Warsaw, Poland, 1939. My mother and father named me Aron, but my father said they should have named me What Have You Done or What Were You Thinking. Aron is a nine-year-old Polish Jew, and a troublemaker... Zobraziť viac
HarperCollins Publishers - `The first great African novel of the new century' Alison Lurie<BR> --Guardian Books of the Decade, 2 Zobraziť viac
Amerika in den 30er Jahren. Die Geschwister Scout und Jem Finch wachsen in einer äußerlich idyllischen Welt heran: im Örtchen Maycomb, Alabama, inmitten weißer Villen und tropischer Bäume... Zobraziť viac
When war is declared, Mary North leaves finishing school unfinished, goes straight to the War Office, and signs up. Tom Shaw decides to give it a miss - until his flatmate Alistair unexpectedly enlists, and the conflict can no longer be avoided... Zobraziť viac
In Northern Genabackis, a raiding party of savage tribal warriors descends from the mountains into the southern flat lands. Their intention is to wreak havoc amongst the despised lowlanders, but for the one named Karsa Orlong it ... Zobraziť viac
The ravaged continent of Genabackis has given birth to a terrifying new empire: the Pannion Domin. Like a tide of corrupted blood, it seethes across the land, devouring all... Zobraziť viac
The Seven Cities Rebellion has been crushed. Sha'ik is dead. One last rebel force remains, holed up in the city of Y'Ghatan and under the fanatical command of Leoman of the Flails... Zobraziť viac
Moskva is a brilliantly written, chilling and sophisticated début serial killer thriller set in Cold War Moscow. Makes Kolymsky Heights look like a walk in Gorky Park... Zobraziť viac
In the brief golden years of King Edward VII's reign, Rosie McCosh and her three very different sisters are growing up in an eccentric household in Kent, with their neighbours the Pitt boys on one side and the Pendennis boys on the other... Zobraziť viac
Jesus' Son meets Reservoir Dogs in a breakneck-paced debut novel about love, war, bank robberies, and heroin. Cleveland, 2003. A young man is just a college freshman when he meets Emily.... Zobraziť viac
July 15, 1942, Wednesday. Remember this day; remember it well. You will tell generations to come. Since 8 o’clock today we have been shut away in the ghetto. I live here now. The world is separated from me and I’m separated from the world... Zobraziť viac
"Tu l'as laissée mourir...". Le soir de Noël, Christine Steinmeyer, animatrice radio à Toulouse, trouve dans sa boîte aux lettres le courrier d'une femme qui annonce son suicide... Zobraziť viac
The Women is the story of one woman gone to war, but it shines a light on the story of all women who put themselves in harm’s way to help others. Women whose sacrifice and commitment to their country... Zobraziť viac
How can you say goodbye to the love of your life? In Undying Michel Faber honours the memory of his wife, who died after a six-year battle with cancer... Zobraziť viac
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba - the catastrophe that led to the displacement and expulsion of more than 700,000 people... Zobraziť viac
Zwei Schwestern im besetzten Frankreich: Vianne, die Ältere, muss ihren Mann in den Krieg ziehen lassen und wird im Kampf um das Überleben ihrer kleinen Tochter vor furchtbare Entscheidungen gestellt... Zobraziť viac
World War One, and as shells fall in Flanders, a Canadian nurse searches for her brother believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise in this gripping and powerful historical novel... Zobraziť viac
On a ship in the Arctic, Victor Frankenstein - ill and tired - tells the story of his sad life to the British man of science, Robert Walton. He speaks, too, about the terrible creature that he made from dead body parts when he was a university science... Zobraziť viac
July 15, 1942, Wednesday. Remember this day; remember it well. You will tell generations to come.Since 8 o'clock today we have been shut away in the ghetto. I live here now... Zobraziť viac
For any reader of Edmund de Waal's THE HARE WITH THE AMBER EYES or Erik Larson's IN THE GARDENS OF BEASTS, Norman L Eisen's THE LAST PALACE tells the story of the tumultuous past 100 years in Europe as seen from the most beautiful house in Prague, the Pet Zobraziť viac
