История американской и мировой литературы невозможна без упоминания имени Фрэнсиса Скотта Фицджеральда; его произведения признаны мировой классикой. В романах автора нашел свое отражение так называемый «век джаза» — период в истории Америки с момента окончания Первой мировой войны и до начала Великой депрессии 30-х годов. В данную книгу вошли три произведения Фицджеральда: «Загадочная история Бенджамина Баттона», «Хрустальная чаша» и роман «Ночь нежна». Текст произведений сокращен и незначительно адаптирован для уровня 4 (для продолжающих учить английский язык верхней ступени), снабжен комментариями и словарем.

The instant New York Times Bestseller #1 Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller Instant Washington Post Bestseller "Brims with a surprising amount of insight and practical advice. " -The Wall Street Journal Daniel H. Pink, the #1 bestselling author of Drive and To Sell Is Human, unlocks the scientific secrets to good timing to help you flourish at work, at school, and at home. Everyone knows that timing is everything. But we don’t know much about timing itself. Our lives are a never-ending stream of «when» decisions: when to start a business, schedule a class, get serious about a person. Yet we make those decisions based on intuition and guesswork. Timing, it’s often assumed, is an art. In When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, Pink shows that timing is really a science. Drawing on a rich trove of research from psychology, biology, and economics, Pink reveals how best to live, work, and succeed. How can we use the hidden patterns of the day to build the ideal schedule? Why do certain breaks dramatically improve student test scores? How can we turn a stumbling beginning into a fresh start? Why should we avoid going to the hospital in the afternoon? Why is singing in time with other people as good for you as exercise? And what is the ideal time to quit a job, switch careers, or get married? In When, Pink distills cutting-edge research and data on timing and synthesizes them into a fascinating, readable narrative packed with irresistible stories and practical takeaways that give readers compelling insights into how we can live richer, more engaged lives.

A Level 2 Reader based on an episode of Llama Llama’s animated Netflix television series, perfect for little ones dealing with stage fright! Look out, world--Llama Llama is a TV star! The beloved character, made famous by Anna Dewdney’s best-selling picture books, is the star of his own original series, now airing on Netflix. This episode-based Penguin Young Reader tells the story of Llama Llama helping his friend Luna get over her stage fright so that she can dance in a recital. It’s the perfect book to read aloud with your little ones to help them deal with their own stage fright, or to help them understand a friend who deals with it!

This sturdy board book, packed with images of vehicles, is the perfect introduction to things that zoom, fly, and rumble for babies and toddlers. The 8-bit illustration style makes the book even more fun and accessible for young children, and it will also appeal to parents, grandparents, and anyone who has played classic video arcade games.

This sturdy board book, packed with images of animals, is the perfect introduction to creatures from around the world for babies and toddlers. The 8-bit illustration style makes the book even more fun and accessible for young children, and will also appeal to parents, grandparents, and everyone who has played classic video arcade games.

A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN, BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR ’This is the biography we have been awaiting for 400 years’ Hilary Mantel ’A masterpiece’ Dan Jones, Sunday Times Thomas Cromwell is one of the most famous — or notorious — figures in English history. Born in obscurity in Putney, he became a fixer for Cardinal Wolsey in the 1520s. After Wolsey’s fall, Henry VIII promoted him to a series of ever greater offices, and by the end of the 1530s he was effectively running the country for the King. That decade was one of the most momentous in English history: it saw a religious break with the Pope, unprecedented use of parliament, the dissolution of all monasteries. Cromwell was central to all this, but establishing his role with precision, at a distance of nearly five centuries and after the destruction of many of his papers at his own fall, has been notoriously difficult. Diarmaid MacCulloch’s biography is much the most complete and persuasive life ever written of this elusive figure, a masterclass in historical detective work, making connections not previously seen. It overturns many received interpretations, for example that Cromwell was a cynical, ’secular’ politician without deep-felt religious commitment, or that he and Anne Boleyn were allies because of their common religious sympathies — in fact he destroyed her. It introduces the many different personalities of these foundational years, all conscious of the ’terrifyingly unpredictable’ Henry VIII. MacCulloch allows readers to feel that they are immersed in all this, that it is going on around them. For a time, the self-made ’ruffian’ (as he described himself) — ruthless, adept in the exercise of power, quietly determined in religious revolution — was master of events. MacCulloch’s biography for the first time reveals his true place in the making of modern England and Ireland, for good and ill.

