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Добро пожаловать обратно в новый год в школе Уэйсайд, где все так же странно и эксцентрично, как и всегда • В классе миссис Джулз на тридцатом этаже двадцать девять детей, и эта книга о них всех: про Тодда, который каждый день попадает в беду, пока у него не появляется волшебная собака; Пола, чью жизнь спасают косички Лесли; Рона, который осмеливается попробовать грибной сюрприз в кафетерии; и всем остальным, кто помогает превращать каждый день в школе Уэйсайд в сумасбродные приключения • Книга Луиса Сашара "Обрушение Уэйсайда" наполнена причудливыми и веселыми персонажами, которые оживают в этом новом издании с восхитительными иллюстрациями Алексея Бицкоффа • Книга на английском языке • Welcome back to a new year at Wayside School – where things are as strange and eccentric as ever

As the nation's oldest serving detectives, we know more about London than almost anyone. After all, we've been walking its streets and impulsively arresting its citizens for decades. Who better to take you through its less savoury side? • We'll be chatting about odd buildings, odder characters, lost venues, forgotten disasters, confusing routes, dubious gossip, illicit pleasures and hidden pubs. We'll be making all sorts of odd connections and showing you why it's almost impossible to separate fact from fiction in London • With the help of some of our more disreputable friends, each an argumentative and unreliable expert in his or her own dodgy field, we'll explain why some streets have genders, why only two Londoners got to meet Dracula, how a department store and a prison played tricks on your mind, when a theatre got stranded in the past, how a building vanished in plain sight, what excited Charlotte Bronte about the city and where the devils hide in London

London Orbital is Iain Sinclair's exceptional voyage of discovery into the unloved outskirts of the city • Encircling London like a noose, the M25 is a road to nowhere, but when Iain Sinclair sets out to walk this asphalt loop - keeping within the 'acoustic footprints' - he is determined to find out where the journey will lead him. Stumbling upon converted asylums, industrial and retail parks, ring-fenced government institutions and lost villages, Sinclair discovers a Britain of the fringes, a landscape consumed by developers. London Orbital charts this extraordinary trek and round trip of the soul, revealing the country as you've never seen it before

'I was still at that stage in my life when I thought that weekdays were for recovering from the weekend' • Twenty-six year old Lucy Sullivan is living it up (and occasionally down) in London • Hers is a life of quiet, undisciplined desperation. But when she and three friends visit a psychic for a bit of fun and the woman's predictions start coming true, Lucy is horrified • For the fortune teller insisted she'd soon be married - within the year, in fact • Not only does Lucy not have a boyfriend, but the chances of getting one are looking slim. Between the bottles of wine, antidepressants and her addiction to self-help books, she's not quite ready to walk, or even stumble, down the aisle sober • Is Lucy's fate really written in the stars? • Or will she finally take control of her own destiny?

Evan S. Connell's Mrs Bridge is an extraordinary tragicomic portrayal of suburban life and one of the classic American novels of the twentieth century • Mrs Bridge, an unremarkable and conservative housewife in Kansas City, has three children and a kindly lawyer husband. She spends her time shopping, going to bridge parties and bringing up her children to be pleasant, clean and have nice manners. And yet she finds modern life increasingly baffling, her children aren't growing up into the people she expected, and sometimes she has the vague disquieting sensation that all is not well in her life. In a series of comic, telling vignettes, Evan S. Connell illuminates the narrow morality, confusion, futility and even terror at the heart of a life of plenty

London Underground By Design is the beautifully illustrated new book from Mark Ovenden, the acclaimed author of Great Railway Maps of the World, published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the Tube in 2013 • Since its establishment 150 years ago as the world's first urban subway, the London Underground has continuously set a benchmark for design that has influenced transit systems from New York to Tokyo, Moscow to Paris and beyond. London Underground by Design is the first meticulous study of every aspect of that feat, a comprehensive history of one of the world's most celebrated design achievements, and of the visionaries who brought it to life • Beginning in the pioneering Victorian age, Mark Ovenden charts the evolution of architecture, branding, typeface, map design, interior and textile styles, posters, signage and graphic design and how these came together to shape not just the Underground's identity, but the character of London itself

