"Need it be said — the little grey cells solve once more the seemingly insoluble. Mrs Christie makes an improbable tale very real, and keeps her readers enthralled and guessing to the end." Times Literary Supplement "A brilliantly ingenious story." Dorothy L. Sayers, Daily Herald "Ingenuity at its height ...
A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim. Science fiction, detective story and post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring nov el, Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World ...
As a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 US fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany, which reduced the once proudly beautiful city to rubble and claimed the lives of thousands of its citizens. For many years, Kurt tried to write about Dresden but the words would not come. When ...
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 ...
"Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief" is the first bestselling book in Rick Riordan''s phenomenally successful Percy Jackson series - now with a new cover look. Half boy. Half God. ALL Hero. Look, I didn''t want to be a half-blood. I never asked to be the son of a Greek God. I was just a normal kid, ...
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. Geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and ...
Northern Lights&,nbsp,introduces Lyra, an orphan, who lives in a parallel universe in which science, theology and magic are entwined. Lyra''s search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children and turns into a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon called Dust. In&,nbsp,The ...
Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick. What Lou doesn\''t know is she\''s about to lose her job or that knowing what\''s coming ...
''The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs Shears'' house. It looked as if it was running on its side, the way dogs run when they think they are chasing a cat in a dream. But the dog was not running or asleep. The dog was dead. There was a garden fork sticking out of the ...
Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger''s New Yorker stories, particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme. With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is fully of children. The hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE ...
AutorH.P. Lovecraft VydavateľstvoGollanczVäzba BrožISBN 978-0575081574Strán896Rozmery 152 x 241 mm WIKIPEDIA says: ''''H.P. Lovecraft''''s reputation has grown tremendously over the decades, and he is now commonly regarded as one of the most important horror writers of the 20th century, exerting an influence ...
Zbierka The Tales of Beedle the Bard je prvá kniha J. K. Rowling, ktorá vychádza od vydania poslednej časti úspešnej série o malom čarodejníkovi Harry Potter a dary smrti. Predaj knihy sa začne 4. decembra 2008 a zisky pôjdu na konto nadácie Children\''s High Level Group. Príbehy rozprávača Beedla sa ...
"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 ...
Tracing the lives of a group of friends, The Waves follows their development from childhood to middle age. While social events, individual achievements and disappointments form its narrative, the novel is most remarkable for the rich poetic language that expresses the inner life of its characters: their ...
",A dark jewel of a book...intoxicating", - Leigh Bardugo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Six of Crows Nominated for the CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019Of course I want to be like them. They''re beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever.And Cardan is even more ...
Enter the Grishaverse with book one 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: A lost letter from Mal, The Tailor (a Genya story) and a Q&A ...
An interior designer who is never without the perfect plan learns to renovate her love life without one in this new romantic comedy by Ashley Herring Blake, author of Delilah Green Doesn't Care. Perfect for fans of Alexandria Bellefleur, Casey McQuiston and Rosie Danan.For Astrid Parker, failure is unacceptable. ...
When the doors of the lift crank open, the only thing Thomas remembers is his first name. But he\''s not alone. He\''s surrounded by boys who welcome him to the Glade - a walled encampment at the centre of a bizarre and terrible stone maze. Like Thomas, the Gladers don\''t know why or how they came to ...