The third Lou Clark novel, following the Number One international bestsellers Me Before You and After You. Lou Clark knows too many things . . . She knows how many miles lie between her new home in New York and her new boyfriend Sam in London. She knows her employer is a good man and she knows his wife is keeping a secret from him. What Lou doesn’t know is she’s about to meet someone who’s going to turn her whole life upside down. Because Josh will remind her so much of a man she used to know that it’ll hurt. Lou won’t know what to do next, but she knows that whatever she chooses is going to change everything.

A landmark anthology that will introduce many extraordinary, unknown Russian writers to an English-language readership for the first time. ’I remember Moscow in disarray-the smoke and fire of explosions above the cupolas, the glint of the Kremlin eagles shining out of the black night, the flashing of crosses and towers’ Fleeing amid the chaos of the 1917 revolutions and subsequent Civil War, many Russian writers went on to settle in Paris, Berlin and elsewhere. In exile, they worked as taxi drivers, labourers and film extras, and wrote some of the most brilliant and imaginative works of Russian literature. This new collection includes stories by the most famous emigre writers, such as Vladimir Nabokov and Ivan Bunin, and introduces powerful lesser known voices, some of whom have never been available in English before. Exploring displacement, loss and new beginnings, these pieces also return obsessively to the Russia that has been left behind — whether as dream or nightmare. Edited by Bryan Karetnyk

With his extraordinary charm and sense of wonder, bringing together science, art and philosophy, Carlo Rovelli unravels this mystery, inviting us to imagine a world where time is in us and we are not in time. Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explored its meaning while scientists have found that its structure is different from the simple intuition we have of it. From Boltzmann to quantum theory, from Einstein to loop quantum gravity, our understanding of time has been undergoing radical transformations. Time flows at a different speed in different places, the past and the future differ far less than we might think, and the very notion of the present evaporates in the vast universe.

HE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER AND RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK If you know anyone who loved Big Little Lies, then the bestselling author’s latest book will be right up their street — a tale of perfect lies and imperfect lives . . . ’A super-suspenseful page-turner’ Mail on Sunday Nine perfect strangers, each hiding an imperfect life. A luxury retreat cut off from the outside world. Ten days that promise to change your life. But some promises — like some lives — are perfect lies . . . ’Fantastic’ Times ’Original, suspenseful, downright brilliant’ Clare Mackintosh ’The twist blew my mind’ Marian Keyes ’The suspense keeps building in an enjoyably zany thriller’ Guardian ’Will grip you from the first page’ Sunday Express ’Captivating’ Good Housekeeping ’Had me utterly hooked’ Daily Mail

’Boyd on form is the ultimate in immersive fiction, and Love is Blind is Boyd at the top of his game . . . magnificent’ Sunday Times ’A finely judged performance: a deft and resonant alchemy of fact and fiction, of literary myth and imagination’ Guardian Book of the Week When Brodie is offered a job in Paris, he seizes the chance to flee Edinburgh and his tyrannical clergyman father, and begin a wildly different new chapter in his life. In Paris, a fateful encounter with a famous pianist irrevocably changes his future — and sparks an obsessive love affair with a beautiful Russian soprano, Lika Blum. Moving from Paris to St Petersburg to Edinburgh and back again, Brodie’s love for Lika and its dangerous consequences pursue him around Europe and beyond, during an era of overwhelming change as the nineteenth century becomes the twentieth. Love is Blind is a tale of dizzying passion and brutal revenge; of artistic endeavour and the illusions it creates; of all the possibilities that life can offer, and how cruelly they can be snatched away. At once an intimate portrait of one man’s life and an expansive exploration of the beginning of the twentieth century, Love is Blind is a masterly new novel from one of Britain’s best loved storytellers. ’Boyd is back on a form few of his contemporaries can match. This fine, touching and clever book is the best thing he’s written since [Any Human Heart] and deserves similar adulation’ Observer ’Boyd’s talents as a rollicking storytelling [are] full on display in this historical blockbuster’ Metro ***A SUNDAY TIMES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR***