Travel the Nine Worlds with your favourite characters from the world of Magnus Chase in a brand-new series of adventures.
Find out why Amir Fadlan hates clothes shopping in Midgard, see how Mallory Keen learns in icy Niflheim that insulting a dragon can be a good idea, and join Alex Fierro as they play with fire (and a disco sword) in the home of the fire giants, Muspellheim. [lire la quatrième du livre 9 From the Nine Worlds : Magnus Chase and the [...]]
Things have started to get quite . . . peculiar . . .
Having defeated the monstrous threat that nearly destroyed the peculiar world, Jacob Portman is back in Florida, where his story began.
Joined by Miss Peregrine, Emma and their peculiar friends, life has become carefree. They spend days at the beach, and take part in 'normalling' lessons.
A stunningly beautiful hardback edition of the most famous adventure story in the world. Following the demise of bloodthirsty buccaneer Captain Flint, young Jim Hawkins finds himself with the key to a fortune. For he has discovered a map that will lead him to the fabled Treasure Island.
Prepare for the world to be turned upside down . . .
For Mau, halfway between boy and man, it happens when a great wave destroys his entire village. For Daphne, it’s when the same wave crashes her ship into the island that was once Mau’s home. Everything they once had is now so far away, lost to distance and time.
'THE BOOK EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT' THE TIMES'It was tempting to think, at times like this, that some bizarre hysteria had gripped the British people' Beginning eight years ago on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories have been replaced by Poundland, and London, where frenzied riots ... [lire la quatrième du livre Middle England]
There are Heroes - and then there are Greek Heroes.
Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming vengeful gods, quite as stylishly and triumphantly as Greek heroes. [lire la quatrième du livre Heroes]
Winner of the 2019 Booker Prize. This is Britain as you've never read it. This is Britain as it has never been told. From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, Girl Woman Other follows a cast of twelve characters on their personal journeys through this country and the last hundred years. [lire la quatrième du livre Girl, Woman, Other]
Shorlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Costa Novel Award
Booker-winning novelist Pat Barker imagines the untold story of the women at the heart of history's greatest epic
'Magnificent... You are in the hands of a writer at the height of her powers' Evening Standard 'Chilling, powerful, audacious... A searing twist on The Iliad. [lire la quatrième du livre The Silence of the Girls]
Past, present and future are brought together one momentous June day in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party while reminiscing about her childhood romance with Peter Walsh, and dwelling on her daughter Elizabeth's rapidly-approaching adulthood. [lire la quatrième du livre Mrs Dalloway]
A brand new edition of a Terry Pratchett classic - set in Victorian London, and starring cunning but kind Dodger, as he sets off on a whirlwind adventure through the city streetsTHE SEWER IS DODGER'S WORLD . . .
He hunts treasure there - coins and jewels lost in the dark and dirty drains. It's a good life, if you don't mind getting your hands (and arms and feet and face) dirty. But one [...] [lire la quatrième du livre Dodger]
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR CRITICISM 2019
From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Changing My Mind and Swing Time - discover a second unmissable collection of essays from Zadie Smith
A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics, ranging in its themes from Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte to the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary) sister and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity. [lire la quatrième du livre A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas]
??oeNearly everything I know about love, I've learnt from my long-term friendships with women.”
I know that love can be loud and jubilant. It can be dancing in the swampy mud and the pouring rain at a festival and shouting ??oeYOU ARE AMAZING” over the band. It’s laughing until you wheeze. It’s walking along the street together on a Saturday [...] [lire la quatrième du livre Everything I Know About Love]
Mark Twain called his 1876 novel a "hymn to boyhood," and it remains an archetypal vision of small-town America before the Civil War. Readers of all ages delight in its humorous narrative voice, as mischievous and good-hearted as Tom Sawyer himself. This inexpensive hardcover edition is the only version that features the endearing illustrations from the original publication. [lire la quatrième du livre The adventures of Tom Sawyer]
Please Read Notes: Brand New, International Softcover Edition, Printed in black and white pages, minor self wear on the cover or pages, Sale restriction may be printed on the book, but Book name, contents, and author are exactly same as Hardcover Edition. [lire la quatrième du livre Choose Kind Journal]
Kasia Boddy's introduction traces the history of the American short story and explores the changes and continuities in its forms and preoccupations. This edition also contains a chronology, explanatory and biographical notes and suggestions for further reading. [lire la quatrième du livre The New Penguin Book of American Short Stories: [...]]
Winter? Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. The shortest days, the longest nights. The trees are bare and shivering. The summer's leaves? Dead litter. The world shrinks; the sap sinks. But winter makes things visible. And if there's ice, there'll be fire. In Ali Smith's Winter, lifeforce matches up to the toughest of the seasons. [lire la quatrième du livre Winter]
This collection of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes includes many of the famous cases - and great strokes of brilliance - that made the legendary detective one of fiction's most popular creations. [lire la quatrième du livre The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes]
Mother's favourite was Angela. But she died in infancy, too young to disappoint, leaving her six siblings at the mercy of a maternal monster. Mother divides and rules her children. As adults they leave home again and again, but she keeps them on a short leash, always reeled back into the nest. Now, with her hundredth birthday just around the corner, Mother's powers of manipulation finally seem to [...] [lire la quatrième du livre Mother Land]
Sal Paradise, a young innocent, joins his hero, the mystical traveller Dean Moriarty, on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the American dream. [lire la quatrième du livre On the Road]
12,50 €
Actuellement indisponible Alerte dispo
Cet ouvrage n'est momentanément plus disponible chez l'éditeur
With a little help from Rose and Jack, Dr. Ninth sets out to prevent an otherworldly invasion.
Doctor Who meets Roger Hargreaves' Mr Men in this series of fun and charming stories, written and illustrated by Adam Hargreaves. [lire la quatrième du livre DR NINETH]
A windless, warm day greets the Sheridan family on the day of their garden party. As daughter Laura takes the reins on party preparations the news of a neighbour's demise casts a cloud over the host and threatens the entire celebration.
The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the [...] [lire la quatrième du livre The Garden Party]
After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony. She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for the Belgravia set. [lire la quatrième du livre A Handful of Dust]
Even wizards produce leftovers. But a wizard's rubbish is laced with magic, and for the rats that forage this rubbish, the magic has changed them - they can speak and read, and have rather grand ambitions for a comfortable retirement. Which is perfect for a con-cat like Maurice.
Nous utilisons des cookies pour assurer le bon fonctionnement du site et améliorer votre expérience-utilisateur.
Ce site respecte la loi RGPD du 25 mai 2018.
Vous pouvez modifier vos préférences à tout moment.
Consulter notre politique de confidentialité
Nécessaires
Les cookies nécessaires contribuent à rendre un site web utilisable en activant des fonctions de base comme la navigation de page et l'accès aux zones sécurisées du site web. Le site web ne peut pas fonctionner correctement sans ces cookies.
Statistiques
Les cookies statistiques aident les propriétaires du site web, par la collecte et la communication d'informations de manière anonyme, à comprendre comment les visiteurs interagissent avec les sites web.
Marketing
Les cookies marketing sont utilisés pour effectuer le suivi des visiteurs au travers des sites web. Le but est d'afficher des publicités qui sont pertinentes et intéressantes pour l'utilisateur individuel et donc plus précieuses pour les éditeurs et annonceurs tiers.
