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Сьюзан и Норма дружат уже много лет. Их свела работа (в галантерейном магазине The Pin Cushion в Лестершире 1990-х годов) и схожесть характеров (ни одна из них не горела желанием дружить с кем-либо еще). Прошло тридцать лет. Муж Сьюзан стремится к бессмертию, а Норма обрела профессиональную славу и теперь недоступна. Сьюзан начинает сомневаться в правильности своего выбора – в любви, в карьере и, что самое главное, в дружбе • One Day I Shall Astonish the World – это новый роман Нины Стиббе, история удивительной и неожиданной дружбы • Книга на английском языке • Susan and Norma have been best friends for years, at first thrust together by force of circumstance (a job at The Pin Cushion, a haberdashery shop in 1990s Leicestershire) and then by force of character (neither being particularly inclined to make friends with anyone else)

Bringing into harsh focus the daily struggle for existence in a Soviet gulag, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is translated by Ralph Parker in Penguin Modern Classics • This brutal, shattering glimpse of the fate of millions of Russians under Stalin shook Russia and shocked the world when it first appeared. Discover the importance of a piece of bread or an extra bowl of soup, the incredible luxury of a book, the ingenious possibilities of a nail, a piece of string or a single match in a world where survival is all. Here safety, warmth and food are the first objectives. Reading it, you enter a world of incarceration, brutality, hard manual labour and freezing cold - and participate in the struggle of men to survive both the terrible rigours of nature and the inhumanity of the system that defines their conditions of life

In three thousand years of history, China has spent at least eleven centuries at war. The Roman Empire was in conflict during at least 50 per cent of its lifetime. Since 1776, the United States has spent over one hundred years at war. The dream of peace has been universal in the history of humanity. So why have we so rarely been able to achieve it? • In A Political History of the World, Jonathan Holslag has produced a sweeping history of the world, from the Iron Age to the present, that investigates the causes of conflict between empires, nations and peoples and the attempts at diplomacy and cosmopolitanism. A birds-eye view of three thousand years of history, the book illuminates the forces shaping world politics from Ancient Egypt to the Han Dynasty, the Pax Romana to the rise of Islam, the Peace of Westphalia to the creation of the United Nations

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online • Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content • The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers story comprehension and develop vocabulary

Знакомьтесь: Лиззи Фогель, 9 лет • Ее мама недавно развелась. В 31 год она оказалась совсем одна в английской деревушке, где вся ее компания – это трое детей и лабрадор. Не то чтобы жить без мужа плохо, но на дворе 1970-е, и на такое косо смотрят. Женщины из деревни опасаются, что мама Лиззи уведет у них мужей • Лиззи очень беспокоится из-за того, что социальные работники могут забрать ее у мамы, и вместе с сестрой намеревается помочь ей найти нового мужа • «Человек у руля» – это роман Нины Стиббе • Книга на английском языке • Meet Lizzie Vogel, 9 • Lizzie is concerned about her newly divorced mother; thirty-one years old and trapped in a hostile village in the English countryside with only three young children and a Labrador for company. It isn't that having a husband is good, but in 1970s rural Leicestershire, not having one is bad

Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of the First World War, this is a brilliantly compelling account of the evolution of life and the development of the human race. Along the way, Wells considers such diverse subjects as the Neolithic era, the rise of Judaism, the Golden Age of Athens, the life of Christ, the rise of Islam, the discovery of America and the Industrial Revolution. Breathtaking in its scope and passionate in its intensity, this history remains one of the most readable of its kind

Heartbroken after a long, painful love affair, a man drives a haulage lorry from England to France. Travelling with him is a secret passenger - his daughter. Twenty-something, unkempt, off the rails • With a week on the road together, father and daughter must restore themselves and each other, and repair a relationship that is at once fiercely loving and deeply scarred • As they journey south, down the motorways, through the service stations, a devastating picture reveals itself: a story of grief, of shame, and of love in all its complex, dark and glorious manifestations

1982 год. Двадцатилетняя Нина Стиббе переезжает из Лестера в Лондон и устраивается няней в одну очень необычную семью. Это было идеальное сочетание: Нина не умела готовить и ухаживать за детьми, не знала даже, кто нанял ее на работу. А семья была слишком увлечена обсуждением таких странных тем, как немецкий мат и достоинства (или недостатки) фарша из индейки • Love, Nina – это собрание писем, которые Нина Стиббе отправляла домой. В них содержится описание ее новой «домашней» жизни, неожиданных гостей и кошки, которую всем нравилось ненавидеть • In 1982 Nina Stibbe, a 20-year-old from Leicester, moved to London to work as a nanny for a very particular family. It was a perfect match: Nina had no idea how to cook, look after children or who the weirdos were who called round

'One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy' • What does it mean to be a good person? Ranging over eternal questions of right and wrong, pleasure and self-control, friendship and courage, Aristotle's lectures on ethics are among the most lasting and profound philosophical works of all time • One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists

One Pot Vegan is the perfect staple cookbook for vegans, vegetarians, flexitarians, or anyone who simply wants more plants on their plate • Packed with inspiration for pastas, curries, salads, stir-fries, noodles and even puddings, every recipe uses simple supermarket ingredients - for maximum flavour with minimum fuss • One-pot, one-pan and one-tray recipes include • - Quick and nutritious midweek meals, such as rainbow noodles, smoky sausage cassoulet, and roasted squash with cauliflower and sage • - Simple sides and light bights, such as roasted vegetable mezze, loaded sweet potato wedges, and no-waste harissa cauliflower • - Hearty home comforts, like rich lazy lasagne, mushroom and ale filo pie, and warming pearl barley chilli • - Takeaway classics, including mushroom tikka masala, tofu satay, and Chinese-inspired sweet and sour jackfruit • - Sweet treats and desserts such as peanut butter swirl brownies, boozy Caribbean pear cake, and cardamom and pistachio shortbread • From the creators of So Vegan, one of the world's leading vegan food platforms with a growing community of over 1

The extraordinary story of how China became the powerful country it is today • Even at the high noon of Europe's empire-building China nonetheless kept its sovereignty. Robert Bickers' major new book is the first to describe fully what has proved to be one of the modern era's most important stories: the long, often agonizing process by which the Chinese had by the end of the 20th century regained control of their own country. Out of China uses a brilliant array of unusual, strange and vivid sources to recreate a now fantastically remote world. Today Chinese nationalism stays firmly rooted in memories of its degraded past - the quest for self-sufficiency, the determination to assert China's standing in the world, to stake its outstanding territorial claims, and never to be vulnerable to renewed attack

The extraordinary early life in India and England of one of the world's leading public intellectuals • Where is 'home'? For Amartya Sen, home has been many places - Dhaka in modern Bangladesh, the little university town of Santiniketan, where he was raised as much by his grandparents as by his parents, Calcutta where he first studied economics and was active in student movements, and Trinity College, Cambridge, to which he came aged 19 • Sen brilliantly recreates the atmosphere in each of these. He remembers his river journeys between Dhaka and his parents' ancestral homes and wonderfully explores the rich history and culture of Bengal. In 1943 he witnessed the disastrous unfolding of the Bengal Famine, and the following year the inflaming of tensions between Hindus and Muslims