High renaissance politics, black vengeance and dragon magic, Navola is a towering fantasy landmark from the award-winning author of The Windup Girl. High renaissance politics, black vengeance and dragon magic, Navola is a towering fantasy landmark from the award-winning author of The Windup Girl.
Language: English, Binding: Board book, Number of pages: 26, Publishers: Random House USA Inc, Author: Jill McDonald, ISBN-13: 9780593303856, Date of issue: 2021
'You know how to win a battle, Hannibal; you do not know how to use the victory!' Livy's great history of Rome contains, in Books 21 to 30, the definitive ancient account of Hannibal's invasion of Italy in 218 BC, and the war he fought with the Romans over the following sixteen years. Livy describes the bloody siege of the Spanish city of Saguntum, Rome's ally, which sparked the war, and the Carthaginian leader's famous march with elephants over the Alps into Italy. Livy's gripping story-telling vividly conveys the drama of the great battles, the disastrous encounters at Trasimene and Cannae, and the final confrontation between Hannibal and the youthful Scipio Africanus. Individuals as well as events are brought powerfully to life, as the long course of the Second Punic War unfolds. This new translation captures the brilliance of Livy's style, and is accompanied by a fascinating introduction and notes. The complete Livy in English, available in five volumes from Oxford World's Classics. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe.Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Enter the enchanted forest of the festival for the broken-hearted... Hearts will be healed, and hearts broken, but nobody will leave this festival exactly as they arrived, in the new novel from Booker Prize-winning author Sir Ben Okri. Enter the enchanted forest of the festival for the broken-hearted... Hearts will be healed, and hearts broken, but nobody will leave this festival exactly as they arrived, in the new novel from Booker Prize-winning author Sir Ben Okri.
Elegantne ja praktiline raamatu stiilis kaitseümbris, mis on spetsiaalselt loodud Samsungi nutitelefonidele. Valmistatud vastupidavatest materjalidest, kaitseb tõhusalt seadet kriimustuste, põrutuste ja muude füüsiliste kahjustuste eest. Korpusel on sisseehitatud magnet, mis tagab kindla sulgumise ja kaitseb ekraani juhuslike kahjustuste eest. Täpsed avad võimaldavad mugavalt kasutada kaamerat, nuppe ja porte ilma ümbrist eemaldamata. Ideaalne lahendus neile, kes hindavad igapäevases nutitelefoni kasutamises mugavust, turvalisust ja esteetilist kvaliteeti.
Elegantne ja praktiline raamatu stiilis ümbris, mis on spetsiaalselt loodud Samsungi nutitelefonidele. Valmistatud vastupidavatest materjalidest, kaitseb tõhusalt seadet kriimustuste, põrutuste ja muude füüsiliste kahjustuste eest. Ümbrisel on sisseehitatud magnet, mis tagab kindla sulgumise ja kaitseb ekraani juhuslike kahjustuste eest. Täpsed avad võimaldavad mugavalt kasutada kaamerat, nuppe ja porte ilma ümbrist eemaldamata. Ideaalne lahendus neile, kes hindavad igapäevases nutitelefoni kasutamises mugavust, turvalisust ja esteetilist kvaliteeti.
Beline silikoonkaitse on stiili, mugavuse ja kaitse universaalne kombinatsioon, loodud igapäevaseks kasutamiseks. Kõrgekvaliteedilisest silikoonist valmistatud kaitse on meeldiv katsuda, paindlik ja sobib ideaalselt telefoni kujuga, kaitstes seda tõhusalt kriimustuste, löökide ja juhuslike kukkumiste eest. Selle mati pinnaga kaitse annab kaasaegse välimuse, takistab telefoni libisemist käes ning vähendab nähtavaid sõrmejälgi. Kaitsme sisekülg on vooderdatud pehme mikrofiibriga, mis lisaks kaitseb seadet väiksemate kahjustuste eest. Täpselt valmistatud avad võimaldavad täielikku ligipääsu kõikidele portidele, nuppudele ja kaamerale ilma kaitsme eemaldamiseta. Beline silikoonkaitse on ideaalne valik neile, kes otsivad vastupidavat, stiilset ja funktsionaalset kaitset oma nutitelefonile.
Elegantne ja praktiline raamatu stiilis ümbris, mis on spetsiaalselt loodud Samsungi nutitelefonidele. Valmistatud vastupidavatest materjalidest, kaitseb seadet tõhusalt kriimustuste, põrutuste ja muu füüsilise kahjustuse eest. Ümbrisel on sisseehitatud magnet, mis tagab kindla sulgumise ja kaitseb ekraani juhuslike kahjustuste eest. Täpsed avad võimaldavad mugavalt kasutada kaamerat, nuppe ja porte ilma ümbrist eemaldamata. Ideaalne lahendus neile, kes hindavad igapäevases nutitelefoni kasutuses mugavust, turvalisust ja esteetilist kvaliteeti.
