This book proposes a new vision for modern industry. Instead of our current wasteful and polluting methods of manufacturing, we could be taking nature as a model for making things. With the right redesign, objects that have come to the end ... Zobraziť viac
Two couples find themselves at a moment of reckoning. Melissa has a new baby and doesn't want to let it change her. Damian has lost his father and intends not to let it get to him... Zobraziť viac
This extraordinary, magical novel is the story of Clare and Henry who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty... Zobraziť viac
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... Zobraziť viac
<i>'Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must' </i>What is the true meaning of power? Are some simply born to it or can it be acquired like a skill? Does it always breed corruption and greed or... Zobraziť viac
Can we ever be wholly free? In this book of breathtaking imaginary leaps that conjure dystopias and magical islands, Margaret Atwood holds a mirror up to our own world... Zobraziť viac
Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day... Zobraziť viac
From Salman Rushdie, one of the great writers of our time, comes a spellbinding work of fiction that blends history, mythology, and a timeless love story. A lush, richly layered novel in which our world has been plunged into an age of unreason, ... Zobraziť viac
"Leah" is set in Theresienstadt, the ghetto created by the Nazis in northern Bohemia as a staging post for the transport of Jews to Poland. The time is September 1944; the war is going badly for the Germans, and they are in a hurry to complete... Zobraziť viac
The first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material, this is an unusually balanced, comprehensive and definitive life of Sylvia Plath... Zobraziť viac
On the buttoned-down island of Here, all is well. By which we mean: orderly, neat, contained and, moreover, beardless. Or at least it is until one famous day, when Dave, bald but for a single hair, finds himself assailed by a terrifying, ... Zobraziť viac
The exhilarating new Inspector Adamsberg novel from France's multi-million-copy bestselling crime fiction star... Zobraziť viac
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As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though there waits someone who cares deeply about how they appear. Then they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell and become drawn i Zobraziť viac
Gustav grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem a distant echo. But Gustav's father has mysteriously died, and his adored mother Emilie is strangely cold and indifferent to him. Gustav's life is a... Zobraziť viac
Rant is the oral history of one Buster ‘Rant’ Casey, in which an assortment of friends, enemies, detractors, lovers and relations have their say on the man who may or may not be the most efficient serial killer of our time... Zobraziť viac
Stanislaw is determined to escape the Russians and follow his brother to America, a land where anything seems possible... Zobraziť viac
When Henry James died he left behind a series of notebooks filled with ideas for novels and stories that he never wrote. Now ten of our best contemporary authors and James enthusiasts have written new short stories based on these 'germs' of ideas... Zobraziť viac
As a child Lucas assumed that all children who'd lost their parents lived on water. Now a restless young man, and still sharing the West London narrow boat with his down-to-earth sister Denise, he secretly investigates the contents of an old wardrobe,... Zobraziť viac
This book was the winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014. Forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men who were on the Line, and the rest of humanity, who were not. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, ... Zobraziť viac
