At St Oswald`s, an old and long-established boys` grammar school in the north of England, a new year has just begun. For the staff and boys of the school, a wind of unwelcome change is blowing. Suits, paperwork and Information Technology rule the world; and Roy Straitley, Latin master, eccentric, and veteran of St Oswald`s, is finally - reluctantly - contemplating retirement. But beneath the little rivalries, petty disputes and everyday crises of the school, a darker undercurrent stirs. And a bitter grudge, hidden and carefully nurtured for thirteen years, is about to erupt.
ISBN: 978-0-552-77337-9
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Hollywood legend Eve Benedict has finally decided to tell her life story to one lucky biographer. Renowned for having a heart as big the legend that surrounds her, Eve is also a woman of mystery whose passionate affairs and tempestuous marriages have fueled gossip columns for decades. She chooses Julia Summers, a writer with a fierce drive to uncover the truth - no matter what. Yet there are those who will do anything to keep Eve`s darkest secrets from coming to light.
ISBN: 978-0-553-29078-3
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
A book to die Eve Benedict is the last of the movie goddesses, a smoky-voiced sex symbol with two Oscars, four ex-husbands, and a legion of lovers to her name. There is no secret, no scandal she doesn`t know. Now Eve has decided to write her memoirs - no holds barred. All Hollywood begs her not to. But Eve has her Julia Summers is the biographer Eve has handpicked to tell her story. Transported from her quiet life in Connecticut to glitzy Beverly Hills, Julia hates the limelight but loves her work - and the home it built for the ten-year-old son she`s raising alone. How can she refuse this chance of a lifetime? But Eve`s elegantly sexy stepson, Paul Winthrop, will challenge Eve`s determination to tell her story - and Julia`s resolve to...
ISBN: 978-0-345-52910-7
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Вниманию читателей предлагается сборник юмористических рассказов лучших британских писателей, - Диккенса, Джерома К.Джерома, Вудхауза. Издание рассчитано на лиц, владеющих основами английского языка и совершенствующих свои навыки в нем.
ISBN: 978-5-9542-0094-2
Издательство:
Икар
Дата выхода: январь 2008
`You can live on a shilling a day in Paris if you know how. But it is a complicated business`As a struggling writer in his twenties, Orwell lived as a down-and-out among the poorest members of society. In this, his early memoir, Orwell recalls with vivid clarity his time working as a penniless dishwasher in Paris, pawning clothes to buy a day`s worth of bread and wine, sleeping in bug-infested bunks, trading survival skills and cigarette butts with fellow tramps, and trudging between London`s workhouse spikes for a few hours` sleep and tea. With all of the sensitivity and compassion that Orwell is known and loved for, he exposed the hardships of poverty and gave readers an unprecedented look at life lived on the fringes of society.This...
ISBN: 9781784876616
Издательство:
Vintage Classics
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2021
Most grandmas are kind and helpful ladies. Not George`s grandma. She`s a grumpy and grizzly old grouch and George wants to teach her a lesson. So when it`s time for her medicine. George concocts a bubbling, frothing, marvelous mixture, which is guaranteed to send her through the roof…
ISBN: 978-0-14-132273-5
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Phizz-whizzing new branding for the world`s No.1 storyteller, Roald Dahl! Exciting, bold and instantly recognisable with Quentin Blake`s inimitable artwork. George Kranky`s Grandma is a miserable grouch. George really hates that horrid old witchy woman. One Saturday morning, George is in charge of giving Grandma her medicine. So-ho! Ah-ha! Ho-hum! George knows exactly what to do. A magic medicine, it will be. One that will either cure her completely...or blow off the top of her head. Warning: Do not try to make George`s Marvellous Medicine yourselves at home. It could be dangerous.
ISBN: 9780141365503
Издательство:
Puffin Books
Дата выхода: август 2017
These are the stories our ancestors told to explain how the world began; or they are the legends of half-remembered heroes and people whose lives were changed by magic. Brilliantly retold in the sparkling and inspirational words of the multiple award-winning and much-loved children`s author, Geraldine McCaughrean, the tales will delight and entertain readers of all ages. Together, GEORGE AND THE DRAGON AND A WORLD OF OTHER STORIES with its two companion volumes, ROBIN HOOD AND A WORLD OF OTHER STORIES and KING ARTHUR AND A WORLD OF OTHER STORIES, make a wonderful gift collection of classic tales from around the world - many of them unavailable anywhere else.
ISBN: 978-1-4440-0238-6
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
Far, far away in the high, high mountains in a deep, deep valley in a dark, dark there lived a mighty dragon. He was an awesome and frightening creature, terrorising whole armies, destroying castles, demolishing forests and kidnapping princesses. But, this mighty dragon had a deep, dark
ISBN: 978-0-09-941766-8
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
From the seedy backstreets of London`s Soho in the 60s to the tough, sexy world of international rock-stardom in the 70s, Georgia sees it all-When nine-year-old orphan Georgia James is unexpectedly fostered by the kindly Celia and her bank manager husband she can hardly believe her luck. But then - on her fifteenth birthday - she suffers the cruellest betrayal of all at the hands of her foster father and is forced to run away, leaving everything she loves behind her. Penniless, sleeping rough, Georgia is soon introduced to the sleazy Soho world of brassy strippers, sweat shops, camaraderie and hardship. Fired by a fierce ambition, blessed with an extraordinary voice, her long struggle for fame and fortune begins. But even when she...
ISBN: 978-0-09-942807-7
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Introduce children to the lives and achievements of pioneering men and women from diverse cultures, eras, and fields with Rookie Biographies TM, the new series that helps emergent readers get to know the people who shaped our world! Travel back to the birth of America and meet the great general who became the first president of the United States. Discover why history books call him The Father of Our Country.
ISBN: 978-0-516-27335-8
Издательство:
Scholastic Inc
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Take a rollercoaster ride through the vastness of space and, in the midst of an exciting adventure, discover the mysteries of physics, science and the universe with George, his new friends next door – the scientist Eric and his daughter, Annie – and a super-intelligent computer called Cosmos, which can take them to the edge of a black hole and back again. Or can it? And who else would like to get their hands on Cosmos? A funny and hugely informative romp through space, time and the universe.
ISBN: 978-0-552-55958-4
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
George VI reigned through taxing times. Acceding to the throne upon his brother`s abdication, he was immediately confronted with the turmoil in European politics leading up to the Second World War, then the War itself, followed by a period of austerity, social transformation and loss of Empire. George was unprepared for kingship, suffering from a stammer which could make public occasions very painful for him. Moreover he had grown up in the shadow of his brother, a man who had been idolized as no royal prince has been, before or since. However, as Sarah Bradford shows in this sympathetic biography, although George was not born to be king, he died a great one.
ISBN: 978-0-241-95609-0
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
