Учебники по английскому языку 4th Estate

The Beginning of Spring | It is March 1913, and the grand old city of Moscow is stirring herself to meet the beginning of spring. Change is in the air, and nowhere more so than at 22 Lipka Street, the...

Darling | A teenage girl clashes with her new stepmother in this debut thriller with an unforgettable twist I knew she was trouble from the moment I saw her. I felt it as she stood in the doorway that...

The Blue Flower | Set in Germany at the very end of the eighteenth century, The Blue Flower is the story of the brilliant Fritz von Hardenberg, a graduate of the Universities of Jena, Leipzig and Witt...

The Information. A History, a Theory, a Flood | Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012, the world's leading prize for popular science writing. We live in the information age. ...

Peculiar Ground | It is the 17th century and a wall is being built around a great house. Wychwood is an enclosed world, its ornamental lakes and majestic avenues planned by Mr Norris, landscape-maker....

The Reservoir Tapes | Midwinter in the early years of this century. A teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of England. The villagers are called up to join the search, fan...

Money. A User's Guide | Take control of your personal finances with this concise, timely and indispensable guide, from acclaimed money expert Laura Whateley. Ten years on from the financial crash, and...

Babysitter | In the waning days of the turbulent 1970s, in the wake of unsolved killings that have shocked Detroit, the lives of several residents are drawn together, with tragic consequences. There i...

The Bees | Enter a whole new world, in this thrilling debut novel set entirely within a beehive. Born into the lowest class of her society, Flora 717 is a sanitation bee, only fit to clean her orchard...

Innocent Smoothie Recipe Book. 57 1/2 Recipes from Our Kitchen to Yours | The smoothie and juice recipes from the innovative team behind Innocent, the UK's largest growing food and drink company. Inno...

Breathe | A novel of love and loss from the bestselling and prizewinning author of Blonde. Michaela and her husband have moved to the starkly beautiful but uncanny landscape of New Mexico, to take up ...

Good Trouble | Back at dinner, somebody said that the goose thinks it’s a dog. No, it doesn’t. It doesn’t think it’s a dog. The goose doesn’t think. The goose just is. And what the goose is is goose. ...

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher | A brilliant – and rather transgressive – collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The ...

The Hour Between Dog and Wolf. Risk-taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust | Now shortlisted for the 2012 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award and the Wellcome Trust Book Pri...

The Short End of the Sonnenallee | Thomas Brussig’s classic German satire, translated into English for the first time and introduced by Jonathan Franzen, is a comedic, moving account of life in East B...

Congo | 'Not only deserves the description "epic", in its true sense, but the term "masterpiece" as well' Independent This gripping epic tells the story of one of the world's most critical failed nati...

Ines of my soul | The vibrant new novel from Isabel Allende takes her back to her homeland of Chile, and tells the story of the first Spanish woman to arrive on its shores with the Conquistadors in th...

'Mum, What's Wrong with You?' 101 Things Only Mothers of Teenage Girls Know | Calling all Mums: Are you feeling lonely and confused? Are you panicking that you're getting everything wrong? Do you feel...

Single, Carefree, Mellow | Maya's dog is dying, and she is planning to leave her boyfriend. On the whole she feels worse about the dog. Nina thought it might be difficult to summon the moral fortitude...

Dublin Palms | The palm trees give the street a holiday atmosphere. There must be something in the soil they like. They have straight leaves that get a bit ragged, with split ends. At night you hear t...

The Abominable Man | The seventh book in the classic Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s and 70s - the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime writing. Hugely acclaimed, the Martin...

That Old Ace in the Hole | A brilliant novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Proulx, author of ‘The Shipping News’ and ‘Brokeback Mountain’. ‘That Old Ace in the Hole’ is a richly textured story of ...

The Valley of Amazement | An expansive, heartbreaking novel from the internationally bestselling author of 'The Joy Luck Club'. Shanghai, 1905. Violet Minturn is the young daughter of the American mis...

Valentine | A top ten New York Times bestseller. With the haunting emotional power of American Dirt and the atmospheric suspense of Where the Crawdads Sing: a compulsive debut novel that explores the ...

What We Cannot Know. From Consciousness to the Cosmos, the Cutting Edge of Science Explained | Britain's most famous mathematician takes us to the edge of knowledge to show us what we cannot know. Is ...

Borderlines | The debut novel by a British writer with nearly two decades of African experience – a compelling courtroom drama and a gritty, aromatic evocation of place, inspired by recent events. Bri...

Made at Home | From Tuscan tomato and bread soup to monkfish stew, simple spaghettis or lemon and pistachio polenta cake, Made at Home is a colourful collection of the food that Giorgio Locatelli love...

Risk of Harm | The gripping new crime thriller from the bestselling author of Before We Met and Critical Incidents Robin Lyons is back in her hometown of Birmingham and now a DCI with Force Homicide, ...

Thinking Better. The Art of the Shortcut | How do you remember more and forget less? How can you earn more and become more creative just by moving house? And how do you pack a car boot most efficientl...

M. Son of the Century | A startling look into the fascist mindset, a portrait of unrelenting determination, and an impeccable work of historical fiction. M tells the story of the rise of fascism from ...

Lean Fall Stand | The highly anticipated new novel from the Costa-award winning, three-times Booker-longlisted author of Reservoir 13. When an Antarctic research expedition goes wrong, the consequence...

The Ghost Factory | A powerful debut set in Belfast and London in the latter years of the twentieth century. The Troubles turned Northern Ireland into a ghost factory: as the manufacturing industry wi...

