Four writers one story

Four Writers One Story

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Story Orchestra: Four Seasons in One Day

Discover what it would be like to travel through the four seasons in one day, following a little girl called Isabelle and her dog, Pickle, as they tak

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Four Hedges

Clare Leighton was one of the finest engravers of the twentieth century. This is the story of the garden she carved from meadowland deep in the Chilte

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Four Books

"One of China's greatest living authors and fiercest satirists." (Guardian). In the ninety-ninth district of a sprawling labour camp, the Author, Musician, Scholar, Theologian and Technician are undergoing Re-education, to restore their revolutionary zeal and credentials. In charge of this process is the Child, who delights in draconian rules, monitoring behaviour and con...

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The Freedom Writers Diary - Erin Gruwell

<p>Now a public television documentary, Freedom Writers: Stories from the Heart In 1994, an idealistic first-year teacher in Long Beach, California, named Erin Gruwell confronted a room of "unteachable, at-risk" students. She had intercepted a note with an ugly racial caricature and angrily declared that this was precisely the sort of thing that led to th...

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Christmas Story

From one of the world's most acclaimed picture-book writers and illustrators, this beautifully illustrated story of a little girl's journey with her d

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

The Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother - 1984 itself: these terms and concepts have moved from the world of fiction into our everyday lives. They are central to our thinking about freedom and its suppression; yet they were newly created by George Orwell in 1949 as he conjured his dystopian vision of a world where totalitarian power is absolute.In this nove...

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Our Story Begins

An outstanding collection of new and classic stories, from one of America's greatest living short story writers

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Essential Bible Story Maps

Immerse yourself in the Story of the Bible. With these 39 maps, you can take off your shoes and walk the dusty paths of Abraham, Samson and Jesus. The maps in this set walk you through one biblical story at a time so you can follow the geographical thread that runs through the narrative of the Bible. This is not a Bible atlas...

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Lost Lands: The Four Horsemen Collector's Edition

An exciting adventure of a brave girl who found herself in a fantasy world. She is forced to fight against the Black Horsemen sent by evil forces to annihilate every living thing. Lost Lands: the Four Horsemen is an adventurous hidden object game-quest with puzzles and mini-games that tells a fairy-tale story about the world with never-before-seen races and folk types. On...

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The Story Smuggler - Gospodinov Georgi

Anotace: Some smuggle cigarettes or alcohol, others weapons, but for the International Booker Prize-winning novelist Georgi Gospodinov, the most dangerous contraband is carried by writers, as they move stories across borders. Our contraband, being invisible, is more dangerous. Our contraband is undetectable by scanners. What we carry as concealed excess baggage is stori...

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The Story Smuggler - Georgi Gospodinov

<p>Some smuggle cigarettes or alcohol, others weapons, but for the International Booker Prize-winning novelist Georgi Gospodinov, the most dangerous contraband is carried by writers, as they move stories across borders. Our contraband, being invisible, is more dangerous. Our contraband is undetectable by scanners. What we carry as concealed excess baggage is storie...

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Granta Book of the African Short Story

29 short stories by the best new African writers, selected by one of Africa's most eminent contemporary novelists, Helon Habila.

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BBC National Short Story Award 2022

The BBC NSSA is one of the most prestigious prizes for a single short story, with the winning author receiving GBP15,000, and four further shortlisted

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The Crucible: A Play in four Acts (0141182555)

Kniha - autor Arthur Miller, 126 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Arthur Miller's classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 - 'one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history' - and the American anti-communist purges led by Senator McCarthy in the 1950s. The story of how the small community ...

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Nineteen Eighty-Four : A Novel - Orwell George

Anotace: The Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother - 1984 itself: these terms and concepts have moved from the world of fiction into our everyday lives. They are central to our thinking about freedom and its suppression; yet they were newly created by George Orwell in 1949 as he conjured his dystopian vision of a world where totalitarian power is absolute. I...

