Temná nedělní noc ze 14. na 15. dubna 1912 před sto lety se stala tragickou pro nejluxusnější parník všech dob postavený společností White Star Line. RMS Titanic se během necelých tří hodin po kolizi s ledovou horou potopil na své panenské plavbě a zároveň s ním zahynuly dvě třetiny všech lidí, nacházejících ...
Truly deserving of the accolade "Modern Classic", Donna Tartt''''s novel "The Secret History" is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college ...
THE EPIC NEW NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BOOK THIEF ''A captivating book with a mighty, fearless heart, BRIDGE OF CLAY is filled with characters to believe in and care about. achingly moving, delightfully funny, and thoroughly uplifting.'' M L STEDMAN, bestselling author of The Light Between ...
The collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist and poet. By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in transition, as well as the everyday objects ...
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 ...
The powerful new novel from Matthew Quick, author of Oscar-nominated THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK, is an honest and authentic exploration of love, rebellion and belonging, for readers who loved THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER.
When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with ...
Before his tragic death, Szilárd Borbély had gained a name as one of Europe\''s most searching new poets. Berlin-Hamlet one of his major works evokes a stroll through the phantasmagoric shopping arcades described in Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project, but instead of the delirious image fragments of nineteenth-century ...
Zvestovateľ patrí k ranej tvorbe libanonského spisovateľa Chalíla Džibrána (1883-1931), ktorého preslávili diela Prorok a Ježiš Syn človeka. V dvadsiatich piatich nadčasových aforizmoch a pôvabných podobenstvách ponúka hlboký duchovný pohľad na ľudský život. Zvestovateľ je považovaný za predchodcu Poroka. ...
