Kid Authors: True Tales of Childhood from Famous Writers (Stabler David)(Pevná vazba)

Kid Authors: True Tales of Childhood from Famous Writers (Stabler David)(Pevná vazba)

Funny and totally true childhood biographies and full-color illustrations tell the tales from the growing-up years of Beverly Cleary, J. R. R. Tolkien, and 13 other great writers. Every great author started out as a kid. Before the best sellers, fan clubs, and beloved stories we know today, the

Kid Scientists: True Tales of Childhood from Science Superstars (Stabler David)(Pevná vazba)

Funny and totally true childhood biographies and full-color illustrations tell tales from the challenging yet defining growing-up years of Albert Einstein, Jane Goodall, Marie Curie, and 12 other brilliant scientists. Every great scientist started out as a kid. Before their experiments, inventions,

Kid Artists: True Tales of Childhood from Creative Legends (Stabler David)(Pevná vazba)

Hilarious childhood biographies and full-color illustrations reveal how Leonardo da Vinci, Beatrix Potter, Keith Haring, and other great artists in history coped with regular-kid problems. Every great artist started out as a kid. Forget the awards, the sold-out museum exhibitions, and the timeless

Writers and Their Mothers (Salwak Dale)(Pevná vazba)

Features contributions from a selection of world-famous authors and academics Includes some autobiographical and deeply personal meditations on the relationship between writer and mother, as well as studies on other writers' relationships with their mothers Features poems from renowned poets on

100 Years: Wisdom from Famous Writers on Every Year of Your Life (Prager Joshua)(Pevná vazba)

David Copperfield (Dickens Charles)(Pevná vazba)

Now a major film directed by Armando Iannucci, starring Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi and Ben WhishawDickens's great coming-of-age novel, now in a beautiful clothbound Penguin editionThis is the novel Dickens regarded as his 'favourite child' and is considered his most

Tale of Angelino Brown (Almond David)(Pevná vazba)

A warm and witty tale from a master storyteller, author of Carnegie Medal-winning Skellig and internationally bestseller The Boy Who Swam with

Death to the Tsar (Nury Fabien)(Pevná vazba)

From the writers behind Armando Iannuci's The Death of Stalin comes another tale of political intrigue and dark comedy in Russia. In Moscow, 1904, political tension is at a high. The Russian Empire is failing and the effects are falling on its people. Hungry and deeply impoverished, the living

Kamala and Maya's Big Idea (Harris Meena)(Pevná vazba)

INSPIRED BY A TRUE STORY FROM THE CHILDHOOD OF VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS A beautiful, empowering picture book about two sisters who work with their community to effect change, inspired by a true story from the childhood of the author's aunt, Kamala Harris, and mother, lawyer and policy expert

Lost Souls Short Stories (Luckhurst Roger)(Pevná vazba)

A collection of new tales with brilliant new writers and lost souls from the darkest corners of literature and legend: Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer mingles with Dante's infernal spirits and a retold tale from Ovid's Metamorphoses. And with the dark fiction of William Hope Hodgson and Arthur

To Heaven's Heights - An Anthology of Skiing in Literature (Christophersen Ingrid)(Pevná vazba)

An eclectic collection of ski stories from world-famous authors. Spanning one thousand years and with contributions from more than one hundred authors, this anthology celebrates every aspect of skiing. Edited by a leading ski authority, it features writings from well-known authors including Ernest

Fallen (Baldacci David)(Pevná vazba)

From one of the world's favourite thriller writers, this is the fourth title in the Amos Decker crime series, following the bestselling Memory Man, The Last Mile and The

Monument Maker (Keenan David)(Pevná vazba)

The new novel by one of the most exciting and entertaining writers to have emerged from Scotland in the past

The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin (Potter Beatrix)(Pevná vazba)

The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin is an original classic by Beatrix Potter. Beatrix Potter's famous tale of a naughty squirrel who loses his tail is as popular today as it was when it was first published over 100 years ago. Join Nutkin, his brother Twinkleberry and all his cousins as they make their way

The Repeater Book of the Occult: Tales from the Darkside (Goddard Tariq)(Pevná vazba)

A selection of Repeater authors choose their favourite forgotten horror stories for this new anthology, with each also writing a critical introduction for the story of their choice. A selection of Repeater authors choose their favourite horror stories for this new anthology, with each writing a

Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid: America's Original Gangster Couple (Stout Glenn)(Pevná vazba)

The true Jazz Age tale of America's first gangster couple, Margaret and Richard Whittemore Before Bonnie and Clyde there were Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid. In the wake of world war, a pandemic, and an economic depression, Margaret and Richard Whittemore, two love-struck working-class kids from

Welsh Folk Tales (Stevenson Peter)(Pevná vazba)

This book, a selection of folk tales, true tales, tall tales, myths, gossip, legends and memories, celebrates and honors unique Welsh stories. Some are well known, others from forgotten manuscripts or out-of-print volumes, and some are contemporary oral tales. They reflect the diverse tradition of

The Little Book of Cumbria (Ramshaw David)(Pevná vazba)

This is a fact-packed compendium of snippets from the past and present, including historical tales, legends and myths of the Lake District and the rest of the region from Barrow to Carlisle. The towns and villages all have their stories to tell of industries past and present, of natural and

A Square of Sky: A Wartime Childhood: From Ghetto to Convent (David Janina)(Paperback)

The true, devastating story of a Jewish child's survival in wartime Poland, while the rest of her family were killed by the Nazis. Like The Diary of Anne Frank, but by a survivor who, instead of her own death, has to come to terms with the death of her parents and her own survival. Made into a

Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus (Auburn David)(Pevná vazba)

Much more than a word list, the Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus is a browsable source of inspiration as well as an authoritative guide to selecting and using vocabulary. This essential guide for writers provides real-life example sentences and a careful selection of the most relevant synonyms,

David Hockney: Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm (Hockney David)(Pevná vazba)

Brings together some well-known tales - Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin - with others that are less familiar. This title is informed by the art of the past, attuned to idiosyncrasies of character and

Only Love Is Real: A Story of Soulmates Reunited (Weiss Brian L.)(Pevná vazba)

A 'beautiful and sensitive' tale of true love that transcends time, from the multi-million bestselling author of Many Lives, Many Masters (Gary Zukav, author of Seat of the Soul). Recommended by Kendall Jenner. In Many Lives, Many Masters, a skeptical Dr. Brian Weiss found his life changed

David Hockney: A Yorkshire Sketchbook (Hockney David)(Pevná vazba)

The author has returned to England to paint the landscape of his childhood in East Yorkshire. Executed in watercolour and ink, this title features panoramic scenes that have the spatial complexity of finished paintings - the broad sweep of sky or road, the patchwork tapestry of land - yet convey

Ladybird Tales of Super Heroes - With an introduction by David Solomons (Ahmed Sufiya)(Pevná vazba)