Following his hugely popular account of the previous 2000 years, John O''''Farrell now comes bang up to date with a hilarious modern history asking ''''How the hell did we end up here?''''. "An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain" informs, elucidates and laughs at all the bizarre events, ridiculous ...
Nestling on India\''s southern coast lies the town of Kittur. Ranging through the city\''s streets and schoolyards, bedrooms and businesses, its inner workings and its outer limits, through the myriad and distinctive voices of its inhabitants, Aravind Adiga brings an entire world vividly and unforgettably ...
For Shannon Bodine, losing her mother has been doubly heartbreaking: hours before she died, her mother confessed that Shannon''''s father was not the man she believed, but a married man in Ireland. Across the ocean, Brianna and Maggie Concannon have been eagerly awaiting news of their half-sister. But ...
Bette Midler and Sarah Jessica Parker star in this comedy horror directed by Kenny Ortega. 300 years after they were sentenced to die in Salem, a trio of witches return to gain their revenge. Terrorising the town\''s trick-or-treaters on Halloween, riding on vacuum cleaners instead of broomsticks, the ...
V našej ponuke sa nachádza aj slovenské vydanie s názvom Hostiteľ!Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that takes over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed. Wanderer, the invading ''soul'' who has ...
Two fragile people. One desperate second chance. Reeling and desolate, Adrienne Willis needs space to rethink her life after her husband leaves her for a younger woman. Fleeing everything, she jumps at the chance to look after her friend\''s guesthouse in the coastal town of Rodanthe, North Carolina. ...
Seven Years to Sin - a classic erotic romance - by Sylvia Day - author of the sensational international bestselling Bared to You, first book in the Crossfire series - is a smart, sensual story of a young woman''''s sexual awakening at the hands of a handsome rogue in Regency England. Seven years ago, ...
This is the brand new edition of the hilarious, bestselling follow-up to "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 and 3/4", Sue Townsend''s "The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole". Sunday July 18th. My father announced at breakfast that he is going to have a vasectomy. I pushed my sausages away untouched. ...
At the age of seventeen, Eustace Conway ditched the comforts of his suburban existence to escape to the wild. Away from the crushing disapproval of his father, he lived alone in a teepee in the mountains. Everything he needed he built, grew or killed. He made his clothes from deer he killed and skinned ...
A New Year. A New Page. A New Reading Group. Five women meet for their first reading group, little realising this social gathering over books and glasses of wine might see them share more than literary debate.and will, in fact, take each of them to places they''d never imagined. Harriet and Nicole are ...
For readers who loved Wonder and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time this extraordinary debut will make you laugh and cry. A story that crosses time and generations, for adventure-loving readers young and old. "My dad died twice. Once when he was thirty nine and again four years later when ...
Chart Throb.The ultimate pop quest. Ninety five thousand hopefuls. Three judges. Just one winner. And that''s Calvin Simms, the genius behind the show. Calvin always wins because Calvin writes the rules. But this year, as he sits smugly in judgement upon the mingers, clingers and blingers whom he has ...
The tenth book in the Sword of Truth series from bestselling author Terry Goodkind. Fantasy adventure on a grand scale featuring the popular wizard-hero Richard Cypher. As her husband, Richard, desperately searches for his beloved, who only he rememb ers, he knows that if she doesn''t soon discover who ...
The characters in this extraordinary book are often - on the surface - depraved, vicious, cowardly and manipulative, but their essential humanity is never undermined. Two professors of philosophy turn pugilists; Leith removal men become the objects of desire for Hollywood goddesses; God turns Boab Coyle ...
Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are the Others. Possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy world that exists in parallel to our own, each owes allegiance either to the Dark or the Light.Upozornenie: Vzhľadom na častejšie ...
The world known as the ''Dark Ages'', often seen as a time of barbarism, was in fact the crucible in which modern Europe would be created. Chris Wickham''s acclaimed history shows how this period, encompassing people such as Goths, Franks, Vandals, Byzantines, Arabs, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, was central ...
The New York Times–bestselling author and master of the medical thriller returns with a top-notch fusion of groundbreaking medical science and edge-of-your-seat suspense. George Wilson, M.D., a radiology resident in Los Angeles, is about to enter a profession on the brink of an enormous paradigm shift, ...
The mind is a time machine that travels backwards in memory and forwards in prophecy, but he has done with prophecy now.'' Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent''s Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George Wells, ''H.G.'' to his family and friends, looks back on a life crowded with incident, books, ...
An exceptionally strong skills training programme which covers language skills, phonics, and civic education skills. This six-level course offers a fast-paced syllabus and a wide range of optional resources to support a high number of teaching hours per week. The series starts with an optional pre-school ...
The sweet scents of rural life infuse Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life, a collection of Roald Dahl''''s country stories - but there is always something unexpected lurking in the undergrowth.Whether it is taking a troublesome cow to be mated with a prime bull; dealing with a rat-infested hayrick; learning the ...
