A title, in which, the author deals once and for all with questions like whether it is ever okay to covet thy neighbour's…

Inspired by a temple astrologer (who had accurately predicted his marriage and the birth of his two daughters), the author…

Through bustling, hustling city, its slum tenements and sumptuous villas, this book follows Zuleika the daughter of Sudanese…

Tells a story of crazed road trips fuelled by bourbon and black acid, of insane judges and giant porcupines, of girls, guns,…

Compiled by an unknown scribe in Iceland around 1270, and based on sources dating back centuries earlier, these mythological…

Between 1920 and 1934, the author lived in the remote Spanish village of Yegen. This book depicts his time there, evoking…

In 1982, on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday beneath the stifling heat of the midday sun, three children start a game that ends…

10-year-old Marsha is in turmoil following the collapse of her parents' marriage, and the brutal murder of a local boy. When…

Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been a city much like any other British city, comparable to Bristol or Liverpool and part of a…

• Rok vydání 1965

It's 1965 and eighteen year-old Rosie Churchill has run away to the beautiful but run-down Castaway House in the seaside…

Explores the volatile and dangerous region in the world. In this story of squandered opportunities, misguided alliances and…

Tells the story of women in the 1950s: a time before the Pill, when divorce spelled scandal and two-piece swimsuits caused…

Features the story of Siegmund Warburg: the refugee from Nazi Germany who restored the Blitz-shattered City of London as the…

Set on a Southern army base in the 1930s, this novel tells the story of Captain Penderton, a bisexual whose life is upset by…

Describes a Maharajah's eccentric habits and riddling conversations, and the odd shambling day-to-day life of his court.…

Recalls the author's working-class Jewish childhood in the East End of London. This book describes the overcrowded tenements…

• Čeština

A practical guide to the charms of the Gallic people - from their daily routines to their peerless gesticulations, from…

• Rok vydání 1976

In the long hot summer of 1976, a group of young people are camping in Wyvis Hall. Adam, Rufus, Shiva, Vivien and Zosie…

From Europe to the Middle East and North Africa, from Egyptian porters and Italian priests to Maltese sailors and Moroccan…

The Quintons have lived in the old house in Cork for hundreds of years. Though Anglo-Irish Protestant, they sympathize with…

Tells the story of Dubliner Charles Hythloday and the heroic squandering of the family inheritance. This title features…

In the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of young Westerners, inspired by Kerouac and the Beatles, blazed the 'hippie trail'…

Tells the story of Adam Jeffson: the first man to reach the North Pole and the last man left alive on earth.…

• Rok vydání 1984

\nRandall Woodfield was every college girl\'s dream - and nightmare. He cruised an 800-mile-long northwestern highway, the…

• Rok vydání 1862

1862, and with London in the grip of the Industrial Revolution, the world's first underground railway is under construction.…

Tells the story of Dyar, a New York bank clerk who throws up his secure, humdrum job to find a reality abroad with which to…

• Rok vydání 2022

Tells of the author's journey down the length of North and South America. Beginning on Boston's subway, this work depicts a…

• Rok vydání 1985

After eleven years living as an American in London, the author set out to travel clockwise round the coast and find out what…

The 'Northern Crusades', inspired by the Pope's call for a Holy War, are less celebrated than those in the Middle East, but…

Happy City is the story of how the solutions to this century's problems lie in unlocking the secrets to great city living.…

A travel book that reveals Corsica as a vital element in Europe: a highly individualistic island culture whose people have…

• Rok vydání 2024

What happened to the characters of Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies when the war broke out? This title shows them adjusting…

Presents various examples of Groucho, one of the influential and well-loved figures in the history of comedy. From early…

\nPRE-ORDER BOOK 11 OF THE LADYBIRD EXPERT HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR, FROM AWARD-WINNING HISTORIAN JAMES…

Presents a subjective meditation on a city and its buildings including railway stations, synagogues, abandoned gasworks,…

A compendium of travel writing from a master traveller. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, it…

Explores modern London through a day's hike around the London Overground route.…

Takes us on a backstage tour of the real but hidden world of the Internet, introducing us to the remarkable clan of insiders…

Mr Artur Sammler, intellectual and occasional lecturer at Columbia University in 1960s New York City, is a registrar of…

Deep in the American South, 'land of the hunted and the haunted,' three young slaves have broken free. But they have their…

Intends to exemplify the variety of Italian writing of the twentieth century. This volume includes discussions of the words…

• Rok vydání 2024

Features the awkward, lonely, curious teenager Timothy Gedge as he wanders around the bland seaside town of Dynmouth.…

Tells the story of the terrifying cholera epidemic that engulfed London in 1854, and the two unlikely heroes - anesthetist…