Puffin Tarka the Otter Williamson Henry

"Twilight over meadow and water, the eve-star shining above the hill, and Old Nog the heron crying kra-a-ark! as his slow dark wings carried him down to the estuary." • A beautiful hardback gift edition of one of the most famous animal stories in children's literature. TARKA THE OTTER is the classic story of an otter living in the Devonshire countryside which captures the feel of life in the wild as seen through the otter's own eyes. The story's atmosphere and detail make it easy to see why Tarka has become one of the best-loved creatures in world literature • Henry William Williamson was born in 1895 in Brockley, south-east London. The then semi-rural location provided easy access to the countryside, and he developed a deep love of nature throughout his childhood

One night Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the world in just eighty days and the very next day sets out from the port of Dover with his servant Passeportout to achieve his aim. Passing through exotic lands and dangerous places, they seize whatever transportation is at hand - whether train or elephant - always racing against the clock.There are many alarms and surprises along the way - and a last minute setback that makes all the difference between winning and losing

"All he does is dig holes - and bark!" • "Woof!" Barks the dog • When The Big Skeleton and The Little Skeleton become fed up with The Dog Skeleton they decide to swap him at the pet shop! • They start off with a goldfish but soon get tired of him and swap him for a parrot - but soon they get bored of him too . . . Eventually the pet shop owner gives them a box to take home with a surprise pet inside • What do you think it will be?

"Харриет - самая сильная девушка в мире" • Бена Лервилла - это яркая, радостная и сильная история о маленькой девочке, обладающей большой силой и пытающейся найти свое место в мире • Харриет не просто сильная - она самая сильная девочка во всем мире! И хотя ее суперсила в основном замечательна, из-за нее такие вещи, как прыжки на батутах, замешивание теста для торта и надевание колпачка на зубную пасту, становятся немного, ну... сложными • Книга на английском языке • A vibrant, joyful, and powerful story about a little girl with a LOT of strength trying to find her place in the world • Harriet isn't just strong - she's the strongest girl in the whole world! And though her super-strength is mostly wonderful, it does make things like bouncing on trampolines, mixing cake batter, and putting the cap on the toothpaste a bit, well

Гобболино, кот ведьмы с одной белой лапой и ярко-голубыми глазами, предпочел бы быть тихим котом, который весь день сидит у кухонного камина. Поэтому он отправляется в путешествие, чтобы найти новый дом, но когда люди узнают, что он кот ведьмы, его обвиняют в таинственных происшествиях, таких как скисание молока у фермера и превращение каши для детей из приюта в шоколад • Найдет ли Гобболино когда-нибудь любящий, доверчивый дом своей мечты? • Книга на английском языке • Celebrating 80 years of Gobbolino - the charming tale of a witch's cat who would rather be a kitchen cat, with the original line drawings illustrations by the author, Ursula Moray Williams • Gobbolino, the witch's cat with one white paw and bright blue eyes, would rather be a quiet cat who sits by the kitchen fireside all day

Big Skeleton, Little Skeleton and Dog Skeleton are taking a spooky ride on the ghost train • Where they encounter monster collectors, ghostly train drivers and something even more terrifying! • Despite being set by the dark dark sea, this brightly coloured book is perfect for early readers

Перед вами издание книги для детей Роальда Даля «Данни – чемпион мира», в котором иллюстрации Квентина Блейка предстают в цвете! • Данни живёт в фургончике вместе со своим отцом – самым лучшим папой в мире! Да и сам мальчик не промах: как-никак, он самый молодой автомеханик в округе. Словом, своей жизнью он доволен. Но идеальной её тоже не назовёшь. Во-первых, всей землёй поблизости владеет Виктор Фундукк, гадкий богатый сноб с лицом выпивохи и крохотными глазками, которого никто не выносит. А во-вторых, оказывается, у отца Данни всё это время был страшный секрет! Но у мальчика с папой есть хитрый план, который поможет всё исправить, посрамить жадного Фундукка и даже сделать Данни чемпионом мира. Получится ли у них провернуть такое дельце? • Эта книга подойдёт в подарок поклонникам творчества Роальда Даля и ценителям хорошей детской литературы

