The Lost Whale is the enchanting second novel from the author of The Last Bear: the bestselling debut hardback of 2021 and The Times Children’s Book of the Week, winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and the Blue Peter Award and shortlisted for the British Book Awards 2022 and the Indie Book Awards 2022‘Unforgettable highly accomplished animal adventure about the connection between a boy and a whale, with strong ecological themes’ The Bookseller, Editor’s ChoiceWhat if you could communicate with a whale?Rio has been sent to live with a grandmother he barely knows in California, while his mum is in hospital back home. Alone and adrift, the only thing that makes him smile is joining his new friend Marina on her dad`s...
Mendelsohn grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust--an unmentionable subject during his childhood. Decades later, he embarked on a hunt for the remaining eyewitnesses of his relatives fates. This is their story.
ISBN: 9780060542993
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2007
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "The Last Galley: Impressions and Tales I" is the first volume in the series, consisting of wonderful short stories like "The Last Galley", "The Contest", and "Through the Veil".
ISBN: 978-5-521-07168-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. The Lake Gun is a satirical short story named after the mysterious loud exploding sound coming from Seneca Lake, called The Lake Gun by European American settlers to the area, and known today as the Seneca Guns. These sounds remain unexplained to this day, with no clear or agreed-upon cause.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08034-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
In her first novel in nine years, "New York Times"-bestselling author Kingsolver tells the story of Harrison William Shepherd, an unforgettable protagonist whose search for identity takes readers to the heart of the 20th century s most tumultuous events.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. A lot of his works contributed to the early growth of the science fiction genre. "The Last Days of Pompeii" is a novel inspired by the painting by the Russian painter Karl Briullov. It describes the cataclysmic destruction of the city of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The novel uses its characters to contrast the decadent culture of 1 st-century Rome with both older cultures and coming trends.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08265-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: февраль 2019
The eighth book in the classic Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s and 70s – the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime writing.Hugely acclaimed, the Martin Beck series were the original Scandinavian crime novels and have inspired the writings of Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell and Jo Nesbo.In one part of town, a woman robs a bank. In another, a corpse is found shot through the heart in a room locked from within, with no firearm in sight. Although the two incidents appear unrelated, Detective Inspector Martin Beck believes otherwise, and solving the mystery acquires the utmost importance. Haunted by a near-fatal bullet wound and trying to recover from the break-up of his unhappy marriage, Beck throws himself into...
ISBN: 9780007439188
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. "The Mystery of Cloomber" is a suspenseful gothic novel that centers around mysterious general Heatherstone and his family. Every single year his paranoia rises around the autumn time. Only his new neighbor John Fothergill West is curious enough to uncover the secret of such unusual behavior. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08076-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. His most famous works are "Treasure Island" and "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. Tired of his father refusing to tolerate his addiction for alcohol, John Nicholson decides to leave Edinburgh for a better life in America. For some time he seems to have achieved success, but John learns that all of his excesses mixed with internal problems would ultimately lead him to failure.
ISBN: 978-5-517-00200-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: декабрь 2018
Presenting a revolutionary new approach to the Tree of Life, this book is written in plain English. No background in Victorian occultism is necessary to use it; it is entirely contemporary and without exotic terminology.
ISBN: 9781564146502
Издательство:
Феникс
Дата выхода: февраль 2003
Thomas Love Peacock was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. "The Misfortunes of Elphin" is a novella, which is set in a somewhat historically fanciful Arthurian Britain which incorporates many Welsh legends, but avoids all supernatural and mystical elements.
ISBN: 978-5-517-00228-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Предлагаем вниманию читателей знаменитый роман советского писателя Михаила Булгакова «Мастер и Маргарита». Роман, написанный в течение одного из самых мрачных десятилетий двадцатого века, отражает сложную историческую эпоху и настроения советского общества тех времен. Бог и дьявол, добро и зло, творчество и гибель — в романе множество сюжетных линий, противоречивых героев, поступки которых...
