\nIt\'s the summer of 1976 and Adrea is falling in love, while nursing the decrepit residents of Heron Close, a care home in…

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• Rok vydání 2015

Journeying across the British Isles and drawing on his own mining and stonemasonry background, geologist Ted Nield unearths…

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\nWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD: an intimate, emotionally rich novel, in which two men - young and old - reckon with…

\nA nineteenth century tale of dangerous and pioneering mathematical ideas, based on an incredible true story.\n…

\nA short, propulsive, moody novel about a woman who walks out of her lifeand washes up in an out-of-season seaside town -…

Travelling across the Atlantic on board the QE2, Alice - a bright, young physicist - meets Jove, short for Giovanni, one of…

From the best-selling author of The Glass Palace and Sea of Poppies, an extraordinary work of non-fiction that combines…

\nAn epic miniature of one man\'s life journey through the American West at the turn of the twentieth century.\n…

\nShortlisted for the Women\'s Prize for Fiction, a dazzling and deadpan new novel about hope and despair, fear and comfort…

\nWritten with Diana Athill\'s trademark insight and wry humour, a memoir of Diana\'s childhood, in England in the 1920s,…

Suitable for those who want to put their faith in a writer who knows - and loves - his city from the inside out: Suketu…

\nA tender, heartfelt and very funny novel about fathers, sons and the many forms of family, from an internationally…

One of Britain\'s foremost writers of place takes an evocative journey along the western coast of Ireland and Scotland to…

\nThe story of Diana Athill\'s relationship with Didi - a gifted writer and an Egyptian in exile - and a remarkably honest,…

• Rok vydání 2023

\nAn engaging and moving exploration of why we garden, from a woman who found solace in her own small patch of land\n…

\nAn intense and dramatic reimagining of a plague outbreak in 1930s Moscow invites parallels with our pandemic-stricken…

\nAn evocative and life-enhancing account of running a community farm and raising a family in New York State.\n…

\nValeria Luiselli\'s crystalline debut: a surreal, enchanting novel about passion, identity, and the ghosts we carry.\n…

• Rok vydání 2019

An eye-opening journey through the disasters and triumphs of the nuclear age - and a critical assessment of the nuclear…

\nAn overlooked patch of jungle in Bangkok brings together a rich cast of characters in search of redemption, opportunity…

Hiking with Nietzscheis a tale of two philosophical journeys - one made by John Kaag as an introspective teenager, the other…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nMeet the obsessives and dreamers of this remote island nation, and travel through the collections of Iceland\'s eclectic…

\nA provocative history of race, empire and myth, told through the stories of men who have been worshipped as gods - from…

Taking his title from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Sven Lindqvist traces Europe's dark history in Africa in the form…

\nA fast-paced journey around Karachi in the company of those who know the city inside out - from an electrifying new voice…

A gripping and beguiling blend of art history, memoir and travel writing which delves into the mysteries and meanings of Las…

Sofka Zinovieff had fallen in love with Greece as a student, but little suspected that years later she would return for good…

• Rok vydání 2024

\nA vivid journey around England\'s great seaside resorts, exploring their history and current struggle, and what they…

There are 100,000 freighters on the seas. Between them they carry nearly everything we eat, wear and work with. In this…

One of the most celebrated books of the year: a vivid journey through the haunted borderlands that once made up the…

Terra Nullius is a journey across Australia's desert and into its shocking past. This lyrical book describes its landscape,…

Andrew Brown spent part of his childhood in Sweden during the 1960s. In the 1970s he married a Swedish woman and worked in a…

An irreverent travel guide to Nigeria, a country which 'gets fewer voluntary visitors than the moon', by the daughter of Ken…

\nAn unnerving, compelling and utterly contemporary debut novel about one woman\'s metamorphosis into an online phenomenon,…

\nA charming, vibrant diary of Diana Athill\'s holiday to Florence in the late 1940s.\n…

Flickering between virtual Mexico and actual London, this smart, funny novel follows a woman who is losing herself in the…

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\nThe debut novel from one of Granta\'s Best of Young American Novelists: a virtuoso, metaphysical thriller and a modern day…

\nA landmark journey along the full length of the old Iron Curtain - from the Arctic Circle to Turkey\'s eastern border -…

\nWhat does it mean to write about a killer? From an award-winning author comes a tale of a notorious double-murder, a…