In what Henry James called a 'trap for the unwary', The Turn of the Screw tells of a nameless young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Unsettled by a dark foreboding of menace within the house, she soon comes to believe that something malevolent is stalking the children in her care. But is the threat to her young charges really a malign and...

Maybe you've heard tales about Scarcross Hall, the house on the old coffin path that winds from village to moor top. They say there's something up here, something evil. Mercy Booth isn't afraid. The moors and Scarcross are her home and lifeblood. But, beneath her certainty, small things are beginning to trouble her. Three ancient coins missing from her father's study, the...

A wonderfully original book about contemporary Russia as seen on journeys in search of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Lermontov, Chekhov, Gogol and Turgenev. SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANDFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARD 2020 With the writers of the Golden Age as her guides - Pushkin, Tolstoy, Gogol and Turgenev, among others - Wheeler travels the length and breadth of Russia to make connections...

DON’T BE THE LAST TO DISCOVER THE SERIES THAT EVERYONE CAN’T STOP TALKING ABOUT: Get ready for the breathtaking follow-up to global phenomenons Fourth Wing and Iron Flame from the no. 1 Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Yarros. ARE YOU READY TO BRAVE THE DARK? After nearly eighteen months at Basgiath War College,...

From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era—a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter. When Elon Musk was a kid in South...

A New York Times Science BestsellerWhat if you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of van Gogh and Picasso, weren't even told they existed? Alas, this is how math is taught, and so for most of us it becomes the intellectual equivalent of watching paint dry.In Love and Math , renowned mathematician Edward...

The best-selling, official, and definitive guide to the characters of the dynamic, ever-expanding Marvel Universe. Compiled by a team of comic book experts in close collaboration with Marvel Comics, this fully updated and expanded edition features more than 1,200 iconic Super Heroes and villains, with hundreds of expanded entries detailing their adventures since the previous...

The #1 Sunday Times bestseller is back with a festive winter treat, set in the world of the bestselling Caraval series! With gorgeous interior illustrations by Rosie Fowinkle. Snowflakes are falling. Invitations are arriving. And holiday magic is swirling in the Capital City of the Meridian Empire. It's Great Holiday Eve Eve. Scarlett Dragna is planning a...

Tom Clancy's second classic No 1 bestselling thriller - a chillingly authentic vision of modern war - now reissued in a new cover. Three Muslim terrorists who destroyed the Soviet Union's largest petrochemical plant thought they were striking a blow for freedom. What they had done, unknowingly, was fire the first shots in World War III. Desperately short of oil, the Kremlin hawks see only...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Now he found out a new thing - namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.' An idyllic snapshot of a boy's childhood along the banks of the Mississippi River, Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the author's work that comes...

Szósta część znanej serii 'Outlander’ autorstwa Diany Gabaldon. Akcja toczy się tuż przed wojną o niepodległość Stanów Zjednoczonych i łączy fascynującą podróż w czasie z olśniewającą epicką opowieścią. Odpowiednia dla miłośników historii, podróży w czasie i romansów z elementami przygodowymi. The sixth installment of the beloved 'Outlander’ series by Diana Gabaldon. Set just before...

See the Grishaverse come to life on screen with the Netflix series, Shadow and Bone - Season 2 streaming now! Discover the origin story of the Darkling from Shadow and Bone in this beautifully illustrated, first-ever Grishaverse graphic novel.Before he led Ravka's Second Army, before he created the Fold, and long before he became the Darkling, he was just a lonely boy burdened by an...

Jane Austen is remembered for her six masterpieces of the Regency era: from the heroines of Elizabeth Bennett and Emma Woodhouse, to the villains of Mrs. Norris and John Willoughby. But these characters were not born overnight. They sprung from Austen’s experiences as a young girl, and many early iterations can be found in the earliest of her writing: her Juvenilia. Austen was...

Vollständig aktualisierte und überarbeitete Übersetzung§Der Schauplatz des Herrn der Ringe ist Mittelerde, eine alternative Welt, und erzählt wird von der gefahrvollen Quest einiger Gefährten, die in einem dramatischen Kampf gegen das Böse endet.

CERN Institute, Switzerland: a world-renowned scientist is found brutally murdered with a mysterious symbol seared onto his chest. The Vatican, Rome: the College of Cardinals assembles to elect a new pope. Somewhere beneath them, an unstoppable bomb of terrifying power relentlessly counts down to oblivion. In a breathtaking race against time, Harvard professor Robert Langdon must decipher a...

Pierre-Louis Pennec, propriétaire d'un imposant hôtel du centre-ville de Pont-Aven, est retrouvé assassiné. Le commissaire Georges Dupin enquete et découvre bientôt que Pennec était en possession d'un Gauguin inédit d'une valeur inestimable, remplacé depuis par une copie.

Eine neue Geschichte mit der populären Fantasy-Ikone aus den Büchern, den Videogsames und der Netflix-Serie - inspiriert von mehr als einem klassischen Märchen! Der Hexer Geralt gilt als einer der größten Jäger und Schlächter von Monstern aller Art. Nun gelangt er in die Stadt Grimmwald, wo ein Werwolf sein Unwesen treiben soll, und drei Schwestern für Gerüchte sorgen. Hinter dem Ungeheuer...

Odkryj mroczne zakątki uniwersum Dune Witamy w fascynującym świecie Dune, gdzie każdy zakręt przynosi nowe wyzwania, a niebezpieczeństwa czekają na każdego, kto odważy się stąpać po piaskach Arrakis. Sands of Dune to wyjątkowa kolekcja noweli, które po raz pierwszy ujrzały światło dzienne, oferując czytelnikom głębszy wgląd w znaną i cenioną sagę. Niezwykła podróż przez...

The unputdownable third book in the Red Rising series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author. Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Golds demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back. Risking everything to transform himself and breach Gold society, Darrow has...

Do not touch the sword. Do not turn the key. Do not open the gate. In the land of the unforgiving desert, there isn't much a girl wouldn't do for a glass of water. Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers she possesses, or the fact that she has been picking pockets and stealing from the Undying Queen's reservoirs for as long as she...