ISBN: 978-5-9925-1453-7
Издательство:
Каро
Дата выхода: май 2020
New house. Fresh start. Same husband.Can you paint over the cracks in a marriage?Karen has packed up her life and is making The Move. She’s on her way to the idyllic country cottage which her husband has painstakingly renovated for her. They’re escaping the London bustle and the daily grind. And they’re escaping their past.A fresh start in a beautiful, peaceful village. It will be different here, right?But something is awry. The landscape, breathtaking by day, is eerie by night. The longed-for peace and solitude is stifling. And the house, so artfully put together by her husband, has a strange vibe. Now that Karen is cut off from her old friends and family, she can’t help wondering if her husband has plans of his own, and that...
Thomas Love Peacock (1785—1866) was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. «The Misfortunes of Elphin» is a awesome novella. It is set in a somewhat historically fanciful Arthurian Britain which incorporates many Welsh legends, but avoids all supernatural and mystical elements. Seithenyn appears as a major character.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07105-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: май 2018
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. He was a celebrity during his lifetime for works like "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Treasure Island." Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. Tired of his father refusing to tolerate his addiction for alcohol, John Nicholson decides to leave Edinburgh for a better life in America. For some time he seems to have achieved success, but John learns that all of his excesses mixed with internal problems would ultimately lead him to failure. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-07792-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
The new novel from the bestselling author of Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides.Brown University, 1982. Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English student and incurable romantic, is writing her thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot - authors of the great marriage plots. As Madeleine studies the age-old motivations of the human heart, real life, in the form of two very different men, intervenes.Leonard Bankhead, brilliant scientist and charismatic loner, attracts Madeleine with an intensity that she seems powerless to resist. Meanwhile her old friend Mitchell Grammaticus, a theology student searching for some kind of truth in life, is certain of at least one thing - that he and Madeleine are destined to be together.But as all three leave college,...
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. While being one of the early works, "The Mysterious Lodger" still considered as a fine example of horror fiction classics by one of the most prominent authors of the genre.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07126-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Книга на английском языке с параллельным русским текстом Данное издание включает 12 очерков из сборника «Зеркало моря», два очерка из сборника «Последние эссе» и три очерка из сборника «Заметки о жизни и литературе» Джозефа Конрада, классика английской литературы конца XIX, начала XX в.в. Все очерки основаны на автобиографическом материале и опыте службы автора на парусных судах Торгового флота...
ISBN: 978-5-907080-60-7
Издательство:
ВКН
Дата выхода: май 2020
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. While being one of the early works, "The Mysterious Lodger" is still considered as a fine example of horror fiction classics by one of the most prominent authors of the genre.
ISBN: 978-5-517-00232-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2019
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896) was an American abolitionist and a writer. She is best known for her novel "Uncle Tom`s Cabin," which depicts the harsh conditions for enslaved African Americans. "The Minister`s Wooing" is her third historical novel, a domestic comedy that examines slavery, Protestant theology, and gender differences in early America. It is set in eighteenth-century Newport, Rhode Island, a community known for its engagement in both religious piety and the slave trade.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08299-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: май 2019
Princess Florizella may live in a classic fairy-tale world, but she’s no ordinary princess…This third volume in The Princess Rules series sees the feisty princess take her baby brother and best friend, Bennett, on another round of adventures together.Can they rescue their new-found friend the sea serpent from a travelling circus? And hold back the pirate, Five-fathom Freida. Or will Florizella’s worst fairygodmother prove that in a fairytale world, you really do have to be careful what you wish for?…
First ever publication of J.R.R. Tolkien’s final writings on Middle-earth, covering a wide range of subjects and perfect for those who have read and enjoyed The Silmarillion, The Lord of the Rings, Unfinished Tales, and The History of Middle-earth, and want to learn more about Tolkien’s magnificent world.It is well known that J.R.R. Tolkien published The Hobbit in 1937 and The Lord of the Rings in 1954–5. What may be less known is that he continued to write about Middle-earth in the decades that followed, right up until the years before his death in 1973.For him, Middle-earth was part of an entire world to be explored, and the writings in The Nature of Middle-earth reveal the journeys that he took as he sought to better understand...
