Není snadné být faraonem v pubertě. Nesmíte s sebou nosit peníze, ovoce vám loupají mladé ženštiny nevázaných mravů, kdekdo si myslí, že můžete za to, že vychází slunce a kukuřice roste. Neustále se vám zdá o sedmi hubených a sedmi tučných kravách, a k tomu všemu ještě díky parakosmické nestabilitě vybuchne ...
Matt Haig, Derek Landy, Philip Reeve, Joseph Delaney, Susan Cooper, Mal Peet, Berlie Doherty, Robin Jarvis, Eleanor Updale, Jamila Gavin and Sam Llewellyn have come together to bring you eleven spine-tingling stories. Watch your step as you take a ghost walk around the ancient city of York and a long-ago ...
One Fifth Avenue, the Art Deco beauty towering over Manhattan\''s hippest neighbourhood, is a one-of-a-kind address, the sort of building you have to earn your way into - one way or another. For the women in Candace Bushnell\''s stellar new novel, One Fifth Avenue is at the heart of the lives they\''ve ...
What happens when the one that got away comes back? Find out in this sparkling debut from Mhairi McFarlane. ''''Think of the great duos of history. We''''re just like them.'''' ''''You mean like Kylie and Jason? Torvill and Dean? Sonny and Cher?'''' ''''I think you''''ve missed the point, Rachel.'''' ...
An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners. "I love Olly''s work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for Numbers Short Stories in French for Beginners has been written especially for students ...
Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel is a study of the decadence of America’s high society in the 1920s. The rich and handsome Jay Gatsby gives spectacular weekend parties, but behind all the superficial glamour, there is a man with a mysterious past and an obsessive dream of love….
From the internationally bestselling author of PS, I Love You and Where Rainbows End comes an enchanting novel -- with more than a little magic! What if love was right there in front of you -- you just couldn''t see it? Elizabeth Egan is too busy for friends. As a reluctant mother to her sister Saoirse''s ...
When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with ...
Following his hugely popular account of the previous 2000 years, John O''''Farrell now comes bang up to date with a hilarious modern history asking ''''How the hell did we end up here?''''. "An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain" informs, elucidates and laughs at all the bizarre events, ridiculous ...
Brilliant brothers Langley and Homer Collyer are born into bourgeois New York comfort, their home a mansion on upper Fifth Avenue, their future rosy. But before he is out of his teens Homer begins to lose his sight, Langley returns from the war with his lungs seared by gas, and when both of their parents ...
Thrill hoch 10!- Worte können lügen. Knochen nicht. Das vermisste Mädchen hat Tempe Brennan nie vergessen. Auch wenn es damals noch kein Fall für sie war. Tempe war 13 Jahre alt, als ihre beste Freundin Evangéline ohne Abschied spurlos verschwand. Nun liegen Jahre alte Knochen eines weiblichen Teenagers ...
Iris Murdoch''''s first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donaghue, is a drifting, clever, likeable young man who makes a living out of translation work and sponging on his friends. ...
his perfect indifference, and your pointed dislike, make it so delightfully absurd!'' Pride and Prejudice has delighted generations of readers with its unforgettable cast of characters, carefully choreographed plot, and a hugely entertaining view of the world and its absurdities. With the arrival of ...
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.”  So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a mysterious ...
