• Brožovaná
• Rok vydání 2000

In a satanic bargain, Melmoth exchanges his soul for immortality. This book tells the story of his tortured wanderings…

When young Mollie became a 'skivvy' in a stately London townhouse aged just 14, she quickly learned that a large amount of…

• Brožovaná
• Rok vydání 2012

Shabby and lumbering, with a face like a Norfolk dumpling, Father Brown makes for an improbable super-sleuth. But his…

• Počet stran 240
• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2021

''Delightful, ingenious and beautifully designed'' Philip Pullman ''Uniquely magical, each page offers new delights. Many…

• Rok vydání 1998

A tale of mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity in which Cytherea has taken a position as lady's maid to the…

After losing their contract with the US government because of a daring raid too far, Cabrillo and his crew of mercenaries…

Little Jeff Pearce grew up in a post-war Liverpool slum. His father lived the life of an affluent gentleman whilst his…

• Rok vydání 2008

Buck is forced into life as a sled dog, where he must fight for his survival. Can he rise above his enemies and become…

• Počet stran 496
• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2023

One of the last criminal trials using the 1735 Witchcraft Act was, improbably, in London in 1944. The accused was Helen…

• Rok vydání 2020

\nThe deadliest threat is the one you never see coming . . .\nIt was a text message that started it.\nPresident Jack Ryan\'s…

Includes The Portrait of Mr W H, Wilde's defence of Dorian Gray, reviews, and the writings from Intentions (1891): The Decay…

• Rok vydání 2015

1554: Lady Jane Grey is executed by her cousin Queen Mary. Now Lady Jane's younger sisters Katherine and Mary, cursed with…

• Brožovaná
• Rok vydání 1991

Lily is the niece of Squire Dale, an embittered old bachelor entrenched in the Great House at Allington. His sister-in-law…

With a biting wit and perceptive insight, Dorothy Parker examines the social mores of her day and exposes the darkness…

• Počet stran 432
• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2022

On the warm night of 18 August 1942, a flotilla pushed out into the flat water of the Channel. They were to seize the…

• Rok vydání 2021

• Brožovaná

The Gothic novel, which flourished from about 1765 until 1825, revels in the horrible and the supernatural, in suspense and…

• Počet stran 464
• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2006

David Schearl arrives in New York in his mother's arms to begin his new life as an immigrant. David is hated by his father,…

• Rok vydání 2023

A medieval Arab fantasy collection--Cover.…

• Thriller

When a hurricane unexpectedly blows up off the coast of Nicaragua, a giant floating hotel lies in its path. With no escape…

• Rok vydání 2016

Penelope Devereux is a legendary beauty in the court of Elizabeth I. Walking the knife-edge of court, whilst ensuring that…

Alphonse Daudet's novels established him as the most successful writer in France by the end of the XIX century. Throughout…

When Simeon Simcox, a socialist clergyman, leaves his entire fortune not to his family but to the ruthless, social-climbing…

A collection of thirty-three orations ranging over fifty years, demonstrating how Winston Churchill gradually honed his…

• Rok vydání 2008

Includes the stories Metamorphosis; Meditation; The Judgement; The Stoker; and The Aeroplanes at Brescia.…

Witty, courageous and unconventional, Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the most controversial figures of her day. She…

• Rok vydání 1987

The illegitimate and impoverished son of a dressmaker and a nobleman, Hyacinth Robinson has grown up with a strong sense of…

• Angličtina
• Počet stran 448
• Rok vydání 2014
• Pevná / vázaná

For more than 2,000 years, Sun Tzu's The Art of War has provided leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics,…

A story of an unwanted Chinese daughter growing up during the Communist Revolution, blamed for her mother's death, ignored…

In the last decades of the British Empire, Stewart Gore-Brown build himself a feudal paradise in Northern Rhodesia; a…

Includes a collection spans many genres, offering ingenious alternative histories, mystery and horror, satirical reflections…

• Počet stran 400
• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2024

Twenty years of love. Seven years of absence. One journey to find out what happened. Brian''s wife, Lily, disappeared from…

Produkt Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries - Various zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Penguin Books Ltd.…

• Thriller

December, 1941. Four brothers investigate the secrets of a treasure pit on a small island in the Pacific. But a sudden death…

A consummate storyteller, the author made fantastic creatures and machines entirely believable; and, by placing ordinary men…

• Počet stran 608
• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2009

From fabulous enchantments and supernatural horrors to subtler, more psychological terrors, the best of nineteenth-century…

• Rok vydání 2023

'Georgic' means 'to work the earth'. This poetic guide to country living combines practical wisdom on tending the land with…

Shanghai, 1927, and revolution is in the air. As the city becomes caught up in violence and bloodshed, four people's lives…

• Počet stran 256
• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2008

At the Same Time contains sixteen illuminating essays by Susan Sontag. With a preface by David Rieff. The sixteen essays…

• Brožovaná
• Rok vydání 2011

Adventurers and treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo are on a wild-goose chase. Up to their waists in the Great Pocomoke…

• Rok vydání 1995

When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of the repercussions to…

• Počet stran 12

With an inspirational introduction by Darren Shan, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of the twelve wonderful classic…

• Počet stran 368
• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2023

Her past is a mess. But her present is about to get delicious. Amy is more than the one disastrous night that ended in…

• Brožovaná
• Rok vydání 2016

On a routine intelligence gathering mission in Tehran Jack Ryan, Jr has lunch with his oldest friend, Seth Gregory, an…