Лучшие книги Джона Марсдена

Пока Элли и ее друзья были в походе, они и не подозревали, что за время их отсутствия мир переменился. Возвратившись домой, семеро подростков обнаруживают, что случилось что-то ужасное: все дома в их родном городке опустели, а все домашние животные мертвы. Вскоре друзья узнают, что их страна оказалась в руках захватчиков, а все жители их городка взяты в плен или убиты. Элли и остальные выжившие должны принять невероятно трудное решение. Они могут бежать в горы и попытаться там выжить. Или же они могут начать борьбу... Впервые на русском языке!

Продолжение книги, на основе которой был снят захватывающий фильм «Вторжение. Битва за рай».

Прошло уже несколько месяцев, с тех пор как Элли и ее друзья вернулись из похода и обнаружили, что их страна захвачена неизвестным врагом. Подростки приняли непростое решение: они должны не просто выжить, но и оказать врагу сопротивление. Однако о себе дают знать первые неудачи и поражения (Корри в больнице, в коме, Кевин в плену). Отныне каждый из молодых людей ведет борьбу не только с оккупантами, но и с собственными разочарованиями и бедами, рухнувшими иллюзиями и противоречивыми чувствами. Им приходится принимать болезненные решения и даже убивать врага. К тому же выяснилось, они не единственные партизаны этой войны, но можно всем ли кажущимся союзникам можно доверять? Напряжение нарастает, кольцо врагов сужается, группа несет потери...

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Продолжение книги, на основе которой был снят захватывающий фильм «Вторжение. Битва за рай»!

Уже долгий срок Элли и ее друзья скрываются на оккупированной врагом территории. За их плечами — несколько удачно проведенных диверсий. Теперь же юные партизаны задумали нанести врагу удар вдали от родных мест — в гавани залива Кобблер. Это очень сложная задача, ведь там расположен тщательно охраняемый военный порт, а местность вокруг совсем не похожа на хорошо изученный родной буш. Друзьям постоянно угрожает смертельная опасность, отношения внутри группы усложняются, каждый открывает в себе что-то новое, меняется, и не всегда эти открытия и изменения приятны. Противостояние врагу перестает быть тайным, и потери неизбежны…

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When Ellie and her friends return from a camping trip in the Australian bush, they find things hideously wrong--their families are gone. Gradually they begin to comprehend that their country has been invaded and everyone in their town has been taken prisoner. As the reality of the situation hits them, they must make a decision--run and hide, give themselves up and be with
their families, or fight back.

Ellie and her friends decide to attack the enemy forces that have invaded their homeland. But when their brave raid on the docks at Cobbler's Bay goes violently wrong, it looks like they're going to lose more than their freedom - their future's at risk, too.

A few months after the first fighter jets landed in their own backyard, Ellie and her five terrified but defiant friends struggle to survive amid a baffling conflict. Their families are unreachable; the mountains are now their home. When two of them fall behind enemy lines, Ellie knows what must happen next: a rescue mission. Homer, the strongest and most unpredictable among them, is the one to take charge. While others have their doubts about his abilities, Homer has no choice but to prove them wrong - or risk losing everything to the enemy.

Winner of the Children's Book Council Children's Picture Book of the Year (1999). A dramatically moving allegory of colonisation told from the viewpoint of native Australian animals. This stunning picture book examines the consequences of the arrival of a group of rabbits with entirely unfamiliar ways. The rabbits bring new food and animals, and make their own houses to live in, eventually dominating the environment and its other inhabitants.
The change in the native animals' environment is brilliantly depicted by Shaun Tan's illustrations, which also serve to highlight the 'strangeness' of the rabbits. The parallels with our own experience of colonisation are many; stolen children, the onset of industrialisation, and population increases.

The battle continues as five ordinary kids must journey back into the heart of an epic conflict.

Five months into World War III, Ellie and her four remaining friends have barely escaped the Australian town of Wirrawee with their lives and their sanity intact.
But as the next step becomes clear, they realize they must once again sacrifice their hard-won comfort and safety. A group of soldiers has recruited the kids to guide the way to the Wirrawee air base.
What could possibly motivate Ellie and her friends to return? This risky sabotage mission may be their only hope of rescuing their families, too.

A lone band of survivors fight back against a brutal army of invaders who have destroyed their country, murdering their family and friends. It's time for revenge, but they must face up to the reality that if they attack when the opportunity arises, the chances of survival are not high.

Amidst a brutal war with no end in sight, Ellie and her four remaining friends discover that their hidden refuge becomes a crowded place when they decide to care for an uncooperative crew of orphans. Things only get worse when Ellie and Homer learn that mysterious visitors have discovered their sanctuary. Has the enemy found them out? Five ordinary teens brave the worst in this electrifying continuation of their battle to stay safe and sane in a war zone that was once their home.

Thirteen-year-old Barnaby Fletch is a bag-and-bones orphan in London in the late 1700s.

Barnaby lives on his wits and ill-gotten gains, on streets seething with the press of the throng and shadowed by sinister figures. Life is a precarious business.

When he hears of a paradise on the other side of the world – a place called Botany Bay – he decides to commit a crime and get himself transported to a new life, a better life.

To succeed, he must survive the trials of Newgate Prison, the stinking hull of a prison ship and the unknown terrors of a journey across the world.

