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The Smart is a true drama of eighteenth-century life with a mercurial, mysterious heroine. A brilliantly researched and…

In this collection of brilliant, bite-sized satiric tales, Israel's bestselling Etgar Keret chronicles the strange ironies…

From the author of the bestselling Suite Française. HĂ©lne is a troubled young girl. As first the Great War and then the…

Born in 1940, one of eight children, Maxine Hong Kingston is the daughter of Chinese immigrants to America. This memoir…

Newly arrived in New York, Ito is a literate yet tongue-tied sushi chef who recites haiku in his head as he labours over…

From the first ad in 1695 from a young gentleman who 'would willingly Match himself to some Good Young Gentlewoman, that has…

'Ring magic is different from the magic of the theatre, because the curtain never comes down - because the blood in the ring…

Elise loves the farm that is her home. As the privileged existence of the white farmers begins to crumble into anarchy and…

• Rok vydání 2010

In 2010, bestselling author Kathleen Winter took a journey across the legendary Northwest Passage. From Greenland to Baffin…

As the investigation develops they discover that the "Grey Wolves", a ruthless group of far-right Turkish mafia, might be…

Most of the other residents in the cavernous Victorian house - and the friends and acquaintances Al meets in tow local pubs,…

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYStaying with a friend in Oxfordshire, poet turned amateur detective Nigel Strangeways pays a visit…

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYSeveral days after private detective and poet Nigel Strangeways dines with Dr Piers Loudon and his…

In This Quiet Dust, the first book of non-fiction by the Pulitzer Prize-wining author of Lie Down in Darkness and Sophie's…

Produkt Return and Other Stories - Platonov, Andrey zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Vintage Publishing.…

In his account of four characters, each of whose importance was global, each of them, in their different ways, 'monsters',…

Sometimes the hardest journey is the road home. Na Ga was always in search of a better life. Plucked from her wild life as a…

The first that indolent young Sriram knows about Mahatma Ghandi's visit to Malgudi is when a collection box is waved beneath…

She argues that the feminist movement has to change if it is to speak to a new generation of women, and that, even as women…

The Empress of the Last Days is the final volume of the remarkable trilogy that began with Astraea and The Pretender. A…

Isamay's unusual name comes from her two very different grandmothers, Isa and May, who were both present at her birth and…

Everyone knows the story of the Delta blues, with its fierce, raw voices and tormented drifters and deals with the devil at…

THE BOOK: A narrative counterpoint between two women, two South Africas. Confronted by the realities of a land hurtling…

In this bawdy memoir, Irish author Aidan Higgins dissects the pretensions of a Catholic family in County Kildare. He…

In this fascinating history of two turbulent centuries in an apparently idyllic place, Shakespeare effortlessly weaves the…

It's the '90s and Dot, Saul and Owen are living together on the fringes of the Hoxton art scene - shoplifting,…

A companion volume to Being an Actor, Callow's classic text about the experience of acting in the theatre, Shooting the…

The Club in central London holds the quarters of Queen Victoria's finest regiment: the First Bloods. Inside the mighty…

Alice is entranced by the aesthetics of technology and, in every aeroplane flight, every Xerox machine, every neon sign,…

The future looks bleak for Aidan Walsh. He buries himself alive in a coffin in his back garden, announcing that he's not…

Until reality breaks in and Jennifer uncovers the harsh vocabulary of addiction and the addictive extremes of sex. -An…

Whether creating a cassoulet which uses English ingredients, making bread from chestnuts or slow-cooking a Peking duck in…

Examines what went wrong with the atheist dream, and explains why religion and faith are destined to play a central role in…

Written as the diary of Liraz (Erez) Liberti, the head of a commando team stationed at Beaufort during the last winter of…

Tells the story of a ten-year-old in top hat, cane and a red chiffon scarf, interrupted while belting out Judy Garland's…

• Thriller

But the police are catching up with him, and Inspector Konrad Sejer has never lost a case yet. Told through the eyes of a…

• Čeština

Tatiana, a young Mexican woman, is adrift in Berlin. Through him she meets 'ant illustrator turned meteorologist' Jonas, a…

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYRediscover Gladys Mitchell - one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha…

Hoffman unlocks the caskets of family life and the secret history of a community in this magical story about young love and…

Julia is a photographer; Helen is an academic, and Philippa is writing a novel. The best of friends, they meet at trendy…

On a radiant day in Sydney, four people converge on Circular Quay, site of the iconic Opera House and the Sydney Harbour…

an ordinary boy who would go on to become world-famous as a hostage in Beirut and author of the extraordinary testimony of…

A journey to the green inferno of the African jungle brings one man face to face with his macabre past.…

At seventy, Henri Matisse is a trim, clean old gentleman with a passion for naked women. If there were no Matisse there…

Clara Holly is a former actress, beautiful, rich, and 'well married, far from her Oregon beginnings' to the renowned but…

Enrico, the world's most highly paid tenor, lands in Havana in 1920, carrying with him the death threat of the Sicilian…

Recycling, buying locally-sourced food and vintage clothing, checking air miles and carbon footprints - our ever-growing…

With little expectation of happiness, Elisabeth is stunned to find herself falling passionately in love with her husband,…