A compendium of sounds from this world and beyond, from the author of A New Map of Wonders and The Book of Barely Imagined Beings. Zobraziť viac
From the author of A Meal in Winter and Four Soldiers, a poignant story of war, trauma and its aftermath. Zobraziť viac
An electrifying and hilarious novel about the mundanity of office life, reissued for Granta Editions. Zobraziť viac
Gwangju, South Korea, 1980. In the wake of a viciously suppressed student uprising, a boy searches for his friend's corpse, a consciousness searches for its abandoned body, and a brutalised country searches for a voice... Zobraziť viac
Over the last fifty years, humanity has developed an extraordinary global utility which is omnipresent, universal, and available to all: the Global Positioning System (GPS). A network of twenty-four satellites and their monitoring stations on Earth, ... Zobraziť viac
Want to pick the perfect wine for dinner? Wondering what to eat with a special bottle? Let The Wine Dine Dictionary be your guide. Arranged A-Z by food at one end and A-Z by wine at the other, this unique handbook will help you make more informed, ... Zobraziť viac
A charming, vibrant diary of Diana Athill's holiday to Florence in the late 1940s. Zobraziť viac
A vivid journey around England's great seaside resorts, exploring their history and current struggle, and what they reveal about England, from the award-winning author of Love of Country. Zobraziť viac
Over the course of his life, Mr Nishino falls hopelessly in love again and again. One woman is a colleague, another a chance encounter; one is the girlfriend of a classmate, another the best friend of Nishino's latest conquest... Zobraziť viac
One day, the children begin to show up in the subtropical town of San Cristobal. Aged between nine and thirteen, the children are covered in dirt and hungry... Zobraziť viac
The End of Bias is a transformative, groundbreaking exploration into how we can eradicate unintentional bias and discrimination, the great challenge of our age. Unconscious bias: persistent, unintentional prejudiced behavior that clashes with our ... Zobraziť viac
1843. On a remote Scottish island, Ivar, the sole occupant, leads a life of quiet isolation until the day he finds a man unconscious on the beach below the cliffs. The newcomer is John Ferguson, an impoverished church minister sent to evict Ivar and... Zobraziť viac
In her twenties, Esther Rutter suffered an acute mental breakdown while living in Japan. Sectioned and held in a Japanese psychiatric institution until she could be flown home under escort, her recovery only began when she took a job in... Zobraziť viac
One man with an insatiable hunger: a novel of desire and destruction in Revolutionary France, based on a true story, from the Desmond Elliott Prize-winning author of The Manningtree Witches. Zobraziť viac
n the distant future, humans are on the verge of extinction and have settled in small tribes across the planet under the observation and care of the Mothers. Some children are made in factories, from cells of rabbits and dolphins; some live by getting... Zobraziť viac
The Qur`an is the scripture of Islam, sacred to over one billion Muslims worldwide. It is regarded by Muslims as the direct word of God, timeless and unchanged. Muslims turn to the Qur`an not only for prayer and worship but to understand the essence of... Zobraziť viac
This book contains a beautifully described journey across Australia`s desert, and into its shocking past. In critically acclaimed "Desert Divers and Exterminate all the Brutes", Sven Lindqvist travelled through Africa`s deserts, and unearthed the... Zobraziť viac
Fred Wander, the son of poor Jewish immigrants in Vienna, was deported to Auschwitz in 1942. For twenty-five years, he kept the memories of his fellow inmates in his head, but after the tragic death of his young daughter their voices poured forth.... Zobraziť viac
`I realized it was necessary to demolish everything and start again right from the foundations, if I wanted to establish anything in the sciences that was stable and likely to last` - Rene Descartes. Revered as the `father of modern philosophy`,... Zobraziť viac
SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE'This short novel will live on in your imagination long after you read the last page' Claire MessudWhen Cy Bellman, American settler and widowed father of ten-year-old Bess, reads in the newspaper that huge... Zobraziť viac
