Bestselling author and quiz master Christopher Winn is here to test your knowledge of Britain with 501 questions to perplex and puzzle about our glorious islands. Covering a myriad of subjects including history, cathedrals, sports, records, modern Britain, royalty, people, places, deeds, discoveries and disasters, there is something to test everyone from Britain`s brainiest boffins to the quiz beginner. Featuring a range of questions from multiple choice teasers and odd ones out to picture quizzes illustrated with charming line drawings to test your knowledge of the famous faces and facades of Britain. Alongside these sit cryptic and puzzle quizzes plus special features spotlighting different regions so you can see just how well you know...

ISBN: 978-0-09-193304-3
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011

In this charming book bestselling author Christopher Winn turns his attention to the Irish people, taking us on a enthralling journey around their homeland, discovering en route the intriguing and surprising ways the places and their history contribute to the Irish character. As he travels across the Emerald Isle, he unearths the traditions, triumphs and disasters, foibles, quirks and customs that come together to make up the Irish people. From County Leitrim, the most sparsely populated county in the Republic of Ireland to County Louth, Ireland`s smallest county, discover the site of the first play performed in the Irish language, sail the longest navigable inland waterway in Europe and watch the horse racing at Ireland`s first...

ISBN: 978-0-09-192674-8
Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Bestselling author Christopher Winn takes us on a captivating journey around London to discover the unknown tales of our capital`s history. Travelling through the villages and districts that make up the world`s most dynamic metropolis "I Never Knew That About London" unearths the hidden gems of legends, firsts, inventions, adventures and birthplaces that shape the city`s compelling, and at times, turbulent past. See the Brentford river views that inspired Turner to become an artist and find out where London`s first nude statue is. Explore the oldest and largest tidal mill in Britain and unearth the original Big Brother house in Bromley. Spy out the village that gave its name to a car and the Russian word for railway station. Discover...

ISBN: 978-0-09-191857-6
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

Asimov changed our perception of robots forever when he formulated the classic laws govering their behavior. In I, Robot Asimov chronicles the development of the robot from its primitive origins in the present to its ultimate perfection in the not-sodistant future - a future in which humanity itself may be rendered obsolete.

ISBN: 0-553-29438-5
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004

ISBN: 9785906957344
Издательство: Clever
Дата выхода: январь 2019

I Shall Wear Midnight is a Nebula Award-winning comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett set on the Discworld. It is the fourth novel within the Discworld series to be based around the character of Tiffany Aching. It centres on Tiffany Aching, who is now fifteen years old and getting on with the hard work of being a witch. The title is taken from a quotation in A Hat Full of Sky: "When I`m old I shall wear midnight, she`d decided. But for now she`d had enough of darkness".

ISBN: 978-0-552-55559-3
Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011

A man with no eyes. No eyes at all. Two tunnels in his It`s not easy being a witch, and it`s certainly not all whizzing about on broomsticks, but Tiffany Aching - teen witch - is doing her best. Until something evil wakes up, something that stirs up all the old stories about nasty old witches, so that just wearing a pointy hat suddenly seems a very bad idea. Worse still, this evil ghost from the past is hunting down one witch in particular. He`s hunting for Tiffany. And he`s found A fabulous Discworld title filled with witches and magic and told in the inimitable Terry Pratchett style, I Shall Wear Midnight is the fourth Discworld title to feature Tiffany and her tiny, fightin`, boozin` pictsie friends, the Nac Mac Feegle (aka The Wee...

ISBN: 978-0-552-16605-8
Издательство: Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: январь 2013

Young children will enjoy bright, bold pictures of cookies, candies, toys, and snow as they play a search-and-find game created especially for them! Photographs from the best-selling I SPY CHRISTMAS are teamed up with new, simple riddles for this fifth board book in the series.

ISBN: 978-0-439-08331-7
Дата выхода: март 2012

ISBN: 9780439524728
Дата выхода: январь 2008

In this fourth book in the I Spy Little Book series, simple rhymes and bright picture clues introduce toddlers to the concept of numbers. This is an engaging, age-appropriate learning tool, based on "I Spy School Days, " specially designed for the board book format.

ISBN: 978-0-590-68714-0
Дата выхода: март 2012

ISBN: 9781848691230
Дата выхода: январь 2019

ISBN: 9780545089173
Дата выхода: январь 2019

Meet Maggie Fortenberry. Her life seems pretty much perfect - she`s beautiful, charming and successful, just as you`d expect of a former Miss Alabama. But, in fact, Maggie is perfectly miserable. By now she should have been living in an elegant house with an adoring husband and children. Instead, she makes a living selling that dream to others - though her estate agency business has lately been going from bad to worse. But then Maggie comes up with the perfect plan. And that`s when strange things start happening. As Maggie finds herself catapulted into one surprising discovery after another, she learns valuable lessons about the nature of friendship, the challenges of modern life and the dangers of impossible dreams. She also learns that...

