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Queen Victoria is crowned; she receives the orb, the sceptre, and an arsenal of blood-stained weaponry. Because if Britain is about to become the greatest power of the age, there`s the small matter of the demons to take care of first. But rather than dreaming of demon hunting, it is Prince Albert who occupies her thoughts. Can she dedicate her life to saving her country when her heart belongs elsewhere?

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011

This book is for all those who love Kim, that masterpiece of Indian life in which Kipling immortalized the Great Game. Fascinated since childhood by this strange tale of an orphan boy`s recruitment into the Indian secret service, Peter Hopkirk here retraces Kim`s footsteps across Kipling`s India to see how much of it remains. To attempt this with a fictional hero would normally be pointless. But Kim is different. For much of this Great Game classic was inspired by actual people and places, thus blurring the line between the real and the imaginary. Less a travel book than a literary detective story, this is the intriguing story of Peter Hopkirk`s quest for Kim and a host of other shadowy figures.

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: декабрь 2012

Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in the history of this country only four active federal judges have been murdered. Judge Raymond Fogletree just became number five. His body was found in the small basement of a lakeside cabin he had built himself and frequently used on weekends. When he did not show up for a trial on Monday morning, his law clerks panicked, called the FBI, and in due course the agents found the crime scene. There was no forced entry, no struggle, just two dead bodies - Judge Fogletree and his young secretary. I did not know Judge Fogletree, but I know who killed him, and why. I am a lawyer, and I am...

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: декабрь 2012

Read and write Russian script is a clear step-by-step guide to the written language, with plenty of examples from real-life texts to show how it works in context and lots of exercises to reinforce your learning.

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011

Master Arabic script - in which the Koran is written - with this straightforward guide from Teach Yourself, the No. 1 brand in language learning. Read and write Arabic script is a clear step-by-step guide to the written language, with plenty of examples from real-life texts to show how it works in context and lots of exercises to reinforce your learning. This new edition has an easy-to-read page design. Now fully updated to make your language learning experience fun and interactive. You can still rely on the benefits of a top language teacher and our years of teaching experience, but now with added learning features within the course and online.

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012

Master Japanese scripts with this straightforward guide from Teach Yourself - the No. 1 brand in language learning. Learn to write Japanese scripts is a clear step-by-step guide to the written languages, with plenty of examples from real-life texts to show how they work in context and lots of exercises to reinforce your learning. This new edition has an easy-to-read page design. Now fully updated to make your language learning experience fun and interactive. You can still rely on the benefits of a top language teacher and our years of teaching experience, but now with added learning features within the course and online.

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: январь 2013

Master Chinese script with this straightforward guide from Teach Yourself - the No. 1 brand in language learning. Read and write Chinese script is a clear step-by-step guide to the written language, with plenty of examples from real-life texts to show how it works in context and lots of exercises to reinforce your learning. This new edition has an easy-to-read page design. Now fully updated to make your language learning experience fun and interactive. You can still rely on the benefits of a top language teacher and our years of teaching experience, but now with added learning features within the course and online.

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012

Master Greek script with this straightforward guide from Teach Yourself - the No. 1 brand in language learning. Learn to write Greek script is a clear step-by-step guide to the written language, with plenty of examples from real-life texts to show how it works in context and lots of exercises to reinforce your learning. This new edition has an easy-to-read page design. Now fully updated to make your language learning experience fun and interactive. You can still rely on the benefits of a top language teacher and our years of teaching experience, but now with added learning features within the course and online.

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2012

Every bride is entitled to some pre-wedding jitters. But what if it`s not the ceremony, but the happy ever after? Heidi Savage is wondering whether she can really forsake all others for macho, beer-swilling Ed. Will the answer come in the form of her ex-boyfriend Steven? Is Heidi`s dilemma simply a case of right shoes, right dress, wrong husband?

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Political corruption, capitalist greed and past injustices are all revealed when Inspector Chen investigates a serial killer in Shanghai. An early morning jogger found her. Clad in nothing but a red mandarin dress, she had been dumped, barely concealed, on a traffic island. The death of a dancing girl was unpleasant but this was particularly unusual in that she had been left openly in the centre of town. She had probably angered one of the Mr Big Bucks that were taking over and transforming Shanghai. Inspector Chen is an intuitive investigator, a talented poet and an honourable man on the edge of a nervous breakdown. Desperate to find a way to release himself from the perilous police career that had been chosen for him, he takes time off...

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: июль 2012

A novel spanning the history of Russia through the tumultuous 20th century, from the only writer ever to have won both the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Medicis.

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: июль 2011

The thrilling climax to one of the most eagerly awaited series since The Hunger Games and Twilight. I`ve started dreaming of Portland again. Like a monster from one of the ghost stories we used to tell as kids, the past has been finding its way in. It bubbles up through the cracks when I`m not paying attention, and pulls at me with greedy fingers. This is what they warned me about for all those years: the heavy weight in my chest, the nightmare-fragments that follow me even in waking life. I warned you, Aunt Carol says in my head. We told you, Rachel

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: январь 2015

The thrilling history of the turning point of the Second World War, when Hitler`s armies were halted on the Eastern Front At the moment of crisis in 1941 on the Eastern front, with the forces of Hitler massing on the outskirts of Moscow,

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011

This is dark humour at its best – a collection of hilarious and outrageous cartoons which will appeal to anyone in touch with their evil side.

