Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: From Aardvark to Zipfizzing, this is THE alphabetical guide to everything you ever needed to know — and a lot that you didn't — about Britain's best-loved, bestselling children's writer, packed with fascinating and completely unnecessary facts about Dahl's life, books and family. With snippets from his school reports, secrets that he shared with his best friends and the truth about where he got…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: A new edition of this famous story of Danny and his father who outwit their greedy, rich neighbour, Mr Victor Hazell.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Like most families they had their secrets. And hid them under a genteelly respectable veneer. No onlooker would guess that Vera Hillyard and her beautiful sister, Eden, were locked in a dark and bitter combat over one of those secrets. England in the fifties was not kind to women who erred so they had to fight it out behind closed curtains using every weapon they had. In this case, murder.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: a ragdoll a postcard from Marrakech a rainbow-stripe hat a dreamcatcher a silver necklace with a pink stone in Dizzy's mum left when she was small. But every year, on her birthday, something arrives in the post — a present or a card with her mum's loopy writing on. Dizzy has kept everything. But this year is different. This year's present is her mum, in person. Tanned and skinny with loads of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A tongue-in-cheek — and burger in hand — look at the legal, financial and physical costs of our hunger for fast food, by the funniest and most incisive new voice since Michael Moore. Can a man live on fast food alone? Morgan Spurlock tried. For thirty days he ate nothing but three 'square' meals a day from McDonald's as part of an investigation into the effects of fast food on our health. Don't…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Hannah and Joey have been best friends for ever. Joey's parents love rescuing things and making them beautiful — their house is full of things made from driftwood, old glass and shells from the beach. Which is why the scraggy kittens the girls find in a bin at school end up living there. And when Paul moves in as Joey's foster brother, everyone thinks that maybe he needs rescuing too. But nobody…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: Set in the rich farmland of California’s Salinas Valley, this powerful, often shocking, story follows the intertwined destinies of two families – the Trasks and the Hamiltons – whose generations helplessly re-play the fall of Adam and Eve and the murderous rivalry of Cain and Abel. His most ambitious novel, East of Eden saw Steinbeck create some of his most memorable and extraordinary characters,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Eversleigh Manor provides the perfect location for hit new television show, Lady Jane Investigates. But when the film crew descends en masse, no one could have predicted that romance would be brewing before the clapperboard had snapped its last. Least of all Guy Portias, heir to the manor and favourite beau of leading lady, Richenda Fox. And Guy's rash proposal of marriage in the drunken wake of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: As darkness settles on a forgotten castle at the foot of the Carpathian mountains, two men sit down to a final meal together. They have not seen one another in forty-one years. At their last meeting, in the company of a beautiful woman, an unspoken act of betrayal left all three lives shattered – and each of them alone. Tonight, as wine stirs the blood, it is time to talk of old passions and that…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Fizzy Pink's new school has been a lot better since she made friends with Daisy (formerly known as Stringy Plaits!) but things don't look so glamouroony now her mean form teacher Mrs SCary is back — despite wishful thinking, she didn't explode! Mrs SCary introduces a new thing into class called Sharing Time where everyone tells the class about something interesting that happened to them. But to…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: You are what you eat. But do you really know what you’re eating? Britain eats more fast food than any other country in Europe. Rates of obesity and food poisoning spiral upwards, but it seems we just can’t get enough of those tasty burgers and fries. This myth-shattering book tells the story of America and the world’s infatuation with fast food, from its origins in 1950s southern California to…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Let it be flour babies. Let chaos reign. When the annual school science fair comes round, Mr Cartright's class don't get to work on the Soap Factory, the Maggot Farm or the Exploding Custard Tins. To their intense disgust they get the Flour Babies — sweet little six-pound bags of flour that must be cared for at all times. Chosen by children as the pick of the year for the Federation of Children's…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: When Agatha and Paddy decide to leave London and buy a house on the coast, they are full of hope for themselves and their growing family — baby Max and a new child on the way. Three months later, when the builders move out and they move in, things look very different. A personal tragedy threatens to destroy all they have carefully built up and only a small miracle, it seems, will save them. . .…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: ‘You see, Mr Bond. You were wrong and I was right. Ten more minutes and I shall be the richest man in the world, the richest man in history!’ Returning from Mexico after cracking a squalid heroin ring, Bond is only too happy to stay at a Miami hotel and figure out how Auric Goldfinger is cheating at Canasta. It seems that the Bank of England are interested in him too, and charge 007 to discover…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Fanny Savage has always been the dutiful wife. Married to Will, a politician with big ambitions, her life is a whirlwind of public engagements and loyalty to the party, a position that requires her to look good and remain silent. But Fanny is no fool. She's well aware that the world outside her privileged home is one that seethes with despair and danger, division and lack of faith, and how…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Set against the Great Depression of 1930s America, The Grapes of Wrath is a classic example of grand-scale American storytelling. When the book arrived in 1939 it met with some harsh criticism, as it contained strong language and posed many uncomfortable questions about society, politics and humanity. There is, undeniably, a bleakness about it, but this is outweighed by an unshakeable sense of…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Blamed by her parents for the tragic death of a friend, Clodagh has been banished from their home in the countryside to a dingy basement flat and a meaningless existence in the city. Then she meets the inhabitants of the top floor of 15 Russia Road. Charismatic Silver, brutal Johnny, paranoid Liv and exotic Wim range across a London of roofs, eaves and ledges, unseen by the ordinary inhabitants,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Early in the new millennium the investment banks were on their knees. Beaten by the boom and bust of the dot.com bubble, mixed up in corporate scandals and accused of uncontrolled and rampant conflict of interest, the game seemed over for the masters of the universe. Then the bounce back came. New rules, promises to be more vigilant and rising markets took the heat off. Having learned their…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: A young prince meets with his father's ghost, who alleges that his own brother, now married to his widow, murdered him. The prince devises a scheme to test the truth of the ghost's accusation, feigning wild madness while plotting a brutal revenge. But his apparent insanity soon begins to wreak havoc on innocent and guilty alike.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: ‘I’m still in love with her … I’d give my life for her. But she bores me’ Proud, wilful and intensely charismatic, Pechorin is bored by the stifling world that envelops him. With a predatory energy for any activity that will relieve his ennui, he embarks on a series of adventures, encountering smugglers, brigands, soldiers, lovers and rivals – and leaving a trail of broken hearts behind him. With…