Rebecca Bloomwood just hit rock bottom. But she`s never looked Becky Bloomwood has a fabulous flat in London`s trendiest neighborhood, a troupe of glamorous socialite friends, and a closet brimming with the season`s must-haves. The only trouble is that she can`t actually afford it - not any of it. Her job writing at Successful Savings not only bores her to tears, it doesn`t pay much at all. And lately Becky`s been chased by dismal letters from Visa and the Endwich Bank - letters with large red sums she can`t bear to read - and they`re getting ever harder to ignore. She tries cutting back; she even tries making more money. But none of her efforts succeeds. Becky`s only consolation is to buy herself just a little
ISBN: 978-0-552-77346-1 Издательство: Transworld publishers Дата выхода: июль 2011
Set in the 1930`s, the new novel from bestselling author Lesley Pearse tells the story of one girl`s struggle against cruelty and, her quest for love. Adele Talbot is twelve when her younger sister is killed in a road accident in London`s Kings Cross, and her mother Rose so devastated by the loss begins to abuse her. Adele is sent to a children`s home in Tunbridge Wells, but soon runs away to trace her grandmother - Honour who she has discovered lives in Sussex. But Honour is a bitter, eccentric woman who is not best pleased to see her grandaughter. Eventually the two forge some sort of bond and Honour allows Adele to stay. When Adele meets Michael Bailey on the marshes two years later and real love and friendship enter her life, she...
ISBN: 978-0-14-101696-2 Издательство: Penguin Books Дата выхода: июль 2011
Discover the historic location of Rembrandt`s famous "Night Watch", the origin of the invention of cognac; homage to prostitutes; decypher facade stones; make love quite legally in the open air ; visit magnificent interior courtyards; ski in the heart of the town, or become an adept of "boat-in" - the Amsterdam version of drive-in - and eat a pizza in your own boat. Away from the crowds and the stereotypes, Amsterdam still keeps her treasures so well hidden that they only reveal themselves to the inhabitants and to travellers who know how to wander off the beaten track.
ISBN: 9782915807394 Издательство: Jean-Laurent Cassely Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Dogs are disappearing from the village, but the Seven are so busy arguing and falling out with each other that they don`t even notice. Then poor Scamper becomes the latest victim and it`s all systems go for the Secret Seven!
ISBN: 978-0-340-91766-4 Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton Дата выхода: июль 2011
The Cold War is over and Ned has been demoted to the training academy. He asks his old mentor, George Smiley, to address his passing-out class. There are no laundered reminiscences; Smiley speaks the truth ? perhaps the last the students will ever hear. As they listen, Ned recalls his own painful triumphs and inglorious failures, in a career that took him from the Western Isles of Scotland to Hamburg and from Israel to Cambodia. He asks himself: Did it do any good? What did it do to me? And what will happen to us now? In this final Smiley novel, the great spy gives his own humane and unexpected answers.
ISBN: 978-0-14-119636-7 Издательство: Penguin Group Дата выхода: июль 2012
ISBN: 9780330477598 Дата выхода: январь 2013
ISBN: 9780755349050 Издательство: Headline Publ. Дата выхода: январь 2010
One night a year, Santa J. Claus delivers presents to the children of the but for the rest of the time, he`s protecting the world as the top secret agent of the Xtremely Mysterious Agency of Secrets (), dishing out his own brand of justice to the world`s most dastardly criminals. Santa and his Little Helper, newly qualified agent Jingle Bells, are on the trail of Dr Cumulus Nimbus, who`s hell-bent on creating a new ice and Santa hates snow! Can they stop the evil plot before the world is snowed under?
ISBN: 978-1-84715-147-6 Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. `They swarmed numerous like locusts, industrious like ants, thoughtless like a natural force, pushing on blind and orderly and absorbed, impervious to sentiment, to logic - to terror, too, perhaps.` Considered one of Conrad`s most political works, The Secret Agent is set against the dismal backdrop of a drab and alienating London, and tells the story of the bombing of Greenwich Observatory by a group of anarchists. Shopkeeper, spy and reluctant anarchist Mr Verloc becomes embroiled in this terrorist plot, exploiting his mentally disabled brother-in-law Stevie in the process, leading to tragic circumstances.
ISBN: 978-0-00-742026-1 Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers Дата выхода: август 2011
A bit of adventure and quick cash is all that good-natured drifter Anthony Cade is looking for when he accepts a messenger job from an old friend. It sounds so simple: deliver the provocative memoirs of a recently deceased European count to a London publisher. But the parcel holds ore than scandalous royal secrets. It contains a stash of letters that suggest blackmail - and lead to the murder of a stranger who`s been shadowing Anthony`s every move. Discovering the dead man`s identity means retracing his steps - to the rambling estate of Chimneys where darker secrets, and deadlier threats, await anyone who dares to enter.
