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A decent, harried young banker travels north to Scotland and his mysteriously troubled sister. Brilliantly structured and…

In the small Mississippi town of Banes in 1938, time passes slowly and the town's inhabitants follow the same daily rhythm…

• Čeština

A powerful and tragicomic blend of politics and personal destiny, Black Box records in a series of letters the wrecked…

For most families, it remains the ultimate dilemma: how to balance a happy, healthy family life with the demands and rewards…

As his peers go through teen crises, T accumulates, and turns himself into a successful businessman. But T's material life…

Only the picture of a pit bull terrier left behind at each murder can link the crimes. Day after day, Ispettore Negro works…

The Birth of Pleasure rings with the voices of girls and boys, mothers and fathers, lovers and couples and echoes with…

Thomas Wavery is the new Consul General at Abyla on the tip of North Africa. A career diplomat, Wavery was once a high…

A is for Anxiety, Alcohol and awful Activities. B is for Bedtime, Baking and Boredom. C is for Childcare and Cooking With…

The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Magus, A MaggotIn Vintage Living Texts, teachers and students will find the essential…

Rose is the fifth tallest woman in Britain. Their tumultuous, bizarre love affair plays out through a prisoner's…

This haunting, poignant and addictive story travels effortlessly across time, telling the tale of three generations of women…

Shares the insider tips and secret techniques of classical cuisine.…

In his early years, growing up on a Dutch farm in the deep interior of the southern African Cape, Cupido Cockroach became…

Weaving a bird's-eye view of aviation's peculiar history into a narrative, this book offers intimate insights into the…

An intellectual giant but an emotional pygmy, Robert Purcell is a man struggling to come to terms with the forces that have…

In Vintage Living Texts teachers, students and any lover of literature will find the essential guide to the major works of…

From the first landings on the moon to the implications of our cyber worlds, this unusual and intriguing book takes a…

• Rok vydání 1949

Hank Williams is not just one of America's greatest songwriters but also one of the most enigmatic­ - a raw poet from the…

Dame Beatrice Bradley is called to apply her psychiatric skills to the problem, but when the question of a rich inheritance…

Military history and geography explain each other in North America as nowhere else in the world. In this book, the author…

Set in Belgrade before WWII, Fathers and Forefathers tells the story of the marriage between a Steven, a Serb, and…

The White man in the Tree is a comedy of cultural misunderstanding set in the Caribbean, New York and Paris, a novella and…

WINNER OF THE INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE IMPAC DUBLIN PRIZE'A wonderful novel. Back on the…

• Rok vydání 1958

In 1958, as the snow fell across Nebraska, 19-year-old Charlie Starkweather and his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann,…

Benjamin Malaussne is a downtrodden publisher at Vendetta Press. Treated as a scapegoat by Queen Zabo, doyenne of…

To Penelope Butler the family was all, the sole ambition of her adult life. But when Rosemary discovers these private papers…

Flora Trevelyan is a ten-year-old misfit, despised by her selfish and indolent parents, and left to wander the streets of a…

'A brave and intelligent book' Daily TelegraphAn unforgettable memoir about gender, journeys and enduring friendshipFor…

A generous selection of forthright essays on art and artists. Hughes tackles the lives and works of over 80 artists, from…

mines golden seams of goodness and gritty determination, prejudice and despair, love and survival, in the story of a young…

Bad Faith tells the story of one of history's most despicable villains and conmen - Louis Darquier, Nazi collaborator and…

McBride is having a tough time. The last expert in the ancient art of pearl fishing, he's on a quest to track down the pearl…

Run by Father Engelmann, an American priest who has been in China for many years, the church is supposedly neutral ground in…

'A major achievement' Ronald Blythe, author of AkenfieldA Cotswold vicarage. A former girls' boarding school in Surrey. A…

\n\'Here is art which conceals art, and intellect which conceals intellect, so that by the end of the book one feels that…

Translated, this correspondence, from 1863-76, is unique in the history of French literature. Never have two great writers…

• Rok vydání 2006

Candia McWilliam had just joined the judging panel of the Man Booker Prize for fiction in 2006 when she started to lose her…

The scene is London, in 1399. The streets of London are rife with rumour, heresy, espionage and murder and at the centre of…

And the caddish, good-looking Dan Sickles personifies the extremes of the era: as a womaniser, he introduced his favourite…

London becomes one of the greatest killing machines in human history. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers are brought back to…

• Rok vydání 2023

Aesthete, sensualist, bookworm, politician of Machiavellian cunning: François Mitterrand was a man of exceptional gifts and…

Brian Marley, a divorced Englishman, is alone in the vilest jungle on earth, about to die live on television. When Brian…

The ailing government's only hope lies in economic talks with the West, but then an ally of the GDR's chairman is found…

Thirteen Australian package tourists set off around the world on the holiday of a lifetime. Homesickness is an enchanting…

Meet Anonymous Lawyer - corner office, granite desk, and a billable rate of $675 an hour. The summer is about to start, and…

A reclusive young man works in a San Francisco library for unpublishable books. The librarian makes her feel comfortable,…

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A gripping account of the moral and political challenges posed by the Iraq war from the Costa Award winning author of The…