Учебники по английскому языку Sceptre

The Girl with the Louding Voice | Meet Adunni, a teenage girl born into a rural Nigerian village. Aged fourteen, she is a commodity, a wife, a servant. She is also smart, funny, curious, with a spirit...

Searching for Schindler | The extraordinary tale of Oskar Schindler, the Aryan who saved hundreds of Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland, is now legendary, but as Tom Keneally reveals in this absorbing memoi...

Unexpected Lessons in Love | Cecilia Banks has a great deal on her plate. But when her son Ian turns up on her doorstep with the unexpected consequence of a brief fling, she feels she has no choice bu...

Harmless Like You | When the meaning of 'home' is complicated, we strive for a sense of connection. Yet sometimes being alone feels like the easiest choice to make. In 1968 Yuki is 16 and has not one ...

Varina | With her marriage prospects ruined in the wake of her father's financial decline, teenage Varina Howell decides her best option is to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she...

The Yellow Birds | A soldier's broken promise ... a mother's loss ... an agonizing truth. The Yellow Birds gives a powerful, emotional insight into the human cost of war - its impact on soldiers, thei...

The Bewitching | A dazzling, shocking novel that speaks to our times, drawing on the 16th-century case of the witches of Warboys. Alice Samuel might be old and sharp-tongued, but she's no fool. Visiti...

Mercury | Mercury is at once a tense psychological drama and a taut emotional thriller exploring love, obsession, and the deceits that pull a family apart. An optometrist in suburban Boston, Donald is...

Of Fangs and Talons | Nicolas Mathieu's gripping first novel is the story of a world that has come to an end. With a girl, a gun and acres of snow. When a factory that employs most of a small town is ...

From the Mouth of the Whale | The year is 1635. Iceland is a world darkened by superstition, poverty and cruelty. Men of science marvel over a unicorn s horn, poor folk worship the Virgin in secret an...

Oxygen | In the summer of 1997, four people reach a turning point: Alice Valentine, who lies gravely ill in her West Country home; her two sons, one still searching for a sense of direction, the other...

A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself | When does sorrow turn to shame? When does love become labour? When does chance become choice? And when does fact become fiction? A Lie Someone Told You About Yo...

Monsters. A Fan's Dilemma | What do we do with the art of monstrous men? Can we love the work of Roman Polanski and Michael Jackson, Hemingway and Picasso? Should we love it? Does genius deserve speci...

Black Swan Green | It's a dank January in the Worcestershire village of Black Swan Green and thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor - covert stammerer and reluctant poet - anticipates a stultifying year in th...

The Crossing | She is sailing. She is alone. Ahead of her is the world's curve and beyond that, everything else. The known, the imagined, the imagined known. Who else has entered Tim's life the way Ma...

Britt-Marie Was Here | The number 1 European bestseller by the author of New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon A Man Called Ove, Britt-Marie was Here is a funny, poignant and upliftin...

Crimes of the Father | Father Frank Docherty has had his run-ins with the church authorities: in the early 1970s, he was expelled from the Sydney archdiocese for preaching against the Vietnam War and ...

The Teleportation Accident | History Happened While You Were Hungover When you haven't had sex in a long time, it feels like the worst thing that could ever happen to anyone. If you're living in Germa...

The Blindfold | Iris Vegan, a graduate student living alone and impoverished in New York, encounters four strong characters who fascinate and in different ways subordinate her: an inscrutable urban re...

Madness is Better than Defeat | The dazzling new novel by the Man Booker-nominated, Granta Best of Young British novelist, Ned Beauman. In 1938, two rival expeditions set off for a lost Mayan temple i...

The Playmaker | In 1789 in Sydney Cove, the remotest penal colony of the British Empire, a group of convicts and one of their captors unite to stage a play. As felons, perjurers and whores rehearse, t...

Now We Shall Be Entirely Free | The rapturously acclaimed new novel by the Costa Award-winning author of PURE, hailed as 'excellent', 'gripping', 'as suspenseful as any thriller', 'engrossing', 'movin...

Cold Mountain | A soldier wounded in the Civil War, Inman turns his back on the carnage of the battlefield and begins the treacherous journey home to Cold Mountain, and to Ada, the woman he loved befo...

Carter Beats the Devil | A dazzling, gripping, panoramic novel of magic and science, love and death set in 1920s America. Charles Carter, dubbed Carter the Great by Houdini himself, was born into priv...

The Return of Faraz Ali | Pakistan, 1968. As riots erupt in the streets of Lahore, Inspector Faraz Ali returns to his birthplace, the red-light district in the walled inner city. Wrested from it as a ...

The Summer Without Men | After Mia Fredricksen's husband of thirty years asks for a pause - so he can indulge his infatuation with a young French colleague - she cracks up (briefly), rages (deeply), t...

The Stars Are Not Yet Bells | In the aftermath of the Great Depression, Elle Ranier marries Simon to escape a life of destitution. She leaves New York City for Lyra, a remote, wooded island off the so...

The Slowworm's Song | An ex-soldier and recovering alcoholic living quietly in Somerset, Stephen Rose has just begun to form a bond with the daughter he barely knows when he receives a summons - to an...

Winter in Tabriz | During the chaotic months leading up to the Iranian Revolution, four young people navigate the increasingly dangerous situation they find themselves in. Damian and Anna are both res...

Pig | Cowan's beautifully drawn, multi award-winning first novel of love in the hostile climate of modern British society When his grandmother dies, and his grandfather is removed to a home, fifteen-y...