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: июль 2012

1592. England and Spain are at war, yet there is peril at home, too. The death of her trusted spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham has left Queen Elizabeth vulnerable. Conspiracies multiply. The quiet life of John Shakespeare is shattered by a summons from Robert Cecil, the cold but deadly young statesman who dominated the last years of the Queen`s long reign, insisting Shakespeare re-enter government service. His mission: to find vital papers, now in the possession of the Earl of Essex. Essex is the brightest star in the firmament, a man of ambition. He woos the Queen, thirty-three years his senior, as if she were a girl his age. She is flattered by him - despite her loathing for his mother, the beautiful, dangerous Lettice Knollys who...

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: март 2012

In September 1838 a storm blows up on the Indian Ocean and the Ibis, a ship carrying a consignment of convicts and indentured laborers from Calcutta to Mauritius, is caught up in the whirlwind. When the seas settle, five men have disappeared - two lascars, two convicts and one of the passengers. Did the same storm upend the fortunes of those aboard the Anahita, an opium carrier heading towards Canton? And what fate befell those aboard the Redruth, a sturdy two-masted brig heading East out of Cornwall? Was it the storm that altered their course or were the destinies of these passengers at the mercy of even more powerful forces? On the grand scale of an historical epic, River of Smoke follows its storm-tossed characters to the crowded...

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: май 2012

Running your own business is a daunting, challenging and stressful task, but it can also be one of the most rewarding experiences of your life. Having run many types of business, worked with 300 clients, and won 35 awards for creativity and effectiveness, Kevin Duncan expertly guides you through the principles of running a successful business. Crammed with detailed, practical advice - from assessing pros and cons to motivating yourself and adopting effective practices. This book will prove invaluable as you tackle one of the biggest projects of your life.

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012

Russell Brand grew up in Essex. His father left when he was three months old, he was bulimic at 12 and left school at 16 to study at the Italia Conti stage school. There, he began drinking heavily and taking drugs. He regularly visited prostitutes in Soho, began cutting himself, took drugs on stage during his stand-up shows, and even set himself on fire while on crack cocaine. He has been arrested 11 times and fired from 3 different jobs - including from XFM and MTV - and he claims to have slept with over 2,000 women. In 2003 Russell was told that he would be in prison, in a metal hospital or dead within six months unless he went in to rehab. He has now been clean for three years. In 2006 his presenting career took off, and he hosted the...

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011

Through the centuries, Russia has swung between successful expansionism, catastrophic collapse and spectacular recovery. This illuminating history traces these cycles from the late Neolithic age to Ivan the Terrible and Catherine the Great, and from the height of Communism to the truncated Russian Federation of today. The narrative takes in the magnificent cities of Kiev, Moscow and St Petersburg, and stretches to Alaska in the east, to the Black Sea and the Ottoman Empire in the south, to the Baltic in the west and to the Arctic Ocean in the north, asking what the future holds for Russia and her neighbours.

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011

When Barbara Davies went to Russia on a newspaper assignment, she met Lieutenant Valinsky and her world was turned upside down. Fascinated by the simplicity of his existence in a freezing winter, she embarked on an affair with him, determined to turn her back on her old life forever. But she had to confront the differences between their worlds.

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011

Turn off the television - in fact, why don`t you turn off all the lights except for the one over your favourite chair? - and we`ll talk about vampires here in the dim. I think I can make you believe in them. Stephen King, from the Introduction.`Salem`s Lot is a small New England town with the usual quota of gossips, drinkers, weirdos and respectable folk. Of course there are tales of strange happenings - but not more than in any other town its size. Ben Mears, a moderately successful writer, returns to the Lot to write a novel based on his early years, and to exorcise the terrors that have haunted him since childhood. The event he witnessed in the house now rented by a new resident. A newcomer with a strange allure. A man who causes Ben...

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: январь 2013

As thousands faced death in Nazi-occupied Poland an unlikely saviour materialised in the shadow of Auschwitz. Oskar Schindler was a heavy-drinking, womanising German industrialist whom the war transformed into a man with a mission. This is an incredible story of huge risks and enormous gains, as Schindler defied and outwitted the SS to protect the beleaguered Jews who worked for him. Формат: 13 см x 19,5 см.

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011

At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slaving-ship, The Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its crew a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a truly diverse cast of Indians and Westerners, from a bankrupt Raja to a widowed villager, from an evangelical English opium trader to a mulatto American freedman. As their old family ties are washed away they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais or ship-brothers. An unlikely dynasty is born, which will span continents, races and generations. The vast sweep of this historical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of...

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011

The extraordinary tale of Oskar Schindler, the Aryan who saved hundreds of Jews from the Nazis, is now legendary - but it could have been otherwise. As Tom Keneally reveals in this absorbing memoir, luck and the persistence of Poldek, one of "Schindler`s Jews", were vital in the process that led to his Booker Prize-winning novel, "Schindler`s Ark", and the film "Schindler`s List". Entertaining, inspiring and filled with anecdotes about the many people involved, from the survivors Keneally met to Steven Spielberg, "Searching for Schindler" traces the creation of a modern classic as it sheds renewed light on an intriguingly flawed, heroic man. Формат: 13 см x 19,5 см.

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: июль 2011

When a plot of land is being developed in Vermont against the will of a local Native American tribe, strange things begin to happen - and Ross Wakeman, a paranormal investigator, is asked to get involved. He`s a desperate drifter who`s taken up ghost hunting in an effort to cross paths again with his fiancee, who died in a car crash eight years ago, but he has yet to experience anything even remotely paranormal. Then Ross meets Lia ...As a seventy-year-old murder case is reopened, a shocking secret about a crime of passion long past is revealed.

Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: январь 2020