Art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon is sent to Vienna to discover the truth behind a bombing which killed an old friend - a Nazi hunter. While there he encounters something that turns his whole life upside down. Each fact he uncovers only leads to more questions until finally a picture emerges which is ...
How did George Eliot''s love life affect her prose? Why did Kafka write at three in the morning? In what ways is Barack Obama like Eliza Doolittle? Can you be over-dressed for the Oscars? What is Italian Feminism? If Roland Barthes killed the Author, can Nabokov revive him? What does ''soulful'' mean? ...
'Here we drink three cups of tea to do business; the first you are a stranger, the second you become a friend, and the third, you join our family, and for our family we are prepared to do anything - even die' - Haji Ali, Korphe Village Chief, Karakoram mountains, Pakistan. In 1993, after a terrifying ...
This is the 30th anniversary edition of the bestselling novel of the 1980s: "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 and 3/4" by comic genius Sue Townsend. Featuring a new introduction by comedian and actor David Walliams as well as over sixty pages of extra material about Adrian Mole, his friends and ...
"IBoy" is a thrilling young adult novel from Kevin Brooks. Before the attack, sixteen-year-old Tom Harvey was just an ordinary boy. But now fragments of a shattered iPhone are embedded in his brain and it''''s having an extraordinary effect.Because now Tom has powers. The ability to know and see more ...
Day of the Predator: the second book in Alex Scarrow''''s exciting TimeRiders series. Liam O''''Connor should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2029. Yet moments before death, someone mysteriously appeared and said, ''''Take ...
The bad-tempered ladybird picks fights with every animal he meets, but soon learns the importance of friends and turns into a far nicer, happier bug. The beautifully illustrated pages of this entertaining book demonstrate the sizes of the different animals and the sun''s path across the sky as time passes.
Auf geheimen Wegen gelangt Meisterverbrecher Artemis Fowl in das eisige Murmansk, wo er seinen Vater vermutet. Befindet dieser sich wirklich in der Gewalt von Menschen, die vor nichts zurückschrecken? Als sich zusätzlich noch die Unterirdischen gegen ihn verschworen zu haben scheinen, ist Artemis froh, ...
At the age of six, little orphan Heidi is sent to live with her grandfather in the Alps. Everyone in the village is afraid of him, but Heidi - fascinated by his long beard and bushy grey eyebrows - takes to him immediately and soon earns his love in return. She adores her life in the mountains, playing ...
''''Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo '''' So begins one of the most significant literary works of the twentieth century, and one of the most innovative. ...
Vzrušujúce dobrodružstvá najznámejšieho stroskotanca na svete! ". ocitol som sa v nezávideniahodnej situácii: bol som celý mokrý, nemal som šaty na prezlečenie, nemal som nič na jedenie ani na pitie, čo by mi prinieslo aspoň akú-takú útechu. Nevedel som si predstaviť iný koniec, len ten, že zahyniem ...
From award-winning writer Elif Shafak, the Orange Prize long-listed author of&,nbsp,The Forty Rules of Love&,nbsp,and&,nbsp,The Architect''s Apprentice,&,nbsp,The Gaze&,nbsp,is a humorous and carnivalesque exploration of what it means to look and be looked at.An obese woman and her lover, ...
What could go wrong when a wife pawns the mink coat that her lover gave her as a parting gift? What happens when a priceless piece of furniture is the subject of a deceitful bargain? Can a wronged woman take revenge on her dead husband? In these dark, disturbing stories Roald Dahl explores the sinister ...
Wayward daughters. Missing Husbands. Philandering partners. Curious conmen. If you''''ve got a problem, and no one else can help you, then pay a visit to Precious Ramotswe, Botswana''''s only - and finest - female private detective. Her methods may not be conventional, and her manner not exactly Miss ...
Mma Ramotswe, who became engaged to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni at the end of the first book, is still engaged. She wonders when a day for the wedding will be named, but she is anxious to avoid putting too much pressure on her fiance. For indeed he has other things on his mind - notably a frightening request ...
