• Angličtina
• Počet stran 576
• Rok vydání 2012
• Brožovaná

Samuel Pepys is the astonishing biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin 2002 Whitbread Book of the Year. From the acclaimed author of Charles Dickens: A Life and The Invisible Woman, this…

• Rok vydání 2012
• Počet stran 512
• Angličtina
• Brožovaná

Krásná mladá Evelina se při svém vstupu do světa módního Londýna stane obětí rakouských pokroků sira Clementa Willoughbyho. Kolizí se způsoby a zvyky společnosti, kterým nerozumí, se ocitne bez…

• Rok vydání 1999
• Počet stran 128
• Angličtina
• Brožovaná

When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a…

• Angličtina
• Počet stran 368
• Rok vydání 2014
• Brožovaná

A classic mystery from Dick Francis, the champion of English storytellers. Jockey Kit Fielding's patron, Princess Casilia, is in trouble. Her invalid husband is being threatened by a ruthless…

• Angličtina
• Počet stran 631
• Rok vydání 2013
• Brožovaná

Two boys, brothers, wake tied and bound in a boathouse by the sea. Their kidnapper has gone, but soon he will return. Their bonds are inescapable. But there is a bottle and tar to seal it. Paper…

• Rok vydání 1990
• Počet stran 768
• Angličtina
• Brožovaná

A humiliated and shipless captive of the French, Horatio Hornblower faces execution unless he can escape and make a triumphant return to England. Forced to surrender his ship, HMS Sutherland, …

• Rok vydání 2016
• Počet stran 300
• Angličtina
• Brožovaná

Essential Nick Hornby Collection obsahuje tituly A Long Way Down, About a Boy, Fever Pitch, High Fidelity, How to be Good a Juliet, Naked.

• Angličtina
• Počet stran 464
• Rok vydání 2019
• Brožovaná

The one and only Zadie Smith, prize-winning, bestselling author of Swing Time and White Teeth, is back with a second unmissable collection of essays. Should you read this brilliant book? …

• Angličtina
• Počet stran 480
• Rok vydání 2017
• Brožovaná

Captain Dominika Egorova of the Russian Intelligence Service (SVR) has returned from the West to Moscow. She despises the men she serves, the oligarchs, and crooks, and thugs of Putin's Russia. …

• Rok vydání 2016
• Počet stran 432
• Angličtina
• Brožovaná

Growing up in Kenya in the early twentieth century, the brothers Matu and Muthegi are raised according to customs that, they are told, have existed since the beginning of the world. But when the…

• Angličtina
• Počet stran 432
• Rok vydání 2013
• Pevná / vázaná

Includes 'The Yellow Sign,' the most horrific story from The King in Yellow, the classic horror collection by Robert W. Chambers featured on HBO's hit TV series True Detective. American…

• Rok vydání 2017
• Počet stran 320
• Angličtina
• Brožovaná

Jacob and Julia Bloch have a problem. While they've been coaxing Jacob's grandfather into a retirement home, bracing themselves for a family reunion, and struggling to keep their eldest son from…

• Angličtina
• Počet stran 320
• Rok vydání 2015
• Brožovaná

Decoded tells the story of Rong Jinzhwen, one of the great code-breakers in the world. A semi-autistic mathematical genius, Jinzhen is recruited to the cryptography department of China's secret…

• Rok vydání 2017
• Počet stran 736
• Angličtina
• Brožovaná

The highly acclaimed, epic novel from international bestseller Neil Gaiman. Now a major TV series. American Gods, the extraordinary, highly acclaimed epic novel from storytelling genius and…

• Rok vydání 2020
• Angličtina
• Brožovaná

Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, Cundill History Prize, Fage and Oliver Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award Winner of the Historical Writers''…

• Sci-fi
• Rok vydání 2019
• Počet stran 368
• Angličtina
• Brožovaná

In this electrifying conclusion, the Genesis team face a final, desperate battle to ensure their very survival and secure their way home. The Genesis team finds their escape from the planet cut…

