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
An atmospheric mystery set in St Petersburg in the winter of 1867 sees detective Porfiry Petrovich taking his first murder case since Dostoevsky`s "Crime and Punishment". When two frozen bodies are found in a park, he begins to suspect that the truth may be more complex than others wish him to believe, as his investigations lead him to a shocking discovery which reveals the city`s darkest secrets. "A Gentle Axe" is utterly absorbing and tense from its dramatic opening through to its shocking climax.
ISBN: 978-0-571-23206-2
Издательство:
Faber
Дата выхода: июль 2011
An exhilarating new collection of stories by the author of Richard & Judy-bestseller `Notes from an Exhibition`, combining wit and poignancy to illuminate experiences both common and uncommon. Love (and loathing) within families is dissected - a father makes an unexpected discovery about his son which is too hard for him to cope with. A son wreaks revenge through the power of cookery. Three generations of the same family gain freedom through the years in a once-despised caravan. A bored wife finds happiness when an old lag teaches her the art of angling. A dog-training lesson with a puppy who hasn`t grasped the meaning of `obedience` leads to the discovery of a murder. Here too are music and silence - the sweetness and sadness of...
ISBN: 978-0-00-731346-4
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Jackie Brighton has a problem. First she slept with a hot guy she met in a bar after too many martinis, then she woke up in a dumpster, where a mugger had left her for dead. Except her one-night stand turned out to be an angel named Noah, and her mugger turned out to be a vampire named Zane - and the combination of angel-sex and vampire-bite has turned her into a succubus. The upside of being a succubus? She`s suddenly a bombshell with hoards of men panting after her, which is a very good thing - because the downside is The Itch: she needs sex constantly. Sure, it might sound like fun. But Jackie`s picky about who she sleeps with, yet if she doesn`t have sex regularly and frequently, she`ll literally die! When Jackie`s pulled into Noah`s...
Michael Chabon`s Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, sprang from an early passion for the derring-do and larger-than-life heroes of classic comic books. Now, once more mining the rich past, Chabon summons the rollicking spirit of legendary adventures-from The Arabian Nights to Alexandre Dumas to Fritz Leiber`s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories-in a wonderful new novel brimming with breathless action, raucous humor, cliff-hanging suspense, and a cast of colorful characters worthy of Scheherazade`s most tantalizing tales. "They`re an odd pair, to be sure: pale, rail-thin, black-clad Zelikman, a moody, itinerant physician fond of jaunty headgear, and ex-soldier Amram, a gray-haired giant of a man...
ISBN: 978-0-345-50174-5
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
In these three stories Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality and his own ambiguous attitude to utopianism, themes central to many of his great novels. In White Nights the apparent idyll of the dreamer`s romantic fantasies disguises profound loneliness and estrangement from reality. A Gentle Creature and The Dream of a Ridiculous Man show how such a withdrawal into the world of the imagination can end in spiritual desolation and moral indifference and how, in Dostoevsky`s view, the tragedy of the alienated individual can be resolved only by rediscovering a sense of compassion and responsibility towards fellow human beings. Формат: 130 мм x 195 мм.
ISBN: 978-0-19-955508-6
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: декабрь 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
Two new coursebooks for the Geography for the IB Diploma syllabus. This attractive, full-colour coursebook covers the seven sections of the Higher Level Extension syllabus in Geography for the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma. It is written by a highly experienced author and former head of Geography at a major IB school in the UK. The coursebook explores the theme of Global Interactions and contains: key questions outlining the main issues for each topic; case studies selected from every continent; activities and geographical skills guidance; discussion points and research ideas; integrated Theory of Knowledge links; examination-style questions; definitions of key terms and useful web links.
This treasury of dazzling geometrical designs includes prismatic configurations that recede and advance, optical illusions that confound the eyes, intricate kaleidoscopic images, and more. Illustrators, designers, and craftspeople will find this collection of designs indispensable for art and craft use, as wallpaper and textile designs, and a host of other projects.
ISBN: 978-0-486-99538-0
Издательство:
Dover
Дата выхода: август 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
Georges Seurat (1859–1891), a man of consistently proper disposition, was called “the notary” by his painter colleagues, and yet he was a trailblazing avant-garde artist. No other visual theme so well illustrates the tremendous innovations in Seurat’s paintings and drawings as the focus of this volume: the figure in space. The artist’s dense weave of pencil strokes cover the paper, making his indeterminate, floating motifs either stand out or disappear, while distinct light and dark contrasts surround and accentuate the figures. In his paintings, Seurat transposed his subjects into his technique, Pointillism, as well as into his innovative compositions. In later pieces, he even repeated and varied human forms within a single...
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
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
