Мелвин Берджесс – лучшие книги

Дино, Джон и Бен — самые крутые и популярные ребята в школе. У каждого из них своя жизнь, но их мысли крутятся вокруг одного: девчонки и секс. Дино сходит с ума от Джеки — первой красавицы школы, которая дико хочет секса с ним, но постоянно себя останавливает под тем или иным предлогом. На шею Джона вешается толстушка Дебора, которая ему даже нравится, — но показываться с ней на людях ему стыдно. Ну а Бен встречается с молодой учительницей, которая стала ему преподавать уроки Большой Любви и о романе с которой он никому не может рассказать. Мелвин Берджес пишет о жизни шестнадцатилетних школьников без пафоса и романтического налета,…

"Сучка!" - страшным голосом закричал пьяница. И девочка-подросток Сандра превратилась в собаку. Суку по кличке Леди. И у нее появилась возможность не только взглянуть на себя, своих близких и отношения с ними со стороны, но и увидеть мир людей из перспективы, которая хоть и может показаться странной, но зато откроет глаза на многие секреты ее жизни. И потом, побыть собакой, поохотиться на кошек, сравнить радость от человеческого и животного секса, - кто откажется от этого? Только что она выберет, эта девочка, снова стать собой - или окончательно превратиться в суку по имени Леди?..

Tar loves Gemma, but Gemma doesn't uuant to be tied doain - not to anyone or anything. Gemma luants to fly. But no one can fly forever. One day, somehouu, finally, you have to come doom. Формат: 13 см х 20 см.

Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for motivating, contemporary graded material that will instantly appeal to students. "Billy Elliot" is based on the award-winning film and tells the story of a young boy who follows his dream, against all the odds. It also provides an insight into British culture and family relationships.

Tam is unhappy at home and often takes refuge in the ruins of Thowt It Farm. But then one day he is transported back to the Second World War. Alone and afraid, he makes friends with May, who has been rescued from a bombed-out house. She tries to persuade him to stay at the farm, but Tam is afraid of being trapped in the past forever.

Love. Hate. So what? This is family. This is business.' London is in ruins. The once-glorious city is now a gated wasteland cut off from the rest of the country and in the hands of two warring families – the Volsons and the Connors. Val Volson offers the hand of his young daughter, Signy, to Connor as a truce. At first the marriage seems to have been blessed by the gods, but betrayal and deceit are never far away in this violent world, and the lives of both families are soon to be changed for ever . . . 'Shies from nothing, making it both cruel and magnificent' Guardian 'An epic tale of treachery, deceit, sex, torture, violence, revenge and retribution' Independent on Sunday 'Will rank along with the 20th-century classics' - Sunday Telegraph Winner of the Lancashire Book Award

Sigurd has a fabulous but frightening future predicted: even to start, he must leave everything he knows to go and fight a dragon, and from there descend into the Underworld. Sounds bad enough, but when you know that the dragon lives on a futuristic, industrially-ruined moonscape that was once Hampstead Heath, the scene is set for a staggeringly brutal fight on an epic scale. Unhappily for him, he meets the love of his life in the underworld, and Sigurd's efforts to rescue his lover will cause huge heartache and grief for both of them, and also for everyone who ever meets them.

His most substantial book to date, this compelling story of a teenager caught in a corrupt 1980s Care Home is a powerful study of a particularly highly-charged and distressing subject. Handled with great sensitivity and engrossing narrative drive, it is an important addition to the understanding of how childcare can go so wrong. When Nick's mother dies suddenly and unexpectedly, the 14 year old is sent straight into a boys' home, where he finds institutional intimidation and violence keep order. After countless fights and punishments, Nick thinks life can't get any worse - but the professionally respected deputy head, Mr Creal, who has been grooming him with sweets and solace, has something much more sinister in mind. Nick has no choice but to escape. Living on the run, he falls in with a modern Fagin, a cheerful Rasta who fences stolen credit cards and car stereos. The scarring, shaming experience he suffered at the hands of Mr Creal can never quite be suppressed, and when the old hatred surfaces, bloody murder and revenge lead to an unforgettable climax.