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Lost Lands: The Four Horsemen Collector's Edition (PC)

An exciting adventure of a brave girl who found herself in a fantasy world. She is forced to fight against the Black Horsemen sent by evil forces to annihilate every living thing.Lost Lands: the Four Horsemen is an adventurous hidden object game-quest with puzzles and mini-games that tells a fairy-tale story about the world with never-before-seen races and folk types.One ...

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Only Love Can Hurt Like This: An unforgettable love story from the bestselling author - Toon Paige

Anotace: `Heartwarming and heartbreaking` Giovanna Fletcher`Deep, emotional, powerful` Milly Johnson`It swept me away!` Beth O`Leary___________________________Neither of them expected to fall in love. But sometimes life has other plans.When Wren realises her fiance is in love with someone else, she thinks her heart will never recover.On the other side of the world, Ander...

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Earthsea : The First Four Books: A Wizard of Earthsea * The Tombs of Atuan * The Farthest Shore * Tehanu - Guinová Ursula K. Le

<p>Discover the late Ursula Le Guin's passionate and enthralling story of a young boy sent to a school of wizardry to learn the ways of magic in the opening quartet of the Earthsea story. 'One of the literary greats' Margaret Atwood 'The deepest and smartest of writers. Her words are always with us. Some of them are written on my soul' Neil Gaiman A Wizard of Ear...

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Immortality: A Love Story, 1. vydání - Dana Schwartz

<p>The eagerly-anticipated sequel to Dana Schwartz's Reese's Book Club Winter YA Pick and No.1 New York Times bestselling gothic romance, Anatomy: A Love StoryHazel Sinnett is alone and half-convinced the events of the year before - the immortality, Beecham's vial - were a figment of her imagination. She doesn't even know if Jack is alive or dead. All she can really...

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The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War - Scott Anderson

<p>‘A darkly entertaining tale about American espionage, set in an era when Washington’s fear and skepticism about the agency resembles our climate today.’ New York Times At the end of World War II, the United States dominated the world militarily, economically, and in moral standing – seen as the victor over tyranny and a champion of freedom. But it was clear – to ...

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Immortality: A Love Story, 1. vydání - Dana Schwartz

<p>The eagerly-anticipated sequel to Dana Schwartz's Reese's Book Club Winter YA Pick and No.1 New York Times bestselling gothic romance, Anatomy: A Love StoryHazel Sinnett is alone. She's half-convinced the events of the year before - the immortality, Beecham's vial - were a figment of her imagination. She doesn't even know if Jack is alive or dead. All she can rea...

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Definitely: The Official Story of Def Leppard - Leppard Def

Anotace: JOE ELLIOTT: We had balls and we were naive, in a good way. We just went out there, full throttle.Offering fans the most personal and comprehensive record of Def Leppard`s history to date, Definitely: The Official Story of Def Leppard is narrated by the band in their own words, illustrated with photography and memorabilia from the Def Leppard archives.RICK SAVAG...

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Just One Year

Twenty-four hours can change your life...Allyson and Willem share one magical day together in Paris, before chance rips them apart. The romantic, emotional companion to Just One Day, this is a story of the choices we make and the accidents life throws at us. But is one day enough to find your fate?

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Widow For One Year

One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole awoke to the sound of lovemaking – it was coming from her parents’ bedroom.’ This is the story of Ruth Cole. It is told in three parts: on Long Island, in the summer of 1958, when she is only four; in 1990, when she is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful a...

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The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins (0241989051)

Kniha - autor Tom Higham, 320 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná The who, what, where, when and how of human evolution, from one of the world's experts on the dating of prehistoric fossils' Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs 'Fascinating and entertaining. If you read one book on human origins, this should be it' Ian Morris, author of...

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Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food - Fuchsia Dunlop

<p>'A brilliant, passionate and spellbinding tour de force' Claudia Roden'Fuchsia Dunlop is one of the world's best writers on Chinese food' Ken Hom CBE The epic tale of the world's most sophisticated gastronomic culture, told through a banquet of thirty Chinese dishesChinese was the earliest truly global cuisine. When the first Chinese labourers began to sojourn a...

