It's the summer of 1939. London is on the brink of catastrophic war. Iris Hawkins, an ambitious young woman in the stuffy world of City finance, has a chance encounter with Geoff, a technical whizz at the BBC's nascent television unit... Zobraziť viac
Uncover the real Gertrude Stein. A literary detective story revealing the origins of her radical writing and the complex relationship that made it possible. Zobraziť viac
New York comedian Alvy Singer reflects ruefully upon a failed relationship. When he first met Annie Hall on a tennis date, she was an insecure wallflower in trousers, vest and tie. 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
Klima, a celebrated jazz trumpeter, receives a phone call announcing that a young nurse with whom he spent a brief night at a fertility spa is pregnant... Zobraziť viac
Originally published in 1960, The Colossus was the only volume of Sylvia Plath's poetry published before her death in 1963. Showing a scholarly dedication to the craft, the poems in this collection are brimming with originality and the startling... Zobraziť viac
Yoshimoto has a magical ability to animate the lives of her young characters, and here she spins the stories of three women, all bewitched into a spiritual sleep. One, mourning a lost lover, finds herself sleepwalking at night. Another, who... Zobraziť viac
The stories in Midnight All Day show a contemporary master at the top of his form, acclaimed by one reviewer for his depiction of 'a lost generation of men: those shaped by the sixties, disoriented by the eighties... Zobraziť viac
Junot Díaz made his remarkable debut as a writer with this collection of stories that move from the barrios of the Dominican Republic to the struggling urban communities of New Jersey... Zobraziť viac
Ivan's War is the first book to put the experience of the ordinary Russian soldier at the heart of a narrative of the war on the Eastern Front, ... Zobraziť viac
The Booker-winning novel, also shortlisted for the Best of the Booker in 2008... 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
Illuminating the life of Simon Cowell and delving into backstage scandal, tabloid rumour and the cut-throat worlds of music and television, Tom Bower leaves no stone unturned in this must-read biography... Zobraziť viac
Chancellor Rieger is leaving office. But does leaving office necessarily mean that he, his mistress and his extended family have to leave the state villa, which has been their home for years? ... Zobraziť viac
'A witty, heartfelt but intelligent celebration of what it means to have great friends.' The Times 'Delightful.' Guardian 'The overwhelming tone of the book is joy, along with an optimism about friendship's enduring essence.' Sunday Times A Times... Zobraziť viac
When Gaby Bailleux released the Angel Worm into Australia's prison system, allowing hundreds of asylum seekers to walk free, she also let the cat out of the bag... Zobraziť viac
In nineteenth-century Istanbul, a Polish prince has been kidnapped. His assassination has been bungled and his captors have taken him to an unused farmhouse. Little do they realize that their revolutionary cell ... Zobraziť viac
The brilliantly twisty and intelligent thriller from Peter Swanson. Zobraziť viac
From the birth of the house of Windsor in 1917, its leading women - Queen Mary, the Queen Mother, the Duchess of Windsor and Queen Elizabeth II - faced the perils of abdication and assassination, revolution and the rise of fascism, the threat of... Zobraziť viac
A city's hunger. A flat's intimacy. Love's bloom and bloom's decay. Unspoken truths surface, forcing a reckoning. Can they find each other again, before time runs out. Zobraziť viac
