The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything... Zobraziť viac
In collections such as Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Raymond Carver wrote with unflinching exactness about men and women enduring lives on the knife-edge of poverty and other deprivations... Zobraziť viac
In her brilliantly inventive and haunting debut collection of stories, Julia Armfield explores the body, mapping the skin and bones of her characters through their experiences of isolation, obsession, love and revenge... Zobraziť viac
IT’S 1895. Amid laundry and bruises, Rina Pierangeli Faccio gives birth to the child of the man who raped her – and who she has also been forced to marry. Unbroken, she determines to change her name; and her life, alongside it... Zobraziť viac
Two further backlist Amis titles available for the first time in Vintage paperback. Zobraziť viac
International Booker–nominated virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story ― an epic, multi-generational tale that threads together a century of Korean history... Zobraziť viac
Following the "Sunday Times" bestselling "Eagles Of War" series, this is another story of justice, honour and revenge in the Roman Empire. Zobraziť viac
Reissue of Yates's mesmerising collection of stories, first published in 1962. Zobraziť viac
Andrew Miller's extraordinarily acclaimed and prizewinning debut, featuring an 18th-century surgeon who is unable to feel pain Zobraziť viac
Morris Duckworth has a dark past. Having married and murdered his way into a wealthy Italian family, he has now become a respected member of Veronese business life. But it's not enough ... Horrifying and incredibly entertaining, PAINTING BLOOD tells... Zobraziť viac
Surrounded by quarrelling honeymooners, a freeloading anthropologist and assorted tourists in search of their own personal paradise, and with his father whisked off to hospital after an unfortunate accident, Bernard is beginning to regret ever coming... Zobraziť viac
Pigs might not fly but they are strangely altered. So, for that matter, are wolves and racoons. A man, once named Jimmy, lives in a tree, wrapped in old bedsheets, now calls himself Snowman. The voice of Oryx, the woman he loved, teasingly haunts him... Zobraziť viac
The sun brightens in the east, reddening the blue-grey haze that marks the distant ocean. The vultures roosting on the hydro poles fan out their wings to dry them. the air smells faintly of burning. The waterless flood - a manmade plague ... Zobraziť viac
Isabel Dalhousie is a new mother and a connoisseur of philosophy; she'd rather not be a sleuth. But when a chance conversation at a dinner party draws her into the case of a doctor whose career has been ruined, she cannot ignore what may ... Zobraziť viac
The very first of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, A Study in Scarlet reveals the early days of Holmes and Watson's friendship, and exactly how the former doctor became involved in a life of crime-solving... Zobraziť viac
One of the most intriguing characters in The Lord of the Rings, the amusing and enigmatic Tom Bombadil, also appears in verses said to have been written by Hobbits and preserved in the ‘Red Book’ with stories of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins and their friends.. Zobraziť viac
From the author of the breathtaking bestsellers "Outlander" and "Dragonfly in Amber," the extraordinary saga continues.Their passionate encounter happened long ago by whatever measurement ClaireRandall took... Zobraziť viac
Dante’s dramatic journey through the circles of hell in search of redemption – and his encounter with devils, monsters and the souls of some of the greatest sinners who ever walked on... Zobraziť viac
Set in Changi, the most notorious prisoner of war camp in Asia, King Rat is an heroic story of survival told by... Zobraziť viac
It is three weeks since the boy came to town, carrying a book of poetry to return to the old sea captain - the poetry that did for his friend Bardur. Three weeks, but already Bardur's ghost has faded. Snow falls so heavily that it binds heaven ... Zobraziť viac
