Beletria, alebo aj prozaické umelecké dielo, prináša do našich životov nové príbehy, vzrušenie i zážitok, ktorý pre nás napísal autor a pred našimi očami ho nakreslila naša vlastná fantázia. Klasická anglická literatúra prináša nezabudnuteľné príbehy Williama Shakespaera či Jane Austenovej. Knihy po anglicky a príbehy ukryté na ich stránkach nám nielenže rozjasňujú dni a vytŕhajú nás z každodennej nudnej rutiny, ale rovnako nás nútia aktívne premýšľať nad vetnými konštrukciami a pomáhajú nám v zdokonaľovaní sa v cudzom jazyku.
This work is set in Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her not-so-innocent past in Glasgow, Bessy Buckley - the wide-eyed Irish heroine of ''''The Observations'''' - takes a job as a maid in a big house outside Edinburgh working for the beautiful Arab ella. Bessy is intrigued by her new employer, ...
David Carter cannot help but wish for more: that his wife Eleanor would be the sparkling girl he once found so irresistible; that his job as a museum curator could live up to the promise it once held; that his daughter''s arrival could have brought him closer to Eleanor. But a few careless words spoken ...
For the first time in decades The Eternal City is paralysed by a blizzard. And a gruesome discovery is made in the Pantheon - one of Rome\''s most ancient and revered architectural treasures. Covered by softly falling snow is the body of a young woman - her back horribly mutilated.But before Costa, Peroni ...
The ''''Namesake'''' is the story of a boy brought up Indian in America, from ''''the kind of writer who makes you want to grab the next person and say ''''Read this!'''' [Amy Tan] ''''When her grandmother learned of Ashima''''s pregnancy, she was particularly thrilled at the prospect of naming the family''''s ...
Novelist Sunny Parkinson might write scorching romances, but her own life is decidedly lacking in passion. A knicker-snatcher is at large in her block of flats. Her best friend\''s marriage is crumbling over a luncheon meat scandal. She lives with a spherical couch potato and a workaholic virgin. And ...
WHAT A LOUSE! Jim is a head-louse, newly-hatched from a nit on Gregory''s head. But as Gregory is a good listener and it''s ''in his blood'', Jim''s breakfast turns him into a good listener too and suddenly school storytime changes from Literacy Hour to N iteracy Hour. And can Jim help Gregory do something ...
God Bless You Mr Rosewater is a novel about people - their pleasures, pains and perversions - and money. It is a penetrating satire on insanity - a millionaire''s private lunacy, the inherited obsessions of a famous family and the collective madness that grips a whole nation.
In this hilarious book, Allan and Barbara Pease highlight the differences between men and women in the way they think and act. Why are women radar detectors; why do men hate to be wrong? Each page features a snippet of wisdom, bound to produce laughter from even the most cynical soul. The perfect giftbook ...
The stunning new thriller from the master of the genre.Nick Stone seems to be living his dream, not a care in the world as he steers his camper van round the surfing and parachuting centres of Australia, a board on the roof, freefall rig behind him, and a beautiful young backpacker at his side. But when ...
Life in general is getting in the way of Pam, Maggie, Ellie and Toni losing weight. And the men aren''''t helping either. There''''s an ex-husband who suddenly wants his children; a rich, powerful playboy who has everything, including a wife at home; a boyfriend who has serious difficulty opening his ...
The international arms negotiations appear to be making progress. But a US spy satellite reveals that the Soviets are building a massive laser-defence system controlled from an other-worldly array of pillars and domes in the Soviet hills at Dushanbe near the border of war-torn Afghanistan. The Americans ...
Beyond the main street of Les Laveuses runs the Loire, smooth and brown as a sunning snake but hiding a deadly undertow beneath its moving surface. This is where Framboise, a secretive widow named after a raspberry liqueur, plies her culinary trade at the creperie and lets her memory play strange games. ...
The warm and enchanting new novel from the bestselling author of ''''Going Home''''. Laura Foster is a hopeless romantic. It is her most endearing characteristic, yet consistently leads her into trouble. Friends and family look on with amused tolerance u ntil Laura''''s inability to tell reality from ...
Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his \''damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother\'' Hugh, "Theft: A Love Story" once again displays Peter Carey\''s extraordinary flair for language. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo, it is a brilliant and ...
Ali Shirazi has arrived back in Lahore, Pakistan, to celebrate the wedding of his childhood friend and elder cousin Samar Api to her long sought-after \''Amitabh\'' - a stand-in for the Bollywood star she always dreamed of marrying. Amidst the flurry of preparations in the house in which he grew up, ...
Kniha All We Ever Wanted Was Everything (Janelle Brown): Aký je váš názor? Povedzte ho ostatným návštevníkom ako prvý!
It is July, three months after Lara\''s seventeenth birthday, and a week before Charles and Diana\''s Royal Wedding. When Lara\''s father, a man she barely knows, invites her to accompany him on holiday, she finds herself far away from the fumes of London\''s Holloway Road in the sun-scorched hillsides ...
Vicky Rai, the son of a high-profile Minister, has been shot dead by one of the guests at his own party. They are a glitzy bunch, but among them the police find six strange, displaced characters with a gun in their possession, each of them steaming with a secret motive. India''''s wiliest investigative ...
It is the year 2001, and Eugene Dabbs Hartke, suffering from TB, is recording his disastrous life on scraps of paper while awaiting trial for a crime he hasn't committed. This humorous novel is set in a Japanese-owned America, where everything is run for profit. By the author of Slaughterhouse 5".
Bergdorf Blondes are a thing, you know, a New York craze. Absolutely everyone wants to be one, but its trés difficult. You wouldnt believe the dedication it takes to be a gorgeous, flaxen-haired, dermatologically perfect New York girl with a life t hats fabulous beyond belief.Upozornenie: Vzhľadom na ...
