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Сьюзан и Норма дружат уже много лет. Их свела работа (в галантерейном магазине The Pin Cushion в Лестершире 1990-х годов) и схожесть характеров (ни одна из них не горела желанием дружить с кем-либо еще). Прошло тридцать лет. Муж Сьюзан стремится к бессмертию, а Норма обрела профессиональную славу и теперь недоступна. Сьюзан начинает сомневаться в правильности своего выбора – в любви, в карьере и, что самое главное, в дружбе • One Day I Shall Astonish the World – это новый роман Нины Стиббе, история удивительной и неожиданной дружбы • Книга на английском языке • From the prize-winning author of Reasons to be Cheerful comes a story about the ebb and flow of female friendship over half a lifetime • Susan and Norma have been best friends for years, at first thrust together by force of circumstance (a job at The Pin Cushion, a haberdashery shop in 1990s Leicestershire) and then by force of character (neither being particularly inclined to make friends with anyone else)

Знакомьтесь: Лиззи Фогель, 9 лет • Ее мама недавно развелась. В 31 год она оказалась совсем одна в английской деревушке, где вся ее компания – это трое детей и лабрадор. Не то чтобы жить без мужа плохо, но на дворе 1970-е, и на такое косо смотрят. Женщины из деревни опасаются, что мама Лиззи уведет у них мужей • Лиззи очень беспокоится из-за того, что социальные работники могут забрать ее у мамы, и вместе с сестрой намеревается помочь ей найти нового мужа • «Человек у руля» – это роман Нины Стиббе • Книга на английском языке • Meet Lizzie Vogel, 9 • Lizzie is concerned about her newly divorced mother; thirty-one years old and trapped in a hostile village in the English countryside with only three young children and a Labrador for company. It isn't that having a husband is good, but in 1970s rural Leicestershire, not having one is bad

Preventable tells the extraordinary story of COVID-19 and how global politics shape our health - from a world-leading expert and the pandemic's go-to science communicator • Professor Devi Sridhar has risen to prominence for her vital roles in communicating science to the public and speaking truth to power. In Preventable she highlights lessons learned from outbreaks past and present in a narrative that traces the COVID-19 pandemic - including her personal experience as a scientist - and sets out a vision for how we can better protect ourselves from the inevitable health crises to come • In gripping and heartfelt prose, Sridhar exposes the varied realities of those affected (from the jailed doctor in Wuhan who sounded the alarm, and the bored passengers marooned on the Diamond Princess cruise ship, to the daily nightmares of exhausted healthcare workers), and puts you in the room with key decision makers at crucial moments (from over-confident heads of states and their hesitant scientific advisors, to the beleaguered leaders of global health organisations)

To Christina Olson, the entire world is her family’s remote farm in the small coastal town of Cushing, Maine. Born in the home her family has lived in for generations, and tied to the farm by health and circumstance, Christina seems destined for a small life. Instead, by chance she becomes the inspiration for the artist Andrew Wyeth, and eventually the subject of one of the best-known paintings of the twentieth century, Christina’s World

Виндзорский замок, 1943 год • В то время как по всему миру бушует война, принцесса Елизавета сталкивается лицом к лицу с лихим морским офицером, которого она впервые встретила в Лондоне девять лет назад • Один из самых молодых первых лейтенантов Королевского военно-морского флота, Филипп олицетворяет собой все, что ей всегда запрещали. Нестабильность. Дерзость. Авантюризм • Но когда король узнает об их отношениях, все при дворе ставят под сомнение пригодность иностранного принца • Их связь - риск, на который ей никогда не разрешалось идти. Риск, от которого ее не остановит даже тень короны… • Роман Флоры Хардинг "Перед короной" проведет вас через дворцовые ворота и откроет увлекательный исторический роман о королевских тайнах и запретной любви, исследующий бурные ухаживания между принцессой Елизаветой и принцем Филиппом после Второй мировой войны

1982 год. Двадцатилетняя Нина Стиббе переезжает из Лестера в Лондон и устраивается няней в одну очень необычную семью. Это было идеальное сочетание: Нина не умела готовить и ухаживать за детьми, не знала даже, кто нанял ее на работу. А семья была слишком увлечена обсуждением таких странных тем, как немецкий мат и достоинства (или недостатки) фарша из индейки • Love, Nina – это собрание писем, которые Нина Стиббе отправляла домой. В них содержится описание ее новой «домашней» жизни, неожиданных гостей и кошки, которую всем нравилось ненавидеть • In 1982 Nina Stibbe, a 20-year-old from Leicester, moved to London to work as a nanny for a very particular family. It was a perfect match: Nina had no idea how to cook, look after children or who the weirdos were who called round

The inspiring story of one young man's record-breaking solo cycle journey around the world • On 15 February 2008, Mark Beaumont pedalled through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. 194 days and 17 hours previously, he had begun his attempt to circumnavigate the world in record time. Mark smashed the Guinness World Record by an astonishing 81 days. He had travelled more than 18,000 miles on his own through some of the harshest conditions one man and his bicycle can endure, camping wild at night and suffering from constant ailments • The Man Who Cycled the World is the story not just of that amazing achievement, but of the events that turned Mark Beaumont into the man he is today. From the early years of his free-spirited childhood in the Scottish countryside to present day, he has been equally determined not to settle for an average existence, but to break free and follow his dreams

The Gulag, the Stalinist labour camps to which millions of Russians were condemned for political deviation, has become a household word in the West. This is due to the accounts of many witnesses, but most of all to the publication, in 1962, of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, the novel that first brought Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to public attention. His story of one typical day in a labour camp as experienced by prisoner Ivan Denisovich Shukhov is sufficient to describe the entire world of the Soviet camps

One day you're broke. The next, you have all the money in the world. What would you do? A gripping, timely story about cold, hard cash and little white lies for fans of Jenny Valentine, Siobhan Dowd and Lara Williamson • Fifteen-year-old Penny longs for something better. Better than a small, damp flat. Better than her bullying classmates and uninterested teachers. Better than misery and poverty day in day out • An unlikely friendship and a huge sum of money promise a whole lot of new chances for Penny, and she realises that not only can she change her life, she can change herself • But at what cost? • Perfect for readers 10+

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

One of the oldest cities in Europe, Porto is recognised the world over for its wonderful Port wine. Rising from the steep banks of the Douro (the river of gold) with picturesque pracas, churches and houses with colourfully tiled facades. Its ancient name Portucale forms the origin of the country – Portugal. Today, Porto is a vibrant commercial and cultural centre that is proud of its historic links to the outside world • An essential read from one of the world's foremost writers on Portugal, Porto: Gateway to the World uses the beautiful buildings and landmarks across the city to take the reader on a journey through its rich history, from its origins right up to the modern era