• Rok vydání 2015
• Angličtina
• Počet stran 216

'I waited patiently for the next hand to be played out, and I had a feeling it was going to be a Natural, a perfect nine.'…

Vivid and alive, this powerful novella about one woman\'s belated rebellion against the powers that be is Anita Desai at her…

• Rok vydání 2007

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY TIM BUTCHER The silence of the jungle is broken only by the ominous sound of drumming. Life on the…

Brilliant journalism meets true crime in the heart of America, in this bizarre, gripping and thought-provoking story. Kniha…

• Rok vydání 2025

Set in the English countryside, Open, Heaven unfolds over the course of one year as two teenage boys meet and transform each…

• Rok vydání 2019

Follow a dark and powerful journey up the Congo River in Conrad's sharp and incisive exploration of the damages of…

• Počet stran 176
• Rok vydání 2001

Elizabeth Bowen takes us on a tour through the history of the famous Dublin landmark, the Shelbourne Hotel, in this…

The pre-eminent exponent of anti-monopoly law explains why we have no option but to break Big Tech’s monopolies and that…

From Japan\'s most famous, classic novelist comes a remarkable gem of wit, irony, and feline observationA stray kitten,…

• Rok vydání 2019

THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF FLESHTwelve people on the move around planet Earth, twelve individual lives, each in…

• Rok vydání 2025

To the world, they were a scandal. To each other, an obsession.'Perfect if you're a fan of Daisy Jones and the Six'…

• Rok vydání 2026

Five stories of desire and discovery set in 1970s Japan, from weird fiction's most influential pioneer - Angela CarterAn…

• Rok vydání 2024

Based on the true experiences of Bao Ninh and banned by the communist party, The Sorrow of War is revered as the 'All Quiet…

A captivating and unexpected journey through the history of humankind's relationship with food, with an urgent message for…

• Rok vydání 2017

Paperback edition of the personal journey through the story of modern existentialism, which blends philosophy wth biography.…

• Rok vydání 2025

'No one has done more to re-inject sanity into our national policy’ Emily Maitlis'A dose of Torstenomics is the only thing…

• Rok vydání 2015

The Ds can't wait to go and stay with Nancy and Peggy in the Lake District during the summer holidays. But when the Amazons'…

This book is from the author of the Samuel Johnson Prize - shortlisted Sunday Times bestseller, A Sting in the Tale. In…

• Rok vydání 2024

This is a story about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to…

• Rok vydání 2025

The first of the hilarious novels in the campus trilogy, Changing Places is a funny and wise tale of academic ill-manners -…

\nShe\'s twenty-three and in love with love. The affair is quickly consuming. But this relationship is unpredictable, and…

• Rok vydání 2021

'Triumphant, and beautifully told...one of the best novelists writing today' GuardianAll must gamble with their fate. But…

• Počet stran 288
• Rok vydání 2012

'Bill Bryson on two wheels' IndependentSelf-confessed loafer Tim Moore, seduced by the speed and glamour of the biggest…

• Rok vydání 2001
• Počet stran 229
• Angličtina

Book Summary Hilarious and provocative, fanciful and wise, offering answers to questions we never thought to ask and…

• Počet stran 352
• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2009

Paul Rainey, an ad salesman, perceives dimly through a fog of psychoactive substances his dissatisfaction with his life-…

• Rok vydání 2017

From the author of The Bonfire of the Vanities, the maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think…

Includes "Mr Norris Changes Trains" and "Goodbye to Berlin", the inspiration for the stage and screen musical "Cabaret". It…

• Rok vydání 2017

Kalevala is the poetic name for Finland: "The land of heroes". In this book, you'll find the cultural essence of a young…

'Inspiring and invigorating' JULIA BUENO'Deeply unsettling and affecting' CATHERINE AIREYGot endometriosis? You should have…

Two sons of doctors, sent to 're-education' camps, forced to carry buckets of excrement up and down mountain paths, have…

• Počet stran 208
• Rok vydání 2002

The Bridge on the River Kwai tells the story of three POWs who endure the hell of the Japanese camps on the Burma-Siam…

Mass-murdering authors. Writers at the head of a football-hooligan ring. A pilot who crafts his poetry in the sky. A tour de…

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017One of the world's great writers venturing into exciting new territory - a…

A lyrical tour of life as a young working-class man born into the first days of the 20th century, Caliban Shrieks is a lost…

Set in the deep south that provided the backdrop for all of Faulkner's finest fiction, Intruder in the Dust is the novel…

• Rok vydání 2017

Nine men. Each at a different stage of life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving - in the Prague suburbs,…

• Počet stran 144
• Rok vydání 2011

Poignant, funny and perceptive, Helen Simpson's fifth collection of runs the gamut of emotions and deals with birth, death…

• Počet stran 208
• Rok vydání 2011

Opening on the eve of the millennium, when the world as we know it is still recognisable, we meet the nine-year-old narrator…

• Počet stran 176
• Rok vydání 2016

The first collection of short stories from one of Britain's finest novelists and criticsA nameless man who has fallen out of…

• Počet stran 176
• Rok vydání 2017

Beyond the walls of the house, he encounters chatty hairdressers and priests, wolf hunters and monstrous carnival effigies.…

Shortlisted for the Dolman Travel Book AwardAfter reckoning with the ends of the earth in acclaimed books such as Terra…

• Počet stran 384
• Rok vydání 2003

More and more people today want to organize at least part of a funeral for themselves, without depending on funeral…

• Počet stran 272
• Rok vydání 2010

The Running Sky records a lifetime of looking at birds. Begining in summer with clouds of breeding seabirds in Shetland and…

• Rok vydání 2013

"The First Crusade" is one of the best-known and most written-about events in history but in this new book Dr Peter…

Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of Japan’s aristocracy is breached for the first time. Kiyoaki has been raised among the…

Departure(s) is a work of fiction - but that doesn\'t mean it\'s not true.It is the story of a man called Stephen and a…

• Rok vydání 2023

\nOne of the most acclaimed writers of our day, award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken is an undisputed virtuoso of the…

• Rok vydání 2026
• Brožovaná

A WASHINGTON POST, TIME and SLATE Book of the Year'A stunning debut' GUARDIAN'Stylish and unsettling' OBSERVER'A true…