Following the National Theatre`s success with plays based on novels by well-loved children`s writers like Philip Pulman ("His Dark Materials"), Jamila Gavin ("Coram Boy") and Michael Morpurgo ("War Horse"), the National now stages Mark Ravenhill`s exhilarating adaptation of Terry Pratchett`s witty and challenging adventure story in a major Christmas production for 2009. Its a parallel world, 1860. Two teenagers thrown together by a tsunami that has destroyed Mau`s village and left Daphne shipwrecked on his South Pacific island, thousands of miles from home. One wears next to nothing, the other a long white dress; neither speaks the other`s language; somehow they must learn to survive. As starving refugees gather, Daphne delivers a baby,...
ISBN: 978-0-552-16215-9
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The sea has taken everything. Mau is the only one left after a giant wave sweeps his island village away. But when much is taken, something is returned, and somewhere in the jungle Daphne - a girl from the other side of the globe - is the sole survivor of a ship destroyed by the same wave. Together the two confront the aftermath of catastrophe. Drawn by the smoke of Mau and Daphne`s sheltering fire, other refugees slowly arrive: children without parents, mothers without babies, husbands without wives - all of them hungry and all of them frightened. As Mau and Daphne struggle to keep the small band safe and fed, they defy ancestral spirits, challenge death himself, and uncover a long-hidden secret that literally turns the world upside...
Alone on a desert island - everything and everyone he knows and loves has been washed away in a storm - Mau is the last surviving member of his nation. He`s completely alone - or so he thinks until he finds the ghost girl. She has no toes, wears strange lacy trousers like the grandfather bird, and gives him a stick that can make fire. Daphne, sole survivor of the wreck of the Sweet Judy, almost immediately regrets trying to shoot the native boy. Thank goodness the powder was wet and the gun only produced a spark. She`s certain her father, distant cousin of the Royal family, will come and rescue her but it seems, for now, that all she has for company is the boy and the foul-mouthed ship`s parrot, until other survivors arrive to take...
On the day the world ends… …Mau is on his way home from the Boys` Island. Soon he will be a man. And then the wave comes - a huge wave, dragging black night behind it and bringing a schooner which sails over and through the island rainforest. The village has gone. The Nation as it was has gone. Now there`s just Mau, who wears barely anything, a trouserman girl who wears far too much, and an awful lot of big misunderstandings… Wise, witty and filled with Terry Pratchett`s inimitable comic satire, this is a terrific adventure that - quite literally - turns the world upside down.
ISBN: 978-0-552-55780-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
In Nativity Poems six superb poets in English have come together to translate the ten as yet untranslated poems from this sequence, and the poems are presented in English in their entirety in a beautiful, pocket-sized edition illustrated with Mikhail Lemkhin`s photographs of winter-time St. Petersburg.
ISBN: 978-0-374-52857-7
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Who let the voles out? The precious, blue-tongued mango voles have been stolen from the Amazing Kingdom theme park on North Key Largo by ruthless thugs who have much bigger-and deadlier-things in mind. On the hunt for the rare rodents is Joe Winder, a burned-out ex-muckraking reporter who now works for the park as their PR man. Even as a scandal breaks out over the theft, Winder finds himself trailing an eco-terrorist geriatric, a certain former-governor-turned-swamp rat, and sleazy land developer Francis X. Kingsbury. Determined to uncover the true nature of the Kingdom, Winder must survive this harrowing wilderness-before the natives get to
ISBN: 978-0-446-61320-0
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
It wasn`t every day a guy saw a headless beaver marching down the side of a road, not even in Chicago Stars quarterback Dean Robillard`s larger-than-life world. He slammed on the brakes of his brand-new Aston Martin Vanquish and pulled over in front of her. The beaver marched right past, her big, flat tail bouncing in the gravel, and her small, sharp nose stuck up in the air. Way up. The beaver looked highly pissed… She was definitely a girl beaver because her beaver head was missing, revealing sweaty, dark hair pulled into a scraggly ponytail. He`d been praying for a little distraction from his own depressing company, so he threw open the door and stepped out onto the shoulder of the Colorado road… Funny, sexy, and touching -...
Our planet is full of natural wonders: the forests, which are home to millions of species; the oceans, which cover three quarters of its surface; and the Polar regions and deserts, which have adapted to extreme climatic conditions. They have existed for thousands of years, but these environments and the plants and animals which live in them are changing. Discover why they are changing and what you can do to help.
