The thrilling historical novel from twice Booker-winner Peter Carey... Zobraziť viac
This is the complete collection of stories from one of the most original and powerful American writers of the twentieth-century. Including A Good Man is Hard to Find and Everything That Rises Must Converge, ... Zobraziť viac
Kultový scénar pre kultový film! Zobraziť viac
After years of watching Kenyan athletes win the world's biggest long-distance races, Runner's World contributor Adharanand Finn set out to discover what it was that made them so fast - and to see if he could keep up. Packing up his family, he moved to... Zobraziť viac
A summer's evening in Manhattan. Nothing - not cold drinks, not showers not a stroll through the chilly aisles of an all-night drugstore - can undo the heat's hold on the city. Julian is half watching the evening news, his husband filling the ... Zobraziť viac
Ten-year-old Jas has a unique way of experiencing her universe: the feeling of udder ointment on her skin as protection against harsh winters; the texture of green warts, like capers, on migrating toads; the sound of 'blush words'... Zobraziť viac
Miss Dior is a story of freedom and fascism, beauty and betrayal, roses and repression, and how the polished surface of fashion conceals hidden depths. It paints a portrait of the enigmatic woman behind the designer Christian Dior... Zobraziť viac
Following a brutal attack by her ex-boyfriend, Kate Priddy makes an uncharacteristically bold decision after her cousin, Corbin Dell, suggests a temporary apartment swap - and she moves from London to... Zobraziť viac
- Special Christmas Hardback edition of the #1 Sunday Times Bestseller- Longlisted for the Booker Prize - Featured in Barack Obama's Summer Reading List 2021'This is a novel for fans of Never Let Me Go . . . tender, touching and true.' The Times'The... Zobraziť viac
In this novel Paul Auster offers a haunting picture of a devastated world - a futuristic world - but one which may be seen to shadow our own. Auster has also written "The New York Trilogy". Zobraziť viac
A thick white blanket covers the wide slopes of the band of hills known as the Razorback Downs. Podkin is the son of a warrior chieftain. He knows that one day it will be up to him to lead his warren and guard it in times of danger... Zobraziť viac
'Dear Tommie ...I've spent most of my life searching for you. I believe you are my daughter.' Just after her father's death, Tommie receives a letter from a stranger. The woman claims that Tommie is her biological daughter, kidnapped as a baby over... Zobraziť viac
Not far from London, there is a village. This village belongs to the people who live in it and to those who lived in it hundreds of years ago. It belongs to England's mysterious past and its confounding present. It belongs to Mad Pete, the grizzled... Zobraziť viac
Hanif Kureishi's previous book, Intimacy—an account of the writer's abandonment of his marriage—divided critical opinion violently, but the novel's unsparing honesty marked it as one of Kureishi's best works... Zobraziť viac
Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr will live under the spell of ... Zobraziť viac
The baby is dead. It only took a few seconds. When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect caretaker for their two young children... Zobraziť viac
More wrenching and beautiful than anything I've read in a long time.' Aravind Adiga, Guardian Books of the YearAfter signing up for the US army in the 1850s, barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, ... Zobraziť viac
After years of watching Kenyan athletes win the world's biggest races, from the Olympics to big city marathons, Runner's World contributor Adharanand Finn set out to discover just what it was that made them so fast - and to see if he could keep up.. Zobraziť viac
In this new anthology poets from across the ages lead us on a journey of love in its many forms. From Shakespeare to Rossetti, Keats to Auden, Byron to Browning an beyond, as well as a host of contemporary voices including Wendy Cope, ... Zobraziť viac
Post-war Japan. An artist's quiet retirement is haunted by memories of a life entwined with militarism. A shadow falls over his serenity. Zobraziť viac