Elegantne ja praktiline raamatu stiilis ümbris, mis on spetsiaalselt loodud Samsungi nutitelefonidele. Valmistatud vastupidavatest materjalidest, kaitseb tõhusalt seadet kriimustuste, põrutuste ja muude füüsiliste kahjustuste eest. Ümbrisel on sisseehitatud magnet, mis tagab kindla sulgumise ja kaitseb ekraani juhuslike kahjustuste eest. Täpsed avad võimaldavad mugavalt kasutada kaamerat, nuppe ja porte ilma ümbrist eemaldamata. Ideaalne lahendus neile, kes hindavad igapäevases nutitelefoni kasutamises mugavust, turvalisust ja esteetilist kvaliteeti.
A provocative but serious reflection on Shakespeare's greatest tragedies, showing how the finest plays of Shakespeare have been made unintelligible and irrelevant to a modern audience in an attempt to fit a world of conservative values.
Even more popular in their day than Don Quixote, Cervantes's Exemplary Stories (1613) surprise, challenge and delight. Ranging from the picaresque to the satirical, Cervantes's Exemplary Stories defy the conventions of heroic chivalric literature through a combination of comic irony, moral ambiguity, realism, and sheer mirth. With acute narrative skill and deft characterisation, drawing on colloquial language and farce, Cervantes creates a tension between the everyday and the literary, the plausible and the improbable. While encouraging us to reach our own moral conclusions, he also persuades us to accept the coincidental and the incredible: two boys indulge their life of crime at a time of public prayer; a young nobleman undergoes a change of identity at the behest of not a princess but a mere gipsy girl, and, most fantastically, talking dogs philosophize in a ward full of syphilitics. By placing the extraordinary within the contexts of the ordinary, the Exemplary Stories chart new novelistic territory and demonstrate Cervantes at his most imaginative and innovative.This new translation captures the full vigour of Cervantes's wit and makes available two rarely printed tales, 'The Illustrious Kitchen Maid' and 'The Power of Blood'. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Oxford International Lower Secondary English teaches students the skills they need to become confident communicators. This three-level lower secondary course will provide students with a strong grasp of English language and literature, vocabulary and grammar. Students will discover the joy of learning through engaging with a range of diverse texts from all over the world. There are speaking and listening opportunities throughout and a wide variety of writing and performance activities. Oxford International Lower Secondary English takes an enquiry-based approach which encourages learners' active collaboration. The global themes covered in the text ask students big questions and encourage them to make connections. Supporting comprehension questions are differentiated to allow thorough assessment of student understanding. Language tips and word origin boxes allow students to build vocabulary and grammar knowledge. Each page includes student-friendly learning objectives, allowing students to take charge of their learning. Comprehensive Teacher's Guides support the Student Books with lesson guidance and additional ideas for teaching. The digital subscription includes interactive Online Books with audio, videos, activity sheets and online quizzes; comprehensive assessment; planning and parent support.
Add stickers to the scenes to help the fairy friends enjoy some magical fun as they enjoy a masked ball, explore a fairy castle, splash in an enchanted waterfall, gather acorns with elves in the woods, and dance with snowflakes in a winter wonderland. This book is ideal for keeping children entertained at weekends, on journeys, or in the holidays.
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 864, Publishers: Bloomsbury Publishing, Author: Christopher Ruocchio, ISBN-13: 9781035920662, Date of issue: 2025
2024 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST, BEST FANTASY NOVEL Howarth, 1846. In a parsonage at the edge of the moors, a widowed rector lives with his family: three daughters and their dissolute brother, Bramwell. Though the future will celebrate Charlotte, Emily and Anne, right now they are unknown, their genius concealed. In just a few short years they will all be dead, and it will be middle sister Emily's chance encounter with a grievously wounded man on the moor that sets them on the path to their doom. For there is an ancient pagan secret haunting the moors, a dark inheritance in the family bloodline and something terrible buried under an ogham-inscribed slab in the church. Not only are their lives at stake, but their very souls. My Brother's Keeper is an atmospheric gothic novel that mixes diabolical hatred and vengeance with the supreme power of love to conjure dark magic from the tragic fate of the Bronte sisters.
