She's twenty-three and in love with love. He's older, and the most beautiful man she's ever seen. The affair is quickly consuming.But this relationship is unpredictable, and behind his ...więcej »
The internationally bestselling author portrays the great clash of East and West in his new epic: ChinaChina in the nineteenth century: a proud and ancient empire forbidden to foreigner...więcej »
'At that time I could not imagine what would become of me, and I didn't care. It was not judgement day, but another morning'This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by work...więcej »
Of all John Fowles' novels The French Lieutenant's Woman received the most universal acclaim and today holds a very special place in the canon of post-war English literature. From the god-like stan...więcej »
Ranging from Hans Christian Anderson to Karl Ove Knausgaard, have yourself a nordic noel with the very best Scandinavian Christmas talesHave yourself a truly Scandinavian Christmas... O...więcej »
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing' Robert Macfarlane * A Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, The Times, Evening Standard, Mail on Sun...więcej »
"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...więcej »
At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish émigrés in the twentieth century. But gradually, as Sebald's precise, almost dreamlike prose begins to work ...więcej »
‘Trust me, this is a great true story’ – Ken Follett‘This is an unbelievable story that is all completely true. The life described is astonishing. John Carr has ...więcej »
In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, and the third was a commoner, who four years earlier had been the subject of on...więcej »
Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulation of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel lik...więcej »
The extraordinary sequel to Dune, the greatest science fiction novel of all time.Twelve years after his victory over House Harkonnen, Paul Atreides rules as emperor from the desert plan...więcej »
A new and definitive account of the German invasion of Poland that initiated WWII in 1939, written by a historian at the height of his abilities.'Deeply researched, very well-written...więcej »
'The Testaments is Atwood at her best . . . To read this book is to feel the world turning' Anne EnrightThe Republic of Gilead is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, t...więcej »
Read the searing first novel from the celebrated author of Beloved, which immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression 1940s Ohio.Unlovely and unloved...więcej »
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began ...więcej »
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. ...więcej »
'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.'Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird o...więcej »
Savage, funny, frequently on the verge of teetering into lunacy...' VogueDiscover this deliciously dark satire on modern privilege from the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileenwięcej »
Manhattan has become the Island of Death.The former President of the United States stands barefoot in a purple toga around a cooking fire in the lobby of the Empire State Building.więcej »
