The Ottoman Sultan has commissioned the best artists in the land to create a book celebrating the glories of his realm: but he wants them to illuminate it in the European style. Because figurative ...
Chump the chimpanzee was always being silly. He would: make rude noises from BOTH ENDS… pick his nose with his little toe... eat the skins of bananas, hurling out ...
Variations on a musical theme by a striking range of authors, among them Flaubert, Turgenev, Proust, Nabokov, Katherine Mansfield, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Amit Chaudhuri, Bernard MacLaverty and...
German Romantic poetry is both fluid and formed, and it is full of song: the poems themselves are often intrinsically lyrical, and many of them inspired some of the best-known musical compositions ...
In Sweden, refugee children fall asleep for months and years at a time. In upstate New York, high school students develop contagious seizures. In the US Embassy in Cuba, employees complain of heada...
Agnes is sent to wait out her final months on the farm of district officer Jón Jónsson, his wife and their two daughters. Horrified to have a convicted murderer in their midst, the fa...
Now a classic feminist text, Jane Eyre was the first of Charlotte Brontë’s novels to be published, in 1847. Like her sister Emily’s Wuthering Heights, which it matches in power, Ch...
Książę Amadeo ma poślubić księżniczkę z rodu Fernandezów. Elsbeth, choć piękna, nie wzbudza jego zainteresowania. Wydaje mu się uległa i bez charakteru. Nie o takiej żonie marzył, ale dla do...
Księżna Sophia, młoda wdowa, sumiennie wypełnia postanowienia testamentu. Zgodnie z wolą zmarłego męża przez rok użycza gościny jego wieloletniej kochance i pilnie strzeże pisanych przez niego pami...
The title of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors of the story. The narrative centres on the all-encompassing, passionate, but ultimately doomed love between Catherine Earnshaw and...
A major book in the history of feminism, which, when it was first published in the 1950s, was considered a radical thesis. But its claim that the subordination of women is not a fact of nature but ...
Po rozwodzie z przemocowym mężem Jo stworzyła sobie nowe życie na Key West na Florydzie. Uwielbiała pracę w pogotowiu lotniczym, miała grono oddanych przyjaciół, po pracy przyjemnie spędzała...
The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' - Guardian Hailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major featur...
London has the greatest literary tradition of any city in the world. Its roll-call of story-tellers includes cultural giants who changed the way the world thought about writing, like Shakespeare, D...
A friend and contemporary of Richard Wright and James Baldwin - and every bit their equal - Chester Himes was the acclaimed author of literary novels, stories and essays, as well as the classic cri...
Wszyscy w okolicy wiedzą, że Holt Hollister jest najlepszym hodowcą koni i niepoprawnym kobieciarzem. Są zdumieni, że traktuje chłodno nową sąsiadkę, piękną Isabelle. Jego zdaniem ta elegancka kobi...
Quinn Harper i Micaha Goulda łączy niezobowiązujący związek, który utrzymują w tajemnicy. Podczas ślubu Eden – przyjaciółki Quinn i siostry przyrodniej Micaha – Quinn nies...
Even more spellbinding step-by-step projects from the Wizarding World; bring the Harry Potter films to life with the second official watercolour book. Harry Potter Watercolour Wizardry includes eve...
The shocking true story of the breathtaking rise and collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes, written by the prize-winning journalist who first bro...
GR. 1292ACynthia St. Aubin – W stronę zachodzącego słońca (Blue Blood Meets Blue Collar)Ze swoich podbojów miłosnych z czasów młodości Cosima zapamiętała tylko...