And Botany Bay is far from the paradise Barnaby has imagined. When his past and present suddenly collide, he is soon fleeing for his life – once again.

This is the story of the first Anglo–Spanish campaign against the French during the Peninsular War, a previous attempt to launch joint operations during Sir John Moore’s ill–fated expedition to Iberia having failed before the allies had an opportunity to unite.

Hardly had the ramifications of Britain’s setback in her first Iberian expedition settled, before a second was launched, Sir Arthur Wellesley disembarking at Lisbon on 21 April 1809. Wellington’s primary objective was the liberation of Portugal from what was, at the time, a small but significant French incursion in the north of the country. That achieved, the British commander decided to push the boundaries of his mission, as set by Castlereagh, and enter Spanish territory to link up with Gregorio de la Cuesta’s scratch army on the Tagus, his aim being that of pushing Victor’s army away from the Portuguese frontier and eventually liberating Madrid.

For all the significance of Wellington’s presence, it could be fair to say that Cuesta was the main protagonist of the Tagus campaign. A somewhat difficult character, he fell foul of Spain’s governing Junta Suprema in 1808, and was under house arrest pending trial at the time the Spanish armies were being overrun by Napoleon during his winter campaign of 1808-1809.

It was due only to the desperate predicament of Spain that the Junta decided to release Cuesta from his incarceration at Mérida and allow him to raise a scratch force which he referred to as the Army of Extremadura. It was with this army that he began the daunting task of attempting to prevent the French from crossing to the south bank of the Tagus in early 1809. By then the Junta was sitting at Seville, happy to support Cuesta´s attempts to halt the French advance on the south, but seeing him as a threat to the continuation of their self–appointed interregnum position as governors of Spain.

When Wellesley entered Spain, the Junta saw an opportunity to use the British as partners in a plan to rid them of their troublesome general, their quid pro quo being the appointment of the British general as supreme allied commander. J. H. Frere, Britain´s former plenipotentiary in Spain, was soon eagerly assisting the Junta with its intriguing, his friends in Seville appointing him as their chief liaison officer to the British.

So things continued whilst Cuesta was endeavouring to construct a working relationship with Wellesley in the field, but undoubtedly the Spaniard would have heard of the intriguing against him. If so, it may well explain what some writers have referred to as his lack of cooperation with his British allies. However, the Tagus campaign of 1809 may well not have taken place had Cuesta not stood as the only bar to Victor’s advance towards the Guadiana and beyond during the first quarter of 1809.

An examination of the Spanish archives affords the reader an opportunity to see just how much of a positive contribution Cuesta made to the Tagus campaign, despite the despicable insubordination of General Venegas and the plotting in London and Seville against him; all of which could have served to extinguish the nascent Anglo-Spanish alliance.

All major events of the campaign are discussed in detail, including, of course, the Battle of Talavera, as well as descriptions of the battles of Medellin and Almonacid, besides much detail on lesser-known aspects, the whole supported by a number of maps.

This is the story of a Spanish army, commanded by the Marqués de La Romana, which was sent to Denmark by Napoleon in 1807, whilst France and Spain were allies bound by the Treaty of San Ildefonso, signed in 1796. When relations between the two countries broke down in May 1808 they were soon at war with each other, and La Romana´s host became, in effect, a captive army in the hands of the French. When Spain looked to forge an alliance with Britain against her erstwhile ally, they found the British government only too eager to help. The Royal Navy’s dominant presence in the Baltic provided a ready opportunity to seal the new alliance and, once the political groundwork had been laid, plans for a daring rescue of the entrapped Spaniards by Vice Admiral Keats’ squadron were drawn up. However, whilst efforts were being made by the British to accumulate and prepare a sufficient amount of shipping to carry out the operation, difficulties soon arose in making contact with La Romana in order to convey to him the intentions of the Spanish and British high commands. This almost led to disaster, and the whole operation was saved only by some remarkable strokes of fortune, and the magnificent leadership provided by Keats and La Romana.

Until now this remarkable and little–known story has had little coverage in the various histories written about the Peninsular War, and what has been said about it in the Anglosphere has been confined to a description of events taken almost solely from a British perspective. Now, with access to a comprehensive collection of documents in the Spanish archives, it is possible to tell the story of the Spanish contribution to the successful operation in the Baltic, when the greater part of La Romana’s army was evacuated from Danish Baltic territory during the summer of 1808.

Due to circumstance and bad fortune, a significant part of the Spanish army was left behind during the Royal Navy’s action, and there is an interesting story told about what became of these men, related via the personal accounts left by two of the soldiers who did not return to Spain with La Romana.

Darkness is the friend and enemy of those who hunt by night.
Ellie and her friends have found safety after months of fighting. But the New Zealand Defence Force needs their help to infiltrate occupied Australian territory.
And so the friends must fight on.

An intense coming-of-age novel from internationally best-selling author John Marsden, now in paperback.

For twelve years Winter has been haunted. Her past, her memories, her feelings, will not leave her alone. And now, at sixteen, the time has come for her to act. She must head back to her old home, where a pair of family tragedies forever altered her life. What she discovers is powerful and shocking -- but must be dealt with in order for life to go on.
This is the striking new novel from John Marsden, Australia's #1 best-selling author for teens, who is ready for his US breakthrough. It rings with hard truths that will resonate incredibly with YA readers.