Babysitter | From one of America's most renowned storytellers comes a novel about love and deceit, and lust and redemption, against a background of child abductions in the affluent suburbs of Detroit....

Super-Cannes | A high-tech business park on the Mediterranean is the setting for a most disturbing crime in this reissue featuring a new introduction by Ali Smith. A disturbing mystery awaits Paul and...

First Bite. How We Learn to Eat | We are not born knowing what to eat; we each have to figure it out for ourselves. From childhood onwards, we learn how big a portion is and how sweet is too sweet. Th...

Head of State | Two corpses. A country on the edge of a political precipice. A conspiracy so bold it would make Machiavelli wince. Andrew Marr's debut novel imagines what really might be going on behi...

The Light at the End of the Day | A family scattered. Lovers torn apart. A painting that unites them all. When Jozef is commissioned to paint a portrait of the younger daughter of Krakow’s grand Oderf...

Greenfeast. Spring, Summer | 'Much of my weekday eating contains neither meat nor fish … It is simply the way my eating has grown to be over the last few years.' Greenfeast: spring, summer is a vibran...

Home Fires | A stunning, delicate portrait of a family bookended by war, Home Fires explores the legacy of loss, the strictures of class and the long road to redemption. Max Weston, twenty-one, leaves...

Pretty Honest. The Straight-Talking Beauty Companion | A witty, wise and truthful beauty handbook for real women on what works in real life from Sali Hughes, beloved journalist and broadcaster. Beauty...

Listen to This | Alex Ross’s award-winning international best-seller, ‘The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century’, has become a contemporary classic, establishing him as one of our most po...

Strangers on a Pier. Portrait of a Family | In Strangers on a Pier, acclaimed author Tash Aw explores the panoramic cultural vitality of modern Asia through his own complicated family story of migrati...

When They Go Low, We Go High. Speeches that shape the world – and why we need them | ‘By the people, for the people’ ‘I have the heart and stomach of a king’ ‘We shall never surrender’ The right words...

One on One | 101 chance meetings, juxtaposing the famous and the infamous, the artistic and the philistine, the pompous and the comical, the snobbish and the vulgar, told by Britain's funniest writer....

The Other Side of Mrs Wood | Mrs Wood is London's most celebrated medium. She's managed to survive decades in the competitive world of contacting the Other Side, has avoided the dreaded slips that rev...

Little Black Book. A Toolkit for Working Women | 'Little Black Book is THE book of the year for working women with drive' Refinery 29 The essential career handbook for creative working women. 'A compa...

Galapagos | Long, long ago, as he researched into the origin of species, Charles Darwin had been inspired by the creatures of the Galapagos. Now, a million years on, the new inhabitants of the islands...

How to Talk to Robots. A Girls' Guide to a Future Dominated by AI | How To Talk To Robots, is your girls guide to Artificial Intelligence. Entrepreneur Tabitha Goldstaub welcomes you into the AI world...

Fine Just the Way It Is | ‘Fine Just The Way It Is’ marks Annie Proulx's return to the Wyoming of ‘Brokeback Mountain’ and the familiar cast of hardy, unsentimental prairie folk. The stories are cast ...

The Ravenmaster. My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London | For centuries, the Tower of London has been home to a group of famous avian residents: the ravens. Each year they are seen by millions...

One. Pot, Pan, Planet. A Greener Way to Cook for You, Your Family and the Planet | Award-winning cook Anna Jones blazes the trail again for how we all want to cook now: quick, sustainably and stylishl...

Dancing Backwards | The brilliant new work from the bestselling author of 'Miss Garnet's Angel' and 'The Other Side of You'. Violet Hetherington has taken the rash step of joining a transatlantic crui...

Time Travel | From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on o...

Bounce. The Myth of Talent and the Power of Practice | From the author of You Are Awesome: Find Your Confidence and Dare to be Brilliant at (Almost) Anything Essential reading for an astounding summer...

Where Shall We Run To? A Memoir | From one of our greatest living writers, comes a remarkable memoir of a forgotten England. 'The war went. We sang in the playground, "Bikini lagoon, an atom bomb’s bo...

Fermat's Last Theorem | Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience – classics which w...

Behold the Dreamers | New York, 2007. After two long years apart, Jende Jonga has brought his wife Neni from Cameroon to join him in the land of opportunity. Drawn by the promise of America they are s...

In the Days of Rain | At university when I made new friends and confidantes, I couldn’t explain how I’d become a teenage mother, or shoplifted books for years, or why I was afraid of the dark and had ...

If I Die in a Combat Zone | Hailed as one of the finest books to emerge from the Vietnam War, If I Die in a Combat Zone is a fascinating insight into the lives of the soldiers caught in the conflict. ...

The Shipping News | Annie Proulx's highly acclaimed, international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Quoyle is a hapless, hopeless hack journalist living and working in New York. When his n...

Doxology | Two generations of an American family come of age - one before 9/11, one after - in this moving and original novel from the "intellectually restless, uniquely funny" (New York Times Book Re...

Essex Poison | October 1937. Swanton Morley, the People’s Professor, sets off to Essex to continue his history of England, The County Guides. Morley’s daughter Miriam continues to cause chaos and his ...

The Kitchen God's Wife | A stunning reissue of the international bestseller, from the much-loved author of The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter's Daughter. Pearl Louie Brandt has a terrible secret whi...

Offshore | Penelope Fitzgerald’s Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames, with an introduction from Alan Hollinghurst. ‘Offshore’ is ...