Rupert Bear. A Celebration of Favourite Stories
This beautiful collection of stories has been exclusively reissued for the 100th anniversary. Rupert Bear is one of the most beloved and enduring characters in children’s literature. The little bear has had many...
`Find what you were looking for, Inspector`? Every day the same question. A different uniform but the same question. They thought Lucia enjoyed being here. They thought that was why she kept coming back. But they were...
Rush of Wings (Makers Song book 1)
Special Agent Heather Wallace is a strong, compassionate woman who believes in justice and being a voice for the dead. When she trails a serial-killing sexual sadist to New Orleans, an unexpected twist leads her to a...
Russell Punter: Sam Sheep Can`t Sleep
Sam Sheep Can`t Sleep. His friends Pup, Fat Cat and Ted can`t think how to help. But does Big Pig have the answer? Find out in this charming addition to the Phonics Readers series, illustrated by Stephen Cartwright.
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...
Russia: 1000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East
Russia is a country of contradictions, a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by `the iron fist`. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows how Russia`s...
"A Russian Diary" is the book that Anna Politkovskava had recently completed when she was murdered in a contract killing in Moscow. Covering the period from the Russian parliamentary elections of December 2003 to the...
Russian Master & Other Stories
A schoolteacher in a provincial town falls in love with and marries a young local woman. He thinks he`s found a bliss only described in novels. But before long, his sharp points of bliss become blurred. The loss of...
In the course of human history there has probably been no more terrible place than Eastern Europe in 1941-1945. Estimates of total Soviet military and civilian deaths in the period now stand at more than 25 million....
Approximately 6000 words and expressions are presented with their Russian equivalents.
In the summer of 1812 Napoleon, the master of Europe, marched into Russia with the largest army ever seen, confident that he would sweep everything before him. Yet less than two years later his empire lay in ruins,...
The result of a lifetime’s knowledge of Russia and its people, this monumental and authoritative work has been acclaimed as the definitive single-volume history of Russia.
Russias Empires: from Prehistory to Putin
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...
Ever since Pushkin, Russian poets have been famous for their ability to combine private and public experience in lyric poetry of a comprehensiveness and intensity unmatched elsewhere. Ranging in extremes from the...
Russia 1855-1991: From Tsars to Commissars
Specially written for the AS/A2 examinations, this book combines extended period cover with detailed focus on exam board-selected topics. The lively, accessible text is supplemented by Spotlights, providing detailed...
Russian Affair (Penguin Great Loves)
When Gurov sees the lady with the little dog on a windswept promenade, he knows he must have her. But she is different from his other flings - he cannot forget Chekhov`s stories are of lost love, love at the wrong...
Alaska, 1989. In a world where Alaska is still a Russian possession, charter captain Grigorivich Plesnett has a stained past - as a major in the Czar`s Troika Guard he was cashiered for disobeying a direct order. Now,...
Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book...
Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida
From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture. Included are pieces from many of the...
Russian Lieutenants Woman: Passion, Love & Betrayal
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...
