When a thirty-something portrait painter is abandoned by his wife, he holes up in the mountain home of a famous artist. The days drift by, spent painting, listening to music and drinking whiskey in the evenings. But then he discovers a strange painting in the attic and unintentionally begins a strange ...
This box set presents 8 books of a series about a young boy in middle school facing the troubles and joys of school and writing them down in his diary.1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid.The debut book, it introduces Greg Heffley who discovers that middle school is a battle-field of a sort, what with half the kids ...
Ellery''s never been to Echo Ridge, but she''s heard all about it. It''s where her aunt went missing at age sixteen, never to return. Where a Homecoming Queen''s murder five years ago made national news. And where Ellery now has to live with a grandmother she barely knows, after her failed-actress mother ...
"Rowling''s wizardry as a writer is on fulsome display" (USA Today) in this #1 New York Times bestseller from the international bestselling author Robert Galbraith. When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike''s office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he ...
For gauche young apprentice Miloš Hrma, life at the small but strategic railway station in Bohemia in 1945 is full of complex preoccupations. There is the exacting business of dispatching German troop trains to and from the toppling Eastern front; the problem of ridding himself of his burdensome innocence; ...
When the Dashwood family estate passes to the eldest son John and his wife, Mrs. Dashwood and her daughters Elinor, Marianne and Margaret must find a new home. Moving to a cottage in Devonshire, the Dashwood women begin adjusting to a new life and a new social circle. Soon, Elinor is being courted by ...
Romeo Montague was in love with Juliet Capulet. He went over to her. ‘I don’t know who you are’ he said. ‘But I know that I love you.’ ‘You’re very handsome,’ she replied. ‘I think I love you too.’ Romeo kissed Juliet and then they kissed again. They were in love.The story of Romeo and Juliet is probably ...
A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis - an event that proves maddening, ...
The daring and handsome nobleman Robin Hood is forced to live as an outlaw in Sherwood Forest, after the evil Sheriff of Nottingham kills his family and takes his land and money. With the help of his Merry Men, Robin becomes a hero, stealing from the rich to give to the poor. Will the wicked Sheriff ...
A powerful, innovative and gripping thriller for the social media age. Now a major TV series for Channel 4 and Netflix.
Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian is the fifth awesome adventure in Rick Riordan''s top-ten bestselling series. Now with a thrilling new cover look. Half Boy. Half God. All Hero. Most people get presents on their sixteenth birthday. I get a prophecy that could save or destroy the world. It happens ...
George Orwell''''s dystopian masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four is perhaps the most pervasively influential book of the twentieth century, making famous Big Brother, newspeak and Room 101. ''''Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past'''' Hidden away in the ...
"Lord of the Flies" is a novel that has captivated schoolchildren ever since it was first published in 1954. A teacher himself, Golding clearly understood what excites and interests children. It is not only a gripping story, with strong, sympathetic characters, but it also raises timeless and profound ...
Henry Chinaski, an outcast, a loner and a hopeless drunk, drifts around America from one dead-end job to another, from one woman to another and from one bottle to the next. Uncompromising, gritty, hilarious and confessional in turn, his downward spiral is peppered with black humour. "Factotum" follows ...
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 ''Elegant and evocative. A powerful exploration of the clash between society, family and faith in the modern world'' Guardian ''There is high, high music in the air at the end of Home Fire'' New York Times Isma is free. After years spent raising her twin siblings ...
Five decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouac''s seminal Beat novel On the Road finally finds its way to the big screen, in a production from award-winning director Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries) starring Sam Riley (Control, Brighton Rock), Garret Hedlund (Friday Night Lights), Kristen ...
A global phenomenon, The Alchemist has been read and loved by over 62 million readers, topping bestseller lists in 74 countries worldwide. Now this magical fable is beautifully repackaged in an edition that lovers of Paulo Coelho will want to treasure forever. Every few decades a book is published that ...
Each of the extraordinary portraits made by photographer Annie Leibovitz for her book Women stands on its own. Looked at together, these "photographs of people with nothing more in common than that they are women (and living in America at the end of the 20th century), all—well almost all—fully clothed", ...
