From bestselling author and winner of the Blue Peter Best Story Book Award, Uki and the Swamp Spirit is the fifth title set in the world of Podkin One-Ear... Zobraziť viac
Winner of a Betty Trask AwardShortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Commonwealth Book PrizeLonglisted for the Desmond Elliot PrizeThe Spider King's Daughter is a modern-day Romeo and Juliet set against the backdrop... Zobraziť viac
BESSIE SMITH was born in Tennessee in 1894. Orphaned by the age of nine, she sang on street corners before becoming a big name in travelling shows. In 1923 she made her first recording for a new start-up called ... Zobraziť viac
What do you do when you realise you have everything you think you've ever wanted but still feel completely empty? ... Zobraziť viac
In this entertaining and always stimulating collection of seven essays, Kundera deftly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of the novel. Too often, he suggests, a novel is thought about only within the confines of the nation ... Zobraziť viac
'This book is a novel in the form of variations. The various parts follow each other like the various stages of a voyage leading into the interior of a theme, the interior of a thought, the interior of a single, unique situation the understanding of... Zobraziť viac
One of the great mysteries of science is that underneath all the complexities of the universe is an underlying harmonious order, whose existence Einstein described as 'a miracle'. No less miraculous, the fundamental laws ... Zobraziť viac
From the bestselling author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny, Shy is a novel about guilt, rage, imagination and boyhood. It is about being lost in the dark, and realising you are not alone... Zobraziť viac
On March 3rd, 1947, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous but entirely different paths. Family fortunes diverge... Zobraziť viac
The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963... Zobraziť viac
In an unnamed city, where to be interesting is dangerous, an eighteen-year-old woman has attracted the unwanted and unavoidable attention of a powerful and frightening older man, 'Milkman'. In this community, where suggestions ... Zobraziť viac
It isn't true, she wanted to whisper. To lean forward and nuzzle her cheek against his temple. To press him against the wall and mold her body to his. I am not his... Zobraziť viac
*WINNER OF THE BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2020**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S BEST BOOKS OF 2020*'One of the best debut novels I have ever read. Shockingly good ... A classic.' Max PorterThe sensational Dutch bestseller:'Exceptional' (Financial Times)'... Zobraziť viac
The bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with this collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works.The irrealis mood knows no boundaries between what is and what isn't, between... Zobraziť viac
Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021'Dazzling.' The Times'Exceptional.' Guardian'Brilliant.' Observer'Extraordinary.' Financial Times'A miracle.' Wall Street JournalNovember 1944. A German rocket strikes London, and five young lives are ato... Zobraziť viac
Using her own life as a starting point, Rachel looks at the issues that arise for a woman in the years after she has lived the defining experiences of feminity. She writes about marriage, separation, motherhood, work, money, domesticity and love. Cus... Zobraziť viac
When private detective and former teacher Henry Kimball is hired to investigate an ex-pupil's cheating husband, he senses all is not quite what it seems, and before he knows it he's gotten far too close to the other woman... Zobraziť viac
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.... Zobraziť viac
Tom Kettle, a retired policeman, and widower, is settling into the quiet of his new home in Dalkey, overlooking the sea. His solitude is interrupted when two former colleagues turn up at his door to ask about a traumatic, decades-old case... Zobraziť viac
*Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel Klara and the Sun is now available*One of the most acclaimed novels of the 21st Century, from the Nobel Prize-winning authorShortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeKazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students grow... Zobraziť viac
