• Rok vydání 2014

This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect.With a new introduction by the…

FROM THE PUBLISHERS OF STONER AND REVOLUTIONARY ROAD COMES REUNIONReunion is a little-known novel. Middle-class Hans is…

Set in the Northern Ireland of the 1980s, Cal tells the story of a young Catholic man living in a Protestant area. For Cal,…

• Rok vydání 2005

As a young girl in China Xinran heard a rumour about a soldier in Tibet who had been brutally fed to the vultures in a…

• Rok vydání 2011

Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Biography Award and the 2012 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize Julia Blackburn and…

• Rok vydání 2013

Tim Moore - indefatigable travelling everyman - switches two wheels for four as he journeys across Trumpland in an original…

Having learned Mandarin, and travelling alone by foot, bicycle and train, Colin Thubron set off on a 10,000 mile journey…

• Rok vydání 2019

'I needed to get to the stopping places, so I needed to get on the road. Through winter frosts and summer dawns, from horse…

Between 1970 and 1975 Jon Swain, the English journalist portrayed in David Puttnam's film, The Killing Fields, lived in the…

Elizabeth Bowen's account of a time spent in Rome is no ordinary guidebook but an evocation of a city - its history, its…

• Rok vydání 2019

*A Newstatesman Book of the Year*`Nimble, vital, unexpectedly affecting' ObserverBestselling travel writer Horatio Clare…

• Rok vydání 2004

Thubron travelled throughout Central Asia in the wake of the break-up of the Soviet Union and documented the widespread…

• Rok vydání 2001

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUXSomerset Maugham's success as a writer enabled him to indulge his adventurous love of…

**Shortlisted for the 2017 Andre Simon Food and Drink Book Awards****Shortlisted for the 2018 Fortnum & Mason Food Book…

• Čeština

How does an Englishman cope when he moves to Italy - not the tourist idyll but the real Italy? When Tim Parks first moved to…

A book that tells the story of London since the thirties through the 28 streets, stations and utililties of the Monopoly…

• Rok vydání 1983

In 1983, Ma Jian turned 30 and was overwhelmed by the desire to escape the confines of his life in Beijing. With his long…

TOP TEN BESTSELLERMount Kailas is the most sacred of the world's mountains - holy to one fifth of humanity. Having recently…

A book about family, selfishness and compassion on Ireland\'s Atlantic coast, from the Booker Prize-winner. Hanna, Dan,…

• Čeština

How does an Italian become Italian? In An Italian Education Tim Parks focuses on his own young children in the small village…

• Rok vydání 2010

Despite the horrors that Scott and his men eventually faced, Cherry-Garrard's account is filled with details of scientific…

• Rok vydání 1941

From the author of INTO THE SILENCE, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-FictionIn 1941, Richard Evans Schultes took…

Set in the 1920s, this marvellously sensitive autobiography recreates the varied community of Nairn, with its fishermen and…

In an extraordinary portrayal of one of the world's fastest growing cities, Sam Miller sets out to discover the real Delhi.…