Award-winning author Ursula Vernon, writing as T. Kingfisher, presents a terrifying tale of hidden worlds and monstrous creations.When Mouse''s dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother''s house, she says yes. After all, how bad could it be?Answer: pretty bad. Grandma was a hoarder, and her house ...
On the grounds of Misselthwaite, her Uncle Archibald''s estate near the Yorkshire moors, nine-year-old Mary Lennox finds a walled-in garden that has been locked securely for years. With the help of Dickon Sowerby, a young local boy who can charm animals, Mary cultivates the garden, an experiences that ...
What if you had always dreamed of something more.? Nell McNamara has a happy life: her boyfriend Olly adores her, their four-year-old daughter Petal is the centre of their world and Nell has a steady job in the local chip shop. When the chippy needs a makeover, Nell jumps at the chance to unleash the ...
Mrs Dalloway is a novel that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I. It is one of Woolf’s best-known novels. In this Reader you will find: Information about Virginia Woolf life | Sections focusing on background and context | Glossary | Comprehension activities Tags Love | ...
Carter and Sadie have nothing in common but their parents: their father Dr. Julius Kane, a brilliant Egyptologist, and their mother, a famed archaeologist who died under mysterious circumstances when they were young. The siblings barely know each oth er, but one night, their father brings them together ...
WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT is an incredibly exciting debut from an extraordinary new voice in fiction. Spanning four decades, from 1968 onwards, this is the story of a fabulous but flawed family and the slew of ordinary and extraordinary incidents that sh ape their everyday lives. It is a story about childhood ...
The perfect gift for fans of HBO''s Game of Thrones--a boxed set featuring the first five novels!An immersive entertainment experience unlike any other, A Song of Ice and Fire has earned George R. R. Martin--dubbed ",the American Tolkien", by Time magazine--international acclaim and millions ...
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. The black sign, painted in white letters that hangs upon the gates, reads: Opens at Nightfall Closes at Dawn. As the sun disappears beyond the horizon, all over the tents small lights begin ...
The definitive text of Jane Austen''s penetrating and sparkling satire, "Emma", this "Penguin Classics Edition" includes an introduction by Fiona Stafford. Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, rich - and fiercely independent - is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. ...
I was supposed to be having the time of my life. When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in between the cocktail parties and piles of manuscripts, Esther''s life begins to slide ...
Titul je novinkaNajde svou skutečnou matku? Dojemné líčení osudů žen z různých světů, jež strhne čtenáře přesvědčivostí a hlubokou pravdivostí. Život doktorky Somer se odvíjí přímo ideálně: Právě se vdala a zahájila lékařskou kariéru v San Francisku. Pak ale přijde rána z čistého nebe – dozví se, že ...
Forced to move from the rural tranquillity of southern England to the turbulent northern mill town of Milton, Margaret Hale takes an instant dislike to the dirt and noise that seems to characterize her new home and its inhabitants - even the handsome and charismatic cotton mill owner, John Thornton. ...
Eva and Gideon return in Reflected in You, the second novel in the erotic romance Crossfire series, following on from Bared to You - this is the perfect read for those who loved Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed by E.L. James. Gideon Cross. As beautiful and flawless on ...
John Buchan wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps while he was seriously ill at the beginning of the First World War. In it he introduces his most famous hero, Richard Hannay, who, despite claiming to be an ''ordinary fellow', is caught up in the dramatic race against a plot to devastate the British war effort. ...
The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published as Kerouac originally composed it IN THREE WEEKS in April of 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote his first full draft of On the Road—typed as a single-spaced paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper, which he later taped together to form a 120-foot ...
Read the original books before you see the How to Train Your Dragon film! This book will be a hit with children and adults alike. THE STORY BEGINS in the first volume of Hiccup''s How to Train Your Dragon memoirs. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was an awesome sword-fighter, a dragon-whisperer and the ...
"A true genius.Roald Dahl is my hero" - David Walliams A phizz-whizzing rebrand for the world''''s No.1 storyteller - Roald Dahl! Exciting, bold and instantly recognisable with Quentin Blake''''s inimitable artwork. Charlie Bucket has won Willy Wonka''''s chocolate factory and is on his way to take possession ...
The sparkling debut children\''s novel from David Walliams, number one bestseller and fastest growing children\''s author in the country, with sparkling new cover look to tie in with later books. Dennis was different. Why was he different, you ask? Well, a small clue might be in the title of this book. ...
After the Feast - A Dance with Dragons 2 (A Song of Ice and Fire).HBO''s hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin''s internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A DANCE WITH DRAGONS: AFTER THE FEAST is the SECOND part of the ...
''''It''''s said that a Jack Reacher novel is bought every four seconds somewhere in the world.Lee Child''''s genius has been to create a tough guy hero that men will envy and women will adore". (Daily Express). After an epic and interrupted journey all the way from the snows of South Dakota, Jack Reacher ...
