The international bestseller, reissued with a striking new illustrated cover with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman. Part of The Bloomsbury Phantastic series - three books tracing the tradition of fantasy from Edgar Allan Poe to Neil Gaiman and Susanna Clarke. Susanna Clarke’s novel is an epic tale of nineteenth-century England and the two magicians who emerge to change its history. In the year 1806, in the midst of the Napoleonic Wars, most people believe magic to have long since disappeared from England - until the reclusive Mr Norrell reveals his powers and becomes a celebrity overnight. Another practising magician emerges: the young and daring Jonathan Strange. He becomes Norrell’s pupil and the two join forces in the war against...
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The year is 1806. England is beleaguered by the long war with Napoleon, and centuries have passed since practical magicians faded into the nation's past. But scholars of this glorious history discover that one remains: the reclusive Mr. Norrell, whose displays of magic send a thrill through the country. Proceeding to London, he raises a beautiful woman from the dead and summons an army of ghostly ships to terrify the French. Yet the cautious, fussy Norrell is challenged by the emergence of another magician: the brilliant novice Jonathan Strange. Young, handsome and daring, Strange is the very antithesis of Norrell. So begins a dangerous battle between these two great men which overwhelms the one between England and France. And their...
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Ethan and his five co-workers are marooned in JPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive game-design company. There they wage battle against the demands of bone-headed marketing staff who torture them with idiotic changes to already idiotic games. Meanwhile, Ethan`s personal life is being invaded by marijuana grow-ops, people-smuggling, ballroom dancing, global piracy and the rise of China. Everybody in both worlds seems to inhabit a moral grey zone, and nobody is exempt, not even his seemingly strait-laced parents or Coupland Do you want to start play? Y/N
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Faerie is never as far away as you think. Sometimes you find you have crossed an invisible line and must cope, as best you can, with petulant princesses, vengeful owls, ladies who pass their time embroidering terrible fates or with endless paths in deep, dark woods and houses that never appear the same way twice. The heroines and heroes bedevilled by such problems in these fairy tales include a conceited Regency clergyman, an eighteenth-century Jewish doctor and Mary, Queen of Scots, as well as two characters from "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell": Strange himself and the Raven King.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: июль 2011
There`s this set of things everyone expects from Since her boyfriend Gus was killed in 9/11, Billy has been pretending. It is easier for her to stay silent and go through the motions of grief than to tell the truth: that she was planning to leave Gus, and that his death left her feeling a mixture of ambivalence and anguish that she is still struggling to resolve. Drawing from her experience, Billy writes The Lake Shore Limited. The opening night of the play brings together three people whose lives intersect and interweave with Billy`s: Leslie, Gus`s older sister, haunted by his death and constantly aware of what could have been; Rafe, the actor who brings the joy and sadness of his own marriage into his role; and Sam, a recently divorced...
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Arthur (Art) Mumby and his irritating sister Myrtle live with their father, Revd Marmaduke Mumby, in the huge and rambling house, Larklight, travelling through space on a remote orbit far beyond the moon. One ordinary sort of morning they receive a correspondence informing them that a gentleman is on his way to visit, a Mr Webster. Visitors to Larklight are rare if not unique, and a frenzy of preparation ensues. But it is the wrong sort of preparation, as they discover when their guest arrives, and a Dreadful and Terrifying (and marvellous) adventure begins. It takes them to the furthest reaches of known space, where they must battle the evil First Ones in a desperate attempt to save each other - and the universe. Recounted through the...
