‘Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark and everyone sailing under a different sky’Where do you go if you can’t feel at home in your own family? Wh...więcej »
A major anthology of great Japanese short stories introduced by Haruki MurakamiThis is a celebration of the Japanese short story from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to rem...więcej »
Have you ever imagined a different life?Have you ever stood at a crossroads, undecided? Have you ever had a moment when you wanted to roar?From much-loved, international bes...więcej »
Following the smash success of her best-selling book, Pillow Thoughts, Courtney Peppernell now returns with the follow-up sequel Pillow Thoughts II: Healing the Heart. Peppernell unders...więcej »
Pillow Thoughts is a collection of poetry and prose about heartbreak, love and raw emotions.It is divided into sections to read when you feel you need them most.Make a cup of tea ...więcej »
AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEARAN EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEARThe first-ever collection of short stories from Jeffrey Eugenides, the bestselling author of Middlesex, The Virgin ...więcej »
Author of the bestselling Clifton Chronicles, Jeffrey Archer, gives us fifteen gripping and rewarding short stories for readers to return to time and again.Find out what happens to the ...więcej »
A collection of eight ingenious short stories following Inspector Montalbano’s investigations into Sicily’s murky underworld, all served with Camilleri’s trademark wit, and Montal...więcej »
A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all...więcej »
Lord Jim to opowieść o usilnych próbach przekraczania granic własnej wytrzymałości, o pokonywaniu słabości i walce z samym sobą. To również opowieść o najwyższej wartości w życiu czło...więcej »
Mary Gaitskill's tales of desire and dislocation in 1980s New York caused a sensation with their frank, caustic portrayals of men and women's inner lives. As her characters have sex, try and fail t...więcej »
A haunting novella of fame and disillusionment by a Japanese literary iconAll eyes are upon Rikio. And he likes it, mostly. His fans cheer from a roped-off section, screaming and yellin...więcej »
Horace Rumpole - dishevelled barrister at law, drinker of claret and smoker of cigars, inveterate quoter of Wordsworth and eternal defender of the underdog - is one of the greatest English comic ch...więcej »
Dwaj przyjaciele spotykają się po latach. Jeden odziedziczył wielkąfortunę, ale stracił wszystko. Szczęście mu nie sprzyjało?Drugi zaczynał od zera i odniósł sukces. Miał fart?więcej »
Dwaj przyjaciele spotykają się po latach. Jeden odziedziczył wielką fortunę, ale stracił wszystko. Szczęście mu nie sprzyjało?Drugi zaczynał od zera i odniósł sukces. Miał fart?T...więcej »
A disgusting account of a school of giant squid attacking a seaside resort, and two other examples of Wells' extraordinary imagination at work - 'The Magic Shop' and 'The Land Ironclads'więcej »
A spectacular treasury of the best British short stories published in the last twenty yearsWe are living in a particularly rich period for British short stories. Despite the relative la...więcej »
In a series of nine letters, the narrator tells his friend how he introduced Vera Nikolayevna, a married woman who had been forbidden as a child to read fiction and poetry, to the intellectual plea...więcej »
A secret terrorist group infiltrates the household of a government official’s son, with a view to spying on the father and, ultimately, assassinating him. But the young man entrusted with the...więcej »