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The Mona Lisa has hung in the Louvre for over two-hundred years. She has watched alone in silence as millions of people have admired her behind the glass • Now, she is finally ready to tell her own story • Over five centuries, from da Vinci's bustling Florentine studio to the opulent French court, Mona will be desired, stolen, heartbroken, curious, furious, and above all, she will be heard

You will discover that this book can be • A secret message - tear out a page, write a note on it for a stranger, and leave it in a public place • A recording device - have everyone you contact today write their name in the book • An instrument - create as many sounds as you can using the book, like flipping the pages fast or slapping the cover • This Is Not a Book will engage readers by having them define everything a book can be by asking, 'If it's not a book, what is it then?' - with a kaleidoscope of possible answers

В попытке освободиться от оков своего степенного среднезападного воспитания Эмори Блейн стремится приобрести налёт восточной изощрённости. Его погоня за сексуальным и интеллектуальным просветлением проводит его через серию неудачных отношений, после которых он наконец попадает в реальный мир • В истории Американской литературы Фицджеральд стал почти мифологической фигурой, а его роман «Великий Гэтсби» многими считается величайшим американским романом. В 1920 году он женился на Зельде Сейр, звезде ранней американской эмансипации. Их нездоровый брак и прогрессирующее безумие жены оказали ключевое влияние на творчество писателя. Помимо многочисленных рассказов его перу принадлежат несколько романов, и «По эту сторону рая» был первым из них • Издание романа «По эту сторону рая» выдающегося американского писателя Фрэнсиса Скотта Фицджеральда, входящее в серию «Penguin Modern Classics» от издательства Penguin, станет отличным подарком поклонникам творчества автора

I sometimes can't believe just how much has happened in the last couple of life-changing years. It's been a total whirlwind of a journey, and I'm so grateful to all my followers for their amazing love and support along the way • From my very first toy kitchen which was my pride and joy right through to the my very first Instagram posts stories of my cleaning routine, I'm going to take you back to the start of how it all began • But there is so much more to my story than just cleaning tips; there have been the highest of highs, but also heart-breaking devastating lows • So let's do this! Put your Hinch Lists to one side, get comfy and join me on the sofa with a cuppa. Welcome to my world • This is me: Soph - the wife, the mother and the person behind Mrs Hinch

Naomi Klein, author of the #1 international bestsellers, The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, returns with This Changes Everything, a must-read on how the climate crisis needs to spur transformational political change • Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon - it's about capitalism. The good news is that we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better • In her most provocative book yet, Naomi Klein, author of the global bestsellers The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, tackles the most profound threat humanity has ever faced: the war our economic model is waging against life on earth • Klein exposes the myths that are clouding the climate debate • You have been told the market will save us, when in fact the addiction to profit and growth is digging us in deeper every day

If change is the natural order of things, why do we struggle with the huge milestones in our lives? • At a time when even the most certain things feel disrupted, acclaimed psychotherapist Julia Samuel provides an antidote to the chaos we are all feeling. In this Sunday Times bestseller, Julia draws on hours of conversations with her patients to show how we can learn to adapt and even thrive during our most difficult and transformative experiences • From a new mother struggling with the decision to return to work, to a father handling a serious medical diagnosis, from a woman deciding whether to leave her husband for a younger lover, to a man struggling to repair his marriage after the trauma of suffering with COVID-19 in the ICU, this book unflinchingly deals with the hard times in family, love, work, health and identity

One hot summer, first love and so many buried secrets • Senara has never been in love before. She's not done anything exciting before. Always the sidekick . . . Until the summer that changes everything • Cliff House is closed off for most of the year until its rich Londoner owners come down to Cornwall for the summer. This year, despite herself, Senara finds herself pulled into this world of wealth and ease, sunbathing and beautiful people. She even finds herself falling in love for the first time • But Cliff House and its owners are hiding things. They've been hiding things for too long and now, despite all their efforts, their secrets are coming out . . . Secrets that involve Senara's friends and her family in a way she could never have imagined

In 1570, when it became clear she would never be gathered into the Catholic fold, Elizabeth I was excommunicated by the Pope. On the principle that 'my enemy's enemy is my friend', this marked the beginning of an extraordinary English alignment with the Muslim powers who were fighting Catholic Spain in the Mediterranean, and of cultural, economic and political exchanges with the Islamic world of a depth not again experienced until the modern age. England signed treaties with the Ottoman Porte, received ambassadors from the kings of Morocco and shipped munitions to Marrakesh. By the late 1580s hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Elizabethan merchants, diplomats, sailors, artisans and privateers were plying their trade from Morocco to Persia. These included the resourceful mercer Anthony Jenkinson who met both Suleyman the Magnificent and the Persian Shah Tahmasp in the 1560s, William Harborne, the Norfolk merchant who became the first English ambassador to the Ottoman court in 1582 and the adventurer Sir Anthony Sherley, who spent much of 1600 at the court of Shah Abbas the Great

In this extraordinary non-fiction novel, based on a true story, Tahar Ben Jelloun traces the experiences of Salim who, in 1971, took part in a failed coup attempt to oust King Hassan II of Morocco. With sixty others Salim was incarcerated in a secret prison complex in the Moroccan desert: he was to remain there for nearly twenty years • In starkly eloquent, beautiful prose, Ben Jelloun relates the prisoners' experiences as they struggle to survive. The son of a witty, feckless courtier who disowns him, Salim tells stories to keep sane - from the suras of his beloved Koran to the plot of A Streetcar Named Desire. Even in the darkest, most terrible conditions, sympathy, insight, the human quest for meaning and understanding, never desert Salim

About to turn forty, Alice feels stuck: She works at the school she attended. Her boyfriend isn't the man of her dreams. And her beloved father Leonard is dying • But after one too many drinks, she wakes up in her childhood home to find forty-year-old Leonard celebrating her sixteenth birthday • Now Alice gets to relive this one day in 1996, over and over. When the slightest change will impact the rest of her life • Can she fix her life and save her father? • Or will her good intentions only cause harm to those she loves most?

"Этот очаровательный человек" Кейм Макдоннелл - вторая книга из признанной критиками серии "Странные времена" • Вампиров не существует. Все это знают. Поэтому особенно раздражает, когда они начинают появляться в окрестностях Манчестера • Это никому не нравится. Ни Основателям, тайной организации, для которой вампиры были придуманы как аллегория, ни Народу, волшебным сущестам, скрытым у всех на виду, желающим только спокойной жизни. И уж точно не жителям Манчестера, потому что нет ничего более неприятного, чем быть убитым взбесившейся аллегорией. Кто-то должен быстро разобраться с этим, пока не разразился ад • Книга на английском языке • Vampires do not exist. Everyone knows this. So it's particularly annoying when they start popping up around Manchester

When Celeste loses her best friend Hannah, she'll do anything to keep her spirit alive • So when she uncovers her friend's old list of New Year's resolutions, Celeste vows to complete them all • One adventure at a time, she rediscovers how wonderful life can be • But when one resolution leads her to someone from her past, Celeste can't help but wonder • Could the biggest adventure of all be falling in love?