• Rok vydání 2022
• Počet stran 411
• Angličtina
• Brožovaná

Themistocles stands as the battle-scarred leader of Athens. Yet he is no nobleman. The elite distrust him. But those conspiring against him cannot argue with his victories on the battlefield. Or…

• Angličtina
• Počet stran 224
• Rok vydání 2019
• Pevná / vázaná

Maye Musk is a fashionable, charming, jet-setting supermodel with a fascinating and tight-knit circle of family and friends - and is 71 years old. But things were not always so easy or glamorous…

• Rok vydání 2019
• Počet stran 337
• Angličtina
• Brožovaná

In the bitter winter of 1946, Rachael Morgan arrives with her only remaining son Edmund in the ruins of Hamburg. Here she is reunited with her husband Lewis, a British colonel charged with…

• Rok vydání 2021
• Počet stran 240
• Angličtina
• Pevná / vázaná

In the long hot summer of 1939 Britain is preparing for war. But on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind: Mrs Petty, the widowed farmer, has had her hunch proved…

• Rok vydání 2006
• Počet stran 288
• Angličtina
• Brožovaná

Part science fiction, part dystopian fantasy, part radical socialist tract, Jack London's The Iron Heel offers a grim depiction of warfare between the classes in America and around the globe. …

• Rok vydání 1999
• Počet stran 864
• Angličtina
• Brožovaná

When Nicholas Nickleby is left penniless after his father's death, he appeals to his wealthy uncle to help him find work and to protect his mother and sister. But Ralph Nickleby proves both…

• Sci-fi
• Rok vydání 2018
• Počet stran 480
• Angličtina
• Brožovaná

Discover Captain Phasma’s mysterious history in this “Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi” novel. One of the most cunning and merciless officers of the First Order, Captain Phasma commands the…

• Rok vydání 2018
• Počet stran 400
• Angličtina
• Brožovaná

This is a love story that could only happen because of an accident of time travel. Tom and Penny belong to a world so perfect there's no war, no poverty, no under-ripe avocados. But when…

• Rok vydání 2019
• Počet stran 544
• Angličtina
• Brožovaná

Cassie Palmer has been chief seer of the supernatural world for a little over four months. In that time, she’s battled two gods, fallen in love with two men, and confronted the two sides of her…

• Rok vydání 2019
• Počet stran 384
• Angličtina
• Brožovaná

Jane Yellowrock is vampire-killer-for-hire, but her last battle with an ancient arcane enemy has brought her low. She seeks retreat in the Appalachian Mountains to grieve the loss of her…

• Angličtina
• Počet stran 368
• Rok vydání 2016
• Brožovaná

oy is a conman living in a small English town, about to pull off his final con. He is going to meet and woo a beautiful woman and slip away with her life savings. But who is the man behind the…

• Fantasy
• Rok vydání 2019
• Počet stran 480
• Angličtina
• Brožovaná

The former God Apollo, cast out by his father, Zeus, is having a pretty rough time of it. Well, for one thing, he's called Lester. But being an awkward mortal teenager is the least of his…

• Rok vydání 2015
• Počet stran 270
• Angličtina
• Brožovaná

While Wall Street was busy creating the biggest credit bubble of all time, a few renegade investors saw it was about to burst, bet against the banking system - and made a fortune. This book…

• Angličtina
• Počet stran 336
• Rok vydání 2017
• Brožovaná

From the prize-winning screenwriter of The Theory of Everything, this is a cinematic, behind-the-scenes account of a crucial moment which takes us inside the mind of one of the world's greatest…

• Rok vydání 2018
• Počet stran 400
• Angličtina
• Brožovaná

Scott Reintgen's sensational dytopian series is back! Emmett Atwater has bravely survived the voyage through space but his troubles have only just begun. As he resists the power of Babel he…

• Rok vydání 2017
• Počet stran 153
• Angličtina
• Brožovaná

The Pearl is a haunting and timeless tale of the dangers of unexpected wealth by Nobel prizewinner John Steinbeck, author of The Grapes of Wrath. It is one of The Originals from Penguin -…

