Catherine Morland is a young girl with a very active imagination. Her naivety and love of sensational novels lead her to approach the fashionable social scene in Bath and her stay at nearby Northanger...
It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding...
Against the backdrop of nineteenth century Dublin, a boy becomes a man: his mind testing it's powers, obsessions taking hold and loosening again, the bonds of family, tradition, nation and religion tr...
In the Time Traveller's miraculous new machine, we will be carried from a Victorian dinner table to 802,701 AD, when the Earth is divided between the gentle, ineffective Eloi, and the ape-like Morlock...
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's, that as men busied themselves about the...
How does a writer compose a suicide note? This was not a question that the prize-winning novelist William Styron had ever contemplated before. In this true account of his Depression, Styron describes ...
In this inspiring, witty and eminently sensible book, Nigella Lawson sets out a manifesto for how to cook (and eat) good food every day with a minimum of fuss. From basic roast chicken and pea risotto...
Can we ever be wholly free? In this book of breathtaking imaginary leaps that conjure dystopias and magical islands, Margaret Atwood holds a mirror up to our own world. The reflection we are faced wit...
A soldier falls asleep on duty and is threatened with being court-martialled. An officer lies in mud, fighting for his life and the life of his men. A young man walks across Waterloo Bridge, explosive...
A wonderful boxed set of six of the most exciting Winnie and Wilbur stories and two special edition CDs. Includes the following Winnie and Wilbur titles: The Broomstick Ride, The Flying Carpet, The Pi...
Учебное пособие от известных авторов, преподавателей МГУ им. М.В. Ломоносова состоит из 2 частей. В 'Вводном курсе' (5 уроков) даются правила чтения и произношения, а также основы грамматики итальянского...