The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do. But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting. He's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming...
The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do. But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting. He's been expecting the one from his nightmare...
The extraordinary happens everyday. One night, George Duncan is woken by a noise in his garden. Impossibly, a great white crane has tumbled to earth, shot through its wing by an arrow. Unexpectedly moved, George helps the bird, and from the moment he watches it fly away, his life is transformed. The next day, a beautiful woman called Kumiko walks into his shop and begins to tell him the most extraordinary story. Wise, romantic, magical and funny, The Crane Wife is a celebration of the disruptive and redemptive power of love.
The extraordinary happens everyday. One night, George Duncan is woken by a noise in his garden. Impossibly, a great white crane has tumbled to earth, ...
A boy called Seth drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments, losing his life as the pounding sea claims him. But then he wakes. How is that possible? And where is this place? It looks like the suburban English town where he lived as a child, before an unthinkable tragedy happened and his family moved to America. But the neighbourhood around his old house is overgrown, covered in dust and completely abandoned. What's going on?
A boy called Seth drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments, losing his life as the pounding sea claims him. But then he wakes. How is that pos...
The bestselling novel about love, loss and hope from the twice Carnegie Medal-winning Patrick Ness. Conor has the same dream every night, ever since his mother first fell ill, ever since she started the treatments that don't quite seem to be working. But tonight is different. Tonight, when he wakes, there's a visitor at his window. It's ancient, elemental, a force of nature. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor. It wants the truth. Patrick Ness takes the final idea of the late, award-winning writer Siobhan Dowd and weaves anextraordinary and heartbreaking tale of mischief,...
The bestselling novel about love, loss and hope from the twice Carnegie Medal-winning Patrick Ness. Conor has the same dream every night, ever since h...
Nový dojemně tragikomický příběh od populárního autora Patricka Nesse o odvaze přijmout své pravé já a prožít život naplno. Adam Thorn právě prožívá nejhorší a nejdivočejší den svého života. Ve vztazích to skřípe, v práci se mu víc než nedaří, a vrcholem všeho je kon?ikt s otcem. Otec farář, on teenager a gay, který oběma převrátí život vzhůru nohama. Adamův den je plný kon?iktů, útěků a vysvětlování. Den plný sexu, lásky i zlomených srdcí. Ale možná, opravdu jen možná, i špetky naděje... Prožijte s Adamem naplno jeho...
Nový dojemně tragikomický příběh od populárního autora Patricka Nesse o odvaze přijmout své pravé já a prožít život naplno. Adam Thorn...
Třináctiletého Conora navštěvuje noc co noc netvor. Není to však ten, kterého Conor očekával - ten z noční můry, jež ho pronásleduje od doby, kdy jeho maminku začali v nemocnici týrat neúspěšnými léčebnými procedurami. Tenhle netvor je jiný. Je to tajuplný přízrak z dávných časů, ukrývající se v podobě starého stromu za domem. Je tu proto, aby Conorovi vyprávěl tři příběhy. Na oplátku ale něco chce. Tu nejnebezpečnější věc ze všech. Chce pravdu. Tajemnou knihu plnou temně pohádkové atmosféry napsal Patrick Ness na námět zesnulé...
Třináctiletého Conora navštěvuje noc co noc netvor. Není to však ten, kterého Conor očekával - ten z noční můry, jež ho pronásleduje od...
The complete Chaos Walking trilogy is now available in this striking boxed set. Soon to be a major motion picture starting Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley - read it before you watch the film! Prentisstown isn't like other towns. Everyone can hear everyone else's thoughts in a constant, overwhelming Noise. There is no privacy. There are no secrets. Then Todd Hewitt unexpectedly stumbles on a spot of complete silence. Which is impossible. And now he's going to have to run... Patrick Ness's award-winning modern classic makes essential, gripping reading and is soon to be a major motion...
The complete Chaos Walking trilogy is now available in this striking boxed set. Soon to be a major motion picture starting Tom Holland and Daisy Ridle...
"Mind-bendingly brilliant and fearlessly strange." - Frances Hardinge "A haunting, lyrical fable." - The Bookseller "Awe-inspiring." - The Times, Children's Book of the Week From the multi-award-winning author of A Monster Calls comes a haunting tale of power and obsession that turns the story of Moby Dick upside down. The whales of Bathsheba's pod live for the hunt. Led by the formidable Captain Alexandra, they fight a never-ending war against men. Then the whales attack a man ship, and instead of easy prey they find the trail of a myth, a monster, perhaps the devil himself... With...
"Mind-bendingly brilliant and fearlessly strange." - Frances Hardinge "A haunting, lyrical fable." - The Bookseller "Awe-inspiring." - The Times, Ch...
