Time and chance: an autobiography, Townsend, Peter

Автор: Townsend Sue
Название: Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 and 3/4
ISBN: 0141315989 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141315980
Издательство: Random House
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Описание: Friday January 2nd. I felt rotten today. It`s my mother`s fault for singing `My Way` at two o`clock in the morning at the top of the stairs. Just my luck to have a mother like her. There is a chance my parents could be alcoholics. Next year I could be in a children`s home.

Автор: Warner, Sylvia Townsend
Название: Summer Will Show
ISBN: 0241454840 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241454848
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Описание: 'A novel of love, war and death; brilliantly entertaining and far ahead of its time' Guardian 'She is my husband's mistress - and here am I, taking her out to dinner'Sophia Willoughby of Blandamer House, upstanding Victorian matriarch, has packed her errant husband off to Paris with his mistress Minna. But when tragedy throws her life off balance Sophia goes to seek him out, and instead finds herself intensely attracted to the charismatic, bohemian Minna, who leads her on a wild, chaotic adventure through a city in the throes of revolution. 'One of the great under-read British novelists of the twentieth century.

This is my favourite of her novels' Sarah Waters'Every page contains something brilliant, arresting or amusing, and one comes away from it staggered' Claire Harman

Автор: Sylvia Townsend Warner
Название: The Corner That Held Them
ISBN: 1681373874 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781681373874
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: A unique novel about life in a 14th-century convent by one of England's most original authors.

Sylvia Townsend Warner's The Corner That Held Them is a historical novel like no other, one that immerses the reader in the dailiness of history, rather than history as the given sequence of events that, in time, it comes to seem. Time ebbs and flows and characters come and go in this novel, set in the era of the Black Death, about a Benedictine convent of no great note. The nuns do their chores, and seek to maintain and improve the fabric of their house and chapel, and struggle with each other and with themselves. The book that emerges is a picture of a world run by women but also a story--stirring, disturbing, witty, utterly entrancing--of a community. What is the life of a community and how does it support, or constrain, a real humanity? How do we live through it and it through us? These are among the deep questions that lie behind this rare triumph of the novelist's art.

Автор: Townsend Jessica
Название: Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
ISBN: 1510103821 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781510103825
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: Enter the Wundrous world of Morrigan Crow and Nevermoor - the most fantastical children`s series of the year.

Автор: Warner, Sylvia Townsend
Название: Lolly willowes
ISBN: 0241454883 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241454886
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Описание: 'A great shout of life and individuality ... an act of defiance that gladdens the soul' Guardian Lolly Willowes, so gentle and accommodating, has depths no one suspects. When she suddenly announces that she is leaving London and moving, alone, to the depths of the countryside, her overbearing relatives are horrified.

But Lolly has a greater, far darker calling than family: witchcraft. 'The book I'll be pressing into people's hands forever . .

. It tells the story of a woman who rejects the life that society has fixed for her in favour of freedom ... tips suddenly into extraordinary, lucid wildness' Helen Macdonald'Witty, eerie, tender ...

her prose, in its simple, abrupt evocations, has something preternatural about it' John Updike

Автор: Townsend Jessica
Название: Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow
ISBN: 1510103848 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781510103849
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: Return to the magical world of Nevermoor, where Morrigan Crow`s adventures continue. The most anticipated sequel of the year - a treat for all fans of magic and `wunder`. A stunningly designed package - with gold foil, hidden artwork under the jacket and beautifully designed interiors - a perfect gift for all young readers.

Автор: Townsend Sue
Название: The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole, 1999-2001
ISBN: 024195939X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241959398
Издательство: Random House
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Описание: Monday January 3, 2000. So how do I greet the New Millennium? In despair. I`m a single parent, I live with my mother... I have a bald spot the size of a jaffa cake on the back of my head... Adrian Mole has become a martyr: a single-father bringing up two young boys in an uncaring world.

Автор: Townsend Sue
Название: Rebuilding Coventry
ISBN: 0718194837 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780718194833
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Описание: When Midlands housewife Coventry Dakin kills her neighbour in a wild bid to prevent him from strangling his wife, she goes on the run. Finding herself alone and friendless in London she tries to lose herself in the city`s maze of streets. There, she meets a bewildering cast of eccentric characters.

Автор: Townsend, Jessica
Название: Hollowpox
ISBN: 1510103864 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781510103863
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: Discover the magical world of Nevermoor and the adventures of Morrigan Crow, in this bestselling, award-winning series for fans of Harry Potter and His Dark Materials.

Автор: Warner, Sylvia Townsend
Название: The True Heart
ISBN: 0241476100 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241476109
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Описание: 'The kind of novelist who inspires an intense sense of ownership in her fans ... her sympathies tended naturally to the marginal, the vulnerable, the exploited, the obscure' Sarah WatersSukey Bond, a sixteen-year-old orphan, is sent to work as a servant at a farm on the remote Essex Marshes. There she falls in love with gentle, unworldly Eric, the son of the rector's wife, only for them to be separated when their relationship is discovered.

But nothing will deter Sukey in her quest to be reunited with her true love, even if it means seeking the help of Queen Victoria herself. 'One of our most idiosyncratic, courageous and versatile writers' Hermione Lee 'One can't be too thankful that Miss Townsend Warner has lived to discover the alchemist's secret of transmuting the past into pure gold' Hilary Spurling

Автор: Townsend Sue
Название: The Queen and I
ISBN: 0241958377 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241958377
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Описание: Exchanging Buckingham Palace for a two-bedroomed semi in Hell Close, caviar for boiled eggs, servants for a social worker named Trish, the Queen and her family learn what it means to be poor among the great unwashed. But is their breeding sufficient to allow them to rise above their circumstance or deep down are they just like everyone else?

Автор: Townsend Sue
Название: The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
ISBN: 0141046430 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141046433
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Описание: Mole family is in crisis and the country is beating the drum of war. While his parents have reconciled after both embarked on disastrous affairs, Adrian is shocked to learn of his mother`s pregnancy.