For almost a decade Rachel Caine has turned her back on home, kept distant by family disputes and her work monitoring wolves...
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Knihabrožovaná vazbaVyprodané
Shaken by the outcome of her last big case, PI Roxane Weary is keeping a low profile. When she takes on a new client who suspects his fiancee is cheating on him, Roxane is happy to have landed a run-of-the-mill surveillance job...
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Knihabrožovaná vazbaVyprodané
A group of undocumented children with letters for names, are stuck living in a refugee camp, with stories to tell but no papers to prove them. As they try to forge a new family amongst themselves...
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Knihabrožovaná vazba66 KčDo 14 – 19 dnů
Tess is an innocent young girl until the day she goes to visit her rich 'relatives', the D'Urbervilles. Her encounter with her manipulative cousin, Alec, leads her onto a path that is beset with suffering and betrayal...
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Knihabrožovaná vazba98 KčDo 3 – 6 dnů
Her story was this: she had been an orphan, her mother probably a whore. Brought up by nuns, she had lost her faith, found another, fought for it and been imprisoned. This was inexact but serviceable.On the twelfth day of her hunger strike, ...
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Knihabrožovaná vazba98 KčDo 16 – 21 dnů
In his masterful story 'A River in Egypt', David Means paints a portrait of a moment. Cavanaugh and his young son are suspended; trapped in what a nurse calls 'the sweat chamber', where the boy will be tested for cystic fibrosis. Cavanaugh has brought dis
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Knihabrožovaná vazba99 KčSkladem 2 ks
'On the whole, it was easier than I had expected. Only once did I feel myself at risk. That was when the Inspector suddenly intervened.He said in a harsh voice: "He married your wife, didn't he? Took her away from you some people might say...
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Knihabrožovaná vazba99 KčSkladem 1 ks
Adrienne is living in a puritanical age, when the best compliment a childless woman can get is: 'You'd make a terrific mother'. That's when she goes to her friends' Labor Day picnic and accidentally kills their baby. The shock of this scene is expertly pa
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Knihabrožovaná vazba123 KčVíce než 30 dní
Walking ahead of him on the heath, his wife turns to look at him over her shoulder, 'topaz eyes glinting. Scorched face. Vixen.'In language harvested from nature, Sarah Hall tells a story of metamorphosis, of wildness and fecundity, and of a man reaching
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Knihabrožovaná vazba123 KčSkladem 1 ks
'Thinking Betty was in the bath Graham was watching a late-night programme on Channel 4 called Footballers with Their Shirts Off when she unexpectedly came in on the trail of the hairdryer...
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Knihabrožovaná vazba129 KčSkladem 1 ks
I wasn't in any particular hurry to kill him. What was important was to make sure that the deed was done without suspicion settling on me. Follow P D James, 'Queen of Crime', as she takes us into the mind of a man who has waited decades to enact...
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Knihabrožovaná vazba133 KčSkladem 1 ks
The evening is fine. In the sky a few early stars are shining of their own accord. She watches the dog licking the bowl clean. This dog will break her daughter's heart, she's sure of it. Claire Keegan's mesmeric story ...
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Knihabrožovaná vazba134 KčVíce než 30 dní
My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all. Years ago, Sukie moved in with Nathan because her mother was dead and her father was difficult, and she had nowhere else to go...
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Knihabrožovaná vazba135 KčVíce než 30 dní
A family sets out on a road trip in the American South. The grandmother suggests they change course in order to avoid "The Misfit", an escaped convict who's reportedly heading towards Florida. But when their car turns over in a ditch, who should they flag
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Knihabrožovaná vazba137 KčDo 3 – 6 dnů
Lips the colour of blood, the sun an unprecedented orange, train wheels that sound like 'guilt, and guilt, and guilt': these are just some of the things Mary Ventura begins to notice on her journey to the ninth kingdom. 'But what is the ninth kingdom?' sh
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Knihabrožovaná vazba137 KčVíce než 30 dní
When Ray turns up to visit his old university friends Charlie and Emily, he's given a special task: to be so much his useless self that he makes Charlie look good by comparison. But Ray has his own buried feelings to contend with...
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Knihabrožovaná vazba137 KčVíce než 30 dní
An unnamed protagonist is on holiday with her new, much-married lover, in the company of the monstrously rich. 'How long would she last? It would be uppermost in all their minds.'Each day, while the others are out at sea, she is taught to swim...
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Knihabrožovaná vazba137 KčSkladem 1 ks
Well, thought Belacqua, it's a quick death, God help us all. It is not. 'Dante and the Lobster' is the first of the linked short stories in Samuel Beckett's first book, More Pricks Than Kicks.Published in 1934, its style was recognisably indebted to that
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Knihabrožovaná vazba137 KčDo 3 – 6 dnů
The government has cleaned up Harare for the Queen of England's visit. 'The townships are too full of people, they said, gather them up and put them in the places the Queen will not see.' Four waves of people have settled on Easterly Farm since then, livi
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Knihabrožovaná vazba153 KčDo 3 – 6 dnů
Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. Divorced, retired, estranged from his only daughter, the former life insurance salesman seeks only solitude and anonymity. Then Glass encounters his long-lost nephew, Tom Wood, who is working in a local...
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