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When Tomek learns of the magical upside down River Qjar, he sets out on a fantastical journey to find it. Tomek lives a quiet life running his late parents' village store, which has everything you could ever need, and more. Then one day a girl visits. She asks Tomek if he sells s...omething he's never heard of before: a drop of water from the magical River Qjar, which flows back to front and upside down. When he admits he has none, she slips away. Tomek is desperate to follow the mysterious girl, and so he sets out on an incredible adventure. To find the upside down river, he must journey through strange and wondrous places: the Forest of Oblivion where monstrous bears roam, a meadow of deadly scented flowers, a long-hidden island cursed by a witch, and beyond . . . A million-copy bestseller in France, this beloved fantasy story is at last published in English for the very first time. Translated by Ros Schwartz
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When Jefferson the hedgehog goes to his local hairdresser's, he's shocked to discover the barber lying dead on the floor. Falsely accused of the murder, Jefferson goes into hiding in the human kingdom with only his friend Gilbert the pig to help him clear his name. But can the tw...o hunt down the real killer before it's too late? And how is the murder connected to the fight for animal rights?With a cover by Lisa d'Andrea, and inside illustrations by Antoine Ronzon
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A companion story to Tomek's Story, in which Hannah tells the full tale of her adventures searching for the magical upside down river before and after she met Tomek. Hannah has lost almost everything she ever loved, apart from one beautiful songbird. But the bird seems to be dyin...g. So Hannah sets out on an incredible adventure to find the magical upside down River Qjar, whose waters can give her beloved bird eternal life. She journeys across deserts and over dizzyingly high mountains, lives an entire lifetime in the blink of an eye, braves the terrifying Forest of Oblivion, and is mistaken for a long-lost princess. And along the way, Hannah meets Tomek, an ordinary boy who will follow her extraordinary quest... A sequel to Tomek's Story, this modern classic is now available to read in English for the very first time. Translated by Ros Schwartz.
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Championing the intrinsic power of reading, this is a story for anyone who understands that a book can change a life.
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A local scandal intrudes on Maigret's seaside holiday in book twenty-eight of the new Penguin Maigret series. At what point in the day could the note have been slipped into his pocket, his left breast pocket? It was an ordinary sheet of glazed squared paper, probably torn out of ...an exercise book.
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Maigret is cajoled out of retirement by a case involving an old classmate in book twenty-six of the new Penguin Maigret series. All that was still unclear, for sure. Ernest Malik had been right when he had looked at Maigret with a smile that was a mixture of sarcasm and contempt.... This wasn't a case for him. He was out of his depth.
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Following her son's dreams could bring them both back to life ... The Book of Wonders is a moving, heart-warming tearjerker of a novel about finding the strength to carry on in the face of devastation, and how the most unlikely, painful moments can often be the ones which teach u...s that life is worth living.
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In the darkness, the main room is as vast as a cathedral. Some warmth is still seeps from the radiators. Delfosse strikes a match. They stop a moment to catch their breath, and work out how far they have still to go. And suddenly the match falls to the ground, as Delfosse gives a... sharp cry and rushes back towards the washroom door.
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One of the foremost French philosophers of the last century, Simone Weil has been described by and by Andre Gide as 'the patron saint of all outsiders' and by Albert Camus as 'the only great spirit of our time'. In this, her most famous work, she diagnoses the malaise at the hear...t of modern life: uprootedness, from the past and from community. Written towards the end of World War Two for the Free French Army, Weil's text is an indispensable and perpetually intriguing text for readers and students of philosophy everywhere.
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Originally published in French as: Maigret chez le ministre. Presses de la Cit e, 1955.
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