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.
A bomb explodes in the centre of Florence, hitting the car of Chief Superintendent Michele Ferrara of the elite Squadra Mobile. The attack rocks the ancient city to its foundations. Ferrara was clearly the target - and he did, after all, just controversially imprison notorious Mafia boss Salvatore Laprua. ...
When Alton\''s ageing, blind uncle asks him to attend bridge games with him, he agrees. After all, it\''s better than a crappy summer job in the local shopping mall, and Alton\''s mother thinks it might secure their way to a good inheritance sometime in the future. But, like all apparently casual choices ...
This beautifully produced and comprehensive survey of fifty influential American artists richly details their important contributions to the art world. Including Homer, Whistler, Cassatt, Sargent, Hopper, O\''Keefe, Calder, Pollock, Rothko, Bourgeois, Johns, Warhol and Serra, the most important American ...
Russia, 1910. Young Valentina Ivanova charms St Petersburg's aristocracy with her classic Russian beauty and her talent as a pianist. But she scandalises society when she begins a romance with Jens Friis, a Danish engineer. He brings to her life a passion and an intimacy she has never known. Unbending ...
Fresh off the success of his Edgar(R) Award-winning, "New York Times "bestseller "Down River," John Hart returns with his most powerful and intricately-plotted novel yet. Thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon had the perfect life: happy parents and a twin sister that meant the world to him. But Alyssa went ...
For Lev Prakenskii, the last thing he remembers is being lost in the swirling currents of the ocean and sucked deeper into the nothingness of a freezing black eddy off the coastal town of Sea Haven. Just as quickly, just as miraculously, he was saved - pulled ashore by a beautiful stranger - but Lev ...
Omerta, the Sicilian code of silence, has been the cornerstone of the Mafia´s sense of honour for centuries. Born in the Sicilian hills, omerta carried the Mafia through a century of change, but now at the century´s end it is becoming a relic from a bygone age. Honour may be silent - but money talks. ...
In The Snow Tourist, Charlie English writes: "Snow is rarely, if ever, merely white. The angles and surfaces of snow crystals reflect and refract the different colours of sunlight that play upon them like the glass in a chandelier." The book has something of this, too: like individual sparkles in a homogenous ...
Moving novel set during the siege of Leningrad in WWII, from the author of }The 25th Hour{, which was adapted into a successful film by Spike Lee. Benioff is a Hollywood scriptwriter.
1954 hält ein Zwölfjähriger irrtümlich die Freundin des Dorfpolizisten für einen Bären - der Beginn einer jahrzehntelangen Flucht. Mit seinem Vater flieht er von New Hampshire nach Boston, von Vermont nach Toronto, der unerbittliche Polizist ihnen immer auf den Fersen. Den einzigen Schutz gewährt ihnen ...
Emily is not your average thirteen year-old girl. She wears the same black dress every day. She loves maths and science. Her best friends are four black cats and she\''s into old rock and punk music. Emily is anything but typical and so is this exciting new series of novels about her life. In her second ...
Ever wanted to be the most interesting person in the room? Let Catherine Blyth take you on an entertaining tour of the neglected art of conversation. You'll never think of talk as cheap ever again ...
In this collection of stories, Kureishi chronicles the loveless, the lost and the dispossessed. They represent the frustrated and intoxicating, the melancholic and sensitive, capable of great cruelty and willing to break constraints of an old life to make way for the new.
Hodder & Stoughton General Division: 'I've always liked Manby's books and this is my favourite so far . . . deeply...
Lorna Martin\''s life is in chaos and she needs to make some big changes. After all, there must be a reason she keeps chasing after the wrong men, making toe-curling blunders at work and generally failing to keep her life on track. Egged on by her friends, she signs up for the talking cure: a year of ...
When City Girl first stepped into the Square Mile she had no idea of the fight for survival she would face over the next five years. But despite lap dancing clubs and million dollar losses; divorce in the City and the worst recession since the 1930s, City Girl was still standing. She\''d taken on the ...
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 ...
In the Caucasus mountains around 950 AD, two wandering adventurers live by their wits as tricksters and swords for hire. Until, following a bloody coup in the Jewish kingdom of the Khazars, they get dragooned into a fugitive prince\''s campaign to reclaim his throne. In this exhilarating tale of daring ...
From the outside, Vicky Townsley would appear to have it all. Features Director of the hugely successful "Poise!" magazine, she lives alone in London, is single, solvent, and seriously successful. But she\''d give it all up in a heartbeat for marriage, children, and a house in the country. Amber Winslow, ...