Penguin Turtle Diary Hoban Russell

Блестящее, уникальное и совершенно реалистичное художественное произведение «Риддли Уокер» было впервые опубликовано в 1980-ом году. Роман написан языком, созданным Расселом Хобаном специально для этой книги • "О, что мы делаем! И к чему мы пришли..." Блуждая по пустынному постапокалиптическому ландшафту, говоря на ломаном английском, утраченном после конца цивилизации, Риддли Уокер отправляется выяснить, что привело сюда человечество. Это его история • Книга на английском языке • 'O what we ben! And what we come to...' Wandering a desolate post-apocalyptic landscape, speaking a broken-down English lost after the end of civilization, Riddley Walker sets out to find out what brought humanity here. This is his story

Six months in Helmand, under constant attack, 200 men relying on you 24/7. What would you do? • In 2008 Major Russell Lewis commanded a company of two hundred soldiers from the British Army's legendary Parachute Regiment on a six-month tour in the most dangerous part of Afghanistan • Company Commander is his story, a riveting first-person account of incredible bravery, telling what it is like to have 200 Paras depending on you constantly, to make decisions which can and do cost lives, to see men under your command killed and injured and being under the most intense pressure imaginable every minute of every day for six long months • Company Commander is a true leader's story – a unique and vivid mix of front-line battles and strategic decision making and an intensely personal and inspiring account of a tour in the most perilous theatre of war on the planet

Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is an inspiring and tragic account of an ordinary life lived in extraordinary circumstances that has enthralled readers for generations. This Penguin Classics edition is edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler, translated by Susan Massotty, and includes an introduction by Elie Wiesel, author of Night • 'June, 1942: I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.' • In Amsterdam, in the summer of 1942, the Nazis forced teenager Anne Frank and her family into hiding. For over two years, they, another family and a German dentist lived in a 'secret annexe', fearing discovery. All that time, Anne kept a diary

Channelling a razor-sharp satire through the everyday mishaps of the immortal comic character Mr Pooter, George and Weedon Grossmith's The Diary of a Nobody is edited with an introduction and notes by Ed Glinert in Penguin Classics • Mr Pooter is a man of modest ambitions, content with his ordinary life. Yet he always seems to be troubled by disagreeable tradesmen, impertinent young office clerks and wayward friends, not to mention his devil-may-care son Lupin with his unsuitable choice of bride. In the bumbling, absurd, yet ultimately endearing character of Pooter, the Grossmith brothers created a wonderful portrait of the class system and the inherent snobbishness of the suburban middle-class suburbia - one which sends up the late Victorian crazes for Aestheticism, spiritualism and bicycling, as well as the fashion for publishing diaries by anybody and everybody

On an ordinary day in a strangely unfamiliar London, Kleinzeit is fired from his advertising job and told he must go to hospital with a skewed hypotenuse. There on Ward A4, he falls in love with the divine, rosy-cheeked Sister and is sent spinning into a quest involving, among other things, a glockenspiel, sheets of yellow paper, Orpheus, the Underground and that dirty chimpanzee, Death

It all begins the night a leaflet comes through the door of unsuccessful novelist Herman Orff, promising a magical cure for writer's block. The strange treatment plunges him into a hallucinatory London dreamworld populated by figures mythical and real: a severed talking head, Vermeer's girl with a pearl earring, his lost love Luise and, beneath it all, the Kraken awaiting. As Herman will discover, creating art is a tough business

It is 1097 and a traveller arrives in the great, walled city of Antioch with a vision of a beautiful and mysterious geometric design that will change the lives of all those who see it. Pilgermann is a mesmerising recreation of the world of the Crusades, following its unlikely hero and those he meets on a journey of picaresque horror across a Europe of hatreds, visions and a desperate wish for salvation

'You want to buy my death for a million pounds!' Piccadilly Circus tube station is an unlikely location for a pact with the Devil, but this is where Jonathan Fitch first meets Mr Rinyo-Clacton. Devastated after his girlfriend Serafina has left him, Jonathan agrees that this mysterious stranger will pay him a million pounds for a year, if he agrees to die at the end of it. What could possibly go wrong?

'I have gone to look for a lion.' In a world where lions have become extinct, the map-maker Jachin-Boaz nevertheless abandons his wife and son to find one, leaving just this note. But his decision has unexpected consequences. He will be pursued by his son, Boaz-Jachin, and by something else: a tawny-skinned, amber-eyed beast from another place and time, a bringer of life and death

On 4 November 2052, Fremder Gorn is discovered drifting in deep space. He has no spacesuit, no helmet, no oxygen, but he is still alive: the sole survivor from the mysteriously vanished ship Clever Daughter. How did he get here? To find out, Fremder must search through memory, dream and the unknowable fragments of his own mind

Нелегко быть провинциальной леди в Девоншире в 1920-х годах, жонглирующей сварливым мужем, непослушными детьми и множеством домашних дилемм - от плесени на рисе до раздражительного повара. Но эта провинциальная леди не будет побеждена ни своенравными цветочными луковицами, ни неожиданными гостями в доме, ни даже блицем. Она продолжит руководить W.I., устраивать семейные пикники под дождем и преуспеет в качестве публикуемого автора, все это время ухаживая за своей клубникой • "Дневник провинциальной леди" Э.М. Делафилд - это блестяще написанный комический роман, такой же забавный и свежий сегодня, как и тогда, когда он был впервые написан • Книга на английском языке • 'January 22nd - Robert startles me at breakfast by asking if my cold - which he has hitherto ignored - is better

Познакомьтесь с Адрианом Моулом, незадачливым подростком, который беззастенчиво, без всяких прыщей, заглядывает в подростковую жизнь. Откровенно рассказывающий нам о семейных неурядицах своих родителей, собаке, своей жизни замученного поэта и "непонятого интеллектуала", своей любви к божественной Пандоре и ужасе, который он испытал, узнав о беременности своей матери, мучительно честный дневник Адриана - это веселая и проникновенная хроника растраченной впустую юности • Содержит полные тексты книг Сью Таунсенд "Тайный дневник Адриана Моула" и "Страдания Адриана Моула" • Книга на английском языке • Double edition celebrating Adrian Mole's 50th Birthday • Friday January 2nd • I felt rotten today. It's my mother's fault for singing 'My Way' at two o'clock in the morning at the top of the stairs