1919. The Russian Civil War. It is the harsh dead of winter, as four soldiers set up camp in a forest somewhere near the Romanian front line. There is a lull in the fighting, so their days are filled with precious hours of freedom, ... Zobraziť viac
Eight-year-old Edgar remembers nothing of the terrible accident people still whisper about. He only knows his father is... Zobraziť viac
Penguin Books Ltd: Jemima Jones is overweight. About seven stone overweight. Treated like a slave by her thin and bitchy... Zobraziť viac
Inspired by his experiences as a reporter during the Spanish Civil War, Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls tells the story of Robert Jordan, an American volunteer in the International Brigades fighting to defend the Spanish Republic against... Zobraziť viac
Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence, and budding naturalist Gerry, along with their long-suffering mother and Roger the dog... Zobraziť viac
Ida is a forty-year-old architect, single and starting to panic. She's navigating Tinder and contemplating freezing her eggs, but forces these worries to the back of her mind as she sets off to the family cabin for her mother's sixty-fifth birthday... Zobraziť viac
Brad Cutler, twenty-eight, is a rising star at his New York ad agency, about to marry the girl of his dreams. Anyone would agree he has it all ... a great career, a beautiful and loving fiancée, and a fairy tale life ahead of him ... Zobraziť viac
Presenting an unbeatable range of over 480 stories for kids, teens and adults across a range of genres and in a range of formats, Pearson English Readers are an ideal resource for language learners to experience... Zobraziť viac
Classic / British English: The famous Canterville Ghost haunts an old house, but the ghost becomes unhappy when the new owners play tricks on him! In the other stories, we meet Lord Arthur Savile, who has to murder someone before he can get married... Zobraziť viac
Lina returns to Colombia after twenty years away. Sent to England after her mother's death when she was eight, she's searching for the person who can tell her what's happened in the time that has passed... Zobraziť viac
From the bestselling author of The Slap comes a novel of shimmering intensity - a young man's journey in the land of his ancestors becomes a wild and page-turning flight from a crime that he did not commit, but is doomed to repeat... Zobraziť viac
A Regency historical from the New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James, bound to delight Heyer fans. If you kiss a man once... When the dashing Earl of Ardmore tempts Miss Annabel Essex, the most unattainable of the four beautiful ... Zobraziť viac
'Anna Bailey's debut is irresistible, a compelling and nuanced psychological thriller suffused with small town prejudice and dark family secrets.' PAULA HAWKINS, author of The Girl on the Train'Tall Bones is... Zobraziť viac
The latest atmospheric, suspenseful novel from multi-award winning and number one New York Times bestselling author, Louise Penny.<br> Clara Morrow's husband is missing. When he fails to come home on the first anniversary of their separation... Zobraziť viac
There are two men on their way to Brussels from the UK: Neil Bannerman, an iconoclastic journalist for Scotland's Daily Standard whose irate editor wants him out of the way, and Kale—a professional assassin. A classic early Peter May novel situated... Zobraziť viac
When seventeen-year-old Emma leaves her best friend Abi at a party in the woods, she believes, like most girls her age, that their lives are just beginning. Many things will happen that night, but Emma will never see her friend again... Zobraziť viac
'ON THE 15TH DAY OF DECEMBER IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1664, A GREAT LIGHT BLOOMED IN THE DARK SKY...' Born on the night of a bad-luck comet, Ursula Flight has a difficult destiny written in the stars. Growing up with her family in the country, she is educa Zobraziť viac
A masterful novel about the son of a great painter striving to create his own legacy, by the bestselling author of The Imperfectionists. Conceived while his father, Bear, cavorted around Rome in the 1950s, Pinch learns quickly... Zobraziť viac
Freddy Otash is the man in the know and the man to know in '50s L.A. He operates with two simple rules - he'll do anything but commit murder and he'll never work with the commies... Zobraziť viac
In 1986, news that East-West nuclear-arms negotiations are taking place lead many to believe the Cold War may finally be... Zobraziť viac
