Chuck and Joey meet in a bar. He's in his mid-thirties; she's twelve years younger. He's long abandoned his ambition of becoming a novelist and now works as a copywriter at a big ad agency. 'Lead copywriter,' he corrects himself. Joey lives paycheck... Zobraziť viac
An irresistible novel of fame, power, beauty and truth — 'Truly masterful, her best work so far. I loved it' Vincenzo Latronico. A little while ago, I told the actor M that I was thinking of writing her autobiography. She liked the idea. She's a good... Zobraziť viac
From the author of A Ghost in the Throat, an unforgettable book - both history and ghost story - that will leave you gasping by its final page. Zobraziť viac
Amores Perros is a bold, ambitious and intensely emotional story of lives that collide in a Mexico City car crash. Guillermo Arriaga's screenplay is as inventively structured as a Paul Auster lovel: a triptych of overlapping and intersecting narratives... Zobraziť viac
When Euan and Ruth set off with their young daughter to live in Bahrain, it is meant to be an experience and adventure they will cherish. But on the night they arrive, Ruth discovers the truth behind the missionary work Euan has planned and feels her ... Zobraziť viac
The holidays have begun. In a seaside caravan resort, Isabel and her sister Meg build sandcastles with the children, navigate deckchair politics, explore the pier's delights, gorge ice cream in the sun. But their half-sister Mildred has returned... Zobraziť viac
An epic tale of trees of power and a world under threat, from the author of the bestselling Five Realms series... Zobraziť viac
Having recalled his life through the story of his physical self in Winter Journal, internationally best-selling novelist Paul Auster now remembers the experience of his development from within, through the encounters of his interior self with the... Zobraziť viac
This collection begins in the early 1980s with The Rainbow Sign, which was written as the Introduction to the screenplay of My Beautiful Laundrette. It allowed Kureishi to expand upon the issues raised by... Zobraziť viac
Comic, dark and insightful, What Happened? is Hanif Kureishi's new collection of essays and fiction... Zobraziť viac
The Booker-winning novel, also shortlisted for the Best of the Booker in 2008... Zobraziť viac
Hannah Jane Parkinson is a specialist in savouring the small pleasures of life. She revels in her fluffy dressing gown ('like bathing in marshmallow’), finds calm in solo cinema trips, is charmed by the personalities of fonts... Zobraziť viac
Delayed in London, Ted Severson meets a woman at the airport bar. Over cocktails they tell each other rather more than they should, and a dark plan is hatched - but are either of them being serious, could they actually go through with it and, ... Zobraziť viac
November 1944. A German rocket strikes London and five young children are atomised in an instant... Zobraziť viac
In the Summer of 1978, a young boy disappears without trace from a cabin in the Dalecarlian woods of Sweden. His mother claims he was abducted by a giant... Zobraziť viac
Rapturous in its ability to depict the creative process, Words Without Music allows readers to experience that sublime moment of creative fusion when life merges with art. Biography lovers will be inspired by the story of a precocious Baltimore boy, ... Zobraziť viac
Foul-mouthed private eye Kinky Friedman tells a story about his early days in New York. It is about how he tried to protect his fugitive friend Abbie Hoffman from the Feds, and how Kinky Friedman, down-and-out country-music performer, became Kinky... Zobraziť viac
In 1999 Tobias Jones emigrated to Italy, expecting to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors. Instead, he discovered a very different country, besieged by unfathomable terrorism and deep-seated paranoia, where crime is... Zobraziť viac
Krissie Donald has no desire to `settle down`. Committed men are hers for the taking, but she prefers explosive liaisons to any sort of full-blown relationship... Zobraziť viac
Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fatal decision to... Zobraziť viac
