Summer 1942. When Bernie Gunther is ordered to speak at an international police conference, an old acquaintance has a favour to ask. Little does Bernie suspect what this simple surveillance task will provoke... Zobraziť viac
A beautiful, savage, tender, searing work of art. Sentence after perfect sentence it grips and does not let go.' Donal... Zobraziť viac
Cicada: By exploring the patterns, colours and crests of flags, we can learn all about the histories and aspirations of the... Zobraziť viac
Rosie and Daniel have moved to Ceylon with their little daughter to start a new life at the dawn of the 1920s, attempting to put the trauma of the First World War behind them, and to rekindle a marriage that gets colder every day. However, even in the lus Zobraziť viac
Little Women is an outstanding achievement of nineteenth-century American literature, and the first children's novel written in the United States to have become an enduring classic... Zobraziť viac
After years fighting to reclaim his rightful home, Uhtred of Bebbanburg has returned to Northumbria. With his loyal band of warriors and a new woman by his side, his household is secure - yet Uhtred is far from safe... Zobraziť viac
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him... Zobraziť viac
The Iron Throne once united the Sunset Lands, but King Robert is dead, his widow is a traitor to his memory, and his surviving brothers are set on a path of war amongst themselves. At King’s Landing, the head of Lord Eddard Stark ... Zobraziť viac
"Tyll", der neue Roman des Erfolgsautors Daniel Kehlmann - er veröffentlichte u.a. "Die Vermessung der Welt", "Ruhm", "F" und "Du hättest gehen sollen" -, ist die Neuerfindung einer legendären Figur: ein großer Roman über die Macht der Kunst... Zobraziť viac
Shortlisted for the Andrei Bely Prize and Russia's National Big Book AwardSolovyov, a young scholar born into obscurity, arrives in St Petersburg to have his thesis topic handed to him: the story of General Larionov. Dismissive at first, his subject... Zobraziť viac
London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London's Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the child she has never known. Dreading the worst - that Clara has died in care - the last thing she expects to hear is... Zobraziť viac
The ravaged continent of Genabackis has given birth to a terrifying new empire: the Pannion Domin. Like a fanatical tide of corrupted blood, it seethes across the land, devouring all who fail to heed the Word of its elusive prophet, the Pannion Seer... Zobraziť viac
A special hardcover edition of the best-selling science-fiction book of all time part of Penguin Galaxy. Zobraziť viac
Autorka, jež se narodila roku 1944 poblíž Pirmasens, napsala tento dokumentární román o tom, jak byla svedena, do "vysoké politiky" zapletena a vyhnána celá vesnice na základě intenzivního studia pramenů: 15. března 1939 vpochodovala... Zobraziť viac
The Clifton Chronicles is Jeffrey Archer’s most ambitious work in four decades as an international bestselling author... Zobraziť viac
From the slums of London to the riches of an Edwardian country house; from the hot, dark seams of a Yorkshire coalmine to the exposed terrors of the trenches, Adam Raine’s journey from boy to man is set against the backdrop of a society violently enteri Zobraziť viac
From the rubble-strewn streets of US-occupied Baghdad, the scavenger Hadi collects human body parts and stitches them... Zobraziť viac
The Ottoman Army - the most powerful the world had known by that time - lays siege to a Christian fortress in the mountains of Albania. Above the colourful host looms the great dark wall of the citadel that has to be overcome... Zobraziť viac
The story of relativity - showing how science really works, and how Einstein became famous In 1916, Arthur Eddington, a war-weary British astronomer, opened a letter written by an obscure German professor named Einstein. The neatly printed equations o Zobraziť viac
One of Grossman's three great war novels - alongside Life and Fate and Stalingrad - The People Immortal is both a work of fiction and an important contribution to the Soviet war effort.Set during the catastrophic defeats of the war's first months, it trac Zobraziť viac
