Escaping the Athenian court to marry, Hermia and Lysander take refuge in a nearby wood. There, too, are Helena and Demetrius and the King and Queen of the fairies, Oberon and Titania. Oberon orchestrates a series of...
A Mischievous Little Rabbit: Tales of Danger and Daring
"A Mischievous Little Rabbit: Tales of Danger and Daring" is a specially chosen collection of Beatrix Potter`s original tales that follow some of Potter`s most adventurous characters. It features a beautiful slipcase...
Oscar Wilde's genius is to the fore in this witty, audacious comedy of Victorian manners. A house party is in full swing at Lady Hunstanton's stately country home. One of the guests is Gerard Arbuthnot, an...
A.B.C. Murders. Убийца-новичок
"Mr. Hercule Poirot - you fancy yourself, don`t you, at solving mysteries that are too difficult for our poor thick-headed British police? Let us see, Mr. Clever Poirot, just how clever you can be". Was the anonymous...
About a Boy,(Film tie-in), Hornby, Nick
Nick Hornby`s second bestselling novel is about sex, manliness and fatherhood. Will is thirty-six, comfortable and child-free. And he`s discovered a brilliant new way of meeting women - through single-parent groups....
Will is thirty-six but acts like a teenager. He reads the right magazines, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He`s also discovered a great way to score with women - at single parents` groups,...
The Smart family`s lacklustre holiday in Norwich is turned upside down when a beguiling stranger called Amber appears, bringing with her love, joy, pain and upheaval. The Smarts try to make sense of their bewildering...
Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose, "Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle" - Nabokov`s other great love story - offers even more sexual and imaginative surprises than Lolita. A romance that follows Ada...
Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years
Finally given the heave-ho by Pandora, Adrian Mole finds himself in the unenviable situation of living with the love of his life as she goes about shacking up with other men. Worse, as he slides down the employment...
Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
Adrian Mole is thirty, single and a father. His cooking at a top London restaurant has been equally mocked ("the sausage on my plate could have been a turd" - ) and celebrated (will he be the nation`s first celebrity...
Now in his thirties, Adrian`s still worrying: can he be a good father? Is Viagra cheating? Why won`t the BBC produce "The White Van", his serial-killer comedy? Will he find the fulfilment he seeks as celebrity offal...
Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction
Adrian Mole`s pen is scribbling for the twenty-first century. Working as a bookseller and living in Leicester`s Rat Wharf; finding time to write letters of advice to Tim Henman and Tony Blair; locked in mortal combat...
Wednesday April 3rd I am twenty-four and one day old. Question: What have I done with my life? Answer: Nothing. Grahame Greene died today. I wrote to him four years ago, pointing out a grammatical error in his book,...