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Travelling to Infinity - The True Story Behind the Theory of Everytihng - Jane Hawkingová

Anotace: Now a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking and Felicity Jones as his wife Jane. It chronicles their relationship, from his early development of ALS to his success in physicsIn this compelling memoir, Jane Hawking, Stephen Hawking´s first wife, relates the inside story of their extraordinary marriage. As Stephen´s academic r...

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How to End a Love Story: The brilliant new romantic comedy from the acclaimed screenwriter and director - Kuang Yulin

Anotace: Helen Zhang is the bestselling author who can`t write her own happy-ever-after. Grant Shepard is the screenwriter with the movie-star looks who can`t afford his therapist. When the two of them are put together to adapt Helen`s books for television, it should be a dream come true. Helen can start a new life in Hollywood. Grant can pay his mortgage. Only, Grant Sh...

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How to End a Love Story: The brilliant new romantic comedy from the acclaimed screenwriter and director - Yulin Kuang

<p>Helen Zhang is the bestselling author who can't write her own happy-ever-after. Grant Shepard is the screenwriter with the movie-star looks who can't afford his therapist. When the two of them are put together to adapt Helen's books for television, it should be a dream come true. Helen can start a new life in Hollywood. Grant can pay his mortgage. Only, Grant She...

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Shadowplay: Behind the Lines and Under Fire : The Inside Story of Europe´s Last War - Tim Marshall

<p>A gripping eyewitness account of a major 20th-century military conflict by the UK's most popular writer on geopolitics; The shattering of Yugoslavia in the 1990s showed that, after nearly 50 years of peace, war could return to Europe. It came to its bloody conclusion in Kosovo in 1999.; Tim Marshall, then diplomatic editor at Sky News, was on the ground covering ...

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A Widow for One Year - John Irving

<p>'One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole awoke to the sound of lovemaking - it was coming from her parents' bedroom'. This title tells the story of Ruth Cole.</p>

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The Daughter of Auschwitz: THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - a heartbreaking true story of courage, resilience and survival - Friedman Tova

Anotace: An incredible story of courage, resilience and survival. `I am a survivor. That comes with a survivor`s obligation to represent one and half million Jewish children murdered by the Nazis. They cannot speak. So I must speak on their behalf.` Tova Friedman was one of the youngest people to emerge from Auschwitz. After surviving the liquidation of the Jewish ghett...

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The Daughter of Auschwitz: THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - a heartbreaking true story of courage, resilience and survival - Tova Friedman

The harrowing, moving and poignant account of one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz: a girl who was only five years old when she was sent to an extermination camp. <p>An incredible story of courage, resilience and survival. 'I am a survivor. That comes with a survivor's obligation to represent one and half million Jewish children murdered by the Nazis. They ca...

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Very Bad People: The Inside Story of the Fight Against the World´s Network of Corruption - Alley Patrick

Anotace: *****`Reads like a John le Carre novel but is, in fact, very real.` - The Big Issue`Very Bad People would be a hugely enjoyable thriller if it wasn`t all true.` - Isabella Tree, author of Wilding`Global Witness are fearless.` - Gordon Roddick, Campaigner and Co-Founder of the Body Shop`Part true crime tale, part investigative procedural, this is the account of t...

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Very Bad People: The Inside Story of the Fight Against the World´s Network of Corruption - Patrick Alley

<p>*****'Reads like a John le Carre novel but is, in fact, very real.' - The Big Issue'Very Bad People would be a hugely enjoyable thriller if it wasn't all true.' - Isabella Tree, author of Wilding'Global Witness are fearless.' - Gordon Roddick, Campaigner and Co-Founder of the Body Shop'Part true crime tale, part investigative procedural, this is the account of th...

