Hodder & Stoughton A Post Office Christmas Cooper Poppy

A wartime saga series about the lives and escapades of the first women to work in the post office depot in Regent's Park in WW1 • With the Great War raging, can they keep Britain going? • 1915. On Beth Healey's eighteenth birthday, she hopes that she will be able to forget the ghastly war and celebrate. But that evening, her twin brother Ned announces that he has signed up to fight • No longer able to stand working in her parents' village shop while others are doing their bit, Beth applies to join the Army Post Office's new Home Depot on the Regent's Park, and is astounded to be accepted. She will be responsible for making sure that letters and parcels get through to the troops on the front line • Beth is thrilled to be a crucial part of the war effort and soon makes friends with fellow post girls Milly and Nora, and meets the handsome James

1912-1940 • A generation fallen • A country that will never be the same again • Nowhere in England avoids the searing loss of young men during the First World War and the remote Devon village of Shallowford is no exception. Many never return and the lives of those who do come back are changed forever • Paul Craddock must try to rebuild the estate and, with more difficulty, the bonds broken between the people who belong there. It is a time of huge social change and there are challenges in peace as hard to surmount as those of war. And before they are met, Germany once again threatens the stability of Europe and a way of life so hard won

In a converted Georgian townhouse in south west London, three families live under one roof • The large flat that takes up the top two floors is home to the Harlow family: happily married Paul and Steph, and their bubbly teenage daughter Freya. The smaller first floor flat is rented by Emma, who spends most of her time alone, listening to people coming in and out of the building. And the basement flat belongs to Chris, a local driving instructor, who prefers to keep his personal life private from the neighbours • But their lives are all upended when Freya vanishes. As the police become involved and a frantic Paul and Steph desperately search for answers, they begin to realise that the truth behind their daughter's disappearance may lie closer to home than they were expecting

One year ago, Leah's twenty-one-year-old niece, Amy, mysteriously drowned near her family-owned luxury resort on the shores of Lake Garda • Now, returning to Italy for the first time since Amy's death, Leah is shocked to find her family seem to have erased all reminders of Amy. Despite the murky circumstances, they insist her death was an accident but Leah knows she must look deeper if she is to uncover the truth • Meanwhile, in Derby, university counsellor Joanna is recovering from a surprising break-up when she is swept off her feet by a handsome bartender. But after she invites him into her home, Joanna is forced to accept that she doesn't know him as well as she thought • What follows is a propulsive game of cat-and mouse as both women begin to realise that appearances can be deceptive - and that the darkest secrets often lie closest to home

Вошедшие в данный сборник рождественские рассказы Энид Блайтон по праву считаются нестареющей классикой детской литературы. Эта книга - отличный подарок для тех, кто насладился этими историями в детстве и хочет познакомить с ними новое поколение читателей • Книга «Enid Blyton`s Christmas Stories» оказалась столь популярной, что издательство Hodder & Stoughton по просьбам читателей выпустило второй праздничный сборник, и именно его вы держите в руках! Энид Блайтон передаёт атмосферу Рождества с несравненным мастерством, какой бы аспект праздника она ни описывала: колядки, ожидание подарков, праздничный стол и, конечно, посиделки с родными и близкими… Да, в историях Блайтон, как обычно, нашлось место для озорства и хаоса, но добро и веселье в них всегда на первом месте! • Рассказы из этой книги ранее не публиковались в «Enid Blyton`s Christmas Stories»

In the midst of war, can they find a reason to celebrate? • 1915. Patrolling is the last thing on the minds of Women's Police Service recruits Annie, Maggie and Poppy right now, because Annie and her fiance Richard are about to get married. She's been waiting for this day her whole life, but when it finally comes it brings only heartache and Annie doesn't know if she can go on • The influx of soldiers to the capital means that the WPS's work is more important than ever, though, and Annie's country needs her. She and the girls are posted to the bustling heart of the city and she hopes the new job will distract her from her sorrow • It certainly does that. Soon the biggest bombing raid of the war causes chaos on their patch. On top of that, Annie suspects that a group of men are forcing European refugees into prostitution and resolves to stop them by Christmas

