Headshot is the story of the eight best teenage girl boxers in the United States, told over the two days of a championship tournament and structured as a series of face-offs... Zobraziť viac
Belly Up is a story collection that contains ghosts, mediums, a lover obsessed with the sound of harps tuning, teenage girls who believe they are actually plants, gulag prisoners who outsmart a terrible warden, and carnivorous churches. Zobraziť viac
‘I learned that before entering the kitchen, I must get the measure of its hold over me.’Food can embody our personal history as well as wider cultural histories. But what are the stories we tell ourselves about the kitchen, and how... Zobraziť viac
Wallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms. He is four years into a biochemistry degree at a lakeside Midwestern university, a life that s a world away from his childhood in Alabama. His father died a few weeks ago... Zobraziť viac
Following the Nazi occupation of Prague, Josef Roubick, an ordinary ex-bank clerk, finds his whole world rendered extraordinary. Overnight he changes from being a simple Czech citizen to being a hunted Jew... Zobraziť viac
Wallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms. He is four years into a biochemistry degree at a lakeside Midwestern university, a life that s a world away from his childhood in Alabama. His father died a few weeks ago... Zobraziť viac
The classic book on shopping, cooking and eating with courage and gusto when food is scarce and the wolf is at the door. Since we must eat to live, we might as well do it with both grace and gusto. Written in 1942 to inspire courage in... Zobraziť viac
SS officer Julius Schlesinger is ordered to remove the statue of the Jewish composer Mendelssohn from the roof of the Prague Academy of Music before an official concert. Unsure which among the decorative statues is Mendelssohn... Zobraziť viac
Tucked away along a shady path towards the north-east edge of Hampstead Heath is a sign: Women Only. This is the Kenwood Ladies’ Bathing Pond... Zobraziť viac