Jean Racine (1639-99) remains to this day the greatest of French poetic dramatists. Britannicus (1669), the first play in this volume, takes its themes from Roman history: the setting is bloody and treacherous court of the Emperor Nero. Phaedra (1677) dramatizes the Greek myth of Phaedra's doomed love for her stepson Hippolytus. Athaliah (1691), Racine's last and perhaps finest play, draws on the Old Testament story of Athaliah, Queen of Judah and worshipper of Baal, who is threatened and finally forced to concede victory to Joash, a son of the house of David and survivor of Athaliah's massacres. Racine's tragedies portray characters wrestling with ambition, treachery, religion, and love. In this translation, specially commissioned for The World's Classics series, C.H. Sisson has captured admirably the lucidity of Racine's language, both analytic and passionate, and the rhythm of his four-part Alexandrine, a combination that previous translators have consistently failed to achieve. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe.Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
'A slow burn romance with multi-layered characters and sizzling chemistry, House Party left me absolutely breathless. Clear your schedule to read this in a single sitting' - Annabel Monaghan***A slow-burn romance fifteen years in the making... Hattie has spent half her life secretly crushing on Freddie – her best friend Sam's irresistibly gorgeous older brother.But Freddie? He's barely spared a glance for Hattie, the girl Sam befriended one fateful New Years' Eve when they discovered they were birthday twins. Fast-forward to now: Hattie finds herself single for the first time in years – just before the holidays. Enter Sam, who, in classic best-friend fashion, whisks her away to a remote cabin in the Forest of Dean to cheer her up.Snowy woodland views? Check. A crackling fire and a steamy hot tub? Check. Zero cell service, ravenous wild boars, and an incoming snowstorm of apocalyptic proportions? Also check.And to make matters even more intense, Freddie joins them, unexpectedly. Still infuriatingly gorgeous, and still ridiculously off-limits. Except this time, he's actually noticing Hattie.But then again, maybe he's been noticing her all along. Fifteen years of longing. One night to change everything.This New Year's Eve, they're playing with fire. ***Perfect for fans of:Slow burnBest friend's brotherForbidden romanceSpiceForced proximity***Praise for HOUSE PARTY:'Such a fun, sparkling, swoonworthy romance full of memorable moments' - Cressida McLaughlin'HOUSE PARTY is dazzlingly electric! Chloe is a master of the romcom and this is an exquisite slow burn full of heart, friendship, and a brilliantly steamy romance that will keep you hooked at every page!' - Beth Reekles'Funny and charming, with plenty of steam to warm you up on those cold winter nights... the perfect winter escape!' - Catherine Walsh'House Party is everything I want in a romance — emotional, gorgeously written, and utterly addictive' - Carrie Elks'Trust me, this is one HOUSE PARTY you’ll want to attend! Ford is a master of the slow burn.This book had me grinning from ear to ear' - Carlie Walker'A heart-squeezing, giggle-inducing romance full of nostalgic charm. Hattie and Freddie’s delicious push and pull had me smiling from page one. Chloe Ford has officially stolen my heart.' - Elliot FletcherFresh, clever, angsty, and painfully sexy, House Party perfectly captures the excruciating thrill of a forbidden crush while on the rollercoaster of emotions that’s navigating your twenties.' - Heather McBreen
A brand-new history of the 14th and 15th century conflicts between England and France – original in approach and radical in its conclusions – that significantly broadens traditional narratives of the events historians have collectively labelled the Hundred Years War.
Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon – now a Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones. Imagine the universe as a forest, patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. In this forest, stealth is survival – any civilisation that reveals its location is prey.Earth has. Now the predators are coming. Crossing light years, the Trisolarians will reach Earth in four centuries' time.But the sophons, their extra-dimensional agents and saboteurs, are already here. Only the individual human mind remains immune to their influence. This is the motivation for the Wallfacer Project, a last-ditch defence that grants four individuals almost absolute power to design secret strategies, hidden through deceit and misdirection from human and alien alike.Three of the Wallfacers are influential statesmen and scientists, but the fourth is a total unknown. Luo Ji, an unambitious Chinese astronomer, is baffled by his new status. All he knows is that he's the one Wallfacer that Trisolaris wants dead.Praise for The Three-Body Problem: 'Your next favourite sci-fi novel' Wired 'Immense' Barack Obama 'Unique' George R.R. Martin 'SF in the grand style' Guardian 'Mind-altering and immersive' Daily Mail Winner of the Hugo and Galaxy Awards for Best Novel
Rediscover the magic of The Falconer Trilogy - now reimagined for adult romantasy fansDive back into the world of The Falconer rewritten by the author to bring even more depth, darkness, and desire to this beloved series. Perfect for fans of enemies-to-lovers tension, sizzling chemistry, and high-stakes fantasy.
David and Randall Basinger present four different answers to the question "If God is in control, are people really free?" Contributors include proponents of foreordination, foreknowledge, self-limited power, and self-limited knowledge.
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 208, Publishers: First Second, Author: Christopher Hastings,Pat Lewis, ISBN-13: 9781250359469, Date of issue: 2026
'a Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe' E. M. Forster E. M. Forster's description of C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) perfectly encapsulates the unique perspective Cavafy brought to bear on history and geography, sexuality and language in his poems. Cavafy writes about people on the periphery, whose religious, ethnic and cultural identities are blurred, and he was one of the pioneers in expressing a specifically homosexual sensibility. His poems present brief and vivid evocations of historical scenes and sensual moments, often infused with his distinctive sense of irony. They have established him as one of the most important poets of the twentieth century. This volume presents the most authentic Greek text of the 154 authorized poems ever published, together with a new English translation that conveys the accent and rhythm of Cavafy's individual tone of voice. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe.Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