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: август 2011
Eustace Conway is like no other man. At the age of seventeen, he ditched the comforts of suburbia to escape to the mountains where he lived alone in a teepee. Twenty years on, he is still there. Everything he needs he builds, grows or kills. Over the years, he has stopped at nothing in pursuit of bigger, bolder challenges: he travelled the Mississippi in a handmade wooden canoe; he walked the two-thousand-mile Appalachian Trail; he hiked across the German Alps in trainers. Dazzled by his tales of daring and adventure, Elizabeth Gilbert set off on her own adventure to discover the last American man.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Twelve-year-old Harriet is doing her best to grow up, which is not easy as her mother is permanently on medication, her father has silently moved to another city, and her serene sister rarely notices anything. All of them are still suffering from the shocking and mysterious death of her brother Robin twelve years earlier, and it seems to Harriet that the family may never recover. So, inspired by Captain Scott, Houdini, and Robert Louis Stevenson, she sets out with her only friend Hely to find Robin`s murderer and punish him. But what starts out as a child`s game soon becomes a dark and dangerous journey into the menacing underworld of a small Mississippi town.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
It`s winter in Paris and Madeleine is having problems at school. A new girl, Mirabelle, is bullying her. Madeleine is too ashamed to ask for help from her friends, Madame Pamplemousse and Camembert, but she`s befriended by a woman called Madame Bonbon, who runs an alluring-looking sweet shop. The sweets Madame Bonbon gives Madeleine have the most bewitching effect, at first making her feel much stronger and able to confront Mirabelle. But soon they start drawing her into a strange, enchanted world from which she finds she cannot escape. For Madame Bonbon is really someone else in disguise - an old enemy from Madame Pamplemousse`s past who has come to Paris seeking her
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: март 2012
In Paris, there is a cafe, elegantly furnished with polished wooden tables and an awning of striped gold and green, whose walls are filled with drinks such as Green Fairy Liqueur, Mermaid Madeira and Red Devil Lemonade. And sitting on the bar is a large, silver, steam-powered espresso coffee machine. The cafe is owned by Monsieur Moutarde, and Monsieur Moutarde has made the most extraordinary discovery. With the help of his friend, Madame Pamplemousse, he has created a time-travel machine (for that is what the espresso coffee machine is). Very special, highly flavoured, intense ingredients are fed into the machine, where they are subatomically blended with quantum froth and space-time foam. The resulting liquid looks like a small black...
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: март 2012
Major Ernest Pettigrew (Ret`d) is not interested in the frivolity of the modern world. Since his wife Nancy`s death, he has tried to avoid the constant bother of nosy village women, his grasping, ambitious son, and the ever spreading suburbanization of the English countryside, preferring to lead a quiet life upholding the values that people have lived by for generations - respectability, duty, and a properly brewed cup of tea (very much not served in a polystyrene cup with teabag left in). But when his brother`s death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Ali, the widowed village shopkeeper of Pakistani descent, the Major is drawn out of his regimented world and forced to confront the realities of life in the twenty-first century....
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
In the summer of 1553, against all odds, Mary Tudor was the first woman to be crowned Queen of England. Anna Whitelock`s absorbing debut tells the remarkable story of a woman who was a princess one moment, and a disinherited bastard the next. It tells of her Spanish heritage and the unbreakable bond between Mary and her mother, Katherine of Aragon; of her childhood, adolescence, rivalry with her sister Elizabeth and finally her womanhood. Throughout her life Mary was a fighter, battling to preserve her integrity and her right to hear the Catholic mass. Finally, she fought for the throne. The Mary that emerges from this groundbreaking biography is not the weak-willed failure of traditional narratives, but a complex figure of immense...
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
A lot has changed since Kitchen Confidential - for the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restaurant business-and for Anthony Bourdain. Medium Raw explores these changes, moving back and forth from the author`s bad old days to the present. Tracking his own strange and unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe-travelling professional eater and drinker, Bourdain compares and contrasts what he`s seen and what he`s seeing, pausing along the way for a series of confessions, rants, investigations, and interrogations of some of the most controversial figures in food. And always he returns to the question: `Why cook?` Or the harder one to answer: `Why cook well?` Beginning with a secret and highly illegal after-hours gathering of...
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: июнь 2011
It`s springtime - hundreds of Crows set out on their yearly migration and converge at the Gathering Tree. This sacred Gathering is an opportunity for the six crow Clans of the Family Kinaar to assemble, to make decisions and to celebrate being together. But when young blood is lost, sacred laws are tested as an illegal Mob seeks revenge, and a schism threatens the unity of the flock. The Family`s situation is made yet more precarious when a severe blizzard hits and the Crows are faced with the dilemma of where to find shelter. Breaking age-old decrees and working together may offer their only chance of survival. Here is a startling view of the world from a bird`s-eye perspective, complete with its own set of beliefs, mythologies and...
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
I loved my native city, but how I longed to escape, to go to America - a land full of eligible Daria is an intelligent, bilingual secretary who should have her pick of the men in Odessa - except that the only men who are making advances are a dashing mafia gangster and her boss. Fearful that she'll be fired for refusing to sleep her way to the top, she decides to moonlight at Soviet Unions(t), an international marriage broker. But as she bridges the language gap between Odessan beauties and lonely American men she wonders if she will ever escape the trappings of Ukrainian life and find true love. When she intercepts a message from a mild-mannered teacher, e-mails fly back and forth across the Atlantic. Daria soon finds herself much...
