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It's two days before Christmas and Helsinki is battling ruthless climate catastrophe: subway tunnels are flooded; Determined…

The story of seven friends from Oxford and their adventures in the world of the media in the 1980s, Smashing People is…

The bestselling author of Hidden Lives explores four marriages, including her own, in different times and societies to find…

Abandoned by her mother, who left to pursue a career as a camp guard at Auschwitz-Birkenau, loathed by her step-mother,…

What first prompted prehistoric man, sheltering in the shadows of deep caves, to call upon the realm of the spirits? And why…

Peter Heg's first novel is an interweaving of the lives and loves of four families, within which histories time expands,…

Even the biggest cycling fan can one day wake up to find that he has lost his faith Bad Blood is the story of Jeremy…

On the dunes west of Bruges, two-year-old Ydette is found wrapped in a blanket and taken back to live in a small grocer's…

Psychologist, teacher and therapist, John Selby, shows how the non-stop chatter of our minds and our own fear-based thoughts…

Beginning with the Norman Conquest of England, these tumultuous centuries and their invasions shaped the languages and…

Assuming the character of a wise village storyteller, R K Narayan sits in the cool of an imaginary evening to recount the…

To read the journals she kept from the age of sixteen is to step back into Georgian England, meeting Dr Johnson, Garrick and…

From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold HotelTake an ordinary, well-off family like the Prices. Watch what…

Reveals how NASA cashed in on the Americans' thirst for heroes in an age of discontent and became obsessed with putting men…

First published 25 years ago, this biography of the Sun King uses contemporary sources to examine what sort of monarch Louis…

An English geologist working on a Mediterranean island becomes embroiled in a nightmare web of deceit, corruption, lust and…

'This is a wonderful book: curious and insightful' Ian Mortimer, author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval EnglandWe…

They recited poetry, took part in ridiculous antics, indulged in high-minded discussions - with such displays of brilliance…

An impassioned correspondence between two former school friends as they reach crisis in middle age, from the prize-winning…

'Before I turn 67 - next March - I would like to have a lot of sex with a man I like. If you want to talk first, Trollope…

• Rok vydání 2000

In Hooking Up Tom Wolfe ranges from coast to coast, observing the 'lurid carnival actually taking place in the mightiest…

The Holy Grail of modern scientists is 'The Theory of Everything', which will contain all that can be known about the…

A novel about working-class factory life in Birmingham. Lily Gates keeps house for her widowed father, her timid suitor,…

Contains stories with a mix of humour, pathos, dysfunctional families and disappointed lives, as well as dazzling moments of…

The retreat of the British Expeditionary Force from Mons in the early months of the First World War is one of the great…

Lyrical, immediate and heartbreaking, Malouf's fable engraves the epic themes of the Trojan war onto a perfect miniature -…

After three years of service in the Russian navy and a gruelling expedition to Greenland, Captain Frederik Ziege of the…

Early one morning in the hills of Provence, Pierrot, a fifteen-year-old boy out hunting for snails, stumbles across the dead…

Laura Thornby is independent, individual and perfectly in control of her life. Her affairs are brief but delightful, her…

• Rok vydání 2016

Winner of the Saltire Society First Book Award 2016An Economist Book of the Year 2016A Spectator Book of the Year 2016In…

But the seed was sown and the crop, even after almost a century of atheistic communism, continues to grow in present-day…

In 1968 the world's largest antique went to America. But how do you transport a 130-year-old bridge 3,000 miles? And why did…

• Čeština

At the time of Burma's military coup in 1962, the author was fifteen. A year later, her father Ed Law-Yone, daredevil…

From the bestselling author of Best Exotic Marigold HotelDesmond never did have much luck with women - except in getting…

Sarah Maguire's first collection, Spilt Milk, established her as one of the most original voices in British poetry, and led…

In awe of his wife, hounded by his agent and ignored by his editor, mild mannered crime novelist David Slavitt finds his…

On 1 June 2001, the heir to the Nepalese throne, Crown Prince Dipendra, donned military fatigues, armed himself with four…

It is a cold, dark, windy night in Oslo and Igi Heitmann pores over the debris in her dead father's office, trying to piece…

Upon an immense stretch of flat ground at the mouth of a river bathed in sunlight rises Hyperpolis. Each of us will see…

Young Man Hogan's journey begins in the dazzling streets of a nameless necropolis, and leads across fleeting landscapes -…

Poppa Neutrino is a philosopher of movement, a vernacular Buddhist, a San Francisco bohemian, a polymath, a pauper, a…

Byatt's Degrees of Freedom examined the first eight novels of Iris Murdoch, identifying freedom as a central theme in all of…

Edward Lannion, the young master of Hatting Hall, is about to marry Marian Fox. Edward and Marian, the couple at the centre…

A young law student who is more often in than out of prison and labour camp during these years like his creator Jaan Kross.…

In December 2004, thousands of Ukrainians gathered to defy the results of a transparently rigged presidential election. This…

The Observer's chief foreign correspondent Peter Beaumont, takes us into the guts of modern conflict. Unflinching and…

Taking the reader on a journey of discovery from Ravello to Paris, from Kirkstall Grange in Yorkshire to Vita…

Impotent Scottish HR employee David leaves his family and begins a relationship with an American woman named Alice. With…