The story of In America is inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland's most celebrated actress, accompanied by her husband, Count Karol Chlapowski, her fifteen-ye...
In "The Star Sign" we see traces of the Bible, early and medieval Christian legend, medieval theather, the Franciscan evangelization of Mexico, the performative nature of Nahua religion, ...
Controversial and compelling, In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent ...
WINNER OF WATERSTONES NOVEL OF THE YEAR: A gripping, heart-shattering love story between two soldiers in the First World WarIt's 1914, and talk of war feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sid...
In My Grandfather's Shadow is an unflinching, thought-provoking fusion of memoir and history, and an exploration of the hidden scars left across generations by the conflict and horrors of the Secon...
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's ...
From the author of the INTERNATIONAL NO.1 BESTSELLER THEY BOTH DIE AT THE END.In this epic conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Infinity Cycle trilogy, two brothers find themsel...
Beginnings, middles and ends; Peggy, Serena, Natasha and Bel. This is the room that binds them, this is how consequences work . . .In deepest Cornwall, the mansion Kittiwake has seen ma...
Joanna Kalotay lives alone in the woods of Vermont, the sole protector of a collection of rare books; books that will allow someone to walk through walls or turn water into wine. Books of magic.
"Utterly compelling' GuardianLife...is shapeless, it does not point to and gather round anything, it does not cohere. Artistically, it's dead. Life's dead.So begins a l...
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Zbliża się Boże Narodzenie. Jakiś maniak napastuje piękne sprzedawczynie z Treviso, niebezpiecznie burząc spokój radosnego czasu zakupów. In...
Fighting for survival in a shattered world… the truth is her only hope.The thrillingly dark sequel to No. 1 New York Times bestseller, DIVERGENT.I have done bad thing...
An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at the International Court. A woman of many languages and identities, she is looking for a place to finally call home.Sh...
Set in Italy in the summer of 1940, this trio of stories explores the relationships between the different generations caught up in the war as well as Calvino's own experiences as a teenager. In the...
Born in Vienna in 1882, Melanie Klein became a pioneer in child psychoanalysis and developed several ground-breaking concepts about the nature and crucial importance of the early stages of infantil...
Popular culture often portrays the Holocaust as ahorrific drama played out between Nazi executioners and ghetto Jewish victims -in short, a single aberration of history. Introducingthe Holocaust is...
Ralph Ellison's blistering and impassioned first novel tells the extraordinary story of a man invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me'. Published in 1952 when American society was in the ...
Korespondencja Jana Dantyszka (łac. Ioannes Dantiscus, 1485-1548), urodzonego w Gdańsku, pochodzącego zaś z osiadłej od kilku pokoleń w Prusach dolnoniemieckiej rodziny von Höfen, sekretarza k...
We are able to imagine anything because we are being besieged by something that was considered unimaginable...'Beneath the panic and bluster, beneath the confusing speeches and the conf...