The companion novel to Mrs Bridge, this is a pitch-perfect portrayal of marriage and family life and a poignant dissection of the unexamined life • Walter Bridge, husband to India and father to three, is a successful lawyer in a Kansas suburb. The daily • dramas of his life only serve to illuminate his narrow prejudices and complacent outlook, yet he is also troubled by existential doubts, dark undercurrents of desire and a yearning for something forever out of his reach. In Mr Bridge, Evan S. Connell gives us a moving, satirical and poetic portrayal of a man who cannot escape his limitations and of a couple growing old together but unable, ultimately, to connect • The companion novel, Mrs Bridge, telling the story from the other side of the marriage, is published in Penguin Modern Classics

Also known as Dulcimer Street, Norman Collins's London Belongs to Me is a Dickensian romp through working-class London on the eve of the Second World War. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Ed Glinert, author of The London Compendium • It is 1938 and the prospect of war hangs over every London inhabitant. But the city doesn't stop. Everywhere people continue to work, drink, fall in love, fight and struggle to get on in life. At the lodging-house at No.10 Dulcimer Street, Kennington, the buttoned-up clerk Mr Josser returns home with the clock he has received as a retirement gift. The other residents include faded actress Connie; tinned food-loving Mr Puddy; widowed landlady Mrs Vizzard (whose head is turned by her new lodger, a self-styled 'Professor of Spiritualism'); and flashy young mechanic Percy Boon, whose foray into stolen cars descends into something much, much worse

Первоначально опубликованный в период расцвета могущества нацистской Германии, роман "Луна закатилась" исследует последствия вторжения как для побежденных, так и для завоевателей. Оккупированный вражескими войсками, маленький мирный городок сталкивается лицом к лицу со злом, навязанным извне, и предательством внутри сплоченного сообщества. Вникая в мотивы и эмоции врага, Стейнбек раскрывает глубокие и часто тревожащие истины как о войне, так и о человеческой природе • Книга на английском языке • Originally published at the zenith of Nazi Germany's power, The Moon Is Down explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors. Occupied by enemy troops, a small, peaceable town comes face-to-face with evil imposed from the outside and betrayal from within the close-knit community

Первоначально опубликованный в зените могущества нацистской Германии, роман "Луна зашла" исследует последствия вторжения как для побежденных, так и для завоевателей. Оккупированный вражескими войсками, маленький мирный городок сталкивается лицом к лицу со злом, навязанным извне, и предательством внутри сплоченного сообщества. Вникая в мотивы и эмоции врага, Стейнбек раскрывает глубокие и часто тревожные истины как о войне, так и о природе человека • Книга на английском языке • Originally published at the zenith of Nazi Germany's power, The Moon Is Down explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors. Occupied by enemy troops, a small, peaceable town comes face-to-face with evil imposed from the outside and betrayal from within the close-knit community

Long-suffering spy Bernard Samson has, against all the odds, enticed a Soviet agent to defect to London - but this proves to be the start of something even bigger. For he learns that there is treachery within his own Service, and no one is free from suspicion. To discover who really controls the game of spies, he must attempt a desperate gamble. As the Game, Set and Match trilogy reaches its shattering finale, who will make the winning move?

В суждениях современников и потомков Эмили Бронте (1818-1848) не раз звучала мысль о том, что она гораздо в большей степени поэт, чем романист • В сборнике "Ночь вокруг меня" представлены некоторые из ее самых необычных стихотворений • Книга на английском языке • '... ever-present, phantom thing • My slave, my comrade, and my king' • Some of Emily Bronte's most extraordinary poems • Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe