Why do bookshops matter? How do they filter our ideas and literature? In this inventive and highly entertaining extended essay, Jorge Carrion takes his reader on a journey around the world, via its bookshops. His travels take him to Shakespeare & Co ... Zobraziť viac
From prize-winning author Bernardo Atxaga, author of Obabakoak and Nevada Days, comes a polyphonic novel following the fortunes and failures of the inhabitants of a small Basque mining town over the course of forty years Zobraziť viac
Kyiv, 1919. The Soviets control the city, but White armies menace them from the West. No man trusts his neighbour and any spark of resistance may ignite into open rebellion... Zobraziť viac
A daring and captivating novel about a Palestinian family, told with love, wisdom and black humour Zobraziť viac
The brilliant opening novel in the Catesby series, by a former special forces officer who is 'poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carré' Zobraziť viac
Lisbeth Salander gets under the skin of her targets like no-one else. Those who underestimate her live to regret it. If they are lucky. Mikael Blomkvist - disgraced journalist, womanizer ... Zobraziť viac
Keflavik: a town that may be the darkest place in Iceland, surrounded by black lava fields, hemmed in by a sea that may not be fished, and site of the U.S. military base, whose influence shaped Icelandic culture from the '50s to the dawning ... Zobraziť viac
Fresh from the staggering success of The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair, Marcus Goldman is struggling to write his third novel. A chance encounter in Florida throws him some inspiration from a surprising source: Alexandra Neville, the beautiful, ... Zobraziť viac
Sometimes a distance from the world's tumult opens our hearts and our dreams. In a village of four hundred souls, the infinite light of an Icelandic summer makes its inhabitants want to explore, and the eternal night of... Zobraziť viac
From Homer's poems to contemporary science fiction, literature through the ages has continuously invented imaginary and legendary lands, projecting there all those wishes, dreams, ... Zobraziť viac
To Cook a Bear is the fantastic story of revivalist preacher Lars Levi Laestadius and the young Sami boy he saves from a ditch and cares for. It is the summer of 1852 in the Kengis village of Sweden's far north... Zobraziť viac
Salander is plotting her revenge - against the man who tried to kill her, and against the government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. But it is not going to be a straightforward campaign. After taking a bullet to the head, ... Zobraziť viac
China: 1200 A.D. Guo Jing has confronted Apothecary Huang, his sweetheart Lotus' father, on Peach Blossom Island, and bested the villainous Gallant Ouyang in three trials to win her hand in marriage... Zobraziť viac
Write to me, Emmi. Writing is like kissing, but without lips. Writing is kissing with the mind.' It begins by chance: Leo receives emails in error from an unknown woman called Emmi. Being polite he replies, and Emmi writes back... Zobraziť viac
Why do bookshops matter? How do they filter our ideas and literature? In this inventive and highly entertaining extended essay, Jorge Carrion takes his reader on a journey around the world, via its bookshops. His travels take him to ... Zobraziť viac
Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. Two Millennium journalists about to expose the truth about sex trafficking in Sweden are murdered, and Salander's prints are on the weapon... Zobraziť viac
One of Grossman's three great war novels - alongside Life and Fate and Stalingrad - The People Immortal is both a work of fiction and an important contribution to the Soviet war effort.Set during the catastrophic defeats of the war's first months, it trac Zobraziť viac
The story of a young woman's brief life, her brutal murder, and the world that moves on without her... Zobraziť viac
On Beauty is neither a history of art, nor a history of aesthetics, but Umberto Eco draws on both these disciplines to define the ideas of beauty that have informed us from the classical world to modern times. In terms of form and style... Zobraziť viac
