We have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats. Yet by the time the gas chambers became operation more than a million European Jews were already dead: shot at clo...więcej »
'Smart, shimmering and thought-provoking... McCarthy is a born novelist, a pretty fantastic one, who has figured out a way to make cultural theory funny, scary and suspenseful - in other words, com...więcej »
For nearly two years the two most infamous dictators in history actively collaborated with one another. The Nazi-Soviet Pact stunned the world when it was announced, the Second World War was launch...więcej »
This is the secret history of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage. But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex history of the author and his sub...więcej »
‘What you do to children matters. And they might never forget’Sweetness wants to love her child, Bride, but she struggles to love her as a mother should. Bride, now glamorou...więcej »
Olav lives the lonely life of a fixer.When you ‘fix’ people for a living – terminally – it’s hard to get close to anyone.Now he’s finally met the wom...więcej »
As Abby Whitshank tells the story of three generations of her family, we witness the events and unguarded moments that have come to define who the Whitshanks are. And while all families like to bel...więcej »
Born in Newport News, Virginia, in 1925, William Styron was educated at Duke University. He served in the Marine Corps during the last war, and was recalled to service during the Korean War. After ...więcej »
Vivienne Michel is a troubled young woman on the run. Fleeing England she comes to a deserted motel in the Adirondack Mountains where she thinks she has finally escaped her past.Sluggsy...więcej »
In a frolic of cartoon and comic outbursts against rule and reason, a miraculous weaving of science fiction, memoir, parable, fairy tale and farce, Kurt Vonnegut attacks the whole spectrum of Ameri...więcej »
Louis de Bernieres is the best-selling author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin. His most recent novels are Birds Without Wings and A Partisan's Daughter.więcej »
On a remote Greek Island, Nicholas Urfe finds himself embroiled in the deceptions of a master trickster.As reality and illusion intertwine, Urfe is caught up in the darkest of psychological g...więcej »
Gunter Grass, born in Danzig in 1927, is Germany's most celebrated contemporary writer. He is a creative artist of remarkable versatility: novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, graphic artist. Gras...więcej »
The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quenti...więcej »
Kurt Wallander's life looks like it has taken a turn for the better when he moves into a new home with his girlfriend. Then he uncovers the skeleton of a young woman in his garden. As he attempts t...więcej »
In a comic masterpiece following the misadventures of a simple but hugely ambitious waiter in pre-World War II Prague, who rises to wealth only to lose everything with the onset of Communism, Bohum...więcej »
Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power cuts. When a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he's tempted. In return all he has to do is carry out a little espionage and fi...więcej »
"There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things, and because it takes a man'...więcej »
SMERSH, the Russian intelligence unit, is hell-bent on destroying Special Agent James Bond. His death would deal a hammer blow to the heart of The British Secret Service.The lure? The c...więcej »
Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, with an abandone...więcej »