CCV: Book Description One of eight Anne Tyler novels reissued in September 2008 with stunning new jackets... Zobraziť viac
Including 'The Hill We Climb,' the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden, this luminous poetry collection by Amanda Gorman captures a shipwrecked moment ... Zobraziť viac
A rat policeman comes to the startling realisation that each rat is out for themselves. An elderly judge gives up his job in the city for an improbable return to the family farm in the Pampas. An elusive film-maker and the little-known Argentinian... Zobraziť viac
WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY FRANCES SPALDING AND ERICA WAGNERA party of English people board the Euphrosyne bound for South America. Among them is Rachel Vinrace, young, innocent and wholly ignorant of the world of politics and society... Zobraziť viac
Read this meditative and inspiring diary of Derek Jarman's famous garden at Dungeness, which is also a powerful account of his life as an HIV positive man in the 1980s... Zobraziť viac
During the early fifties, Kenya was a country in turmoil. While Ngugi enjoys scouting trips, chess tournaments and reading about Biggles at the prestigious Alliance School near Nairobi... Zobraziť viac
Belonging is a magnificent cultural history abundantly alive with energy, character and colour. From the Jews' expulsion from Spain in 1492 it tells the stories not just of rabbis and philosophers but of a poetess in the ghetto of Venice... Zobraziť viac
The year is 1851. It's a time of radical change in Britain when industrial miracles and artistic innovations rub shoulders with political unrest, poverty and disease... Zobraziť viac
What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? ... Zobraziť viac
In the centuries since Descartes famously proclaimed, 'I think, therefore I am,' science has often overlooked emotions as the source of a person's true being. Even modern neuroscience has tended until recently to concentrate on the cognitive aspects... Zobraziť viac
Enter the surreal and enchanting world of Haruki Murakami. Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving. As this compelling story ... Zobraziť viac
The circus arrives without warning. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. The black sign, painted in white letters that hangs upon the gates, reads: Opens at Nightfall Closes at Dawn. When the tents are all aglow, the sign appears. Le Cirque... Zobraziť viac
Vintage: Michel is a civil-servant at the Ministry of Culture. When his father is murdered, Michel takes a leave of absence... Zobraziť viac
Carl Streator is a reporter investigating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome for a soft-news feature... Zobraziť viac
Africa Is Not A Country is a bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive story... Zobraziť viac
Glory is an energy burst, an exhilarating joyride. It is the story of an uprising, told by a bold, vivid chorus of animal voices that helps us see our human world more clearly... Zobraziť viac
Clara's rebellious older sister is missing. Grief-stricken and bewildered, she yearns to uncover the truth about what happened... Zobraziť viac
We need to rethink the conversation around mental health - psychologist Lucy Foulkes explores how and why... Zobraziť viac
London, 1985. Joe, father to eleven-year-old Matty, has disappeared, and nobody will explain where he's gone, or why... Zobraziť viac
Hailed as a masterpiece from the moment of its first publication, "Revolutionary Road" is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and talented couple whose empty suburban life is held together by the dream... Zobraziť viac