Incendiary | You aren't stupid. You know there's no such thing as a perfect mother. Plenty of other books will tell you there is, but this one won't lie to you. I was weak and I cheated and I was puni...

Embroidering Her Truth. Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power | I felt that Mary was there, pulling at my sleeve, willing me to appreciate the artistry, wanting me to understand the dazzle of...

Glow | With GLOW, Ned Beauman has reinvented the international conspiracy thriller for a new generation. A hostage exchange outside a police station in Pakistan. A botched defection in an airport hote...

Claudia | How good are people? Let me tell you, Dee: people are as good as the pair of eyes they believe is on them... When Claudia Talwar is called to meet a mysterious visitor in the reception of he...

Quicksand | Wildly funny and unceasingly surprising, Quicksand is both a satirical masterpiece and an unforgettable story of fate, family and friendship. Aldo Benjamin may be the unluckiest soul in hu...

Here Goes Nothing | A firecracker of a novel by the Booker-shortlisted author of A Fraction of the Whole – a scathingly funny and affecting tale of life, death, love and the questionable existence of ...

Listening Still | Jeanie Masterson has a gift: she can hear the recently dead and give voice to their final wishes and revelations. Inherited from her father, this gift has enabled the family undertak...

A Life's Music | A magnificent story of courage and survival in the face of great adversity In a snowbound railway station deep in the Soviet Union, a stranded passenger comes across an old man playin...

The Bewitching | From the award-winning author of The Language of Birds and The Crime Writer, a chilling tale of a witch-hunt Alice Samuel might be old and sharp-tongued, but she's no fool. Visiting h...

A Man Called Ove | Ove is almost certainly the grumpiest man you will ever meet. He thinks himself surrounded by idiots - joggers, neighbours who can't reverse a trailer properly and shop assistants w...

The Margot Affair | French teenager Margot is the illegitimate daughter of a prominent stage actress and an influential politician. The comings and goings of their unconventional family, in a small Pa...

How Much the Heart Can Hold. Seven Stories on Love | A brilliant collection of seven original stories by award-winning authors, inspired by different concepts of love. Love is not a singular concept. ...

Love Without End | Melvyn Bragg gives new life to one of the most remarkable love stories in history: the passionate, enduring romance between Heloise and Abelard. Within the Cloisters of Notre-Dame, ...

Boxer, Beetle | Combining love, lust, murder and lots of beetles in a thrilling novel, Ned Beauman has created a page-turning debut full of wild ideas. This is a novel for people with breeding. Only p...

Ghosted. A Love Story | One ordinary morning, Laurie's husband disappears, leaving behind his phone and wallet. For weeks she tells no one, carrying on her cleaning job at the university, visiting her...

Things We Do Not Tell the People We Love | A breathtaking collection of stories about our most intimate relationships, and the secrets, misunderstandings and silences that haunt them. A daughter asks ...

The Teleportation Accident | Категория: современная проза, на английском языке.

Moonstone The Boy Who Never Was | Категория: современная проза, на английском языке.

Utopia Avenue | This is the story of Utopia Avenue's brief, blazing journey from Soho clubs and draughty ballrooms to the promised land of America, just when the Summer of Love was receding into somet...

The Number Bias | Категория: прикладная и научно-популярная литература, на английском языке.

The Bone Clocks | Категория: фантастика. мистика. ужасы, на английском языке.

Cloud Atlas | Категория: современная проза, на английском языке.

The Reason Jump | Written by Naoki Higashida when he was only thirteen, this remarkable book explains the often baffling behaviour of autistic children and shows the way they think and feel - such as ...

Stork Mountain | In his mesmerising first novel, the internationally celebrated short-story writer Miroslav Penkov spins the intriguing tale of an American student who returns to Bulgaria, the country...

The Number Bias | It is not an overstatement to say that numbers dictate the way we live our lives. They tell us how we're doing at school, how much we weigh, who might win an election and whether the...

Utopia Avenue | This is the story of Utopia Avenue's brief, blazing journey from Soho clubs and draughty ballrooms to the promised land of America, just when the Summer of Love was receding into somet...

Schindler s Ark | Made into the award-winning film 'Schindler's List'. In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser...

In Every Moment We Are Still Alive | The prize-winning, bestselling tale of love, loss, family and the lives we live moment by moment, from a stunning new voice in European fiction. Tom's heavily preg...

Now We Shall Be Entirely Free | WINNER OF THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE.SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE.One rainswept winter's night in 1809, an unconscious man is carried into a house in Somerset. H...

The Lonely Century: A Call to Reconnect | Even before a global pandemic introduced us to terms like social distancing, loneliness was already becoming the defining condition of the twenty-first centur...

The Reason Jump | Written by Naoki Higashida when he was only thirteen, this remarkable book explains the often baffling behaviour of autistic children and shows the way they think and feel - such as ...

Madness is Better than Defeat | In 1938, two rival expeditions set off for a lost Mayan temple in the jungles of Honduras, one intending to shoot a screwball comedy on location there, the other to dis...

The Chimes | WINNER OF THE 2016 WORLD FANTASY AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL,LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 MAN BOOKER PRIZEA boy stands on the roadside on his way to London, alone in the rain.No memories, beyond what...

Rules of Civility | The rules of politeness in Amor Towels are an unforgettable debut of millions of copies by the author of the bestseller Gentleman in Moscow and Lincoln RoadIn a New York jazz bar o...