On a chilly February day two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane.... Zobraziť viac
Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form. This book comes with an introduction by Natalie Haynes. When this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage and scandal. Never before had the case for female ... Zobraziť viac
This book answers the most obvious, the most important, yet the most difficult question about human history: why history unfolded so differently on different continents... Zobraziť viac
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire ... Zobraziť viac
How did money come to be invented? Why does it now have such significance in our lives? Does it make us happier or... Zobraziť viac
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined ... Zobraziť viac
In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd... Zobraziť viac
The Ruppert Mundys, once the greatest baseball team in America, are now in a terminal decline, their line-up filled with a disreputable assortment of old men, drunks and even amputees. Around them baseball itself seems to be collapsing... Zobraziť viac
CCV: `richly entertaining novel' --Sunday Times Skilful storytelling and fluid prose. -- Irish Times, review`There is a... Zobraziť viac
'Facts alone are wanted in life': the children at Mr Gradgrind's school are sternly ordered to stifle their imaginations and pay attention only to cold, hard reality. They live in a smoky, troubled industrial town so entertainment is hard ... Zobraziť viac
Vydavatel: Vintage Počet strán: 160 Jazyk: English Rozmery: 19.6 x 13 x 1.4 cm ISBN: 9780099564973 Formát: mäkká väzba - br Zobraziť viac
A captivating exploration of deep time and humanity’s search for purpose, from the world-renowned physicist and best-selling author of The Elegant Universe... Zobraziť viac
Nine men. Each of them at a different stage of life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving - in the suburbs of Prague, beside a Belgian motorway, in a cheap Cypriot hotel - to understand just what it means to be alive, here and now... Zobraziť viac
Convicted murderer Melvin Mars is counting down the last hours before his execution for the violent killing of his parents twenty years earlier when he's granted an unexpected reprieve. Another man has confessed to the crime... Zobraziť viac
Vintage Classics: WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY GEOFF DYER The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby's party. But Gatsby... Zobraziť viac
The Buckmaster Gallery is staging another Derwatt exhibition, but now an American collector claims that the expensive masterpiece he bought three years ago is a fake. It is, of course, and... Zobraziť viac
When Harriet Westaway receives an unexpected letter telling her she’s inherited a substantial bequest from her Cornish grandmother, it seems like the answer to her prayers. She owes money to a loan shark and the threats are getting increasingly ... Zobraziť viac
From the bestselling author of The Snowman - an explosive new thriller. In the depths of winter a killer stalks the city streets. Two women are found drowned in their own blood... Zobraziť viac
From the bestselling author of The Snowman - an explosive new thriller. In the depths of winter a killer stalks the city streets. Two women are found drowned in their own blood... Zobraziť viac
When Sophie Brinkmann meets Hector Guzman, she knows everything that she needs to: he’s handsome, he’s charming and he makes her happy. But what she doesn’t know is that Hector has some nasty friends, some even nastier enemies, ... Zobraziť viac
