At midnight Neil Griffon's home is broken into and he is abducted by masked men. When he wakes up, hours later, Neil…

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Ex-detective Nick Charles plans to spend a quiet Christmas holed up in a hotel suite with his glamorous wife Nora, their pet…

A first ink drawing showed a hanged man swinging from a gallows on which perched an enormous crow. And there were at least…

Maggie and Sylvie are perfect strangers: two very different women, living very different lives on opposite coasts. But they…

Offers a portrait of London's descent into anarchy, where 'King Mob' rules the streets, and innocent lives are swept up in…

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England, 1770. As an agent to the Crown, Marcus Ashford has fought numerous sword fights and dodged bullets and cannon fire.…

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How did George Eliot's love life affect her prose? Why did Kafka write at three in the morning? In what ways is Barack Obama…

These pieces show the range of Waugh's skills: Mr Loveday's Little Outing; Cruise; Period Piece; On Guard; An Englishman's…

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LA PI Philip Marlowe is offered a job that leaves a bad taste in the mouth: smearing a girl who's 'got her hooks into a rich…

'Look at the harlequins ...Play! Invent the world! Invent reality'. This is the childhood advice given by an aunt to Russian…

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Botchan is a modern young man from the Tokyo metropolis, sent to the ultra-traditional Matsuyama district as a Maths teacher…

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The spectre of Jack the Ripper still haunts Inspector Walter Day, his injured leg a daily reminder of his violent brush with…

Offers a selection of author's short stories exploring the relationship between art and life. This book gathers seven short…

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Charles Todd, a successful artist who paints horses, arrives at his cousin Donald's house and stumbles on a grisly scene:…

For Maria, nothing is certain. Her life is a chain of accidents. Friendship passes her by, and she's unimpressed by the…

Tessa Hamilton's thirty, with a lovely husband and home, two adorable kids, and not a care in the world. Sure her husband…

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Tara, Katherine and Fenton have been best friends since they were teenagers. Now in their early thirties, they've been…

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A young woman wakes up in a cold, dark cellar, with no idea how she got there or who her kidnapper is. So begins her…

Twenty year old Jenny Bunn is supernally beautiful and stubbornly chaste, which is why Patrick Standish, an arrogant…

Kenton a journalist travels to Nuremberg to investigate a top-level meeting, but he boards a train bound for Austria after a…

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A secret that will change lives forever. It was supposed to be the start of a big night out. But when Emily Kane arrives at…

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When a bloated corpse is found floating in the River Thames the police can at least sure that identifying the victim will be…

Spy turned art restorer Gabriel Allon is in Umbria, when shocking news arrives from London. A Russian defector who saved his…

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1934, London. Into the decaying cul-de-sac of Bleeding Heart Square steps aristocratic Lydia Langstone fleeing an abusive…

AD262 - the Imperium is in turmoil after the struggle for the throne. Furthermore, Ephesus, Asia's metropolis, lies in…

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As an amateur jockey, Roland Britten was lucky, and as an accountant he was rigorous. He knew he was on the hate list of…

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As of May 2009, the author was the little-known backup fly-half for Leinster, the chronically underachieving Irish province.…

Journey deeper in the world of Assassin''s Creed in the official novel of the incredible game: Odyssey. Greece, 5th century…

A scourge of illiteracy and a thorn in the side of pretension, the author provides advice about the linguistic blunders that…

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The slaying of an old couple in small town America looks like one-off act of brutal retribution. But at the same time, in…

Includes three plays - Suddenly Last Summer, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, and Small Craft Warnings.…

In 1818, when Stendhal was in his mid-thirties, he met and fell passionately in love with the beautiful Mathilde Dembowski.…

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Produkt Spy Story - Deighton, Len zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Penguin Books Ltd.…

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Evelyn Waugh's acidly funny and formally daring satire, Vile Bodies reveals the darkness and vulnerability that lurks…

Older, wiser and deadly than ever, Master Assassin Ezio Auditore embarks on an epic journey to find the lost library of…

Offers an account of an Englishman's life abroad. This book describes among other curiosities, a school for noses in Haute…

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Laurence is a young ex-sailor who can't resist the lure of the good life, and when he finds a job as chauffeur to the…

• Počet stran 400
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BEST BOOK OF 2023 ACCORDING TO THE NEWSTATESMAN AND OBSERVER''The Swimmer is a wonderful, original achievement; teeming with…

Mexico, April 2009. The bodies of a pair of undercover military intelligence agents, disguised as campesinos (farmers), are…

On Mother's Day, 2002, the author was unmarried, addicted to drugs, booze, food and bad love. Her criminal record had grown…

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Summer, 1921. Eight-year-old Lucy Gault clings to glens and woods above Lahardane - the home her family is being forced to…

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Dechberoucí titul z Kultura a zábava | Knihy | Beletrie pro dospělé | Romány, povídky, novely od společnosti Penguin Books.…