This enchanting collection of art and poetry features Cicely Mary Barker`s most exquisite Flower Fairy paintings and poems from the following books: Flower Fairies of the Spring, Flower Fairies of the Summer, Flower Fairies of the Autumn and Flower Fairies of the Winter. This book also includes five rarely seen Flower Fairies which have been omitted from Flower Fairies of the Summer for many years; The Sorrel Fairy, The Convolvulus Fairy, The White Campion Fairy, The Thistle Fairy and The Wild Thyme Fairy. This magical book is housed in a beautiful slipcase and celebrates Cicely Mary Barker`s incredible talent and the enduring appeal of the beautiful fairies she created. It would make the perfect present for any fairy fan or collector,...
ISBN: 978-0-7232-6845-1
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2012
Recently voted the greatest fantasy of all time, after The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, Gene Wolfe`s The Book of the New Sun is an extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, on an Earth transformed in mysterious and wondrous ways, in a time when our present culture is no longer even a memory. Severian, the central character, is a torturer, exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his victims, and journeying to the distant city of Thrax, armed with his ancient executioner`s sword, Terminus Est. This edition contains the first two volumes of this four volume novel, The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator.
ISBN: 978-1-85798-977-9
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
The second of a two-book set that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkiens epic tale of war, "The Silmarillion". This second part of "The Book of Lost Tales" includes the tale of Beren and Luthien, Turin and the Dragon, and the only full narratives of the Necklace of the Dwarves and the Fall of Gondolin, itself the finest and most exciting depiction of a battle that Tolkien ever wrote. Each tale is followed by a commentary in the form of a short essay, together with texts of associated poems, and contains extensive information on names and vocabulary in the earliest Elvish languages. This series of fascinating books has now been repackaged to complement the distinctive and classic style ofe black cover...
ISBN: 978-0-261-10214-9
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2012
- Over 40 of the best-known and loved nursery rhymes - Also available with CD or tape sung by young children with piano accompaniment - Bright and cheerful illustrations on every page - Includes ideas for action games to accompany the nursery rhymes
ISBN: 978-0-7460-6430-6
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Providing snippets of history, entertaining anecdotes and information on London`s most famous attractions, including the Millennium Dome, and the London Eye, this book with Internet links aims to add interest to visits to the capital.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-4151-2
Издательство:
Usborne Publishing
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Bridging the gap between novelty board books and picture flats, this adorable new series encourages little readers to engage with a central character and then follow a simple plot. With questions to answer (What can you see at the farm? What noises do the farm animals make?) and interactive elements throughout, the child is drawn in from the outset. A rich reading experience, designed to stimulate speech and build book-confidence.
ISBN: 9781788003599
Издательство:
Nosy Crow
Дата выхода: январь 2020
- Over 40 of the best-known and loved nursery rhymes - Also available with CD or tape sung by young children with piano accompaniment - Bright and cheerful illustrations on every page - Includes ideas for action games to accompany the nursery rhymes
ISBN: 978-0-7460-5740-7
Издательство:
Usborne Publishing
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A shocking truth lies within the pages of an ancient library, locked inside a high-security complex deep beneath the Nevada desert. And the US government will stop at nothing to keep it classified. But now a shadowy group of ex-employees want the world to know - however terrifying the disclosure might prove to be. And when a single volume missing from the original collection mysteriously surfaces at a London auction house, they persuade former FBI agent Will Piper to help them obtain it and unlock the ultimate secret of the library, once and for all. Travelling to England, Will discovers the text contains a sonnet that holds a series of clues - clues that reveal the book has had a profound effect on the history of mankind. But all the...
ISBN: 978-0-09-954777-8
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
FBI agent Pendergast and his demonic brother, Diogenes, continue the savage tango begun in "Dance of Death". Diogenes returns the stolen gem collection of the New York Museum of Natural History, but this hoard of priceless jewels has
ISBN: 978-0-446-61850-2
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
College professor David Zimmer succumbs to an extended, near-suicidal depression when his wife and sons die in a plane crash. While mindlessly channel-surfing one drunken evening, he stumbles across a clip from a silent comedy starring Hector Mann, a mysterious figure who disappeared in 1929. Intrigued - then ultimately obsessed - by Mann, Zimmer devotes himself to a rigorous examination of Mann`s 12 films and eventually publishes a critical study on them. When the book comes out, a stranger contacts Zimmer, informing him that Mann is very much alive and inviting him to the filmmaker`s private hideaway in New Mexico. What follows is a complex, constantly surprising story - a narrative of Zimmer`s cross-country journey and a series of...
ISBN: 978-0-312-99096-1
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
From Oscar Wilde`s witty observation in Lady Windermere`s Fan that `I can resist everything except temptation`, to Zsa Zsa Gabor`s admission that `I know nothing about sex, because I was always married`, and by way of Woody Allen`s numerous bon mots to the anonymous definition of psychiatry as being `the care of the id by the odd`, Connie Robertson has woven together a hilarious, stimulating and thought-provoking collection of the best humorous quotations which will provide the reader with much to ponder over long after the book has been put aside. The Wordsworth Book of Humorous Quotations will delight the browser and the simply curious while also providing the student, journalist and after-dinner speaker with a wealth of valuable...
