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Aisling is thirty, flirty and frazzled • But - just when she should finally be feeling all grown-up - she's floundering • Because when you're recovering from a broken heart and struggling to keep your cafe as sizzling as your award-winning sausages, it's hard to feel you've really made it as an adult • Which why now is NOT the time for a delicious new man to show up, her best friend to demand the hen do of the century and a surprise celebrity appearance • But Aisling, never one to worry about having too much on her plate, rolls up her sleeves: she's got this • Until she discovers that being a proper grown-up means you can't do everything. Sometimes you will let someone down • But will it be those she loves . . . or herself?

Meet Aisling. She's a small-town girl with a big heart • She has a steady job and a loyal boyfriend (though he hasn't put a ring on it even after seven years) • Then one disastrous romantic getaway convinces Aisling to leave him behind and head for the bright lights • But with glamorous new flatmates, a scandal at work and a weird love square, Aisling has no idea what's about to hit her • Fans of Marian Keyes, Bridget Jones and Sophie Kinsella will LOVE this

Anything is possible in the bright lights of New York • Aisling is 31 and life is good. Yes, her relationship with boyfriend John may be over but her cafe, BallyGoBrunch, is booming and it isn't long before an exciting offer lands: a catering gig in The Big Apple • Armed with her best wrap dress and heels, Aisling boards a business-class flight to New York to start a new adventure • But life in the city isn't as easy and glamorous as she first thought. Alone and homesick, Aisling fears she has made a terrible mistake • Yet New York has so much to offer - especially when a certain fireman comes knocking on her door

In Dandelion Land, a young snail can't stop asking his friends awkward questions, such as: why are we so slow - and why can't we all have our own names? When he is finally banished from the snail community because of this, he is forced to travel the world alone. As he explores in his oh-so-slow way, the snail makes new friends and goes on a series of adventures, gaining wisdom from every new encounter. But when he finds out his friends are in danger, he decides to rush home to warn them. Will he get there in time to save them? • Luis Sepulveda's bestselling The Story of a Snail Who Discovered the Importance of Being Slow is a wonderful ode to diversity and unity, celebrating the importance of being slow in a world obsessed with speed

Despite inhabiting a great city renowned for its impeccable restraint, the extended family of 44 Scotland Street is trembling on the brink of reckless self-indulgence. Matthew and Elspeth receive startling - and expensive - news on a visit to the Infirmary, Angus and Domenica are contemplating an Italian menage a trois, and even Big Lou is overheard discussing cosmetic surgery. But when Bertie Pollock - six years old and impatient to be seven - mislays his meddling mother Irene one afternoon, a valuable lesson is learned: that wish-fulfilment is a dangerous business • Warm-hearted, wise and very funny, The Importance of Being Seven brings us a fresh and delightful set of insights into philosophy and fraternity among Edinburgh's most loveable residents

Оскар Уайльд уже был одним из самых громких имён британской литературы, когда он решил найти своему удивительному таланту применение в мире театра. С 1891-го по 1895-й годы он написал ряд самобытных пьес, ставших авангардом драматургического ренессанса девяностых годов девятнадцатого века и не утративших за прошедшее время способность увлекать аудиторию. На страницах книги вы найдёте новую редакцию "Веера леди Уиндермир", "Женщины, не стоящей внимания", "Саломеи", "Идеального мужа" и "Искусства быть серьёзным" - возможно, величайшего комедийного фарса в истории англоязычной драматургии, в честь которого и назван настоящий сборник • Книга на английском языке • Oscar Wilde was already one of the best-known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre

Оскар Уайльд - английский писатель, досконально изучивший все подводные камни семейной жизни. В трех самых известных своих пьесах ("Веер леди Уиндермир", "Как важно быть серьезным", "Идеальный муж") он предоставляет читателю право самому ответить на животрепещущие вопросы: следует ли безоговорочно доверять своей второй половине? Надо ли идеализировать спутника жизни или лучше принимать его со всеми недостатками? Прощать за ошибки, совершенные в прошлом, или безжалостно осуждать, сокрушая то, что строилось годами? Красивый язык, парадоксальные, но и логичные высказывания, мягкий юмор, запутанность положений заставят читателя вновь и вновь обращаться к этой книге, а комментарии и словарик помогут ему в полной мере оценить прелесть и афористичность языка

Серия книг «Зарубежная классика — читай в оригинале» — это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии • Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков • Неадаптированное издание на английском языке

Мы должны относиться ко всем тривиальным вещам в жизни очень серьезно, а ко всем серьезным вещам жизни – с искренней и продуманной тривиальностью. – Оскар Уайлд • Впервые выпущенная в 1895, «Как важно быть серьезным» – пьеса, полная путаниц, неожиданных поворотов сюжета, перепутанных личностей и неординарных искрометных острот • Сесилия Кардью и Гвендолин Феирфакс обе влюблены в мужчину по имени Эрнест, которого не существует. Потому что он – изобретение Джека Ворфинга, которому был нужен брат черная овца, которого можно обвинить в своем плохом поведении. Ситуация усложнилась, когда Джек влюбился в Гвендолин, а его друг Альгернон в Сесилию и никто не знает кто есть кто, а сюжет идет к катастрофе • Это самая популярная пьеса Уайлда, незабываемые персонажи, включая грозную Леди Брекнелл

The Second World War. Poland. Our narrator has no intention of being a hero. He plans to survive this war, whatever it takes • Meticulously he recounts his experiences: the slow unravelling of national events as well as uncomfortable personal encounters on the street, in the cafe, at the office, in his love affairs. He is intimate but reserved; conversational but careful; reflective but determined. As he becomes increasingly and chillingly alienated from other people, the reader is drawn into complicit acquiescence. We are forced to consider what it means to be heroic and how we ourselves would behave in the same circumstances • Written in 1961, this is the masterpiece of one of the great Polish writers of the twentieth century

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) is the story of a boy in Missouri in the 1840s. Tom Sawyer's parents are dead and he lives with his aunt in a small village next to the long Mississippi river. One night, Tom and his friend, Huckleberry Finn see Injun Joe kill Dr Robinson. We can't say anything about it. Or we will die, says Tom. But then the wrong man goes to prison... Penguin Readers is a series of popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction written for learners of English as a foreign language. Beautifully illustrated and carefully adapted, the series introduces language learners around the world to the bestselling authors and most compelling content from Penguin Random House. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework and include language activitiesthat help readers to develop key skills

The Penguin English Library Edition of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells • 'Death!' I shouted. 'Death is coming! Death!' • In this pioneering, shocking and nightmarish tale, naive suburban Londoners investigate a strange cylinder from space, but are instantly incinerated by an all-destroying heat-ray. Soon, gigantic killing machines that chase and feed on human prey are threatening the whole of humanity. A pioneering work of alien invasion fiction, The War of the World's journalistic style contrasts disturbingly with its horrifying visions of the human race under siege • The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War