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• Čeština

The first collection of short stories from one of Britain's finest novelists and criticsA nameless man who has fallen out of…

\nA lost princess and a vanished world: a remarkable true story that moves from the Punjab of the Raj to 1930s Paris and the…

• Rok vydání 2023

• Rok vydání 2025

Traces the drifts of the trade route out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern…

Wars have been fought over salt and, while salt taxes secured empires across Europe and Asia, they have also inspired…

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT FISKSeven Pillars of Wisdom is an unusual and rich work. Seven Pillars of Wisdom provides…

The Vagrant Mood is a brilliantly varied and colourful collection of essays. From Kant to Raymond Chandler; from the legend…

From the author of the bestselling Suite Française. In a French courtroom, the trial of a woman is taking place.…

Dr Max Aue is a family man and owner of a lace factory in post-war France. He was an observer and then a participant in Nazi…

In her opening essays - 'Fathers', 'Forefathers' and 'Ancestors', the author considers the renaissance of the historical…

• Rok vydání 2021

It includes the famous story 'Rain', the tragedy of a narrow-minded and overzealous missionary and a prostitute, and 'The…

• Detektivka

Sayers. When psychoanalyst and detective Mrs Bradley's grandson finds an old diary in her rented cottage it attracts the…

Shadows of the Mind is a profound exploration of what modern physics has to tell us about the mind, and a visionary…

• Rok vydání 1983

In 1983 de Beauvoir published Sartre's letters, maintaining that her own to him had been lost. They were found by de…

Here, drawing on a novelists insight into art, literature and psychology, Iris Murdoch conducts an ongoing debate with major…

From the author of the bestselling Suite Française. A compelling story of infatuation, passion and self-destructive…

• Rok vydání 1612

On discovering Tassi's betrayal, Orazio took the case to court and there followed, in 1612, eight months of humiliation for…

The Mafia and the Ten Commandments meet in these interlinked short stories about the undebelly of Naples. This title…

A collection of four stories comprising ` Under The Garden' (A short novel); `A Visit to the Morin'; Dream of a Strange…

But he hesitates, unsure, the lights change and her car lurches forward straight into a tree, killing her instantly... This…

25th February 1995 The Dark Destroyer vs the G-ManNigel Benn and Gerald McClennan Two men with a reputation to defend - a…

Eric is an uncertain, awkward young man, a would-be writer, and a traveller in spite of himself. On the DĂ­a de los Muertos,…

William Harvey's theory of circulation was as controversial in its day as Copernicus' idea that the earth revolved around…

Audun is the only one of his family who remains with his mother in working-class Oslo. He delivers newspapers when he is not…

Jack and Joy Griffin are back on Cape Cod - where they spent their hope-filled honeymoon - for a wedding. He's spent a…

In a makeshift hospital in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Beirut, Yunis, an aging Palestinian freedom fighter, lies in a…

Leskov's stories of Russian life are explosions of imagination. Peopled by outsized characters including serfs, princes,…

• Rok vydání 1995

A collection of nine short stories set in the American South, depicted as odd and idiosyncratic. Emerging from the harsh…

William Peskett's work appeared in periodicals and on the radio, and it attracted special attention when a group of poems…

In the summer of 1936, before the outbreak of the Civil War that plunged Spain into three tears of agony and terror,…

The Woman in Black, Strange Meeting, I'm the King of the Castle, A Little Bit of Singing and DancingIn Vintage Living Texts,…

On leaving school a sixteen-year-old boy goes to live with his uncle on a remote Welsh hill-farm.…

Two men - Jay and Ben - sit in a Washington hotel room. Well, Ben tries feebly to reason or cajole, while Jay rants and…

In early 1994 Marina Warner delivered the prestigious Reith Lectures for the BBC.…

'An extraordinary and peculiarly haunting novel' Chris Cleave, author of The Other HandA RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK My…

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYWhen private detective Nigel Strangeways books tickets for a holiday in the Greek islands with…

The search for love (or failing that, sex), the passing of time and the inevitability of pain and grief, the struggle for…

Born in pre-Revolutionary China and brought up in the Midlands, Esther Cheo Ying returned to China in 1949 after a traumatic…

The stories in this collection move from Malaya to America and England, and include some of Maugham's most famous tales; In…