• Angličtina
• Počet stran 160
• Rok vydání 2019
• Brožovaná

Fascinating, full of original material and shrewd insights a masterful historian of air power Leo McKinstry, Literary Review The RAF was the world's first air force. This is the story of its…

• Rok vydání 2016
• Počet stran 317
• Němčina
• Brožovaná

Jedes Jahr reist Jean-Louise Finch aus dem mondänen, aufgeklärten New York zurück in ihre Heimatstadt Maycomb im Süden der USA, um den Sommer bei ihrer Familie zu verbringen. Doch diesmal ist…

• Rok vydání 2002
• Počet stran 392
• Angličtina
• Brožovaná

A cryptic summons to a remote country house launches Isaac Inchbold, a London bookseller and antiquarian, on an odyssey through seventeenth-century Europe. Charged with the task of restoring a…

• Angličtina
• Počet stran 416
• Rok vydání 2018
• Brožovaná

Jack Reacher plans to follow the autumn sun on an epic road trip across America, from Maine to California. He doesn't get far. On a country road deep in the New England woods, he sees a sign to…

• Rok vydání 2015
• Počet stran 266
• Angličtina
• Brožovaná

'His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as a mausoleum. During the night, too, he'd somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten…

• Rok vydání 2019
• Počet stran 620
• Angličtina
• Brožovaná

The epic novel from Marlon James, the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings an African Game of Thrones. In the stunning first novel in Marlon James's Dark Star…

• Angličtina
• Počet stran 880
• Rok vydání 2012
• Brožovaná

Ex-Policeman Bernie Gunther thought he'd seen everything on the streets of 1930's Berlin. And even after the war, amidst the decayed, imperial splendour of Vienna, Bernie uncovered a legacy that…

• Rok vydání 2018
• Počet stran 464
• Angličtina
• Brožovaná

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on a journey of many years-the story spooling outwards from the cramped neighbourhoods of Old Delhi into the burgeoning new metropolis and beyond, to…

• Rok vydání 2010
• Počet stran 672
• Angličtina
• Brožovaná

Encompassing the very best of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short fiction, this collection spans his career, from the early stories of the glittering Jazz Age, through the lost hopes of the thirties, to…

• Rok vydání 2015
• Počet stran 460
• Angličtina
• Brožovaná

While marooned at his banking job in the bewilderingly damp and insular realm known as Ireland, Claude Martingale is approached by a down-on-his-luck author, Paul, looking for his next great…

• Rok vydání 2013
• Počet stran 240
• Angličtina
• Brožovaná

The fourth novel from India Knight is a hilarious, heartfelt exploration of women's relationship with their looks. What's a woman to do when she wakes up one morning and finds an enormous…

• Rok vydání 1995
• Počet stran 320
• Angličtina
• Brožovaná

Lister gazed out of the porthole and catalogue the series of disasters that had led him to this point in space and time: the bad decisions, the poor career choices, the unreliable friendships…

• Rok vydání 2007
• Počet stran 352
• Angličtina
• Brožovaná

A story of a middle-aged American millionaire who, seeking a new, more rewarding life, descends upon an African tribe. Henderson's awesome feats of strength and his unbridled passion for life…

• Rok vydání 2007
• Počet stran 224
• Angličtina
• Brožovaná

Published just one year after On The Road, this is the story of two men engaged in a passionate search for Dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen Way, which takes them…

• Angličtina
• Počet stran 272
• Rok vydání 2016
• Brožovaná

For readers of John Le Carre and viewers of "Homeland," a slow-burning psychological spy-thriller by a former brigadier general of intelligence in the Israeli army After attending her father s…

• Angličtina
• Počet stran 528
• Rok vydání 2017
• Brožovaná

The man behind the paintings: the extraordinary life of J. M. W Turner, one of Britain's most admired, misunderstood and celebrated artistsJ. M. W. Turner is Britain's most famous landscape…