The Steel Flea Leskov Nikolay Penguin Group

Flea, the iconic bassist and co-founder, alongside Anthony Kiedis, of the immortal Red Hot Chili Peppers finally tells his fascinating origin story, complete with all the dizzying highs and the gutter lows you'd expect from an LA street rat turned world-famous rock star • Michael Peter Balzary was born in Melbourne, Australia, on October 16, 1962. His more famous stage name, Flea, and his wild ride as the renowned bass player for the Red Hot Chili Peppers was in a far and distant future. Little Michael from Oz moved with his very conservative, very normal family to Westchester, New York, where life as he knew it was soon turned upside down. His parents split up and he and his sister moved into the home of his mother's free-wheeling, jazz musician boyfriend - trading in rules, stability, and barbecues for bohemian values, wildness, and Sunday afternoon jazz parties where booze, weed, and music flowed in equal measure

With the country at war, can they come together this winter? • Winter, 1939 • As December draws nearer and with her family facing their first Christmas without Bert, Nancy is desperately trying to keep up her children’s spirits and her own • Young Patty should be excited to be spending her first festive season with sweetheart Archie, but why does she worry he’s keeping something from her? • Betty is missing her beloved William as he continues his RAF training but she’s determined not to sit around wallowing. In the midst of the coldest winter on record and with the introduction of rationing, times are tougher than ever but Betty has an idea to make sure nobody goes without this winter • And with our Steel Girls rallying around each other, can there still be hope this Christmas? • The second novel in the new heartwarming Steel Girls series following our feisty factory sister’s bravery and hope during wartime, perfect for fans of Nancy Revell and Elaine Everest

Артист: Pantera, • Жанр: Rock, • Альбом: ReinventingTheSteel 20th Ann., • Формат носителя: LP

"Стальные девчонки" - роман Мишель Роулинс о дружбе, мужестве и надежде • Когда разразится война, дружба поможет им пережить это • Шеффилд, 1939 год. С объявлением войны эти храбрые женщины сделают шаг вперед и внесут свой вклад в развитие своей страны • Домохозяйка Нэнси никогда не мечтала, что окажется на заводе Vickers steelworks, но когда мужа Берта призывают служить, ей нужно накормить двоих своих маленьких детей • Возлюбленный Бетти Уильям вступил в резерв Королевских ВВС, поэтому она не может сидеть сложа руки - даже если для этого придется отказаться от своих амбиций изучать юриспруденцию в вечерней школе • Юная Пэтти наслаждается волнением, которое приносит война. Но этой продавщице придется быстро повзрослеть, особенно сейчас, когда она выполняет такую непосильную и опасную работу на фабрике

Penguin Picks are stories you'll want to read again and again. Beautifully and stylishly designed by a modern artist, they are not only stories you'll keep coming back to but also books whose looks will never go out of fashion • Mercy by Jussi Adler-Olsen is Scandinavia's new bestselling crime writing sensation • 'She scratched her fingertips on the smooth walls until they bled, and pounded her fists on the thick panes until she could no longer feel her hands. At least ten times she had fumbled her way to the steel door and stuck her fingernails in the crack to pry it open . . .' • Merete Lynggard vanished five years ago. Everyone says she's dead. Everyone says the case is a waste of time. Everyone except Copenhagen detective Carl Morck. Turning over this old case he thinks he's found a clue missed by his predecessors

The Voyage of the Beagle is Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current of intellectual events leading to The Origin of Species. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Janet Brown and Michael Neve • When HMS Beagle sailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1831, Charles Darwin was twenty-two and setting off on the voyage of a lifetime. His journal, here reprinted in a shortened form, shows a naturalist making patient observations concerning geology, natural history, people, places and events. Volcanoes in the Galapagos, the Gossamer spider of Patagonia and the Australasian coral reefs - all are to be found in these extraordinary writings. The insights made here were to set in motion the intellectual currents that led to the theory of evolution, and the most controversial book of the Victorian age: The Origin of Species

The companion novel to Mrs Bridge, this is a pitch-perfect portrayal of marriage and family life and a poignant dissection of the unexamined life • Walter Bridge, husband to India and father to three, is a successful lawyer in a Kansas suburb. The daily • dramas of his life only serve to illuminate his narrow prejudices and complacent outlook, yet he is also troubled by existential doubts, dark undercurrents of desire and a yearning for something forever out of his reach. In Mr Bridge, Evan S. Connell gives us a moving, satirical and poetic portrayal of a man who cannot escape his limitations and of a couple growing old together but unable, ultimately, to connect • The companion novel, Mrs Bridge, telling the story from the other side of the marriage, is published in Penguin Modern Classics

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith • Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil • A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At first, they crumble, until they are helped by whispered advice from a stranger in the crowd - a man who will risk everything to win