Лучшие книги Румер Годден

Девочка Айви, ставшая сиротой, и кукла Холли, которая стоит в витрине магазина игрушек, накануне Рождества мечтают обрести свой дом, но вынуждены встречать праздник в одиночестве: Холли остаётся в витрине магазина, потому что её никто не купил, а Айви, оказавшись в незнакомом городе, бродит по ночным улицам в поисках нового дома…
Эта трогательная рождественская история, ставшая классикой детской литературы, рассказывает о том, как важно прислушиваться к самим себе и ловить намёки и подсказки, которые время от времени подбрасывает нам жизнь, и о том, что с каждым из нас случаются настоящие чудеса, если мы остаёмся верны себе и смело идём навстречу своей мечте.
Прекрасная книга для семейного чтения, отличный повод поговорить с ребёнком о маленьких чудесах повседневной жизни, о силе наших желаний, о важности интуиции и настойчивости в достижении поставленных целей.
Книга впервые публикуется на русском языке и содержит 35 цветных иллюстраций, выполненных замечательной немецкой художницей Марен Бризвальтер.

Tracy Quinn, daughter of a screen star and raised on film sets around the world, returns to her adored family home, a country house named China Court. Her grandmother's recent death has set in motion events that threaten Tracy's future and the very existence of China Court. As Tracy fights to save the old house, inhabited by five generations of Quinns, the ancestors who created it are evoked: profligate, faithless Jared; Eliza, the embittered spinster; and Ripsie, an outcast orphan who rose to become the powerful matriarch.

When their mother is suddenly taken ill on holiday, five siblings are left to fend for themselves at the elegant, faded hotel, Les Oeillets. Under the increasingly jealous gaze of the glamorous patronne, Mademoiselle Zizi, the children gravitate towards her mysterious and charming lover, Eliot, for comfort. And, amongst the gnarled trees of the old orchards, thirteen-year-old Cecil watches from the sidelines as her achingly beautiful sister, Joss, is drawn into the heart of a toxic affair.

A tense, evocative portrait of love and deceit in the Champagne country of the Marne, Rumer Godden's The Greengage Summer is a hauntingly beautiful coming-of-age story.

This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition features an introduction by the actress and novelist Jane Asher.

Impunity Jane is a Victorian pocket doll who yearns for adventure. For many years, she waits in a doll house hoping to be rescued and surprisingly it is a 7-year-old boy named Gideon who hears her calling and liberates her.

Harriet is caught between two worlds: her older sister is no longer a playmate, her brother is still a little boy. And the comforting rhythm of her Indian childhood - the sounds of the jute factory, the colourful festivals that accompany each season and the eternal ebb and flow of the river on its journey to the Bay of Bengal - is about to be shattered by a tragic event. Intense, vivid, and with a dark undertow, The River is a poignant portrait of the loss of a young girl's innocence.

Sophie, an English ingénue with two children, arrives in Himalayan Kashmir to set up home in a tumbledown cottage surrounded by flowers and herbs. Settling down to live quietly, frugally and peacefully with her new neighbours, she is unaware of the turmoil her arrival provokes as the villagers compete fiercely for her patronage. Sophie's cook makes a drastic bid to secure his position, and the unwanted consequences are catastrophic . . .

In a crumbling Calcutta mansion, with faded frescos and a jasmine-covered garden, the Lemarchant family live, clinging to the fringes of respectability: neither Indian nor English, they are accepted by no one and exploited by all.

After only a day in India, Stephen Bright meets Rosa Lemarchant. In an ill-fitting dress once belonging to her sister, she is awkward and shy, and couldn't be more different from the stories he has heard of fast 'Eurasian' girls. Ignorant of Calcutta's strict codes of conformity, he falls in love with Rosa and becomes enchanted by the building in which she lives, determined to uncover its secrets.

Mystery pervades this story of a memory-haunted house in old Calcutta, as secret as a sundial in a ruined garden.

High in the Himalayas near Darjeeling, the old mountaintop palace shines like a jewel. When it was the General's 'harem' palace, richly dressed ladies wandered the windswept terraces; at night, music floated out over the villages and gorges. Now, the General's son has bestowed it on an order of nuns, the Sisters of Mary.

Well-intentioned yet misguided, the nuns set about taming the gardens and opening a school and dispensary for the villagers. They are dependent on the local English agent of Empire, Mr Dean; but his charm and insolent candour are disconcerting. And the implacable emptiness of the mountain, the ceaseless winds, exact a toll on the Sisters. When Mr Dean says bluntly, 'This is no place for a nunnery,' it is as if he foresees their destiny...

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on: and our little life is rounded with a sleep,” cries Prospero in Shakespeare’s The Tempest—from which play Rumer Godden took the story of this novel, A Breath of Air. In cast of character and plot structure, parallels are certainly present—Mr. van Loomis is the novel’s magician and ruler; Charis, his literate, island-bound daughter, is Miranda; the playwright Valentine is Ferdinand; and the exiled, brutish Mario is Caliban. Yet the novel transcends its own source of inspiration by its poignant—at times even unsettling—development of such themes as the the limits of civilization, the need for liturgy, and the inexorable facticity of the natural order. A perceptive combination of myth and parable, A Breath of Air is a distinguished literary effort, evocative of the imaginative genius and luminous artistry synonymous with the storytelling of Rumer Godden.

When little Nona is sent from her sunny home in India to live with her relatives in chilly England, she is miserable. Then a box arrives for her in the post and inside, wrapped up in tissue paper, are two little Japanese dolls. A slip of paper says their names are Miss Happiness and Miss Flower. Nona thinks that they must feel lonely too, so far away from home.
Then Nona has an idea - she will build her dolls the perfect house! It will be just like a J

Coromandel Sea Change

Everyone in Kizzy's town hates her because she's half-gypsy – a diddakoi. But Kizzy doesn't care. All she needs is Gran and her horse, Joe. But when Gran dies and their wagon burns down, Kizzy is all alone. No one wants to look after her and her beloved Joe might get sent to the knacker's yard. Can Kizzy survive in a hostile world – and save Joe?

Discover the secret life of dolls in this magical collection of seven stories by a celebrated children's writer

Dolls cannot tell you anything, but often their wish is as strong as telling. Have you ever felt a doll’s wish?

This wonderful classic edition contains some of Rumer Godden's best-loved stories, including The Dolls' House, Miss Happiness and Miss Flower, Little Plum, The Fairy Doll, The Story of Holly & Ivy, Candy Floss, and Impunity Jane. Perfect for new readers or for reading aloud, this collection will introduce a whole new generation of little girls to the magical secret life of dolls.

Tottie is a loving little wooden doll who lives with her family in a shoebox. The doll family are owned by two sisters, Emily and Charlotte, and are very happy, except for one thing: they long for a proper home. To their delight, their wish comes true when Emily and Charlotte fix up a Victorian dolls' house - just for them. It's perfect. But then a new arrival starts to wreak havoc in the dolls' house. For Marchpane might be a wonderfully beautiful doll, but she is also terribly cruel. And she always gets her own way . . .

This extraordinarily sensitive and insightful portrait of religious life centers on Philippa Talbot, a highly successful professional woman who leaves her life among the London elite to join a cloistered Benedictine community.

Vintage collection from the Reader’s Digest – a collection of stories by different authors. This collection includes a story from Bernard Cornwell ‘Sharpe’s Gold’. Full List of contents: The Dark Horse; Still Missing; This Was The North; Sharpe’s Gold