A remarkable collection of stories from a young American writer of huge potential. 'A show-stopping debut, as close to faultless as any writer could wish for.' Los Angeles Times 'His fingers dug the shell up, he felt the sleek egg of its body, ... Zobraziť viac
The universe: an eternal cosmic dance of subatomic particles of relationships at once paradoxical, yet somehow unified... Zobraziť viac
This study of the history of reading goes from the earliest examples of the clay tablets and cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt via the invention of printing in the 15th century to the birth of a mass reading public and today's digital... Zobraziť viac
One day, while browsing in a London bookshop, Elizabeth Smart chanced upon a slim volume of poetry by George Barker - and fell passionately in love with him through the printed word... Zobraziť viac
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2000. Part travel diary, part philosophy, part love story, 'Soul Mountain' is an elegant, unforgettable novel that journeys deep into the heart of modern-day China. In 1982 Chinese playwright, novelist and... Zobraziť viac
A landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of an escape across the Himalayas to Tibet, set against the backdrop of the Second World War... Zobraziť viac
Every single night and every single day Amelia goes upstairs to look at her treasure: a miniature plastic sheep, a Black Queen chess piece, a penny prayer for serenity, a tube of glitter and thirty-seven black rubber bullets she s collected ever since... Zobraziť viac
Beginning with her childhood in Africa, taking us through her marriages, the birth of her children, involvement in communist politics, and ending on her arrival in London in 1949 with the typescript of her first novel, The Grass is Singing, in her... Zobraziť viac
A 'retired career anorexic' examines herself and her, and our, culture in a masterpiece of confessional literature... Zobraziť viac
