W ukryciu łączy w sobie narastające napięcie, barwne postaci i wnikliwe psychologiczne obserwacje, które składają się na wspaniałą, pasjonującą lekturę.To był zwyczajny wieczór ...więcej »
A Room of One's Own (1929) has become a classic feminist essay and perhaps Virginia Woolf's best known work; The Voyage Out (1915) is highly significant as her first novel. Both focus on the place ...więcej »
A pioneering work of dystopian fiction from one of Sweden's most acclaimed writersWritten midway between Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four, as the terrible events of the Second W...więcej »
'She found the best clay that one could desire: white, supple, sticky, cold ... She would get a clear and tender material from which she could shape a world'Like the clay from which she...więcej »
W środku grudniowej nocy psychiatrę Erika Marię Barka budzi telefon ze sztokholmskiego szpitala. Komisarz kryminalny Joona Linna prosi go o pilną pomoc – leczenie nieprzytomnego pacjenta, kt&...więcej »
"Sir, the First Lady ... has gone rogue."President Tucker is caught up in a media firestorm. The scandal of his affair has sent shockwaves through his re-election campaign, an...więcej »
Two authorities on popular culture reveal the ways in which art can enhance mood and enrich lives - now available in paperbackThis passionate, thought-provoking, often funny, and always...więcej »
Marking Time is the second novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling Cazalet Chronicles.Home Place, Sussex, 1939. The English family at war . . .The sunlit days of childish gam...więcej »
A gdybyście zakochali się w tej jednej osobie, którą przysięgaliście zniszczyć?W dniu ślubu Lara ma dla męża tylko jedną myśl: rzucę twoje królestwo na kolana. Jako księżniczka szkolo...więcej »
'The unhappiness that I need and long for . . . is of the kind that will let me suffer with eagerness and die with lust. That is the unhappiness, or happiness, that I am waiting for.'Al...więcej »
In a luxury spa hotel in the Swiss Alps, octogenarian friends Fred Ballinger and Mick Boyle look back on their eventful and successful lives as composer and film director, surrounded by a host of c...więcej »
George Smiley, who is a troubled man of infinite compassion, is also a single-mindedly ruthless adversary as a spy.The scene which he enters is a Cold War landscape of moles and lamplig...więcej »
Po upadku Hellekina Królestwem Archeonu, do niedawna uznawanym przez wielu za centrum świata, zaczęli władać padlinożercy. Jedynie czasem płoszyła ich Śmierć, gdy przechadzała się zarastając...więcej »
Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance.Her eyes ...więcej »
Bruce Chatwin provides a fascinating background to indigenous Australian life.The songlines are the invisible pathways that criss-cross Australia, tracks connecting communities and foll...więcej »
The classic evocative tale of an idyllic childhood in the English countrysideCider with Rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before e...więcej »
Grady - beautiful, rich, flame-haired, defiant - is the sort of girl people stare at across a room. The daughter of an important man, who people want to be introduced to. A girl to whom people sens...więcej »
Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle is an irreverent and highly entertaining fantasy about the playful irresponsibility of nuclear scientists, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials rang...więcej »
A masterwork by the incomparable, genre-defying, wondrous Italo Calvino.You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But there is a p...więcej »