Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. The Counterlife is about people living their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter their destinies. Wherever they find themselves, the characters of The Counterlife are tempted by the prospect ...
Po loňském 2CD výběru písniček českých/moravských country/westernových matek/otců zakladatelů nabízí kompilátor Mirek Černý posun v čase. V osmé dekádě minulého století i u nás již spíše utichly kolťáky a docválali mustangové. Většinou elektrifikovaná muzika dostala textově civilnější obsah a zpěváci ...
The highly anticipated sequel to Melissa Albert's beloved, New York Times bestselling debut The Hazel Wood! Alice has fought hard for a normal life. Having escaped the Hinterland - the strange, pitch-dark world she was born into - she has washed up in New York City, determined to build a new future for ...
The fates of two unforgettable women - one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery and the other completing her life's last vital act - intertwine in this ambitious and inventive debut set at the terminus of the Underground Railroad. Freedom, you can't get and bury, and keep it and ...
In Counting Stars" David Almond tackles the themes common to his work - joy, darkness, love, death and identity - with exquisite sensitivity and tenderness. David`s childhood in the north of England was the inspiration for much of his work, and in these beautiful stories he creates a tangible picture ...
Throughout their childhood in the dusty cane fields of Saint Michael, Isabel and her older brother Isaias have been inseparable. Life is simple, and for Isabel, happiness is playing by the empty fountain in the village square, or listening to Isaias playing the fiddle. But when Isaias runs away to become ...
When a country is torn apart by civil war, Kunle and Tunde are separated, each on opposite sides. Desperate to find his brother, Kunle’s search becomes one of atonement, leading him to join an army and to fight in a war he barely understands. Amidst the chaos, he forms deep, lifelong friendships and ...
Abetted by gangs of people smugglers, today human trafficking is the fastest-growing criminal industry in the world. As governments spend more than ever on policing borders, this ground-breaking investigation reveals a secretive world where lives don't matter, but where every body counts. From the Mediterranean ...
J. L. Carr's beautiful portrayal of the countryside and the healing it brings, in an irresistible Little Clothbound Classics edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith'One of the best books I've ever read' Richard Osman'Unlike anything else in modern English literature' D.J. Taylor, SpectatorA damaged ...
Discover a cozy little countdown to Christmas, with the first Advent book bundle from the international number one bestselling author! Cozy Countdown is a gentle and creative way to enjoy the holiday season. The perfect Christmas present for family and friends who love to relax, unwind and colour. Behind ...
Miles Krzelewski is a devoted husband, a doting father beloved for his outlandish bedtime stories, and the proud owner of a truffle-hunting dog in a land with no truffles. He is also a bit lost, twelve years late with his PhD on Russian folktales and increasingly haunted by a sense that he's become a ...
Paris, 1939: the pavement rumbles with the footfall of marching Nazi soldiers along the Champs-Elysees. A young writer, recently arrived from Ireland to make his mark, smokes a last cigarette with his lover before the city they know is torn apart. As war takes hold, he will put his own life and that ...
Fran has always wanted to be a farmer, so how she ended up a chef in London is anyone's guess. But her childhood dream is about to come true. She has just moved in to a beautiful but very run-down farm in the Cotswolds, currently owned by an old aunt who has told Fran that if she manages to turn the ...
Fran has always wanted to be a farmer. And now it looks as if her childhood dream is about to come true. She has just moved to her aunt's beautiful but very run-down farm in the Cotswolds. If she can turn the place around in a year, the farm will be hers. But Fran knows nothing about farming. She might ...
Young readers will delight in recognising the subjects of this charming story, that leads us through a spring day deep in the countryside, from dawn to dusk. The day begins with a solitary cockerel's crow and the sunlight falling on two lovebirds in a cage and three china ducks on a wall. Swans, swallows, ...
Povídky, které napsal Franz Kafka (1883-1924) na Hradčanech, ve Zlaté uličce čp. 22, vyšly pod titulem Venkovský lékař knižně již za jeho života. Kafka ve svých krátkých textech stále znovu evokuje zčásti iracionální, zčásti nevyzpytatelný, vždy však znepokojivý a tísnivý svět, jemuž lze jen stěží uniknout. ...
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