Thomas war sicher, dass sein Entkommen aus dem Labyrinth das Wiedererlangen seines alten Lebens bedeuten würde, nicht nur für sich, auch für die Gladers. Doch hatte keiner geahnt, wie die Welt draußen inzwischen aussah: Die Erde ein Schlachtfeld, auf der Cranks, von einem mörderischen Virus heimgesuchte ...
Immortalised by Audrey Hepburn''s sparkling performance in the 1961 film of the same name, ''Breakfast at Tiffany''s'' is Truman Capote''s timeless portrait of tragicomic cultural icon Holly Golightly, published in ''Penguin Modern Classics''. It''s New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from ...
"The Penguin Classics" edition of Anne Bronte''s "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall", her groundbreaking study of a woman''s valiant struggle for independence from an abusive husband is edited with an introduction and notes by Stevie Davis. Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and ...
AutorJ. R. R. TolkienVydavateľstvoHarperCollinsVäzba BrožEAN 9780261102736Strán448Rozmery 111 x 178 mm Designed to take fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings deeper into the myths and legends of Middle-earth The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien’s world. ...
The astonishing international bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientist''s own stroke led to enlightenment. On the morning of the 10th December 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke when a blood vessel exploded in the left ...
Inquisitor Glokta, a crippled and increasingly bitter relic of the last war, former fencing champion turned torturer extraordinaire, is trapped in a twisted and broken body - not that he allows it to distract him from his daily routine of torturing smugglers.§Nobleman, dashing officer and would-be fencing ...
The Girl You Left Behind is a hauntingly romantic and utterly irresistible new weepy from Jojo Moyes, author of the Richard and Judy bestseller, Me Before You. What happened to the girl you left behind? France, 1916. Sophie Lefevre must keep her family safe whilst her adored husband Edouard fights at ...
When a baby escapes a murderer intent on killing the entire family, who would have thought it would find safety and security in the local graveyard? Brought up by the resident ghosts, ghouls and spectres, Bod has an eccentric childhood learning about life from the dead. But for Bod there is also the ...
The second book in the highly acclaimed crime fiction series by J.K. Rowling, writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he has gone off by himself for a few days - as he has done before ...
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 ...
From the astonishingly talented writer of The Accidental and Hotel World comes Ali Smith’s brilliant retelling of Ovid’s gender-bending myth of Iphis and Ianthe, as seen through the eyes of two Scottish sisters. Girl Meets Boy is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and transformation, and the ...
This is the first book in a brand new series from bestselling author, Maggie Stiefvater. Fans of SHIVER (9781407115009), LINGER (9781407121086) and FOREVER (9781407121116) will love this new quartet! Blue has spent the majority of her sixteen years being told that if she kisses her true love, he will ...
This finger-printing book includes simple, step-by-step instructions for lots of pictures and scenes to create using only fingerprints, and a multi-coloured ink pad is attached to the side of the book, so no extra materials are required. Encourages creativity and manual dexterity.
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. ...