Пройдя сквозь зеркальное стекло, Алиса попадает в очень странный мир шахматных фигур и книжных персонажей, таких как Шалтай-Болтай, Траляля и Труляля и злая Красная Королева. Всё здесь обманчиво и многолико, искажено, как отражение в кривом зеркале • Льюис Кэрролл (настоящее имя Чарльз Лютвидж Доджсон) родился в 1832 году в Чеширской деревушке Дарсбери, в семье приходского священника. Он был великолепным математиком, умелым фотографом, и любил писать письма и дневники. «Приключения Алисы в Стране чудес» были вдохновлены Элис Лидделл, дочерью декана колледжа Крайст-чёрч в Оксфорде. Сказка была опубликована в 1865 году, а её продолжение, «Алиса в Зазеркалье» – в 1871. Он был автором многих детских рассказов и стихотворений, включая бессмысленный стих «Охота на Снарка» и истории о Сильвии и Бруно

One day, out of the blue, Henry Nagel inherits a sumptuous apartment in St John's Wood. Divine intervention? Or his late father's love nest? Henry doesn't know, but he is glad to escape the North. After nearly sixty years of angry disappointment, Henry's life is about to change • Not that the ghosts of Henry's past are prepared to disappear without a struggle - his old school-friend and rival Osmond 'Hovis' Belkin, currently enjoying success in Hollywood; his tragic great aunt Marghanita for whom Henry once entertained a dangerous passion; and his father Izzi, upholsterer turned illusionist, fire-eater and origamist, whose shade Henry interrogates relentlessly. But the present clamours as loudly as the past. His dyspeptic neighbour Lachlan wants his sympathy; Lachlan's sloppy red setter, Angus, wants a walk; and Moira, the waitress with the crooked smile and custard hair, seems to want him

Christopher Hitchens goes straight for the jugular in The Trial of Henry Kissinger. Under his fearsome gaze, the former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor is accused of being a war criminal whose reckless actions and heinous disregard for international law have led to torture, kidnapping, and murder • This book is a polemical masterpiece by a man who, for forty years, was the Angloshpere’s preeminent man of letters. In The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Hitchens’ verve, style and firebrand wit are on show at the height of their potency

Henry II conquered the largest empire of any English medieval king. Yet it is the people around him we remember: his wife Eleanor, whom he seduced from the French king; his son Richard the Lionheart; Thomas Becket, murdered in his cathedral. Who was this great, yet tragic king? For fans of Dan Jones, George RR Martin and Bernard Cornwell • The only thing that could have stopped Henry was himself • Henry II had all the gifts of the gods. He was charismatic, clever, learned, empathetic, a brilliant tactician, with great physical strength and an astonishing self-belief. Henry was the creator of the Plantagenet dynasty of kings, who ruled through eight generations in command of vast lands in Britain and Europe. Virtually unbeaten in battle, and engaged in a ceaseless round of conquest and diplomacy, Henry forged an empire that matched Charlemagne's

The pre-eminent study of the six wives of Henry VIII by a master historian • Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived • CATHERINE OF ARAGON: the pious Spanish Catholic who suffered years of miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir • ANNE BOLEYN: the pretty, clever, French-educated Protestant whose marriage to Henry changed England forever • JANE SEYMOUR: the demure and submissive contrast to Anne Boleyn's radical and vampish style • ANNE OF CLEVES: 'the mare of Flanders' whose short marriage to the overweight Henry followed a farcical 'beauty contest' • CATHERINE HOWARD: the flirtatious teenager whose adulteries made a fool of the ageing king... CATHERINE PARR: the shrewd, religiously radical bluestocking who outlived him