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: август 2011
Gordon is frustrated that Ted, the school bully, gets away with pushing people around - including Gordon! So when he spots an advertisement for Mr World`s muscle machine, he`s immediately curious and decides to send off for one. `Don`t be impatient` says the instruction booklet that comes with the machine. `Muscles don`t grow in one day. Take it bit by bit and you`ll be surprised at what happens!` And indeed he is. In fact, Gordon`s surprise, as well as his muscles, just keeps on growing!
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: август 2011
You Can`t Catch Me and You Can`t Put Mustard in the Custard were first published twenty-five years ago and were groundbreaking in that they were full-colour illustrated new poems for children. You Can`t Catch Me won the Signal Poetry Award in 1982. Both books went on to be bestsellers and both poet and artist are stellar names in the world of children`s books. The book includes an introduction by Michael Rosen and an audio CD of the book, with all the poems also read by Michael. Michael`s brilliantly conversational poetry is fantastically matched by Quentin Blake`s loopy yet perfectly detailed art. It is a partnership that Bloomsbury is proud to be making newly available.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: август 2011
In fin-de-siecle Copenhagen, part-time prostitute Charlotte and her lumpen sidekick, Fru Schleswig, have taken on jobs as cleaning ladies of dubious talent to tide them over the harsh winter of 1897. But the home of their neurotic new employer, the widow Krak, soon reveals itself to be riddled with dark secrets - including the existence of a demonic machine rumoured to swallow people alive. Rudely catapulted into twenty-first-century London, the hapless duo discover a whole new world of glass, labour-saving devices and hectic, impossible romance.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: июль 2012
When the young Ian Wharton first meets Mr Broadhurst, he is completely unaware of the influence he will come to exert over his life as `The Fat Controller` - a constant companion and confidant and also the obese, erudite manifestation of Ian` s mental illness. As Ian`s idea of fun becomes increasingly extreme, the reader is taken to a place where morality is eroded by the dull grind of modernity and everything becomes admissable.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: август 2011
Solange has always known she is a vampire. And` as the only female vampire ever born, not initiated, she is surrounded by danger on all sides - from other vampire tribes who want to take her blood into their lineage, and from the bounty hunters who are set on destroying her and her family. When she is kidnapped, it`s up to her elder brother, Nicholas, and best friend, Lucy, to save her. But can Lucy save herself from Nichol as, who tempts with every look - what will be her own fate if she surrenders her heart to a vampire?
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: июль 2011
It`s 1984 and one of the hottest summers Yorkshire`s seen. It`s the kind of woozy heat to lose your mind in. Mona is fifteen years old. She`s a drinker, a thief and a fruit machine addict. Things are already going badly in the pub where she lives with her obese step-brother PorkChop. But when Mona meets posh Tamsin Fakenham, a sassy girl with beautiful breasts, an actress mother and a sister who`s died of starvation, things very quickly get much worse.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: август 2011
Mr and Mrs Brown are always having great difficulty with their numerous and incredibly naughty children. They try all the agencies but the nurses, governesses and nannies never stay long with the Brown children. `The person you want is Nurse Matilda`, they are told. And when Nurse Matilda does arrive very strange things begin to happen. Brought together in one volume are the three remarkable tales of Nurse Matilda - Nurse Matilda, Nurse Matilda Goes to Town and Nurse Matilda Goes to Hospital. Having delighted generations of readers since their first publication in the sixties, the books have now formed the inspiration for the newly-released and fabulous Nanny McPhee, written and adapted for the big screen by Emma Thompson who stars as...
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: август 2011
Zara collects phobias the way other high school girls collect Facebook friends. Little wonder, since she`s had a pretty rough life. Her father left when she was a baby, and her stepfather just died. Her mother`s pretty much checked out - in fact, she`s sent her to live with her grandmother in cold and sleepy Maine to `keep Zara safe`. Whatever that means. Zara doesn`t think she`s in danger; she thinks her mother just can`t deal. Zara`s wrong. The man she sees everywhere - the tall, creepy guy who points at her from the side of the road - is not a figment of her imagination. He`s a pixie. But not the cute, sweet kind with little wings. Maine`s got a whole assortment of unbelievable creatures. And they seem to need something - something from
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: июль 2011
We`re nearly done with high school - forever! - but before we head off to the Ivy of our choice we`ve got plenty to keep us busy: В found S kissing N in the shower. Steamy! Even В can see that S and N would make the hottest couple ever, right? Wrong. B`s about to strut down the revenge runway, and I have a front row seat. Time to hide behind my oversized Chanel sunglasses to watch the show...
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011