Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel''s strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller''s classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage. Set in the closing months of World War II, this is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands ...
No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. In Stephen Fry''s vivid retelling we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the great head of Zeus and follow doomed Persephone into the dark and lonely realm of the Underworld. ...
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 ...
Enter the Grishaverse with book two of the Shadow and Bone Trilogy by number one New York Times-bestselling author Leigh Bardugo. Perfect for fans of Laini Taylor and Sarah J. Maas. Now with a stunning new cover and exclusive bonus material: Nikolai Lantsov character art and a Q&A with Leigh Bardugo. ...
They want to find me. I will find them first. Juliette has escaped. She has found the headquarters of the rebel resistance - and people like her. People with gifts. She is free from The Reestablishment, free from their plan to use her as a weapon, and free to love Adam. But Juliette will never be free ...
X-Men meets The Handmaid\''s Tale in this first instalment in an epic and romantic YA fantasy trilogy perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Victoria Aveyard\''s The Red Queen, Netflix\''s Stranger Things and Leigh Bardugo\''s Six of Crows. A fragile young teenage girl is held captive. Locked in a cell by ...
A heartbreaking, exquisitely written masterpiece. One of the ten books - novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography - that make up our Matchbook Classics\'' series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titles on our backlist. In 1960s Nigeria, three lives intersect.Ugwu, a ...
The Third Wheel is the hilarious seventh book in the brilliant, bestselling and award-winning Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. This book is perfect for readers of 8+ and all the millions of Wimpy Kid fans. Also now a box office-busting major motion franchise with the third Wimpy Kid movie, Dog Days released ...
The hilarious, award-winning and global bestseller "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever" is now in paperback! The sixth instalment in the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series - it''''s perfect for readers of 8+ and also reluctant readers. And you can also discover Greg on the big screen in any one of the three ...
Winner of the Children''s Book Prize Winner of the Costa Children''s Book Award Winner of the London Book Fair Children''s Travel Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award, Children''s category Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal ''I loved The Explorer'' Jacqueline ...
A special new edition in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the publication of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer\''s Stone, with a stunning new cover illustration by Caldecott Medalist Brian Selznick. The war against Voldemort is not going well; even Muggle governments are noticing. Ron scans the obituary ...
Kniha - autor Marek Vácha, 192 stran, anglicky, Pevná bez přebalu lesklá To walk through life not just collecting photographs and souvenirs but insight and revelation. Ethics lecturer, naturalist and explorer describes the journey to God and spiritual dimensions of life through travel, nature, prayer, ...
Jane Eyre was an immediate bestseller, and most critics liked it. One reviewer wrote: ‘It is one of the most powerful domestic romances which have been published for many years.’ In this Reader you will find: A short biography of Charlotte Brontë | Glossary | Comprehension activities | PET-style activities ...
The explosive conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Arc of a Scythe series. It''s been three years since Rowan and Citra disappeared; since Scythe Goddard came into power; since the Thunderhead closed itself off to everyone but Grayson Tolliver. In this pulse-pounding finale to Neal Shusterman''s ...
According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, Judgement Day is almost upon us and the world''s going to end in a week... Now people have been predicting the end of the world almost from its very beginning, so it''s only natural to be sceptical when a new date is set for Judgement ...
In this novel - a story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities - Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twentieth-century ''Being'' In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its ...
Let the magic of J.K. Rowling''s classic Harry Potter series transport you to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. This Hufflepuff House Edition of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix celebrates the noble character of the Hogwarts house famed for its dedication, patience and loyalty. Harry''s ...
At a time when science can seem complex and remote, it has a greater impact on our lives, and to the future of our planet, than ever before. It really matters that its discoveries and truths should be clearly and widely communicated. That its enemies, from the malicious to the muddled, the self-deluding ...
Kniha vychází jako pátý svazek dvojjazyčné shakespearovské edice. V úvodní studii se překladatel Martin Hilský zabývá vznikem hry a její interpretací v kontextu evropské renesance. Následují anglický originál hry a jeho český překlad, které jsou uspořádány na stránkách proti sobě a vybaveny poznámkami ...