A young woman starts her first job as a governess in charge of two young orphans, Miles and Flora, at a country house called Bly. The children are beautiful and well-behaved, but are they too good to be true? When the governess starts to experience strange visions, she suspects that the children are ...
A young woman wakes up in a cold, dark cellar, with no idea how she got there or who her kidnapper is. So begins her terrible nightmare. Nearby, the body of another young woman is discovered buried on a remote beach. But the dead girl was never reported missing - her estranged family having received ...
After The Big Book of Bugs and The Big Book of Beasts, the hugely successful series. Following the wild success of The Big Book of Bugs and The Big Book of Beasts, The Big Book of the Blue is the third installment in Yuval Zommer’s beloved series. Alongside everything the young oceanographer needs to ...
Kiera Cass’s #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series has captured the hearts of readers from its very first page. Now the end of the journey is here. Prepare to be swept off your feet by The Crown—the eagerly awaited, wonderfully romantic fifth and final book in the Selection series. In The Heir, ...
‘After I had accepted the position and agreed to his condition, I had two or three very bad days. I was full of doubts, sure I had made a terrible mistake. I was in this state of mind as I sat in the uncomfortable coach which was taking me to my new home.’.A young woman starts her first job as a governess ...
Cena:8.3€ | Autor:Pratchett, Terry | Rok vydania:1988 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:2-3 týždne | ISBN:9780552133265 | Vydavateľ:Corgi
H.G. Wells classic story of Martian invasion is vividly retold in this exciting addition to the Young Reading series. The action-packed text is complimented by David Miles atmospheric illustrations. A
Kniha - 528 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná.The sun brightens in the east, reddening the blue-grey haze that marks the distant ocean. The vultures roosting on the hydro poles fan out their wings to dry them. the air smells faintly of burning. The waterless flood - a manmade plague - has ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I've worn that mask so long I don't feel safe without it.' The Man in the Iron Mask sees D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis return to meet their destinies in their final adventure. D'Artagnan still remains in the service ...
This is a moving, funny and inspirational novel from the bestselling author of Skellig. "The day is long, the world is wide, you''re young and free." One hot summer morning, Davie steps boldly out of his front door. The world he enters is very familiar - the little Tyneside town that has always been ...
Fifteen-year-old twins Maisy and Duncan Mitcham have always had each other. Until the fateful day in the wood . . . One night in 1960, the twins awake to find their father pulling their screaming mother from the house. She is to be committed to an asylum. It is, so their father insists, for her own good. ...
A short, surprising and indispensable toolkit for practical living, from the author of the Sunday Times and International Bestseller The Art of Thinking Clearly, which has been translated into more th
A Christian can almost be forgiven for not reading the Bible, but there\''s no salvation for a fantasy fan who hasn\''t read the gospel of the genre, J.R.R. Tolkien\''s definitive three-book epic, the Lord of the Rings (encompassing The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King), ...
The love affair between Maurice Bendix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. After a chance meeting rekindles his love and jealousy two years later, Bendix hir es a private detective to follow Sarah, and slowly ...
Carefully curated and beautifully packaged erotic art through the ages – 170 works from the world''s most important artists. This carefully curated and beautifully packaged book spotlights nearly 170 works from the world''s most important artists, including Titian, Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, ...
'He began to wonder if he himself didn't suffer from the ingrained, morbid apathy he liked to draw in others' Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist - and a ma…
Wordsworth Editions: This Wordsworth Edition includes an exclusive Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent...
