A powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the celebrated author of The VegetarianIn a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard... Zobraziť viac
He is a renowned Swedish filmmaker and has a plan for everything. She is his daughter, by the actress he directed and once loved. Each summer of her childhood, the daughter visits the father at his remote Faro island home on the edge of the Baltic Sea... Zobraziť viac
Feminism is supposed to be the fight for the freedom and equality of women. And in the past 200 years it has made incredible gains: paving the way for women to advance economically, handing them back control of their own bodies... Zobraziť viac
Imagine a world very close to our own: where women are not safe in their bodies, where desperate measures are required to... Zobraziť viac
The unmissable debut novel by the critically acclaimed author of Between the World and Me and We Were Eight Years in Power- a richly imagined and compulsively page-turning journey to freedom... Zobraziť viac
Penguin Books Ltd - John Updike was a master storyteller, and this collection, from his final years, reveals that up to the end Zobraziť viac
This is the story of a city. The north-west corner of a city. Here you'll find guests and hosts, those with power and those without it, people who live somewhere special and others who live nowhere at all. And many people in between... Zobraziť viac
Following her dazzling five-novel portrait of our age, the ‘Seasonal’ sequence, Ali Smith returns with the first of two novels which belong together but can be read independently... Zobraziť viac
The visionary, fearless Lydia Davis presents a dazzling collection of essays on reading and writing, exploring the full scope of possibility within existing forms of literature and considering how we might challenge and reinvent these forms... Zobraziť viac
The first ever collection of stories from the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Swing Time and White Teeth. In the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north west London lives the last day of his life, unknowingly caught in... Zobraziť viac
Discover this extraordinary lost classic of nature writing - a fable about wildness and the desire to escape. Beautifully illustrated by beloved artist and The Lost Words creator Jackie Morris... Zobraziť viac
Yorùbá Boy Running charts Samuel Ajayi Crowther's miraculous journey from slave to liberator, boy to man, running to resisting... Zobraziť viac
In Making the Future, Noam Chomsky takes on a wide range of hot-button issues including the ongoing financial crisis, Obama's presidency, the limits of the two-party system, nuclear Iran, Afghanistan, ... Zobraziť viac
Beijing intellectual Chen Zhen volunteers to live in a remote settlement on the border of Inner and Outer Mongolia, where he discovers life of apparent idyllic simplicity amongst the nomads and the wild wolves who roam the plains... Zobraziť viac
'Changing My Mind' finds Zadie Smith casting an acute eye over material both personal & cultural. This engaging collection... Zobraziť viac
The audacious and elegiac second installment in her 'living autobiography' on writing and womanhood, from the twice-Man... Zobraziť viac
Powerful and necessary, a state-of-the-nation portrait of America under Obama from the prize-winning, bestselling author of Between the World and Me Zobraziť viac
From legendary writer Paul Theroux comes an atmospheric novel following a big-wave surfer in Hawaii as he confronts aging, privilege, mortality, and whose lives we choose to remember... Zobraziť viac
For readers of George Monbiot, Mark Cocker and Robert Macfarlane - an urgent and lyrical account of endangered places around the globe and the people fighting to save them... Zobraziť viac
The unmissable finale to Ali Smith's dazzling literary tour de force: the Seasonal quartet concludes in 2020 with Summer... Zobraziť viac
