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February 6th 2024, totally and absolutely without fail. Even if I were to be struck by lightning tomorrow, run over, kidnapped by aliens and then thrown into a black hole, you would still get it. Promise.

So what is it all about? Well, I opted for the 'direct sequel' approach, so the action simply carries on a couple of weeks where Shades of Grey ended. Eddie is about to married off as little more than breeding stock to the repulsive Violet deMauve, and Jane is now a Brunswick, and has been promoted to retail: working in East Carmine's Inspirational Living shop. Courtland Gamboge's death has not been forgotten, and Yellow prefect Sally Gamboge with the help of Yellow-Prefect-in-Waiting Bunty McMustard are keen to have Eddie and Jane consigned to the Green Room as punishment. Needless to say, Jane and Eddie are not keen for this to happen - after all, there is the entire social apparatus of Chromatacia to be brought down..

Along the way we discover more about the world they live in, the secret behind the Fallen Man, what Eddie's Mum was doing at Jollity Fair, and all manner of questions that they - and you - may have about the world.

В цветократическом Коллективе место гражданина в иерархии зависит oт того, какие цвета он умеет различать, и все, от почти бесправных «серых», до «фиолетовой» элиты, подчиняются Правилам, регламентирующим каждый аспект жизни.
Эдди Рассетт — молодой «красный» с высоким цветовосприятием и блестящими перспективами. Но в наказание за неудачную шутку, которую Эдди сыграл с сыном префекта, его отправляют проводить перепись стульев в прифронтирный городок Ист-Кармин. По дороге туда он знакомится с «серой» Джейн С-23, девушкой с красивым носиком и трудным характером. Эта встреча изменит жизнь Эдди и приведет к открытию, которое перевернет его представление об окружающем мире.

Доп. информация:
Книга входит в условный цикл "Оттенки серого", но поскольку ни одно из продолжений автором не дописано, то и циклом, на данном этапе, это трудно назвать.

The final instalment of the Last Dragonslayer Chronicles, demonstrating that with a small band of committed followers, a large tin of resolve and steely determination, almost anything can be achieved . . .

Sixteen-year-old Jennifer Strange and her sidekick and fellow Orphan Tiger Prawns have been driven to the tip of the UnUnited Kingdoms - Cornwall - by the invasion of the Trolls. Their one defence is a six-foot-wide trench full of buttons, something which the Trolls find unaccountably terrifying (it's their clickiness).

Worse than being eaten by Trolls is the prospect of the Mighty Shandar requisitioning the Quarkbeast and using him to achieve supreme power and domination - an ambition that has been four hundred years in the planning and which will ultimately leave the Earth a cold cinder, devoid of all life.

Nothing has ever looked so bleak, but Jennifer, assisted by a renegade vegan Troll, a bunch of misfit sorcerers, the Princess (or is she now the ruler?) of the UnUnited (or are they now United?) Kingdoms, and Tiger, must find a way to vanquish the most powerful wizard the world has ever seen, and along the way discover the truth about her parents, herself, and what is in the locked glovebox of her VW Beetle . . .

Sixteen-year-old Jennifer Strange and her sidekick and fellow Orphan Tiger Prawns have been driven to the tip of the UnUnited Kingdoms - Cornwall - by the invasion of the Trolls. Their one defence is a six-foot-wide trench full of buttons, something which the Trolls find unaccountably terrifying (it's their clickiness).
Worse than being eaten by Trolls is the prospect of the Mighty Shandar requisitioning the Quarkbeast and using h

55 лет назад в полнолуние выпал снег, потом начался самый жаркий из дней лета, который закончился зеленым закатом. В радиусе 16 миль заржавела вся алюминиевая фольга, а стекло стало блестеть, как нефтяная пленка на воде. Тогда очеловечились 18 кроликов – изменились, выросли и приобрели человеческие формы.

Почему? Это шутка высших сил? Или средство, чтобы заставить возгордившихся своей уникальностью людей задуматься?

Но наша история начинается, когда семья Кроликов переселяется в городок, где им не рады.

55 лет назад, в полнолуние выпал снег, потом начался самый жаркий из дней лета, который закончился зеленым закатом. В радиусе 16 миль заржавела вся алюминиевая фольга, а стекло стало блестеть, как нефтяная пленка на воде. Тогда очеловечились 18 кроликов — изменились, выросли и приобрели человеческие формы. Почему? Это шутка высших сил? Или средство, чтобы…

A new stand-alone novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Early Riser and the Thursday Next series England, 2022. There are 1.2 million human-size rabbits living in the UK. They can walk, talk, drive cars, and they like to read Voltaire, the result of an Inexplicable Anthropomorphizing Event fifty-five years before. A family of rabbits is about to…

Every Winter, the human population hibernates.
During those bitterly cold four months, the nation is a snow-draped landscape of desolate loneliness, and devoid of human activity.

Well, not quite.
Your name is Charlie Worthing and it's your first season with the Winter Consuls, the committed but mildly unhinged group of misfits who are responsible for ensuring the hibernatory safe passage of the sleeping masses.
You are investigating an outbreak of viral dreams which you dismiss as nonsense; nothing more than a quirky artefact borne of the sleeping mind.
When the dreams start to kill people, it's unsettling.
When you get the dreams too, it's weird.
When they start to come true, you begin to doubt your sanity.
But teasing truth from Winter is never easy: You have to avoid the Villains and their penchant for murder, kidnapping and stamp collecting, ensure you aren't eaten by Nightwalkers whose thirst for human flesh can only be satisfied by comfort food, and sidestep the increasingly less-than-mythical WinterVolk.
But so long as you remember to wrap up warmly, you'll be fine.

«Последняя Охотница на драконов» Некогда я была знаменита. Моя физиономия смотрела с футболок, значков и памятных кружек, не говоря уже о плакатах. Я порождала новости, заголовки газет, появлялась на телевидении. Ежедневная газета «Ракушка Дэйли» назвала меня «наиболее влиятельным подростком года», а воскресный «Моллюск» – «женщиной года»! Мне грозили тюрьмой.…

Every Winter, the human population hibernates. During those bitterly cold four months, the nation is a snow-draped landscape of desolate loneliness, and devoid of human activity. Well, not quite. Your name is Charlie Worthing and it's your first season with the Winter Consuls, the committed but mildly unhinged group of misfits who are responsible for ensuring the…