Джулиан, Дик, Энн, Джордж и их четвероногий друг Тимми – Знаменитая Пятёрка, герои самой популярной серии детских детективов Энид Блайтон • Наступил канун Рождества, и юные сыщики с нетерпением предвкушают праздник. Но Тимми выставили на улицу за громкий лай, так что он не смог остановить вора, решившего оставить детей без их подарков • Сможет ли верный пёс спасти положение? • Энид Блайтон написала про Знаменитую Пятёрку не только 21 роман основного цикла, но и целый ряд рассказов. Поначалу они выходили в журналах, а позднее издательство Hodder выпустило их в одном сборнике «Famous Five Short Story Collection». Эта книга с цветными иллюстрациями художника Джейми Литтлера – первое самостоятельное издание рассказа «Happy Christmas, Five!» • «Знаменитая пятёрка» – один из известнейших англоязычных циклов литературы для детей, начавшийся с романа «На острове сокровищ»

A funny, action-packed, moving black-and-white graphic novel about a boy coming to terms with the loss of his dad • Cooper is brilliant at magic tricks. Card tricks, clever illusions - he can do them all. His dad, also known as the Great Eduardo, taught him the tricks of the magical trade before he passed away. But the one thing Cooper can't do is see his dad again • So when a talking rabbit appears from his dad's top hat, and reveals there is a place where Cooper might find him, he jumps at the chance. Magic is about believing the impossible, after all. And Cooper desperately wants to believe that he can see his dad once more • But what - and who - is waiting for them in the land where magic goes wrong? • Filled with filled with humour and emotion, this is an action-packed graphic novel about finding magic when you need it the most

Emily Brown and Stanley are back in this fun-filled Christmas picture book. By the author of the bestselling How to Train Your Dragon series • It's Christmas Eve, and who's that outside the window? It's Father Christmas! In his shiny new turbo-charged sleigh, complete with sat-nav. But things aren't going quite to plan • Can Emily Brown and Stanley save the day? They'll just need some emergency reindeer, a star map and... MAGIC!

1916. Poppy is being transferred to an enormous new munitions complex in Gretna, on the Scottish border. Even though it means moving far away from her best friends Maggie and Annie, she is excited for the challenge • As a member of the Women's Police Service, it's her job to maintain law and order so that the factory workers can safely carry out their vital war work. She soon makes friends, and even starts to open herself up to the possibility of love • But then she sees something in the dead of night, and suddenly the dangers of the war are no longer far away on distant shores. With the enemy hot on her heels and no idea who to trust, can Poppy save herself - and avert disaster for her country?

В данный сборник вошли 29 рассказов признанного классика британской детской литературы. Их можно читать детям вслух, а мальчики и девочки старше 7 лет вполне могут осилить их самостоятельно. Перед вами поистине волшебные сказки, полные юмора и пронизанные атмосферой праздника, например, история гордой лошадки, которая учиться делиться добротой с другими, или снеговика, с которым подружились эльфы. Эта книга станет отличным подарком к зимним праздникам и покажет, почему Энид Блайтон остаётся одним из самых популярных британских авторов детской литературы и по сей день • Откройте для себя новую грань таланта автора «Великолепной пятёрки»! • Книга на английском языке • Celebrate Christmas with one of the world's best-loved children's authors in this sparkling collection of stories

New novel from the international bestselling chick-lit writer who keeps you guessing to the very end • Doesn't every girl dream of getting . . . something from Tiffany's? • It's Christmas Eve. And on 5th Avenue in New York City, two very different men are shopping for gifts for the women they love • Gary is buying his girlfriend Rachel a charm bracelet. Partly to thank her for paying for their holiday-of-a-lifetime to New York. But mainly because he's left his Christmas shopping far too late • Whereas Ethan's looking for something a little more special - an engagement ring for the first woman to have made him happy since he lost the love of his life • But when the two men's shopping bags get confused, and Rachel somehow ends up with Ethan's ring, the couples' lives become intertwined