The Stories of English Crystal David Penguin Group

Lashings of ginger beer and delicious food inspired by the stories of Enid Blyton in an irresistible children's cookbook from chef Allegra McEvedy, the presenter of CBBC's Step up to the Plate and ,Junior Bake Off judge • Delicious and easy recipes, inspired by the beloved stories by Enid Blyton. Bake your own pop-cakes and google buns, and wash them down with homemade ginger beer! • Have you ever dreamed of having picnics with the Famous Five, midnight feasts with the Malory Towers girls or party teas with the Folk of the Faraway Tree? With this cookbook, inspired by Enid Blyton's stories, you can! Packed full of yummy recipes, lively artwork and extracts from Enid Blyton's stories, this cookbook will inspire children - and the whole family - to get busy in the kitchen

The Fall of the House of Fifa is the definitive story of Fifa's rise and the most spectacular fall sport has ever seen • For forty years Joao Havelange and then Sepp Blatter presided over a Fifa now plagued with scandal - dawn raids, FBI investigations, allegations of money laundering, industrial-scale bribery, racketeering, tax evasion, vote-buying and theft. Now David Conn, football's most respected investigative journalist, chronicles the extraordinary history and staggering scale of corruption. He paints revealing portraits of the men at the centre of Fifa - the power brokers, the indicted, the legends like Franz Beckenbauer and Michel Platini - and puts the allegations to Blatter himself in an extended interview

In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Magic Realism and Symbolism, and illustrating each topic with a passage taken from a classic or modern novel, David Lodge makes the richness and variety of British and American fiction accessible to the general reader • He provides essential reading for students, aspiring writers and anyone who wants to understand how fiction works

In this absorbing volume, David Lodge turns his incisive critical skills onto his own profession, salutes the great writers who have influenced his work, wonders about the motives of biographers, ponders the merits of creative writing courses, pulls the rug from under certain theoretical critics and throws open the curtains on his own workshop

Сборник "Истории Мерлина" содержит три захватывающих приключения, рассказывающие историю легендарного волшебника, написанные специально для детей, которые начинают читать самостоятельно. Истории повествуют о могущественном волшебнике, который перехитрил жестокого короля, столкнулся лицом к лицу со страшными драконами и направил принца навстречу его судьбе • Книга на английском языке • Three thrilling adventures telling the story of the legendary wizard, specially written for children who are starting to read on their own. Stories follow the mighty wizard as he outwits a cruel king, faces fearsome dragons and guides a prince to his destiny. With easy-to-read text and vibrant illustrations to capture the attention of even the most reluctant reader

An ancient artifact buried deep within the TARDIS leads the Doctor back to London, where a deadly predator prowls the tunnels beneath the city • As the Time Lord and her friends investigate, they uncover a mystery that will take them from a secret mountain base to the depths of the ocean - and if they cannot solve it, one of them will perish • In order to save her friend, the Doctor must solve the riddle of ... the Maze of Doom!

England: The Biography is the most comprehensive account of the England cricket team that has ever been published, taking the reader into the heart of the action and the team dynamics that have helped shape their success, or otherwise • It is now 140 years since England first played Test match cricket and, for much of that time, it has struggled to perform to the best of its capabilities. In the early years, amateurs would pick and choose which matches and tours they would play; subsequently, the demands of the county game - and the petty jealousies that created - would prevent many from achieving their best. It was only in the 1990s that central contracts were brought in, and Team England began to receive the best possible support from an ever-increasing backroom team

When a Jewish classmate is attacked by bullies, fifteen-year-old Nico just watches – earning him a week’s suspension and a typed, yellowing manuscript from his frail Nonno Paolo. A history lesson, his grandfather says, and a secret he must keep from his father • Nico is transported back to the Venice of 1943, an occupied city seething under the Nazis, and to the defining moment of his grandfather’s life: when Paolo’s support for a murdered Jewish woman brings him into the sights of the city’s underground resistance. Hooked and unsettled, Nico can’t stop reading – but he soon wonders if he ever knew his beloved grandfather at all

It is December in Belfast, Christmas is approaching and three sets of people are about to make their way to Amsterdam • Alan, a university art teacher, goes on a pilgrimage to the city of his youth with troubled teenage son Jack; middle-aged couple Marion and Richard take a break from running their garden centre to celebrate Marion's birthday; and Karen, a single mother struggling to make ends meet, joins her daughter's hen party • As these people brush against each other in the squares, museums and parks of Amsterdam, their lives are transfigured as they encounter the complexities of love in a city that challenges what has gone before

Mighty warriors fight to save the realm from blood magic and evil, in this battle-soaked epic fantasy novel, from the hugely popular Descent games • The once-glorious Barony of Kell is a ruin of its former self, assailed by banditry and famine; its noble Baron Frederic is caught between saving his people and defending his borders. Yet worse is to come… for a new Darkness is rising. Sadistic warrior-priestess, Ne’Krul, spying an opportunity to wreak bloody vengeance on behalf of her demonic masters, leads her Uthuk warband into a brutal invasion. Kell’s only hope lies in holy warrior, Andira Runehand, and legendary hero, Trenloe the Strong, both drawn to Kell to defeat an alliance of evil unprecedented in Terrinoth. They must not fail

"Доктор Кто. Кровавые камни" - роман Дэвида Фишера о персонаже культового научно-фантастического сериала про инопланетного путешественника во времени, известном как Доктор • Доктор приходит в восторг, когда поиски Ключа ко времени приводят его на его любимую планету Земля. Но его друзья не так очарованы: Роману чуть не убил зловещий призрак, а К9 почти уничтожен воинственным валуном, обладающим способностью двигаться - и жаждой крови • Древний каменный круг становится полем битвы, поскольку Доктор должен перехитрить самого смертоносного инопланетного преступника по эту сторону гиперпространства - и его кровожадных кремниевых слуг • Книга на английском языке • "We won't find Dracula hanging around the Manor. But we may find something equally disturbing

В ближайшие десятилетия технологии, обеспечивающие виртуальную и дополненную реальность,улучшатся до неузнаваемости. По прогнозам всемирно известного философа Дэвида Дж. Чалмерса, в течение столетия у нас будут виртуальные миры,которые невозможно будет отличить от невиртуальных миров. Но является ли виртуальная реальность просто бегством от реальности? • В весьма оригинальной работе "технофилософия" Чалмерс категорически утверждает, что нет: виртуальная реальность - это подлинная реальность. Виртуальные миры - это не миры второго сорта. Мы можем жить полноценной жизнью в виртуальной реальности - и все чаще так и будет • И вообще, что такое реальность? Как мы можем вести хорошую жизнь? Есть ли бог? Откуда мы знаем, что существует внешний мир - и откуда нам знать,что мы не живем в компьютерной симуляции? В "Реальности+" Чалмерс проводит грандиозное философское путешествие,используя передовые технологии,чтобы дать новые вдохновляющие ответы на извечные вопросы