ISBN: 978885300-994-4
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
New edition, with new illustrations and new format, of all four Amelia Jane titles. Amelia Jane is big, bad and the terror of the toy cupboard! In this book, she snips the tail off the pink rabbit, squirts Tom the soldier with water and gets up to mischief at the beach. The other toys try to teach her to be good. Ages 5+.
- Brightly coloured editions of the much-loved Farmyard Tales series. - All 20 stories available in miniature format. - Enjoyable and collectible stories for children who are just learning to read.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-6317-0
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Featuring several mass-murdering authors, two fraternal writers at the head of a football-hooligan ring and a poet who crafts his lines in the air with sky writing, "Nazi Literature in the Americas" details the lives of a rich cast of characters from one of the most extraordinarily fecund imaginations in world literature. Written with acerbic wit and virtuosic flair, this encyclopaediccavlacade of fictional pan-American authors is the terrifyingly humorous and remarkably inventive masterpiece which made Bolano famous throughout the Spanish-speaking world. `One of the most exhilarating, intense and dangerous voices to emerge from South "Nazi Literature in the Americas" is a parade of delusional, mediocre, vicious and pitiable poetasters,...
ISBN: 978-0-330-51051-6
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: июль 2011
When railwayman Jim Stringer moves to the garish and tawdry London of 1903, he finds his duties are confined to a mysterious graveyard line. Perplexingly, the men he works alongside have formed an instant loathing for him. And his predecessor has disappeared under suspicious circumstances. Can Jim work out what is going on before he too is travelling on a one-way coffin ticket aboard the Necropolis Railway? A gripping detective story, fabulously rich in atmosphere and period detail, The Necropolis Railway steams toward an unexpected conclusion.
ISBN: 978-0-571-22878-2
Издательство:
Faber
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The stakes get higher in #1 NYT bestselling author Anthony Horowitz`s latest masterpiece. As the fourth novel in the spellbinding Gatekeepers series begins, the world is under the greatest threat it`s ever known. The evil corporation Nightrise has amassed an immense amount of and the devastating force of the Old Ones is about to be unleashed around the globe. To stop this from happening, Matt and three of the Gatekeepers head to Hong Kong - not just the modern city of skyscrapers and wealth, but the secretive underworld beneath. In Hong Kong they will meet the final Gatekeeper, a girl named Scarlet, whose fate is inextricably joined to their
ISBN: 978-0-439-68006-6
Издательство:
Scholastic Inc
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
A wonderful new store has opened in the little town of Castle Rock, Maine. Whatever your heart`s secret desire - sexual pleasure, wealth, power, or even more precious things - it`s for sale. And even though every item has a nerve-shattering price, the owner is always ready to make a bargain. In this chilling novel by one of the most potent imaginations of our time, evil is on a shopping spree and out to scare you witless. Формат: 10,5 см x 17,5 cм.
ISBN: 0-451-17281-7
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: май 2008
Frederick Forsyth, master of the international thriller, retums with an electrifying story of a man of immense power and a conspiracy to crush the President of the United States. Only one man - Forsyth`s most unforgettable hero yet - can prevent the plan from succeeding. His name is Quinn. He is the Cormack is bent on a signing a sweeping disarmament treaty, and the master conspirator is determined to stop him. The kidnapping of a young man on a country road in Oxfordshire is but the first brutal step in the explosive plot engineer the president`s destruction. Enter Quinn. Quinn plays the kidnappers like a master until, in a shocking tumabout, he discovers that ransom was not their objection after all - and that he has been lured into a...
ISBN: 0-553-28393-6
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Ten years after its original publication, behold the bewitching anniversary edition of the classic children`s novel The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, printed on luxurious paper, and featuring gorgeous flaps, spellbinding illustrations from Chris Riddell and an exclusive new introduction by Margaret Atwood.WINNER of the 2010 CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL and the 2009 JOHN NEWBERY MEDAL`Every page is crowded with invention, both funny and scary` PATRICK NESS`A tale of unforgettable enchantment` NEW YORK TIMESNobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn`t live in a graveyard, raised and educated by ghosts. There are dangers and adventures for Bod in the graveyard. But it is in the land of the...
ISBN: 978-1-5266-0893-2
Издательство:
Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: январь 2019
