Sirius, immortal Lord of the Dog Star and infamous for his quick temper, cannot believe it when he is falsely accused of murder and banished to Earth. There he is reborn into the body of a puppy and learns that he has...
Sex, intrigue and adultery in the world of high politics and huge wealth in late eighteenth-century England. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, was one of the most flamboyant and influential women of the eighteenth...
This is a new Logan McRae thriller from the bestselling author of Cold Granite, set to rival Ian Rankin. It`s summertime in the Granite city: the sun is shining, the sky is blue, and people are dying! It starts with...
This is a tremendous historical novel of the early 1600s, as seen through the eyes of John Tradescant, gardener to the great men of the age. A traveller in a time of discovery, the greatest gardening pioneer of his...
Eating Up Italy. Voyages on a Vespa
Italy’s tumultuous history can be traced through its food. In an epic scooter trip from the Ionian Sea to the far north, distiguished food writer Matthew Fort explores the local gastronomy and culinary culture of a...
Written in a style similar to that of Nigel Slater`s multi-award-winning food memoir `Toast`, this is a celebration of the glory, humour, eccentricities and embarrassments that are the British at Table.The British...
The international bestseller, reissued and with a new introduction. A witty, entertaining, impassioned guide to perfect punctuation, for everyone who cares about precise writing. When social histories come to be...
I asked the sailor what an Elephant looked like; he replied that it was like nothing on earth. In the middle of the 18th century, a ship docks at Bristol with an extraordinary cargo: two young elephants. Bought by a...
Beautiful, rich, self-assured and witty, Emma Woodhouse delights in match-making those around her, with no apparent care for her own romantic life. Taking young Harriet Smith under her wing, Emma sets her sights on...
The 4th novel in the bestselling Conqueror series, continuing the life and adventures of the mighty Khan dynasty. Genghis Khan is dead, but his legend and his legacy live on. His son Ogedai has built a white city on a...
A brilliant, intricate and magical novel from the Godmother of British fantasy. When Andrew Hope`s magician grandfather dies, he leaves his house and field-of-care to his grandson who spent much of his childhood at...
This is the rebranded version of the first edition of the bestselling Collins English-Japanese Gem Dictionary , which covers all the words and phrases learners will need to know. This dictionary provides the best...
`Short, original fables with fresh, unexpected morals poke subtle fun at human foibles through the antics of The droll illustrations, with tones blended to luminescent shading, are complete and humorous themselves.`...
1901 was the year of Queen Victoria`s death. The two graves stood next to each other, both beautifully decorated. The two families visiting the cemetery to view their respective neighbouring graves were divided more...
Farewell Summer, Bradbury, Ray
Издание полностью на английском языке.In Green Town Illinois, Douglas Spaulding is in the midst of a small civil war with the old pitted against the young in this, the second book in Bradbury`s semi-fictionalised...
Leonard Cohen boldly traces the youth and early manhood of Lawrence Breavman, only son of a Jewish Montreal family. For Breavman, ife is a quest for beauty and truth, a kaleidoscope of colours and sensations fed...
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the ne plus ultra of Hunter S. Thompson and the whole gonzo clan he spawned. Written in the lurid afterglow of the 1960s, Fear and Loathing is a loosely connected series of mad dashes...
Brilliant novel by the much-acclaimed Michael Chabon, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay".
The second of six titles, set in a thrilling world of wild cat clans. Firepaw, the warrior brave, is now Fireheart, warrior cat. Fireheart finds new danger lurking in the woods as the chill of winter sets in. This new...
