'Perhaps the most readable history ever written' Time Out
Lords of the Horizons charts the Ottoman Empire's swirling epic history; dramatic - detailed and alive - a journey, and a world all in one.
The Ottoman Empire... Čítať ďalej
Annette runs away from her finishing school but learns more than she bargained for in the real world beyond; the fierce and melacholy Rosa is torn between two Polish brothers; Peter is obsessed by an indecipherable ancient... Čítať ďalej
Maugham spent the winter months of 1919 travelling fifteen hundred miles up the Yangtze river. Always more interested in people than places, he noted down acute and finely crafted sketches of those he met on countless... Čítať ďalej
In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves... Čítať ďalej
Snow is falling in the exclusive alpine ski resort of Saint Antoine, as the shareholders and directors of Snoop, the hottest new music app, gather for a make or break corporate retreat to decide the future of the company... Čítať ďalej
From the author of the Man Booker longlisted The Underground Railroad
Benji spends most of the year as one of the only black kids at an elite prep school in Manhattan, going to roller disco bar mitzvahs, desperately... Čítať ďalej
The Waves is an astonishingly beautiful and poetic novel. It begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea and follows their lives as they grow up and experience friendship, love and grief at the death of their... Čítať ďalej
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SUSAN HILL
The Years follows the lives of the Pargiters, a large middle-class London family, from an uncertain spring in 1880 to a party on a summer evening in the 1930s. We see them each endure... Čítať ďalej
Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind
Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by family friends... Čítať ďalej
'Will hold you captive until the brilliant ending' SHARI LAPENA, author of The Couple Next Door
`So clever and original . . . Pure suspense, from the first gripping page to the last shocking twist' ERIN KELLY, author... Čítať ďalej
Snow is falling in the exclusive alpine ski resort of Saint Antoine, as the shareholders and directors of Snoop, the hottest new music app, gather for a make or break corporate retreat to decide the future of the company... Čítať ďalej
Micah Mortimer isn't the most polished person you'll ever meet.
His numerous sisters and in-laws regard him oddly but very fondly. He measures out his days running errands for work, maintaining an impeccable cleaning... Čítať ďalej
An adventure classic of deep-sea volcanoes, giant squid and the renegade scientist Captain Nemo.
Professor Aronnax embarks on an expedition to hunt down and destroy a menacing sea monster. However, he discovers... Čítať ďalej
Animal Farm is one of the most famous warnings ever written. Orwell's immortal satire - 'against Stalin' as he wrote to his French translator - can be read on many levels. With its piercing clarity and deceptively simple... Čítať ďalej
-It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.-
The year is 1984. War and revolution have left the world unrecognisable. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, is ruled by the Party, led... Čítať ďalej
Harry is out of his depth.
Detective Harry Hole is meant to keep out of trouble. A young Norwegian girl taking a gap year in Sydney has been murdered, and Harry has been sent to Australia to assist in any way he can.
He's... Čítať ďalej
She waited on tables as usual that day, her twentieth birthday. She always worked Fridays, but if things had gone according to plan on that particular Friday, she would have had the night off.
One rainy Tokyo night... Čítať ďalej
Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brillant characters - his fiancee Isabel, whose choice between love and wealth... Čítať ďalej
Drawing for the first time on Polish, German and Soviet sources, First to Fight is the definitive history of the German invasion of Poland, which opened the war in September 1939. Roger Moorhouse provides a dramatic... Čítať ďalej
MOST LOVED. MOST RED. Ten must-read modern classics.
'Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything.'
Science. Technology. Want for nothing. Maximum pleasure. Welcome to a world... Čítať ďalej
