A captivating new book from Wade Davis - winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Into the Silence - that brings vividly to life the story of the great Río Magdalena, illuminating Colombia's complex past, present, and future... Zobraziť viac
CCV - "'The Plot Against America is an epic built - painstakingly, passionately, near perfectly - of the small structures of the Zobraziť viac
Shelley Klein grew up in the Scottish Borders, in a house designed on a modernist open-plan grid. With colourful glass panels set against a forest of trees, it was like living in a work of art. Her father, Bernat Klein, was a textile... Zobraziť viac
An 'autobiographical collage' of speeches, stories and essays, in Palm Sunday, Kurt Vonnegut writes beguilingly about everything from country music to George Bush, his favourite comedians to his mother's midnight mania, and bittersweet... Zobraziť viac
This extraordinary, magical novel is the story of Clare and Henry who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry... Zobraziť viac
The Communist Manifesto was first published in London in 1848, by two young men in their late twenties. Its impact... Zobraziť viac
Can we ever be wholly free? In this book of breathtaking imaginary leaps that conjure dystopias and magical islands,... Zobraziť viac
Alexander Bruno is a man with expensive problems. Sporting a tuxedo and trotting the globe, he has spent his adult life as a... Zobraziť viac
Four friends. One promise. But someone isn't telling the truth. The twisting new mystery from bestselling phenomenon Ruth... Zobraziť viac
Simone de Beauvoir famously wrote, 'One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman'. In this groundbreaking work of feminism... Zobraziť viac
Vintage: A great thinker's final testament: a characteristically wise and forthright collection of essays from the author of... Zobraziť viac
Seventeenth-century Amsterdam - a city in the grip of tulip fever. Sophia's husband Cornelis is one of the lucky ones grown... Zobraziť viac
Babies: our biggest mystery and our most natural consequence, our hardest test and our enduring love. Anne Enright describes the intensity, bewilderment and extravagant happiness of her experience of having babies, from the exhaustion of early... Zobraziť viac
Can we truly know the one we love? In this painfully candid book Marcel Proust looks straight into the green eye of every lover’s jealous struggle. He broods on why we are driven to try possess one another, how jealousy can outlive death, ... Zobraziť viac
An exploration of race from one of the twentieth century’s primary chroniclers of the African American experience. Is who we are really only skin deep? In this searing, remonstrative book, ... Zobraziť viac
A clever and addictive thriller from the bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments... Zobraziť viac
In this powerfully influential series of short stories, James Joyce captures uneasy souls, shabby lives and innocent minds in the dark streets and homes of his native city. In doing so... Zobraziť viac
CCV: 'Magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality' Ian McEwan 'Angela Carter has extended the life and richness of the... Zobraziť viac
In the city of Bath, in the year 1865 Jane Adeane, renowned for her restorative skills, is convinced that some other destiny will one day show itself to her. But when she finds herself torn between a dangerous... Zobraziť viac
Faculty wife Emily Stockwell Turner is beautiful, rich, and principled. However, five years in a marriage devoid of passion is enough to propel Emmy, despite her principles, into an affair with a silver-tongued self-confessed libertine... Zobraziť viac
