A chance encounter while holidaying in Central America leads an American couple, the Slades, to befriend the charming, handsome Grove Soto and his young Cuban mistress. But as the Slades' trip beco...więcej »
'A tour de force, an engrossing fusion of scholarly research, professional experience and revelations from intrepid firsthand reporting' -- New York TimesUSER FRIENDLY is a must-read fo...więcej »
More’s Utopia is a complex, innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought, culminating in the famous ’description’ of the Utopians, who live according to the princi...więcej »
Over the last decade, Britain has been rocked by a series of political revolts. The rise of national populism, the vote for Brexit, Boris Johnson's emphatic 2019 election victory, the fall of Labou...więcej »
With an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull.Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisiti...więcej »
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful,...więcej »
'Sublime comic genius... light as a feather... fabulous' Ben Elton 'Ever since I picked up my dad's copy of Very Good, Jeeves aged eleven, I've adored P. G. Wodehouse' Anna Carewięcej »
Around the World In Eighty Days z podręcznym słownikiem angielsko-polskim (W 80 dni dookoła świata) to najpopularniejsza powieść francuskiego pisarza Juliusza Verne’a, która swoją prem...więcej »
'"WAHALA" means trouble and there's plenty of it' GUARDIAN'Full of food, humour and pitch-perfect observation' STYLIST'All the ride-or-die realness of female friendship' RED M...więcej »
Some of the most macabre and wonderful of all Chinese stories, including 'The Golden Goblet', 'Scorched Moth the Daoist' and 'The Black Beast'Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books...więcej »
Two rivals. Seven countries. Could this be their chance to fall in love?Dylan Coughlan has just won a trip around the world. The catch? Her travel partner is a random contac...więcej »
"War and Peace" is a vast epic centred on Napoleon's war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy's view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence, he peoples his gr...więcej »
A darkly humorous Czech satire: a new super-breed tries to conquer the world...War with the Newts (1936) is Karel Capek's darkly humorous allegory of early 20th-century Czech politics. ...więcej »
When critics attacked Andy Warhol's Marilyn paintings as shallow, the Pop artist was happy to present himself as shallower still: He claimed that he silkscreened to avoid the hard work of painting...więcej »
Washington Square marks the culmination of James's apprentice period as a novelist. With sharply focused attention upon just four principal characters, James provides an acute analysis of middle-cl...więcej »
Recent years have seen rapid advances in 'artificial' intelligence, which increasingly appears to be something stranger than we ever imagined. At the same time, we are becoming more aware of the ot...więcej »
With equal humour, sorrow and joy, the master storyteller brings together two worlds and turns his pen to life in Trinidad and London. Sharing tales of gossip and rivalry between village washerwome...więcej »
Eighteen-year-old Merricat may, or may not be, a mass murdererSix years ago everyone in the Blackwood family was poisoned by sugar laced with arsenic – everyone, that is, ap...więcej »
Shirley Jackson's masterpiece: the deliciously dark and funny story of Merricat, tomboy teenager, beloved sister - and possible lunatic.'Her greatest book ... at once whimsical and harr...więcej »
Emily is on holiday with her best friend, Kristen, in the stunning mountains of Chile. They're having the time of their lives until, on the last night of the trip, Emily enters their hotel suite to...więcej »
