The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck Шелли Мэри Т8

The Mountain of Adventure is the fifth thrilling instalment in the Adventure series by Enid Blyton, one of the best-loved children's writers of all time • Surely a peaceful holiday in the Welsh mountains will keep the children out of trouble! But the mystery of a rumbling mountain soon has them thirsty for more adventure • Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann, Jack and Kiki the parrot are determined to explore the mountain and uncover its secret, but first they must escape from a pack of ravenous wolves and a mad genius who plans to rule the world!

A full-colour short story taken from the world of the Magic Faraway Tree. Perfect for new readers. Discover the magic! • The Land of Goodies has come to the top of the Faraway Tree, and it is the tastiest place that Joe, Beth, Frannie and Rick have ever been. There are ice-cream trees, lollipop bushes and fences made of marshmallow! • The stories about the Magic Faraway Tree have been entertaining children for more than 80 years. Now these colour short stories offer a great way for young new readers to discover the adventures of Silky, Moon-Face, the Saucepan Man and all of their friends in the Enchanted Wood

A full-colour short story taken from the world of the Magic Faraway Tree. Perfect for new readers. Discover the magic! • In the Land of Enchantments, everything shines and shimmers and moves. But it's full of witches, enchanters and goblins, and some not very nice spells! • The stories about the Magic Faraway Tree have been entertaining children for more than 80 years. Now these colour short stories offer a great way for young new readers to discover the adventures of Silky, Moon-Face, the Saucepan Man and all of their friends in the Enchanted Wood

"Остров приключений" - первая захватывающая часть приключенческой серии Энид Блайтон, одной из самых любимых детских писательниц всех времен • Для Филипа, Дины, Люси-Энн, Джека и попугая Кики летние каникулы в Корнуолле - это отличный отдых. Пока они не начинают понимать, что на таинственном острове Мрака происходит что-то очень зловещее, где их ждет опасное приключение в заброшенных медных рудниках и секретных туннелях под морем • Книга на английском языке • The Island of Adventure is the first thrilling instalment in the Adventure series by Enid Blyton, one of the best-loved children's writers of all time • For Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann, Jack and Kiki the parrot, the summer holidays in Cornwall are everything they'd hoped for. Until they begin to realize that something very sinister is taking place on the mysterious Isle of Gloom - where a dangerous adventure awaits them in the abandoned copper mines and secret tunnels beneath the sea

У Бет день рождения, так что она и её друзья очень рады, когда к верхушке чудо-дерева причаливает Страна дней рожденья. Её ждет самый волшебный в жизни праздник! • Цикл Энид Блайтон «Истории волшебного дерева» радует юных читателей вот уже более 80 лет. Именно он лёг в основу этой серии книг для детей, в которую вошли короткие рассказы о мире заколдованного леса. В данную книгу вошёл рассказ «Страна дней рожденья» – фрагмент повести «Заколдованный лес». Перед вами отличный повод познакомить новое поколение детей с приключениями Джо, Бет и Фрэнни, а также Ниточки, Луника, Кастрюльки и других волшебных созданий • Издание с цветными иллюстрациями • По циклам «Истории волшебного дерева» и «Истории волшебного кресла» был снят мультсериал «Enid Blyton`s Enchanted Lands»

A luminous and bewitching debut novel that is perfect for fans of Angela Carter. Set in Victorian London, it follows the fortunes of Eve, the Lion-Faced Girl and Abel, the Flayed Man. A magical realism delight • Before Eve is born, her mother goes to the circus. She buys a penny twist of coloured sugar and settles down to watch the heart-stopping main attraction: a lion, billed as a monster from the savage heart of Africa, forged in the heat of a merciless sun. Mama swears she hears the lion sigh, just before it leaps…and when Eve is born, the story goes, she didn’t cry – she meowed and licked her paws • When Abel is pulled from the stinking Thames, the mudlarks are sure he is long dead. As they search his pockets to divvy up the treasure, his eyes crack open and he coughs up a stream of black water

The first novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk about Kevin is a compelling and provocative story of love and how we suffer for it • Still unattached and childless at fifty-nine, world-renowned anthropologist Gray Kaiser is seemingly invincible-and untouchable. Returning to make a documentary at the site of her first great triumph in Kenya, she is accompanied by her faithful middle-aged assistant, Errol McEchern, who has loved her for years in silence • When young graduate assistant Raphael Sarasola arrives on the scene, Gray is captivated and falls hopelessly in love-before an amazed Errol's eyes. As he follows their affair with jealous fascination, Errol watches helplessly from the sidelines as a proud and fierce woman is reduced to miserable dependence through miserable dependence