“Runaway”
Winner of the Man Booker International Prize. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2013. With an Introduction by Jonathan Franzen. “Millions of words have been split in attempts to tell us exactly what it means to be human. In Runaway Munro performs that very miracle” – The Times. The matchless Munro makes art out […]
“Select Editions: True Believer, One Soldier’s Story, The Undomestic Goddess, The Double Eagle”
True Believer by Nicholas Sparks: Late at night, when fog shrouds the trees, ghostly lights appear in a cemetery in tiny Boone Creek, North Carolina. Jeremy Marsh, a Manhattan-based journalist, can’t resist investigating. But when he meets Lexie Darnell, a small-town woman who has seen enough of big-city men, he must make a difficult choice: […]
“Seraglio”
A Novel Transporting readers to the menacing yet majestic world of eighteenth-century Turkey, biographer and Middle East expert Janet Wallach brilliantly re-imagines the life of Aimee Dubucq, cousin of Empress Josephine, in her first novel Seraglio. At the age of thirteen, when en route from France to her home in Martinique, Aimee Dubucq is kidnapped […]
“Shikasta”
Re: Colonised Planet 5 Personal psychological historical documents relating to visit by Johor (George Sherban) Emissary (Grade 9) 87th of the Last Period of the Last Days Shikasta is the first volume in Doris Lessing´s celebrated space fiction series, “Canopus in Argos: Archives”. In this interlinked quintet of novels, she creates a new, extraordinary cosmos […]
“Siddhartha – Macmillan Collector’s Library”
Told in a simple mythical style, the story of Siddhartha is an inspirational classic by Hermann Hesse, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book […]
“Sight Unseen”
Can an art thief earn an honest living? Raven Callahan does, with the help of a rare psychic power that lets her read the emotions locked inside ancient objects. But when her partner is kidnapped and Raven is forced to steal a priceless masterpiece to save him, ESP takes a backseat to quick wits, steely […]
“Smoke and Ashes”
India, 1921. Captain Sam Wyndham is battling a serious addiction to opium that he must keep secret from his superiors in the Calcutta police force. But Wyndham finds himself in a tight spot when he stumbles across a corpse in an opium den. When he then comes across a second body bearing the same injuries, […]
“Spook Country”
What happens when old spies come out to play one last game? In New York a young Cuban called Tito is passing iPods to a mysterious old man. Such activities do not go unnoticed, however, in these early days of the War on Terror and across the city an ex-military man named Brown is tracking […]
“Stravaganza. City of Masks”
Part one of the acclaimed “Stravaganza series”. “The story is strong and involving, with plenty of intrigue and adventure in this fascinating alternate Venice.” – Locus Hoffmann has created a viable alternative world with a Venice that is not quite Venice but that still retains all the romance associated with exquisite masquerades and court politics […]
“Sword of Destiny. Tales of the Witcher”
Geralt the Witcher – revered and hated – holds the line against the monsters plaguing humanity in the bestselling series that inspired the hit Witcher Netflix show and video games. Geralt of Rivia is a Witcher, a man whose magic powers and lifelong training have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin. Yet […]
“The 19th Wife”
One sect, many secrets, …and murder. This ambitious third novel tells two parallel stories of polygamy. The first recounts Brigham Young’s expulsion of one of his wives, Ann Eliza, from the Mormon Church; the second is a modern-day murder mystery set in a polygamous compound in Utah. Unfolding through an impressive variety of narrative forms—Wikipedia […]
“The Birth of Venus”
The Birth of Venus is a tour de force, the first historical novel from one of Britain’s most innovative writers of literary suspense. It brings alive the history of Florence at its most dramatic period, telling a compulsively absorbing story of love, art, religion, and power through the passionate voice of Alessandra, a heroine with […]
“The Bookseller of Kabul”
With The Bookseller of Kabul, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad has given readers a first-hand look at Afghani life as few outsiders have seen it. Invited to live with Sultan Khan, a bookseller in Kabul, and his family for months, this account of her experience allows the Khans to speak for themselves, giving us a genuinely […]
“The Cabala. Heaven’s My Destination. Our Town”
Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes — for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth — and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth […]
“The Catcher in the Rye”
A Novel. Адаптированная книга для чтения на англ. языке. Pre-Intermediate. 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 full of children. The hero-narrator of […]
“The Children of Hurin”
Edited by Christopher Tolkien With illustrations by Alan Lee Painstakingly restored from Tolkien’s manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully continuous and standalone story, the epic tale of The Children of Hurin will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves and Men, dragons and Dwarves, eagles […]
“The Could Six Thousand”
Dallas, November 22nd, 1963. Wayne Tedrow Jr. has arrived to kill a man. The fee is 6.000USD. He finds himself instead in the middle of the cover-up following JFK´s assassination. There follows a hellish five-year ride through the sordid underbelly of public policy via Las Vegas, Howard Hughes, Vietnam, CIA dope dealing, Cuba, sleazy showbiz, […]
“The Death of Grass”
A post-apocalyptic vision of the world pushed to the brink by famine, John Christopher’s science fiction masterpiece The Death of Grass includes an introduction by Robert MacFarlane in Penguin Modern Classics. At first the virus wiping out grass and crops is of little concern to John Custance. It has decimated Asia, causing mass starvation and […]
“The Dying Game”
On the remote island of Isola, seven people have been selected to compete in a 48-hour test for a top-secret intelligence position. One of them is Anna Francis, a workaholic with a nine-year-old daughter she rarely sees, and a secret that haunts her. Her assignment is to stage her own death and then observe, from […]
“The Dying of the Light”
By the bestselling author of Dirty Tricks and Cabal One of England’s most acclaimed younger mystery writers, the creator of Detective Aurelio Zen, gives us a brilliant and haunting variation on the classic drawing-room murder novel. The setting is Eventide Lodge, where the guests have gathered for tea. Colonel Weatherby is reading by the fire. […]
