Badar's story truly begins on the day when, aged fifteen, he is brought to Mistress's great house in Dar es Salaam - where he proves a quick learner, and gains the friendship of Karim, the young man of the house. But then a false accusation sees Badar... Zobraziť viac
Beth has never stuck at anything. She's quit more jobs and relationships than she can remember and she still sleeps in her childhood bedroom. It's not that she hasn't tried to grow up, it's just that so far, the only commitment she's held down... Zobraziť viac
An eighteen-year-old Irish girl arrives in London to study drama and falls violently in love with an older actor.... Zobraziť viac
Emilia del Valle was always destined for great things. Abandoned at birth by her Chilean aristocrat father, Emilia comes of age in nineteenth-century San Francisco as an independent and fiercely ambitious young woman, decades ahead of her time... Zobraziť viac
Sofie Muller can make you into a better writer. That's why Alice and Walt are desperate to be in her creative writing class. She can spot talent and apply pressure, hone you – if you’re good enough, if you want it enough – into something more elegant... Zobraziť viac
1820. Mary Dorothea is living under the sole charge of her widowed father, Sir Edward, a man of strict principles and high moral values. But when Sir Edward marries Miss Fanny Knight of Godmersham Park, Mary’s life is suddenly changed... Zobraziť viac
The inspiration of James`s Washington Square (1881) was an anecdote told him by Fanny Kemble about a jilted heiress. The only child of a rich New York physician, shy, unattractive Catherine Sloper falls an easy victim to the attentions of a good-... Zobraziť viac
As Diana Morrison laid the table for six at her elegant Central Park apartment, she had no warning of what was to come. Spending New Year's Eve together was a tradition for Diana, her husband Eric, and their best friends Pascale and John Donnally and... Zobraziť viac
'Highly readable, twisty and shrewd' HANYA YANAGIHARA (on Instagram), author of A Little Life... Zobraziť viac
Reflects the social and moral values of New England in the 1840s. This novel presents a psychological drama, which concerns the Pyncheon family, a dynasty founded on pious theft, who live for generations under a dead man's curse until their house is... Zobraziť viac
I often wonder if we are living the wrong life in the wrong country. Talia is being held at a correctional facility for adolescent girls in the forested mountains of Colombia after committing an impulsive act of violence that may or may not have been... Zobraziť viac
But is not the slave trade entirely a war with the heart of man? ... Zobraziť viac
Dvojjazyčné vydání Shakespearovy hry v překladu Martina Hilského, který knihu opatřil také poznámkami a úvodní studií... Zobraziť viac
V úvodní studii se Hilský věnuje vzniku a výkladu této slavné tragédie. Následují anglický originál hry a jeho český překlad, které jsou uspořádány na stránkách proti sobě a opatřeny poznámkami pod čarou. Zobraziť viac
It’s summer 2017 and the last few residents of the Lough Neagh Archipelago are facing imminent eviction. The flood planned to combat a devastating algae outbreak will submerge their homes, forcing them back to the Mainland for the first time in fifty... Zobraziť viac
A man exiled in California recalls his Basque youth, a life shaped by family feuds, a civil war's shadow, and a summer night that changed everything. Zobraziť viac
NEW stunning paperback edition showcasing the original E.H.Shepard art with Milne’s classic, timeless stories. ‘You’re the Best Bear in All the World,’ said Christopher Robin. ‘Am I?’ said Pooh hopefully. Zobraziť viac
Sensual, dark and thrilling, Bram Stoker's Dracula remains the seminal work of Gothic fiction.When Jonathan Harker is summoned to Transylvania to finalize a property deal for the mysterious Count Dracula, he stumbles upon an ancient evil he is... Zobraziť viac
The 15th anniversary edition of a brilliant, action-packed and gripping novel of Charles Darwin's voyage on the Beagle - longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. 'A masterpiece' Bernard Cornwell Zobraziť viac
One warm summer's day at the beach, forty-year-old Cordelia Grinstead, dressed only in a swimsuit and beach robe, walks away from her family and just keeps on going... Zobraziť viac
