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Великолепная и опережающая время сатира Энтония Троллопа о нечестном финансисте, который покупает свой путь в коррумпированное общество и погружает его в смятение • Когда Мелмотты приезжают в Лондон, все соглашаются с тем, что им не хватает манер, а их вкусы раздражают, их происхождение и прошлое довольно призрачны. Но их деньги далеко не отвратительны и городское общество быстро делает надбавки таинственному финансисту и его семье. Сердца, умы и семейные сбережения быстро попали в водоворот щедрых вечеринок и завораживающих инвестиционных планов Августа Мелмотта. Но является ли все это продуманным мошенничеством? • Trollope's magnificent and prescient satire about a dishonest financier who buys his way into a corrupt society, and throws it into turmoil

A tender and funny story about wanting to go back - when you know it's time to move on • Theo has been living in his parents' shed, nursing a broken heart and a wounded ego, convinced life can't get any worse. Then he gets evicted on his 30th birthday. Theo thinks he's done with the real world - until it shows up on his doorstep • Joel is a successful TV scriptwriter, still in love with his teenage sweetheart. A proper grown-up - and yet he's falling apart at the seams. He's headed home to reconnect with best friend Theo - except they haven't spoken since the summer they turned 16 • One of them is keeping a secret, and the other is living a lie. But can the promise they once made to walk all 184 miles of the Thames Path help them find their way back to the truth - and to their friendship?

After the hardships of World War II, the 1950s were the perfect opportunity to resume normal boring everyday life. Lots of new things came in: TV in people's homes, Andy Pandy, The Archers, American imports such as 'the teenager', Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe. Cartoonist Tony Husband transports you back to a lost world of free school milk, beatniks and teddy boys, men in homemade jumpers who smoked pipes and Saturday morning cinema for the kids. It's guaranteed to make you laugh

A gorgeously immersive, mesmerising and life-affirming literary debut - a love story and a ghost story set in modern day Trinidad • Darwin is a down-on-his-luck gravedigger, newly arrived in the city of Port Angeles to seek his fortune, young and beautiful and lost. Estranged from his mother, he is convinced that the father he never met may be waiting for him somewhere amid these bustling streets. Meanwhile in an old house on a hill, Yejide's mother is dying. And she is leaving behind a legacy that now passes to Yejide: the power to talk to the departed. Darwin and Yejide's destinies are intertwined, and they will find one another in the ancient cemetery at the heart of the city, where trouble is brewing and destiny awaits • Embedded with a timeless, mythic magic, and yet alive with a fresh, modern sensibility, this hypnotic literary debut is a masterpiece of rhythm, exuberance, heart, loss in cycle with renewal and darkness with light: a reckoning with a grief that runs back generations and a defiant, joyful affirmation of hope

A body washed up on the beach… • Evacuation to an old house with forbidden rooms and dark secrets… • An animal rescue service… • Set in World War Two, Emma Carroll explores the resilience, resourcefulness and inventiveness of children when their lives fall to pieces. Introducing some compelling new characters, as well as revisiting some familiar settings, these adventures are sure to win over new readers, as well as fans of old favourites such as Letters from the Lighthouse and Frost Hollow Hall

«В Букингемский дворец на прогулку собрались • Кристофер Робин с нянею Алис» • Великолепные стихотворения из этого сборника гарантируют начинающим читателям комфортное и весёлое знакомство с детской поэзией. Здесь они смогут познакомиться с самыми первыми детскими стихами Алана Милна, повествующими о приключениях простоватого, но очаровательного медвежонка по имени Винни-Пух • «Когда мы были совсем маленькими», сборник стихов Алана Александера Милна с оригинальным оформлением художника Э. Х. Шепарда, станет замечательным подарком для детей • По мотивам произведений Алана Милна были сняты культовые американские и советские мультфильмы • Книга на английском языке • 'They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace - Christopher Robin went down with Alice

Darwin is a down-on-his-luck gravedigger, newly arrived in the Trinidadian city of Port Angeles to seek his fortune, young and beautiful and lost. Estranged from his mother and the Rastafari faith she taught him, he is convinced that the father he never met may be waiting for him somewhere amid these bustling streets • Meanwhile in an old house on a hill, where the city meets the rainforest, Yejide's mother is dying. And she is leaving behind a legacy that now passes to Yejide: the power to talk to the dead. The women of Yejide's family are human but also not - descended from corbeau, the black birds that fly east at sunset, taking with them the souls of the dead • Darwin and Yejide both have something that the other needs. Their destinies are intertwined, and they will find one another in the sprawling, ancient cemetery at the heart of the island, where trouble is brewing

«В Букингемский дворец на прогулку собрались • Кристофер Робин с нянею Алис» • Великолепные стихотворения из этого сборника гарантируют начинающим читателям комфортное и весёлое знакомство с детской поэзией. Здесь они смогут познакомиться с самыми первыми детскими стихами Алана Милна, повествующими о приключениях простоватого, но очаровательного медвежонка по имени Винни-Пух • «Когда мы были совсем маленькими», сборник стихов Алана Александера Милна с оригинальным оформлением художника Э. Х. Шепарда, станет замечательным подарком для детей • По мотивам произведений Алана Милна были сняты культовые американские и советские мультфильмы • Книга на английском языке • “They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace – Christopher Robin went down with Alice

Why We Drive is a rebellious and daring celebration of the human spirit and the competence of ordinary people by the bestselling author of The Case for Working with Your Hands • Once we were drivers on the open road • Today we are more often in the back seat of an Uber • As we hurtle toward a 'self-driving' future, are we destined to become passengers in our own lives too? • In Why We Drive, the philosopher and mechanic Matthew Crawford celebrates the risk, skill and freedom of driving. He reveals what we are losing to technology and government control in the modern world, and speaks up for play, dissent and occasionally being scared witless

Retreat takes us on a stunning journey through the many ways humans step back from daily life, both in today's world and in our past • 'A vivid personal quest...rich and almost eerily timely' William Fiennes • From mindfulness and meditation to yoga breaks and spiritual bootcamps, stepping back from daily life remains a human obsession. In this endlessly enlightening book, Nat Segnit experiences retreats around the world as he investigates why we seek solitude, what we get out of it, and what is going on in our brains and bodies when we achieve it. Along the way, he meets yogic scholars, scientists, religious leaders, philosophers and artists, gaining fascinating - and often startling - insights

'If we were in a book it would be an enchanted castle - certain to be' • When Jerry, Jimmy and Kathleen are forced to spend their entire summer at school they don't imagine they will have a particularly interesting time. But that's before they stumble upon a mysterious castle set in beautiful, abandoned gardens. Could this really be an enchanted castle? Don’t be a duffer, there’s no such thing. But with the air thick with magic, the sun blazing down, and a maze hiding a sleeping girl at its centre, the holidays might just be looking up • Includes exclusive content: In the Backstory you can find out more about the author and take the Enchanted Castle quiz! • Vintage Children’s Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives

‘A brilliant book about singing… I have been talking to Nick Coleman about music, in person and in my head, for forty years now. [With Voices] you have the opportunity to hear what I have heard. I hope you take it’ Nick Hornby in The Believer • What happens when we fall in love with a voice; the siren call of someone singing? • The history of post-war popular music is traditionally told sociologically or in terms of musicological influence and innovation in style. Voices takes a different tack. In ten discrete but cohering essays Coleman tackles the arc of that history as if it were an emotional experience with real psychological consequences – as chaotic, random, challenging and unpredictable as life itself • Voices is the story of what it is to listen and learn