Yard to find him. French decides that the only way to find his missing person is to solve the baffling mystery of the sinking of the Jane Vosper first…

Rick Riordan did it for Greece. Now Sarwat Chadda does it for India... Book two in the incredible action-adventure trilogy about Ash Mistry, reluctant hero and living weapon of the death goddess Kali • Ash Mistry is leading a pretty complicated life. There's school, his unrequited crush on girl-next-door Gemma... and then there's the fact that he's the reincarnation of the great Indian hero Ashoka, not to mention the small detail that he died last year, and came back as an agent of the goddess of death • So when the demon servants of the evil Lord Savage come after Gemma in order to get to Ash, you'd think he'd be ready to take them on • But Lord Savage still has some tricks up his sleeve. And with Gemma out of the picture, the English villain is closer than ever to finding a magical aastra of his own, and the power to rule the world

Абсолютно необходимая книга для каждого современного футбольного болельщика о развитии тактики Премьер-лиги, изданная к 25-летию чемпионата • В далеком 1992 году английский футбол застрял в средневековье, выйдя из пятилетнего запрета на участие в европейских соревнованиях. Игра была физической, с нанесением синяков и на износ, в основе которой преобладала сила над скоростью, агрессия над изяществом. Это была эпоха генералов полузащиты, редукторов, больших игроков впереди и того, как они добивались успеха; 4-4-2 было в порядке вещей. Немногие команды экспериментировали тактически • А потом, почти в одночасье, все изменилось. Создание Премьер-лиги совпало с одним из самых драматичных изменений правил в истории футбола: отменой обратного паса. Внезапно у защитников появилась карточка "без права выхода из тюрьмы", вратари должны были уметь выходить на поле и играть с мячом, и темп игры неизмеримо ускорился

Первая публикация ранее неизвестного фэнтезийного произведения Джона Рональда Руэла Толкина – захватывающей истории обречённого, проданного в рабство юноши, который даёт клятву отомстить колдуну, убившему его отца • Куллерво, сын Калерво – возможно, самый мрачный и трагичный персонаж Толкина. «Злосчастный Куллерво», как его называл сам Толкин, – это невезучий сирота со сверхъестественными способностями и печальной судьбой. Он вырос в поместье тёмного колдуна Унтамо, убившего его отца и похитившего мать, и пережил своё детство только благодаря любви своей сестры-близнеца Ваноны и заступничества волшебного чёрного пса по имени Мусти. Когда Куллерво продают в рабство, он клянётся отомстить колдуну, но ему предстоит узнать, что злому року нет дела до мести и справедливости