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THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION'A triumph.' Deborah…

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• Rok vydání 2011

What does he want after all these years, and why is he so interested in the comings and goings at a plush townhouse in Great…

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Widely considered an outstanding and unique figure in French literature, Genet wrote five novels between 1942 and 1947, now…

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'Irby might be our great bard of quarantine.' New York TimesIn this painfully funny collection, Samantha Irby captures…

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He got in touch with people he admires, and asked them to suggest an album for him to track down on his travels, giving an…

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lead to places I don't want to go again.' When Emily and her husband move to Clairmont, Texas, they believe that it's the…

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A liff is a familiar object or experience that English has no word for. This book corrects this disgraceful oversight by…

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• Rok vydání 2003

Edgy, funny and devastating, Self is the fictional autobiography of a young writer at the heart of which is a startling…

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• Rok vydání 2001

A collection of pieces in which Barbara Kingsolver, author of the novel "Pigs in Heaven", explores her trademark themes of…

Set against the backdrop of post-war Britain, this book conjures the seedy glamour of the old music halls for an explosive…

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• Rok vydání 2007

Produkt Leaves - Caldwell, Lucy zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele FABER & FABER.…

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Promising young playwright Will Shakespeare is tormented by writer's block until he finds his muse in the form of passionate…

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'The first duty of a storyteller is to tell a story.' Or was it 'The only duty of a storyteller is to tell a story'?A writer…

Set in an exotic eastern landscape peopled by magicians and fantastic talking animals, Rushdie's novel inhabits the same…

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Ellie Hatcher's father spent much of his life pursuing a notorious serial killer. So when, years later, a new killer emerges…

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• Rok vydání 2000

A tense truce holds between the Capulets and the Montagues after the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. but Rosaline is bent on…

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In an old mansion in Cennethisar, a former fishing village near Istanbul, an old widow Fatma awaits the annual summer visit…

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As he and his best friend Henry attempt to make the sometimes painful, sometimes comic transition to their divorced middle…

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• Rok vydání 2021

August Kleinzahler has earned admiration for his musical, precise poems that are grounded in the people, places and language…

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• Rok vydání 2022

WINNER OF THE DEREK WALCOTT PRIZE FOR POETRYJulia Copus's new collection, Girlhood, is a book of transgressed boundaries and…

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Discover the classic novel of 'a modern master' (Irish Times), described by Stephen Mangan on BBC2s Between the Covers as 'a…

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Theodore becomes an object of derision and morbid curiosity to the press, a prized specimen for scientists and Satan…

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Kate Moore is an expat mum, newly transplanted from Washington DC. In the cobblestoned streets of Luxembourg, her days are…

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ENCORE PRIZE 2019LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2019LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR…

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His words appear modest, but they have huge scope.'Wim WendersThis volume is the first collection of Sam Shepard's…

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Simon Weinberg is dead. And, on a November morning, six people gather at his funeral - brothers and a sister, lovers and…

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Flora died before her grandson was born, but their travels and obsessions unravel side by side in this absorbing novel. A…

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Auster's existential tale of Mr Blank from the author of contemporary classic The New York Trilogy: 'a literary voice for…

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A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE 21ST CENTURYWINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZETen years out of Yale and…

Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. August himself has just landed a…

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Alcestis is the story of a king, Admetus, who is able to escape death because his wife, Alcestis, has volunteered to die in…

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I was eight years old when I come to H'Inglan' - I travel on my mother's passportAugust Henderson, fifty-two years in…

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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE At a small gallery in Florence, a Peruvian writer comes across a photograph of a…

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• Rok vydání 2024

Mrs Sarah Siddons, acclaimed as the greatest actress of all time, holds complete sway over audiences and critics alike. Sick…

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2018For weeks, someone has been broadcasting people's secrets from the minarets of the…

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• Rok vydání 2013

One morning Mel Toews put on his coat and hat and walked out of town, prepared to die. But it is also a funny, winsome…

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• Rok vydání 1999

Set in a crumbling Soviet Black Sea resort, The Life of Insects with its motley cast of characters who exist simultaneously…

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Allen Ginsberg (1926-97) was born in Newark, New Jersey, to a poet-teacher father and Russian emigre mother. When "Howl and…

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A novel is a relationship, a place outside of time where both reader and writer are challenged and validated, stretched and…

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The legendary Edna O'Brien's tale of a mysterious stranger spellbinding an Irish village 'reminds you why you read books in…

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Sue Prideaux's award-winning portrait of philosophy's greatest iconoclast, Friedrich Nietzsche.…

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WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRYSHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S.…

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Spaniards are reputed to be amongst Europe's most forthright people. This apparent 'pact of forgetting' inspired writer…

Tormented by old regrets and terrible fears -- vague recollections of his brother's violent demise, and his best friend's…

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Living on a quiet street in Hampstead, he develops a close bond with the Nelson family next door: Josh, Samantha and their…

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Jorge said he wasn't coming back until I learned how to be a better wife . But before he drove off he gave me a new…

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Resistance opens in 1944, as the women of a small Welsh farming community wake one morning to find that their husbands have…

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Aided by her bespoke agency and a cast of boyfriends - each allotted their own task (the handy boyfriend, the culinary…