ISBN: 978-1-85326-759-8
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
A stunning historical novel, "The Book of Fires" is the unforgettable story of Agnes Trussel - and love, fireworks and redemption. Brought up in rural Sussex, seventeen-year-old Agnes Trussel is carrying an unwanted child. Taking advantage of the death of her elderly neighbour, Agnes steals her savings and runs away to London. On her way she encounters the intriguing Lettice Talbot who promises that she will help Agnes upon their arrival. But Agnes soon becomes lost in the dark, labyrinthine city. She ends up at the household of John Blacklock, laconic firework-maker, becoming his first female assistant. The months pass and it becomes increasingly difficult for Agnes to conceal her secret. Soon she meets Cornelius Soul, seller of...
ISBN: 978-0-00-730573-5
Издательство:
Collins
Дата выхода: август 2011
"The Book of the Dead" is the morgue log, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to acquire a new meaning. Starting over with a unique private forensic pathology practice in the historic city of Charleston, South Carolina, seems like the ideal situation for Scarpetta and her colleagues, Pete Marino and her niece, Lucy. But then come the deaths ... A sixteen-year-old tennis star, fresh from a tournament win in Charleston, is found nude and mutilated near Piazza Navona in Rome. The body of an abused young boy is dumped in a desolate marsh. A woman is ritualistically murdered in her multimillion-dollar beach home. Mean while, in New England, problems with a prominent patient at a...
ISBN: 978-0-425-21621-7
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
An overview of British monarchs from Cerdic First King of Wessex to George VI, this guide provides a regal chronology of Britain and contains many insights into the foibles of one of the world`s constitutional institutions through the vagaries of war, pestilence, regicide, civil wars and marriage.
ISBN: 978-1-85326-395-8
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
At the beginning of the 21st Century, `The Book of Rock` pays tribute to those artists whose music has provided a soundtrack for the growing pains of three generations. It is a gallery of 500 saints, sinners and martyrs of rock and pop history. Here democracy is everything: guitar heroes rub shoulders with tortured geniuses, and the flamboyant masters of showmanship receive the same treatment as reclusive poets. Together they provide a fresh, provocative guide to the icons of rock and pop, the most influential singers and musicians from around the globe. New Chart Entries! Now in a more easy to handle format, this new edition is fully updated with fantastic new, varied and talented acts from across the musical spectrum, including Eminem,...
ISBN: 978-1-86205-695-4
Издательство:
Anova Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The Book of Lost Tales stands at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-earth and Valinor, for the Tales were the first form of the myths and legends that came to be called The Silmarillion. Embedded in English legend and English association, they are set in the narrative frame of a great westward voyage over the Ocean by a mariner named Eriol (or Elfwine) to Tol Eressea, the Lonely Isle, where Elves dwelt; from them he learned their true history, the Lost Tales of Elfinesse. In the Tales are found the earliest accounts and original ideas of Gods and Elves, Dwarves, Balrogs and Orсs; of the Silmarils and the Two Trees of Valinor, of Nargothrond and Gondolin; of the geography and cosmology of the invented world.
ISBN: 978-0-261-10222-4
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: март 2012
John Banville` s stunning powers of mimicry are brilliantly on display in this engrossing novel, the darkly compelling confession of an improbable murderer. Freddie Montgomery is a highly cultured man, a husband and father living the life of a dissolute exile on a Mediterranean island. When a debt comes due and his wife and child are held as collateral, he returns to Ireland to secure funds. That pursuit leads to murder. And here is his attempt to present evidence, not of his innocence, but of his life, of the events that lead to the murder he committed because he could. Like a hero out of Nabokov or Camus, Montgomery is a chillingly articulate, self-aware, and amoral being, whose humanity is painfully on display.
ISBN: 978-0-330-37187-2
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: август 2011
Bestseller Meltzer (The Book of Fate) deserves credit for an audacious conceit—wedding the biblical fratricide of Abel by his brother Cain with the unsolved 1932 homicide of the father of Jerry Siegel, the creator of iconic comic book hero Superman—but the results are less than convincing. A highly tenuous link between the two murders revolves around the mysterious weapon Cain (the world`s greatest villain) used to kill his brother. One of numerous theories is that the weapon was a divine book containing the secrets of immortality. After coming to the aid of a shooting victim, Calvin Harper, a homeless volunteer working in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., soon finds himself hopelessly caught up in a life-and-death quest for the ancient...
ISBN: 978-0-446-61614-0
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
What if a demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman wrote a book to his estranged son to give him some fatherly advice? What if that book was buried in Hampstead and hundreds of years later, when rising sea levels have put London underwater, spawned a religion? What if one man decided to question life according to Dave? And, what if Dave had indeed made a mistake? Shuttling between the recent past and a far-off future where England is terribly altered, "The Book of Dave" is a strange and troubling mirror held up to our times: disturbing, satirizing and vilifying who and what we think we are.
ISBN: 978-0-14-101454-8
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
