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Кто лучший в мире медведь? Конечно, Винни-Пух! Вот бы заглянуть в Зачарованный лес и узнать, чем сейчас занимаются Пух, Кристофер Робин и все-все-все, правда? И вот четыре британских писателя побывали у них в гостях и написали к девяностолетию легендарного плюшевого мишки четыре истории: осеннюю, зимнюю, весеннюю и летнюю! Читателя ждет волнующая, радостная встреча с Пухом и его друзьями – старыми и новыми.
Приключения Винни-Пуха, самого знаменитого мишки в мире, продолжаются!

Из четырех сестер только одна побывала замужем, да и то неудачно. Однако ее более чем поучительный пример не стал уроком для остальных. Впрочем, нельзя сказать, чтобы молодые красивые женщины тяготились одиночеством, ведь оно таит в себе много соблазнов, а главное - предоставляет полную свободу действий, и в выборе сексуальных партнеров в том числе. Тем не менее со временем обстоятельства изменились. Пренебрегая любовью, сестры затевают Брачную игру. Цель ее - за счет возможных кандидатов в мужья поправить свое значительно пошатнувшееся финансовое положение. Вскоре они попадают в сплетенную ими же сеть. Продолжить игру - значит подвергнуть себя опасности. Отказаться от нее - лучшие из надежд, увы, пойдут прахом.

From the bestselling, award-winning novelist Kate Saunders comes the first in 'The Laetitia Rodd Mysteries', six novels featuring a Victorian lady detective, perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, M. C. Beaton and Grantchester
Mrs Laetitia Rodd is the impoverished widow of an Archdeacon, living modestly in Hampstead with her landlady Mrs Bentley. She is also a private detective of the utmost discretion. In winter 1850, her brother Frederick, a criminal barrister, introduces her to Sir James Calderstone, a wealthy and powerful industrialist who asks Mrs Rodd to investigate the background of an 'unsuitable' woman his son intends to marry – a match he is determined to prevent.
In the guise of governess, she travels to the family seat, Wishtide, deep in the frozen Lincolnshire countryside, where she soon discovers that the Calderstones have more to hide than most. As their secrets unfold, the case takes an unpleasant turn when a man is found dead outside a tavern. Mrs Rodd's keen eyes and astute wits are taxed as never before in her search for the truth – which carries her from elite drawing rooms to London's notorious inns and its steaming laundry houses.
Dickensian in its scope and characters, The Secrets of Wishtide brings nineteenth-century society vividly to life and illuminates the effect of Victorian morality on women's lives. Introducing an irresistible new detective, the first book in the Laetitia Rodd Mystery series will enthral and delight.

Emily felt wide awake - but this had to be a dream. A soft light glowed from the middle of Holly's empty bed. It came from a little tent - striped red and white, not more than knee-height, and with shadows moving about inside it. Never in all her life would Emily forget the strangeness of what she saw next . . .

When Emily's sister Holly dies, she is surprised to find that she misses her toy bear, Bluey, almost as much as Holly. Bluey was Holly's constant companion, and Emily used to make up stories about him and his escapades in the magical (and very silly) world of Smockeroon to entertain her. And the only person who seems to understand Emily's grief is Ruth, her kindly next-door neighbour.

But then very strange things start to happen. Emily dreams of talking toys visiting her bedroom, telling her that they have come from Smockeroon, and have a message for her from Bluey. A terrible black toad, who stinks of sadness, begins to stalk Ruth's house. And when a parade of penguins wearing plastic moustaches marches through their kitchen - well, Emily has to begin to wonder whether this is all a dream after all. But why are the toys here, and what could Bluey possibly be trying to tell her?

This stunning novel will tickle your funny bones as much as it pulls on your heartstrings, and is a true classic in the making.

An incredible, heart-wrenching sequel to E. Nesbit's Five Children and It, set on the eve of the First World War. The five children have grown up - war will change their lives for ever.

Cyril is off to fight, Anthea is at art college, Robert is a Cambridge scholar and Jane is at high school. The Lamb is the grown up age of 11, and he has a little sister, Edith, in tow. The sand fairy has become a creature of stories ... until he suddenly reappears. The siblings are pleased to have something to take their minds off the war, but this time the Psammead is here for a reason, and his magic might have a more serious purpose.

Before this last adventure ends, all will be changed, and the two younger children will have seen the Great War from every possible viewpoint - factory-workers, soldiers and sailors, nurses and the people left at home, and the war's impact will be felt right at the heart of their family.

Enter a world filled with magical chocolate, evil villains, and an adventure twins Lily and Oz never could have dreamed. . . .

Lily and Oz Spoffard have just inherited a magical house with a mysterious boarded-up chocolate shop on the ground floor. The twins’ great-great-uncles were famous chocolatiers, and their chocolate was ANYTHING but ordinary. In fact, it had magical properties.

Now an evil gang is after the secret recipe, and it’s up to Lily and Oz to stop them. The fate of their family, and the world, depends on it.

Tom is in shock. He's just discovered that his dad is an escaped fairy on the run. And that he must trust his life to three dangerous fairy godmothers he's never met. Two of them are hardened criminals, and one falls out of the window when she tries to fly . . .

Will their mad magic be enough to help Tom rescue his dad from the clutches of some killer fairies?

Twelve-year-old Flora Fox would do anything not to go to Penrice Hall, the boarding school her parents are shipping her off to because of a family emergency. Penrice has horses and an Olympic-size swimming pool, but flashy facilities won't change how Flora feels about being sent away and having to make new friends.

On the train ride to Penrice, Flora awakens from a nap to find herself transported into the past—1935, to be exact. As Flora rises to the challenges of her strange new life, she finds that the joys and complications of growing up are the same no matter what the year. And that friends and family will always be there to lend a helping hand.

Cassie is nothing if not organised. A successful journalist, shes ticked almost all the boxes: attentive boyfriend, own flat, good job, great friends...its all fallen into place. In theory, at least. Theres one part of Cassies life, however, which is anything but organised, and thats her love for the Darling family. As the only child of ambitious parents, Cassie spent her childhood abandoned to the somewhat peremptory care of a series of nannies until one day, peeping over the garden wall, she met her nextdoor neighbours: Fritz and Ben, the boys who became her inseparable childhood friends, Gudrun, their father, and Phoebe Darling, the woman who took Cassie in and transformed her life. But now Phoebe is ill, and when she summons Cassie to ask of her the only favour shes ever requested, Cassie knows she cant say no. But what Phoebe asks is an impossibility: concerned about what will happen to Fritz and Ben after her death, she wants to see them safely married off. Yet entertaining as they were as children, theyre terrible as adults. Theyre utterly charming, ridiculously sexy and completely irresistible, but theyre also totally unemployable, hopelessly messy and irretrieva

Hilda, 18, and her younger sisters, Bella and Gipsy, are living a dreary existence on the Isle of Wight in the early 1900s. Relieved when their carping mother dies, the girls as well as their companion, Miss Goddard, hope their father will return now that his wife can no longer torment him. When he does, however, he ignores or criticizes his daughters, lavishing love on a visitor he introduces as his cousin, Conrad Veitch. Conrad is a beautiful youth; he attracts Miss Goddard and the girls although they resent him as a self-proclaimed saint, bent on saving humans from damnation. When Hilda coaxes a kiss from the fanatic youth, she creates a situation that races to a deliciously fearful and funny climax that reveals Conrad's secret past and a surprising glimpse into the future of all concerned.