ISBN: 978-0-09-955548-3
Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011

Remember when the man of your dreams was waiting for you between the pages of Jackie? Remember when pop concerts kicked off at so you could be home in time for Blind Date? Remember when your signature scent was a heady mix of joss sticks and `White Musk`? This summer, let Allison Pearson`s hilarious and heart-warming novel take you back to the days of lip-gloss, unrequited love, teenage crushes and Anne French cleansing milk. We enter the world of two unforgettable friends: Petra and Sharon, in 1970s South Wales, who live for David Cassidy. His fan magazine is the girls` Bible and they memorise every word that he sings and writes, in the hope of becoming the future Mrs Cassidy. But unbeknownst to Petra, and to millions of other hopefuls,...

ISBN: 978-0-09-946859-2
Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011

It`s a beautiful winter`s day at the castle and the Little Princess has found her old sledge to play on. She`s having a great time until the Chef whizzes past on his brand new shiny sledge. She wants one of those! When the King finally gives in and let`s her have one, the Princess thinks her dreams have come true. But new doesn`t always mean

ISBN: 978-1-84270-832-3
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011

Does that boy like me? Am I pretty? Will my father be arrested? These were the everyday concerns of thirteen-year-old Moscow schoolgirl Nina Lugovskaya, who began to write a diary in 1932. Her indignant outbursts against Stalin`s brutal Terror appear alongside more typical adolescent worries about friends, boys and homework. For five years Nina scribbled down her most intimate thoughts. Then in 1937 Stalin`s secret police ransacked Nina`s home and discovered her diary. Nina`s criticism of the regime provided sufficient evidence for the charge of treason, and she, her mother and two sisters were sentenced to five years` hard labour in the Gulag, followed by seven years` exile. Recently Nina`s diary was discovered in the KGB archives. Like...

ISBN: 978-0-552-77290-7
Издательство: Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011

When a small boy turns up on Bob and Joan`s doorstep unable to say much except `I was a rat`, the kindly couple adopt him. It seems strange but Bob reads about odder things every day in his newspaper. To them, the sunny little chap is Roger, and he`s trying hard to adapt to human life. But when he gets lost and ends up on the run, other people, egged on by their newspapers, are quick to see him as the Monster, a rodent fiend who could terrorise the town. Only a friend in a very high place could save Roger from the authorities who are determined to exterminate him. Cleverly weaving elements of the Cinderella story into a subtle parody of modern times, master storyteller Philip Pullman has created a gallery of fascinating characters from...

ISBN: 978-0-440-86639-8
Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2012

ISBN: 9781408844724
Издательство: Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: январь 2019

As startling and provocative as his famous Stranger in a Strange Land, here is Heinlein`s awesome masterpiece about a man supremely talented, immensely old and obscenely wealthy who discovers that money can buy everything. Even a new life in the body of a beautiful young woman. Once again, master storyteller Robert delivers a wild and intriguing classic of science Формат: 10,5 см x 17,5 см.

ISBN: 978-0-441-35917-2
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

A young boy weighs the pros and cons of possessing various animal appendages - such as a duck`s feet, a deer`s antlers, a whale`s spout, an elephant`s trunk, and a long, long tail - only to decide that he`s better off just being himself. A zany, insightful story that beginning readers will wish to hear again and again - with a new Dr. Seuss author credit.

ISBN: 978-0-394-80040-0
Дата выхода: август 2011

"I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere" explores how a life can be changed irrevocably in just one fateful moment. A pregnant mother`s plans for the future unravel at the hospital; a travelling salesman learns the consequences of an almost-missed exit on the motorway in the newspaper the next morning; while a perfect date is spoilt by a single act of thoughtlessness. In those crucial moments Cavalda demonstrates her almost magical skill in conveying love, lust, longing and loneliness.

ISBN: 978-0-09-950601-0
Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011

What would life be like if you had feet like a duck, or horns like a deer, a whale spout on your head, or a long, long nose? In this crazy tale a small boy imagines all these things, only to decide in the end that perhaps it`s better to be ME after all.

ISBN: 978-0-00-717313-6
Издательство: HarperCollins
Дата выхода: август 2011

ISBN: 978-0-446-57253-8
Дата выхода: июль 2011

THE #1 BESTSELLING BLOCKBUSTER Can Alex Cross survive his most chilling - and personal - case ever? Pulled out of a family celebration, Detective Alex Cross gets awful news: A beloved relative has been found brutally murdered. Vowing to catch

ISBN: 978-0-446-56196-9
Дата выхода: февраль 2012