ISBN: 978-0-312-97974-4 Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Дата выхода: июль 2011
The Berlin Wall is toppled, the Iron Curtain swept aside. The Secret Pilgrim is Ned, a decent, loyal soldier of the Cold War, who has been in British Intelligence – the Circus – all his adult life. Now, approaching the end of his career, he is forced by the explosions of change to revisit his secret years. Ned illuminates the brave past of the legendary George Smiley, his hero and mentor who, in one unforgettable evening, gives back to him the dangerous edge of memory that empowers him finally to frame the questions that have haunted him for thirty years ...
ISBN: 978-0-340-92434-1 Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton Дата выхода: июль 2011
Tuppence Beresford takes a job posing as an American-but she and Tommy will have to play detective when her fake identity results in a real threat to her life.
ISBN: 978-0-451-20120-1 Издательство: Rem Distributors Дата выхода: июль 2011
Маленькая девочка Мэри, сирота, приезжает из Индии, где она потеряла своих родителей, к своему дяде в Йоркшир. Мэри чувствует себя одинокой и ненужной. Предоставленная сама себе, она изучает большой дом дяди и однажды обнаруживает таинственный сад. Мэри пытается разгадать его загадку, и вскоре жизнь всех меняется.
ISBN: 978-0-230-03442-6 Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
ISBN: 978-0-340-91756-5 Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton Дата выхода: июль 2011
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers` story comprehension and...
ISBN: 9780241493120 Дата выхода: сентябрь 2023
From the much-loved New York Times bestselling author of First Impressions and Wild Orchids comes a heart-wrenching story about unrequited love and dangerous secrets.
ISBN: 978-1-84739-844-4 Издательство: Simon & Schuster UK Дата выхода: август 2011
ISBN: 9780099427230 Издательство: Random House Дата выхода: январь 2013
Seven titles in the popular Young Reading series are re-issued with hardback covers with audio CDs inserted into a wallet inside the back cover, making the book and CD easy to store together. The Young Reading series is developed with reading expert Alison Kelly from Roehampton University to help young readers grow in confidence and ability.
ISBN: 978-1-4095-4550-7 Дата выхода: апрель 2012
The Secret Seven have a brand new meeting place but somebody else has been using it too. How dare they? Whoever it is going there at night, and the gang are going to put a stop to it! They are determined to catch the cheeky intruder, whatever it takes!
ISBN: 978-0-340-91760-2 Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
In this, the bind up of The Initiation and The Captive Part 1, is the start of Cassie`s story. Forced to move from sunny California to gloomy New England, Cassie is homesick - until she forms a bond with a group of teenagers at her school. This clique rules the school - no one dare cross them - but Cassie feels a strange kinship with them, and when she is initiated into their `secret circle` she is both terrified and thrilled to be part of a coven of witches that have controlled New Salem for hundreds of then Cassie falls in love. Now she has a tough decision to make: does she walk away, or does she step over to the dark side?
ISBN: 978-0-340-99954-7 Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton Дата выхода: июль 2011
This riveting final chapter in the bold, seductive omnibus repackage of Smith`s Secret Circle saga includes The Captive Part II and The Power.
ISBN: 978-0-06-167135-7 Дата выхода: май 2012
ISBN: 9780330533775 Издательство: Picador Дата выхода: январь 2019
Some of our most intriguing history is missing. Perhaps there has been a conspiracy, a cover-up? Or maybe some stories have been lost, forgotten or were just too embarrassing to talk about at the time? But now they are back, revealed in all their glory: secret passages, events, societies, loves, identities and even dark secrets of the grave. After much sleuthing, Justin Pollard takes us into undisclosed historical waters to discover why the city of Burlington isn`t on the map; how `Agent Pickle` saved the lost treasure of Bonnie Prince Charlie; what Sir Thomas Overbury knew in 1613 that got him murdered with a poisoned enema and how Virginia Woolf sweet-talked her way aboard HMS Dreadnought dressed as Abyssinian Prince. Secret Britain...
ISBN: 978-1-84854-199-3 Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
ISBN: 978-0-340-91755-8 Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton Дата выхода: август 2011
Visit palaces closed to the public, admire exceptional works of art away from the tourist circuit, listen to a concert in a magnificent hidden oratory, have your dog or car blessed, observe the miraculous liquefaction of the blood of Saint Pantaleon, puzzle over a rare catoptric meridian or a wonderful anamorphic fresco, discover the remarkable motorised Rubens, enter into the secrets of the Vatican, rediscover a lost Bernini masterpiece, say a prayer before an image of the Holy Face of Jesus like that deposited on the moon in 1969, organise a dinner for two in a private palace, protect your throat from the rigours of winter. Far from the crowds and the usual cliches, Rome is still a reserve of well-concealed treasures that only reveal...
ISBN: 9782915807615 Издательство: Jean-Laurent Cassely Дата выхода: февраль 2012