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One of Us Is Lying, 1. vydání - Karen M. McManusová

<p>FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR, KAREN McMANUS "Pretty Little Liars meets The Breakfast Club” (EW.com) in this "flat-out addictive” (RT Book Reviews) story of what happens when five strangers walk into detention and only four walk out alive. Pay close attention and you might solve this. On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High...

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The One-in-a-Million Boy - Monica Wood

Anotace: A one-in-a-million story for anyone who loves to laugh, cry, and think about how extraordinary ordinary life can be. Not to be missed by readers who loved THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY, ELIZABETH IS MISSING or THE SHOCK OF THE FALL. Miss Ona Vitkus has - aside from three months in the summer of 1914 - lived unobtrusively, her secrets fiercely protected. ...

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The One-in-a-Million Boy - Monica Wood

<p>From WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT to ELIZABETH IS MISSING, from THE SNOW CHILD to THE SHOCK OF THE FALL - a handful of exceptional novels touch almost every reader's heart. This is one of those books. A one-in-a-million story for anyone who loves to laugh, cry, and think about how extraordinary ordinary life can be. Not to be missed by readers who loved THE UNLIKELY PIL...

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Penguin Readers Level 6: One Of Us Is Lying (ELT Graded Reader) - Karen M. McManusová

<p>Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducin...

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Macmillan Readers D H Lawrence Selected Short Stories by PreIntermediate Pack

Four stories written by one of the greatest writers of twentieth-century English literature.

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Sleeping Beauty

A subtle love story by one of the most accomplished writers of the 20th century

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Foster

A heartbreaking, haunting story of childhood, loss and love by one of Ireland's most acclaimed writers.

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Where the Light Fell

The unlikely origin story of one of today's bestselling Christian writers

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Where the Light Fell

The unlikely origin story of one of today's bestselling Christian writers

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Peace Machine

A thrilling and challenging historical adventure story from one of Turkey's boldest young writers

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Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

A stunning collection from one of science fiction's great short story writers.

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Nght Country

A breathtaking literary ghost story from one of America's finest writers

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Jellyfish

The highly acclaimed short story collection by one of the foremost writers of her generation.

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PLPR4:Doll´s House and Other Stories, The - Mansfield Katherine

Anotace: Classic/ British EnglishKatherine Mansfield is one of the most famous short story writers in the English language. These four stories take place about a hundred years ago in England and New Zealand. They are sometimes funny, sometimes sad and often cruel.

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PER | Level 4: The Doll´s House and Other Stories - Katherine Mansfield

<p>Classic/ British EnglishKatherine Mansfield is one of the most famous short story writers in the English language. These four stories take place about a hundred years ago in England and New Zealand. They are sometimes funny, sometimes sad and often cruel.</p>

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Grace and Mary

By 'quite simply one of the best writers we have' (Sunday Telegraph), a profoundly moving story spanning three generations.

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England Football: The Biography

The definitive story of the England men's football team, as told by one of the nation's best sports writers

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Adios Hemingway

A classic detective story exploring the last years of Hemingway's life - from one of Cuba's most acclaimed writers

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Unfaithfully Yours

Nigel Williams, one of the UK's finest comic writers, returns with a poignant comic portrait of four marriages: a caustic satire of suburban intrigue,

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Rivers of the Unspoilt World

Described as one of the as one of the UK's finest short story writers, Constantine intricately interweaves fictional characters and events with the re

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Oxford Book of Short Stories

V. S. Pritchett, one of our greatest short-story writers, has chosen forty-one stories written in the English language for this volume, producing a co

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Lonely Planet Kids The Big Earth Book

Planet Earth. Four elements. One incredible story. We take kids on a rollercoaster ride through history, geography and science to show how four elemen

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Coming Home to Ottercombe Bay

Ottercombe Bay was originally published as a four-part serial. This is the complete story in one package.

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Kniha Foster

A heartbreaking, haunting story of childhood, loss and love by one of Ireland's most acclaimed writers, author of Small Thing Like These.

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