Hodder & Stoughton Pandora's Boy Davis Lindsey

In the blazing July heat of imperial Rome, Flavia Albia inspects a decomposing corpse. It has been discovered in lots to be auctioned by her family business, so she's determined to identify the dead man and learn how he met his gruesome end • The investigation will give her a chance to work with the magistrate, Manlius Faustus, the friend she sadly knows to be the last chaste man in Rome. But he's got other concerns than her anonymous corpse. It's election time and with democracy for sale at Domitian's court, tension has come to a head. Faustus is acting as an agent for a 'good husband and father', whose traditional family values are being called into question. Even more disreputable are his rivals, whom Faustus wants Albia to discredit • As Albia's and Faustus' professional and personal partnership deepens they have to accept that, for others, obsession can turn sour, and become a deadly strain that leads, tragically, to murder

Rome, the very end of December. The Field of Mars is packed with monuments, none more beautiful than Domitian's new Odeon and Stadium. But the area has been overtaken by ugly events: elaborately staged murders. Someone bears a spectacular grudge against the theatrical community, and intends to get revenge in the most spectacular way possible. The killer's method is to re-enact bloody scenes from the gruesome side of popular theatre, where characters in plays really die on stage • A figure from the past wants Flavia Albia's father to investigate, but Falco is out of Rome for the holidays. Albia seizes the commission. And begins to regret doing so almost immediately. 'The undertaker did it!' the first victim croaks before expiring. This seems to make no sense, because surely people are already dead when they go to their funeral? • Though there is a serial killer at large, the authorities would prefer a cover-up but Albia is driven to discover what is going on

Один мальчик. Одна разочаровывающая суперсила • Сможет ли Дилан приручить стаю гипер-игуан и придумать гениальный план по спасению мира? Да, возможно... но ему понадобится огромная пицца с сыром! • Дилан мечтал о суперсиле столько, сколько себя помнит, особенно с тех пор, как у его брата и сестры появились действительно крутые суперспособности • Но когда его желание наконец сбывается, Дилан оказывается сильно разочарован. Потому что Дилан стал... Мальчиком-Игуаной. Он может разговаривать с игуанами... Чушь собачья! • И когда суперзлодейка Селина Шаффлботтом похищает всех супергероев в Лондоне, Дилан должен придумать, как использовать свою новую команду болтливых игуан, чтобы спасти положение. Ему придется мыслить оригинально (подобно разным видам пиццы), если он хочет стать героем, о котором всегда мечтал

Один мальчик. Одна разочаровывающая суперсила • Смогут ли Дилан и его компания гипер-игуан произвести неизгладимое впечатление на коллектив супергероев, возглавляемый Роном Стронгманом, или над ними будет смеяться весь город? • Возможно, у него самая слабая суперсила на свете, но Дилан, он же Мальчик-Игуана, доказал, что достоин того, чтобы его приняли в команду супергероев. Дилан в восторге, его игуаны - в восторге. Это уже залог успеха, не так ли? • Мальчик-игуана и его команда игуан с нетерпением ждут приказа спасти МИР. Но у генерального директора Superhero Collective Рона Стронгмана нет времени на скромных супергероев • Дилану придется найти свой собственный способ добраться до вершины, иначе он будет вечно спасать глупых кошек с деревьев. Когда новый злодей сеет хаос по всему Лондону, Дилан не может поверить в свою удачу: это его шанс

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»

From renowned author Lindsey Davis, creator of the much-loved character, Marcus Didius Falco and his friends and family, comes the fourth novel in her all-new series set in ancient Rome • We first met Flavia Albia, Falco's feisty adopted daughter, in THE IDES OF APRIL. Albia is a remarkable woman in what is very much a man's world: young, widowed and fiercely independent, she lives alone on the Aventine Hill in Rome and makes a good living as a hired investigator. An outsider in more ways than one, Albia has unique insight into life in ancient Rome, and she puts it to good use going places no man could go, and asking questions no man could ask

I am a boy, and this is Rayf, my bird • Rayf is my friend • On his first day of holiday camp, a little boy arrives with his bird best friend perched proudly on his shoulder, but he soon discovers that he is different from everyone else - no one else has a bird. He hides Rayf away to try and fit in but it's hard to pretend to be someone else for long • A beautiful story about finding the confidence to spread your wings and fly as your true self

Three funny, scary adventures of a small boy with a dachshund, demons, science - and footnotes - in one volume • Bursting with imagination and impossible to put down, these novels - 'darkly comic' (Telegraph) and 'delightfully horrific and hilarious' (Eoin Colfer) - from The Sunday Times bestselling author John Connolly, are about the pull between good and evil, physics and fantasy - and a quirky boy, who is impossible not to love, and the unlikely cast of characters who give him the strength to stand up to a demonic power • The Gates: Samuel Johnson's neighbour Mrs Abernathy is trying to open the gates of hell. It's up to Samuel to stop her, except nobody will believe him, and time is running out • The Infernals (prev. Hell's Bells): Samuel and Boswell are pulled through a portal into Hell

Can one boy with no memories save the world? • In the Earth world, a boy dreams of faraway lands to escape life with his horrible aunt • In the Elf world, he wakes up with a mysterious golden torch but without any clue who he is … • except for the compass he pulls from his pocket, engraved with one name: Jayben • Jayben discovers that many moons ago, a giant put a dark spell on the golden torch, and the elves forgot everything that had come before. Now they hang precious memories in jars on trees, just to try to remember • But a new darkness grows among them • An evil villain called Null is burning down the forests, hellbent on finding the torch and becoming the most powerful being ever to live • If Jayben can find his own magic and ignite the torch with its fierce violet flame, his power will be unstoppable … Can Jayben save the world before the lights go out forever? • A story of courage, hope and friendship

On a jagged, bleak lava field just outside Reykjavik stands the Gallows Rock. Once a place of execution, it is now a tourist attraction. Until this morning, when a man was found hanging from it • The nail embedded in his chest proves it wasn't suicide. But when the police go to his flat, a further puzzle awaits: a four-year-old boy has been left there. He doesn't seem to have any link with the victim, his parents cannot be found, and his drawings show he witnessed something terrible • As detective Huldar hunts the killer, and child psychologist Freyja looks for the boy's parents, the mystery unfolds: a story of violence, entitlement, and revenge

Original Blyton stories are paired with brand new colour illustrations by Jamie Littler in a new and exciting format • The Famous Five - Julian, Dick, George, Anne and Timmy - have been delighting readers for over 70 years. After the Five see a boy being kidnapped at the beach, they set out to find him. But where have the kidnappers hidden the boy? Will Timmy lead them to the answer?

The fourth title in the number one bestselling CHERUB series! A routine operation for James turns into a much more deadly mission • Leon is a small-time crook who's ridden his luck for three decades. When he starts splashing big money around, the cops are desperate to know where it came from • They call in CHERUB, a secret organisation with one essential advantage: even experienced criminals never suspect that children are spying on them • James' latest mission looks routine, but the plot he begins to unravel isn't what anyone expected. And the only person who might know the truth is a reclusive eighteen-year-old boy • There's just one problem. The boy fell to his death thirteen months earlier