In 1940s Europe, a group of Allied spies try to track down a dangerous force that seems to jump from body to body, leaving nothing behind but a bloody trail and questions.Europe, December 1942. The global conflict has reached a fever pitch... Zobraziť viac
Gretel Fernsby is a quiet woman leading a quiet life. She doesn't talk about her escape from Germany seventy years ago or the dark post-war years in France with her mother... Zobraziť viac
The greatest literary landmark of classical antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time. When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017―revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that... Zobraziť viac
She'll light the fire of resistance―but she may get burned… Zobraziť viac
Once upon a time in an enormous forest, there lived a poor woodcutter and his wife. Around them a war wages, and hunger is a constant companion. Yet every night, the woodcutter's wife prays for a child... Zobraziť viac
'An unforgettable love story set in perilous times' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz. The greatest love blossoms in the darkest hour. In the heart of Nazi-occupied Europe, two people meet fleetingly in a chance encounter... Zobraziť viac
Deeply in love and about to marry, students Misha and Sophia flee a Warsaw under Nazi occupation for a chance at freedom. Forced to return to the Warsaw ghetto, they help Misha's mentor, Dr Janusz Korczak, care for the two hundred children in his ... Zobraziť viac
When Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert was liberated in 1945, a Jewish-American soldier gave her a banknote on which he’d written ‘Good luck and happiness’. And when her great-grandson, Dov, decided to use social media to track down the family of... Zobraziť viac
An Ostarbeiter was an 'Eastern Worker', rounded up by Nazi Germany from the captured territories in Central and Eastern Europe... Zobraziť viac
At the bitter end of the 1960s, upon his return home from combat in the Vietnam War, twenty-two-year old Eugene Allen writes a novel called Hystopia. It is set in a strangely destabilized historical moment, ... Zobraziť viac
It's early 1945 and a group of people trek across Germany, bound together by their desperation to reach the ship that can take them away from the war-ravaged land. Four young people, each haunted by their own dark secret, narrate their unforgettable stori Zobraziť viac
Pete Banning was Clanton's favourite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent family; a farmer, father, and a faithful member of the Methodist Church. Then one cool October morning in 1946, he rose early, drove into town, ... Zobraziť viac
Rosemary Gresham has no family beyond the band of former urchins that helped her survive as a girl in the mean streets of London. Grown now, they concentrate on stealing high-value items and have learned how to blend into upper-class society... Zobraziť viac
A beautiful new limited edition paperback of The Song of Achilles, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list... Zobraziť viac
Here is a small fact - You are going to die 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street... Zobraziť viac
Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, brought up on the shores of Lake Geneva and in England, half French, half British, naive yet too clever for her own good. But when she is recruited from her desk job by SOE ... Zobraziť viac
O, yakyy spravdi khorobryy voyak, yakyy bravyy opovidach, tsey khytryy, zlobnyy, nerozumno zvorushlyvyy Shveyk, yakyy (yak uzhe neodnorazovo pysaly y malyuvaly) razom z inshymy literaturnymy tytanamy, takymy yak Hamlet i Don Kikhot... Zobraziť viac
In the vast dominion of Seven Cities, in the Holy Desert Raraku, the seer Sha'ik and her followers prepare for the long-prophesied uprising known as the Whirlwind... Zobraziť viac
Alexander Jessiersky, Austrian aristocrat and shipping magnate, finds the Nazis distasteful - but in war and in business, distaste can lead to negligence. When Jessiersky's board of directors sends his mysterious neighbour... Zobraziť viac
One of the greatest epics in Western literature, THE ILIAD recounts the story of the Trojan wars. This timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods battling amidst devastation and destruction... Zobraziť viac
