Why do people cooperate with one another when they have no (selfish) motivation to do so? Why do we hold onto possessions of little value? And why is the winner of an auction so often disappointed?In the original 1992 version of The Winner’s Curse,... Zobraziť viac
Lydia Davis returns with a timeless collection of essays on literature and language. 'Precise, concentrated, lyrical. No one writes like Lydia Davis, and everyone should read her' Hanif Kureishi'A writer as mighty as Kafka, as subtle as Flaubert, and... Zobraziť viac
‘A moving, essential book . . . Nobody writes about Nature with more beauty and grace than Jay Griffiths’ Brian EnoFrom celebrated author Jay Griffiths comes a unique and heartfelt insight into the healing nature of our relationship with animalsAll... Zobraziť viac
Every flicker of light has its shadow. In this masterful reassessment of the whole arc of movie history, David Thomson, film’s wisest and most penetrating critic, shows us how cinema has entranced and transported us, but also profoundly changed us... Zobraziť viac
#1 bestselling author John Green makes his much-anticipated return to fiction with a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story that brilliantly confronts the private cost of a public life... Zobraziť viac
‘Truly extraordinary … a very earthquake of a book … incontestably great’ The TimesPowys' great visionary novel, now in Penguin Modern Classics One of the great cult novels, a book that can be read and re-read throughout a lifetime, A Glastonbury... Zobraziť viac
'A beautiful, flavour-packed introduction to Filipino food, Rex's cooking is fresh, vibrant and very delicious’ Jamie OliverPreorder the first cookbook from Rex de Guzman, chef, restauranteur and finalist on The Great Cookbook Challenge with Jamie... Zobraziť viac
A loose tooth leads to hilarious hijinks with the tooth fairy in book four of the wonderfully imaginative Dory Fantasmagory series. Dory has her first loose tooth, and, with her usual over-the-top excitement, she cannot stop talking about the tooth... Zobraziť viac
'I need a man good-looking enough to pick up a dame who has a sense of class, but he's got to be tough enough to swap punches with a power shovel.'In the first of the four cases in Trouble is My Business, Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is offered a job... Zobraziť viac
'In Japan we have an expression, 'Float like Cloud, Flow like Water'. Its meaning is: to live free and unconstrained'In this short introduction to Zen Buddhism, a practising Japanese monk shares the many lessons he has learned from life inside a temple... Zobraziť viac
The poems published in Joyce's own lifetime collected in a new edition, with an introduction and notes by scholar Clare Hutton'His writing is not about something; it is that something itself' Samuel BeckettJames Joyce's towering genius as a novelist... Zobraziť viac
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell. 'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston ... Zobraziť viac
Brought to you by Penguin. In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved killings. But when a local property developer shows up dead, 'The Thursday Murder Club' find themselves in the middle of ... Zobraziť viac
Brought to you by Penguin. THE FOURTH NOVEL IN THE RECORD-BREAKING, MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES BY RICHARD OSMAN Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club. An old friend in the antiques business has been killed, and a ... Zobraziť viac
The next novel in the Ice Planet Barbarians series, an international publishing phenomenon—now in a special print edition with a bonus novella! The unthinkable happens when a devastating accident causes Pashov to forget his mate, but Stacy will do... Zobraziť viac
Over the past twenty years European cities have become the envy of the world: a Kraftwerk Utopia of historic centres, supermodernist concert halls, imaginative public spaces and futuristic egalitarian housing estates which, interconnected by... Zobraziť viac
An insightful and sparkling novel that opens on a college campus and follows the friendship of four women across life-defining turning points Assigned to the same suite during their freshman year at Quincy-Hawthorn College, Lainey, Ji Sun, Alice... Zobraziť viac
Ten millennia ago, the fairy People were defeated in a great battle with mankind, forcing them to move underground. Only the eighth family of fairies remained undefeated: the demons. But now one demon has discovered the secrets of the fairy world, ... Zobraziť viac
When Kit and Adam's marriage ended, Kit felt completely lost. But now, a year on, her life is back on track. She has a new home, the perfect job - working for a famous novelist - two wonderful children and is on good terms with her ex-husband... Zobraziť viac
God Created the Integers is Stephen Hawking's personal choice of the greatest mathematical works in history. He allows the reader to peer into the mind of genius by providing us with excerpts from original mathematical proofs and results... Zobraziť viac
