50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world's finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, to Hemingway, ... Zobraziť viac
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Transworld Publishers Ltd: At 6'6" and 240lbs, Forrest Gump is difficult to ignore. This satire follows him from the... Zobraziť viac
The God Delusion caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself branded as either saint or sinner for presenting his hard-hitting, ... 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
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a truly unforgettable emotional story about life in Nazi-occupied Germany. Nine year-old Bruno knows nothing of the horrors of the Final Solution and the Holocaust, and is oblivious to the appalling cruelties... Zobraziť viac
Patrick didn’t care what made people work. He was only interested in what happened when they stopped. Life is strange for Patrick Fort - being a medical student with Asperger’s Syndrome ... Zobraziť viac
A God in Ruins relates the life of Teddy Todd – would-be poet, heroic World War II bomber pilot, husband, father, and grandfather – as he navigates the perils and progress of the 20th century. For all Teddy endures in battle, ... Zobraziť viac
Suburban witches, defiant old ladies, ageing monsters, suicidal Lottery winners, wolf men, dolphin women and middle-aged manufacturers of erotic leatherwear: in Joanne Harris's first collection of short stories the miraculous goes hand-in-hand with... Zobraziť viac
Veronica McCreedy lives in a mansion by the sea. She loves a nice cup of Darjeeling tea whilst watching a good wildlife documentary. And she's never seen without her ruby-red lipstick... Zobraziť viac
So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered... Zobraziť viac
It's the near future: the world economy is in freefall. Mass unemployment and hunger rage as banks, corporations and countries go bankrupt. But one group are doing just fine: the super-rich... Zobraziť viac
Emma is sitting on a turbulent plane. She's always been a v. nervous flyer. She really thinks that this could be her last moment. So, naturally enough, she starts telling the man sitting next to her - quite a dishy American, but she's too frightened to... Zobraziť viac
Transworld Publishers Ltd: Amazon.co.uk Whenever Sam thinks about babies, he envisages rivers of vomit and sleepless... Zobraziť viac
Black Swan: Ruby Lennox was conceived grudgingly by Bunty and born while her father, George, was in the Dog and Hare in... Zobraziť viac
Transworld Publishers Ltd: Book Description The classic story of an innocent who changes the world The hero... Zobraziť viac
Richard Dawkins - author of The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, and The God Delusion - is one of science's greatest... Zobraziť viac